1939 - 2017
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (German: [ˈtsʏndl̩]; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017) was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer of Holocaust denial literature. He was jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, for overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Zündel has received more than 800,194 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ernst Zündel is the 181st most popular extremist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 3,613th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,246th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Extremist.
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Among extremists, Ernst Zündel ranks 181 out of 209. Before him are John Haigh, Frank James, John Christie, Herbert Mullin, John Bodkin Adams, and Robert Berdella. After him are Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Ross Ulbricht, Jonathan Wild, Irmgard Möller, Alexander Pichushkin, and Nguyễn Văn Trỗi.
1909 - 1949
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 175
1843 - 1915
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 176
1899 - 1953
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 177
1947 - 2022
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 178
1899 - 1983
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 179
1949 - 1992
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 180
1939 - 2017
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 181
1968 - 2010
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 182
1984 - Present
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 183
1683 - 1725
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 184
1947 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 185
1974 - Present
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 186
1940 - 1964
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 187
Among people born in 1939, Ernst Zündel ranks 280. Before him are Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ljiljana Petrović, László Kovács, Billy Cox, Nancy Kwan, and Valery Rozhdestvensky. After him are Dariush Mehrjui, Khin Nyunt, Trịnh Công Sơn, Adrienne Clarkson, Ryozo Suzuki, and Valery Ryumin. Among people deceased in 2017, Ernst Zündel ranks 255. Before him are Željko Perušić, Leonid Bronevoy, Torgny Lindgren, Ángel Berni, Ricardo Piglia, and Chiquito de la Calzada. After him are Nicky Hayden, Teresa Ann Savoy, Paula Fox, Alois Mock, Vitaly Churkin, and Jaki Liebezeit.
1939 - 2022
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 274
1939 - 2020
HPI: 49.30
Rank: 275
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 276
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 277
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 278
1939 - 2011
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 279
1939 - 2017
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 280
1939 - 2023
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 281
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 282
1939 - 2001
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 283
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 284
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 285
1939 - 2022
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 286
1936 - 2017
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 249
1928 - 2017
HPI: 49.35
Rank: 250
1938 - 2017
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 251
1931 - 2017
HPI: 49.25
Rank: 252
1941 - 2017
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 253
1932 - 2017
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 254
1939 - 2017
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 255
1981 - 2017
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 256
1955 - 2017
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 257
1923 - 2017
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 258
1934 - 2017
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 259
1952 - 2017
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 260
1938 - 2017
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 261
Among people born in Germany, Ernst Zündel ranks 3,613 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Schweigger (1779), Christian Berkel (1957), Thomas Schaaf (1961), Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1802), Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1767), and Karl Neukirch (1864). After him are Fritz Manteuffel (1875), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Herluf Bidstrup (1912), Alfred Pfaff (1926), Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649), and Marc Forster (1969).
1779 - 1857
HPI: 49.24
Rank: 3,607
1957 - Present
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 3,608
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 3,609
1802 - 1818
HPI: 49.23
Rank: 3,610
1767 - 1812
HPI: 49.22
Rank: 3,611
1864 - 1941
HPI: 49.21
Rank: 3,612
1939 - 2017
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 3,613
1875 - 1941
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 3,614
1852 - 1937
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 3,615
1912 - 1988
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 3,616
1926 - 2008
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 3,617
1649 - 1697
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 3,618
1969 - Present
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 3,619
Among extremists born in Germany, Ernst Zündel ranks 14. Before him are Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Willi Herold (1925), Oskar Gröning (1921), Johann Rattenhuber (1897), Armin Meiwes (1961), and Brigitte Mohnhaupt (1949). After him are Irmgard Möller (1947).
1895 - 1946
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 8
1925 - 1946
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 9
1921 - 2018
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 10
1897 - 1957
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 11
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 12
1949 - Present
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 13
1939 - 2017
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 14
1947 - Present
HPI: 48.55
Rank: 15