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Ernst Thälmann

1886 - 1944

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Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈtɛːlman]; 16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist politician, leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933, and is considered the greatest KPD leader. A committed communist, Thälmann played a major role during the political instability of the Weimar Republic, especially in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought to overthrow the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership, the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Thälmann has received more than 1,198,005 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Ernst Thälmann is the 1,367th most popular politician (up from 1,415th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Germany (up from 393rd in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Politician.

Ernst Thälmann was a German communist politician who was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany. He was arrested by the Gestapo and executed in 1944.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernst Thälmann ranks 1,367 out of 19,576. Before him are Polycrates, Ahaz, Scipio Aemilianus, Töregene Khatun, Andrei Zhdanov, and Sarah Palin. After him are Harold Macmillan, Rodolfo Graziani, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Joachim Gauck, William II of England, and Dionysius I of Syracuse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Ernst Thälmann ranks 13. Before him are Manne Siegbahn, Béla Kun, Sergey Kirov, Marc Bloch, René Guénon, and Jean Arp. After him are Karl Barth, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, George Mallory, and Karl Polanyi. Among people deceased in 1944, Ernst Thälmann ranks 21. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla, Michael Wittmann, Alexis Carrel, Marc Bloch, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and Ludwig Beck. After him are Chūichi Nagumo, Florence Foster Jenkins, Hilma af Klint, Milena Jesenská, Galeazzo Ciano, and Louis Renault.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Thälmann ranks 364 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Hindemith (1895), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Heinrich Mann (1871), Konrad Zuse (1910), and Ludwig Beck (1880). After him are Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Samuel Hahnemann (1755), Joachim Gauck (1940), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Ernst Thälmann ranks 104. Before him are Fritz Sauckel (1894), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Valdemar I of Denmark (1131), Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845), and Christian V of Denmark (1646). After him are Joachim Gauck (1940), Chlodio (393), Christopher of Bavaria (1416), Leo von Caprivi (1831), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), and Hans Luther (1879).

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