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Karel Schwarzenberg

1937 - 2023

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Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech pronunciation: [ˈʃvartsn̩bɛrk], 10 December 1937 – 12 November 2023) was a Czech politician, diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013. Schwarzenberg was leader and co-founder of the TOP 09 party and its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2010 to 2021 and in the Senate from 2004 until 2010. From July 1990 to July 1992 Schwarzenberg served as the chancellor (director of the presidential office) to Václav Havel, while he was president. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karel Schwarzenberg is the 5,297th most popular politician (down from 2,258th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 74th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Czech Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Karel Schwarzenberg ranks 5,297 out of 19,576Before him are Mamoru Shigemitsu, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Kim Tok-hun, Bocchus I, and Manuel Pinto da Costa. After him are Victor Klemperer, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Agnes of Austria, Andrew, Duke of Calabria, Bermudo III of León, and Emperor Kōbun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Karel Schwarzenberg ranks 82Before him are George Carlin, Maryanne Trump Barry, Kōichirō Matsuura, Ratan Tata, Michael Jeffery, and Manuel Pinto da Costa. After him are Yılmaz Güney, Tom Simpson, Thomas Nagel, Valentin Pavlov, Yoshirō Mori, and Tamara Bunke. Among people deceased in 2023, Karel Schwarzenberg ranks 87Before him are Mircea Snegur, Maryanne Trump Barry, Leiji Matsumoto, Otar Iosseliani, Francis Lee, and Ahmed Qurei. After him are John B. Goodenough, Viktor Belenko, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Françoise Gilot, Jan Jongbloed, and Gianni Vattimo.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Karel Schwarzenberg ranks 168 out of 1,200Before him are Rafael Kubelík (1914), Franz Reichelt (1879), František Palacký (1798), Victor Adler (1852), Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760), and Věra Chytilová (1929). After him are Bretislav I (1005), Blanche of Valois (1316), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110), Leo Perutz (1882), and Ivo Viktor (1942).

Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Karel Schwarzenberg ranks 49Before him are Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (1337), Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), František Palacký (1798), and Victor Adler (1852). After him are Bretislav I (1005), Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia (1110), Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (1800), Milada Horáková (1901), Adolf Schärf (1890), and Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863).