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Horst Seehofer

1949 - Today

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Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born 4 July 1949) is a German politician who served as Minister for the Interior, Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), he served as the 18th minister-president of Bavaria from 2008 to 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria from 2008 to 2019. First elected to the Bundestag in 1980, he served as Minister for Health and Social Security in the Christian-liberal cabinets of Helmut Kohl from 1992 to 1998, going to the opposition afterwards and returning to the government as Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horst Seehofer is the 6,753rd most popular politician (up from 7,909th in 2019), the 1,832nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,207th in 2019) and the 535th most popular German Politician.

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Among politicians, Horst Seehofer ranks 6,753 out of 19,576Before him are Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, Nayef Hawatmeh, Muhammad II of Córdoba, Bairam Khan, and Koča Popović. After him are Emperor Jingzong of Liao, Leszek II the Black, 7th Dalai Lama, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Suryavarman I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Horst Seehofer ranks 145Before him are Elizabeth George, Cliff Williams, Lasse Virén, Manuel Marín, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Vera Wang. After him are Émerson Leão, Geezer Butler, Robert Sternberg, Tom Pryce, Alexander Godunov, and David Strathairn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Seehofer ranks 1,832 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789), Carl Ludwig Blume (1796), Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Christoph Graupner (1683), Simon Mayr (1763), and Alfred Einstein (1880). After him are Dieter Rams (1932), Heinrich Marschner (1795), Hans Langsdorff (1894), Joos van Cleve (1485), Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894), and Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800).

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