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Fritz Haarmann

1879 - 1925

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Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least twenty-four young men and boys in the city of Hanover between 1918 and 1924. Found guilty of twenty-four of the twenty-seven murders for which he was tried, Haarmann was sentenced to death by beheading in December 1924. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Haarmann has received more than 1,342,781 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Fritz Haarmann is the 43rd most popular extremist (up from 46th in 2019), the 890th most popular biography from Germany (down from 831st in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Extremist.

Fritz Haarmann was a German serial killer who killed at least 24 people, mostly young men.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Fritz Haarmann ranks 43 out of 283. Before him are Jim Jones, Tommaso Buscetta, Peter Kürten, Joseph Kony, William Kemmler, and Mehmet Ali Ağca. After him are Gudrun Ensslin, Madame de Brinvilliers, Timothy McVeigh, George Jung, Karl Denke, and Pavlik Morozov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Fritz Haarmann ranks 31. Before him are Joseph Wirth, Italo Gariboldi, Henri Giraud, Ali of Hejaz, An Jung-geun, and Victor Sjöström. After him are Knud Rasmussen, Hans Lammers, Léon Jouhaux, Chen Duxiu, Pál Teleki, and Franz Reichelt. Among people deceased in 1925, Fritz Haarmann ranks 31. Before him are Félix Vallotton, Hjalmar Branting, Eugen Sandow, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Karl Abraham, and Oliver Heaviside. After him are Percy Fawcett, John Singer Sargent, H. Rider Haggard, Pierre Louÿs, Clément Ader, and Johann Palisa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Haarmann ranks 890 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Trithemius (1462), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Florian Geyer (1490), and Saloninus (242). After him are Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), and Eduard Künneke (1885).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Fritz Haarmann ranks 6. Before him are Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Frederick Trump (1869), Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), and Peter Kürten (1883). After him are Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Willi Herold (1925), Armin Meiwes (1961), Fritz Honka (1935), and Oskar Gröning (1921).

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