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11,501 |
Dietrich Küchemann
|
German aerodynamicist
|
Male
|
United Kingdom; Germany; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
|
Engineer
|
1911
|
1976
| |
11,502 |
Kurt Magnus
|
German scientist and engineer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Engineer
|
1912
|
2003
| |
11,503 |
Robert Luther
|
German astronomer
|
Male
|
Prussia
|
Astronomer
|
1822
|
1900
| |
11,504 |
Friedrich Tietjen
|
German astronomer
|
Male
|
German Empire
|
Astronomer
|
1832
|
1895
| |
11,505 |
Karl Ludwig Harding
|
German astronomer
|
Male
|
Germany; Kingdom of Hanover; Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg
|
Teacher
|
1765
|
1834
| |
11,506 |
Karl Ludwig Hencke
|
German astronomer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Astronomer
|
1793
|
1866
| |
11,507 |
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann
|
German philosopher
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Philosopher
|
1842
|
1906
| |
11,508 |
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
|
German lyric baritone and conductor
|
Male
|
Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
|
Artist
|
1925
|
2012
| |
11,509 |
Baron Münchhausen
|
fictional German nobleman
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Military personnel
|
1720
|
1797
| |
11,510 |
Otto of Greece
|
King of Greece (1815-1867)
|
Male
|
Kingdom of Bavaria; Kingdom of Greece
|
Politician
|
1815
|
1867
| |
11,511 |
Julius Klaproth
|
German orientalist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Orientalist; explorer
|
1783
|
1835
| |
11,512 |
Leonhard Frank
|
German writer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1882
|
1961
| |
11,513 |
Richard Willstätter
|
German chemist (1872–1942)
|
Male
|
Switzerland; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic; German Empire
|
Researcher
|
1872
|
1942
|
natural causes
|
11,514 |
Julius Lothar Meyer
|
German physician and chemist
|
Male
|
Germany; German Empire
|
Researcher
|
1830
|
1895
| |
11,515 |
Carl Sigismund Kunth
|
German botanist (1788–1850)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1788
|
1850
|
suicide
|
11,516 |
Jacob Denner
|
German woodwind instrument maker
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Woodwind instrument maker; musical instrument maker
|
1681
|
1735
| |
11,517 |
Arnold Sommerfeld
|
German physicist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1868
|
1951
|
accident
|
11,518 |
Jean Paul
|
German novelist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1763
|
1825
| |
11,519 |
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
|
Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and nobleman
|
Male
|
Austria; Germany
|
Artist
|
1840
|
1902
| |
11,520 |
Cuno Hoffmeister
|
German astronomer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Teacher
|
1892
|
1968
| |
11,521 |
Klaus Johann Jacobs
|
Swiss businessman (1936-2008)
|
Male
|
Switzerland
|
Entrepreneur
|
1936
|
2008
|
natural causes
|
11,522 |
Klaus Mann
|
German writer
|
Male
|
United States of America; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic; German Empire
|
Artist
|
1906
|
1949
|
suicide
|
11,523 |
Klaus Barbie
|
German SS officer, head of the Gestapo in Lyon and convicted war criminal (1913-1991)
|
Male
|
Germany; Bolivia
|
Military personnel
|
1913
|
1991
|
natural causes
|
11,524 |
Karl Jatho
|
German aviation pioneer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Military personnel
|
1873
|
1933
| |
11,525 |
Fritz Sauckel
|
German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1894
|
1946
|
capital punishment
|
11,526 |
Karl Brandt
|
German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904-1948)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1904
|
1948
|
capital punishment
|
11,527 |
Herbert Wehner
|
German politician (KPD, SPD) (1906-1990)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1906
|
1990
| |
11,528 |
Willy Messerschmitt
|
German aircraft designer and manufacturer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Teacher
|
1898
|
1978
| |
11,529 |
Felix Wankel
|
German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine (1902-1988)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1902
|
1988
| |
11,530 |
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
|
German educator, writer and politician (1778-1852)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1778
|
1852
| |
11,531 |
Karl Brugmann
|
German linguist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1849
|
1919
| |
11,532 |
Ludwig Stumpfegger
|
SS physician (1910-1945)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1910
