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Wojciech Korfanty

1873 - 1939

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Wojciech Korfanty (IPA: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx kɔrˈfantɨ]; born Adalbert Korfanty; 20 April 1873 – 17 August 1939) was a Polish activist, journalist and politician, who served as a member of the German parliaments, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and later, in the Polish Sejm. Briefly, he also was a paramilitary leader, known for organizing the Polish Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia, which after World War I was contested by Germany and Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wojciech Korfanty has received more than 74,741 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wojciech Korfanty is the 12,672nd most popular politician (down from 12,410th in 2019), the 813th most popular biography from Poland (down from 807th in 2019) and the 189th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wojciech Korfanty ranks 12,672 out of 19,576Before him are Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli, Philippe Buchez, Zakir Hasanov, Guy I de la Roche, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, and Gabriel Antonio Pereira. After him are Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, Ninurta-nadin-shumi, Edward Stettinius Jr., Zidanta II, Germán Suárez Flamerich, and Braslav, Duke of Lower Pannonia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Wojciech Korfanty ranks 117Before him are Matteo Bartoli, Richard von Kühlmann, Miklós Bánffy, Emmanuel de Martonne, A. K. Fazlul Huq, and Henry, Duke of Parma. After him are Cesare Orsenigo, Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ivan Shmelyov, Antonín Švehla, Olav Bjaaland, and William D. Coolidge. Among people deceased in 1939, Wojciech Korfanty ranks 103Before him are Kálmán Darányi, Anna Coleman Ladd, Polina Osipenko, Alexander Kanoldt, Germán Busch, and Henry, Duke of Parma. After him are Otto Siffling, Walery Sławek, Aleksander Brückner, Henri Jaspar, Ursula Ledóchowska, and Olav Duun.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wojciech Korfanty ranks 813 out of 1,694Before him are Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950), Nikifor (1895), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Adolf Brudes (1899). After him are Chava Alberstein (1946), Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), Hermann Boehm (1884), Alfred Saalwächter (1883), Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), and Eugen Schüfftan (1893).

Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Wojciech Korfanty ranks 189Before him are Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909), Haroun Tazieff (1914), Władysław Grabski (1874), Erika Steinbach (1943), Marek Belka (1952), and Andrzej Bartkowiak (1950). After him are Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), Rainer Barzel (1924), Andrzej Lepper (1954), Józef Bilczewski (1860), Józef Oleksy (1946), and Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885).