100 Notable alumni of
Kiel University
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Kiel University is 341st in the world, 115th in Europe, and 21st in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Kiel University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with Kiel University won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
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Juliane Koepcke
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- writerbiologistmammalogistzoologistlibrarian
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Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke, also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 plane crash; after falling 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffering numerous injuries, she survived 11 days alone in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest until she was rescued by local fishermen after finding their camp.
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Hjalmar Schacht
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- bankerpoliticianeconomist
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Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparations obligations. He was also central in helping create the group of German industrialists and landowners that pushed Hindenburg to appoint the first NSDAP-led government.
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Klaus Fuchs
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- Studied in 1931-1933
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicistatomic spypolitician
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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader.
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Jürgen Drews
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- singerrecording artist
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Jürgen Ludwig Drews is a German Schlager singer.
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Franz Boas
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- In 1881 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in physics
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguistanthropologistcuratorgeographer
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Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
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Axel Prahl
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- television actormusicianfilm actoractorvoice actor
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Axel Prahl is a German actor, voice actor and musician.
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Philipp Lenard
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- physicistinventorpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Hungarian-born German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. One of his most important contributions was the experimental realization of the photoelectric effect. He discovered that the energy (speed) of the electrons ejected from a cathode depends only on the wavelength, and not the intensity, of the incident light.
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Theodor Mommsen
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- university teachernumismatistpoliticianhistoriangermanist
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Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature for his historical writings, including The History of Rome, after having been nominated by 18 members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code.
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Uwe Barschel
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- notarypoliticianlawyer
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Uwe Barschel was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1982 to 1987.
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Wolfgang Kubicki
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- economistpoliticianlawyer
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Wolfgang Kubicki is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) and member of the Bundestag from 1990 until 1992 and 2017 onwards. He has been vice chairman of the FDP in Germany since December 2013. Since 24 October 2017 he has served as Vice President of the Bundestag. From 1992 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2017 he served as chairman of the FDP-group in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament.
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Theodor Storm
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- Studied in 1837-1838
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- lawyerpoetnovelistwriter
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Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm, commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German-Frisian writer and poet. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.
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Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt
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- sports physicianorthopedic surgeonphysicianuniversity teacher
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Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt is a German orthopedist. He gained recognition for his roles as Germany national football team doctor (1995–2018) and club doctor of Bayern Munich (1977–2015, 2017–2020). He initially resigned after him and his medical staff were blamed for a 3–1 loss to Porto in a UEFA Champions League match during the tenure of coach Pep Guardiola, but he rejoined after the reappointment of Jupp Heynckes as head coach. Having already resigned from his position at the Germany national football team in 2018, his second and final resignation at Bayern Munich also came into effect on the 30th of June 2020.
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Carl Clauberg
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- politicianuniversity teachergynaecologisttorturermilitary physician
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Carl Clauberg was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on human subjects (mainly Jewish) at Auschwitz concentration camp. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Daniel Günther
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- politician
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Daniel Günther is a German politician who is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). Since 28 June 2017, he has served as the Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein. From 1 November 2018 to 31 October 2019, he served as President of the Bundesrat, being succeeded by Dietmar Woidke.
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Peer Steinbrück
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- 1970-1974 graduated with Diplom in general economics and social science
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomistnon-fiction writer
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Peer Steinbrück is a German politician who was the Chancellor-candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in the 2013 federal election. Steinbrück served as the eighth Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 to 2005, a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2016, and as Federal Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2009.
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Gerhard Stoltenberg
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- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
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Gerhard Stoltenberg was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and minister in the cabinets of Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl. He served as Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1982 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1977 to 1978.
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Heide Simonis
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- poetauthorwriterpolitician
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Heide Simonis was a German author and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was minister of finance in Schleswig-Holstein from 1988 until 1993, when she became minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein. She was the first woman to serve as head of a state government in German history and the only woman to do so in the 20th century, serving until 2005. As of September 2023, she is also the longest serving former female minister-president of a German state (11 years, 343 days).
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Gerhard Delling
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- television presenterjournalist
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Gerhard Delling is a German television presenter and sports journalist.
