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Horst Köhler

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Horst Köhler (German: [ˈhɔʁst ˈkøːlɐ] ; born 22 February 1943) is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU (of which he is a member) and the CSU, as well as the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Convention on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004. He was reelected to a second term on 23 May 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Köhler has received more than 713,104 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Horst Köhler is the 1,570th most popular politician (down from 1,334th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Poland (down from 80th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Polish Politician.

Horst Köhler is most famous for being the President of Germany from 2004 to 2010.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horst Köhler ranks 1,570 out of 19,576. Before him are Mongkut, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Princess Isabella of Parma, Richard von Weizsäcker, Yolande de Polastron, and Glycerius. After him are Francis II Rákóczi, Taejo of Goryeo, Manuel Noriega, Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Feodor II of Russia, and Maria I of Portugal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Horst Köhler ranks 31. Before him are Joseph Stiglitz, Salvatore Adamo, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Tarja Halonen, Mohammad Khatami, and Howard Gardner. After him are Raffaella Carrà, David Cronenberg, Bernard Tapie, John Kerry, Khalifa Haftar, and Denis Sassou Nguesso.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Horst Köhler ranks 95 out of 1,694. Before him are Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Anton Denikin (1872), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Egon Krenz (1937), and Krzysztof Penderecki (1933). After him are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Stefan Banach (1892), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Dziga Vertov (1896), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), and Ulrich Beck (1944).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Horst Köhler ranks 23. Before him are Marie Walewska (1786), Anna Jagiellon (1523), Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), and Egon Krenz (1937). After him are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Karl Hanke (1903), and Kurt Daluege (1897).

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