23 Notable alumni of
University of Augsburg
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The University of Augsburg is 1598th in the world, 542nd in Europe, and 63rd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the University of Augsburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Barbara Schöneberger
- Enrolled in the University of Augsburg
- 1993-1999 studied art history, sociology, and communication science
- Occupations
- editor-at-largecomediansingeractortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Barbara von Schierstädt is a German television presenter, entertainer, actress and singer.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjurist
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Hans-Peter Friedrich is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. Under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel, he served as Federal Minister of the Interior (2011-2013) and as Minister for Food and Agriculture (2013). Friedrich resigned from that position in February 2014. Friedrich has a controversial history with minorities in Germany, causing outrage in 2013 after telling journalists that Islam in Germany is not something supported by history at any point.
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Fritz Kuhn
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Fritz Kuhn is a German politician who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 2012 until 2021. He was co-chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens, the German Green party, in 2002 and its parliamentary group from 2002 to 2013.
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Georg Nüßlein
- Occupations
- politicianmerchant
- Biography
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Georg Nüßlein is a German politician who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2002 until 2021. From 1987 until 2021, he was a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He left the party in the wake of his loss of immunity and allegations of corruption related to the procurement of FFP2 masks ("Maskenaffäre").
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Ernst Troeltsch
- Occupations
- university teacherhistoriantheologianwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of the history of religions school. His work was a synthesis of a number of strands, drawing on Albrecht Ritschl, Max Weber's conception of sociology, and the Baden school of neo-Kantianism.
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Stefan Oster
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Stefan Oster S.D.B. is a German bishop of the Catholic Church who has served as the Bishop of Passau since 2014.
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Walter Mixa
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Walter Johannes Mixa is a German prelate of the Catholic Church who is the Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg and Ordinary Emeritus of the Bundeswehr. He resigned as bishop of Military and Bishop of Augsburg on 8 May 2010 at age 69 after accusations he severely beat children at a Schrobenhausen orphanage in the 1970s and misappropriated the orphanage’s funds. Mixa reportedly sexually abused minors, including an altar boy; the Office of Public Prosecution opened investigation which it closed, citing insufficient evidence. He was also accused also of sexually abusing seminarians between 1996 and 2005.
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Brigitte Mohn
- Occupations
- political scientistinternational forum participantAgriculteur
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Brigitte Mohn is a German businesswoman and a member of the Mohn family that has a significant influence on Bertelsmann group and the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Mohn is also chair of the German Stroke Foundation 's executive board.
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Georg Fahrenschon
- Enrolled in the University of Augsburg
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Georg Fahrenschon is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU). From 2008 to 2011, he served as finance minister in the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. He was a member of the Bundestag of Germany until 2007.
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Michael Georg Link
- Occupations
- politician
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Michael Georg Link is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 and again since 2017. In addition to his parliamentary mandate, he has been serving as the Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022.
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Ricarda Funk
- Occupations
- kayaker
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Ricarda Funk is a German slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008, specializing in the K1 discipline and since 2021 also in kayak cross.
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Stefan Pichler
- Occupations
- Diploma of Business Administration
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Stefan Pichler is a global airline and tourism Chief Executive. Most recently he was President and CEO of Royal Jordanian. Previously, Pichler was the Managing Director and CEO of Air Berlin, served as Managing Director and CEO of Fiji Airways, as the CEO of Jazeera Airways, Chairman and CEO of Thomas Cook AG and Chairman of the Bundesverband der Deutschen Tourismuswirtschaft, as well as Chairman of Fiji Tourism. Additionally, he has held Senior and Executive Board roles as a CCO at Virgin Australia and at Lufthansa.
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Marc Bernhard
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
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Marc Bernhard is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body.
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Jos Punt
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Jozef Marianus "Jos" Punt was the Roman Catholic bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam in the Netherlands from 2001 to 2020.
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Ulrike Bahr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ulrike Renate Martina Bahr is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and since 2013 MP in the Bundestag. She belongs to the left party wing of the SPD, the Parliamentary Left (Parlamentarische Linke). Between 2018 and 2019, she was one of the members of the SPD parliamentary group who voted most often against the party line.
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Maren Tschinkel
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- 1998-.. (age 26)
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
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Maren Tschinkel is a German model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Germany 2018. She represented Germany in the Miss Earth 2018.
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Ursula Reutner
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- linguistuniversity teacher
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Ursula Reutner is a German linguist. She holds the Chair of Romance Languages and Cultures at the University of Passau. Reutner is an internationally renowned expert in Romance Studies and Intercultural Communication, who has won several awards for her work, including the Prix Germaine de Staël, the Elise Richter Prize and an honorary doctorate from the Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires).
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Christian Natterer
- Enrolled in the University of Augsburg
- 2004-2008 graduated with Diploma of Business Administration in business administration
- Occupations
- politicianmerchant
- Biography
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Christian Natterer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Barbara Wohlmuth
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- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Enrolled in the University of Augsburg
- Graduated with habilitation
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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Barbara I. Wohlmuth is a German mathematician specializing in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. She holds the chair of numerical mathematics at the Technical University of Munich.
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Edeltraud Günther
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- economistuniversity teacher
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Edeltraud 'Edel' Günther is a German business and sustainability assessment researcher, and university educator. Günther is currently the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) while on leave from the Technische Universität Dresden, where she has held the Chair of Business Management, esp. Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting since 1996. She has also undertaken multiple international visiting professorships, and is the founding member of the Centre for Performance and Policy Research in Sustainability Measurement and Assessment (PRISMA).
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Manfred Neun
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Manfred Neun is a German entrepreneur and a key figure in cycling advocacy. He is the former president of the European Cyclists' Federation and actively advocates for cycling and utility cycling in Europe and abroad.
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Lars Kobberstad
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- business executivecivil servant
- Biography
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Lars Egil De Lange Kobberstad is a Norwegian businessperson, known as the CEO of Widerøe.
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Małgorzata Peszyńska
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Małgorzata Peszyńska is a Polish and American applied mathematician specializing in the mathematical modeling and computational solution of flows through porous media and their geological applications, including the effects of global warming on methane locked in permafrost. She is a professor of mathematics at Oregon State University, on leave as program director for computational and data-enabled science and engineering and computational mathematics at the National Science Foundation.
