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W. Michael Blumenthal

1926 - Today

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Werner Michael Blumenthal (born January 3, 1926) is a German-American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. At age thirteen, Blumenthal barely escaped Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1939. He was forced to spend World War II living in the ghetto of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, until 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Michael Blumenthal has received more than 231,284 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). W. Michael Blumenthal is the 313th most popular economist (down from 283rd in 2019), the 4,367th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,050th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Economist.

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  • 16

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 313 out of 315Before him are Fischer Black, Rose Friedman, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Henryk Grossman, and James Wilson. After him are Abel Aganbegyan, Armen Alchian, Ester Boserup, Pedro Solbes, John Lipsky, and Anthony Downs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 349Before him are Pino Dordoni, Efraín Sánchez, Bernard Nathanson, Jan Zwartkruis, Irene Camber, and Egisto Pandolfini. After him are Li Han-hsiang, Beatriz Segall, Roberto Lippi, Ralph Abernathy, Ede Király, and Tom Tryon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 4,367 out of 6,142Before him are Shantel (1968), Ralph Giordano (1923), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), Wilhelm Baumann (1912), Yıldıray Baştürk (1978), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927). After him are Karl-Friedrich Haas (1931), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Wolfram Löwe (1945), Wolfgang Dremmler (1954), Christoph Höhne (1941), and Werner Krämer (1940).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 34Before him are Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Karl Knies (1821), and Alice Salomon (1872). After him are Andreas Kaplan (1977) and Ludwig Lachmann (1906).