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Rainer Barzel

1924 - 2006

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Rainer Candidus Barzel (20 June 1924 – 26 August 2006) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the eighth president of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984. Barzel had been the leader of his parliamentary group and a short time federal minister, before his party went into opposition in 1969. Subsequently, Barzel became chairman of the party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Rainer Barzel is the 12,391st most popular politician (up from 12,746th in 2024), the 777th most popular biography from Poland (up from 821st in 2019) and the 185th most popular Polish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rainer Barzel ranks 12,391 out of 19,576. Before him are Ángel María Villar, Iufni, Edmund Muskie, Armando Calderón Sol, Rudolf Ramek, and Móric Esterházy. After him are Recep Peker, Matilda Howell, Ants Antson, Radu II of Wallachia, Caroline Harrison, and Christian Ntsay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Rainer Barzel ranks 249. Before him are Marc Ferro, Olga Gyarmati, Marga López, Inge Sørensen, Martha Hyer, and Marianne Werner. After him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Wendell Ford, Sylvia Miles, Evald Ilyenkov, Ed Koch, and Zsuzsa Körmöczy. Among people deceased in 2006, Rainer Barzel ranks 187. Before him are Paul Hunter, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Vilgot Sjöman, Paul Gleason, Red Auerbach, and Andreas Katsulas. After him are Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Kathleen Antonelli, Zsuzsa Körmöczy, Octavia E. Butler, and Dennis Weaver.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Rainer Barzel ranks 777 out of 1,694. Before him are Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), Wojciech Zabłocki (1930), Walter Laqueur (1921), Dagmara Domińczyk (1976), Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (1853), and Rudolf Ramek (1881). After him are Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Marcin Kromer (1512), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Abraham Brill (1874), and Bernhard Goetzke (1884).

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Among POLITICIANS In Poland

Among politicians born in Poland, Rainer Barzel ranks 185. Before him are Klaus Hänsch (1938), Haroun Tazieff (1914), Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg (1761), Józef Bilczewski (1860), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), and Rudolf Ramek (1881). After him are Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), Władysław Grabski (1874), Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885), Jan Olszewski (1930), and Gerda Steinhoff (1922).

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