55 Notable alumni of
University of Hagen
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The University of Hagen is 911th in the world, 325th in Europe, and 39th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from the University of Hagen sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Oliver Kahn
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Oliver Rolf Kahn is a German football executive and former professional player who played as a goalkeeper. He started his career in the Karlsruher SC Junior team in 1975. Twelve years later, Kahn made his debut match in the professional squad. In 1994, he was transferred to Bayern Munich for the fee of DM 4.6 million, where he played until the end of his career in 2008. His commanding presence in goal and aggressive style earned him nicknames such as Der Titan ([deːɐ̯ tiˈtaːn], "The Titan") from the press and Vul-kahn ("volcano") from fans.
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Jens Spahn
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- 2003-2017 graduated with Master of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- political scientistpoliticianbank teller
- Biography
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Jens Georg Spahn is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the Bundestag (German: Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, MdB), for Steinfurt I – Borken I since 2002. Since 2025, he has been leading the joint CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group in the 21st Bundestag, making him the majority leader. He served as Federal Minister of Health in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021, including during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
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Kevin Kühnert
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- local politicianlobbyiststudentpolitician
- Biography
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Kevin Kühnert is a German politician of Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as member of the Bundestag from 2021 to 2025, representing Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg. He was General Secretary of the SPD from December 2021 to October 2024. From November 2017 to January 2021, Kühnert was the federal chairman of the Jusos (the youth organization of the SPD), previously serving as deputy chairman.
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Guido Westerwelle
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- In 1994 graduated with Doctor of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013.
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Oliver Bierhoff
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Oliver Bierhoff is a German association football official and former player who played as a striker. He has previously served as the technical director of the Germany national team. A tall, strong and prolific goalscorer, Bierhoff was mostly renowned for his excellent abilities in the air, and as a target man, being able to deliver pin-point headers towards goal.
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Christoph Metzelder
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Christoph Tobias Metzelder is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
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Andrea Petkovic
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Andrea Petkovic is a German former professional tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she played in the quarterfinals of three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships.
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Bernd Lucke
- Occupations
- economistphilosopheruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Bernd Lucke is a German economist, professor, author and former politician. He co-founded the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2013 and served as the party's federal chairman until July 2015, when he was displaced and left the party soon after. He had been elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the AfD in 2014 and served the five-year full term as a member of various other new parties, similar to some other former AfD MEPs.
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Malaika Mihambo
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- In 2019 studied environmental science
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Malaika Mihambo is a German athlete, 2020 Olympic champion and 2022 world champion in long jump. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Mihambo added a silver medal in the long jump.
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Laura Siegemund
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Laura Natalie Siegemund is a German professional tennis player.
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Lavinia Wilson
- Occupations
- actorvoice actorfilm director
- Biography
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Lavinia Wilson is a German actress. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1992.
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Hubertus Heil
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- In 2006 studied political science
- Occupations
- political scientistsociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Wolfgang-Hubertus Ernst Ulrich Heil is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the fourth cabinet of Angela Merkel and the cabinet of Olaf Scholz from 2018 to 2025.
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Lars Ricken
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Lars Ricken is a German retired footballer and the current managing director of Borussia Dortmund. From 2008 to 2024, he was the youth coordinator at Dortmund.
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Anja Karliczek
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- Graduated with Diploma of Business Administration in business administration
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Anja Maria-Antonia Karliczek is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Education and Research in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet from 2018 to 2021.
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Frank Busemann
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Frank Busemann is a former German decathlete. He currently works as a pundit for athletics coverage by German TV channel Das Erste.
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Matthias Maurer
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- materials scientistscientistastronaut
- Biography
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Matthias Josef Maurer is a German ESA astronaut and materials scientist, who was selected in 2015 to take part in space training.
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Katja Seizinger
- Occupations
- alpine skier
- Biography
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Katja Seizinger is a German former World Cup alpine ski racing champion. She is her country's most successful alpine skier.
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Monika Hohlmeier
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- In 2008 studied general economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Monika Hohlmeier is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. She is a member of the Christian Social Union, part of the European People's Party. Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich
- Occupations
- economistjuristdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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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 from 1998 to 2025. 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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Daniel Schwaab
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Daniel Schwaab is a German former professional footballer who played for SC Freiburg, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, VfB Stuttgart and PSV Eindhoven, mainly as a centre-back. He represented Germany at U18, U19, and U21 levels, winning the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
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Ulla Schmidt
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Ursula "Ulla" Schmidt is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). From 2001 to 2009 she was Federal Minister of Health in the German Government. Between 2013 and 2017, she served as Vice-President of the German Bundestag.
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Armin Schuster
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Armin Schuster is a German politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Schuster has been serving as State Minister of Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Michael Kretschmer since 2022.
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Viola von Cramon-Taubadel
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, often officially referred as simply Viola von Cramon, is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 2009 to 2013.
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Anna Lührmann
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Anna Lührmann is a German political scientist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 German federal election.
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Magnus Brunner
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- 2004-2005 studied business administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Magnus Brunner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration since December 2024. Previously, he served as Austria's finance minister from 2021 until 2024 in the government of Chancellor Karl Nehammer.
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Sepp Hochreiter
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcherbioinformatician
- Biography
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Josef "Sepp" Hochreiter is a German computer scientist. Since 2018 he has led the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz after having led the Institute of Bioinformatics from 2006 to 2018. In 2017 he became the head of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) AI Lab. Hochreiter is also a founding director of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI). Previously, he was at Technische Universität Berlin, at University of Colorado Boulder, and at the Technical University of Munich. He is a chair of the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) conference.
