100 Notable alumni of
University of Munster
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The University of Munster is 303rd in the world, 105th in Europe, and 18th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Munster 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 Munster won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Ursula von der Leyen
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- equestrianphysicianpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German physician and politician serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding successive positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as minister of defence. Von der Leyen is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its EU affiliated group, the European People's Party (EPP).
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Ulrike Meinhof
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- journalistwritersociologist
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Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author of The Urban Guerilla Concept (1971). The manifesto acknowledges the RAF's "roots in the history of the student movement"; condemns "reformism" as "a brake on the anti-capitalist struggle"; and invokes Mao Zedong to define "armed struggle" as "the highest form of Marxism-Leninism".
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Judith Rakers
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied in 1995-2001
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- news presenterradio personalitynon-fiction writertelevision presentervoice actor
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Judith Deborah Rakers is a German journalist and television presenter.
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Thomas de Maizière
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- politicianuniversity teacherministerinternational forum participantjurist
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Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence from 2011 to 2013. He previously served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the First Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Bundestag for Meißen.
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Boris Pistorius
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- lawyermerchantjuristpolitician
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Boris Pistorius is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as the Federal Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 19 January 2023.
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Katarina Barley
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- juristpoliticianjudgeJusticiar
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Katarina Barley is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel. Prior to that, she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and, from 28 September 2017, as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, both until 14 March 2018.
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Selma Ergeç
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- actorfilm actormodel
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Selma Sabina Ergeç is a Turkish-German actress, beauty pageant titleholder, model, designer, philologist, psychologist and doctor. She is known for her performance in Kırımlı, Asi, Vatanım Sensin, Yaşamayanlar, Yarım Elma, Gönül İşleri and Muhteşem Yüzyıl as the sister of Sultan Süleyman; Hatice Sultan.
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Gilmar Mendes
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- university teacherlawyerjuristpoliticianjudge
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Gilmar Ferreira Mendes is a Brazilian Justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Brazilian Supreme Federal Court), appointed by then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2002. Mendes was the Chief Justice of the Court for the 2008–2010 term. Earlier, he had been the Attorney General from 2000 to 2002.
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Oliver Welke
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- voice actorscreenwritercomediantelevision presenter
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Oliver Welke is a German television presenter, journalist, satirist, comedian and voice actor.
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Paul Ziemiak
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- politician
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Paul Ziemiak is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 federal election. In addition to his parliamentary work, he has been serving as the Secretary General of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2022, under the leadership of chairman Hendrik Wüst.
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Alena Buyx
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- university teacherethicist
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Alena Michaela Buyx is a German medical ethicist. She has been Chair of the German Ethics Council since 2020.
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Karl Weierstraß
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- 1838-1840 studied mathematics and physics
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- physicistmathematicianuniversity teacherteacher
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Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics and trained as a school teacher, eventually teaching mathematics, physics, botany and gymnastics. He later received an honorary doctorate and became professor of mathematics in Berlin.
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Marina Weisband
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- In 2013 studied psychology
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- politiciancolumnistpsychologistbloggernon-fiction writer
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Marina Weisband is a German politician. From May 2011 until April 2012 she was a member of the senior leadership of the Pirate Party Germany. In 2018 she joined the Green Party of Germany.
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Hendrik Wüst
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hendrik Josef Wüst is a German politician currently serving as Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the Christian democratic and liberal-conservative CDU. In October 2021, he succeeded Armin Laschet as state chairman of his party. Under Wüst's leadership, his party won the highest vote share in the 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia state election.
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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
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- university teacherCatholic priestwriterCatholic bishopCatholic theologian
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Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst is a German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian. He was a vicar and an auxiliary bishop in Münster before becoming the Bishop of Limburg in January 2008. Pope Francis removed him from the exercise of his episcopal office on 23 October 2013 and on 26 March 2014 accepted his resignation as Bishop of Limburg, following a long-standing public dispute about the costs and financing of a diocesan construction project.
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Thomas Middelhoff
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- international forum participantbusinessperson
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Thomas Middelhoff is a German corporate manager. From 1994 to 1998, he was a member of the Executive Board of Bertelsmann AG, until he then served as CEO of the Bertelsmann media group from November 1998 to July 2002. In 2002, he was Head of Corporate Investments in Europe for Investcorp International Ltd until May 2005. From May 2005 to February 2009, Middelhoff then took over as Chairman of the Board of Management of the retail group Arcandor (previously KarstadtQuelle). After Arcandor, Thomas Middelhoff founded the investment company BLM (Berger Lahnstein Middelhoff & Partners LLP) in London with Roland Berger and Florian Lahnstein. The spin-off Pulse Capital Partners LLC emerged from this company.
