100 Notable alumni of
University of Cologne
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The University of Cologne is 213th in the world, 75th in Europe, and 13th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Cologne sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Cologne won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Lena Meyer-Landrut
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- recording artistmusiciansingervoice actorcomposer
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Lena Johanna Therese Meyer-Landrut, also known by the mononym Lena, is a German singer. She rose to fame after representing Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo, winning the event with the song "Satellite". Both "Satellite" and her debut album My Cassette Player (2010) debuted at number one in Germany and became platinum sellers. With her three entries from the German national final Unser Star für Oslo, Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German Singles Chart. She represented Germany for the second consecutive time in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with the song "Taken by a Stranger", finishing in tenth place.
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Stefan Raab
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied legal science
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- musicianentertainertelevision presentercomedianentrepreneur
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Stefan Konrad Raab is a German entertainer, television host, television producer, and businessman. From 1999 to 2015, he hosted the late-night comedy talk show TV total on ProSieben. He also created a number of other television shows on the channel, such as Schlag den Raab and Bundesvision Song Contest.
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Anke Engelke
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied pedagogy, English studies, and Romance studies
- Occupations
- dub actorprogram hostdirectoractorentertainer
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Anke Christina Fischer is a German comedian, actress, voice actress and television presenter.
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Uwe Boll
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker. He came to prominence during the 2000s for his adaptations of video game franchises. Released theatrically, the films were critical and commercial failures; his 2005 Alone in the Dark adaptation is considered one of the worst films ever made. Boll's subsequent projects, released during the 2010s, were mostly released direct-to-video. After retiring in 2016 to become a restaurateur, Boll returned to filmmaking in 2022. His films are financed through his production companies Boll KG and Event Film Productions.
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Heinrich Böll
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- screenwriterpublic figurelyricistwritertranslator
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Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
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Richard David Precht
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- university teacherphilosopherwriterjournalistpundit
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Richard David Precht is a German philosopher and author of successful popular science books about philosophical issues. He hosts the TV show "Precht" on ZDF.
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Mark Benecke
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- entomologistpoliticianactorwriterbiologist
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Mark Benecke is a German forensic biologist.
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Jörg Meuthen
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Jörg Hubert Meuthen is a German economist, academic and Independent politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany from 2017 until 2024.
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Marietta Slomka
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1988-1995 studied international relations and general economics
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- economistfilm directornews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Marietta Slomka is a German journalist who has been the anchor of TV news show heute-journal since 2001.
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Hans-Georg Maaßen
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied legal science
- Occupations
- juristuniversity teacher
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Hans-Georg Maaßen is a German civil servant and lawyer. From 1 August 2012 to 8 November 2018, he served as the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic security agency and one of three agencies in the German Intelligence Community. Maaßen is one of the founders and, since January 2023 also president, of the Values Union, a German registered association, converted in 2024 to a political party, that consists mostly of more conservative members of the Christian Democratic Union.
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Nicholas of Cusa
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied in 1426
- Occupations
- writerjuristscribeCatholic bishopphilosopher
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Nicholas of Cusa, also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, he made spiritual and political contributions to European culture. A notable example of this is his mystical or spiritual writings on "learned ignorance," as well as his participation in power struggles between Rome and the German states of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Anne Will
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied in 1985-1990
- Occupations
- presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Anne Will is a German television journalist and host of the eponymous political talk show. She was anchorwoman of the daily Tagesthemen news broadcast on ARD from 14 April 2001 until 24 June 2007.
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Jan Hofer
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- presenternews presenterjournalisttelevision presenter
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Jan Hofer is a German broadcast newsreader and television presenter. He was a well-known and popular reader of the news programme Tagesschau on Das Erste. Hofer was the chief reader on Tagesschau from 2004 until December 2020, having been a newsreader on that programme since 1985. Since leaving Tagesschau, he has been lead anchorman for RTL Direkt.
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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- writerjuristphysicianphilosophermercenary
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism. His book was widely influential among esotericists of the early modern period, and was condemned as heretical by the inquisitor of Cologne.
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Mesut Yılmaz
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- diplomatpolitician
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Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi, ANAP) from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two prime-ministerial terms lasted just months (in 1991 and 1996), while the third ran from June 1997 to January 1999. The first was brought to an end by defeat in the 1991 elections, the latter two by the breakdown of Yılmaz' coalition governments.
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Henryk Broder
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied statistics, sociology, general economics, and legal science
- Occupations
- screenwriterjournalistessayist
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Henryk Marcin Broder, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder, is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and television personality. He was born into a Jewish family in Katowice, Poland.
