POLITICIAN

Norbert Blüm

1935 - 2020

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Norbert Blüm (21 July 1935 – 23 April 2020) was a German politician who served as a federal legislator from North Rhine-Westphalia, chairman of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia (1987–1999), and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. Blüm was the only cabinet member who served in his function for all sixteen years of Helmut Kohl's time as Chancellor of Germany. He served as a member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Norbert Blüm has received more than 115,884 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Norbert Blüm is the 15,024th most popular politician (down from 13,579th in 2019), the 4,817th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,125th in 2019) and the 1,203rd most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Norbert Blüm ranks 15,024 out of 19,576Before him are Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Nicola Sturgeon, Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Dimitar Kovačevski, Eanred of Northumbria, and Fruto Chamorro. After him are Lambert Simnel, Jóhann Hafstein, Saskia Esken, José Tomás Ovalle, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, and Ji Pengfei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Norbert Blüm ranks 374Before him are Jimmy Makulis, Dariush Shayegan, Ramsey Lewis, Peter Schickele, Leo Falcam, and Philip Agee. After him are David McKee, Moisés Solana, Bobby Timmons, Avtandil Koridze, Ingrid Noll, and Carol Kaye. Among people deceased in 2020, Norbert Blüm ranks 457Before him are Tom Belsø, Franca Valeri, Ruth Klüger, Lajos Szűcs, Alex Trebek, and Aldo Aureggi. After him are Sergei Adian, Kevin Conway, Mário de Araújo Cabral, Ödön Földessy, Günter de Bruyn, and Pat Patterson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Norbert Blüm ranks 4,817 out of 7,253Before him are Norbert Eder (1955), Markus Lüpertz (1941), Albrecht Becker (1906), Uli Stein (1954), Amalie Dietrich (1821), and E. A. Dupont (1891). After him are Saskia Esken (1961), Charles-Mathias Simons (1802), Olaf Ludwig (1960), Dennis Schröder (1993), Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1802), and Ivan Klasnić (1980).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Norbert Blüm ranks 1,203Before him are Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928), Gustav Schuft (1878), Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854), Haim Katz (1947), Princess Marie of Hanover (1849), and Tino Chrupalla (1975). After him are Saskia Esken (1961), Charles-Mathias Simons (1802), Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1802), Eduard David (1863), Frank Schwalba-Hoth (1952), and Annemarie Renger (1919).