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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 92,835 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Peter Yorck von Wartenburg is the 36th most popular lawyer (up from 38th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Poland (down from 544th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 36 out of 68Before him are Bill Gates Sr., Baldus de Ubaldis, Hans von Dohnanyi, Qasim Amin, Hans Gross, and Alfenus Varus. After him are Heinrich Marx, Asad ibn al-Furat, Alan Dershowitz, William Blackstone, Alberico Gentili, and Cino da Pistoia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 126Before him are William L. Shirer, Ralph Bunche, Ivar Ballangrud, Seán MacBride, Yulii Khariton, and Prince Ernst of Hohenberg. After him are Helen Kane, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Joseph Schmidt, Edvard Kocbek, Cecil Beaton, and Edgar P. Jacobs. Among people deceased in 1944, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 150Before him are Josef Bürckel, Joseph Caillaux, Hans Graf von Sponeck, Félix Fénéon, Miklós Radnóti, and Peter Struve. After him are Missak Manouchian, Benjamin Fondane, Amy Beach, Liviu Rebreanu, Regina Jonas, and Lepke Buchalter.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg ranks 551 out of 1,454Before him are Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Ernst Niekisch (1889), Daniel Chodowiecki (1726), and Teresa Orlowski (1953). After him are Robert Kubica (1984), Franz Neumann (1900), Stanisław Kania (1927), Kurt Goldstein (1878), Mordechai Gebirtig (1877), and Georg von der Marwitz (1856).

Among LAWYERS In Poland

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