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Frederick Augustus III of Saxony

1865 - 1932

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Frederick Augustus III (German: Friedrich August III.; 25 May 1865 – 18 February 1932) was the last King of Saxony (1904–1918). Born in Dresden, Frederick Augustus was the eldest son of King George of Saxony and his wife, Maria Anna of Portugal. Frederick Augustus served in the Royal Saxon Army before becoming king, and later was promoted to Generalfeldmarschall. Though well-loved by his subjects, he voluntarily abdicated as king on 13 November 1918, after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frederick Augustus III of Saxony has received more than 574,604 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Frederick Augustus III of Saxony is the 2,753rd most popular politician (down from 2,672nd in 2019), the 727th most popular biography from Germany (up from 732nd in 2019) and the 201st most popular German Politician.

Frederick Augustus III of Saxony was most famous for being the King of Saxony and the Duke of Warsaw. He was also a prince of the house of Wettin and a member of the Order of the Garter.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony ranks 2,753 out of 19,576Before him are Empress Xiaoyichun, Milan Nedić, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Yevgeny Primakov, César Gaviria, and Liu Bian. After him are King Xiaowen of Qin, Hayme Hatun, Jacques Santer, Urukagina, Georg Michaelis, and Yamato Takeru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony ranks 22Before him are Andranik, Philipp Scheidemann, Paul Dukas, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Alfred Hugenberg, and Benjamin Guggenheim. After him are Félix Vallotton, Amélie of Orléans, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jacques Hadamard, Gérard Encausse, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg. Among people deceased in 1932, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony ranks 15Before him are Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Errico Malatesta, George Eastman, Ronald Ross, and Max Wolf. After him are Joseph Babinski, Edgar Wallace, Margaret Brown, Sophia of Prussia, André Maginot, and Pavlik Morozov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony ranks 727 out of 7,253Before him are Gabriele Münter (1877), John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585), Anneliese Michel (1952), Albert Göring (1895), Hans von Bülow (1830), and Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria (1843). After him are Walther Wenck (1900), Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1715), Max Beckmann (1884), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), and Peter Parler (1330).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony ranks 201Before him are Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787), Artur Axmann (1913), Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (1722), Alfred Hugenberg (1865), Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907), and John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585). After him are Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), Gudrun Burwitz (1929), John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805), and Günter Schabowski (1929).