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Hans-Gert Pöttering

1945 - Today

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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 91,115 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Hans-Gert Pöttering is the 6,587th most popular politician (up from 7,419th in 2019), the 1,827th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,139th in 2019) and the 556th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 6,587 out of 15,577. Before him are Carlos Lacoste, Tsutomu Hata, Emperor Juntoku, Anaximenes of Lampsacus, Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, and George Wallace. After him are He Zizhen, Miltiades the Elder, Feng Guozhang, Democedes, Peter Wittgenstein, and Sigobert the Lame.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 121. Before him are Frans Sammut, Henry Winkler, Alain Juppé, Tammam Salam, Robert Cialdini, and Catherine Spaak. After him are Dennis Nilsen, Raymond E. Feist, Birendra of Nepal, Mahinda Rajapaksa, George Miller, and Wim Suurbier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 1,827 out of 6,142. Before him are Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922), Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891), Sigmar Polke (1941), and Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746). After him are Willi Hennig (1913), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Georg Ratzinger (1924), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758), and Margaret Sambiria (1230).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Hans-Gert Pöttering ranks 556. Before him are Otto Braun (1900), Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria (1386), Franz Six (1909), Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865), Bruno Streckenbach (1902), and Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746). After him are Margaret Sambiria (1230), George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1605), Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667), Walter Buch (1883), Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1771), and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1780).

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