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Miriam Meckel
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied in 1986-1993
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- university teacherwriterinternational forum participanteditor-at-largejournalist
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Miriam Meckel is a German journalist and professor for Corporate Communication, editor and publisher of the German magazine Wirtschaftswoche and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Franz Brentano
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- university teacherpsychologistphilosopher
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Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano was a German philosopher and psychologist. His 1874 Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, considered his magnum opus, is credited with having reintroduced the medieval scholastic concept of intentionality into contemporary philosophy.
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Rita Süssmuth
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- politicianuniversity teacherpsychologistsociologist
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Rita Süssmuth is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as the tenth president of the Bundestag.
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Kai Diekmann
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- journalistwriterinternational forum participant
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Kai Diekmann is a German business man and former journalist. From 1998 until 2000 he was editor of Welt am Sonntag (English: World on Sunday). From January 2001 to December 2015 he was chief editor of Bild. He is also a member of the executive board of the Turkish daily Hürriyet.
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Kim Jong-in
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- politicianprofessoreconomist
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Kim Chong-in is a South Korean economist and politician. He was the interim chairman of the Minjoo Party of Korea from January to August 2016 and a member-elect of the National Assembly on the party's proportional list since the April 2016 parliamentary election. He was previously a member of the Assembly from 1981 to 1988, 1992 to 1994, and 2004 to 2008, each time elected by party list. He served as Minister of Health and Social Affairs under President Roh Tae-woo from 1989 to 1990. From May 2020 until April 2021, he was the leader of the main opposition People Power Party.
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René Obermann
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- 1986-1987 studied national economy
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- economistexecutive
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René Obermann is a German businessman who is co-head of Warburg Pincus International LLC's European operations, and chairman of Airbus SE since April 2020. He was previously (from November 2006 to December 2013) CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG.
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Oliver Kalkofe
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied science of journalism
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- television presenterscreenwriterradio personalityactorfilm producer
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Oliver Lars Fred Kalkofe is a German actor, comedian, satirist, writer and audiobook narrator.
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Hans-Werner Sinn
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- economistuniversity teacher
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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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Ulrike Guérot
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied political science
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- international forum participantuniversity teacherpolitical scientistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Ulrike Beate Guérot is a Berlin-based German political thinker and Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL). In April 2016, the University for Continuing Education Krems appointed Ulrike Guérot as Professor for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. She was the head of the Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. From 2021 until March 2023, she held the professorship for European Politics at the University of Bonn.
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Wolfgang Clement
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- politicianinternational forum participantjuristmanagerjournalist
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Wolfgang Clement was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the 7th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 May 1998 to 22 October 2002 and Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from 2002 to 2005. He was an Honorary Member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
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Peter Hyballa
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Peter Hyballa is a German professional football manager who most recently was the head coach of Eerste Divisie club NAC Breda. He also served as manager at clubs in Germany, Namibia, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark and Slovakia.
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Hermann Löns
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- journalistpoetwriterscreenwriter
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Hermann Löns was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Löns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs. He was also a hunter, naturalist and conservationist. Despite being well over the normal recruitment age, Löns enlisted and was killed in World War I and his purported remains were later used by the German government for celebratory purposes.
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Katja Suding
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- politician
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Katja Suding is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was a member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to 2021. She served as chairwoman of her party's parliamentary group in the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft from 2010 until 2017.
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Gerhard Domagk
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- pathologistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
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Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
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Josep Maria Terricabras i Nogueras
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- writerpoliticianuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Josep Maria Terricabras i Nogueras is a Catalan philosopher, professor and politician from Spain. He was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Republican Left of Catalonia in the 2014 European Parliament election.
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Reinhard Mohn
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- philanthropistentrepreneur
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Reinhard Mohn was a German billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Under his leadership, Bertelsmann, once a medium-sized printing and publishing house, established in 1835, developed into a global media conglomerate. In 1977, he founded the non-profit Bertelsmann Stiftung, which is today one of the largest foundations in Germany, with worldwide reach.
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Erwin Sellering
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- politician
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Erwin Sellering is a German politician. He served as the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2008 to 2017.
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Gerd Faltings
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- university teachermathematician
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Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry.
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Monika Grütters
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Monika Grütters is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien) in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013-2021. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 and was chairwoman of the Committee on Culture and Media Affairs from 2009 to 2013. Since December 2016, Grütters has also been the chairwoman of the CDU Berlin and an elected member of the CDU Federal Executive Board.
