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Karl Rapp

1882 - 1962

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Karl Friedrich Rapp (24 September 1882 – 26 May 1962) was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time, this company became BMW AG. He is acknowledged by BMW AG as an indirect founder of the company. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Rapp is the 359th most popular businessperson (down from 223rd in 2019), the 3,208th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,113th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Karl Rapp ranks 359 out of 847. Before him are Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Albert Kahn, Edward Colston, Vicente Calderón, and Paul Castellano. After him are John Sculley, Jack Welch, Alfred Edwards, Sergei Shchukin, David Stern, and Roger Ailes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Karl Rapp ranks 140. Before him are Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Joseph Marx, Giorgio Abetti, Subramania Bharati, Noah Beery, and N. C. Wyeth. After him are José Vasconcelos, Sylvia Pankhurst, Oldřich Duras, Yakov Perelman, Arnold Rothstein, and Karl Valentin. Among people deceased in 1962, Karl Rapp ranks 100. Before him are Mouloud Feraoun, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, Franz Konwitschny, Franz Kline, José Giral, and Max Vasmer. After him are György Orth, Charles Galton Darwin, Luigi Carnera, Paavo Aaltonen, Candido Portinari, and Richard Herrmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Rapp ranks 3,210 out of 7,253. Before him are Augusta Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (1649), Emil Warburg (1846), Caspar Netscher (1639), Theodor Meynert (1833), Anna of Hesse (1529), and Felix von Luckner (1881). After him are Hans Meyer (1858), Karl Neukirch (1864), Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886), Susanna of Bavaria (1502), Princess Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710), and Gustav Lombard (1895).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Karl Rapp ranks 41. Before him are Martin Winterkorn (1947), Friedrich Bayer (1825), Karl Wittgenstein (1847), Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884), Siegfried Bing (1838), and Bertha Krupp (1886). After him are Theo Albrecht (1922), Johanna Quandt (1926), Henry E. Steinway (1797), Ida Straus (1849), Emil Rathenau (1838), and Susanne Klatten (1962).

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