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Gerhard Domagk
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- pathologistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
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Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
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Hans Luther
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- lawyerbankerpoliticiandiplomat
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Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany for 482 days in 1925 to 1926. As Minister of Finance he helped stabilize the Mark during the hyperinflation of 1923. From 1930 to 1933, Luther was head of the Reichsbank and from 1933 to 1937 he served as German Ambassador to the United States.
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Marcel Fratzscher
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Marcel Fratzscher is a German economist and professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Since February 2013 he has been president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin. He was previously head of International Policy Analysis at the European Central Bank. He also teaches International Finance in the Ph.D. programme in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Franz Oppenheimer
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- university teachereconomistauthorsociologistphilosopher
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Franz Oppenheimer was a German Jewish sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state.
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Günter Blobel
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- biologistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistcell biologist
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Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.
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August Bier
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- university teachersurgeonphysician
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August Karl Gustav Bier was a German surgeon. He was the first to perform spinal anesthesia and intravenous regional anesthesia.
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Walter Eucken
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- economistresistance fighter
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Walter Eucken was a German economist of the Freiburg school and father of ordoliberalism. He is closely linked with the development of the concept of "social market economy".
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Lorenz von Stein
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- lawyereconomistuniversity teachersociologist
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Lorenz von Stein was a German economist, sociologist, and public administration scholar from Eckernförde. As an advisor to Meiji period Japan, his liberal political views influenced the wording of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan as well as major constitutional thinkers such as Rudolf von Gneist.
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Karl Schiller
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
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Karl August Fritz Schiller was a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1966 to 1972, he was Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and from 1971 to 1972 Federal Minister of Finance. He was the inventor of the magic square, depicting Economic equilibrium, and of the Concerted activity (Konzertierte Aktion) to reflate the German market. He is thus seen as one of the most influential German economists beside Ludwig Erhard.
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Lann Hornscheidt
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- linguist
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Lann Hornscheidt is a German academic active in the fields of gender studies and linguistics. Hornscheidt is non-binary.
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Luise Amtsberg
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- 2004-2013 studied Islamic studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luise Amtsberg is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the German Bundestag since the federal election in 2013. She contested the constituency of Kiel in 2013 and 2017.
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Feridun Zaimoğlu
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- journalistinstallation artistwriterscreenwriter
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Feridun Zaimoğlu is a German author and visual artist of Turkish descent.
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Peter Harry Carstensen
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- politician
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Peter Harry Carstensen is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2005 to 2012 he was Minister President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2005/06.
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Kurt Alder
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
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Barthold Georg Niebuhr
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- university teachereconomisthistorianclassical scholarwriter
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Barthold Georg Niebuhr was a Danish–German statesman, banker, and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography. By 1810 Niebuhr was inspiring German patriotism in students at the University of Berlin by his analysis of Roman economy and government. Niebuhr was a leader of the Romantic era and symbol of German national spirit that emerged after the defeat at Jena. But he was also deeply rooted in the classical spirit of the Age of Enlightenment in his intellectual presuppositions, his use of philologic analysis, and his emphasis on both general and particular phenomena in history.
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof
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- biochemistphysiologistpsychiatristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
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Peter Wilhelm Lund
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- naturalistanthropologistexplorerarchaeologistzoologist
- Biography
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Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Danish Brazilian paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archaeology.
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Frederik Paulsen Jr
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- chemistbusinessperson
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Frederik Paulsen is a Swedish billionaire businessman and non-executive chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
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Johann Bernhard Basedow
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- theologianwriterpedagoguephilosopherteacher
- Biography
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Johann Bernhard Basedow was a German educational reformer, teacher and writer. He founded the Philanthropinum, a short-lived but influential progressive school in Dessau, and was the author of "Elementarwerk", a popular illustrated textbook for children.
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J. Hans D. Jensen
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- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, where he contributed to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war, Jensen was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology.
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Wolfgang Benz
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- historianuniversity teacherwriter
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Wolfgang Benz is a German historian from Ellwangen. He was the director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism of the Technische Universität Berlin between 1990 and 2011.
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Wilhelm Heinrich Solf
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- juristphysicianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Wilhelm Heinrich Solf was a German scholar, diplomat, jurist and statesman.