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Dagmar Rosenfeld
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- journalist
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Dagmar Rosenfeld is a German journalist. She has been deputy editor-in-chief of Die Welt since 2016.
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Melika Foroutan
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1995-1998 studied study of history and English studies
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- actorfilm actor
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Melika Foroutan is a German-Iranian actress.
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Guido Cantz
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1991-1994 studied business administration
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- television presenteroratorcomedian
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Guido Cantz is a German television presenter.
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Gabriele Renate Homey
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- juristphilanthropist
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Inaara Aga Khan, formerly Begum Inaara Aga Khan, also previously known as Princess Inaara Aga Khan, is a German philanthropist who was the second wife of the Aga Khan IV, the 49th Imam of the Nizari branch of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims; from May 1998 to March 2014, she held the title Begum Aga Khan.
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Anna Seghers
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- writernovelistresistance fighter
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Anna Seghers, is the pseudonym of German writer Anna Reiling, who was notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
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Max Otte
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied in 1983-1989
- Occupations
- fund managerauthoreconomistentrepreneuruniversity teacher
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Matthias "Max" Otte is an economist, publicist and political activist who holds German and U.S. citizenship. Otte, who has held professorships in Worms, Graz and Erfurt, is currently a fund manager. He has written several bestsellers, mainly on financial policy topics.
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Henriette Reker
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Henriette Reker is a German lawyer and independent politician. She is known for her pro-immigration stance and for being the victim of an assassination attempt in 2015. A day after the attack, Reker was elected mayor of Cologne after gaining 52.66% of the votes. She is the first female mayor elected in Cologne's history. Reker was re-elected in 2020.
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Karl Carstens
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- law clerkpoliticianjuristdiplomat
- Biography
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Karl Carstens was a German politician. He served as the president of West Germany from 1979 to 1984.
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Sandra Navidi
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- authorjuristlawyerchief executive officer
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Sandra Navidi is a German attorney, bestselling author, consultant, media contributor and public speaker. She is the founder and chief executive officer of BeyondGlobal, an international strategic consultancy.
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Marco Buschmann
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Marco Buschmann is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister of Justice in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet from 2021 to November 2024. He has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2013 and again since 2017.
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Herbert Reul
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1972-1979 studied social science and pedagogy
- Occupations
- politicianStudienrat
- Biography
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Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of successive Ministers-President Armin Laschet (2017–2021) and Hendrik Wüst (since 2021). He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
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Norbert Walter-Borjans
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- politician
- Biography
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Norbert Walter-Borjans is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as co-leader of the SPD (alongside Saskia Esken) from 2019 to 2021. He served as State Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 until 2017.
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Tina Hassel
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- journalisttelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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Tina Hassel is a German broadcast journalist. Since July 2015 she has been director of the capital studio of ARD, the German public broadcasting association.
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Klaus Kinkel
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- lawyerpolitician
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Klaus Kinkel was a German statesman, civil servant, diplomat and lawyer who served as the minister of Foreign affairs (1992–1998) and the vice chancellor of Germany (1993–1998) in the government of Helmut Kohl.
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Ulla Kock am Brink
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1981-1984 studied social science and German studies
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Ursula Eva Maria Kock am Brink is a German television presenter.
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Otto Graf Lambsdorff
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff, known as Otto Graf Lambsdorff, was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was the German Federal Minister of Economics from 1977 to 1984, when he resigned due to corruption allegations.
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Karolos Papoulias
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Graduated with doctorate in jurisprudence
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- politicianlegal counselorjuristdiplomat
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Karolos Papoulias was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015.
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Michael Mronz
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- sporting director
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Michael Mronz is a German sports and events manager.
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Ronald Pofalla
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- pedagoguepoliticianjuristlawyer
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Ronald Pofalla is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery and a Federal Minister for Special Affairs from 2009 to 2013, in the second coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. From 2017 to 2022, he was the CEO of the infrastructure department of Deutsche Bahn.
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Rainer Barzel
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- ministerpoliticianjuristmilitary personnel
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Rainer Candidus Barzel was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the eighth president of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984.
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Peter Canisius
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- Catholic priestuniversity teachertheologian
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Peter Canisius SJ was a Dutch Jesuit priest known for his strong support for the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Switzerland and the British Isles. The restoration of the Catholic Church in Germany is largely attributed to the work there of the Jesuits, which Canisius led. He is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church.
