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Walter Breisky

1871 - 1944

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Walter Breisky (8 July 1871 – 25 September 1944) was an Austrian jurist, civil servant, and politician. Nominated by the Christian Social Party, Breisky served as minister of education and the interior from July to November 1920, as the vice chancellor and state secretary of education from November 1920 to May 1922. Together with his Social Democratic deputy, Otto Glöckel, Breisky initiated sweeping reforms of Austria's education system. In January 1922, Breisky became the caretaker chancellor of Austria for a single day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Breisky has received more than 32,429 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Walter Breisky is the 13,465th most popular politician (up from 13,798th in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 476th in 2019) and the 81st most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Walter Breisky ranks 13,465 out of 19,576Before him are Audeca, Wang Yang, Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones, Eric Shinseki, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Paweł Adamowicz. After him are Carl Vaugoin, Publius Decius Mus, Manuel de la Peña y Peña, Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Mario Abdo Benítez, and Vladimir Krutov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Walter Breisky ranks 115Before him are Jacob Ellehammer, Olga Preobrajenska, Fritz Schaudinn, Vasyl Stefanyk, Henryk Arctowski, and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas. After him are Afonso Costa, Vatslav Vorovsky, Lottie Dod, Walter Kaufmann, Giovanni Giorgi, and Federigo Enriques. Among people deceased in 1944, Walter Breisky ranks 236Before him are Yevgeniya Rudneva, Jędrzej Moraczewski, Paul-Émile Janson, Henryk Sławik, Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, and Jurgis Baltrušaitis. After him are Settela Steinbach, Hippolyte Aucouturier, Jacques Roumain, Al Smith, Jean Cavaillès, and Wim Anderiesen.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Walter Breisky ranks 442 out of 1,015Before him are Josef Munzinger (1791), Simeon Bavier (1825), Charles Antenen (1929), Walter Wild (1872), Walther von Wartburg (1888), and Nicolas Fuss (1755). After him are Alfred Kleiner (1849), Heinz Hermann (1958), Fritz Schär (1926), Joseph Benz (1944), Aurèle Nicolet (1926), and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664).

Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Walter Breisky ranks 81Before him are Stefano Franscini (1796), Philipp Etter (1891), Constant Fornerod (1819), René Felber (1933), Josef Munzinger (1791), and Simeon Bavier (1825). After him are Fritz Honegger (1917), Pierre Aubert (1927), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Max Petitpierre (1899), Otto Stich (1927), and Arnold Koller (1933).