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Joachim Gauck

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Joachim Wilhelm Gauck (German: [joˈʔaxɪm ˈɡaʊk] ; born 24 January 1940) is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany. During the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, Gauck was a co-founder of the New Forum opposition movement in East Germany, which contributed to the downfall of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and later with two other movements formed the electoral list Alliance 90. In 1990, he was a member of the only freely elected East German People's Chamber in the Alliance 90/The Greens faction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Gauck is the 1,123rd most popular politician (up from 1,371st in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from Germany (up from 367th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Politician.

Joachim Gauck is a former German politician and civil rights activist. He was president of Germany from 2012 to 2017. He is most famous for his work as a civil rights activist in East Germany during the Cold War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joachim Gauck ranks 1,123 out of 19,576. Before him are Kim Young-sam, Alfredo Stroessner, Tullus Hostilius, Nikephoros I, James A. Garfield, and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte. After him are Gro Harlem Brundtland, Guangxu Emperor, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Tiu, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Sunjong of Korea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Joachim Gauck ranks 26. Before him are Gao Xingjian, Raul Julia, Michael Gambon, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, and Burhanuddin Rabbani. After him are Muhammad Yunus, Martin Sheen, Frank Zappa, Carlos Slim, Tabaré Vázquez, and Peter C. Doherty.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Gauck ranks 286 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629). After him are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Walther Bothe (1891), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Caroline Herschel (1750), Albrecht Kossel (1853), and Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Joachim Gauck ranks 83. Before him are Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), Konstantin von Neurath (1873), Irma Grese (1923), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Wilhelm Pieck (1876), and Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629). After him are Eduard Bernstein (1850), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Kurt von Schleicher (1882), Wilm Hosenfeld (1895), Christian I of Denmark (1426), and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856).

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