81 Notable alumni of
Dresden University of Technology
The Dresden University of Technology is 787th in the world, 269th in Europe, and 34th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 81 notable alumni from the Dresden 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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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
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- philosopherengineerinventoruniversity teacherphysicist
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named the "hertz" in his honor.
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Adolf Loos
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- architectwriteressayistart collectorarchitecture critic
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
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Maria Reich
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- mathematicianarchaeologistlanguage teacher
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Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American historian Paul Kosok. Known as the "Lady of the Lines", Reiche made the documentation, preservation and public dissemination of the Nazca Lines her life's work.
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Katja Kipping
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- slavicistpolitician
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Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left party who is serving as Senator for Integration, Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government since December 2021. She was previously a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021. She was federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger.
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Michael Kretschmer
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- engineerpolitician
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Michael Kretschmer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister President of Saxony since 13 December 2017. Since 2022, he has been one of four deputy chairs of the CDU, under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.
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Reiner Haseloff
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- physicistpolitician
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Reiner Haseloff is a German politician who serves as the Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt. On 9 October 2020, he was elected President of the Bundesrat. His one-year term started on 1 November 2020.
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Stanislaw Tillich
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- politician
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Stanislaw Tillich is a German politician of the CDU. He served as the 3rd Minister President of Saxony from 2008 to 2017. From 1 November 2015 until 31 October 2016, he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany. Tillich is of Sorbian ethnicity and lives in Panschwitz-Kuckau (Pančicy-Kukow), which is 35 kilometres north-east of Dresden near Kamenz.
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1905-1906 studied architecture
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- lithographergraphic artistsculptorpainterdrawer
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a German expressionist painter and printmaker; he was one of the four founders of the artist group Die Brücke.
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Evgeny Paton
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1894
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- civil engineeruniversity teacherpoliticianengineer
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Professor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton was a Russian and Soviet engineer of Ukrainian descent who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kyiv. Paton was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1953). He was the father of Borys Paton.
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Lilia Skala
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- film actorarchitecttelevision actorstage actor
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Lilia Skala was an Austrian-American architect and actress known for her role in the film Lilies of the Field (1963), for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination. During her career, Skala was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Slavoljub Eduard Penkala
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- inventorengineer
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Slavoljub Eduard Penkala was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent.
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Uwe Tellkamp
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- physician writerscreenwriterphysiciannovelist
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Uwe Tellkamp is a German writer and physician. He practised medicine until 2004. Before the fall of communism, he was enlisted in the National People's Army as a tank commander and imprisoned when he refused to break up a demonstration in October 1989. Until the fall of the German Democratic Republic shortly after, he was prohibited from studying medicine.
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Marco Wanderwitz
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 48)
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied jurisprudence
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- lawyerpolitician
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Marco Wanderwitz is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2018 until 2021, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Martin Dulig
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1998-2004 studied pedagogy
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- politicianconstruction worker
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Martin Dulig is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Until 20 December 2019 he has been the Saxon State Minister of Labor and Traffic and Deputy Minister President of Saxony in the governments of Stanislaw Tillich III and Michael Kretschmer. On 20 December 2019, Michael Kretschmer appointed a new cabinet, with Dulig continuing his role as State Minister for Economy, which he has held since 13 November 2014, in the governments of Stanislaw Tillich III and Michael Kretschmer and he was appointed Second Deputy Minister of Saxony.
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Carsten Borchgrevink
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- explorer
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Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was a Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel. He inspired Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and others associated with the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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Albert Renger-Patzsch
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- photographer
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Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.
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Dirk Hilbert
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- politician
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Dirk Hilbert is a German politician serving as the current Lord Mayor of Dresden, the capital city of Saxony, since Helma Orosz's resignation in 2015.
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Arnold Vaatz
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1976-1981 studied mathematics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Arnold Vaatz is a German politician of represents the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony from 1998 until 2021.
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Reinhard Höppner
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- mathematicianliterary editorpolitician
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Reinhard Höppner was a German politician (SPD) and writer.
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Julia Bonk
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- politician
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Julia Bonk is a former Left Party politician who served in the Landtag of Saxony from 2004 to 2014. Elected at age 18, she became the youngest member of a parliament in Germany.
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Theodor Pallady
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- painter
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Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.
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Josef Duchač
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- engineerpolitician
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Josef Duchač is a German politician (CDU).
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Friedrich Weinbrenner
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- master builderarchitectuniversity teacherurban planner
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Friedrich Weinbrenner was a German architect and city planner admired for his mastery of classical style.
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Reimund Neugebauer
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- engineeruniversity teacher
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Reimund Neugebauer is a German mechanical engineer and professor who has been working in the field of machine tools and forming processes. On 1 October 2012 he took office as the tenth President of the Fraunhofer Society, the largest research organization in Europe, from his predecessor Hans-Jörg Bullinger.
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Johann Andreas Schubert
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- entrepreneurengineercomposerbandleaderuniversity teacher
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Johann-Andreas Schubert was a German general engineer (Universalingenieur), designer and university lecturer.
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Wilhelm Knabe
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1946-1950
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- ecologistpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Wilhelm Knabe was a German ecologist, pacifist, civil servant and politician, remembered as a founding member of the Green Party in Germany, and a pioneer of conservation of the environment who shaped the party for decades.
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Tina Punzel
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- competitive diver
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Tina Punzel is a German diver.
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Maximilian Krah
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- lawyerpolitician
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Maximilian Krah is a German lawyer and politician who is serving as an Alternative for Germany Member of the European Parliament.
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Friedrich Traun
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1895-1899 graduated with doctorate
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- athletics competitortennis playersprintermiddle-distance runner
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Friedrich Adolf "Fritz" Traun was a German athlete and tennis player. Born into a wealthy family, he participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in men's doubles. He committed suicide after being accused of fathering a child out of wedlock.
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Max Littmann
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- university teacherarchitect
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Max Littmann was a German architect.
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Erik von Frenckell
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- politiciancivil servantengineersportsperson
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Erik von Frenckell was a Swedish-speaking Finnish nobleman, member of the Parliament of Finland, member of the International Olympic Committee and a vice president of the International Football Association FIFA.
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Johann Georg von Soldner
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- mathematicianastronomerphysicist
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Johann Georg von Soldner was a German physicist, mathematician and astronomer, first in Berlin and later in 1808 in Munich.
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Rainer Ortleb
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- engineerpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Rainer Ortleb is a German academic and politician.
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Carl Enckell
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- diplomatpolitician
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Carl Johan Alexis Enckell was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman.
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Stephan Kühn
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 2008
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephan Kühn is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony from 2009 until 2020. Since 2020, he has been serving as part of the city administration of Dresden.
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Herbert Seifert
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1926-1931
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert was a German mathematician known for his work in topology.
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Constanze Angela Krehl
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- politician
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Constanze Angela Krehl is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2022. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
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- naturalistzoologistlepidopteristexplorerentomologist
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Alexander Eduard Friedrich Eversmann was a Prussian biologist and explorer.
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Walter Andrae
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- art historianuniversity teacherarchitectural historianarchaeologistassyriologist
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Walter Andrae was a German archaeologist and architect born near Leipzig. He was part of the mission that stole the Ishtar Gate out of Iraq in the 1910s.
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Richard Konwiarz
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- university teacherarchitect
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Richard Konwiarz was a German architect. He was born in Tschempin and died in Hanover.
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Steffen Heidrich
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- association football player
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Steffen Heidrich is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
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Franz Dischinger
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- university teachercivil engineer
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Franz Dischinger was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer, responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge. He was also a pioneer of the use of prestressed concrete, patenting the technique of external prestressing (where the prestressing bars or tendons are not encased in the concrete) in 1934.
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Manfred Grund
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1976-1980 graduated with Diplom in electrical engineering
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- politician
- Biography
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Manfred Grund is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Leon Sternbach
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- philologistuniversity teacherclassical philologist
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Leon Sternbach was a Polish philologist and classicist, professor at Jagiellonian University, and member of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Rudolf Friedrichs
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- politician
- Biography
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Rudolf Friedrichs was a German politician who served as the Minister-President of Saxony in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to his death.
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Martin Grothkopp
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- bobsledderathletics competitor
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Martin Grothkopp is a German bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, winning the gold medal.
