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Oskar Schindler

1908 - 1974

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Oskar Schindler (German: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃɪndlɐ] ; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication in saving his Jewish employees' lives. Schindler grew up in Zwittau, Moravia, and worked in several trades until he joined the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Schindler has received more than 14,151,120 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Oskar Schindler is the 4th most popular businessperson, the 7th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Businessperson.

Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Oskar Schindler ranks 4 out of 601Before him are Howard Hughes, Bill Gates, and Pierre de Coubertin. After him are Cecil Rhodes, John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Ingvar Kamprad, Sepp Blatter, George Soros, and Vince McMahon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Oskar Schindler ranks 2Before him is Simone de Beauvoir. After him are Abraham Maslow, James Stewart, Salvador Allende, Enver Hoxha, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Herbert von Karajan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Skorzeny, Ian Fleming, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Among people deceased in 1974, Oskar Schindler ranks 1After him are Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Zhukov, Georges Pompidou, Juan Perón, James Chadwick, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Vittorio De Sica, Amin al-Husseini, Pär Lagerkvist, Baldur von Schirach, and U Thant.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Oskar Schindler ranks 7 out of 973Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), Gregor Mendel (1822), Jan Hus (1369), Gustav Mahler (1860), Antonín Dvořák (1841), and John Amos Comenius (1592). After him are Bedřich Smetana (1824), Edmund Husserl (1859), Milan Kundera (1929), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Václav Havel (1936), and Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Czechia

Among businesspeople born in Czechia, Oskar Schindler ranks 1After him are Ivana Trump (1949), Tomáš Baťa (1876), and Petr Kellner (1964).