Hausen – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Ingo Heidbrink – Maritime Historian. Secretary-General of the International Commission for Maritime History Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem – Legal scholar and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany J. Hans D. Jensen – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 Hein Kötz – Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international private law (MPI-PRIV), the Bucerius Law School and Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Hans Adolf Krebs – Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 Jens Marklof – Mathematician and physicist. Winner of the Whitehead Prize. Emma Mbua – the first woman from East Africa to become a palaeontologist. Reinhard Moratz – Ausserplanmässiger Professor at the University of Münster's Institute for Geoinformatics Paul Nevermann – First Mayor of Hamburg (1961–1965) Silke Ospelkaus – Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Jože Pučnik – Known as one of the "Fathers of Slovenian independence from Yugoslavia" Dagmar Reichardt – Cultural scholar Joachim Ritter – philosopher and founder of the so-called Ritter School of liberal conservatism Waldemar R. Röhrbein, historian, director of Historisches Museum Hannover Peter Schlechtriem – Law scholar Wolfgang Schäuble – Germany's Federal Minister of Finance in the second and third Merkel cabinets since 2009 Helmut Schmidt – Graduate, Economist, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 Olaf Scholz – Lawyer, Chancellor of Germany since 2021. Klaus-Peter Siegloch – Former journalist and reporter for ZDF Peter Sloterdijk – Philosopher and cultural theorist Richard Sorge – Famous spy Leo Strauss – Political philosopher well known for US esotericism Ole Wittmann – German art historian, curator, and publisher Jan Kohlhaase – Mathematician Faculty Ernst Cassirer – Neo-Kantian Philosopher and Historian, a professor from 1919 to 1933 Henry N. Chapman – X-ray physicist and crystallographer, winner of the Leibniz Prize in 2015. Emil Artin – Mathematician, a professor from 1923 to 1937 Curt Kosswig – Zoologist who worked for many years in Turkey before spending 1955–1969 at Hamburg University Georg von Dadelsen – Musicologist, 1960 to 1971, Neue Bach-Ausgabe Rudolf Fleischmann – Experimental nuclear physicist Otto Franke – first Sinology Chair at Hamburg Wolfgang Franke – Sinology Chair, son of Otto Klaus Hasselmann – oceanographer and climate modeller, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 Wilhelm Lenz – Physicist, advisor of J. Hans D. Jensen Willibald Jentschke – Experimental nuclear physicist