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Rudolf Scharping

1947 - Today

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Rudolf Albert Scharping (born 2 December 1947) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He first rose to prominence as Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1991–1994). He was his party's federal chairman from 1993 to 1995 and in 1994 ran an, ultimately unsuccessful, effort to oust Chancellor Helmut Kohl in the federal elections. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Scharping has received more than 115,701 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Scharping is the 14,489th most popular politician (down from 13,142nd in 2019), the 4,614th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,995th in 2019) and the 1,183rd most popular German Politician.

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  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rudolf Scharping ranks 14,489 out of 19,576. Before him are Hélène Prévost, Stafford Cripps, Tiberius Claudius Balbilus, Abel P. Upshur, Baltasar Brum, and Felix Lichnowsky. After him are Luis Alberto Monge, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Saleh Kebzabo, Enrichetta d'Este, Basdeo Panday, and Alain Peyrefitte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Rudolf Scharping ranks 512. Before him are Sandy Denny, Sylvestre Ilunga, Randhir Kapoor, Deanie Ip, Dave Arneson, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger. After him are Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Saleh Kebzabo, Camille Keaton, Alexander Tikhonov, Érik Orsenna, and Michel Sogny.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Scharping ranks 4,614 out of 7,253. Before him are Kurt Ahrens Jr. (1940), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Tankred Dorst (1925), Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Francis Buchholz (1954), and Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1704). After him are Otto Modersohn (1865), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Jacob Volhard (1834), Ditlev Blunck (1798), Dietrich Kraiss (1889), and Hugo Winckler (1863).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Rudolf Scharping ranks 1,183. Before him are Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (1942), Walter Brack (1880), Günther Beckstein (1943), Franz Josef Jung (1949), Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909), and Lothar Metz (1939). After him are Joseph von Radowitz (1797), John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1634), Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1790), Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg (1839), Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), and Otto Rühle (1874).

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