34 Notable alumni of
University of Regensburg
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The University of Regensburg is 1356th in the world, 468th in Europe, and 58th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from the University of Regensburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Martin Walser
- Occupations
- screenwriternovelistwriterjournalistplaywright
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Martin Johannes Walser was a German writer, known especially as a novelist. He began his career as journalist for Süddeutscher Rundfunk, where he wrote and directed audio plays. He was a member of Group 47 from 1953 on.
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Hannes Ringlstetter
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- screenwritertelevision presentermusicianfilm actorstage actor
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Johannes "Hannes" Ringlstetter is a German kabarettist, comedian, musician, actor, TV presenter and writer of his book "Bekenntnisse" (2005) and of several short stories.
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Henriette Reker
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Henriette Reker is a German lawyer and independent politician. She is known for her pro-immigration stance and for being the victim of an assassination attempt in 2015. A day after the attack, Reker was elected mayor of Cologne after gaining 52.66% of the votes. She is the first female mayor elected in Cologne's history. Reker was re-elected in 2020.
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Stephan Brandner
- Enrolled in the University of Regensburg
- 1990-1994 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Stephan Brandner is a German politician. He has been a member of the Bundestag for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) since 2017 and served as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee from 31 January 2018 to November 2019. He was the front runner candidate of the AfD in the state of Thuringia for the 2017 German federal election. Since November 2019, Brandner has been one of three chairman deputies of the AfD.
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Heribert Prantl
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- judgejournalistjuristwriteruniversity teacher
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Heribert Prantl is a German author, journalist and jurist (former judge, prosecutor and lawyer). At the Süddeutsche Zeitung he was head of the department of domestic policy from 1995 to 2017, head of the department "opinion" from 2018 to 2019, member of the chief editors from 2011 to 2019 and is now columnist and author. Since 2002 he has been a lecturer at the faculty of law at Bielefeld University, where he was appointed honorary professor in 2010.
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May Ayim
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- speech and language therapistpoetwriterpedagogueactivist
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May Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz (born Brigitte Sylvia Andler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German dancer and Ghanaian medical student, she lived with a white German foster family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen name.
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Archbishop Ieronimos II of Athens
- Enrolled in the University of Regensburg
- Graduated with postgraduate education in theology
- Occupations
- clergymanhistorianpriest
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Ieronymos II is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.
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Gerd Müller
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- politician
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Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who is currently serving as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization since 2021.
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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- university teacherphysicistclimatologistnon-fiction writer
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Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber is a German atmospheric physicist, climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Since 1 December 2023, Schellnhuber is the Director General of IIASA.
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Elli Erl
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- singersongwriter
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Elisabeth Maria Erl is a German singer-songwriter. She came to fame as the winner of the second season of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German Idol series adaptation. With DSDS, Erl appeared on the collaborative top ten single "Believe in Miracles", while her coronation song and debut single "This Is My Life" peaked at number three on the German Singles Chart and reached the top ten in Austria. Erl's pop rock-influenced debut studio album, Shout It Out (2003), reached the top forty of the German Albums Chart but was significantly less successful than previous DSDS releases.
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Michael Piazolo
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristpolitical scientist
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Michael Piazolo is a German Free Voter politician, lawyer and political scientist. In 2018 he was appointed as the Bavarian State Minister for Culture and Education in Minister President Söder's second Cabinet.
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Natascha Kohnen
- Enrolled in the University of Regensburg
- 1987-1992 studied biology
- Occupations
- biologistpolitician
- Biography
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Natascha Kohnen is a German politician of the SPD who has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since 2009. From 2017 until 2021, she served as chairwoman of the SPD Bavaria.
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Marcin Romanowski
- Enrolled in the University of Regensburg
- 2000-2002 graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
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Marcin Romanowski is a Polish politician. He was a deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland in the Second and Third Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki. He was elected as a member of the Sejm on 15 October 2023 from the Law and Justice list. Since January 2024 deputy representative of the Sejm in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Gerda Hasselfeldt
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- politician
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Gerda Hasselfeldt is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who served as deputy chairperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and chairwoman of the Bundestag group of CSU parliamentarians. Following her departure from active politics, she became President of the German Red Cross in 2018.
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Wolfgang A. Herrmann
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
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Wolfgang Anton Herrmann is a German chemist and academic administrator. From 1995 to 2019, he was President of the Technical University of Munich.
