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Christoph Blocher

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Christoph Wolfram Blocher (German pronunciation: [ˈkrɪ⁠stɔ⁠f ˈblɔ⁠⁠xər]; born 11 October 1940) is a Swiss industrialist and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2004 to 2007. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), he headed the Federal Department of Justice and Police. As an industrialist, he became wealthy as CEO and majority shareholder in the EMS-Chemie corporation, now run by his daughter, Magdalena Martullo-Blocher.A controversial figure, Blocher is known for his role in transforming Swiss politics, shifting it to the right, as well as the Swiss People's Party, which has become "the dominant force in national politics". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christoph Blocher has received more than 191,300 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Christoph Blocher is the 9,838th most popular politician (up from 9,956th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 277th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Swiss Politician.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Christoph Blochers by language

Over the past year Christoph Blocher has had the most page views in the with 88,808 views, followed by English (28,929), and French (15,453). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (99.10%), Latin (77.82%), and Esperanto (76.45%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Christoph Blocher ranks 9,838 out of 19,576. Before him are Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, Vasiliy Ulrikh, Pau Claris i Casademunt, Joan, Countess of Toulouse, Lucius Cornelius Scipio, and Alexandre Deschapelles. After him are Yazid of Morocco, Kiyoura Keigo, Dimitrios Gounaris, Brian Mulroney, Sœur Emmanuelle, and Julius Oppert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Christoph Blocher ranks 199. Before him are Jon Elster, Agostino Vallini, José van Dam, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Gérard Larrousse, and Diane, Duchess of Württemberg. After him are Kipchoge Keino, Lorenzo Baldisseri, Marie-José Nat, Nasser Al-Sabah, Hanako, Princess Hitachi, and Jana Brejchová.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Christoph Blocher ranks 269 out of 1,015. Before him are Giuseppe Motta (1871), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Domenico Trezzini (1670), Walter Hauser (1837), and Lisa Della Casa (1919). After him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Daniel Peter (1836), Saint Othmar (689), Leopold Kielholz (1911), Peter Bieri (1944), and Flavio Cotti (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Christoph Blocher ranks 40. Before him are Louis of Cyprus (1436), Ignazio Cassis (1961), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), Ernst Brenner (1856), Giuseppe Motta (1871), and Walter Hauser (1837). After him are Flavio Cotti (1939), Numa Droz (1844), Karl Schenk (1823), Jakob Dubs (1822), Henri Druey (1799), and Carl Lutz (1895).

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