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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Klaus Störtebeker

1360 - 1401

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"Nikolaus" Storzenbecher or "Klaus" Störtebeker (1360 – supposed 20 October 1401) was reputed to be leader of a group of privateers known as the Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder). The Victual Brothers (Latin: victualia) were originally hired during a war between Denmark and Sweden to fight the Danish and supply the besieged Swedish capital Stockholm with provisions. After the end of the war, the Victual Brothers continued to capture merchant vessels for their own account and named themselves "Likedeelers" (literally: equal sharers). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Störtebeker has received more than 387,272 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Störtebeker is the 137th most popular social activist (up from 142nd in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,197th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 137 out of 538Before him are John Brown, Mangal Pandey, Sergey Nechayev, Leila Khaled, Frederick Douglass, and Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. After him are Mairead Maguire, Betty Ford, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Ishikawa Goemon, Léon Jouhaux, and Steve Biko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1360, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 7Before him are Yongle Emperor, Andrei Rublev, Jan Žižka, Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Philippa of Lancaster, and Ulrich von Jungingen. After him are Cennino Cennini, Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Joseph II of Constantinople, Caterina Visconti, and Dorotea Bucca. Among people deceased in 1401, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 1After him are Maria, Queen of Sicily, Vladislaus II of Opole, Dinis Dias, Anabella Drummond, and George Kodinos.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 1,114 out of 6,142Before him are Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut (1311), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Lothar de Maizière (1940), Margot Honecker (1927), and Max Klinger (1857). After him are Rudolf Diels (1900), Charles I of Württemberg (1823), Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (1229), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), Petrus Apianus (1495), and Günther Korten (1898).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 14Before him are Jenny von Westphalen (1814), Paul Schäfer (1921), Hans Scholl (1918), Alfred Naujocks (1911), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Gerda Christian (1913). After him are Rudi Dutschke (1940), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), Hanns Martin Schleyer (1915), Christoph Probst (1919), Carl Oberg (1897), and Gretl Braun (1915).