35 Notable alumni of
University of Mannheim
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The University of Mannheim is 1087th in the world, 385th in Europe, and 44th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the University of Mannheim sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Christine Lambrecht
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Christine Lambrecht is a German senior politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the German Federal Minister of Defence in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, from 2021 to 2023. In Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration, Lambrecht previously served as Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection (2019–2021), Minister for Family Affairs (2021) and as one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries at the Federal Ministry of Finance (2018– 2019). She previously held various roles within the SPD Parliamentary Group, including as a Deputy Leader (from 2011 to 2013) and from December 2013 to September 2017 as first parliamentary secretary of the SPD parliamentary group.
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Anne Spiegel
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- politician
- Biography
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Anne Spiegel is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021; she announced her resignation on 11 April and was dismissed by the President on 25 April 2022
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Malaika Mihambo
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- 2012-2016 studied political 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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Gitanas Nausėda
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- Studied in 1990-1992
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Gitanas Nausėda is a Lithuanian politician, economist, and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent president of Lithuania since 2019. Born in Klaipėda, Nausėda graduated from Vilnius University with an economics degree in 1987. He was director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 to 2000 and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas from 2008 to 2018.
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Hans-Werner Sinn
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- university teachereconomist
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Hans-Werner Sinn is a German economist who served as President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research from 1999 to 2016. He currently serves on the German economy ministry’s advisory council. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich.
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Franziska Brantner
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- politician
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Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. Since 2024, she has also been serving as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Felix Banaszak.
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Elisabeth Moreno
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- Studied in 2005-2007
- Occupations
- business executivepoliticiananciens cadres
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Élisabeth Moreno is a French-Cape Verdean businesswoman and politician who served as Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities at the Prime Minister's Office in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022.
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Hans-Peter Wild
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- business executiveattorney at lawrugby union executivepatron of the arts
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Hans-Peter Wild is a German-born Swiss businessman and lawyer. Wild is the owner and chairman of Capri-Sun a fruit juice manufacturer based in Zug, Switzerland. Until 2014, he was the majority shareholder in the company in Wild Flavors, one of the leading manufacturers of natural flavours for the food industry. Hans-Peter Wild lives in Zug and is one of the richest people in Switzerland.
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Clemens Fuest
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- Studied in 1991
- Occupations
- 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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Isabel Schnabel
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- In 1992 studied general economics
- Occupations
- university teachereconomist
- Biography
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Isabel Schnabel is a German economist who has been serving as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2020.
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Florian Gerster
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomistlobbyist
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Florian Gerster is a German politician and former government official.
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Christian von Stetten
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- entrepreneurpoliticianmerchant
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Christian Freiherr von Stetten is a Swiss-German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He has served as Member of the Parliament of Germany, the Bundestag, since 2002. He represents the constituency of Schwäbisch Hall-Hohenlohe, and succeeded his father Wolfgang von Stetten as the Member of Parliament from that constituency.
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Lena Lattwein
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- association football player
- Biography
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Lena Lattwein is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team.
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Olav Gutting
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- In 1990 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Olav Gutting is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002.
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Melanie Ohme
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- chess player
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Melanie Lubbe is a German chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2012).
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Christoph M. Schmidt
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- university teachereconomist
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Christoph Matthias Schmidt is a German economist. He has been President of RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen since 2002 and also holds the Chair for Economic Policy and Applied Econometrics at the Faculty of Management and Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2009 to 2020 and its chairman from 2013 to 2020. Since 2019 he has been a member, and since 2020 co-chairman, of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts. From 2011 to 2013, he was a member of the Enquete Commission "Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life" of the German Bundestag. From 2020 to 2021 he was a member of the "Corona-Expertenrat" (Corona Council of Experts) of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. He has been a member of acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften since 2011, a member of the presidium since 2014, and vice president since 2020. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2020), the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature (since 2015) and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2018).
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Philipp Sandner
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- economist
- Biography
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Philipp Sandner was a German economist and professor in the area of business and IT at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
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Peter Kurz
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- judgepoliticianjurist
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Peter Kurz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the Lord mayor of Mannheim, the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg from 4 August 2007 to 3 August 2023.
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Alexander Nuno Alvaro
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- lobbyistpoliticianlawyerconsultant
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Alexander Nuno Alvaro is a German politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. During his first mandate he worked in the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; he was a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of the delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.
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Norbert Schwarz
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- university teacherpsychologist
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Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center.
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Thomas Schäfer
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- business executivemanagerchief executive officer
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Thomas Schäfer is a German manager. Since July 2022, he has been chief executive officer (CEO) of Volkswagen Passenger Cars (VW) and a board member of the Volkswagen Group. Schäfer is responsible for all volume brands. This includes Škoda Auto, which he managed from 2020 to 2022. Before that, Schäfer worked for Daimler and Mercedes-Benz.
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Stefan Lippe
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- economistbusiness executive
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Stefan Lippe, was a German insurance manager. He was the CEO of Swiss Re from 2009 to 2012 when Michel M. Liès succeeded him as Swiss Re's Group Chief Executive Officer.
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Jürgen Walter
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- politician
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Jürgen Walter is a German lawyer and politician, and a former member of the Parliament of Hesse for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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Klaus F. Zimmermann
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- university teachereconomist
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Klaus Felix Zimmermann is a German economist and emeritus professor of economics at Bonn University. Additionally, he is an honorary professor at Maastricht University, the Free University of Berlin and the Renmin University of China as well as president of the Global Labor Organization. His research interests include population, labour, development and migration, with Zimmermann being among the leading economists on the topic of migration.
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Fritz Strack
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- psychologistuniversity teacherprofessor
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Fritz Strack is a German social psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Würzburg. Strack is a member of Germany's National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for psychology in 2019.
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Claus E. Heinrich
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- economist
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Claus E. Heinrich is a German manager, entrepreneur, who is an honorary professor for operations research at both Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Mannheim and served as board member of SAP between 1996 and 2009. Since 2009 he serves as honorary senator of the Heidelberg University.
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Eckart Viehweg
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician. He was a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Wolfgang Franz
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- university teachereconomist
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Wolfgang Franz is a German economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Franz also is the chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts since March 2009.
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Thilo Marauhn
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- lawyerprofessor
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Thilo Marauhn is a German expert on international law. He currently holds the professorship for Public Law and International Law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and heads the research group “International Law” at the Leibniz Institute Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung / Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Apart from this, he is a researcher at the Asser Institute and recently appointed as the Special Chair Arms Control Law at the University of Amsterdam.
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Jürgen Creutzmann
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- politician
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Jürgen Creutzmann is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014.
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Claudia Klüppelberg
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Claudia Klüppelberg is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich.
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Roland Scholz
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- university teachermathematicianprofessorpsychologist
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Roland Werner Scholz is a German mathematician, psychologist, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. He famously coined the terms transdisciplinarity and societal didactics.
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Karin Jöns
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- journalistpolitician
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Karin Jöns is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During her time in parliament she was part of the Socialist Group and was on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
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Frauke Kreuter
- Enrolled in the University of Mannheim
- 1990-1996 graduated with diploma in sociology
- 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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Martin Schlichenmaier
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Martin Schlichenmaier is a German - Luxembourgish mathematician whose research deals with algebraic, geometric and analytic mathematical methods which partly have relations to theoretical and mathematical physics.
