11 Notable alumni of
Chemnitz University of Technology
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The Chemnitz University of Technology is 2643rd in the world, 842nd in Europe, and 87th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from the Chemnitz University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sahra Wagenknecht
- Occupations
- politicianjournalisteconomistnon-fiction writeropinion journalist
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Sahra Wagenknecht is a German politician, economist, author, and publicist. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009, where she represented The Left until 2023. From 2015 to 2019, she served as that party's parliamentary co-chair. With a small team of allies, Wagenknecht left the party on 23 October 2023 to found her own party in 2024, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, to contest elections onwards.
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Carsten Linnemann
- Enrolled in the Chemnitz University of Technology
- Studied general economics
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Carsten Christoffer Linnemann is a German economist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 election, representing Paderborn. Since 2022, he has been one of five deputy chairs of the CDU, under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.
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Yvonne Magwas
- Enrolled in the Chemnitz University of Technology
- 1998-2005 graduated with Diplom in sociology, Business Economics, and psychology
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Yvonne Magwas is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). A member of the German Bundestag since 2013, she has been its Vice President as of October 2021.
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Rebekka Haase
- Enrolled in the Chemnitz University of Technology
- Studied psychology
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
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Rebekka Haase is a German athlete specialising in the sprinting events. She won three gold medals at the 2015 European U23 Championships, a gold medal at the 2017 IAAF World Relays, and became European Champion with the German 4 × 100 metres relay team in 2022.
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Jost Kobusch
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- mountaineeroratorauthor
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Jost Kobusch is a German mountaineer and author.
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Karlheinz Steinmüller
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- entrepreneurscience fiction writerwriter
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Karlheinz Steinmüller is a German physicist and science fiction author. Together with his wife Angela Steinmüller he has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms. Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller were not only among the most widely read authors in the GDR, ranking at the top of a 1989 poll of most popular science fiction authors in the GDR, but their works continue to be republished.
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Alexander Dierks
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- politician
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Alexander Dierks is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 2024, he has served as president of the Landtag of Saxony. He has been a member of the Landtag of Saxony since 2014, and has served as general secretary of the Christian Democratic Union in Saxony since 2017. From 2011 to 2017, he was the leader of the Young Union in Saxony. From 2014 to 2019, he was a member of the city council of Chemnitz.
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Carsten Körber
- Enrolled in the Chemnitz University of Technology
- Studied in 2000-2005
- Occupations
- business managerpolitician
- Biography
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Carsten Körber is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony since 2013.
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Nam-Trung Nguyen
- Enrolled in the Chemnitz University of Technology
- Studied in 1988-1993
- Studied in 1993-1997
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- academicanalytical chemist
- Biography
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Nam-Trung Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Australian researcher in the fields of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. He is notable for his work on nerve agent detector, PCR, Micromixer, Droplet-based Microfluidics, Micro Magnetofluidics, Liquid Marbles and Micro Elastofluidics. He is currently a Professor and Director of Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre at Griffith University. He was a former Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Nguyen is a Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE.
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Richard Pohl
- Enrolled in the Chemnitz University of Technology
- Studied in 1841
- Occupations
- musicianjournalistmusic criticcomposerwriter
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Richard Pohl was a German music critic, writer, poet, and amateur composer. He figured prominently in the mid-century War of the Romantics, taking the side opposite Eduard Hanslick, and championing the "Music of the Future" (the progressive Romantic style of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner).
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Steffen Roth
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Steffen Roth is an academic and author on management, economics, and sociology. He is currently Full Professor of Management at the La Rochelle Business School and Full Professor of Social Science as well as President of the Senate of Kazimieras Simonavičius University.
