Beate Klarsfeld

Beate Klarsfeld
Klarsfeld in 2015
Born
Beate Auguste Künzel

(1939-02-13) 13 February 1939 (age 85)
NationalityGerman
Political partyThe Left
Spouse
(m. 1963)
Children2

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 [de] 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.