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Hans-Rudolf Merz

1942 - Today

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Hans-Rudolf Merz (born 10 November 1942) is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2004 to 2010. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) until the foundation of FDP.The Liberals in 2009, he headed the Federal Department of Finance during his tenure as a Federal Councillor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans-Rudolf Merz has received more than 64,917 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans-Rudolf Merz is the 11,223rd most popular politician (down from 9,348th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 257th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Swiss Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans-Rudolf Merz ranks 11,223 out of 19,576. Before him are Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen, Agnes of Babenberg, Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, Nino Vaccarella, Thanin Kraivichien, and Erik Gustaf Boström. After him are Marduk-apla-iddina I, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Moritz Leuenberger, Kiran Bedi, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Porcina, and Sviatoslav III of Vladimir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Hans-Rudolf Merz ranks 282. Before him are Federico Lombardi, Guy Edwards, Sjoukje Dijkstra, Susana Vieira, Gianfranco Ravasi, and Yevhen Rudakov. After him are Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Dee Dee Warwick, Meredith Monk, Jeetendra, Peter Norman, and Lyudmila Zhivkova.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hans-Rudolf Merz ranks 326 out of 1,015. Before him are Maurice Bavaud (1916), Pierre Musy (1910), Gustave Ador (1845), Salomon Gessner (1730), Paul Sacher (1906), and Luigi Taveri (1929). After him are Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808), Marc Surer (1951), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Bertha Wegmann (1847), and Arnold Henry Guyot (1807).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Hans-Rudolf Merz ranks 57. Before him are Johann Schneider-Ammann (1952), Doris Leuthard (1963), Orgetorix (null), Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950), Pierre Tirard (1827), and Gustave Ador (1845). After him are Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Maximilian Ulysses Browne (1705), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (1956), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), Alphons Egli (1924), and Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889).

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