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Jens Böhrnsen
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- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Jens Böhrnsen is a German politician of the SPD who served as President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 2005 to 2015. From 1 November 2009 until 31 October 2010 he was President of the Bundesrat. As such, he was acting head of state of Germany from the resignation of President Horst Köhler on 31 May 2010 until the election of Christian Wulff on 30 June 2010. Böhrnsen resigned in 2015 after his party sustained losses in state parliament election.
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Hans-Peter Bartels
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- In 1986 studied political science
- Occupations
- journalistediting staffpolitician
- Biography
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Hans-Peter Bartels is a German politician of the SPD who served as member of the Bundestag for Kiel. From 2015 until 2020, he was the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces.
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Friedrich von Esmarch
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- physiciansurgeonmilitary physicianuniversity teacher
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Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch was a German surgeon. He developed the Esmarch bandage and founded the Deutscher Samariter-Verein, the predecessor of the Deutscher Samariter-Bund.
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Otto Diels
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for diene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for their work. Their method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds proved valuable for the manufacture of synthetic rubber and plastic. He completed his education at the University of Berlin, where he later worked. Diels was employed at the University of Kiel when he completed his Nobel Prize–winning work, and remained there until he retired in 1945. Diels was married, with five children. He died in 1954.
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Helmut Hasse
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- Studied in 1917-1918
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Helmut Hasse was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions.
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Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
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- university teacherpsychiatristneurologistneuropathologistjudge
- Biography
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Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. Although he is typically credited as the physician to first describe the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this has been disputed. He was born in Harburg an der Elbe and died in Munich.
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Gyde Jensen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gyde Jensen is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017.
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Britt Marie Hermes
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- In 2017 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- naturopathscience communicatorphysician
- Biography
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Britt Marie Hermes is an American former naturopathic doctor who became a critic of naturopathy and alternative medicine. She is the author of a blog, Naturopathic Diaries, where she writes about being trained and having practiced as a licensed naturopath and about the problems with naturopaths as medical practitioners.
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Ferdinand von Mueller
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- botanistchemistmycologistbryologistwriter
- Biography
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Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria (Australia) by Governor Charles La Trobe in 1853, and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants.
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Gustav Adolf von Götzen
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- diplomatjuristexplorer
- Biography
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Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen was a German explorer, colonial administrator, and military officer who served as Reichskommissar of German East Africa. He came to Rwanda in 1894 becoming the second European to enter the territory, since Oscar Baumann’s brief expedition in 1892, and later, he became the first European to cross the entire territory of Rwanda.
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Bärbel Höhn
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- 1971-1976 graduated with Diplom in mathematics
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Bärbel Höhn is a German politician for Alliance '90/The Greens. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 national elections, after serving as State Minister of Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2005.
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Alice Bota
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- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Alice Bota is a German journalist, presently working for the weekly Die Zeit, and a book author. Born in Poland, she studied in both Germany and Poland and focuses on topics of Eastern Europe.
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Richard Abegg
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- chemistphysicistballoonist
- Biography
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Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. He was a gas balloon enthusiast, which caused his death at the age of 41 when he crashed in his balloon in Silesia.
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Johann Wadephul
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- politician
- Biography
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Johann David Wadephul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Parliament since 2009.
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Erich Köhler
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- politician
- Biography
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Erich Köhler was a German politician. He was the first president of the Bundestag from 7 September 1949 to 18 October 1950.
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Otto Kranzbühler
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- judgelawyeradvocate
- Biography
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Otto Heinrich Kranzbühler was a German naval judge who represented defendant Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz before the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
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- writerpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg was a German philosopher and philologist.
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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
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- music theoristjuristmusicologistwriter
- Biography
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Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, was a German jurist and musician.
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Cristina Dorador
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politicianbiologist
- Biography
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Cristina Dorador Ortiz is a Chilean scientist, doctor, and former assembly member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention who conducts research in microbiology, microbial ecology, limnology and geomicrobiology. She is also an Associate Professor in the department of biotechnology of the Faculty of Marine Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Antofagasta.
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Henrik Steffens
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- writeruniversity teacherbiologistphysiologistmineralogist
- Biography
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Henrik Steffens, was a Norwegian philosopher, scientist, and poet.
