Person of the Year
Person of the Year (Person of the Year; and 1999 Man of the Year , man (or man) of the year ') is a selection of individuals, groups, ideas or objects that since 1927 annually by the US news magazine Time published . With the appointment as Person of the Year , those are selected who, in the opinion of the editors, have significantly changed or moved the world in the respective year - for the "good" or the "bad".
story
The tradition of choosing Man of the Year began in 1927 when Time editors pondered what to write about in a pickle season . First of all, it was also about making up for the embarrassment of the wrong editorial decision not to have Charles Lindbergh on the front page after his transatlantic flight. At the end of the year it was decided that Charles Lindbergh would be named “Man of the Year” with a cover story.
Since that time, specific people, groups of people (e.g. a team or a demographic category ) or, in two specific cases, an invention and planet earth, have been selected for issue towards the end of each year. Since 2000, the title has been generalized to Person of the Year . : Still, only few women have received the title of Wallis Simpson in 1936, Soong Mei-ling in 1937, Queen Elizabeth II. All American women in 1975, in 1952, Corazon Aquino in 1986, the whistleblower informants referred to uncover the scandal helped in 2002, Melinda Gates in 2005, Angela Merkel in 2015, the "Silence Breakers" (the women who stood up against sexual assault and abuse in the workplace) in 2017, Greta Thunberg in 2019 and Kamala Harris in 2020 .
Every President of the United States since Franklin D. Roosevelt (with the exception of Gerald Ford ) has been named Person of the Year at least once . It is now part of Time's policy to appoint a President of the United States each time he is elected (or re-elected) to recognize this achievement in itself.
perception
The award is partly understood as an honor or a prize. However, Time-Magazine regularly points to the sole criterion: who had the greatest influence on the events of the year - in the good or bad sense [for better or for worse, ... has done the most to influence the events of the year] . This is evident in Hitler's 1938, Stalin's 1939 and 1942, and Khomeini's 1979 awards.
People of the year from the German-speaking area
The dictator Adolf Hitler was selected in 1938 as the person who had the greatest impact on world history. In addition, the Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in 1953, Willy Brandt in 1970 and Angela Merkel in 2015 were people of the year. In 1940 Pastor Martin Niemöller was named Martyr of the Year.
Albert Einstein was chosen as the person of the (20th) century , Johannes Gutenberg as the person of the 15th century .
"People of the year" selected by Time
image | year | Surname | country | Function / reason |
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1927 | Charles Lindbergh | United States | first solo crosser of the Atlantic by plane | |
1928 | Walter Percy Chrysler | United States | Automobile pioneer and founder of the Chrysler Corporation | |
1929 | Owen D. Young | United States | Industrialist and Chairman of General Electric | |
1930 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | British India | Pacifist and leader of the Indian independence movement | |
1931 | Pierre Laval | France | French Prime Minister | |
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | United States | US President | |
1933 | Hugh S. Johnson | United States | General and Government Official, Head of New Deal | |
1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | United States | US President and initiator of the New Deal | |
1935 | Haile Selassie | Ethiopia | Emperor of Ethiopia | |
1936 | Wallis Simpson | United States | Mistress of the English King Edward VIII , who abdicated on her account. | |
1937 | Chiang Kai-shek | China | Leader of the Kuomintang | |
Song Meiling | Wife of Chiang Kai-shek | |||
1938 | Adolf Hitler | Deutsches Reich | Chancellor of the German Empire | |
1939 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU | |
1940 | Winston Churchill | United Kingdom | British Prime Minister | |
1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | United States | US President | |
1942 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Head of Government (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) of the Soviet Union | |
1943 | George C. Marshall | United States | general | |
1944 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | United States | Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces in Europe | |
