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Theo Albrecht

1922 - 2010

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Theodor Paul Albrecht (German: [ˈalbʁɛçt]; 28 March 1922 – 24 July 2010) was a German entrepreneur. He established the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Karl Albrecht. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theo Albrecht has received more than 1,493,075 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Theo Albrecht is the 273rd most popular businessperson (up from 276th in 2019), the 2,506th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,572nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Businessperson.

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  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Theo Albrecht ranks 273 out of 847Before him are Jorge Paulo Lemann, Hans Riegel, Bob Iger, Jack Welch, Pavel Tretyakov, and Robert Nobel. After him are Friedrich Bayer, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Herbert Hainer, Melinda Gates, Hetty Green, and Arkady Rotenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Theo Albrecht ranks 163Before him are Niels Holst-Sørensen, Howard Zinn, Vasko Popa, Shovkat Alakbarova, Kingsley Amis, and Mauro Bolognini. After him are Charles M. Schulz, Stephen Toulmin, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Esther Lederberg, Maila Nurmi, and Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia. Among people deceased in 2010, Theo Albrecht ranks 110Before him are Howard Zinn, Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Culp, Raimon Panikkar, Georges Wilson, and Vladimir Ilyushin. After him are Rasim Delić, Tomáš Špidlík, Miguel Delibes, Captain Beefheart, Caterina Boratto, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theo Albrecht ranks 2,506 out of 7,253Before him are Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Edith Hamilton (1867), Holger Osieck (1948), Antonio Rüdiger (1993), Willi Graf (1918), and Manfred Wörner (1934). After him are Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636), Prince George William of Hanover (1915), Louise Catherine Breslau (1856), Dora Ratjen (1918), Gustave Whitehead (1874), and Jürgen Sparwasser (1948).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Theo Albrecht ranks 32Before him are Hans Wilsdorf (1881), John Jacob Astor (1763), Karl Baedeker (1801), Karl Rapp (1882), Dietmar Hopp (1940), and Hans Riegel (1923). After him are Friedrich Bayer (1825), Herbert Hainer (1954), Ida Straus (1849), Bertha Krupp (1886), Johanna Quandt (1926), and Henry E. Steinway (1797).