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Fritz Todt

1891 - 1942

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Fritz Todt ([fʁɪt͡s toːt]; 4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior figure of the Nazi Party. He was the founder of Organisation Todt (OT), a military-engineering organisation that supplied German industry with forced labour, and served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German wartime military economy from that position. An engineer by training, Todt served in the Luftstreitkräfte during World War I and was a recipient of the Iron Cross. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922 and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz Todt is the 18th most popular engineer, the 464th most popular biography from Germany (up from 496th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Engineer.

Fritz Todt was a German engineer and architect. He was most famous for being the chief engineer of the autobahn system in Germany.

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Among engineers, Fritz Todt ranks 18 out of 389. Before him are Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, José Echegaray, Sergei Korolev, André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, and Umberto Nobile. After him are Anatoly Dyatlov, Jack Kilby, Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Banū Mūsā.

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Among people born in 1891, Fritz Todt ranks 20. Before him are Walther Bothe, Henry Miller, Rudolf Carnap, Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, and Rafael Trujillo. After him are Genrikh Yagoda, Ilya Ehrenburg, Osip Mandelstam, Frederick Banting, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, and Alexander Rodchenko. Among people deceased in 1942, Fritz Todt ranks 14. Before him are William Henry Bragg, Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, Anton Drexler, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. After him are Robert Bosch, William G. Morgan, Franz Boas, Irène Némirovsky, Bruno Schulz, and Sabina Spielrein.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Todt ranks 464 out of 7,253. Before him are Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724), and Martin Behaim (1459). After him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Joachim Löw (1960), Ernst Busch (1885), Ananda Mahidol (1925), and Erich Kästner (1899).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Fritz Todt ranks 3. Before him are Gottlieb Daimler (1834), and Otto Lilienthal (1848). After him are August Horch (1868), 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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