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Harald Quandt

1921 - 1967

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Harald Friedrich Ludwig Quandt (1 November 1921 – 22 September 1967) was a German industrialist, the son of Günther Quandt and Magda Behrend Ritschel. His parents divorced and his mother was later married to Joseph Goebbels, then chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945. After World War II, Quandt and his older half-brother Herbert Quandt ran the industrial empire left to them by their father owning a stake mainly in Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW and the electric battery producer VARTA, which emerged from Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA, which still belongs to the family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harald Quandt is the 3,453rd most popular politician (down from 3,433rd in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 931st in 2019) and the 258th most popular German Politician.

Harald Quandt is most famous for being the son of Günther Quandt, a German industrialist who became one of the wealthiest men in the world under the Nazi regime. Harald Quandt was a member of the Nazi Party and became a lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harald Quandt ranks 3,453 out of 19,576. Before him are Fulvia, Mikhail Mishustin, Lucius Julius Caesar, Emperor Kōtoku, Sajida Talfah, and Fujiko Fujio. After him are Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator, Causantín mac Cináeda, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Duke of Zhou, and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Harald Quandt ranks 59. Before him are Gérard Debreu, Yitzhak Navon, Jack Steinberger, Telmo Zarra, Zdeněk Miler, and Geoffrey Wilkinson. After him are Nexhmije Hoxha, Dobrica Ćosić, Zizinho, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Kurt Knispel, and György Cziffra. Among people deceased in 1967, Harald Quandt ranks 45. Before him are Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Shigeru Yoshida, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Héctor Scarone, Jayne Mansfield, and Ossip Zadkine. After him are Joseph Pilates, Brian Epstein, Totò, Shukri al-Quwatli, Robert van Gulik, and Violeta Parra.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harald Quandt ranks 892 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Perls (1893), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), William Stern (1871), Kurt Zeitzler (1895), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), and Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919). After him are Markus Wolf (1923), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Radegund (518), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Hans Fallada (1893), and Theodor Fontane (1819).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Harald Quandt ranks 258. Before him are Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Saloninus (242), William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493), Alfred Hugenberg (1865), Kurt Zeitzler (1895), and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636). After him are Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Ernest, Elector of Saxony (1441), Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1876), John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585), Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1680), and Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (1809).

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