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Günter Schabowski

1929 - 2015

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Günter Schabowski ([ˈɡʏntɐ ʃaˈbɔfski]; 4 January 1929 – 1 November 2015) was a German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands abbreviated SED), the ruling party during most of the existence of East Germany. After climbing up the party ladder, he became the regime's unofficial spokesman. He gained worldwide fame in November 1989 when he improvised a slightly mistaken answer to a press conference question about the future of the Berlin Wall, that seemed to announce the Wall's immediate end and raised popular expectations much more rapidly than the government planned. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günter Schabowski has received more than 601,702 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Günter Schabowski is the 2,811th most popular politician (down from 2,589th in 2019), the 744th most popular biography from Germany (down from 711th in 2019) and the 207th most popular German Politician.

Günter Schabowski is most famous for the announcement of the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Günter Schabowski ranks 2,811 out of 19,576. Before him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Herodes Atticus, Shigeru Yoshida, Pekah, Ptolemy X Alexander I, and Diaochan. After him are Ayaz Mutallibov, Arsinoe IV of Egypt, Demetrius II Nicator, Nicos Anastasiades, Berenice, and Norman Angell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Günter Schabowski ranks 54. Before him are Bill Evans, Zoltán Czibor, Christa Wolf, Yevgeny Primakov, Gudrun Burwitz, and Karolos Papoulias. After him are Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Murray Gell-Mann, Ralf Dahrendorf, James Last, Lennart Johansson, and John Cassavetes. Among people deceased in 2015, Günter Schabowski ranks 42. Before him are Douglass North, Boris Nemtsov, Yoichiro Nambu, Alcides Ghiggia, Wes Craven, and Yevgeny Primakov. After him are Colleen McCullough, James Last, Faten Hamama, Frei Otto, René Girard, and James Horner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günter Schabowski ranks 744 out of 7,253. Before him are Harald Schumacher (1954), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805), and David Strauss (1808). After him are Erich Priebke (1913), Maria Barbara Bach (1684), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Arthur Nebe (1894), Christopher Clavius (1538), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Günter Schabowski ranks 207. Before him are Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), Gudrun Burwitz (1929), John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), and Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805). After him are Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551), Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), and Gustav Radbruch (1878).

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