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Joachim Kroll

1933 - 1991

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Joachim Georg Kroll (17 April 1933 – 1 July 1991) was a German serial killer, child molester, necrophile and cannibal who murdered a minimum of eight women and young girls in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until his arrest on 3 July 1976. He was convicted of eight murders and one attempted murder but confessed to a total of 14. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Kroll has received more than 553,764 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Joachim Kroll is the 113th most popular extremist (down from 99th in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from Poland (down from 363rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Extremist.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.93

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  • 2.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joachim Kroll ranks 113 out of 283. Before him are Horst Mahler, Baruch Goldstein, Therese Brandl, Eugen Weidmann, Dokka Umarov, and Yigal Amir. After him are Dennis Nilsen, Kōzō Okamoto, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Sante Geronimo Caserio, Delphine LaLaurie, and Aslan Usoyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Joachim Kroll ranks 131. Before him are Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Hossein Nasr, Yasukazu Tanaka, György Konrád, Emanuel Ungaro, and Ko Un. After him are Lubomyr Husar, Vera Krepkina, Sheldon Adelson, Julie Newmar, Luis Bacalov, and Dianne Feinstein. Among people deceased in 1991, Joachim Kroll ranks 81. Before him are Pedro Arrupe, Rudolf Serkin, Cassandra Harris, Carmine Coppola, Yevgeny Dragunov, and Berenice Abbott. After him are Daigoro Kondo, Helmut Walcha, Jean Bruller, Ernst Krenek, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Kevin Peter Hall.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Joachim Kroll ranks 440 out of 1,694. Before him are Hans Woellke (1911), Józef Beck (1894), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Krakus (null), Alfred Flatow (1869), and Dita Parlo (1906). After him are Max Simon (1899), Theodor Kaluza (1885), Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1464), Józef Cyrankiewicz (1911), Karol Świerczewski (1897), and Lubomyr Husar (1933).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Poland

Among extremists born in Poland, Joachim Kroll ranks 3. Before him are Karl Denke (1860), and Horst Mahler (1936). After him are Elisabeth Becker (1923).

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