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Józef Beck

1894 - 1944

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Józef Beck (Polish: [ˈjuzɛv ˈbɛk] ; 4 October 1894 – 5 June 1944) was a Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as a diplomat and military officer. A close associate of Józef Piłsudski, Beck is most famous for being Polish foreign minister in the 1930s and for largely setting Polish foreign policy. He tried to fulfill Piłsudski's dream of making Poland the leader of a regional coalition, but he was widely disliked and distrusted by other governments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Józef Beck has received more than 225,293 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Józef Beck is the 7,439th most popular politician (up from 7,613th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Poland (up from 451st in 2019) and the 118th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Józef Beck ranks 7,439 out of 19,576. Before him are Mir Jafar Baghirov, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, John Hancock, Wiman of Gojoseon, Pierre Messmer, and Vasile Milea. After him are Stephan Burián von Rajecz, Adolfo de la Huerta, Samsu-Ditana, Quintus Petillius Cerialis, Evagoras I, and Jia Chong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Józef Beck ranks 82. Before him are Friedrich Ebert Jr., Erwin Schulhoff, Oskar Klein, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, and Meher Baba. After him are Boris Lyatoshinsky, Gerhard Schmidhuber, José Carlos Mariátegui, René Fonck, Nedo Nadi, and Ivan Isakov. Among people deceased in 1944, Józef Beck ranks 106. Before him are Nikolai Polikarpov, Ulrich von Hassell, Andrey Sheptytsky, Ethel Smyth, Petr Ginz, and Emanuel Ringelblum. After him are Walter Heitz, André Abegglen, Rudolf Schmundt, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, and Chaim Rumkowski.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Beck ranks 435 out of 1,694. Before him are Anna Leszczyńska (1699), Andrew Bobola (1591), Christoph Eschenbach (1940), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693), Beata Szydło (1963), and Hans Woellke (1911). After him are Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Krakus (null), Alfred Flatow (1869), Dita Parlo (1906), Joachim Kroll (1933), and Max Simon (1899).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Józef Beck ranks 118. Before him are Jan Tarnowski (1488), Ernst Niekisch (1889), Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (1513), Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860), Anna Leszczyńska (1699), and Beata Szydło (1963). After him are Krakus (null), Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911), Gustav Freytag (1816), Werner Lorenz (1891), Hans Jeschonnek (1899), and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734).

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