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Wilhelm Zaisser

1893 - 1958

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Wilhelm Zaisser (20 June 1893 – 3 March 1958) was a German communist politician and statesman who served as the founder and first Minister for State Security of the German Democratic Republic (1950–1953). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Zaisser has received more than 146,816 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Zaisser is the 6,543rd most popular politician (down from 5,690th in 2019), the 1,784th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,591st in 2019) and the 514th most popular German Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wilhelm Zaisser ranks 6,543 out of 19,576. Before him are Orlando Letelier, Bernardino Rivadavia, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, Maharbal, and Zuo Zongtang. After him are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, T. V. Soong, Emperor Kameyama, Wilhelm Marr, Alberic I of Spoleto, and Antonius Felix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Wilhelm Zaisser ranks 73. Before him are Mário de Andrade, Bill Tilden, Roman Ingarden, Federico Mompou, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, and Marianne Brandt. After him are Leonarda Cianciulli, Jean Absil, Carl Værnet, Dorothy Parker, Dean Acheson, and Henry Murray. Among people deceased in 1958, Wilhelm Zaisser ranks 45. Before him are Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Infanta Eulalia of Spain, Princess Louise of Orléans, Otto Abetz, Franz Bardon, and Viktor Schauberger. After him are Johannes R. Becher, Florent Schmitt, Florian Znaniecki, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Johnston McCulley, and Ludwig Crüwell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Zaisser ranks 1,784 out of 7,253. Before him are Basil Valentine (1394), Johann Ludwig Bach (1677), Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Christa Ludwig (1928), and Carl Ludvig Engel (1778). After him are Theodor Lipps (1851), Wilhelm Marr (1819), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), and Wilhelm Backhaus (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Wilhelm Zaisser ranks 514. Before him are Princess Louise Amelie of Baden (1811), Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia (1719), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), and Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539). After him are Wilhelm Marr (1819), Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568), Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1764), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574), and Adolph Diesterweg (1790).

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