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Otto Frank

1889 - 1980

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Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Frank is the 67th most popular businessperson (down from 51st in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 451st in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Businessperson.

Otto Frank is most famous for being the father of Anne Frank, who wrote the diary.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Otto Frank ranks 67 out of 847. Before him are Bill Hewlett, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Rudolf Dassler, Boris Berezovsky, Soichiro Honda, and Giovanni Agnelli. After him are Robert Bosch, Dietrich Mateschitz, J. Paul Getty, Martin Cooper, Jakob Fugger, and Sergei Diaghilev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Otto Frank ranks 26. Before him are Gabriela Mistral, Idris of Libya, Carl von Ossietzky, Gabriel Marcel, Han van Meegeren, and Louise Mountbatten. After him are Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jacob L. Moreno, Victor Fleming, Vasily Blyukher, and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1980, Otto Frank ranks 27. Before him are Tamara de Lempicka, Romain Gary, Marshall McLuhan, Marcelo Caetano, Peter Sellers, and Alexander Oparin. After him are Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, William Tolbert, Óscar Romero, Willard Libby, John Bonham, and Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Frank ranks 562 out of 7,253. Before him are Rabanus Maurus (780), John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg (1572), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Gisela of Hungary (980), Victoria of Baden (1862), and Friedrich Olbricht (1888). After him are Wilhelm List (1880), Robert Bosch (1861), Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867), Karl Carstens (1914), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), and Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Otto Frank ranks 7. Before him are Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838), Ludwig Erhard (1897), Bertha Benz (1849), Adolf Dassler (1900), Levi Strauss (1829), and Rudolf Dassler (1898). After him are Robert Bosch (1861), Jakob Fugger (1459), Henri Nestlé (1814), Paul Reuter (1816), Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777), and Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880).

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