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Rudolf Dassler

1898 - 1974

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Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler (26 March 1898 – 27 October 1974) was a German cobbler, inventor, member of the Nazi party, businessman and founder of sportswear company Puma. He was the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf "Adi" Dassler. The brothers were partners in a shoe company Adolf started, "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" (German for 'Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory'). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Dassler has received more than 1,991,470 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Rudolf Dassler is the 51st most popular businessperson (down from 37th in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from Germany (down from 348th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Businessperson.

Rudolf Dassler is most famous for being the founder of Adidas.

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  • 66.24

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Rudolf Dassler ranks 51 out of 601. Before him are Bernie Madoff, Ronald Wayne, Thomas Cook, Sergei Diaghilev, Joan Gamper, and Dietrich Mateschitz. After him are Henri Nestlé, Rupert Murdoch, Giovanni Agnelli, Richard Branson, Aga Khan IV, and Bernie Ecclestone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Rudolf Dassler ranks 26. Before him are Gunnar Myrdal, Hans Krebs, Rodion Malinovsky, Henry Moore, Leo Szilard, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. After him are Karl Hermann Frank, René Clair, Willy Messerschmitt, Jeanne Hébuterne, Karl Ziegler, and Kenji Mizoguchi. Among people deceased in 1974, Rudolf Dassler ranks 14. Before him are Vittorio De Sica, Amin al-Husseini, Pär Lagerkvist, Baldur von Schirach, U Thant, and Imre Lakatos. After him are David Oistrakh, Duke Ellington, Otto Strasser, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Darius Milhaud.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Dassler ranks 467 out of 6,142. Before him are Jean Paul (1763), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Johann Gottfried Galle (1812), and Samuel von Pufendorf (1632). After him are Henri Nestlé (1814), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), and Wassily Leontief (1906).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Rudolf Dassler ranks 7. Before him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Levi Strauss (1829), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Adolf Dassler (1900), Otto Frank (1889), and Robert Bosch (1861). After him are Henri Nestlé (1814), Jakob Fugger (1459), Paul Reuter (1816), Bertha Benz (1849), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), and James Mayer de Rothschild (1792).

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