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Beate Klarsfeld

1939 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Beate Klarsfeld has received more than 438,895 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Beate Klarsfeld is the 14th most popular journalist (up from 16th in 2019), the 1,026th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,132nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Journalist.

Beate Klarsfeld is a German-born French activist who became famous for her involvement in the 1960s and 1970s in the campaign to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

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  • 66.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 14 out of 196. Before her are Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, Dorothea Lange, and John Reed. After her are Victor Noir, W. Eugene Smith, Alexander Berkman, Lee Miller, Endre Ady, and Aenne Burda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 58. Before her are Pak Pong-ju, Richard Serra, João Bernardo Vieira, Amancio Amaro, Carlo Ginzburg, and Ruud Lubbers. After her are Carolina Herrera, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Emil Constantinescu, Ricardo Bofill, Scott Glenn, and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 1,026 out of 7,253. Before her are Walter Röhrl (1947), Charles De Coster (1827), Christian Wirth (1885), Karl Bühler (1879), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), and Günther Lütjens (1889). After her are Erwin Neher (1944), Carl von Linde (1842), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark (1647), August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760), and Johann Christoph Bach (1642).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Germany

Among journalists born in Germany, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 2. Before her are Gerda Taro (1910). After her are Aenne Burda (1909), Thomas Nast (1840), Marta Hillers (1911), Bill Brandt (1904), Norbert Haug (1952), Bogna Koreng (1965), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Yury Dud (1986), and Claas Relotius (1985).

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