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Peter Yorck von Wartenburg

1904 - 1944

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Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (13 November 1904 – 8 August 1944) was a German jurist and a member of the German Resistance against Nazism. He studied law and politics in Bonn and Breslau from 1923 to 1926, gaining his doctorate in Breslau in 1927 and passing the civil service entrance examination for lawyers in Berlin in 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Yorck von Wartenburg has received more than 103,016 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Peter Yorck von Wartenburg is the 41st most popular lawyer (down from 36th in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 551st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 41 out of 136. Before him are Alfenus Varus, Hans Litten, Alan Dershowitz, Asad ibn al-Furat, Heinrich Marx, and Hans von Dohnanyi. After him are Bill Gates Sr., Tivadar Soros, Bernhard Windscheid, William Blackstone, Adrian Năstase, and Cino da Pistoia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 123. Before him are Ivar Ballangrud, Ellen Church, István Horthy, Miguel Capuccini, Tevfik Esenç, and Franz Kutschera. After him are Lidia Zamenhof, Max Mallowan, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Joseph Valachi, Seán MacBride, and Edvard Kocbek. Among people deceased in 1944, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 145. Before him are Joseph Caillaux, Noor Inayat Khan, Paul Hazard, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Léon Brunschvicg, and Franz Kutschera. After him are Alois Musil, Regina Jonas, Thomas Curtis, Bella Rosenfeld, Max Nettlau, and Carl Flesch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 543 out of 1,694. Before him are Otto von Gierke (1841), Duchess Amelia of Württemberg (1799), Oskar Kummetz (1891), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), Bolesław the Pious (1225), and Richard Courant (1888). After him are Paul Löbe (1875), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Kazys Grinius (1866), Franz Neumann (1900), and Hans Stuck (1900).

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Among LAWYERS In Poland

Among lawyers born in Poland, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 2. Before him are Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700).

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