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Matthias Erzberger

1875 - 1921

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Matthias Erzberger (20 September 1875 – 26 August 1921) was a politician of the Catholic Centre Party, member of the Reichstag and minister of finance of Germany from 1919 to 1920. Erzberger was first elected to the Reichstag of the German Empire in 1903. During the early years of World War I he supported Germany's position enthusiastically but later became a leading opponent of unrestricted submarine warfare and proposed the successful 1917 Reichstag peace resolution, which called for a negotiated peace without annexations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Erzberger has received more than 859,965 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Matthias Erzberger is the 2,938th most popular politician (up from 5,265th in 2019), the 785th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,478th in 2019) and the 215th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Matthias Erzberger ranks 2,938 out of 19,576Before him are Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Florianus, Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, Lennart Johansson, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and Anna of Tyrol. After him are Tomislav of Croatia, Piye, André-Hercule de Fleury, Wang Xizhi, Yoon Suk Yeol, and Ludwig Quidde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Matthias Erzberger ranks 28Before him are Giovanni Gentile, Fritz Kreisler, Paul Landowski, Zhang Zuolin, Antonio Machado, and Edgar Wallace. After him are D. W. Griffith, Mihály Károlyi, Henri Lebesgue, Albert Marquet, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and Othenio Abel. Among people deceased in 1921, Matthias Erzberger ranks 18Before him are Nicholas I of Montenegro, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, John Boyd Dunlop, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, and Alexander Blok. After him are Ignác Goldziher, William II of Württemberg, Eugen Dühring, Mykola Leontovych, `Abdu'l-Bahá, and Engelbert Humperdinck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Matthias Erzberger ranks 785 out of 7,253Before him are Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707), Theodor Fontane (1819), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), and Udo Kier (1944). After him are Bernd Schuster (1959), Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), and Joseph Wirth (1879).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Matthias Erzberger ranks 215Before him are Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551), Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), Gustav Radbruch (1878), and Wilhelm Cuno (1876). After him are Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), Joseph Wirth (1879), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Herschel Grynszpan (1921), and Agnes of Merania (1175).