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Johannes R. Becher

1891 - 1958

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Johannes Robert Becher (pronounced [jo.ˈha.nəs ˈɛʁ ˈbɛ.çɐ] , 22 May 1891 – 11 October 1958) was a German politician, novelist, and poet. He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) before World War II. At one time, he was part of the literary avant-garde, writing in an expressionist style. With the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, modernist artistic movements were suppressed. Becher escaped from a military raid in 1933 and settled in Paris for a couple of years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes R. Becher is the 7,706th most popular politician (down from 6,790th in 2019), the 2,109th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,855th in 2019) and the 622nd most popular German Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Johannes R. Becher ranks 7,706 out of 19,576. Before him are Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Pak Song-chol, Roy Mata, Pierre Bérégovoy, Vaso Čubrilović, and Magdalena Andersson. After him are Luis García Meza, Zeng Guofan, Wellington Koo, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, José Félix Uriburu, and Ri Jong-ok.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Johannes R. Becher ranks 75. Before him are Walter A. Shewhart, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Lajos Zilahy, Hans F. K. Günther, Kim Seong-su, and Poul Nielsen. After him are Kálmán Kalocsay, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, Otto Schmidt, Bruno Loerzer, Jüri Lossmann, and Hermann Scherchen. Among people deceased in 1958, Johannes R. Becher ranks 51. Before him are Otto Abetz, Infanta Eulalia of Spain, Florent Schmitt, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Christabel Pankhurst, and Luigi Musso. After him are Mikhail Zoshchenko, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Franz Bardon, Peter Collins, Grigory Petrovsky, and Ludwig Crüwell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johannes R. Becher ranks 2,110 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Walter Brandmüller (1929), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), and Dora Ratjen (1918). After him are Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202), Robert Koldewey (1855), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Andreas Osiander (1498), Walter Buch (1883), and Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Johannes R. Becher ranks 622. Before him are John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1525), Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1722), Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1720), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), and Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau (1833). After him are Kunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1202), Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1617), Walter Buch (1883), Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516), and George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1539).

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