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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 468,816 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Horst Seehofer is the 5,808th most popular politician (up from 6,302nd in 2019), the 1,614th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,784th in 2019) and the 485th most popular German Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horst Seehofer ranks 5,808 out of 15,577. Before him are Pyeongwon of Goguryeo, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, Abdul Karim, Emperor Chūkyō, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and Juan Velasco Alvarado. After him are Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Abi-Eshuh, Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, King Xuan of Zhou, Joschka Fischer, and Shar-Kali-Sharri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Horst Seehofer ranks 102. Before him are Hamida Djandoubi, Alan Lancaster, Cliff Williams, Victor Garber, Elizabeth George, and Göran Persson. After him are Matthew Festing, Bo Xilai, Mick Taylor, Irina Rodnina, Armand Assante, and Leopoldo Luque.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Seehofer ranks 1,614 out of 6,142. Before him are Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), Florian Schneider (1947), Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1867), Eugen Jochum (1902), Johann van Beethoven (1740), and Matthias Sammer (1967). After him are Joschka Fischer (1948), Albert Bierstadt (1830), Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828), and Aenne Burda (1909).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Horst Seehofer ranks 485. Before him are Oskar Lafontaine (1943), Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Viktor Brack (1904), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), and Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200). After him are Joschka Fischer (1948), Princess Margaret of Prussia (1872), Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1828), Charles the Child (847), Charles II, Elector Palatine (1651), and Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914).

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