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Carl Lutz

1895 - 1975

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Carl Lutz (30 March 1895 – 12 February 1975) was a Swiss diplomat. He served as the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary, from 1942 until the end of World War II. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during the Second World War in a very large rescue operation. Due to his actions, half of the Jewish population of Budapest survived and was not deported to Nazi extermination camps during the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Lutz has received more than 271,854 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Carl Lutz is the 10,371st most popular politician (down from 9,718th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 268th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carl Lutz ranks 10,371 out of 19,576. Before him are Vasiľ Biľak, Tan Malaka, Pedro Pablo Ramírez, Ludwig von Cobenzl, Ashikaga Yoshitane, and Armen Garo. After him are Rosamund Clifford, Heinrich von Brentano, Sándor Képíró, Gurak, Gabriel Attal, and Conan III, Duke of Brittany.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Carl Lutz ranks 136. Before him are Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Xu Beihong, Gustav Klutsis, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Gustav Lombard, and Vsevolod Merkulov. After him are Roza Eskenazi, Feng Youlan, Bill W., Machine Gun Kelly, Erich Abraham, and Jankel Adler. Among people deceased in 1975, Carl Lutz ranks 103. Before him are Shojiro Sugimura, Mina Witkojc, Sven Rydell, Georg Ots, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Jacques Duclos. After him are G. M. B. Dobson, Tim Buckley, Javier Ambrois, Shigeyoshi Inoue, William Hartnell, and Sisowath Sirik Matak.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Lutz ranks 287 out of 1,015. Before him are Alexandre Calame (1810), Jakob Dubs (1822), Arthur Cravan (1887), Adolf Wölfli (1864), Kurt Koch (1950), and Henri Druey (1799). After him are Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), Joseph Deiss (1946), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Ludwig Senfl (1486), and Edmond Privat (1889).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Carl Lutz ranks 46. Before him are Christoph Blocher (1940), Flavio Cotti (1939), Numa Droz (1844), Karl Schenk (1823), Jakob Dubs (1822), and Henri Druey (1799). After him are Joseph Deiss (1946), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Paul Grüninger (1891), Fritz Platten (1883), Johann Schneider-Ammann (1952), and Doris Leuthard (1963).

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