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POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Kapp

1858 - 1922

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Wolfgang Kapp (24 July 1858 – 12 June 1922) was a German nationalist and political activist who is best known for his involvement in the 1920 Kapp Putsch. He spent most of his career working for the Prussian Ministry of Finance and then as director of the Agricultural Credit Institute in East Prussia. During World War I, Kapp was a vocal annexationist and critic of the government's policies, which he saw as not aggressive enough. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Kapp has received more than 255,053 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wolfgang Kapp is the 6,015th most popular politician (down from 5,239th in 2019), the 2,043rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,818th in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Wolfgang Kapp ranks 6,015 out of 15,577Before him are Emperor Shijō, Magnus II of Norway, Johannes Steinhoff, Radama II, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Gaius Duilius. After him are Sam Houston, Charles I, Lord of Monaco, Gundemar, Miroslav Filipović, Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, and Christian Michelsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Wolfgang Kapp ranks 49Before him are Jan Toorop, Pandita Ramabai, Saitō Makoto, Albrecht Penck, Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, and Remy de Gourmont. After him are Ye Wanyong, Roland Bonaparte, Ethel Smyth, Joséphin Péladan, Caran d'Ache, and Maximilien Luce. Among people deceased in 1922, Wolfgang Kapp ranks 45Before him are Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Hermann Alexander Diels, John William Godward, Pandita Ramabai, Wilhelm Voigt, and Vlaho Bukovac. After him are Eugen Ehrlich, Gaston, Count of Eu, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Paul Durand-Ruel, Karl Michael Ziehrer, and Jacobus Kapteyn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wolfgang Kapp ranks 2,043 out of 18,182Before him are Al Lettieri (1928), Mercedes McCambridge (1916), Joseph Greenberg (1915), Louise Brooks (1906), John Barrymore (1882), and Grace Slick (1939). After him are Linda Gray (1940), Sam Houston (1793), Christina Aguilera (1980), Bob Fosse (1927), Paul Ryan (1970), and Gigi Hadid (1995).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Wolfgang Kapp ranks 125Before him are John Hancock (1737), Alben W. Barkley (1877), Hubert Humphrey (1911), Spiro Agnew (1918), Ben Carson (1951), and Bob Dole (1923). After him are Sam Houston (1793), Paul Ryan (1970), Jack Kemp (1935), Paul Wolfowitz (1943), Leland Stanford (1824), and Curtis LeMay (1906).