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Thilo Sarrazin

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Thilo Sarrazin (born 12 February 1945) is a German politician and former member of the SPD, writer, senator of finance for the State of Berlin from January 2002 until April 2009, former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 2010. He became well known after publishing a controversial book about Muslim immigrants in Germany in 2010. In his book Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Abolishes Itself), he denounces what he sees as the failure of Germany's post-war immigration policy, sparking a nationwide controversy about the costs and benefits of multiculturalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thilo Sarrazin has received more than 279,786 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Thilo Sarrazin is the 10,228th most popular politician (up from 10,565th in 2019), the 2,987th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,088th in 2019) and the 869th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Thilo Sarrazin ranks 10,228 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Abdalla Hamdok, Bera, Count of Barcelona, Tito Okello, Odoardo Farnese, and Borjana Krišto. After him are Frank Caprio, Nitocris I, Oswiu, Kōichi Kido, Louis VIII, Duke of Bavaria, and Phillipe de Plessis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Thilo Sarrazin ranks 228. Before him are Barbara Kruger, Eric Roth, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Francesca Annis, Svetlana Gerasimenko, and Joseph Delaney. After him are Revaz Dzodzuashvili, Anselm Grün, Erik De Vlaeminck, John Carlos, Ferenc Seres, and Roger Donaldson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thilo Sarrazin ranks 2,987 out of 7,253. Before him are Carlos Schwabe (1866), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria (1052), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), Rudolf Stammler (1856), and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751). After him are Menahem Pressler (1923), John IV, Duke of Bavaria (1437), Karl Valentin (1882), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1869), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), and Johannes Dieckmann (1893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Thilo Sarrazin ranks 869. Before him are Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1676), Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1865), Paul Carell (1911), Bernhard Kellermann (1879), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), and Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751). After him are John IV, Duke of Bavaria (1437), Johannes Dieckmann (1893), Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763), Hermann Esser (1900), Princess Elisabeth of Anhalt (1857), and Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1559).

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