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Patrick Sensburg
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- Graduated with doctorate in law
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerjuristpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Patrick Ernst Hermann Sensburg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne. He served as a member of the German Parliament from 2009 until 2021, representing the Hochsauerlandkreis constituency in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Betty Heidler
- Years
- 1983-.. (age 43)
- Occupations
- hammer throwerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Betty Heidler is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw. She held the world record from 2011 until 2014 with her personal best throw of 79.42 m (260 ft 6 in). She is the 2012 Olympic silver medallist, the 2007 World champion and the 2009 and 2011 World Championship silver medallist. She also finished fourth in the Olympic finals in 2004 and 2016.
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Stefan Wessels
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Stefan Wessels is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Torsten Jansen
- Occupations
- handball player
- Biography
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Torsten "Toto" Jansen is a former German handballer, who spent the majority of his career playing for HSV Hamburg in the Bundesliga. He was also a regular member of the German national team. He was known as a good defensive player. In March 2017 he took over as head coach of the Handball Sport Verein Hamburg.
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Bodo Hombach
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bodo Hombach is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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Danny Ecker
- Occupations
- pole vaulterathletics competitor
- Biography
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Daniel Ecker is a former German athlete competing in the pole vault.
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Axel Teichmann
- Occupations
- cross-country skiing coachcross-country skier
- Biography
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Axel Teichmann is a German cross-country skiing coach and former skier.
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René Wilke
- Occupations
- mediatorpolitician
- Biography
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René Wilke is a German politician (SPD), minister of interior of the state of Brandenburg, and a former member of Brandenburg's regional parliament. 2014 he became a directly elected Member of parliament for his native Frankfurt (Oder). On 18 March 2018 he was elected Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Frankfurt (Oder). With his inauguration on 6 May 2018, Wilke became the youngest mayor in the history of Frankfurt (Oder) and the mayor of the biggest city from his party.
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Niema Movassat
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- 2014-2016 graduated with Master of Laws
- 2018-2023 graduated with Doctor of Laws
- Occupations
- jurist
- Biography
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Niema Movassat is a German politician from The Left. He served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2021.
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Eveline Lemke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eveline Lemke is former German politician and member of the Alliance 90/The Greens. From 18 May 2011 until 18 May 2016, she was vice minister president of Rhineland-Palatinate and Minister for Economics, Climate Protection, Energy and Regional Planning. On 27 March 2011, she was elected into the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate. She was the leading candidate for her party in the 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state elections along with The Greens faction leader in the Landtag, Daniel Köbler, after having been leader of the party since 2006. As vice minister Lemke represented the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the German Bundesrat. As author and speaker in green technological issues and Circular Economy, she founded Thinking Circular in 2017. This thinktank is listed in the Sustainable Development Goals Help Desk, a platform by the United Nations since July 2018. She is also working as consultant together with Prof. Michael Braungart, chemist and inventor of the design philosophy Cradle-to-Cradle, Martin Lees (Club of Rome) and David Wortmann (DWR-Eco-Innovation-Alliance).
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Shervin Haghsheno
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- Studied in 2000-2004
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Shervin Haghsheno is a German civil engineer, economist and politician from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). He is a university professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads the Institute for Technology and Management in Construction as Managing Director. Since January 2024 he has been deputy chairman of the party Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht - Reason and Justice.
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Rasmus Andresen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rasmus Andresen is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Franz Schiemer
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Franz "Franky" Schiemer is an Austrian football coach and former player. He played as a defender and was most recently assistant head coach of Leeds United.
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Peter Beyer
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Peter Beyer is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009.
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Christian Carius
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christian Carius is a German lobbyist and former politician.
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Malte Spitz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Malte Spitz is a German Green Party politician and Executive Committee member. He works on media and privacy issues.
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Kerstin Kaiser
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Kerstin Kaiser is a German politician for the left wing party The Left.
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Nadja Hirsch
- Occupations
- psychologistpolitician
- Biography
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Nadja Yvonne Hirsch is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, from 2009 until 2014 and from 2017 until 2019.
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Anne Schäfer
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Anne Schäfer is a German tennis player.
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Thomas Luther
- Occupations
- chess playerauthor
- Biography
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Thomas Luther is a German chess player and International Grandmaster of chess. In 2000 he was a member of the German team that won the silver medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
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Christian Petry
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- Studied in 1988-1992
- Occupations
- Diplom-Verwaltungswirtpolitician
- Biography
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Christian Petry is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been a Member of the German Bundestag since January 2014, representing constituency 298, St Wendel.
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Marcel Emmerich
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- In 2017 studied science of public administration and political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marcel Emmerich is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has served as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.
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Carsten Schatz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carsten Schatz is a historian and a member of the Left Party in Germany.
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Jan Peters
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- Graduated with Diplom in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jan Peters is a German computer scientist. He is Professor of Intelligent Autonomous Systems at Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
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Karsten Kobs
- Occupations
- hammer throwerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Karsten Kobs is a German hammer thrower, whose personal best throw is 82.78 metres, achieved in June 1999 in Dortmund. This ranks him third among German hammer throwers, only behind Ralf Haber and Heinz Weis.
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Nicolas Zimmer
- Enrolled in the University of Hagen
- 2009-2011 studied computer science
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Nicolas Zimmer is a German entrepreneur, lawyer and former CDU politician. He is the current head of the Berlin-based research institute Technologiestiftung Berlin. He was a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 1998 to 2011 and concurrently the Secretary of State for the Economy, Technology and Research.
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Sonja Kesselschläger
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Sonja Kesselschläger is a German heptathlete.
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Renée Wagener
- Occupations
- social scientistsociologistuniversity teacherpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Renée Wagener is a Luxembourgish journalist, sociologist, historian, and former politician. She served for 10 years in the Chamber of Deputies as a member of The Greens.
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Roland Riese
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Roland Riese is a German politician that belongs to the Free Democratic Party.