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Ludwig von Friedeburg
- Years
- 1924-2010 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- university teachermilitary personnelsubmarinerMarineoffizierpolitician
- Biography
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Ludwig von Friedeburg was a German politician and sociologist. He served as Minister for Education for the state of Hesse from 1969 until 1974. During that period he forced the installation of Comprehensive Schools in the state of Hesse, heavily opposed by the Christian Democratic Union. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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Lothar Bolz
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- journalistlawyerpoliticianresistance fighter
- Biography
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Lothar Bolz was an East German politician. From 1953 to 1965 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany (GDR).
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Julius Bahnsen
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- philosopher
- Biography
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Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen was a German philosopher. Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume Contributions to Characterology (1867) and developed forth with his following works, amongst others his magnum opus The Contradiction in the Knowledge and Being of the World (1880/82).
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Sabine Sütterlin-Waack
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Sabine Sütterlin-Waack is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She currently serves as State Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports in the State of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Albrecht Wellmer
- Occupations
- philosophersociologist
- Biography
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Albrecht Wellmer was a German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Daniel Pauly
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries and in 2020 was the most cited fisheries scientist in the world. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us Project at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. He also served as Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre from November 2003 to October 2008.
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Wolfgang Haken
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- university teachertopologistmathematician
- Biography
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Wolfgang Haken was a German American mathematician who specialized in topology, in particular 3-manifolds.
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Heinrich Krone
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Heinrich Krone was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Gustav Frenssen
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Gustav Frenssen was a German novelist. He wrote patriotically about his native country and promoted Heimatkunst (regionalism) in literature.
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Lauritz Lauritzen
- Occupations
- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Lauritz Lauritzen was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was born in Kiel and died in Bad Honnef.
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Gerald H. Haug
- Occupations
- geologistuniversity teacherclimatologist
- Biography
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Gerald H. Haug is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland. In 2015 he became director of the Climate Geochemistry Department and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and since March 2020, he became the new President of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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Wojciech Kostrzewa
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Wojciech Kostrzewa is a Polish manager and an entrepreneur, CEO of Billon Group and the president of the Polish Business Roundtable (Polska Rada Biznesu), an organization of owners and key managers of the largest Polish companies and international enterprises operating in Poland.
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Metin Hakverdi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Metin Hakverdi is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for the Hamburg-Bergedorf-Harburg constituency since the 2013 German federal election.
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August Leskien
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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August Leskien was a German linguist who studied comparative linguistics, particularly relating to the Baltic and Slavic languages.
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Oskar Heinroth
- Occupations
- zoologistornithologisttaxonomistzoological collector
- Biography
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Oskar Heinroth was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behavior, and was thus one of the founders of ethology. He worked, largely isolated from most other scientists of the period, at the Berlin Aquarium where he took care of fishes, reptiles and birds, especially waterfowl.
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Hans-Walter Peters
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- In 1986 graduated with Doctor in economics
- Occupations
- bankerentrepreneureconomist
- Biography
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Hans-Walter Peters is a German banker. He is the current spokesman of the personally liable partners (i.e. head) of Berenberg Bank and the president of the Association of German Banks, the main lobby group for Germany's financial sector.
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Julius Oppert
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguistorientalistwriterNear Eastern archaeologist
- Biography
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Julius Oppert (9 July 1825 – 21 August 1905) was a French-German Assyriologist, born in Hamburg of Jewish parents.
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Johann Eduard Erdmann
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writerphilosopher
- Biography
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Johann Eduard Erdmann was a German religious pastor, historian of philosophy, and philosopher of religion, of which he wrote on the mediation of faith and knowledge. He was known to be a follower of Friedrich Schleiermacher, whom he studied under August Carlblom (1797-1877), and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whom he regarded as his mentor. Erdmann also studied the works of Karl Daub. Historians of philosophy usually include Erdmann as a member of the Right Wing of the Hegelian movement, a group of thinkers who were also referred to variously as the Right Hegelians (Rechtshegelianer), the Hegelian Right (die Hegelsche Rechte), and/or as the Old Hegelians (Althegelianer).