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Klaus Töpfer
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- economistinternational forum participantpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Klaus Töpfer is a German politician (CDU) and environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Klaus Hurrelmann
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- social scientistuniversity teacher
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Klaus Hurrelmann is professor of public health and education at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany.
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Burkhard Jung
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- politician
- Biography
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Burkhard Jung is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been the 21st lord mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Leipzig (Saxony) since March 29, 2006. In addition, he has been president of the Association of German Cities since 2019; he is the first representative of an East German city in that office.
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Wera Hobhouse
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- council memberpolitician
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Wera Benedicta Hobhouse is a British-German politician. A member of the Liberal Democrats, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath since 2017 and serves as the Liberal Democrat Shadow Leader of the House of Commons and the Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Change and Transport under Ed Davey.
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Heinrich August Winkler
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- 1938-.. (age 86)
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- historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
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Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian.
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Ramona Pop
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- politician
- Biography
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Ramona Pop is a Romanian-born German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens party who has been serving as chairwoman of the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV) since 2022. She previously served as a deputy mayor of Berlin and Senator for Economy, Energy, and Enterprises (Senatorin für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe) from 2016 until 2021.
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Daniel Bahr
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Daniel Bahr is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Federal Minister of Health from 2011 to 2013. His party failed to get a seat in Bundestag at the 2013 federal elections, and he started to work for Allianz insurance group. Due to his previous position as Minister of Health, his move to a private sector healthcare player has been heavily criticized by the public.
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Fritz Vahrenholt
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- politicianuniversity teacherauthorchemistmanager
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Fritz Vahrenholt is a German politician (SPD), industrialist, and climate change denier.
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Brigitte Hamann
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- journalisthistorianwriterbiographer
- Biography
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Brigitte Hamann was a German-Austrian author and historian based in Vienna.
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Juan Mayorga
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- university teacherscreenwriterplaywrightartistic directorphilosopher
- Biography
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Juan Antonio Mayorga Ruano is a Spanish dramatist. He is best known in English-speaking countries for his 2004 play Himmelweg (Way to Heaven), which was brought to the London stage in June 2017 as part of the Festival of Spanish Theatre in London (Festelón).
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Ruprecht Polenz
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- 1968-1973 studied jurisprudence
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- politician
- Biography
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Ruprecht Polenz is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party.
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Reiner Klimke
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- lawyerpoliticianevent riderdressage ridernon-fiction writer
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Reiner Klimke was a German equestrian, who won six gold and two bronze medals in dressage at the Summer Olympics — a record for equestrian events that has since been surpassed. He appeared in six Olympics from 1960 to 1988, excluding the 1980 Games that were boycotted by West Germany.
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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in law
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- juristuniversity teacherjudgepedagogue
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Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was a German legal scholar and a justice on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court. He was a professor at the University of Freiburg and the author of more than 20 books and 80 articles dealing with legal and constitutional theory, as well as political theory, political philosophy and Catholic political thought. Böckenförde was considered a member of the Ritter School.
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Katharina Nocun
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- economistcivil rights advocateopinion journalistnon-fiction writerblogger
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Katharina Nocun is a Polish-German politician and author who, from May 2013 to October 2016, has been the policy coordinator of the Pirate Party of Germany.
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Ingrid Matthäus-Maier
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied jurisprudence
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- judgecivil rights advocatepoliticianjuristbank manager
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Ingrid Matthäus-Maier is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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Annette Kurschus
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- theologian
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Annette Kurschus is a German Protestant theologian and pastor. She was Praeses (or in German Präses) of the Protestant Church of Westphalia from 2012 until 2023, in November 2015 she became Vice-President of the Council of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD – Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland). She was President of the Council of the EKD from 2021 until 2023.
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Thomas Bellut
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- 1975-1982 graduated with Doctor in study of history, science of journalism, and political science
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- television presenterjournalist
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Thomas Bellut is a German journalist. From 2012 to 2022, he was the director (German: Intendant) of the TV channel ZDF.
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Kamla Bhasin
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- women's rights activistwriterpoet
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Kamla Bhasin was an Indian developmental feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. Bhasin's work, that began in 1970, focused on gender education, human development and the media. She lived in New Delhi, India. She was best known for her work with Sangat - A Feminist Network and for her poem Kyunki main ladki hoon, mujhe padhna hai. In 1995, she recited a refurbished, feminist version of the popular poem Azadi (Freedom) in a conference. She was also the South Asia coordinator of One Billion Rising.
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Theodor Blank
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- politician
- Biography
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Theodor Anton Blank was a German politician of the CDU. He was one of the founders of the CDU in 1945.
