SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Marianne Bachmeier

1950 - 1996

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Marianne Bachmeier (3 June 1950 – 17 September 1996) was a West German woman who shot and killed Klaus Grabowski, a man on trial for the rape and murder of her daughter Anna (14 November 1972 – 5 May 1980), in an act of vigilantism in the District Court of Lübeck in 1981. The case sparked extensive media coverage and public debate. As a result, Bachmeier was convicted of manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marianne Bachmeier has received more than 7,377,732 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marianne Bachmeier is the 142nd most popular social activist, the 1,185th most popular biography from Germany and the 13th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Marianne Bachmeier ranks 142 out of 840Before her are Gangubai Kothewali, Hilda Gadea, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Alfred Naujocks, Emily Davison, and Vinoba Bhave. After her are John Brown, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bertha Pappenheim, Meng Huo, Beppe Grillo, and Andrés Bonifacio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Marianne Bachmeier ranks 61Before her are Christina Onassis, Lakshmi Mittal, Alan Silvestri, Mark Spitz, Cybill Shepherd, and Bjarne Stroustrup. After her are Amos Gitai, Sahle-Work Zewde, John Candy, David Graf, Chantal Akerman, and Chen Shui-bian. Among people deceased in 1996, Marianne Bachmeier ranks 52Before her are Timothy Leary, P. L. Travers, Ernesto Geisel, Nevill Francis Mott, Martin Balsam, and George Davis Snell. After her are František Plánička, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Rafael Kubelík, Frida Boccara, Lucio Fulci, and Obdulio Varela.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marianne Bachmeier ranks 1,185 out of 7,253Before her are Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Franz Ehrle (1845), Paul Natorp (1854), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), August Landmesser (1910), and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833). After her are Vasily Radlov (1837), Georg Böhm (1661), Oskar Lafontaine (1943), Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), Erich Heckel (1883), and Alfred von Waldersee (1832).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Marianne Bachmeier ranks 13Before her are Horst Wessel (1907), Widukind (755), Anneliese Michel (1952), Hans Scholl (1918), Sophia of Prussia (1870), and Alfred Naujocks (1911). After her are Paul Schäfer (1921), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Gerda Christian (1913), Rudi Dutschke (1940), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), and Carl Oberg (1897).