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Rudi Glöckner

1929 - 1999

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Rudolf Glöckner (20 March 1929 – 25 January 1999) was the first German to referee a football World Cup final when he took charge of the 1970 FIFA World Cup final between Brazil and Italy in Mexico City. Glöckner, from what was then East Germany, had a long international career, officiating at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and also matches in the 1976 European Championship. He refereed the game between Den Haag and West Ham United in the 1975–76 European Cup Winners' Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudi Glöckner has received more than 46,376 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rudi Glöckner is the 9th most popular referee (up from 15th in 2019), the 3,721st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,908th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Rudi Glöckner ranks 9 out of 147. Before him are Ivan Eklind, Damir Skomina, Sándor Puhl, Michel Vautrot, Markus Merk, and Horacio Elizondo. After him are Nicolae Rainea, Jack Taylor, Björn Kuipers, Howard Webb, Roberto Rosetti, and Nicola Rizzoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Rudi Glöckner ranks 264. Before him are Ken McGregor, Harry Frankfurt, Maarten Schmidt, Barbara Walters, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, and Stanisław Mikulski. After him are Vija Artmane, John Turner, Francesco Alberoni, Tomislav Crnković, Marilyn French, and Paavo Berglund. Among people deceased in 1999, Rudi Glöckner ranks 142. Before him are Maxim Munzuk, Louis Boyer, Madeline Kahn, Umberto Maglioli, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and František Vláčil. After him are Alfred Raoul, Harvey Postlethwaite, Richard Kiley, Ruth Roman, Primo Nebiolo, and Yevgeny Morgunov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudi Glöckner ranks 3,721 out of 7,253. Before him are Marc Forster (1969), Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880), Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), Sylvia Nasar (1947), and Adolf Merckle (1934). After him are Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909), Irm Hermann (1942), Hanni Wenzel (1956), Erich Pommer (1889), Leonor Michaelis (1875), and Karl Hofer (1878).

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Among REFEREES In Germany

Among referees born in Germany, Rudi Glöckner ranks 2. Before him are Markus Merk (1962). After him are Felix Brych (1975), Wolfgang Stark (1969), Bibiana Steinhaus (1979), Herbert Fandel (1964), Deniz Aytekin (1978), Daniel Siebert (1984), and Felix Zwayer (1981).

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