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Joachim Kroll

1933 - 1991

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Joachim Georg Kroll (17 April 1933 – 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. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 8 April 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Kroll is the 110th most popular extremist (up from 113th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from Poland (up from 440th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Joachim Kroll ranks 110 out of 283. Before him are Armin Meiwes, Bobby Joe Long, Ma Barker, Hermine Braunsteiner, Oskar Gröning, and Therese Brandl. After him are Henry Lee Lucas, Leonarda Cianciulli, Wadie Haddad, Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Stroud, and Matteo Messina Denaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Joachim Kroll ranks 132. Before him are Wayne Shorter, György Konrád, Neale Fraser, Renato Salvatori, Bata Živojinović, and Michel Hidalgo. After him are Sacha Distel, Joan Rivers, Joachim Meisner, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Sandra Milo, and Shigeo Yaegashi. Among people deceased in 1991, Joachim Kroll ranks 76. Before him are Ralph Bellamy, Sergey Akhromeyev, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Gene Roddenberry, John Kerr, and Eric Carr. After him are Héctor Rial, Pedro Arrupe, Cassandra Harris, Brad Davis, Jean Bruller, and Yevgeny Dragunov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Joachim Kroll ranks 381 out of 1,694. Before him are Roman Ingarden (1893), Kazimierz Fajans (1887), Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834), Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Emin Pasha (1840), and Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869). After him are Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1755), Samuel Goldwyn (1879), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), and Karol Świerczewski (1897).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Poland

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).

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