RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Conrad Schumann

1942 - 1998

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Hans Conrad Schumann, also known as Konrad Schumann (28 March 1942 – 20 June 1998), was an East German Bereitschaftspolizist who escaped to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Conrad Schumann has received more than 531,064 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Conrad Schumann is the 921st most popular religious figure (down from 823rd in 2019), the 1,220th most popular biography from Germany (down from 985th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Religious Figure.

Conrad Schumann was a German soldier who was the first person to cross the Berlin Wall.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Conrad Schumann ranks 921 out of 3,187Before him are Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Pierre Cauchon, Cyriacus, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, Clemens August Graf von Galen, and Robert Sarah. After him are Gudula, John of Leiden, Leopold Mandić, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam, Gerolamo Emiliani, and Otto of Bamberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Conrad Schumann ranks 103Before him are Michael York, Daniela Bianchi, Margarethe von Trotta, Scott Wilson, Mike Newell, and Jacques Dubochet. After him are Daniel Dennett, Prince Michael of Kent, Barry Levinson, Bob Ross, Larry Flynt, and Manolo Blahnik. Among people deceased in 1998, Conrad Schumann ranks 38Before him are Galina Ulanova, Bob Kane, Derek Barton, Nelson Goodman, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Martha Gellhorn. After him are Alan J. Pakula, Alan Hodgkin, Imi Lichtenfeld, Adem Jashari, David McClelland, and Kunitaka Sueoka.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Conrad Schumann ranks 1,220 out of 7,253Before him are Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Klaus Schulze (1947), and Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586). After him are Günther Korten (1898), Wilhelm Weitling (1808), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831), Erika Mann (1905), and Princess Cecilie of Baden (1839).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Conrad Schumann ranks 28Before him are Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Severinus of Noricum (410), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), Franz Ehrle (1845), and Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878). After him are Otto of Bamberg (1060), Gerhard Ludwig Müller (1947), Henry of Latvia (1187), Günter Guillaume (1927), Walter Kasper (1933), and Saint Afra (300).