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Peer Steinbrück

1947 - Today

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Peer Steinbrück (born 10 January 1947) is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005, a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016, and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009. A graduate of the University of Kiel, Steinbrück began his political career in the office of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and became chief of staff to Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau, in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peer Steinbrück has received more than 152,152 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Peer Steinbrück is the 12,621st most popular politician (down from 10,894th in 2019), the 3,870th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,212th in 2019) and the 1,068th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Peer Steinbrück ranks 12,621 out of 19,576Before him are Herluf Bidstrup, Agvan Dorzhiev, Ceol of Wessex, Giovanni II Participazio, Henry Paulson, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra. After him are Karl Staaff, Balaji Vishwanath, Walter Sisulu, Günther Schwägermann, King Si of Zhou, and Edgar Lungu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Peer Steinbrück ranks 377Before him are Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Roy Raymond, Bill Richardson, Samuel Schmid, Svetlana Toma, and Veríssimo Correia Seabra. After him are Alan Thicke, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Frank J. Tipler, Peter M. Christian, Coline Serreau, and Lydia Davis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peer Steinbrück ranks 3,870 out of 7,253Before him are Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Karin Büttner-Janz (1952), Oscar Hertwig (1849), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), and Herluf Bidstrup (1912). After him are Dora Gerson (1899), Günther Schwägermann (1915), Michael Verhoeven (1938), Tatjana Patitz (1966), Johann Baptist Allgaier (1763), and Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (1537).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Peer Steinbrück ranks 1,068Before him are Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1858), Andrey Osterman (1686), Siegfried Buback (1920), Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796), Fritz Manteuffel (1875), and Herluf Bidstrup (1912). After him are Günther Schwägermann (1915), Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864), Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1681), Maximilian von Montgelas (1759), Alice Weidel (1979), and Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1657).