28 Notable alumni of
University of Konstanz
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The University of Konstanz is 1180th in the world, 418th in Europe, and 48th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from the University of Konstanz sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ruja Ignatova
- Occupations
- con artistthief
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Ruja Plamenova Ignatova is a Bulgarian-born German entrepreneur best known as one of the FBI’s Top Ten wanted Fugitives, and as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times described as "one of the biggest scams in history." She was the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Ignatova boarded a Ryan Air flight to Athens on October 25, 2017, and has not been seen since.
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Zoran Đinđić
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- In 1979 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianwriterpedagogue
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Zoran Đinđić was a Serbian politician and philosopher who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the mayor of Belgrade in 1997. Đinđić was a long-time opposition politician and held a doctorate in philosophy.
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Petra Gerster
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- Studied Slavic studies
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenternews presenter
- Biography
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Petra Gerster [ˈpʰeːtʁaˈgɛᵊstɐ] is a German journalist and news presenter.
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Axel A. Weber
- Occupations
- bankeruniversity teachereconomist
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Axel Alfred Weber is a German economist, professor, and banker. He is currently a board member and chairman of Swiss investment bank and financial services company, UBS Group AG, and has announced his resignation effective 7 April 2022.
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Sugiono
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sugiono is an Indonesian politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position he assumed in 2024 under President Prabowo Subianto's administration. Prior to his appointment as foreign minister, Sugiono held the role of Deputy Chairman of the First Commission of the House of Representatives from 2019 to 2024, where he was responsible for overseeing defense, foreign affairs, and communications.
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Guido Wolf
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- Studied in 1981-1988
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianmayorlandratjurist
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Guido Wolf is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Since 2006 he is an MP of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. In 2015 he was elected faction leader of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and leading candidate for the 2016 Baden-Württemberg state elections. On 15 March 2016 he was re-elected as parliamentary group leader. Wolf also was county councillor (Landrat) from 2003 to 2011 in the district of Tuttlingen. From 2011 to 2015 he was president of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. Since May 2016, Wolf is Minister of Justice and European Affairs in Baden-Württemberg in the Cabinet Kretschmann II.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
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- academicuniversity teacherwriterromanistliterary historian
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Hans Ulrich "Sepp" Gumbrecht is a German-born American literary theorist whose work spans philology, philosophy, semiotics, literary and cultural history, and epistemologies of the everyday. As of June 14, 2018, he is Albert Guérard Professor Emeritus in Literature at Stanford University. Since 1989, he held the Albert Guérard Chair as Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian in Stanford's Division of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures. By courtesy, he was also affiliated with the Departments of German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. Since retirement, he continues to be a Catedratico Visitante Permanente at the University of Lisbon and became a Presidential Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020.
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Dominic Fritz
- Occupations
- conductorpolitician
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Dominic Samuel Fritz is a German-born politician who has been serving as the mayor of Timișoara since 2020, winning reelection in 2024. A member of the Save Romania Union, he is the only mayor in Romania without Romanian citizenship.
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Asha-Rose Migiro
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyerdiplomat
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Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who was the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2012. She was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa on 13 July 2012.
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Stefan Rahmstorf
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- Studied physics
- Occupations
- professorclimatologistclimate activistuniversity teacherphysicist
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Stefan Rahmstorf is a German oceanographer and climatologist. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University. He studied physical oceanography at Bangor University and received his Ph.D. in oceanography from Victoria University of Wellington (1990). His work focuses on the role of ocean currents in climate change. He was one of the lead authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
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Andreas Jung
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- 1994-2000 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
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Andreas Jung is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005.
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Tanja Börzel
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientist
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Tanja A. Börzel is a German political scientist. Her research and teaching focus on the fields of European Integration, Governance, and Diffusion. She is professor of Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science of Freie Universität Berlin, director of the Center for European Integration, and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration from 2006 until 2009. Currently, she is department chair of the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science.
