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Adolf Merckle

1934 - 2009

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Adolf Merckle (18 March 1934 – 5 January 2009) was a German entrepreneur and billionaire. He died by suicide at age 74 due to losses during the 2008 financial crisis. He was at one point the fifth-richest person in Germany with a net worth of $9.2 billion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Merckle is the 477th most popular businessperson (down from 391st in 2019), the 4,285th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,720th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Adolf Merckle ranks 477 out of 847. Before him are Mark Thatcher, Franklin Clarence Mars, Changpeng Zhao, Eli Lilly, Dana White, and Akshata Murty. After him are Dmitry Rybolovlev, Reinhard Mohn, Henry Luce, Johann Carolus, Michael Dell, and Andrea Agnelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Adolf Merckle ranks 322. Before him are Ole Madsen, Eva-Maria Hagen, Jacek Kuroń, Zaid ibn Shaker, John Keegan, and Otis Rush. After him are Yūjirō Ishihara, Martin Bangemann, Inger Stevens, Jackie Wilson, Mário de Araújo Cabral, and Norma Croker. Among people deceased in 2009, Adolf Merckle ranks 208. Before him are Ron Silver, Yukio Endo, Clodovil Hernandes, Willem Johan Kolff, Lei Clijsters, and Juvenal Amarijo. After him are Henri Pousseur, Reinhard Mohn, Torsten Lindberg, Arnold Meri, Otar Chiladze, and Klavdiya Boyarskikh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adolf Merckle ranks 4,287 out of 7,253. Before him are Curt Bois (1901), Erich Rademacher (1901), Albert Betz (1885), Hugo Distler (1908), Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1852), and Martin Hoffmann (1955). After him are Edgar Basel (1930), August Wilhelm Iffland (1759), Loki Schmidt (1919), Martin Gropius (1824), Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839), and Ferdinand Keller (1842).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Adolf Merckle ranks 49. Before him are Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Ida Straus (1849), Emil Rathenau (1838), Susanne Klatten (1962), and Albert Ballin (1857). After him are Reinhard Mohn (1921), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Marcus Goldman (1821), Hermann Josef Abs (1901), Josef Neckermann (1912), and Katerina Tikhonova (1986).

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