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Ida Straus

1849 - 1912

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Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blün; February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was a German-American homemaker and wife of Isidor Straus, U.S. congressman and co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband died during the sinking of the Titanic. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ida Straus is the 398th most popular businessperson (down from 303rd in 2024), the 3,591st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,835th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Ida Straus ranks 398 out of 847. Before her are Mikhail Fridman, Thomas Blake Glover, Silvio Santos, Rina Zaripova, Robert Mercer, and Steve Jackson. After her are Howard Schultz, Peter Lynch, Edwin Drake, Roy E. Disney, John Cockerill, and Elisabeth Abegg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ida Straus ranks 66. Before her are Emile Claus, Edmund Barton, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Olena Pchilka, Albert Heim, and Hugo von Seeliger. After her are William Ernest Henley, Johan Kjeldahl, Ferdinand Brunetière, Pedro Montt, Jacob Riis, and Carl Fredrik Hill. Among people deceased in 1912, Ida Straus ranks 79. Before her are Andrew Lang, William Wilson, Theodor Gomperz, Paul Wallot, Anna Filosofova, and Dmitry Milyutin. After her are Bernardino Caballero, Subh-i-Azal, Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Ferdinand Zirkel, Siri von Essen, and Richard Norman Shaw.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ida Straus ranks 3,593 out of 7,253. Before her are Heinrich Albert (1604), Robert Habeck (1969), Princess Marie of Prussia (1855), Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1428), Karl Bartos (1952), and Max Noether (1921). After her are Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905), Karl Blossfeldt (1865), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811), Franz John (1872), and Carl Humann (1839).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Ida Straus ranks 45. Before her are Siegfried Bing (1838), Bertha Krupp (1886), Karl Rapp (1882), Theo Albrecht (1922), Johanna Quandt (1926), and Henry E. Steinway (1797). After her are Emil Rathenau (1838), Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), Adolf Merckle (1934), Reinhard Mohn (1921), and Ernest Oppenheimer (1880).

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