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Bijan Djir-Sarai
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Graduated with Diploma of Business Administration in business administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bijan Djir-Sarai is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017 until his resignation in November 2024.
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Carlo Masala
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- university teacherpolitical scientist
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Carlo Masala is professor for International Politics at the Bundeswehr University Munich, lecturer at the University of Munich, as well as lecturer and member of the senate of Munich School of Political Science.
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Hermann Gröhe
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1980-1987 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianGerman Minister of Statejuristlawyer
- Biography
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Gottfried Hermann Gröhe is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Health in the third cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018.
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Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut
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- diplomat
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Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut is a German diplomat currently serving as the German ambassador to the Netherlands (Aug. 2024). He was the Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey. He was previously German Ambassador to France from 2015 to 2020. Before that, he served as the chief adviser for European affairs to the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
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Katharina Dröge
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 2004-2010 graduated with Diplom in general economics
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- politician
- Biography
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Katharina Dröge is a German economist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021, alongside Britta Haßelmann. She previously served as one of the group’s managers (Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin) from 2018 to 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013.
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Prince Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen
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- ruler
- Biography
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Albert Leopold Friedrich Christian Sylvester Anno Macarius, Prince of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen was the second son of Frederick Augustus III, the last reigning king of Saxony before the abolition of the monarchy in 1918. Upon his father's death in 1932, he became the head of the Royal House of Saxony. He was Captain à la suite in the Royal Bulgarian Infantry, and Grand Master of the Order of the Rue Crown, and also a Knight in the Order of the Black Eagle and Knight Grand Cross in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. As head of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin after 1932, he styled himself as Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen.
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Stefan Homburg
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Stefan Homburg is a German retired professor of economics. He was the director of the Institute of Public Finance at the University of Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany until his early retirement in 2021. Outside academia he is best known for his controversial statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Britta Heidemann
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- fencer
- Biography
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Britta Heidemann is a German épée fencer. In 2016, Heidemann became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Dorothee Sölle
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- Germanistpoetwriterdichteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle, known as Dorothee Sölle, was a German liberation theologian who coined the term "Christofascism". She was born in Cologne and died at a conference in Göppingen from cardiac arrest.
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Manuel Andrack
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- dramaturgejournalistauthor
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Manuel Claus Achim Andrack is a German journalist, television presenter, and author. He is best known as the sidekick of the Harald Schmidt Show.
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Sarah-Lee Heinrich
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- In 2020 studied social science
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- politician
- Biography
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Sarah-Lee Heinrich is a German non-party politician after leaving the German Green Party in September 2024. She was a federal speaker for the Grüne Jugend from October 2021 to October 2023.
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Ulrich Walter
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1974-1980 studied physics
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- astronautphysicisttelevision presenternon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ulrich Hans Walter is a German physicist, engineer and former DFVLR astronaut.
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Timotheus Höttges
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- chairman of the executive boardmanagerentrepreneurchief executive officer
- Biography
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Timotheus Höttges is a German businessman who has been serving as chief executive officer of Deutsche Telekom AG, the majority shareholder of T-Mobile US, since 2014.
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Jürgen Rüttgers
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Jürgen Rüttgers is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the 9th Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2010.
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Lev Kopelev
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- Esperantistliterary criticliterary historianmilitary personnelopinion journalist
- Biography
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Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev (Russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912 – 18 June 1997) was a Soviet author and dissident.
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Günter Verheugen
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- politicianjournalistuniversity teacher
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Günter Verheugen is a German politician who served as European Commissioner for Enlargement from 1999 to 2004, and then as European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry from 2004 to 2010. He was also one of five vice presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission (Barroso I). After his retirement, he is now honorary Professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
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Peter Grünberg
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- university teacherresearcherphysicistteacher
- Biography
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Peter Andreas Grünberg was a German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives.
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Oliver Bäte
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- business executivemanagerchief executive officer
- Biography
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Oliver Bäte is a German business executive who has been the CEO of Allianz since October 2014.
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Johann Eck
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- pundittheologiantranslatoruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johann Maier von Eck, often anglicized as John Eck, was a German Catholic theologian, scholastic, prelate, and opponent of Martin Luther.
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Hans Albert
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- In 1952 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
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- philosophersociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans Albert was a German philosopher. He was professor of social sciences at the University of Mannheim from 1963, and remained at the university until 1989. His fields of research were social sciences and general studies of methods. He was a critical rationalist, paying special attention to rational heuristics. Albert was a strong critic of the continental hermeneutic tradition coming from Heidegger and Gadamer.
