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Hugo Eckener

1868 - 1954

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Hugo Eckener (German pronunciation: [ˈhuːɡo ˈɛkənɐ]; 10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) was the manager of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history. He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time. An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Eckener is the 167th most popular engineer (up from 181st in 2019), the 3,041st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,154th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hugo Eckener ranks 167 out of 389. Before him are Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Yaakov Ziv, Essam Sharaf, Aurel Vlaicu, and John Hughes. After him are Antoine de Chézy, Peter Hirsch, Alexei Tupolev, Riccardo Morandi, Gustave Whitehead, and Louis Charles Breguet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Hugo Eckener ranks 113. Before him are Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, Korbinian Brodmann, Vydūnas, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and H. J. R. Murray. After him are Marie Dressler, Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ivan Regen, Edgar Lee Masters, Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, and Georgy Voronoy. Among people deceased in 1954, Hugo Eckener ranks 69. Before him are Herms Niel, Wilhelm Brückner, Clyde Cessna, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Pat McDonald, and Henri Laurens. After him are Frans G. Bengtsson, Robert H. Jackson, Samuel Jones, Lucien Tesnière, Saburō Kurusu, and Yehuda Ashlag.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Eckener ranks 3,043 out of 7,253. Before him are Tilly Fleischer (1911), Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1822), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (1861), Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (1898), and Karl Philipp Moritz (1756). After him are Friedrich Bayer (1825), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), Charles I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1425), and Adolph Frank (1834).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Hugo Eckener ranks 23. Before him are Claude Dornier (1884), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Walter Hohmann (1880), Anton Flettner (1885), and Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935). After him are Peter Hirsch (1925), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Grashof (1826), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Arthur Rudolph (1906), and Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848).

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