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Georg Michaelis

1857 - 1936

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Georg Michaelis (8 September 1857 – 24 July 1936) was the chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917. He was the first (and, in the German Empire, the only) commoner to hold the post. With an economic background in business, Michaelis' main achievement was to encourage the ruling classes to open peace talks with Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Michaelis has received more than 289,650 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Georg Michaelis is the 2,758th most popular politician (down from 2,580th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 151st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Polish Politician.

Georg Michaelis is most famous for his work in the field of organic chemistry. He was one of the first chemists to understand the importance of the molecule's shape and how it impacts the molecule's reactivity.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Georg Michaelis ranks 2,758 out of 19,576. Before him are Liu Bian, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, King Xiaowen of Qin, Hayme Hatun, Jacques Santer, and Urukagina. After him are Yamato Takeru, Ramsay MacDonald, Emperor Qianshao of Han, Dương Văn Minh, Alpha Condé, and Idriss Déby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Georg Michaelis ranks 27. Before him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Thorstein Veblen, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and Ronald Ross. After him are Joseph Babinski, Karl Pearson, George Hendrik Breitner, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Otto von Below, and Edward Emerson Barnard. Among people deceased in 1936, Georg Michaelis ranks 35. Before him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Róbert Bárány, Moritz Schlick, Robert E. Howard, and Anne Sullivan. After him are Karl Pearson, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Georgy Chicherin, Julius Schreck, and Henry Louis Le Chatelier.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Georg Michaelis ranks 162 out of 1,694. Before him are Rochus Misch (1917), Erich Mendelsohn (1887), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Christa Wolf (1929), William I of Württemberg (1781), and Hermann Balck (1893). After him are Robert Lewandowski (1988), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Bolesław Bierut (1892), Daniel Libeskind (1946), Władysław Anders (1892), and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Georg Michaelis ranks 42. Before him are Albrecht von Roon (1803), Bronisław Komorowski (1952), Bolesław III Wrymouth (1086), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Maxim Litvinov (1876), and William I of Württemberg (1781). After him are Bolesław Bierut (1892), Władysław Anders (1892), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Andrzej Duda (1972), Isabella Jagiellon (1519), and John I Albert (1459).

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