|
1945
|
suicide
|
11,533 |
Carl Ludvig Engel
|
German architect (1778-1840)
|
Male
|
Finland; Germany
|
Artist
|
1778
|
1840
| |
11,534 |
Fritz Albert Lipmann
|
American biochemist
|
Male
|
United States of America; Germany
|
Researcher
|
1899
|
1986
| |
11,535 |
Ernst Heinkel
|
aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Engineer
|
1888
|
1958
| |
11,536 |
Kurt Lewin
|
German-American psychologist
|
Male
|
United States of America; Germany
|
Teacher
|
1890
|
1947
|
natural causes
|
11,537 |
Ulrich von Hutten
|
German scholar, poet and reformer (1488-1523)
|
Male
|
Holy Roman Empire
|
Artist
|
1488
|
1523
|
natural causes
|
11,538 |
Golo Mann
|
historian (1909-1994)
|
Male
|
Switzerland; Germany
|
Researcher
|
1909
|
1994
| |
11,539 |
Friedrich Jeckeln
|
German SS general, executed for war crimes including mass murder (1895-1946)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1895
|
1946
| |
11,540 |
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
|
German chancellor during World War I (1856-1921)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1856
|
1921
| |
11,541 |
Eugen Baumann
|
German chemist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1846
|
1896
| |
11,542 |
Bertha Benz
|
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz
|
Female
|
Germany
|
Businessperson
|
1849
|
1944
| |
11,543 |
Gerd Aretz
|
German artist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Teacher
|
1930
|
2009
| |
11,544 |
Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
|
German botanist (1797-1848)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1797
|
1848
| |
11,545 |
Karl Drais
|
German inventor of early form of bicycle and typewriter
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Inventor; forester
|
1785
|
1851
| |
11,546 |
Ludwig Diels
|
German botanist (1874-1945)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1874
|
1945
| |
11,547 |
le gentil
|
German scientist and inventor
|
Male
|
German
|
Researcher
|
1834
|
1874
| |
11,548 |
Wilhelm Maybach
|
German businessman
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Entrepreneur
|
1846
|
1929
| |
11,549 |
Mary Wigman
|
German dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor
|
Female
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1886
|
1973
| |
11,550 |
Ruth Pfau
|
German-Pakistani physician and nun
|
Female
|
Germany; Pakistan; British Raj
|
Artist
|
1929
|
2017
|
natural causes
|
11,551 |
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
|
German physician, anatomist, and zoologist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1809
|
1885
| |
11,552 |
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
|
German botanist (1794-1868)
|
Male
|
Kingdom of Bavaria
|
Researcher
|
1794
|
1868
| |
11,553 |
Albert Bierstadt
|
1800s landscape painter of the American West
|
Male
|
United States of America; Germany
|
Artist
|
1830
|
1902
| |
11,554 |
Erich Werdermann
|
German botanist (1892-1959)
|
Male
|
Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic; German Empire
|
Researcher
|
1892
|
1959
| |
11,555 |
Karl Friedrich Reiche
|
German botanist (1860-1929)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1860
|
1929
| |
11,556 |
Paul Matschie
|
German zoologist
|
Male
|
Kingdom of Prussia; Weimar Republic; German Empire
|
Researcher
|
1861
|
1926
| |
11,557 |
Georg von Dollmann
|
German architect
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Architect
|
1830
|
1895
| |
11,558 |
Robert von Greim
|
German Field Marshal
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Military personnel
|
1892
|
1945
|
suicide
|
11,559 |
Philipp Franz von Siebold
|
German biologist and traveller (1796-1866)
|
Male
|
Germany; Kingdom of Bavaria
|
Researcher
|
1796
|
1866
| |
11,560 |
Alexander Grothendieck
|
German-French mathematician
|
Male
|
France
|
Researcher
|
1928
|
2014
| |
11,561 |
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
|
German chemist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1876
|
1959
| |
11,562 |
Leo Strauss
|
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
|
Male
|
United States of America; Germany
|
Researcher
|
1899
|
1973
| |
11,563 |
Leo Löwenthal
|
German sociologist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Sociologist; philosopher
|
1900
|
1993
| |
11,564 |
Carl Schmitt
|
German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (1888-1985)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1888
|
1985
| |
11,565 |
Werner Forssmann
|
German physician, Nobel prize winner
|
Male
|
West Germany; German Reich
|
Military personnel
|
1904
|
1979
|
natural causes
|
11,566 |
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
