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Wilhelm Voigt

1849 - 1922

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Friedrich 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 for alleged political corruption, and "confiscated" more than 4,000 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 250,804 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wilhelm Voigt is the 90th most popular extremist (down from 80th in 2019), the 560th most popular biography from Russia (down from 471st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Extremist.

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  • 250k

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  • 57.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 90 out of 209. Before him are Kang Kek Iew, Anders Behring Breivik, Pedro López, Harold Shipman, Frank Nitti, and Susan Atkins. After him are Aileen Wuornos, Matija Gubec, David Berkowitz, Michel Fourniret, Jacques Mesrine, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 40. Before him are Paul Rée, Jean Béraud, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Princess Alice of Parma, Georg Luger, and Hong Tianguifu. After him are Hugo Riemann, Dersu Uzala, Eugène Carrière, Herbert von Bismarck, William Osler, and Emile Claus. Among people deceased in 1922, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 43. Before him are Edmund Leighton, Giovanni Verga, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Hermann Alexander Diels, John William Godward, and Pandita Ramabai. After him are Vlaho Bukovac, Wolfgang Kapp, Eugen Ehrlich, Gaston, Count of Eu, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Paul Durand-Ruel.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wilhelm Voigt ranks 560 out of 3,262. Before him are Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Ivan Sechenov (1829), Viktor Tikhonov (1930), and Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846). After him are Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813), Zinaida Portnova (1926), Vasily Bartold (1869), Korney Chukovsky (1882), and Nikolai Ogarkov (1917).

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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), and Alexander Pichushkin (1974).

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