POLITICIAN

Willi Münzenberg

1889 - 1940

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Wilhelm Münzenberg (14 August 1889 – June 1940) was a German Communist political activist and publisher. Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919–20 and established the famine-relief and propaganda organization Workers International Relief in 1921. He was a leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the Weimar Era, but later grew disenchanted with the USSR due to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willi Münzenberg has received more than 246,819 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Willi Münzenberg is the 7,974th most popular politician (up from 8,267th in 2019), the 2,227th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,343rd in 2019) and the 657th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Willi Münzenberg ranks 7,974 out of 19,576. Before him are Viacheslav I of Kiev, Gnaeus Flavius, Gytha of Wessex, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, Goukouni Oueddei, and Achille Van Acker. After him are Yahya Jammeh, David Hurley, Fang Xuanling, Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz, Aristomenes, and Magdalena of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Willi Münzenberg ranks 86. Before him are Léon Brillouin, Imre Schlosser, Mile Budak, Erle Stanley Gardner, Gabriel Hanot, and Fritz Pfeffer. After him are Alexander Antonov, Walther Gerlach, Karel Doorman, Mikha'il Na'ima, Amedee Reyburn, and Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi. Among people deceased in 1940, Willi Münzenberg ranks 63. Before him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Édouard Branly, Jesse Livermore, Nedo Nadi, Lewis Hine, and Marie Krøyer. After him are Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, Phan Bội Châu, Luigi Orione, Jehan Alain, Henri Desgrange, and Janina Lewandowska.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Willi Münzenberg ranks 2,227 out of 7,253. Before him are William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Katarina Witt (1965), Lilly Reich (1885), and Hans Loritz (1895). After him are C. W. Ceram (1915), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Mathias Rust (1968), Fred Uhlman (1901), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), and Andreas Cellarius (1596).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Willi Münzenberg ranks 657. Before him are Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1762), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383), John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), and Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813). After him are Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Louis of Nassau (1538), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), and Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704).

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