|
German philosopher
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Religious figure
|
1796
|
1879
| |
11,567 |
Constantin Fehrenbach
|
German politician (1852-1926)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1852
|
1926
| |
11,568 |
Georges J. F. Köhler
|
German immunologist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1946
|
1995
| |
11,569 |
Hans Morgenthau
|
American political scientist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1904
|
1980
| |
11,570 |
Walter Simons
|
German politician and judge (1861-1937)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1861
|
1937
| |
11,571 |
Chlodwig, 7th Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
|
German chancellor (1819-1901)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1819
|
1901
| |
11,572 |
Georg Wittig
|
German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1897
|
1987
| |
11,573 |
Otto Loewi
|
German pharmacologist
|
Male
|
United States of America; Austria; Germany
|
Researcher
|
1873
|
1961
| |
11,574 |
Friedrich Pollock
|
German social scientist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Businessperson
|
1894
|
1970
| |
11,575 |
George Enescu
|
Romanian composer
|
Male
|
Romania
|
Artist
|
1881
|
1955
| |
11,576 |
Wilhelm Cuno
|
German chancellor (1876-1933)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1876
|
1933
| |
11,577 |
Emil Jannings
|
German actor
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1884
|
1950
|
natural causes
|
11,578 |
Roy Montrell
|
American musician
|
Male
|
United States of America
|
Artist
|
1928
|
1979
| |
11,579 |
Wilhelm Marx
|
German chancellor (1863-1946)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1863
|
1946
| |
11,580 |
Leopold von Ranke
|
German historian and founder of modern source-based history
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1795
|
1886
| |
11,581 |
Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich
|
Austrian noble, niece of Elisabeth of Austria, who had a prominent role in the Mayerling Incident.
|
Female
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1858
|
1940
| |
11,582 |
Oscar Rudolph Neumann
|
German ornithologist
|
Male
|
Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic; German Empire; North German Confederation
|
Artist
|
1867
|
1946
| |
11,583 |
Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim
|
Last Grand Master of the Knights of Malta (1744-1805)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Monk
|
1744
|
1805
| |
11,584 |
Lothair III
|
Holy Roman Emperor
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Ruler; aristocrat
|
1075
|
1137
| |
11,585 |
Herbert Mies
|
German politician (1929-2017)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Politician
|
1929
|
2017
| |
11,586 |
Handrij Zejler
|
Sorbian writer and activist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1804
|
1872
| |
11,587 |
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski
|
Sorbian writer
|
Male
|
Kingdom of Saxony
|
Artist
|
1856
|
1909
| |
11,588 |
Jurij Brězan
|
Sorbian writer (1916-2006)
|
Male
|
Germany; German Democratic Republic
|
Artist
|
1916
|
2006
| |
11,589 |
Korla Awgust Kocor
|
Sorbian composer and conductor
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1822
|
1904
| |
11,590 |
Mato Kósyk
|
Sorbian poet
|
Male
|
United States of America; Germany
|
Artist
|
1853
|
1940
| |
11,591 |
Georg Sauerwein
|
German poet and polyglot
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1831
|
1904
| |
11,592 |
Ferdinand von Lindemann
|
German Mathematician
|
Male
|
Germany; German Confederation
|
Researcher
|
1852
|
1939
| |
11,593 |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
|
German poet and novelist
|
Male
|
Prussia
|
Artist
|
1788
|
1857
| |
11,594 |
Ferdinand Frantz
|
German opera singer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1906
|
1959
| |
11,595 |
Reinhold Olesch
|
German linguist
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1910
|
1990
| |
11,596 |
Horst Bienek
|
German writer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1930
|
1990
| |
11,597 |
Heinrich Schwabe
|
German astronomer (1789-1875)
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Researcher
|
1789
|
1875
| |
11,598 |
Otto Grotewohl
|
German politician (1894-1964)
|
Male
|
Germany; German Democratic Republic
|
Politician
|
1894
|
1964
| |
11,599 |
Otto von Emmich
|
German general
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Military personnel
|
1848
|
1915
| |
11,600 |
Johann Joachim Quantz
|
German flutist, flute maker and composer
|
Male
|
Germany
|
Artist
|
1697
|
1773
|
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