1360 - 1401
"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, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 137 out of 538. Before 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.
1800 - 1859
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 131
1827 - 1857
HPI: 60.39
Rank: 132
1847 - 1882
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 133
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 134
1818 - 1895
HPI: 60.35
Rank: 135
1208 - 1265
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 136
1360 - 1401
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 137
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 138
1918 - 2011
HPI: 60.11
Rank: 139
1931 - Present
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 140
1558 - 1594
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 141
1879 - 1954
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 142
1946 - 1977
HPI: 59.96
Rank: 143
Among people born in 1360, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 7. Before 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 1. After him are Maria, Queen of Sicily, Vladislaus II of Opole, Dinis Dias, Anabella Drummond, and George Kodinos.
1360 - 1424
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 1
1360 - 1428
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 2
1360 - 1424
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 3
1360 - 1429
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 4
1360 - 1415
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 5
1360 - 1410
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 6
1360 - 1401
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 7
1360 - 1440
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 8
1360 - 1391
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 9
1360 - 1431
HPI: 57.33
Rank: 10
1360 - 1439
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 11
1360 - 1404
HPI: 50.79
Rank: 12
1360 - 1436
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 13
1360 - 1401
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 1
1363 - 1401
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 2
1332 - 1401
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 3
HPI: 53.24
Rank: 4
1350 - 1401
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 5
1350 - 1401
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 6
Among people born in Germany, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 1,114 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1311 - 1356
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 1,108
1905 - 1945
HPI: 60.19
Rank: 1,109
1511 - 1571
HPI: 60.18
Rank: 1,110
1940 - Present
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 1,111
1927 - 2016
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 1,112
1857 - 1920
HPI: 60.17
Rank: 1,113
1360 - 1401
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 1,114
1900 - 1957
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 1,115
1823 - 1891
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 1,116
1229 - 1294
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 1,117
1875 - 1945
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 1,118
1495 - 1552
HPI: 60.13
Rank: 1,119
1898 - 1944
HPI: 60.12
Rank: 1,120
Among social activists born in Germany, Klaus Störtebeker ranks 14. Before 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).
1814 - 1881
HPI: 62.57
Rank: 8
1921 - 2010
HPI: 61.90
Rank: 9
1918 - 1943
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 10
1911 - 1966
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 11
1870 - 1932
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 12
1913 - 1997
HPI: 60.56
Rank: 13
1360 - 1401
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 14
1940 - 1979
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 15
1818 - 1888
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 16
1915 - 1977
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 17
1919 - 1943
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 18
1897 - 1965
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 19
1915 - 1987
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 20