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Oskar Lafontaine

1943 - Today

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Oskar Lafontaine (German pronunciation: [ˈlafɔntɛn]; born 16 September 1943) is a German politician. He served as Minister-President of the state of Saarland from 1985 to 1998, and was federal leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1995 to 1999. He was the lead candidate for the SPD in the 1990 German federal election, but lost by a wide margin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Lafontaine has received more than 394,915 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Oskar Lafontaine is the 5,695th most popular politician (up from 7,413th in 2019), the 1,587th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,133rd in 2019) and the 479th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 5,695 out of 15,577Before him are Beatrice of Provence, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Thomas Gresham, Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, Aistulf, and Gaius Antonius Hybrida. After him are Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, Ōyama Iwao, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Agatha Barbara, Sheng Shicai, and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 123Before him are Otoya Yamaguchi, Richard Smalley, René Préval, Jack Bruce, Mohammed Badie, and Griselda Blanco. After him are Robert Lefkowitz, Ken Norton, Richard J. Roberts, Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh, John Nettles, and Lorenzo Sanz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 1,587 out of 6,142Before him are Gottfried August Bürger (1747), Hans Berger (1873), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), Heinrich Schwarz (1906), and Günter Guillaume (1927). After him are Albrecht Penck (1858), Thomas Müller (1989), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Viktor Brack (1904), and Mike Nichols (1931).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 479Before him are Walther Hewel (1904), Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825), Adolph Diesterweg (1790), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), and Heinrich Schwarz (1906). After him are Wilhelm Zaisser (1893), Viktor Brack (1904), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783), Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772), Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia (1200), and Horst Seehofer (1949).