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Wilhelm Cuno

1876 - 1933

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Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (2 July 1876 – 3 January 1933) was a German businessman and politician who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the beginning of the occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgian troops and the period in which inflation in Germany accelerated towards hyperinflation. After beginning his career in the civil service, Cuno helped organize Germany's food supply during the early years of World War I before he went to work for the Hamburg America shipping company in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Cuno has received more than 158,725 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Wilhelm Cuno is the 2,895th most popular politician (down from 2,674th in 2019), the 776th most popular biography from Germany (down from 733rd in 2019) and the 214th most popular German Politician.

Wilhelm Cuno was the German Chancellor from 1922-1923. He is most famous for being the Chancellor of Germany during the hyperinflation that occurred in the early 1920s.

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  • 2.88

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wilhelm Cuno ranks 2,895 out of 19,576. Before him are Mentuhotep III, John I Albert, Rayhana bint Zayd, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Ashraf Ghani, and Violant of Hungary. After him are Wilhelm Miklas, Leonidas II, Henry of Bohemia, Kanishka, Yigal Allon, and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Wilhelm Cuno ranks 29. Before him are Robert Guérin, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Max Jacob, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, and Maxim Litvinov. After him are Kim Koo, Bruno Walter, Sherwood Anderson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, John Macleod, and Wied, Prince of Albania. Among people deceased in 1933, Wilhelm Cuno ranks 14. Before him are John Galsworthy, Paul Ehrenfest, Sándor Ferenczi, Mohammed Nadir Shah, Nikolai Yudenich, and Annie Besant. After him are Stefan George, Princess Thyra of Denmark, Knud Rasmussen, Oskar Potiorek, Anatoly Lunacharsky, and Erhard Heiden.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Cuno ranks 776 out of 7,253. Before him are Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), James Last (1929), Therese Neumann (1898), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697), and Gustav Radbruch (1878). After him are Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707), and Theodor Fontane (1819).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Cuno ranks 214. Before him are Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551), Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Constantin Fehrenbach (1852), Juana Bormann (1893), and Gustav Radbruch (1878). After him are Matthias Erzberger (1875), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), Joseph Wirth (1879), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), and Herschel Grynszpan (1921).

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