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Ernst Toller

1893 - 1939

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Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army. He was imprisoned for five years for his part in the armed resistance by the Bavarian Soviet Republic to the central government in Berlin. While in prison Toller wrote several plays that gained him international renown. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Toller is the 1,054th most popular writer (up from 1,063rd in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 228th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Writer.

Ernst Toller is most famous for his play "The White Rose" which is about the White Rose, a group of students in Munich who distributed anti-Nazi leaflets.

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Among writers, Ernst Toller ranks 1,054 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacques Clément, Alfred de Vigny, Marko Marulić, Johannes Tauler, Charles Nodier, and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. After him are Alfred Brehm, Gottfried von Strassburg, Alexander Litvinenko, Sulpicius Severus, Adalbert Stifter, and Radoje Domanović.

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Among people born in 1893, Ernst Toller ranks 50. Before him are Hermann Balck, Viktor Shklovsky, Hattie McDaniel, Ana Pauker, Mae West, and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Clemens Krauss, Edward G. Robinson, Ernst Öpik, Roy O. Disney, Battista Farina, and Vsevolod Pudovkin. Among people deceased in 1939, Ernst Toller ranks 29. Before him are Anthony Fokker, Louis Wain, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Otto Rank, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. After him are Alexander Yegorov, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Wilhelm Groener, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Ambroise Vollard, and Otto Wels.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Toller ranks 233 out of 1,694. Before him are Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), Wanda Landowska (1879), and Robert Luther (1822). After him are Adolf Engler (1844), Udo Lattek (1935), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Bolesław Prus (1847), Emil Ludwig (1881), and B. Traven (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Ernst Toller ranks 18. Before him are Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788). After him are Bolesław Prus (1847), Emil Ludwig (1881), B. Traven (1882), Arnold Zweig (1887), Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), and Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927).

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