INVENTOR

Fritz von Opel

1899 - 1971

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Fritz Adam Hermann von Opel (4 May 1899 – 8 April 1971), known as Fritz Adam Hermann Opel until his father was ennobled in 1917, was the only son of Wilhelm von Opel and a grandson of Adam Opel, founder of the Opel company. He is remembered mostly for his Opel RAK demonstrations of the world's first crewed rocket-powered ground and air vehicles that earned him the nickname "Rocket Fritz" and which were also highly effective as publicity stunts for his family's automotive business. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fritz von Opel is the 234th most popular inventor (up from 253rd in 2019), the 3,177th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,312th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Fritz von Opel ranks 234 out of 426. Before him are Lars Magnus Ericsson, Laurens Hammond, Thonmi Sambhota, Rodolphe Lindt, George Washington, and Pavel Yablochkov. After him are John Wesley Hyatt, Aurel Stodola, Philo Farnsworth, Tivadar Puskás, Robert Whitehead, and Aimo Lahti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Fritz von Opel ranks 148. Before him are Qu Qiubai, Alexander Tcherepnin, Aleksander Klumberg, Robert Casadesus, Semyon Krivoshein, and Leonid Leonov. After him are Sára Salkaházi, Anita Berber, Georg Leibbrandt, Pierre Victor Auger, Harold Abrahams, and Francis Ponge. Among people deceased in 1971, Fritz von Opel ranks 100. Before him are Mikhail Romm, Antonio Bacci, Mikhail Yangel, James Waddell Alexander II, John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, and Koichi Kudo. After him are Philo Farnsworth, Dimitrios Loundras, Thomas E. Dewey, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Broncho Billy Anderson, and Péter Szondi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz von Opel ranks 3,179 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1537), Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1354), Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), and Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826). After him are Ian Murdock (1973), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Fritz Bleyl (1880), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Princess Marie of Baden (1834), and William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Fritz von Opel ranks 33. Before him are Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823), and Oskar Barnack (1879). After him are Ricardo Wolf (1887), Eugen Langen (1833), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), Wilhelm Bauer (1822), and Walter Bruch (1908).

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