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Hans-Dietrich Genscher

1927 - 2016

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Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1992 (except for a two-week break in 1982, after the FDP had left the Third Schmidt cabinet), making him the longest-serving occupant of either post and the only person to have held one of these positions under two different Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1991 he was chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). A proponent of Realpolitik, Genscher has been called "a master of diplomacy". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Dietrich Genscher has received more than 576,364 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans-Dietrich Genscher is the 3,303rd most popular politician (down from 3,277th in 2019), the 891st most popular biography from Germany and the 251st most popular German Politician.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher is most famous for being the German Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1992. He is credited with the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans-Dietrich Genscher ranks 3,303 out of 19,576. Before him are Florian Geyer, Sundiata Keita, Saloninus, Bettino Craxi, Victor, Prince Napoléon, and Empress Kōgyoku. After him are Philip William, Elector Palatine, Algirdas Brazauskas, Saliha Sultan, Antiphon, Hugh, Count of Vermandois, and Giacomo Matteotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Hans-Dietrich Genscher ranks 46. Before him are Robert Ludlum, Daniel Keyes, Hugo Pratt, Don Shirley, Harry Mulisch, and Harry Markowitz. After him are George Andrew Olah, Maurice Ronet, Sydney Brenner, Stan Getz, F. Sherwood Rowland, and Leszek Kołakowski. Among people deceased in 2016, Hans-Dietrich Genscher ranks 58. Before him are George Gaynes, Junko Tabei, Viktor Korchnoi, Ettore Scola, Harry Kroto, and Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani. After him are Reinhard Selten, Patricio Aylwin, Hilary Putnam, Robert Vaughn, Jacques Rivette, and Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans-Dietrich Genscher ranks 891 out of 7,253. Before him are Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Florian Geyer (1490), Saloninus (242), and Fritz Haarmann (1879). After him are Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), Eduard Künneke (1885), and Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Hans-Dietrich Genscher ranks 251. Before him are Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (1728), William II of Württemberg (1848), Gotthard Kettler (1517), Florian Geyer (1490), and Saloninus (242). After him are Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), Kurt Zeitzler (1895), and Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857).

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