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Erik Eriksen

1902 - 1972

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Erik Eriksen (20 November 1902 – 7 October 1972) was a Danish politician, who served as the prime minister of Denmark from 1950 to 1953 and as the president of the Nordic Council in 1956. Eriksen was leader of the Danish Liberal party Venstre from 1950 to 1965. He served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 30 October 1950 to 30 September 1953 as leader of the Eriksen cabinet forming a minority government of Venstre and the Conservative People's Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Eriksen has received more than 41,894 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Erik Eriksen is the 11,556th most popular politician (down from 11,210th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 338th in 2019) and the 113th most popular Danish Politician.

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  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Erik Eriksen ranks 11,556 out of 19,576. Before him are Cniva, Bakili Muluzi, Lê Khả Phiêu, Zdeslav of Croatia, Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau, and Stephen I of Iberia. After him are Andrey of Gorodets, Eric Trolle, Christer Pettersson, Cædwalla of Wessex, Sayed Morad Khan, and Meskalamdug.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Erik Eriksen ranks 169. Before him are Ryuzo Shimizu, Son House, Zino Francescatti, Josef Silný, Fritz Machlup, and Shen Congwen. After him are Herbert Feigl, Andrés Mazali, Valerian Zorin, Sergey Lebedev, Ilmari Salminen, and Edward Condon. Among people deceased in 1972, Erik Eriksen ranks 120. Before him are Bruce Cabot, Maximus V of Constantinople, Ennio Flaiano, Robert Casadesus, Solomon Lefschetz, and Gustav Wiederkehr. After him are Abraham Joshua Heschel, Max Aub, Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Thomas C. Kinkaid, Joseph Cornell, and Rudolf Belling.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Erik Eriksen ranks 336 out of 1,032. Before him are Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655), Cecil Bødker (1927), Peter Freuchen (1886), Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1792), Jean Hersholt (1886), and Per Nørgård (1932). After him are Palle Huld (1912), Hans Wegner (1914), Thomas Kingo (1634), Vilhelm Buhl (1881), Lucile Grahn (1819), and Harald Høffding (1843).

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Among POLITICIANS In Denmark

Among politicians born in Denmark, Erik Eriksen ranks 113. Before him are Knud Enemark Jensen (1936), August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573), Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia (1504), and Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655). After him are Vilhelm Buhl (1881), Hans Hedtoft (1903), Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825), and Viggo Kampmann (1910).

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