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Albert Ballin

1857 - 1918

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Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest shipping company. Being the inventor of the concept of the cruise ship, he is known as the father of modern cruise ship travel. Albert Ballin was a risk-taker who was willing to challenge his colleagues, foreign competitors, and domestic politics in order to build a successful shipping company. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Ballin is the 456th most popular businessperson (down from 384th in 2019), the 4,077th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,654th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Albert Ballin ranks 456 out of 847. Before him are Angus Ogilvy, Victor Pinchuk, Maxwell Perkins, Guy Laliberté, Tim Sweeney, and Arvind Krishna. After him are Stephen A. Schwarzman, William Henry Conley, Ken Aston, Suge Knight, Maurizio Arrivabene, and Savva Mamontov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Albert Ballin ranks 104. Before him are James Edward Keeler, Ernst Trygger, Theodor Curtius, Ivo Vojnović, Pedro Paterno, and Eva Bonnier. After him are Walter Rutherford, Helena Westermarck, Anna Kuliscioff, Alice Pike Barney, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, and Friedrich Reinitzer. Among people deceased in 1918, Albert Ballin ranks 133. Before him are Nikolai Ruzsky, Henry Adams, Carl Peters, Ali Aaltonen, Lucretia Garfield, and George Coșbuc. After him are Władysław Ślewiński, Savva Mamontov, Nadezhda Suslova, Rudolf Tobias, Maxime Maufra, and Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Ballin ranks 4,079 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1553), Max von Hausen (1846), William II of Berg (1348), Peter von Hess (1792), and Robert von Mohl (1799). After him are Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Oda of Haldensleben (901), Anton Reichenow (1847), Gottfried Fuchs (1889), Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564), and Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Albert Ballin ranks 48. Before him are Theo Albrecht (1922), Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Ida Straus (1849), Emil Rathenau (1838), and Susanne Klatten (1962). After him are Adolf Merckle (1934), Reinhard Mohn (1921), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), Marcus Goldman (1821), Hermann Josef Abs (1901), and Josef Neckermann (1912).

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