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August Horch

1868 - 1951

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August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant that eventually became Audi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Horch is the 27th most popular engineer (down from 25th in 2019), the 661st most popular biography from Germany (down from 596th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Engineer.

August Horch was a German engineer and car designer who founded the company that would later become Audi.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, August Horch ranks 27 out of 389. Before him are Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Banū Mūsā, Leslie Groves, and Hans Albert Einstein. After him are Willy Messerschmitt, Bassel al-Assad, Hermann Oberth, Jiro Horikoshi, Philo of Byzantium, and Albert Göring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, August Horch ranks 28. Before him are Peter Behrens, Paul Claudel, S. P. L. Sørensen, Gertrude Bell, Gaston Leroux, and Gustav Meyrink. After him are Felix Hoffmann, Dietrich Eckart, Edmond Rostand, Charles Maurras, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and Annie S. D. Maunder. Among people deceased in 1951, August Horch ranks 13. Before him are Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Arnold Sommerfeld, Abdullah I of Jordan, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, René Guénon, and Hermann Broch. After him are Sinclair Lewis, Maxim Litvinov, Otto Ohlendorf, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Alfred Hugenberg, and Zaifeng, Prince Chun.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Horch ranks 661 out of 7,253. Before him are Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland (1653), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Werner Forssmann (1904), Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1811), and Conrad Schumann (1942). After him are Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Bruno Bauer (1809), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Heinrich Lübke (1894), and Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (1617).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, August Horch ranks 4. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834), Otto Lilienthal (1848), and Fritz Todt (1891). After him are Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), and Walter Dornberger (1895).

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