20 Notable alumni of
University of Potsdam
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The University of Potsdam is 1791st in the world, 609th in Europe, and 68th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from the University of Potsdam sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Svenja Jung
- Enrolled in the University of Potsdam
- Studied media studies
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Svenja Jung is a German actress.
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Pegah Ferydoni
- Occupations
- television presenterfilm actorstage actortelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Pegah Ferydoni is an Iranian-born German actress and singer. Ferydoni left Iran with her family when she was two years old, during the Iran–Iraq war. She started her career as a singer when she was age 16 but gave up singing in favour of acting.
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Katherina Reiche
- Enrolled in the University of Potsdam
- Studied chemistry
- Occupations
- managerpolitician
- Biography
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Katherina Reiche is a German manager and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in the cabinet of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since May 2025.
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Hubertus Heil
- Enrolled in the University of Potsdam
- In 1995 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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Linda Teuteberg
- Occupations
- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Linda Teuteberg is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017, she was elected as General Secretary of the FDP on 26 April 2019 and thereby became part of the party's leadership around chairman Christian Lindner. Lindner asked for and received her resignation effective 19 September 2020.
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Klara Geywitz
- Enrolled in the University of Potsdam
- 1995-2002 graduated with Diplom in political science
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Klara Geywitz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building in the Scholz cabinet from 2021 to 2025. She served as member of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2004 until 2019, and is a Deputy Leader of the SPD since 2019.
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Marco Wanderwitz
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Marco Wanderwitz is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 2018 until 2021, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Jeanne Barseghian
- Occupations
- corporate administrative and commercial executiveenvironmentalistjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Jeanne Barseghian is a French politician who is the mayor of Strasbourg and has been a member of its city council. She has been a member of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) since 2013. She was elected in 2014 to the City Council of Strasbourg, and to the Eurométropole de Strasbourg Council. She was elected mayor of Strasbourg after she successfully led the EELV list in the 2020 municipal election there.
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Nora Bossong
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Nora Bossong is a German poet and writer. She lives in Berlin.
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Anne-Julia Hagen
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Anne-Julia Hagen is a German model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Germany 2013 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2013 pageant. She would later appear on the CNBC game show Deal or No Deal as a briefcase model (holding briefcase 23) in 2018.
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Jan Redmann
- Enrolled in the University of Potsdam
- Studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Jan Redmann is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg since 2014. Since 2019, he has been chairing his party’s parliamentary group.
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Rainer Kempe
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Rainer Kempe is a German professional poker player from Berlin, Germany.
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Sebastian Walter
- Enrolled in the University of Potsdam
- Studied history and German studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sebastian Walter is a German politician (Die Linke). He was a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2019 to 2024. In 2022 he was elected chairman of The Left Brandenburg alongside Katharina Slanina.
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Hans Grodotzki
- Occupations
- long-distance runner
- Biography
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Hans Grodotzki is an East German long-distance runner who competed mainly in track events.
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Renate Loll
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Renate Loll Is a German physicist. She is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She previously worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University. She received her Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, in 1989. In 2001 she joined the permanent staff of the ITP, after spending several years at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm, Germany. With Jan Ambjørn and Polish physicist Jerzy Jurkiewicz she helped develop a new approach to nonperturbative quantization of gravity, that of Causal Dynamical Triangulations.
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Brigitte Knopf
- Occupations
- climatologist
- Biography
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Brigitte Knopf is a German climatologist. Since February 2015 she has been Secretary General of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change and since 1 September 2020 has been a member of the Expert Council on Climate Issues (Expertenrat für Klimafragen).
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Jens Eisert
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Jens Eisert is a German physicist, ERC fellow, and professor at the Free University of Berlin. He is also affiliated with the Helmholtz Association and the Fraunhofer Society.
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Conny Waßmuth
- Occupations
- kayaker
- Biography
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Conny Waßmuth is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 2005. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Joschka Langenbrinck
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joschka Langenbrinck is a German politician, currently serving as Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 27 October 2011 representing the Neukölln 3 constituency for the Social Democratic Party.
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Stefano Casertano
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistfilm screenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Stefano Casertano is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and immersive media creator.
