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Monika Ertl

1937 - 1973

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Monika Ertl (17 August 1937 – 12 May 1973) was a German-Bolivian communist militant and guerrilla fighter and the daughter of Nazi propagandist Hans Ertl. She is most known for assassinating Colonel Roberto Quintanilla Pereira, the man responsible for chopping off Che Guevara's hands. This successful assassination earned her the title 'Che Guevara's avenger' in Germany. She continued to serve as a soldier in the National Liberation Army (ELN), resisting the Bolivian government, until she was killed by Bolivian security services in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Monika Ertl is the 101st most popular extremist (up from 106th in 2019), the 1,749th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,882nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Monika Ertl ranks 101 out of 283. Before her are Luis Garavito, James Earl Ray, Johann Rattenhuber, Wilhelm Voigt, Gary Ridgway, and Vincenzo Peruggia. After her are Michel Fourniret, Matija Gubec, Armin Meiwes, Bobby Joe Long, Ma Barker, and Hermine Braunsteiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Monika Ertl ranks 105. Before her are Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Burke, Boris Pugo, Cornelius A. Smith, Mitsuo Kamata, and Daniel McFadden. After her are Steven Berkoff, Nikolai Kapustin, Edward Fox, Jeannot Szwarc, Neeme Järvi, and John Horton Conway. Among people deceased in 1973, Monika Ertl ranks 77. Before her are Károly Kerényi, Asger Jorn, Jacques Lipchitz, Edward Steichen, Alan Watts, and Sessue Hayakawa. After her are Bruno Maderna, Shirali Muslimov, Marc Allégret, Robert Smithson, J. Carrol Naish, and Gian Francesco Malipiero.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Monika Ertl ranks 1,749 out of 7,253. Before her are Edmund Conen (1914), Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727), Karl von Piloty (1826), Conrad Veidt (1893), Christian Morgenstern (1871), and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767). After her are Ulay (1943), Johann Schein (1586), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), and Constantin von Tischendorf (1815).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Germany

Among extremists born in Germany, Monika Ertl ranks 12. Before her are Friedrich Jeckeln (1895), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Fritz Honka (1935), Willi Herold (1925), and Johann Rattenhuber (1897). After her are Armin Meiwes (1961), Oskar Gröning (1921), Therese Brandl (1902), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Eugen Weidmann (1908), and Irmgard Möller (1947).

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