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Jack Unterweger

1951 - 1994

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Johann "Jack" Unterweger (16 August 1950 – 29 June 1994) was an Austrian serial killer who committed murder in several countries – Austria, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. Initially convicted in 1976 of a single murder, Unterweger began to write extensively while in prison. His work gained the attention of Austrian intellectuals, who interpreted it as evidence of his supposed rehabilitation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Unterweger has received more than 1,901,846 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jack Unterweger is the 96th most popular extremist (up from 106th in 2019), the 395th most popular biography from Austria (up from 427th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Extremist.

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  • 22

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jack Unterweger ranks 96 out of 283. Before him are Nedeljko Čabrinović, Henry Lee Lucas, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Whitey Bulger, Jacques Mesrine, and Luciano Leggio. After him are Harold Shipman, Sirhan Sirhan, Wilhelm Voigt, Oskar Gröning, Robert Hansen, and Leonarda Cianciulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Jack Unterweger ranks 89. Before him are James Newton Howard, Joe Lynn Turner, Karekin II, Hilda Heine, Isabel Preysler, and Kim Peek. After him are Jackie Jackson, Joe Pantoliano, Samuel Doe, Alexander Bortnikov, Emmanuel Todd, and Laimdota Straujuma. Among people deceased in 1994, Jack Unterweger ranks 88. Before him are Tengiz Abuladze, Jean Borotra, Branko Mikulić, Yevgeny Leonov, Luis Ocaña, and Nikolai Ogarkov. After him are Max Morlock, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, James Clavell, Andrés Escobar, Howard Martin Temin, and Baruch Goldstein.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Jack Unterweger ranks 395 out of 1,424. Before him are Gordon Gollob (1912), Georg Ritter von Schönerer (1842), Christine Kaufmann (1945), Hans Hahn (1879), Martin Weinek (1964), and Robert Stolz (1880). After him are Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein (1760), Emil Artin (1898), Archduchess Clementina of Austria (1798), Paul Wittgenstein (1887), Heinz Kohut (1913), and Constanze Manziarly (1920).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Austria

Among extremists born in Austria, Jack Unterweger ranks 3. Before him are Amon Göth (1908), and Hermine Braunsteiner (1919). After him are Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley (1897), and Jan-Carl Raspe (1944).

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