Deutsche Schule Pucon Colegio Aleman Purranque Colegio Aleman Quilpe Colegio Aleman Tomé Deutsche Schule Traiguen Deutsches Internat Villa Alemana Deutsche Schule Viña del Mar Notable German Chileans Marlene Ahrens, Olympic athlete, the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. Ena von Baer, ex-minister, political scientist and senator. Claudio Bunster, scientist, theoretical physicist, won the Chilean National Science Award in 1995, and contributed to the foundation of the Centro de Estudios Científicos (Center for Scientific Studies) in Valdivia. Otto Dörr Zegers, psychiatrist, intellectual and writer, translated the work of Rainer Maria Rilke into Spanish. Nina Frick Asenjo, classical pianist. Óscar Hahn, poet, former faculty at the University of Iowa, and 2012 winner of the Chilean National Award of Literature. Klaus Junge, chess master. José Antonio Kast Rist, founder of the Republican Party of Chile. Felipe Kast Sommerhoff, founder of the Political Evolution Party. Fernando Matthei, former commander of the Chilean Air Force. Member of the military junta that ruled Chile, Matthei was the first to admit that the regime had lost the referendum to elect Pinochet in 1988. One of his children, Evelyn Matthei was a candidate in the presidential elections of 2013. Manfred Max Neef, economist and academic, winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1982. Joaquín Niemann, Chilean professional golfer. Diego Paulsen, politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile. Alfredo Perl, Chilean-German classical pianist, conductor of the Detmold Chamber Orchestra, Germany. Raúl Rettig Guissen, politician, chairman of the Rettig Report, documenting human rights abuses and disappearances during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Chris Watson, third prime minister of Australia. Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author and faculty member of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His work has been produced in 29 countries and translated into 19 different languages. Allison Göhler, meterologist and part-time TV host Carlo von Mühlenbrock, famous chef Jenny Pérez Schmidt, veteran journalist and host in DW Español First generation immigrants Carlos Anwandter, 19th-century settler, helped developing the city of Valdivia. Juan Brüggen Messtorff, contributed to the development of geology in Chile. Hermann Eberhard, explorer, founder of the first settlements in western Patagonia and discoverer of the Giant sloth fossils at Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument in Chile. Emil Körner, German-born Chilean army commander, veteran of the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, invited by the Chilean government to retrain the Chilean Army in the German military doctrine in 1900, and commander-in-chief of