RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Chris Gueffroy

1968 - 1989

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Chris Gueffroy (21 June 1968 – 6 February 1989) was the last person to be shot and the second-last to die in an escape attempt while trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Gueffroy has received more than 181,774 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Chris Gueffroy is the 2,873rd most popular religious figure (down from 2,611th in 2019), the 5,169th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,768th in 2019) and the 126th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Chris Gueffroy ranks 2,873 out of 3,187Before him are Roger Mahony, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Maximos V Hakim, Lillian Disney, and Maher Al-Mu'aiqly. After him are Hilarion, Jason of Thessalonica, Mauro Gambetti, Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, and Gaudencio Rosales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Chris Gueffroy ranks 283Before him are Tricky, Sebastian Bach, Georgi Gospodinov, Ramzi Yousef, Marie-José Pérec, and Florence Devouard. After him are Luke Goss, James Frain, Chae Shi-ra, Claudio Suárez, Elsa Zylberstein, and Dariusz Michalczewski. Among people deceased in 1989, Chris Gueffroy ranks 254Before him are Norma Varden, Marshall Harvey Stone, Édouard Candeveau, Georgy Tovstonogov, M. King Hubbert, and George Coulouris. After him are C. L. R. James, Edward Abbey, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Wally Ris, Hemanta Mukherjee, and Jim Backus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Chris Gueffroy ranks 5,169 out of 7,253Before him are Allison Mack (1982), Hans Rademacher (1892), Michael Gross (1964), Cha Du-ri (1980), Frank Auerbach (1931), and Bernard Knubel (1872). After him are Albert Zürner (1890), Fritz Riess (1922), Norbert Walter-Borjans (1952), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), Willy Ley (1906), and Gertrud Elisabeth Mara (1749).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Chris Gueffroy ranks 126Before him are Brother Alois (1954), Oliver of Paderborn (1170), Melchior von Diepenbrock (1798), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), Franziskus von Bettinger (1850), and Hermann Volk (1903). After him are Johannes Weiss (1863), Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1926), Ludwig Schick (1949), Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (1959), John Kilian (1811), and Margot Käßmann (1958).