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Ingbert Liebing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ingbert Liebing is a German lobbyist and former politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 until 2017, where he represented Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord. From 2014 until 2017, he was the chairman of the CDU state party group of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Helmut Lemke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Helmut Lemke was a German politician of the NSDAP and CDU, and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein (1963–1971). He was born in Kiel and died in Lübeck.
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Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig
- Occupations
- juristpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998.
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Anka Feldhusen
- Enrolled in Kiel University
- Studied in 1985-1987
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Anka Feldhusen is a German diplomat. Since July 2019 she is Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Heinrich Rose
- Occupations
- pharmacistmineralogistuniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Heinrich Rose was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist. He was the brother of the mineralogist Gustav Rose and a son of Valentin Rose. Rose's early works on phosphorescence were noted in the Quarterly Journal of Science in 1821, and on the strength of these works, he was elected privatdozent at the University of Berlin from 1822, then Professor from 1832.
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Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Bernhard Ernst von Bülow was a Danish and German statesman.
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Victor Hensen
- Occupations
- university teacherbotanistmarine biologistphysiologistzoologist
- Biography
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Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist and marine biologist (planktology). He coined the term plankton and laid the foundation for biological oceanography and quantitative studies.
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Otto Jahn
- Occupations
- music historianbiographercomposermusicologistart historian
- Biography
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Otto Jahn, was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.
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Hans Hellmann
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- chemistphysicisttheoretical physicist
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Hans Gustav Adolf Hellmann was a German theoretical physicist.
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Delara Burkhardt
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- politician
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Delara Burkhardt is an Iranian-German politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Heiko Braak
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- pathologistuniversity teacherichthyologistneurologistanatomist
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Heiko Braak is a German anatomist. Braak was born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, and studied medicine at the universities of Hamburg, Berlin, and Kiel. He was Professor at the Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main. Currently he is based at the 'Clinical Neuroanatomy Section, Department of Neurology, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Ulm, Germany.
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Julius Curtius
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- politicianjournalist
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Julius Curtius was a German politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs (from January 1926 to December 1929) and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (from October/November 1929 to October 1931).
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Michael von Abercron
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- politician
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Michael von Abercron is an agricultural engineer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
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Alexander Koenig
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- naturalistornithologistzoological collectorzoologistherpetologist
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Alexander Ferdinand Koenig was a German naturalist and zoologist. Making use of the family wealth earned from the sugar business, he went on collection expeditions and founded what is now known as the Museum Koenig in Bonn in 1912.
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Georg Waitz
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- historianwriteruniversity teacherlegal historianmedieval historian
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Georg Waitz was a German medieval historian and politician. Waitz is often spoken of as the leading disciple of Leopold von Ranke, though perhaps he had more affinity with Georg Heinrich Pertz or Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann. He concentrated on medieval German history.
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Eduard Sachau
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- university teacherorientalisttranslator
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Carl Eduard Sachau was a German orientalist. He taught Josef Horovitz and Eugen Mittwoch.
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Max Tau
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- writerliterary editorpoetpublisherphilosopher
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Max Tau was a German–Norwegian writer, editor, and publisher.
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August Mau
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- archaeologistart historiananthropologist
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August Mau was a German art historian and archaeologist who worked with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut while studying and classifying the Roman paintings at Pompeii, which was destroyed with the town of Herculaneum by volcanic eruption in 79 AD. The paintings were in remarkably good condition due to the preservation by the volcanic ash that covered the city. Mau first divided these paintings into the four Pompeian Styles still used as a classification.
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Gabriel Riesser
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- judgelawyerpoliticiannotaryjournalist
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Gabriel Riesser was a German politician and lawyer.
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Herbert Giersch
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Herbert Giersch was a German economist. He was one of the initial members of the German Council of Economic Experts in 1964, serving on the council until 1970, and also was president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy 1969–1989. Giersch was considered the most influential German economist during the chancellorships of Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Helmut Kohl.
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Erhard Hübener
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- politician
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Dr. Erhard Hübener was a German politician and member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) until 1933. After World War II he engaged in rebuilding structures of self-rule in the Soviet occupation zone and was a co-founder and member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD).
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Jost de Jager
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- politician
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Jost de Jager is a German business consultant, politician and former Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Science, Economic Affairs and Transport.