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Stefanie Hubig
- Enrolled in the University of Regensburg
- Studied in 1989-1993
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Stefanie Hubig is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister for Education in the government of Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer since 2016.
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Florian Pronold
- Occupations
- politicianbank tellerlawyer
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Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017, he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria.
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Anna-Nicole Heinrich
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- research assistantphilosopher
- Biography
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Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the current praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
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Klaus Regling
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- economist
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Klaus P. Regling is a German economist and the former Chief Executive Officer of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism. Regling was reportedly considered as a possible head of the European Central Bank to succeed Jean Claude Trichet.
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Markus Brunnermeier
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- university teachereconomist
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Markus Konrad Brunnermeier is an economist, who is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
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Edith Sitzmann
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- politician
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Edith Sitzmann is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party served as State Minister of Finance in the second cabinet of Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2021. She was also a member of the State Parliament, representing the Freiburg II constituency. From 2011 to 2016, she led the Green Party's Group in the State Parliament.
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Joseph Fessio
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- publisherpresbytertheologian
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Joseph Fessio SJ is an American Jesuit priest, as well as the founder and editor of Ignatius Press. After studying with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), he founded the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, one of the first Catholic Great Books programs in the United States, then served as the founding provost of Ave Maria University. He hosts the weekly podcast Father Fessio in Five.
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Markus Uhl
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- politicianDiploma of Business Administration
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Markus Alexander Uhl is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland since 2017.
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Karl Stetter
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- microbiologistuniversity teacher
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Karl Otto Stetter is a German microbiologist and authority on astrobiology. Stetter is an expert on microbial life at high temperatures.
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Georg Friedrich von Martens
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- university teacherdiplomatjurist
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Georg Friedrich von Martens was a German jurist and diplomat. Educated at the universities of Göttingen, Regensburg and Vienna, he became professor of jurisprudence at Göttingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789. He was made a counsellor of state by the King of Westphalia in 1808, and in 1810 was president of the financial section of the council of state of the kingdom of Westphalia. In 1814 he was appointed privy cabinet-councillor (Geheimer Kabinettsrat) by the king of Hanover, and in 1816 went as representative of the king to the diet of the new German Confederation at Frankfort.
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Max Stadler
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- politicianjudge
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Max Josef Stadler was a German politician. He was a Free Democratic Party member of the Bundestag from 1994 until his death.
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Javier Cremades
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- lawyer
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Javier Cremades is a Spanish lawyer, founder and president of the international law firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo. He taught constitutional law for 15 years. He is known for leading the international defence of Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López. Since 2019 and as of January 2025, Cremades has been president of the World Jurist Association.
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Artur Walther
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- art collector
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Artur Walther is a German-American art collector focused on exhibiting and publishing contemporary photography and video art. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Walther was a General Partner at Goldman Sachs until his retirement in 1994. He began collecting photography in the late 1990s and later established The Walther Collection, which is open to the public at its museum campus in Neu-Ulm, Germany and its Project Space in New York City.
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Stephan Kirste
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- philosopheruniversity teacherjurist
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Stephan Kirste is a German legal scholar and university professor of legal and social philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the University of Salzburg (Austria). Since 2020, Kirste is also an associate professor (Professor Colaborador) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in the graduate program.
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Martin Kreuzer
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- chess playermathematiciancorrespondence chess playeruniversity teacher
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Martin Kreuzer is a German mathematics professor and chess player who holds the chess titles of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and FIDE Master.
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Peter Schneider
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Peter Bernd Schneider is a German mathematician, specializing in the p-adic aspects of algebraic number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and representation theory.
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Michael Gross
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- journalistnon-fiction writer
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Michael Gross is a British science writer based at Oxford and has been awarded an honorary research fellowship at the School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.
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Günther K. H. Zupanc
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- neurobiologistuniversity teacher
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Günther K.H. Zupanc is a German-American neurobiologist, researcher, university teacher, book author, journal editor, and educational reformer. He is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Herbert Zimmermann
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- neuroscientistuniversity teacher
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Herbert Zimmermann is a German neuroscientist who pioneered the studies on the biochemical, structural and functional heterogeneity of cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the electric organ of the electric ray Torpedo, and the functional and biochemical characterization of enzymes hydrolyzing extracellular nucleotides.
