Richmann (1711–1753), physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770–1831), physicist Theologians August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907), linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian Georg Caspari (1683–1743), theologian Alexander von Oettingen (1827–1905), theologian Richard Otto Zöpffel (1843–1891), theologist and historian Other scientists and engineers Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (1838–1901), marine engineer and naval architect (Russia) Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), optician, inventor (Estonia) Amand Struve (1835–1898), military engineer and bridge specialist (Russia) Friedrich Zander (1887–1933), rocket scientist (Russia, Soviet Union) Walter Zapp (1905–2003), inventor (Latvia, Estonia) Sports Ursula Donath (born 1931), runner (East Germany) Chess players Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), cultural historian, businessman and endgame composer Andreas Ascharin (1843–1896), chess master Bernhard Gregory (1879–1939), chess master Lionel Kieseritzky (1806–1853), chess master R.K. Kieseritzky (1870–?), chess master Theodor Molien (1861–1941), mathematician and chess problemist Paul Felix Schmidt (1916–1984), chess master Wilhelm von Stamm (?–1905), chess master (Latvia) Other Johann Burchart (1546–1616), pharmacist Gustav Fabergé (1814–1893), jeweller Nikolai von Glehn (1841–1923), landowner and public figure, founder of Nõmme Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889–1951), judge, Great Purge perpetrator (Soviet Union) Baltic Germans List of Baltic Germans German References