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The Most Famous

JOURNALISTS from Germany

This page contains a list of the greatest German Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 9 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 4th most number of Journalists behind United Kingdom and France.

Top 9

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary German Journalists of all time. This list of famous German Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Gerda Taro (1910 - 1937)

With an HPI of 67.11, Gerda Taro is the most famous German Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 36 different languages on wikipedia.

Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war. Taro was the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa, who, like her, was Jewish. The name "Robert Capa" was originally an alias that Taro and Capa (born Endre Friedmann) shared, an invention meant to mitigate the increasing political intolerance in Europe and to attract the lucrative American market. Therefore, a significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was actually created by Taro.

2. Beate Klarsfeld (1939 - )

With an HPI of 60.07, Beate Klarsfeld is the 2nd most famous German Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers and Kurt Asche. In March 2012, she ran as the candidate for The Left in the 2012 German presidential election against Joachim Gauck, but lost by 126 to 991.

3. Aenne Burda (1909 - 2005)

With an HPI of 57.37, Aenne Burda is the 3rd most famous German Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Aenne Burda (28 July 1909 – 3 November 2005), born Anna Magdalene Lemminger, was a German publisher of the Burda Group, a media group based in Offenburg and Munich, Germany. She was one of the symbols of the German economic miracle.

4. Thomas Nast (1840 - 1902)

With an HPI of 52.64, Thomas Nast is the 4th most famous German Journalist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.

Thomas Nast (; German: [nast]; September 26, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was a sharp critic of "Boss" Tweed and the Tammany Hall Democratic party political machine. He created a modern version of Santa Claus (based on the traditional German figures of Saint Nicholas and Weihnachtsmann) and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party (GOP). Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the United States Federal Government), Columbia (the female personification of American values), or the Democratic donkey, although he did popularize those symbols through his artwork. Nast was associated with the magazine Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886. Nast's influence was so widespread that Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Thomas Nast was our best teacher."

5. Bill Brandt (1904 - 1983)

With an HPI of 50.90, Bill Brandt is the 5th most famous German Journalist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983): 14 was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post; later he made distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely considered to be one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century.

6. Norbert Haug (1952 - )

With an HPI of 49.08, Norbert Haug is the 6th most famous German Journalist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Norbert Friedrich Haug (born 24 November 1952) is a German journalist and the former vice president of Mercedes-Benz motorsport activity, including Formula One, Formula 3 and DTM. Under his direction, Mercedes-Benz enjoyed considerable success in all categories, winning multiple races and championships.

7. Anja Niedringhaus (1965 - 2014)

With an HPI of 39.88, Anja Niedringhaus is the 7th most famous German Journalist. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. That same year she was awarded the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism prize. Niedringhaus had covered Afghanistan for several years before she was killed on 4 April 2014, while covering the presidential election, after an Afghan policeman opened fire at the car she was waiting in at a checkpoint, part of an election convoy.

Pantheon has 9 people classified as journalists born between 1840 and 1985. Of these 9, 4 (44.44%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living journalists include Beate Klarsfeld, Norbert Haug, and Bogna Koreng. The most famous deceased journalists include Gerda Taro, Aenne Burda, and Thomas Nast. As of April 2022, 1 new journalists have been added to Pantheon including Claas Relotius.