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Herman Potočnik

1892 - 1929

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Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung; 22 December 1892 – 27 August 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian Army officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as an early theorist of modern space flight and is remembered mainly for his work concerning the long-term human habitation of space. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herman Potočnik is the 105th most popular engineer (up from 122nd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 110th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Herman Potočnik ranks 105 out of 389. Before him are Hans Ledwinka, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, André Courrèges, Jimmy Doolittle, Stephen Timoshenko, and Fedor Tokarev. After him are Viktor Kaplan, John A. Roebling, Álvaro del Portillo, Lu Ban, Mikhail Mil, and Carlo Abarth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Herman Potočnik ranks 98. Before him are Erich Brandenberger, Takeo Takagi, Richard Neutra, Reinhold Niebuhr, Radola Gajda, and Robert Watson-Watt. After him are Agnes Smedley, Ivan Šubašić, Joseph Szigeti, Karl Lennart Oesch, Peljidiin Genden, and Charles Vanel. Among people deceased in 1929, Herman Potočnik ranks 46. Before him are Manuel Gomes da Costa, Stepa Stepanović, André Messager, La Goulue, Enrico Ferri, and Jacek Malczewski. After him are Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Tanaka Giichi, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Robert Reid, Henri Gervex, and Georg von der Marwitz.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Herman Potočnik ranks 96 out of 700. Before him are Arsen Dedić (1938), Branko Lustig (1932), Pavle, Serbian Patriarch (1914), Franjo Šeper (1905), Mate Parlov (1948), and Oliver Dragojević (1947). After him are Momčilo Đujić (1907), Goran Hadžić (1958), Paul Neményi (1895), Marin Držić (1508), Andrej Plenković (1970), and Nikola Jurišić (1490).

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Among ENGINEERS In Croatia

Among engineers born in Croatia, Herman Potočnik ranks 1. 

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