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Otto Wels

1873 - 1939

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Otto Wels (15 September 1873 – 16 September 1939) was a German politician who served as a member of the Reichstag from 1912 to 1933 and as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1919 until his death in 1939. He was military commander of Berlin in the turbulent early days of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, and during the 1920 Kapp Putsch he was instrumental in organizing the general strike that helped defeat the anti-republican putschists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Wels has received more than 453,103 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wels is the 5,859th most popular politician (down from 4,976th in 2019), the 1,619th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,380th in 2019) and the 467th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Otto Wels ranks 5,859 out of 19,576. Before him are García Sánchez III of Pamplona, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, Fernando Collor de Mello, Sheikh Mansur, Æthelberht of Kent, and Salome I. After him are Xiao Xin, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Charles Taylor, Brian Cowen, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and Bagrat IV of Georgia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Otto Wels ranks 55. Before him are Fritz Thyssen, Arnold van Gennep, Theodor Körner, Nadežda Petrović, Leo Frobenius, and Max Adler. After him are Édouard Claparède, Hans Berger, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Adolph Zukor, Antonie Pannekoek, and Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1939, Otto Wels ranks 35. Before him are Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Wilhelm Groener, S. P. L. Sørensen, Evald Aav, Stanislav Kosior, and Gerardo Machado. After him are Roman Dmowski, Franz Schmidt, Isaac Carasso, Hans Langsdorff, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, and Norman Bethune.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Wels ranks 1,619 out of 7,253. Before him are Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984), Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736), Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875), Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097), Oliver Bierhoff (1968), and Eduard Mörike (1804). After him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), August Kopff (1882), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Frederick III, Elector Palatine (1515), Nicolaus Bruhns (1665), and Andreas Karlstadt (1486).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Otto Wels ranks 467. Before him are George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484), Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578), Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789), Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1736), Franz Xaver Schwarz (1875), and Conrad, Margrave of Meissen (1097). After him are Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern (1890), Frederick III, Elector Palatine (1515), Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783), Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (1925), Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797), and Prince Oskar of Prussia (1888).

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