1945 | Harry S. Truman | United States | US President | |
1946 | James F. Byrnes | United States | United States Secretary of State | |
1947 | George C. Marshall | United States | General and initiator of the Marshall Plan | |
1948 | Harry S. Truman | United States | US President | |
1949 | Winston Churchill | United Kingdom | British Prime Minister | |
1950 | The American soldier | United States | fights in the Korean War | |
1951 | Mohammad Mossadegh | Iran | Prime Minister of Iran | |
1952 | Elizabeth II | United Kingdom | Queen of the United Kingdom | |
1953 | Konrad Adenauer | BR Germany | German Chancellor | |
1954 | John Foster Dulles | United States | United States Secretary of State | |
1955 | Harlow Herbert Curtice | United States | General Motors CEO | |
1956 | The Hungarian freedom fighters | Hungary | had failed in the fight against the dictatorship | |
1957 | Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet Union | Party leader of the CPSU | |
1958 | Charles de Gaulle | France | French Prime Minister | |
1959 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | United States | US President | |
1960 | The American scientists | United States | represented by Linus Pauling , Isidor Isaac Rabi , Edward Teller , Adam Fisher , Donald Arthur Glaser , Willard Libby , Robert B. Woodward , Charles Stark Draper , William Bradford Shockley , Emilio Segrè , John Franklin Enders , Charles Hard Townes , George Wells Beadle , James Van Allen and Edward Mills Purcell | |
1961 | John F. Kennedy | United States | US President | |
1962 | John XXIII |
Vatican City Italy |
Pope | |
1963 | Martin Luther King | United States | Civil Rights Movement Leader | |
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | United States | US President | |
1965 | William Westmoreland | United States | Commander in chief of US troops in the Vietnam War | |
1966 | The under-25s | global | see baby boomers | |
1967 | Lyndon B. Johnson | United States | US President | |
1968 | Frank Borman | United States | Apollo 8 astronauts | |
Jim Lovell | ||||
William Anders | ||||
1969 | The average American | United States | ||
1970 | Willy Brandt | BR Germany | German Chancellor | |
1971 | Richard Nixon | United States | US President | |
1972 | Richard Nixon | United States | US President | |
Henry Kissinger | United States National Security Advisor | |||
1973 | John Sirica | United States | Head of the Watergate Burglar Trial | |
1974 | Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz | Saudi Arabia | King of Saudi Arabia | |
1975 | American women | United States | represented by Betty Ford , Carla Anderson Hills , Ella T. Grasso , Barbara Jordan , Susie Sharp , Jill Conway , Billie Jean King , Susan Brownmiller , Addie L. Wyatt , Kathleen Byerly , Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek | |
1976 | Jimmy Carter | United States | US President | |
1977 | Anwar as-Sadat | Egypt | President of Egypt | |
1978 | Deng Xiaoping | People's Republic of China | Reform politician | |
1979 | Ruhollah Khomeini | Iran | Leader of the Islamic Revolution | |
1980 | Ronald Reagan | United States | US President | |
1981 | Lech Wałęsa | Poland | Chairman of the Solidarność trade union | |
1982 | The computer | |||
1983 | Ronald Reagan | United States | US President | |
Yuri Andropov | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and head of state of the Soviet Union. | ||
1984 | Peter Ueberroth | United States | Organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles | |
1985 | Deng Xiaoping | People's Republic of China | Reform politician | |
1986 | Corazon Aquino | Philippines | President of the Philippines | |
1987 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the CPSU | |
1988 | the threatened earth | global | see also: pollution | |
1989 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union | General Secretary of the CPSU and head of state of the Soviet Union | |
1990 | George HW Bush | United States | US President | |
1991 | Ted Turner | United States | Media entrepreneur and founder of CNN International | |
1992 | Bill Clinton | United States | US President | |
1993 | Nelson Mandela | South Africa | Leader of the African National Congress 1 | |
Frederik Willem de Klerk | President of South Africa, who was on the end of apartheid towards 1 | |||
Yasser Arafat | Palestine | Palestinian leader 1 | ||
Yitzchak Rabin | Israel | Prime Minister of Israel 1 | ||
1994 | John Paul II |
Vatican City Poland |
Pope | |
1995 | Newt Gingrich | United States | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | |
