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Viktor Kingissepp

1888 - 1922

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Viktor Eduard Kingissepp (Russian: Виктор Эдуардович Кингисепп; 24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1888 – 4 May 1922) was a professional revolutionary, after the 1917 Russian Revolution a communist politician and secret police operative in Soviet Russia, and in 1920–1922 a founder and leader of the underground Estonian Communist Party. Kingissepp was born at the former manor in Marientali, now part of Kuressaare. Son of a factory worker, he joined a Marxist circle as a schoolboy in Kuressaare (Arensburg). He later organised the Estonian section of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Saint Petersburg. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Viktor Kingissepp is the 11,109th most popular politician (down from 10,796th in 2024), the 80th most popular biography from Estonia (down from 69th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Estonian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viktor Kingissepp ranks 11,110 out of 19,576. Before him are Artúr Görgei, Gaius Sextius Calvinus, Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, Roman Rudenko, Hai Rui, Irakli Kobakhidze, and H. C. Hansen. After him are Jerzy Kuryłowicz, Moshe Sanbar, Gary Peters, Charles de Broqueville, and Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Viktor Kingissepp ranks 125. Before him are Hans Graf von Sponeck, Friedrich Wolf, Sigfried Giedion, Joachim Lemelsen, Árpád Szakasits, and Francisco Canaro. After him are Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, Anna Q. Nilsson, Chana Orloff, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Walther Kossel, and Nereu Ramos. Among people deceased in 1922, Viktor Kingissepp ranks 76. Before him are Ricardo Flores Magón, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Christiaan de Wet, Heinrich Rubens, and Kabayama Sukenori. After him are Henri Brocard, Bahaeddin Şakir, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Géza Gárdonyi, William J. Seymour, and Lord Leopold Mountbatten.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Viktor Kingissepp ranks 80 out of 351. Before him are Balthasar Russow (1536), Aleksander Klumberg (1899), Herman Wrangel (1584), Jüri Tarmak (1946), Tiit Vähi (1947), and Carl Robert Jakobson (1841). After him are Otto Strandman (1875), Ants Piip (1884), August Sabbe (1909), Alexander von Benckendorff (1782), Eugen Dücker (1841), and Eduard Vilde (1865).

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Among POLITICIANS In Estonia

Among politicians born in Estonia, Viktor Kingissepp ranks 30. Before him are Jüri Uluots (1890), Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1794), Kaarel Eenpalu (1888), Jaan Teemant (1872), Herman Wrangel (1584), and Tiit Vähi (1947). After him are Otto Strandman (1875), Ants Piip (1884), August Sabbe (1909), Alexander von Benckendorff (1782), Edgar Savisaar (1950), and August Rei (1886).

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