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Bernd Lucke

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Bernd Lucke (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist, professor, author and former politician. He co-founded the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2013 and served as the party's federal chairman until July 2015, when he was displaced and left the party soon after. He had been elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the AfD in 2014 and served the five-year full term as a member of various other new parties, similar to some other former AfD MEPs. Lucke was a professor of economics at the University of Hamburg before helping to found Wahlalternative 2013 ("Electoral Alternative 2013"), which would become the AfD. Lucke served as the party's spokesman until he lost a leadership election to Frauke Petry in July 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Bernd Lucke is the 12,774th most popular politician (up from 14,788th in 2024), the 3,849th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,723rd in 2019) and the 1,080th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bernd Lucke ranks 12,774 out of 19,576. Before him are Achaeus, Jack Sharkey, Ivan Dziuba, Nur-Adad, Arturo Rawson, and Vladimir Potanin. After him are Yamandú Orsi, Inga Ruginienė, Milan Jelić, Elisabeth Kopp, Simon Vratsian, and Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Bernd Lucke ranks 173. Before him are Tran Anh Hung, Magne Furuholmen, Paavo Järvi, Oscar Ruggeri, and Nikolai Denkov. After him are Denis O'Hare, Taslima Nasrin, Olli Rehn, Hana Mandlíková, Richard Roxburgh, Susanne Klatten, and Ferran Adrià.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Bernd Lucke ranks 3,851 out of 7,253. Before him are Melchior Hoffman (1495), Matilda of France (943), Günter Verheugen (1944), Anton Koberger (1440), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), and Holger Meins (1941). After him are Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804), Kurt Blome (1894), Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg (1912), Julius Rietz (1812), and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Bernd Lucke ranks 1,080. Before him are James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (1562), Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863), Günther Schwägermann (1915), Dorothea Köring (1880), Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve (1638), and Günter Verheugen (1944). After him are Karl Arnold (1901), Udo Voigt (1952), Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1655), George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1688), Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg (1547), and Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846).

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