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Jörg Meuthen

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Jörg Hubert Meuthen (German: [ˈjœɐ̯k ˈmɔʏtn̩]; born 29 June 1961) is a German economist, academic and politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany from 2017 until 2024. He was the frontrunner for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at the 2016 Baden-Württemberg state election and was a Member of Parliament and parliamentary leader from March 2016. He was the leading candidate of the AfD for the 2019 European Parliament election. He served as federal spokesman for, and thus leader of, the AfD from July 2015 until his resignation in January 2022, caused by conflict with right-wing extremist elements in the party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jörg Meuthen is the 261st most popular economist (up from 311th in 2019), the 4,047th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,654th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jörg Meuthen ranks 261 out of 414Before him are Eugen Slutsky, Jules Dupuit, Eugen Varga, Esther Duflo, Yulia Navalnaya, and David Card. After him are Georg Friedrich Knapp, Roy Harrod, Joshua Angrist, Leopold von Wiese, Alfred Müller-Armack, and Wilhelm Lexis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Jörg Meuthen ranks 191Before him are Doris Dragović, Eric Allin Cornell, Vincent Gallo, Graham McTavish, Kati Outinen, and Arundhati Roy. After him are Chendo, David Heyman, Marc Levy, Supriya Pathak, Andrea Arnold, and Isiah Thomas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Jörg Meuthen ranks 4,049 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), Bernd Förster (1956), Joselu (1990), Gustav Lange (1830), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), and Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1677). After him are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Michael Artin (1934), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Gernot Rohr (1953), Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767), and Torsten Frings (1976).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Jörg Meuthen ranks 29Before him are E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Adam Müller (1779), Andreas Kaplan (1977), and Étienne Laspeyres (1834). After him are Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Theodore Levitt (1925), Karl Knies (1821), and Alice Salomon (1872).