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Andreas Pinkwart
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- university teacherbank tellerministereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who served as State Minister for Economic Affairs, Digitization, Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
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Rudolf Seiters
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Rudolf Seiters is a German politician of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party.
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Andreas Kemper
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- sociologist
- Biography
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Andreas Kemper is a German sociologist and author. He is an author about Classism and an analyst on anti-democratic tendencies in Germany, including those of the AfD.
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Walter Baade
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied in 1912-1913
- Occupations
- astronomerastrophysicist
- Biography
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Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.
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Peter Kohlgraf
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- university teacherChristian theologiantheologianCatholic priestpriest
- Biography
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Peter Kohlgraf is a German Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Mainz since 2017.
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Joxe Azurmendi
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- poetwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Joxe Azurmendi Otaegi is a Basque writer, philosopher, essayist and poet. He has published numerous articles and books on ethics, politics, the philosophy of language, technique, Basque literature and philosophy in general.
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Stephan Burger
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Stephan Burger is a German Roman Catholic clergyman. Since 2014 he has been Archbishop of Freiburg and Metropolitan Bishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Freiburg.
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Brigitte Mohn
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- political scientistinternational forum participantAgriculteur
- Biography
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Brigitte Mohn is a German businesswoman and a member of the Mohn family that has a significant influence on Bertelsmann group and the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Mohn is also chair of the German Stroke Foundation 's executive board.
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Friedrich Hirzebruch
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied in 1945-1950
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessor of mathematicsmathematician
- Biography
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Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as "the most important mathematician in Germany of the postwar period."
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Georg Milbradt
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Georg Milbradt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister-President of Saxony from 2002 to 2008.
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Josefine Paul
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- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Josefine Paul is a German politician who is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2010 and has been serving as North Rhine-Westphalia State Minister for Children, Youth, Family, Equality, Asylum and Integration in the Second Wüst cabinet since 2022.
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
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- theologianwomen's rights activistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is a Romanian-born German, Roman Catholic feminist theologian, who is currently the Krister Stendahl Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.
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Ulrich Deppendorf
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- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Ulrich Deppendorf is a German journalist and television presenter.
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Hans Tietmeyer
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- politiciantable tennis playereconomist
- Biography
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Hans Tietmeyer was a German economist and regarded as one of the foremost experts on international financial matters. He was president of Deutsche Bundesbank from 1993 until 1999 and remained afterwards one of the most important figures in finance of the European Union.
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Lujo Brentano
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- juristeconomistuniversity teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Lujo Brentano was an eminent German economist and social reformer.
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Peter Löw
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- university teacherjurist
- Biography
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Peter Werner Maria Löw is a German lawyer and entrepreneur.
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Snježana Kordić
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Graduated with habilitation in Slavic studies
- Occupations
- science writergrammarianuniversity teacherlinguistpedagogue
- Biography
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Snježana Kordić is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive language policy in Croatia. Her 2010 book on language and nationalism popularises the theory of pluricentric languages in the Balkans.
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Laurenz Meyer
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- politician
- Biography
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Laurenz Meyer is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union or CDU. From 2000 to 2004, he was general secretary of the CDU.
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Hermann Lübbe
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- university teacherwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Hermann Lübbe is a German philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School.
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Michael Espendiller
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- politician
- Biography
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Michael Espendiller is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.
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Nikolaus Schneider
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- theologianpastor
- Biography
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Nikolaus Schneider was from 9 November 2010 to 10 November 2014 president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
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Manuel Sacristán
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- writerlogicianuniversity teachertranslatorphilosopher
- Biography
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Manuel Sacristán Luzón was a Spanish philosopher and writer.
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Leo J. O'Donovan
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- In 1971 graduated with Doctor of Theology
- Occupations
- academic administratorCatholic priesttheologianteacher
- Biography
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Leo Jeremiah O'Donovan III is an American Catholic priest, Jesuit, and theologian who served as the president of Georgetown University from 1989 to 2001. Born in New York City, he graduated from Georgetown, and while studying in France, decided to enter the Society of Jesus. He went on to receive advanced degrees from Fordham University and Woodstock College, and received his doctorate in theology from the University of Münster, where he studied under Karl Rahner. Upon returning to the United States, he became a professor at Woodstock College and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, before becoming the president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and a senior administrator in the Jesuit Maryland Province.
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Ludger Stühlmeyer
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- composerconductorchoir directormusic directormusic historian
- Biography
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Ludger Stühlmeyer is a German cantor, organist, composer, docent and musicologist.
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Linda Stahl
- Occupations
- athletics competitorjavelin thrower
- Biography
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Linda Stahl is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw.
