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Walter Thiel

1910 - 1943

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Walter Thiel (3 March 1910, Breslau – 17 August 1943, Karlshagen, near Peenemünde) was a German rocket scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Thiel has received more than 80,367 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Thiel is the 231st most popular engineer (down from 215th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from Poland (down from 696th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Walter Thiel ranks 231 out of 323Before him are Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, Eugène Belgrand, Marc Isambard Brunel, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Frederick W. Lanchester, and William Froude. After him are Eugène Flachat, Burt Rutan, Johann Georg Halske, Marcel Deprez, Aron Ralston, and Johannes Winkler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Walter Thiel ranks 205Before him are Nathan Alterman, Diosdado Macapagal, Saint Alphonsa, Elemér Kocsis, Rodolpho Barteczko, and László Cseh. After him are Rolf Liebermann, Larysa Hienijuš, László Lékai, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Petar Trifunović, and Gyula Kállai. Among people deceased in 1943, Walter Thiel ranks 136Before him are Henner Henkel, Aleš Hrdlička, Harry Baur, Kočo Racin, Estella Agsteribbe, and Anita Augspurg. After him are Beatrice Webb, Helen Herron Taft, Dora Gerson, Milutin Ivković, Damrong Rajanubhab, and Frank Schlesinger.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walter Thiel ranks 804 out of 1,454Before him are Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), Jan Kott (1914), Ingrid van Bergen (1931), Joanna Pacuła (1957), and Alfred Pringsheim (1850). After him are Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Wojciech Korfanty (1873), Max Gerson (1881), Jan Śniadecki (1756), and Alfred Stock (1876).

Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Walter Thiel ranks 7Before him are Wernher von Braun (1912), Kurt Tank (1898), Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), and Henryk Dembiński (1791). After him are Johannes Winkler (1897) and Boris Chertok (1912).