POLITICIAN

Guido Westerwelle

1961 - 2016

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Guido Westerwelle (German: [ˈɡiːdo ˈvɛstɐˌvɛlə]; 27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guido Westerwelle has received more than 680,260 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia. Guido Westerwelle is the 10,694th most popular politician (down from 9,277th in 2019), the 3,162nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,665th in 2019) and the 913th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guido Westerwelle ranks 10,694 out of 19,576. Before him are Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, Assef Shawkat, Philipp von Boeselager, Slavica Đukić Dejanović, Bahaeddin Şakir, and George of Antioch. After him are Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Kyuichi Tokuda, Marco Cornaro, Douglas Hyde, and Nataša Kandić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Guido Westerwelle ranks 118. Before him are Christopher Meloni, Tony Rominger, James Rollins, Isiah Thomas, Moungi Bawendi, and Peter Machajdík. After him are Koji Kondo, Ahmed Aboutaleb, Veselin Vujović, José Luis Mendilibar, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and Jean-Christophe Grangé. Among people deceased in 2016, Guido Westerwelle ranks 193. Before him are Jacques Hamel, Pierre Étaix, Halil İnalcık, Madeleine Lebeau, Željko Čajkovski, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia. After him are S. R. Nathan, Jay Wright Forrester, Roberto Perfumo, Lars Gustafsson, Frank Sinatra Jr., and Arnold Palmer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Guido Westerwelle ranks 3,162 out of 7,253. Before him are Tanita Tikaram (1969), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Philipp von Boeselager (1917), Hans Erich Nossack (1901), Friedrich Kirchner (1885), and Johann Samuel König (1712). After him are Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Gertrude of Sulzbach (1114), John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1700), Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896), Julius Röntgen (1855), and Johannes Agricola (1494).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Guido Westerwelle ranks 913. Before him are Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein (1401), Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1713), Rainald of Dassel (1114), Agnes Bernauer (1410), Theodor Oberländer (1905), and Philipp von Boeselager (1917). After him are Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479), Franz Nissl (1860), Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel (1796), William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651), Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844), and Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732).

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