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Franz Kamphaus
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Franz Kamphaus is a German Catholic priest, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Limburg. He was bishop of the diocese from 1982 to 2007. He was the only German bishop to oppose Pope John Paul II in the matter of counseling pregnant women in conflict situations. Before being bishop, he taught pastoral theology and homiletics at the University of Münster; afterwards he became minister of a home for people with physical and mental disabilities in Aulhausen.
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Wilhelmine Lübke
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Wilhelmine Lübke was the wife of Heinrich Lübke. When he became President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, she represented the country internationally. She founded the Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe and was president of the Müttergenesungswerk. The Wilhelmine-Lübke-Preis is named after her.
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Wilhelm Killing
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry.
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Ortwin Runde
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- politician
- Biography
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Ortwin Runde is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the First Mayor (Erster Bürgermeister) of the Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg from 1997 to 2001.
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Julius von Ficker
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- historianuniversity teacherlegal historianmedievalist
- Biography
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Julius von Ficker, or Johann Kaspar Julius Ficker von Feldhaus was a Roman Catholic German historian. In 1898 he was awarded the Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts.
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Ahmad Milad Karimi
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- writertranslator
- Biography
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Ahmad Milad Karimi is an Afghan-born German philosopher of religion, scholar of Islam, translator of the Koran, and poet. Karimi is professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Münster.
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Hermann Volk
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- university teacherCatholic priestCatholic bishop
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Hermann Volk was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1962 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.
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Rainer Kraft
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- politician
- Biography
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Rainer Kraft is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.
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Andreas Dombret
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- university teacherbankereconomist
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Andreas Raymond Dombret is German-American banker who served as member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 2010 until 2018. In that capacity, he held responsibility for Banking and Financial Supervision, Risk Controlling and the Bundesbank's Representative Offices abroad.
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Burkhard Blienert
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied in 1988-1994
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- politician
- Biography
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Burkhard Blienert is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs at the Federal Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2022. From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the German Bundestag.
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Karl A. Lamers
- Enrolled in the University of Munster
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Karl A. Lamers is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Parliament from 1994 until 2021. From 2010 to 2012 he was the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
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Diana Sorbello
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- singer
- Biography
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Diana Sorbello is a German schlager singer.
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Wolfgang Kubin
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- writeruniversity teacherpoetsinologisttranslator
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Wolfgang Kubin is a German poet, essayist, sinologist and translator of literary works. He is the former director of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Kubin has frequently been a guest professor at universities in China, for instance at Beijing Foreign Studies University, but also in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Jerusalem. Since 1989, Kubin has been the editor of the journals ORIENTIERUNGEN: Zeitschrift zur Kultur Asiens and Minima sinica: Zeitschrift zum chinesischen Geist.
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Ewald Frie
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- historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
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Ewald Frie is a German historian and biographer at the University of Tübingen. His research interests include German history of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, European nobility, poverty and the welfare state, and Australian history.
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Lutz Hachmeister
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- historianwriteruniversity teachermedia historianjournalist
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Lutz Hachmeister is a German media historian, award-winning filmmaker and journalist. He particularly gained international attention for directing the 2005 film The Goebbels Experiment, co-produced by the BBC and the Canadian History channel, and featuring Kenneth Branagh as the narrator for the Goebbels Diaries. In 2006 Hachmeister established the Institute for Media and Communication Policy (IfM) in Berlin and Cologne, which is strongly tied to the Anglo-American media scene.
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Vello Salo
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- theologianhistoriantranslator
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Vello Salo was an Estonian Catholic cleric, essayist, translator. He was a notable promoter of Estonian literature in exile. By confession, he was a Catholic.
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Sascha Vogt
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- politician
- Biography
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Sascha Vogt is a German politician. From June 2010 until December 2013 he was chairperson of the Young Socialists in the SPD (also called "Jusos"), a division of the German Social Democratic Party.
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Heinrich Mussinghoff
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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Most Reverend Dr. Heinrich Mussinghoff was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Aachen, Germany, from 11 February 1995 until the acceptance of his resignation on 8 December 2015.
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Thomas Hoeren
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- judgeuniversity teacher
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Thomas Hoeren is a German law professor and a former Court of appeal judge with focus on Information and Media Law.
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Mustafa Edige Kirimal
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- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Mustafa Edige Kirimal was a Crimean-born Lipka-Tatar politician.
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Karl Steinhoff
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- politicianuniversity teacher
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Karl Steinhoff was a Minister-president (Ministerpräsident) of the German state (Land) of Brandenburg, then part of East Germany, and later served as East Germany's Minister of the Interior.
