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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 648,892 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Guido Westerwelle is the 9,304th most popular politician (down from 9,094th in 2019), the 2,668th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,631st in 2019) and the 810th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guido Westerwelle ranks 9,304 out of 15,577Before him are Barbu Știrbey, John IV, Duke of Bavaria, Jakaya Kikwete, Charles J. Guiteau, Anne Jules de Noailles, and Louisa Adams. After him are Carl Adolph Agardh, Enrique Cerezo, Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Agron, Polina Astakhova, and Traicho Kostov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Guido Westerwelle ranks 91Before him are Jimmy Somerville, Ahmed Aboutaleb, Isiah Thomas, Jonas Jonasson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Dylan McDermott. After him are Jacky Cheung, Tom Sizemore, Tom Araya, Sergei Aleinikov, Christopher Meloni, and Ghislaine Maxwell. Among people deceased in 2016, Guido Westerwelle ranks 167Before him are Ilse Aichinger, Mahasweta Devi, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, S. R. Nathan, Marc Riboud, and Silvio Gazzaniga. After him are Lola Novaković, Jay Wright Forrester, Bill Mollison, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, Fredrik Barth, and Artur Fischer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Guido Westerwelle ranks 2,668 out of 6,142Before him are August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796), John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1525), Abraham Mignon (1640), Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800), Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe (1821), and John IV, Duke of Bavaria (1437). After him are Franz Lachner (1803), Christa Schroeder (1908), Heidi Brühl (1942), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1443), and Adam Kraft (1450).

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