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Kurt Furgler

1924 - 2008

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Kurt Furgler (24 June 1924 – 23 July 2008) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1972–1986). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 8 December 1971 and handed over office on 31 December 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Furgler has received more than 40,245 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kurt Furgler is the 13,841st most popular politician (up from 14,102nd in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 496th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kurt Furgler ranks 13,841 out of 19,576Before him are Arnold Koller, Enoch L. Johnson, Djefatnebti, Maroš Šefčovič, Mike Lee, and Rodrigo Carazo Odio. After him are Hans Apel, Mame Madior Boye, Élisabeth Baume-Schneider, Sadakazu Tanigaki, Jan Jacob Rochussen, and Rahul Gandhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Kurt Furgler ranks 302Before him are Oldřich Lipský, Yvonne Loriod, Renia Spiegel, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Valerio Bacigalupo, and Kenny Dorham. After him are Heinz Müller, Ranasinghe Premadasa, Don Knotts, Roger Marche, Val Avery, and Attilio Giovannini. Among people deceased in 2008, Kurt Furgler ranks 219Before him are Abdulah Gegić, Mario Rigoni Stern, Leonard Rosenman, Janwillem van de Wetering, Ollie Johnston, and David Gale. After him are Xie Jin, Luis de Souza Ferreira, Ibrahim Nasir, Neil Aspinall, Horst Stein, and Anton Allemann.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Kurt Furgler ranks 472 out of 1,015Before him are Madeleine Berthod (1931), Severino Minelli (1909), Conrad Grebel (1498), Thomas Erastus (1524), Carlo Clerici (1929), and Arnold Koller (1933). After him are Martin Suter (1948), Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963), Marguerite Bays (1815), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Johann Amman (1707), and Urs Fischer (1966).

Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Kurt Furgler ranks 88Before him are Fritz Honegger (1917), Pierre Aubert (1927), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Max Petitpierre (1899), Otto Stich (1927), and Arnold Koller (1933). After him are Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963), Kaspar Villiger (1941), Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802), Alois Estermann (1954), Jakob Stämpfli (1820), and Eugen Huber (1849).