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Rudi Glöckner

1929 - 1999

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Rudolf Glöckner (20 March 1929, in Markranstädt – 25 January 1999, in Markranstädt) 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 ADO Den Haag and West Ham United in the 1976 European Cup Winners Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudi Glöckner has received more than 41,849 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Rudi Glöckner is the 15th most popular referee (down from 3rd in 2019), the 3,919th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,905th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Rudi Glöckner ranks 15 out of 107. Before him are Said Belqola, Horacio Elizondo, Howard Webb, Nicolae Rainea, Nicola Rizzoli, and Maurice Guigue. After him are Gottfried Dienst, Byron Moreno, Tom Henning Øvrebø, Massimo Busacca, Roberto Rosetti, and Sergio Gonella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Rudi Glöckner ranks 313. Before him are Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Barbara Walters, Avet Terterian, Miyoshi Umeki, Lyubov Kozyreva, and Claude Nougaro. After him are Francesco Marchisano, Rajkumar, Jacques Plante, Walter Kempowski, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Chaim Potok. Among people deceased in 1999, Rudi Glöckner ranks 166. Before him are Sarah Kane, Michael Aris, Abraham Polonsky, Einar Englund, Birgit Cullberg, and Charles Crichton. After him are Olga Orozco, Rudolf Kárpáti, Tatevik Sazandaryan, Galina Bystrova, Kirk Alyn, and Rory Calhoun.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudi Glöckner ranks 3,919 out of 6,142. Before him are Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), Julius Benedict (1804), Gerhard Marcks (1889), Berthold Delbrück (1842), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), and Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935). After him are Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Theo Waigel (1939), Anton Diffring (1916), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Johan Zoffany (1733), and Yaakov Litzman (1948).

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Among REFEREES In Germany

Among referees born in Germany, Rudi Glöckner ranks 3. Before him are Markus Merk (1962) and Felix Brych (1975). After him are Wolfgang Stark (1969), Herbert Fandel (1964), Deniz Aytekin (1978), Felix Zwayer (1981), Bibiana Steinhaus (1979), and Daniel Siebert (1984).

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