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Horst Seehofer

1949 - Today

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Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born 4 July 1949) is a German politician who served as Minister for the Interior, Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), he served as the 18th minister-president of Bavaria from 2008 to 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria from 2008 to 2019. First elected to the Bundestag in 1980, he served as Minister for Health and Social Security in the Christian-liberal cabinets of Helmut Kohl from 1992 to 1998, going to the opposition afterwards and returning to the government as Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Seehofer has received more than 485,379 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Horst Seehofer is the 7,910th most popular politician (down from 5,793rd in 2019), the 2,207th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,614th in 2019) and the 650th most popular German Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horst Seehofer ranks 7,910 out of 19,576. Before him are Kåre Willoch, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, Nahum Sokolow, Said Halim Pasha, Lucius Licinius Murena, and Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga. After him are Jambyl Jabayev, Alain Berset, Stephen Držislav of Croatia, Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud, Huzziya I, and Chiang Wei-kuo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Horst Seehofer ranks 161. Before him are Trevor Horn, Thierry Sabine, Aurelio De Laurentiis, Pam Grier, Dusty Hill, and Mineko Iwasaki. After him are Tommy Ramone, Phil Lynott, Anne Schedeen, Matthew Festing, Ric Flair, and Paul Guilfoyle.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Seehofer ranks 2,207 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert Forster (1902), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Werner Krauss (1884), Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796), Joachim Streich (1951), and Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel (1744). After him are Fredrik Barth (1928), Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Claude Dornier (1884), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Walter Ruttmann (1887), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Horst Seehofer ranks 650. Before him are Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria (1368), Bertha of Sulzbach (1110), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1337), Berthold, Margrave of Baden (1906), Albert Forster (1902), and Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony (1796). After him are Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813).

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