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Guido Westerwelle

1961 - 2016

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Guido Westerwelle (German: [ˈɡiːdo ˈvɛstɐˌvɛlə]; 27 December 1961 – 18 March 2016) was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guido Westerwelle is the 10,289th most popular politician (up from 10,693rd in 2019), the 2,936th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,162nd in 2019) and the 869th most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Guido Westerwelle ranks 10,289 out of 19,576. Before him are Hiempsal II, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Æthelred of Mercia, Aulus Postumius Albinus, Franco Maria Malfatti, and Efstathios Chorafas. After him are Vladimir Bakarić, Jens Otto Krag, Demetrios I Kantakouzenos, Gaspar de Borja y Velasco, Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg, and Demophon of Athens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Guido Westerwelle ranks 122. Before him are Riad al-Asaad, Jacky Cheung, Melissa Etheridge, Kazuki Takahashi, Elizabeth McGovern, and Ignazio Cassis. After him are Jonas Jonasson, Carey Lowell, David Graeber, Tite, Ferenc Gyurcsány, and Bernard Werber. Among people deceased in 2016, Guido Westerwelle ranks 193. Before him are Zdravko Tolimir, Željko Čajkovski, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Jadranka Stojaković, and Vanity. After him are Silvana Pampanini, Silvio Gazzaniga, Georges Cottier, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Patty Duke, and David Huddleston.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Guido Westerwelle ranks 2,938 out of 7,253. Before him are Wolfgang Lotz (1921), Herbert Erhardt (1930), Auguste von Harrach (1800), Paul Hermann (1646), Arno Schmidt (1914), and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599). After him are Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Sebastian Koch (1962), Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), Stefan Effenberg (1968), Ferdinand David (1810), and Franz Pforr (1788).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Guido Westerwelle ranks 869. Before him are Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1827), Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz (1822), Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (1271), Reiner Klimke (1936), Johannes Popitz (1884), and Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599). After him are Marie of Baden-Sponheim (1507), Otto Rühle (1874), Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1462), Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1897), Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (1667), and Hugo Preuß (1860).

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