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Gudrun Ensslin

1940 - 1977

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Gudrun Ensslin (German: [ˈɡuːdʁuːn ˈɛnsliːn]; 15 August 1940 – 18 October 1977) was a German far-left terrorist and founder of the West German far-left militant group Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang). After becoming involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the politicization of his anarchist beliefs. Ensslin was perhaps the intellectual head of the RAF. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gudrun Ensslin has received more than 656,335 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gudrun Ensslin is the 44th most popular extremist (up from 53rd in 2019), the 898th most popular biography from Germany (up from 927th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Extremist.

Gudrun Ensslin is most famous for being a member of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction. She was born in 1944 and died in 1977.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Gudrun Ensslin ranks 44 out of 283. Before her are Tommaso Buscetta, Peter Kürten, Joseph Kony, William Kemmler, Mehmet Ali Ağca, and Fritz Haarmann. After her are Madame de Brinvilliers, Timothy McVeigh, George Jung, Karl Denke, Pavlik Morozov, and Edmund Kemper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gudrun Ensslin ranks 77. Before her are Bruce Chatwin, Raul Julia, Brian Josephson, Roberto Cavalli, Al Jarreau, and Lance Henriksen. After her are Milena Dravić, Ira von Fürstenberg, Tom Jones, Marlène Jobert, Herbie Hancock, and Stuart Sutcliffe. Among people deceased in 1977, Gudrun Ensslin ranks 30. Before her are Howard Hawks, Bing Crosby, Alexander Luria, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Edgar Adrian, and Peter Finch. After her are Groucho Marx, Sergey Ilyushin, James Jones, Abdel Halim Hafez, Ali Shariati, and Clementine Churchill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gudrun Ensslin ranks 898 out of 7,253. Before her are Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615), Joost van den Vondel (1587), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), W. G. Sebald (1944), Eduard Künneke (1885), and Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1370). After her are Götz von Berlichingen (1480), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), Ulrich von Jungingen (1360), Rainer Weiss (1932), and Gershom Scholem (1897).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Gudrun Ensslin ranks 7. Before her are Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Frederick Trump (1869), Otto Ohlendorf (1907), Andreas Baader (1943), Peter Kürten (1883), and Fritz Haarmann (1879). After her are Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Willi Herold (1925), Armin Meiwes (1961), Fritz Honka (1935), Oskar Gröning (1921), and Johann Rattenhuber (1897).

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