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Alf Lüdtke
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- university teacherhistorian of Modern Agesocial historian
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Alf Lüdtke was a historian and a leading German representative of the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte in German). He said his main fields of interest and research include work as a social practice, the connection of production and destruction through "work", forms of taking part and acquiescing in European dictatorships in the 20th century, and remembering and memorialising forms of dealing with war and genocide in the modern era.
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Birgit Homburger
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Birgit Homburger is a former German politician from the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
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Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
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- university teacherphilosopher
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Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer is a German philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the university of Leipzig. He was the president of the international Ludwig Wittgenstein society (2006-2009) and is now a vice-president of this institution.
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Andrea Kaufmann
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- 1989-1994 graduated with economist in general economics
- Occupations
- politician
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Andrea Kaufmann is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) from Vorarlberg. She was, from 2009 to 2013, a regional member of the Vorarlberg state government and is currently mayor of Dornbirn.
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Noémi Kiss
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Noémi Kiss is a Hungarian writer, whose works have been translated into English, German, Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian. The German press considered Kiss as one of the most promising writers of her generation.
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Bernhard Mann
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- university teacherpoliticianwritersociologist
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Bernhard Mann is a social scientist and Master of Public Health, professor of social pedagogy, management and coaching at the iba Koeln – University of Cooperative Education, professor emeritus of health and social management at the FHM Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences, former professor of health management and vice-president at the University of Applied Sciences Bamberg, adjunct professor of public health, social medicine and sociology at the University of Bonn, University of Koblenz-Landau, at the Berlin School of Public Health – Charité, Medical University, at several universities of educational cooperation as well as of applied sciences like in Bochum, Düsseldorf, Essen, Koeln and Wuppertal. He is public-health-coordinator of the German program at the IESS – Institut Européen des Sciences de la Santé Casablanca, Maroc.
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Christian Keysers
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- neurologistuniversity teacherneuroscientist
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Christian Keysers is a French and German neuroscientist.
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Franz Baumann
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Franz Baumann is a German former United Nations official who, until the end of 2015, served as Assistant Secretary-General and United Nations Special Adviser on Environment and Peace Operations at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. From 2017 to 2021, he was a visiting research professor at New York University (Graduate School of Arts and Science, Program in International Relations) and is now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
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Ralph Hertwig
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- psychologist
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Ralph Hertwig is a German psychologist whose work focuses on the psychology of human judgment and decision making. Hertwig is Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. He grew up with his brothers Steffen Hertwig and Michael Hertwig (parents Walter and Inge Hertwig) in Talheim, Heilbronn.
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Klaus Segbers
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- university teacherscientistpolitical scientist
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Klaus Segbers is a German political scientist and professor for International Relations and East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Global Politics at Freie Universität Berlin, which offers four distinct graduate study programs designed for professionals and young leaders. His research interests include theories of international relations, transformations in the former Soviet Union, international political economy, and globalization.
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William Hunt
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- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- genealogist
- Biography
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William George Hunt TD FCA served as Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London from 1999 to 2017.
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Christian Gabriel
- Occupations
- chess player
- Biography
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Christian Gabriel is a Romanian-German chess Grandmaster (GM) (1996), two-times European Team Chess Championships bronze medalist (1997, 1999).
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Georg Nagel
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- university teacherbiophysicistbotanist
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Georg Nagel is a biophysicist and professor at the Department for Neurophysiology at the University of Würzburg in Germany. His research is focused on microbial photoreceptors and the development of optogenetic tools.
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Herwig Baier
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologist
- Biography
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Herwig Baier is a German-American neuroscientist and biologist. He is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence and head of the department Genes – Circuits – Behavior. Herwig Baier's research aims to understand how animal brains convert sensory inputs into behavioral responses and how evolution has shaped neuronal circuits.
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Frauke Kreuter
- Enrolled in the University of Konstanz
- 1997-2001 graduated with Doctor of Social Science
- Occupations
- university teachereconomiststatisticiansociologist
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Frauke Kreuter is a German sociologist and statistician. She is a professor of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology of the University of Maryland, College Park and a professor in statistics and data science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Her research in survey methodology includes work on sampling error and observational error.
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Tilman Schirmer
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Tilman Schirmer is a structural biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.
