# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klein-henszlein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:16:49.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/klein-henszlein"
name: "Klein Henszlein"
slug: "klein-henszlein"
description: "Klein Henszlein [Klaus Hanslein] was a German pirate active from 1560 to 1573 who raided shipping in the North Sea until his defeat and capture by a fleet from Hamburg. Taken back to Hamburg, Henszlein and his men were paraded through the city streets before being beheaded on September 10, 1573; their heads were then impaled on stakes. In a later account, the executioner described how he \"flicked off\" the heads of the thirty-three pirates in only 45 minutes, then proceeding to behead the bodies of those pirates killed during their capture. He later claimed to have been \"standing in blood so deep that it well nigh in his shoes did creep\"."
tagline: "German pirate"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Henszlein.jpg/330px-Henszlein.jpg"
gender: "male"
deathDate: "1573"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.679986666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Henszlein"
    title: "Klein Henszlein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Henszlein"
    title: "Klein Henszlein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Henszlein"
    title: "Klein Henszlein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Henszlein"
    title: "Klein Henszlein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Henszlein"
    title: "Klein Henszlein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_Henszlein"
    title: "Klein Henszlein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3197782"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump