88 Notable alumni of
Dresden University of Technology
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The Dresden University of Technology is 783rd in the world, 276th in Europe, and 36th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 88 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 Hertz
- Occupations
- physicistinventoruniversity teacherphilosopher
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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
- Occupations
- writerarchitectdesignerteacherart theorist
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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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- language teacherarchaeologistmathematician
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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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- politicianslavist
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Katja Kipping is a German politician of The Left party. She was a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021, a federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinger, and the Senator for Integration, Labour and Social Affairs in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023.
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Michael Kretschmer
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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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 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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- politicianphysicist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- sculptorlithographerillustratoruniversity teachergraphic artist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticianuniversity teachercivil engineer
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Professor Evgeny Oskarovich Paton was an engineer of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union of Ukrainian descent who established in 1934 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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Uwe Tellkamp
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- physician writernovelistphysicianscreenwriter
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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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Lilia Skala
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- stage actortelevision actorarchitectfilm 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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- engineerinventor
- Biography
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Slavoljub Eduard Penkala was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent.
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Maximilian Krah
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- politicianlawyer
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Maximilian Krah is a German lawyer and self-described right-wing politician. He is serving as member of the European Parliament for Alternative for Germany.
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Marco Wanderwitz
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 49)
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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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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Carsten Borchgrevink
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- explorer
- Biography
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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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Martin Dulig
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1998-2004 studied pedagogy
- Occupations
- construction workerpolitician
- Biography
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Martin Dulig is a German politician for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Until 20 December 2019, he was 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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Dirk Hilbert
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Albert Renger-Patzsch
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Albert Renger-Patzsch was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.
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Jörg Urban
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jörg Urban is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and is party leader of the AFD in Saxony. He has been a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony since 2014. Under Urban's leadership, the Saxon AfD state association developed so strongly towards the right-wing, that the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified and is monitoring the party as a "secure right-wing anti constitutional effort" in 2023. The party has been labeled as a Far-Right organization
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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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Reimund Neugebauer
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- university teacherengineer
- Biography
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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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Julia Bonk
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Reinhard Höppner
- Occupations
- politicianliterary editormathematician
- Biography
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Reinhard Höppner was a German politician (SPD) and writer.
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Theodor Pallady
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.
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Friedrich Weinbrenner
- Occupations
- urban planneruniversity teacherarchitectmaster builder
- Biography
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Friedrich Weinbrenner was a German architect and city planner admired for his mastery of classical style.
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Josef Duchač
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Josef Duchač is a German politician (CDU).
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Johann Andreas Schubert
- Occupations
- entrepreneuruniversity teacherbandleadercomposerengineer
- Biography
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Johann-Andreas Schubert was a German general engineer (Universalingenieur), designer and university lecturer.
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Tina Punzel
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied economics
- Occupations
- competitive diver
- Biography
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Tina Punzel is a German diver.
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Erik von Frenckell
- Occupations
- sportspersonengineercivil servantpolitician
- Biography
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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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Wilhelm Knabe
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1946-1950
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianecologist
- Biography
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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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Max Littmann
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Max Littmann was a German architect.
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Friedrich Traun
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- 1895-1899 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- middle-distance runnersprintertennis playerathletics competitor
- Biography
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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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Werner Felfe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Werner Felfe was a German politician and high-ranking party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED).
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Rainer Ortleb
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- university teacherpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Rainer Ortleb is a German academic and politician.
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Carl Enckell
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Carl Johan Alexis Enckell was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman.
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Johann Georg von Soldner
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- physicistastronomermathematician
- Biography
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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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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
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert was a German mathematician known for his work in topology.
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Richard Konwiarz
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- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Richard Konwiarz was a German architect. He was born in Tschempin and died in Hanover.
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Walter Andrae
- Occupations
- university teacherart historiananthropologistassyriologistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Walter Andrae was a German archaeologist and architect born near Leipzig.
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Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
- Occupations
- naturalistuniversity teacherbotanistornithologistentomologist
- Biography
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Alexander Eduard Friedrich Eversmann was a Prussian biologist and explorer.
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Steffen Heidrich
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Steffen Heidrich is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
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Constanze Angela Krehl
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Hansjoachim Walther
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- university teacherpoliticianmathematician
- Biography
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Hansjoachim Walther was a German politician and mathematician. He was leader of the German Social Union, a right-wing party modelled after the Bavarian CSU, during the Wende, serving as their parliamentary leader in the Volkskammer. After German reunification, he was co-opted to the Bundestag and appointed as Minister for Special Affairs.
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Abdulai Silá
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- novelistengineerplaywright
- Biography
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Abdulai Silá, is a Guinea-Bissauan engineer, economist, social researcher and writer. He is the author of three novels: Eterna Paixão (1994), A Última Tragédia (1995) and Mistida (1997), the first of which was the first novel published in Guinea-Bissau.
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Franz Dischinger
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- civil engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Manfred Grund is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Leon Sternbach
- Occupations
- classical philologistuniversity teacherphilologist
- Biography
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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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Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied agricultural science and forestry
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Theophil Andreas Luzius Sprecher von Bernegg was a Swiss politician and military Chief of the General Staff (1905–1919).
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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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Herbert Wagner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Herbert Wagner is a German politician.
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Julius Kühn
- Occupations
- university teacheragronomistbotanist
- Biography
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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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Martin Grothkopp
- Occupations
- athletics competitorbobsledder
- Biography
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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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Heinz Schlicke
- Biography
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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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Gerhard Pohl
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Oliver Wehner
- Occupations
- 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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Bernhard von Cotta
- Occupations
- writercartographeruniversity teacherbotanistgeologist
- Biography
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Carl Bernhard von Cotta, known as Bernhard von Cotta, was a German geologist.
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Emil Winkler
- Occupations
- university teacherengineercivil engineer
- Biography
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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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Eleonore Trefftz
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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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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Martin Böttger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin Böttger was a prominent civil rights activist in East Germany. He was a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony from 1990 to 1994 and led the faction of Alliance '90/The Greens.
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Johann Coaz
- Occupations
- botanistcartographer
- Biography
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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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Alwin Walther
- Occupations
- university teacherengineermathematician
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- biophysicistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Reinhart Heinrich was a German biophysicist.
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Günter Baumann
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Bernhard Thalheim
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistpedagogue
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- veterinarian
- Biography
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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
- chemistuniversity teacher
- 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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Walter Polakov
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Walter Nicholas Polakov was a mechanical engineer, consulting engineer, and pioneer of scientific management.
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Arthur Meinig
- Enrolled in the Dresden University of Technology
- Studied in 1875
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Arthur Meinig was a Kingdom of Saxony-born architect from Austria-Hungary. 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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- surveyorastronomer
- Biography
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Carl Theodor Albrecht was a German astronomer.
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Hans Hübner
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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
- aerospace engineerengineercivil 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
- Occupations
- 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
- Occupations
- architectuniversity teacher
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writerengineer
- Biography
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Hans Dresig was a German professor for applied mechanics and theory of mechanisms and machines.
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Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva
- Occupations
- botanistforestry engineer
- Biography
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Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva was a Spanish botanist and entomologist.
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Rudolph Hering
- Occupations
- chemistcivil engineer
- Biography
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Rudolph Hering was a founder of modern environmental technology.
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Hellmut Schmid
- Occupations
- surveyoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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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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Sergej Flach
- Born in
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Germany - Occupations
- theoretical physicist
- Biography
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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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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
- Biography
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Klaus Jacob is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Frederick William Cappelen
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineer
- 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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Hassa Horn
- Occupations
- engineerarchitectpoliticianNordic combined skier
- 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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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
- philologisttranslator
- 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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Augustin Paus
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Augustin Thoresen Paus was a Norwegian engineer and industrial leader who played a key role in hydropower development in Norway through the first half of the 20th century. He graduated as an officer from the Military Academy and as a civil engineer from Dresden, starting his engineering career at Norsk Hydro as an associate of Sam Eyde during the development of the Rjukan industrial facilities. From 1918, he led the construction of the hydroelectric Rånåsfoss power plant, one of the largest in Europe. Upon its completion in 1922, he became the first managing director of Akershus elektrisitetsverk (now Akershus Energi), a position he held until his death. He was described as the "absolute ruler" of the industrial community that emerged at Rånåsfoss. He also held several other positions in the Norwegian power industry and was described as "one of the most prominent leaders in the Norwegian energy industry." He served as chairman of Glommens og Laagens Brukseierforening, Foreningen Samkjøringen—the precursor to the Nordic electricity exchange Nord Pool—the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, and several power companies.
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Bernhard Brænne
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Bernhard Cornelius Brænne was a Norwegian factory owner and member of the Norwegian Parliament with the Conservative Party.