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Hans-Ulrich Wehler
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- historian of Modern Agewriteropinion journalisthistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans-Ulrich Wehler was a German left-liberal historian known for his role in promoting social history through the "Bielefeld School", and for his critical studies of 19th-century Germany.
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Naika Foroutan
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- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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Naika Foroutan is a German social scientist.
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Freya von Moltke
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- resistance fighterwriterpeace activistjournalistjurist
- Biography
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Freya von Moltke was a German American lawyer and participant in the anti-Nazi opposition group, the Kreisau Circle, with her husband, Helmuth James von Moltke. During World War II, her husband acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany and became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler.
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Carmen Thomas
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- journalisttelevision presenterradio personality
- Biography
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Carmen Thomas is a German journalist, radio and television presenter, author and lecturer. On television, she was the first woman to present the ZDF's das aktuelle Sportstudio. She worked for public radio, running Hallo Ü-Wagen, a weekly travelling talk radio show for two decades. In 1990 Forbes named her one of the 100 most influential women in Germany.
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Clemens Fuest
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- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Clemens Fuest is a German economist who has been President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and director of the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich (LMU) since 2016.
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Erich Mende
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Erich Mende was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the leader of FDP from 1960 to 1968 and the vice chancellor of Germany from 1963 to 1966.
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Robert Hübner
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- chess playerathletewriterhistorianpapyrologist
- Biography
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Robert Hübner was a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Claudia Stamm
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- politician
- Biography
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Claudia Stamm is a German politician.
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Kurt Alder
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- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
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Turgut Özakman
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- screenwriterplaywrightlawyerdramaturge
- Biography
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Turgut Özakman was a Turkish lawyer, a civil servant, a dramaturge and a writer.
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Jesús Padilla Gálvez
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- translatoruniversity teachereditorwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Jesús Padilla Gálvez is a philosopher who worked primarily in philosophy of language, logic, and the history of sciences.
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Magnus Manske
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 2003-2006 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry
- Occupations
- bioinformaticiancomputer scientistWikimedianbiologistbiochemist
- Biography
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Heinrich Magnus Manske is a German biochemist who is a leading researcher on malaria. He is a senior staff scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and a software developer of one of the first versions of the MediaWiki software, which powers Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based websites.
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Thomas Rabe
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Thomas Rabe is a German business executive. He is currently the chairman of the German sportswear brand Adidas. In 2006, he was appointed to the Bertelsmann executive board, of which he has been chairman and chief executive officer since 2012. Under his leadership, the group has become more international, more digital and more diversified. In particular, he has advanced the business with music rights and the educational division. Additionally, Rabe was appointed chief executive officer of RTL Group in 2019.
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Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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- archaeologistanthropologistprehistorianuniversity teacherpaleoanthropologist
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Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (13 November 1902 – 10 July 1982) was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus. His discoveries and studies of hominid fossils in Java and his studies of other important fossils of south-eastern Asia firmly established his reputation as one of the leading figures of 20th-century paleo-anthropology.
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Emily Haber
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Emily Margarethe Haber is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018: from 2011 to 2013, at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2014 to 2018, at the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
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Johannes Althusius
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- philosopherpoliticianjuristwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johannes Althusius was a German–French jurist and Calvinist political philosopher.
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Johann von Staupitz
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- university teachertheologian
- Biography
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Johann von Staupitz OSA was a German Catholic priest and theologian, university preacher, and Vicar General of the Augustinian friars in Germany, who supervised Martin Luther during a critical period in his spiritual life. Martin Luther himself remarked, "If it had not been for Dr. Staupitz, I should have sunk in hell." Although he remained Catholic, died as a Benedictine monk and had repudiated the Reformation, he is commemorated on 8 November as a priest in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.
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Andreas Kaplan
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistmathematician
- Biography
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Andreas Marcus Kaplan is president of Kühne Logistics University. He is specialized in the areas of social media, viral marketing, and the digital world in general.
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Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- 1926-1928 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Nicolaas Johannes "Nico" Diederichs, DMS served as the third state president of South Africa from 1975 to 1978.
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Jerónimo Saavedra
- Occupations
- politiciantrade unionistacademiclawyer
- Biography
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Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo was a Spanish politician and academic. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice, from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993.
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Otto Piene
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied in 1953-1957
- Occupations
- sculptorpainterdraftsperson
- Biography
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Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts.
