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Günter Schabowski

1929 - 2015

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Günter Schabowski ([ˈɡʏntɐ ʃaˈbɔvski]; 4 January 1929 – 1 November 2015) was an East 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 the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Schabowski 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 raised popular expectations much more rapidly than the government planned and so massive crowds gathered the same night at the Wall, which forced its opening after 28 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Günter Schabowski has received more than 547,585 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Günter Schabowski is the 2,597th most popular politician (down from 2,358th in 2019), the 711th most popular biography from Germany (down from 648th in 2019) and the 201st 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Günter Schabowski ranks 2,597 out of 15,577Before him are B. J. Habibie, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Mentuhotep III, Emperor Go-Sai, Alfred Hugenberg, and Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. After him are Dương Văn Minh, Magnentius, Felipe González, Raymond of Poitiers, Chandragupta II, and Ramsay MacDonald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Günter Schabowski ranks 52Before him are Jean Simmons, Eric Kandel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yevgeny Primakov, Lennart Meri, and Richard E. Taylor. After him are Christa Wolf, Peter L. Berger, George Steiner, Zoltán Czibor, Isamu Akasaki, and Ralf Dahrendorf. Among people deceased in 2015, Günter Schabowski ranks 38Before him are Wes Craven, Oliver Sacks, Yves Chauvin, James Last, Charles H. Townes, and Yevgeny Primakov. After him are Udo Lattek, Irwin Rose, Colleen McCullough, Benedict Anderson, Zito, and Alcides Ghiggia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Günter Schabowski ranks 711 out of 6,142Before him are George V of Hanover (1819), Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp (1712), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707), Michael Praetorius (1571), and Alfred Hugenberg (1865). After him are Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria (1869), Gerd Binnig (1947), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Sophia Charlotte of Hanover (1668), and Arthur Nebe (1894).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Günter Schabowski ranks 201Before him are Karl Carstens (1914), Juana Bormann (1893), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Wilhelm Marx (1863), George V of Hanover (1819), and Alfred Hugenberg (1865). After him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Gisela of Hungary (980), Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (1801), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585), and Manfred Gerlach (1928).