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Martin Winterkorn

1947 - Today

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Martin Winterkorn (born 24 May 1947) is a German former business executive who served as chairman of the board of management (CEO, Vorstandsvorsitzender in German) of Volkswagen AG, the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, as well as chairman of the supervisory board of Audi, and chairman of the board of management of Porsche Automobil Holding SE. He succeeded Bernd Pischetsrieder as CEO of Volkswagen AG in 2007. Prior to that, he had been chairman of the board of management at the Volkswagen Group subsidiary Audi AG. Winterkorn resigned from Volkswagen on 23 September 2015 after the Volkswagen emissions scandal came to light. He resigned as chairman of Audi on 11 November 2015, following the disclosure of further information regarding VW's gasoline-powered engines in connection to the scandal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Winterkorn has received more than 667,641 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Martin Winterkorn is the 334th most popular businessperson (down from 321st in 2019), the 3,200th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,994th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 52.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Martin Winterkorn ranks 334 out of 847. Before him are Norio Ohga, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, Akio Toyoda, Roy E. Disney, Edwin Drake, and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. After him are Sundar Pichai, Viktor Vekselberg, Timothy Dexter, B. C. Forbes, Lamine Diack, and Max Manus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Martin Winterkorn ranks 278. Before him are Jean Echenoz, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Joe Morton, Ann Hui, and Adam Cheng. After him are Michael McKean, Ron Rivest, Mick Box, Viktor Yerofeyev, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, and Jacki Weaver.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Winterkorn ranks 3,200 out of 7,253. Before him are Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine (1456), Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840), and Henny Porten (1890). After him are Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), Karl Mollweide (1774), Boris Pistorius (1960), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699), and Eugen Langen (1833).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Martin Winterkorn ranks 40. Before him are Herbert Hainer (1954), Ida Straus (1849), Bertha Krupp (1886), Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884). After him are Siegfried Bing (1838), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Emil Rathenau (1838), Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), and Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880).

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