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Beate Klarsfeld

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Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers and Kurt Asche. In March 2012, she ran as the candidate for The Left in the 2012 German presidential election against Joachim Gauck, but lost by 126 to 991. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Beate Klarsfeld is the 15th most popular journalist (down from 14th in 2019), the 1,035th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,026th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Journalist.

Beate Klarsfeld is a German-born French activist who became famous for her involvement in the 1960s and 1970s in the campaign to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 15 out of 196. Before her are Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Dorothea Lange, W. T. Stead, Jean-Marie Balestre, and John Reed. After her are Julian Assange, David Seymour, Victor Noir, Robert Guérin, Gareth Jones, and W. Eugene Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 57. Before her are Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Stanisław Dziwisz, Susumu Tonegawa, Leland H. Hartwell, Alfredo Palacio, and Carlo Ginzburg. After her are Henry Mintzberg, Ion Țiriac, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Phil Spector, Claude François, and Joel Schumacher.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 1,035 out of 7,253. Before her are Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (940), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783), Henri Victor Regnault (1810), John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604), and Wilhelm Gustloff (1895). After her are Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), August Kopff (1882), Boris Becker (1967), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (1774), Johann Christoph Bach (1642), and Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1831).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Germany

Among journalists born in Germany, Beate Klarsfeld ranks 2. Before her are Gerda Taro (1910). After her are Aenne Burda (1909), Marta Hillers (1911), Thomas Nast (1840), Bill Brandt (1904), Norbert Haug (1952), Bogna Koreng (1965), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Claas Relotius (1985), and Yury Dud (1986).

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