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Hans-Gert Pöttering

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Hans-Gert Pöttering (born 15 September 1945) is a German lawyer, historian and conservative politician (CDU, European People's Party), who served as President of the European Parliament from January 2007 to July 2009 and as Chairman of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation from 2010 to 2017. He served as a Member of the European Parliament continuously since the first elections in 1979 until 2014 and was Chairman of the European People's Party-European Democrats 1999–2007. When he stepped down in 2014 he was the European Parliament's longest-serving member. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Gert Pöttering has received more than 98,635 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Hans-Gert Pöttering is the 6,868th most popular politician (down from 6,571st in 2019), the 1,878th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,825th in 2019) and the 551st most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 6,868 out of 19,576. Before him are Kaliman I of Bulgaria, Wilhelm Ohnesorge, Radola Gajda, Laimdota Straujuma, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, and Gaius Marius the Younger. After him are Jacques Cathelineau, Nizamuddin Auliya, Ramon Muntaner, John IV, Duke of Brittany, Theodora of Trebizond, and Theodore of Corsica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 149. Before him are Jessye Norman, Pirri, Eizo Yuguchi, Princess Michael of Kent, Raymond E. Feist, and Adam Zagajewski. After him are Carly Simon, Lee Jong-wook, Ilija Petković, Gary Brooker, John Banville, and Brenda Fricker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 1,878 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Albert Lange (1828), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1831), Hermann Paul (1846), Albert Leo Schlageter (1894), and Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1872). After him are Theodore of Corsica (1694), Peter Henlein (1479), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Monika Ertl (1937), Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861), and Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 551. Before him are Heinz Jost (1904), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1878), George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1831), and Wilhelm Ohnesorge (1872). After him are Theodore of Corsica (1694), Otto Braun (1900), Ludwig Fischer (1905), Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (1797), Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), and Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235).

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