RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Killing of Peter Fechter

1944 - 1962

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Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 – 17 August 1962) was a German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Killing of Peter Fechter has received more than 450,488 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Killing of Peter Fechter is the 885th most popular religious figure (down from 858th in 2019), the 1,116th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,066th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Religious Figure.

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  • 60.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 885 out of 3,187. Before him are Bavo of Ghent, Al-Tabarani, Angela of Foligno, Ahmad al-Rifaʽi, Scipione Borghese, and Mary of Bethany. After him are Juan Diego, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Mammes of Caesarea, Severinus of Noricum, and Abiathar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 96. Before him are Karin Schubert, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Mairead Maguire, Bernard Cornwell, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Nana Akufo-Addo. After him are Mordechai Spiegler, Keith Emerson, Jeroen Krabbé, Sondra Locke, Ren Zhengfei, and Peter Tosh. Among people deceased in 1962, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 39. Before him are Jacques Ibert, C. Wright Mills, Stuart Sutcliffe, Hanns Eisler, Archduke Joseph August of Austria, and Georgios Papanikolaou. After him are Eiji Yoshikawa, Dušan Simović, André Lhote, Aleksei Antonov, Princess Helen of Serbia, and Vita Sackville-West.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 1,116 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Henry of Prussia (1862), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), Lale Andersen (1905), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), and Walther Flemming (1843). After him are Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887), Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (1594), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Gustav Noske (1868), and Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans (1426).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Killing of Peter Fechter ranks 22. Before him are Johann Tetzel (1460), Therese Neumann (1898), Albert of Brandenburg (1490), Bruno of Querfurt (970), Margot Frank (1926), and Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700). After him are Severinus of Noricum (410), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), Franz Ehrle (1845), Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878), and Conrad Schumann (1942).

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