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Ranked fourth for Germany, a nationalist and likely an anti-Semite [0]. Why is it so difficult to rename stuff? Programmers managed to rename millions of branches from `master` to `main`, just for consistency with their values. I believe a nation should be able to rename a couple of thousand street names and schools as well..

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ludwig_Jahn

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The name is just "Jahn" in the openstreet map data.

Can it refer to somebody else?

Every second street name (primarily in front of schools) is named [Friedrich Ludwig] Jahn here. He is often also only referred to by "Jahn" (e.g. "Jahn School"), so I doubt there is any ambiguity in the data. Other examples are `Jahnweg`, `Jahnstrasse`, `Jahnstiege`, all referring to the same person.

The number is 93 if you parse the data from Geofabrik.

I think you are referring to ""Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn", directly. I've also considered "Jahn" and "F.-L.-Jahn" to be the same as the above. That is why it goes higher. To 1873, to be exactly.

As I am not from Germany, though, I am more than willing to adjust it, if there is consensus on it.

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