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Germán Busch

1903 - 1939

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Víctor Germán Busch Becerra (23 March 1903 – 23 August 1939) was a Bolivian military officer and statesman who served as the 36th president of Bolivia from 1937 to 1939. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Chief of the General Staff and was the Supreme Leader of the Legion of Veterans, a veterans' organization founded by him after his service in the Chaco War. Busch was born in either El Carmen de Iténez or San Javier and was raised in Trinidad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germán Busch has received more than 146,400 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Germán Busch is the 12,475th most popular politician (up from 12,816th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Bolivia (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Bolivian Politician.

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  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Germán Busch ranks 12,475 out of 19,576. Before him are Igor Matovič, Urraca Fernández, Louis Charles Delescluze, Luis Sáenz Peña, Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, and Sam Webb. After him are Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Amrullah Saleh, Hipólito Mejía, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Zoskales, and Koppány.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Germán Busch ranks 192. Before him are Siegfried Kasche, Ward Bond, Melvin Purvis, Julio Antonio Mella, Albrecht Haushofer, and Ivan Galamian. After him are Rafael Paasio, Dean Jagger, Ferdinand Adams, Nico Diederichs, Josefina Pla, and Alejandro Casona. Among people deceased in 1939, Germán Busch ranks 101. Before him are Henri Le Sidaner, August Enna, Kálmán Darányi, Anna Coleman Ladd, Polina Osipenko, and Alexander Kanoldt. After him are Henry, Duke of Parma, Wojciech Korfanty, Otto Siffling, Walery Sławek, Aleksander Brückner, and Henri Jaspar.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Germán Busch ranks 19 out of 105. Before him are Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780), Carlos Mesa (1953), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), and Gualberto Villarroel (1908). After him are Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869), Mariano Melgarejo (1820), Ulises Saucedo (1896), Enrique Peñaranda (1893), Eduardo Rodríguez (1956), and Hilarión Daza (1840).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, Germán Busch ranks 16. Before him are Jeanine Áñez (1967), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), Carlos Mesa (1953), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), Juan José Torres (1920), and Gualberto Villarroel (1908). After him are Daniel Salamanca Urey (1869), Mariano Melgarejo (1820), Enrique Peñaranda (1893), Eduardo Rodríguez (1956), Hilarión Daza (1840), and Cornelio Saavedra (1759).

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