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Heino Falcke
- Occupations
- university teacherastrophysicistastronomerphysicist
- Biography
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Heino Falcke is a German professor of radio astronomy and astroparticle physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). His main field of study is black holes, and he is the originator of the concept of the 'black hole shadow'. In 2019, Falcke announced the first Event Horizon Telescope results at the EHT Press Conference in Brussels.
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Conrad Celtes
- Occupations
- philosopherwriterhistorianuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Conrad Celtes was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria). He led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi.
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Christoph Bernhard von Galen
- Enrolled in the University of Cologne
- Studied in 1624-1625
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Christoph Bernhard Freiherr von Galen was Prince-bishop of Münster. He was born into a noble Westphalian family.
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Hans Mayer
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- literary criticliterary historianjournalistpoet lawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans Mayer was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist.
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Jürgen Flimm
- Occupations
- film directoractortelevision actorscreenwriterdirector
- Biography
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Jürgen Flimm was a German theatre and opera director, theatre manager, and academic teacher. Flimm was first active in drama, and made the Thalia Theater in Hamburg one of the most successful German theatres when he managed it from 1985 to 2000. He was general manager of the Salzburg Festival and RuhrTriennale festivals, and intendant of the Berlin State Opera from 2010 to 2018. He directed internationally, including Beethoven's Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, the 2000 Ring cycle production at the Bayreuth Festival, and the 2002 world premiere of Friedrich Cerha's Der Riese vom Steinfeld at the Vienna State Opera.
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Werner Hoyer
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Werner Hoyer is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) between 2012 and 2023.
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Gustav Trolle
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- priestpolitician
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Gustav Eriksson Trolle was Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, in two sessions, during the turbulent Reformation events.
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Reinhold Ewald
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- astronautphysicist
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Reinhold Ewald is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.
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Ole Bischof
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- judoka
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Ole Bischof is a German judoka. He is trained by 1984 Olympic gold medalist Frank Wieneke.
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Kurt Bock
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- business executive
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Kurt Bock, is a German businessman who has been president of the German Chemical Industry Association since 2016, and was chief executive officer (CEO) of BASF, the world's largest chemical producer, from 2011 to 2018.
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Manfred Lahnstein
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- university teacherpoliticianwritereconomist
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Manfred Lahnstein is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 1982 he was German Federal Minister of Finance as well as Federal Minister of Economics and until 2004 worked for the media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
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Valentin Tomberg
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- martinistjuristmystic
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Valentin Tomberg was an Estonian-Russian Christian mystic, polyglot scholar and esotericist.
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Philippe Oddo
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- banker
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Philippe Oddo is a French financier and a managing partner of the ODDO BHF group.
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Stefan Andres
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- poetnovelistwriterautobiographerplaywright
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Stefan Paul Andres was a German novelist.
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Hermann Simon
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- writeruniversity teachereconomist
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Hermann Simon is a German author and businessperson. He is chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy. He is a strategy, marketing and pricing consultant. An ongoing online German-language survey voted him the second-most influential management thinker. Simon has authored numerous books and writes articles for international newspapers and business magazines. He is also known for coining the term Servicewüste.
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Joachim Starbatty
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Joachim Starbatty is a German professor of economics and politician.
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Ursula Krechel
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- writertranslatorplaywrightpoet
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Ursula Krechel is a German writer.
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Gert Mittring
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- mental calculator
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Gert Mittring is a German mental calculator. He was inspired by the late Wim Klein. He has competed in the MSO mental calculation event every year since 2004, failing to win the gold medal outright on only four occasions. He has held numerous world records for mental calculation, such as calculating the 89247th root of a 1000000 digit number. He has doctorates in statistics and mathematics education, and is a member of the Intelligence Research Committee of Intertel. Mittring is said to have been poor in math during his school years. He has written several books on mental calculation.
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Michaela Noll
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- lawyerpolitician
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Michaela Marion Noll is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 until 2021.
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Edward Conze
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- translatorwriter
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Edward Conze, born Eberhard Julius Dietrich Conze, was a scholar of Marxism and Buddhism, known primarily for his commentaries and translations of the Prajñāpāramitā literature.
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Caspar Schwenckfeld
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- philosopherProtestant reformerreformatormysticwriter
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Caspar Schwen(c)kfeld von Ossig (listen) (1489 or 1490 – 10 December 1561) was a German theologian, writer, physician, naturalist, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist. He was one of the earliest promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.
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Armin Falk
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- university teachereconomist
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Armin Falk is a German economist. He has held a chair at the University of Bonn since 2003.
