1933 - 1991
Joachim Georg Kroll (17 April 1933 to 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 521,896 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Joachim Kroll is the 99th most popular extremist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Extremist.
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Among extremists, Joachim Kroll ranks 99 out of 209. Before him are David Berkowitz, Michel Fourniret, Jacques Mesrine, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Whitey Bulger, and Charles Whitman. After him are Luciano Leggio, Sirhan Sirhan, Dennis Nilsen, Delphine LaLaurie, Horst Mahler, and Andrew Cunanan.
1953 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 93
1942 - 2021
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 94
1936 - 1979
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 95
1966 - 2006
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 96
1929 - 2018
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 97
1941 - 1966
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 98
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 99
1925 - 1993
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 100
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 101
1945 - 2018
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 102
1787 - 1849
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 103
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 104
1969 - 1997
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 105
Among people born in 1933, Joachim Kroll ranks 120. Before him are Carlos Correia, Bata Živojinović, Sabah Fakhri, John Boorman, Máté Fenyvesi, and Wayne Shorter. After him are Sacha Distel, Fred Haise, György Konrád, Donald E. Westlake, Luis Bacalov, and Saleh Al-Fawzan. Among people deceased in 1991, Joachim Kroll ranks 68. Before him are Vilém Flusser, William Heinesen, Shapour Bakhtiar, Willi Boskovsky, Jean Arthur, and Christian de Castries. After him are Brad Davis, Robert Maxwell, María Zambrano, Pedro Arrupe, Berenice Abbott, and Edmond Jabès.
1933 - 2021
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 114
1933 - 2016
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 115
1933 - 2021
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 116
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 117
1933 - 2022
HPI: 56.60
Rank: 118
1933 - 2023
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 119
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 120
1933 - 2004
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 121
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 122
1933 - 2019
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 123
1933 - 2008
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 124
1933 - 2017
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 125
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 126
1920 - 1991
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 62
1900 - 1991
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 63
1914 - 1991
HPI: 57.21
Rank: 64
1909 - 1991
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 65
1900 - 1991
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 66
1902 - 1991
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 67
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 68
1949 - 1991
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 69
1923 - 1991
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 70
1904 - 1991
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 71
1907 - 1991
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 72
1898 - 1991
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 73
1912 - 1991
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 74
Among people born in Poland, Joachim Kroll ranks 363 out of 1,454. Before him are Daniel Olbrychski (1945), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Ivan Vyhovsky (1608), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Samuel Goldwyn (1879), and Walerian Borowczyk (1923). After him are Mateusz Morawiecki (1968), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Lestek (870), Werner Naumann (1909), and Anny Ondra (1903).
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 357
1915 - 1990
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 358
1608 - 1664
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 359
1699 - 1753
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 360
1879 - 1974
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 361
1923 - 2006
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 362
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 363
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 364
1885 - 1939
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 365
1848 - 1918
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 366
870 - 930
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 367
1909 - 1982
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 368
1903 - 1987
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 369
Among extremists born in Poland, Joachim Kroll ranks 2. Before him are Karl Denke (1860). After him are Horst Mahler (1936) and Elisabeth Becker (1923).
1860 - 1924
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 1
1933 - 1991
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 2
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 3
1923 - 1946
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 4