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Herbert Wagner
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- politician
- Biography
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Herbert Wagner is a German politician.
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Heinz Schlicke
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Heinz Schlicke, German-born engineer and author, an Operation Paperclip scientist, and engineer at the Allen-Bradley Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Julius Kühn
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- botanistagronomistuniversity teacher
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Julius Gotthelf Kühn was a German academic and agronomist and he was one of the pioneers of plant pathology. Kuhn's father was a land owner and he gained experience in agriculture and botany on his father's land. He was trained in Bonn, starting at age 30 and was awarded his doctorate, which focused on diseases of beet and canola at Leipzig. In 1862, he became a professor of agriculture at the University of Halle. Kuhn published more than 70 papers on mycology and plant pathology over the course of his career.
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Gerhard Pohl
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- politician
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Gerhard Pohl was a German politician and a member of the East German CDU. He served as Minister of Economics from April to August 1990, in the cabinet of Lothar de Maizière.
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Eleonore Trefftz
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- physicist
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Eleonore Trefftz was a German physicist known for her work on molecular and nuclear physics. She was appointed as a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in 1971.
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Oliver Wehner
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- politician
- Biography
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Oliver Wehner is a German politician (CDU). He is the member of the Saxon State Parliament from 2009.
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Emil Winkler
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- civil engineerengineeruniversity teacher
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Emil Winkler was a German civil engineer, professor with broad academic interest including engineering mechanics, railway engineering, bridge engineering. Emil Winkler was first to formulate and solve a problem of elastic beam on deformable foundation. The model of a beam on elastic foundation which assumes linear force-deflection relationship is known as Winkler Foundation.
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Bernhard von Cotta
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- writergeologistbotanistuniversity teachercartographer
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Carl Bernhard von Cotta, known as Bernhard von Cotta, was a German geologist.
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Johann Coaz
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- cartographerbotanist
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Johann Wilhelm Fortunat Coaz was a Swiss forester, topographer and mountaineer from Graubünden. In 1850 he made the first ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps. He also gave Piz Bernina its name, after the eponymous pass.
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Günter Baumann
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- politician
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Günter Helmut Baumann is a German politician and member of the CDU. An engineer by profession, Baumann has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union (East Germany) since 1972 until that party merged with its West German counterpart in 1990. From 1990 to 1998 he served as the mayor of Jöhstadt. Since 1998, he has been a directly elected member of the Bundestag, representing the constituencies of Annaberg – Stollberg – Zschopau (1998-2002), Annaberg – Aue-Schwarzenberg (2002 - 2009) and Erzgebirgskreis I since 2009.
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Alwin Walther
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- mathematicianengineeruniversity teacher
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Alwin Oswald Walther was a German mathematician, engineer and professor. He is one of the pioneers of mechanical computing technology in Germany.
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Reinhart Heinrich
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- writeruniversity teacherbiophysicist
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Reinhart Heinrich was a German biophysicist.
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Bernhard Thalheim
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- university teachermathematiciancomputer scientistengineer
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Bernhard Karl Thalheim is a German computer scientist and professor of information systems engineering at the University of Kiel in Kiel, Germany. He is known for his work on conceptual modeling and its theoretical foundational contributions.
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Günther Landgraf
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- pedagoguephysicistuniversity teacher
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Günther Landgraf was a German physicist and, from 1990 till 1994, President of Technische Universität Dresden.
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Agnes Sjöberg
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- veterinarian
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Agnes Hildegard Sjöberg was a Finnish veterinarian. She graduated as a veterinarian and as the first woman in Europe and likely the first woman in the world to defend her PhD in veterinary medicine. During her career, Sjöberg worked as a municipal veterinarian in Somero and Närpes and held a private reception for a long time. Sjöberg was subjected to prejudice and discrimination by colleagues, and her pioneering work as a female veterinarian was not recognized until much after her death.
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Amé Pictet
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1877-1879
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Amé Pictet was a Swiss chemist. He discovered the Pictet–Spengler reaction, and the related Pictet–Hubert reaction and Pictet–Gams reaction.