1996 | David Ho | United States | AIDS researchers | |
1997 | Andrew Grove | United States | Co-founder of Intel | |
1998 | Bill Clinton | United States | US President | |
Kenneth Starr | Judge; Investigator of the allegations against President Clinton | |||
1999 | Jeff Bezos | United States | Founder and CEO of Amazon.com | |
2000 | George W. Bush | United States | US President | |
2001 | Rudolph Giuliani | United States | Mayor of New York City | |
2002 | Cynthia Cooper | United States | Whistleblower | |
Sherron Watkins | ||||
Coleen Rowley | ||||
2003 | The American soldier | United States | fights in the Iraq war | |
2004 | George W. Bush | United States | US President | |
2005 | Bono | Ireland | Musician 2 | |
Bill Gates | United States | Software entrepreneurs and benefactors 2 | ||
Melinda Gates | then wife of Bill Gates 2 | |||
2006 | You. Yes, you. You control the information age. Welcome to your world. (You. Yes, you. You influence the information age . Welcome to your world.) | global | in response to the proliferation of participatory websites | |
2007 | Wladimir Putin | Russia | President of the Russian Federation | |
2008 | Barack Obama | United States | US President | |
2009 | Ben Bernanke | United States | President of the Federal Reserve Board | |
2010 | Mark Zuckerberg | United States | Founder of Facebook | |
2011 | The Protester (the protesters) | global | in response to global protests | |
2012 | Barack Obama | United States | US President | |
2013 | Francis |
Vatican City Argentina |
Pope | |
2014 | Doctors and nurses in the fight against Ebola | West africa | represented by the doctor and Ebola survivor Kent Brantly , the surgeon and clinic director Jerry Brown , the ambulance driver Foday Gallah , the Ebola survivor Salome Karwah and the Doctors Without Borders employee Ella Watson-Stryker . | |
2015 | Angela Merkel | Germany | German Chancellor | |
2016 | Donald Trump | United States | President of the United States | |
2017 | The Silence Breakers (Those who break their silence) | global | #MeToo , represented by Isabel Pascual (pseudonym), Adama Iwu, Ashley Judd , Susan Fowler, Taylor Swift and an anonymous woman | |
2018 | The Guardians and the War on Truth (The guards and the war for the truth) | global | Journalists charged, jailed, or murdered for reporting. Jamal Khashoggi , Maria Ressa , the editorial team of The Capital , Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are shown on various cover pictures . Shahidul Alam , Alam Habani , Patrícia Campos Mello and Victor Mallet are mentioned as other Guardians . | |
2019 | Greta Thunberg | Sweden | Climate protection activist and initiator of school strikes for the climate | |
2020 | Joe Biden | United States | President of the United States | |
Kamala Harris | Vice President of the United States | |||
2021 | Elon Musk |
South Africa United States |
Entrepreneur |
In addition, Albert Einstein was selected as Person of the Century in 1999 and Winston Churchill as Person of the Half Century in 1950 .
Other categories
Four more categories were introduced in 2020:
- Guardian of the Year : Anthony Fauci and Health Professionals; Assa Traoré , Porche Bennett-Bey and fighters for racial justice
- Business Person of the Year : Eric Yuan (Zoom)
- Athlete of the Year : LeBron James
- Entertainer of the Year : BTS
Web links
- Person of the Year: A Photo History . Time (English)
- Person of the Year . Time; Cover stories of the winners from 2008 to 2013
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Elliott MacLaughlin: Ebola fighters are Time's 'Person of the Year'. In: CNN.com , December 11, 2014.
- ^ Nancy Gibbs: Person of the Year. Angela Merkel. In: Time , December 9, 2015 (English).
- ^ Nancy Gibbs: Why Donald Trump is TIME's Person of the Year. In: TIME.com. Retrieved December 7, 2016 .
- ↑ dpa / shz.de: Time Magazine: # MeToo movement: “Person of the Year” are everyone who broke their silence | shz.de. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Stephanie Zacharek, Eliana Dockterman, Haley Sweetland Edwards: Time Person of the Year 2017. The Silence Breakers. time.com, December 6, 2017
- ↑ Person of the Year 2018. In: Time. December 11, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019. In: Time. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Joe Biden and Kamala Harris named Time magazine's 2020 person of the year. In: The Guardian . December 11, 2020, accessed December 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year. Retrieved December 13, 2021 .
- ↑ CNN : Time magazine chooses Biden and Harris as 2020's Person of the Year , December 11, 2020