RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Michael von Faulhaber

1869 - 1952

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Michael Ritter von Faulhaber (5 March 1869 – 12 June 1952) was a German Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Munich for 35 years, from 1917 to his death in 1952. Created Cardinal in 1921, von Faulhaber remained an outspoken monarchist and denounced the Weimar Republic as rooted in "perjury and treason" against the German Empire during a speech at the 62nd German Catholics' Day of 1922. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael von Faulhaber has received more than 246,356 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Michael von Faulhaber is the 1,580th most popular religious figure (down from 1,488th in 2019), the 2,487th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,382nd in 2019) and the 61st most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Michael von Faulhaber ranks 1,580 out of 3,187Before him are Shaykh Ahmad, Pelagio Galvani, Baba Sali, Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia, Olimpia Maidalchini, and Moses Isserles. After him are Juan Vicente Pérez, Gun, Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna, Saint Meinhard, Anthim the Iberian, and Abercius of Hieropolis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Michael von Faulhaber ranks 73Before him are Philip de László, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Otto Nordenskjöld, Chittaranjan Das, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, and Tony Garnier. After him are Konstantin Somov, Léon Brunschvicg, Paul Émile Chabas, Slobodan Jovanović, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and Arthur Rostron. Among people deceased in 1952, Michael von Faulhaber ranks 70Before him are Keisuke Okada, Pierre Renoir, Eli Heckscher, Matrona Nikonova, Princess Hilda of Nassau, and Johan Nygaardsvold. After him are Sergei Bortkiewicz, Waldemar Bonsels, Thomas Hicks, Theodoros Pangalos, Carl Tanzler, and Juan Yagüe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Michael von Faulhaber ranks 2,487 out of 7,253Before him are Alfred Meyer (1891), Michael Rummenigge (1964), Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519), Andrzej Seweryn (1946), Hans Robert Jauss (1921), and Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856). After him are Helmut Griem (1932), Gottfried Heinrich Bach (1724), Anton Reichenow (1847), Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), Hans Riegel (1923), and Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal (1852).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Michael von Faulhaber ranks 61Before him are Adalbert of Hamburg (1000), Herman I of Baden (1040), Georg Gänswein (1956), Peter Schöffer (1420), Arp Schnitger (1648), and Anna Schäffer (1882). After him are Honoratus (365), Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (960), Angilbert (740), Friedrich Wetter (1928), Maximilian Henry of Bavaria (1621), and Karl-Josef Rauber (1934).