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Arthur Meinig
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1875
- Occupations
- architect
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Arthur Meinig was a German-born Hungarian architect. He was born in Waldheim, Saxony on 7 November 1853 and died in Budapest on 14 September 1904. After studying in Dresden, he worked for architects Fellner and Helmer in Vienna. In 1883 he moved to Budapest and soon became the favorite architect of Hungarian aristocracy. He created buildings in the styles of Neo-Gothic, Neo-Renaissance, and especially in Neobaroque.
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Carl Theodor Albrecht
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- astronomerland surveyor
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Carl Theodor Albrecht was a German astronomer.
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Hans Hübner
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- university teacherchemist
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Hans Hübner was a German chemist. He was the son of painter Julius Hübner (1806–1882).
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Wilhelm Flügge
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1921-1927
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineeraerospace engineer
- Biography
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Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge was a German engineer, and Professor of Applied Mechanics at Stanford University. He is known as recipient of the 1970 Theodore von Karman Medal in Engineering Mechanics, and the 1970 Worcester Reed Warner Medal.
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Victoria Angelova
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- architect
- Biography
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Victoria Angelova Vinarova was one of the first female architects of Bulgaria. She is credited with having built the first modern, national art gallery in the Balkans.
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William Dunkel
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- university teacherarchitect
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William Dunkel was a Swiss architect and painter. He worked in Germany until 1929 when he relocated to Switzerland upon obtaining a teaching job at the ETH (technical university) in Zürich.
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Hans Dresig
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- engineernon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans Dresig was a German Professor for Applied mechanics and Theory of Mechanisms and Machines.
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Rudolph Hering
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- civil engineerchemist
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Rudolph Hering was a founder of modern environmental technology.
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Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva
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- forestry engineerbotanist
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Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva was a Spanish botanist and entomologist.
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Hellmut Schmid
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- university teacherland surveyor
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Hellmut H. Schmid was a Swiss professor of geodesy and photogrammetry. He taught at ETH Zürich (Switzerland). In the 1950s, he worked on space exploration in the United States. Between 1968 and 1974, he promoted the first intercontinental network of satellite geodesy.
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Olav Heggstad
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Olav Heggstad was a Norwegian civil engineer and professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
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Klaus Jacob
- Occupations
- rower
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Klaus Jacob is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Sergej Flach
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Germany - Occupations
- theoretical physicist
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Sergej Flach is a theoretical physicist whose research has spanned a number of scientific fields in his career. With about 240 publications to his name, his research has been cited over 16,000 times giving him an h-index of 58 and i10-index of 174. He is a member of the American Physical Society, German Physical Society, Korean Physical Society, and New Zealand Institute of Physics. He is an editorial board member of Chaos (2016-) and was an editorial board member of Physical Review E (2009-2011).
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Frederick William Cappelen
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- engineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Frederick William Cappelen was a Norwegian-born architect and civil engineer who held the office of Minneapolis City Engineer.
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Jens Dunker
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Jens Gram Dunker was a Norwegian architect. He was noted for his work in the transition between neo-classicism and functionalism in Norwegian architecture. Dunker made significant contributions to Norwegian functionalism through different types of buildings: townhouses, housing blocks, townhouses, villas, theaters and hotels.
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Peter Østbye
- Occupations
- translatorphilologist
- Biography
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Peter Nielsen Østbye was a Norwegian philologist and academic administrator. He taught classical languages and was a proponent of learning the Latin language. He was an education official at Fredrikstad between 1894-1910 and at Drammen between 1910-1926. He is principally known for his translations of Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey from Ancient Greek into Norwegian.
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Hassa Horn
- Occupations
- Nordic combined skierpoliticianarchitectengineer
- Biography
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Hans Thomas "Hassa" Horn was a Norwegian road engineer, industrialist, sports official and politician for the Conservative Party.
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Augustin Paus
- Occupations
- engineerbusinesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Augustin Thoresen Paus was a Norwegian engineer and industrial leader in the hydropower industry. From 1918 he led the construction of the hydroelectric power plant at Rånåsfoss, one of the largest in Europe. Following the construction of the plant, he was the first managing director of Akershus Energi from 1922 until his death in 1945. He was "one of the most prominent leaders in the Norwegian energy industry" until his death.
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Bernhard Brænne
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Bernhard Cornelius Brænne was a Norwegian factory owner and member of the Norwegian Parliament with the Conservative Party.
