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Wilhelm Voigt

1849 - 1922

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Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German con man and impostor. His most famous exploit was in 1906, when Voigt masqueraded as a military officer of the elite Prussian Guards, rounded up a number of Imperial German Army soldiers under his "command", arrested the Mayor of Köpenick, and "confiscated" 4002 marks from the city treasury. Voigt then changed back into civilian clothing and disappeared with the money. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Voigt has received more than 270,150 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Wilhelm Voigt is the 99th most popular extremist (down from 90th in 2019), the 589th most popular biography from Russia (down from 559th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Extremist.

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  • 3.44

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  • 3.46

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 99 out of 283. Before him are Whitey Bulger, Jacques Mesrine, Luciano Leggio, Jack Unterweger, Harold Shipman, and Sirhan Sirhan. After him are Oskar Gröning, Robert Hansen, Leonarda Cianciulli, Barry Seal, Johann Rattenhuber, and Richard Ramirez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 39. Before him are Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, Lord Randolph Churchill, Georg Luger, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Hong Tianguifu, and Jean Béraud. After him are Dersu Uzala, Herbert von Bismarck, W. T. Stead, Eugène Carrière, Karl Brugmann, and William Osler. Among people deceased in 1922, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 44. Before him are Arthur Nikisch, Gaston, Count of Eu, Edmund Leighton, Wolfgang Kapp, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, and Vlaho Bukovac. After him are Paul Durand-Ruel, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, John William Godward, Pandita Ramabai, Stephan Burián von Rajecz, and Sidney Sonnino.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 589 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Anund Gårdske (1004), Sergei Belov (1944), Ulugh Muhammad (1405), Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), and Nina Berberova (1901). After him are Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Lebed (1950), Vladislav Volkov (1935), Pavel Axelrod (1850), and Nikolai Ge (1831).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Russia

Among extremists born in Russia, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 3. Before him are Pavlik Morozov (1918), and Shamil Basayev (1965). After him are Dokka Umarov (1964), Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), Alexander Pichushkin (1974), and Mikhail Popkov (1964).

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