100 Notable alumni of
University of Tubingen
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The University of Tubingen is 100th in the world, 36th in Europe, and 7th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Tubingen sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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- philosopher of lawwriterphilosophy historianuniversity teacherlogician
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and a major figure in the tradition of German idealism. His influence on Western philosophy extends across a wide range of topics—from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy, to the philosophy of art and religion.
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Johannes Kepler
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- astronomermusicologistmusic theoristmathematicianphysicist
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Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. The variety and impact of his work made Kepler one of the founders and fathers of modern astronomy, the scientific method, natural science, and modern science. He has been described as the "father of science fiction" for his novel Somnium.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1923 studied theology
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- theologianphilosopherresistance fighterpastorpoet
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential; his 1937 book The Cost of Discipleship is described as a modern classic. Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Nazi euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of Jews. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel Prison for a year and a half. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp.
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Albert Schweitzer
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- physician writerphilosophermusicologistcomposerorganist
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer OM was a German polymath from Alsace. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. As a Lutheran minister, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of the historical Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith as secondary.
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Wilhelm Wundt
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- university teacherwriterphilosopherpsychologistphysiologist
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Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, professor, and one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person to call himself a psychologist.
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Kurt Georg Kiesinger
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- juristlawyerjudgepolitician
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Kurt Georg Kiesinger was a German politician who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became Chancellor he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Federal Council from 1962 to 1963. He was Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1967 to 1971.
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Mary L. Trump
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- biographerlife coachbusinesspersonnon-fiction writerclinical psychologist
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Mary Lea Trump is an American psychologist, author, and political commentator. She is the niece of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
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Ferdinand I of Romania
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- monarch
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Ferdinand I, nicknamed the Unifier (Romanian: Întregitorul; Romanian: [ɨn.tre.d͡ʒiˈto.rul] ), was King of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal, (daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Kohary). His family was part of the Catholic branch of the Prussian royal family Hohenzollern.
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Friedrich Hölderlin
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- philosopherlibrettistHofmeisterwritertranslator
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Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Particularly due to his early association with and philosophical influence on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, he was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism.
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Horst Köhler
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Graduated with doctorate in economics and political science
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- politicianeconomist
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Horst Köhler was a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties (the CDU, of which he was a member, and the CSU) and also candidate of the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Convention on 23 May 2004 and was subsequently inaugurated on 1 July 2004. He was reelected to a second term on 23 May 2009. Just a year later, on 31 May 2010, he resigned from his office in a controversy over a comment on the role of the German Armed Forces in light of a visit to the troops in Afghanistan. During his tenure as president, whose office is mostly concerned with ceremonial matters, Köhler was a highly popular politician, with approval rates above those of both Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and later Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Manfred Rommel
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- juristwritermilitary personnelsoldieropinion journalist
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Manfred Rommel was a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served as mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996. Rommel's policies were described as tolerant and liberal, and he was one of the most popular municipal politicians in Germany. He was the recipient of numerous foreign honours. He was the only son of Wehrmacht Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and his wife Lucia Maria Mollin (1894–1971), and contributed to the establishment of museums in his father's honour. He was also known for his friendship with George Patton IV and David Montgomery, the sons of his father's two principal military adversaries.
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Fritz Bauer
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied jurisprudence
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- prosecutorjudge
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Fritz Bauer was a German Jewish judge and prosecutor. He played an instrumental role in the post-war capture of former Holocaust planner Adolf Eichmann, and in bringing about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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- writerphilosopherlibrettistuniversity teacher
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between Johann Gottlieb Fichte, his mentor in his early years, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, his one-time university roommate, early friend, and later rival. Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is regarded as difficult because of its evolving nature.
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Alois Alzheimer
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- university teacherpsychiatristneuropathologistneurologistneuroscientist
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Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.
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Ulrich Tukur
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- stage actorsingerfilm actormusician
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Ulrich Tukur is a German actor and musician. He is known for his roles in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, the docudrama North Face based on the 1936 Eiger climbing disaster in Switzerland, and as Wilhelm Uhde in Martin Provost's biopic Séraphine.
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Boris Palmer
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- writerpolitician
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Boris Erasmus Palmer is a German independent politician and former member of the Green Party. He has been mayor of Tübingen since January 2007. From March 2001 to May 2007, he was a member of the Baden-Württemberg Landtag, the State parliament in Stuttgart.
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Philipp Melanchthon
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- 1512-1514 graduated with magister degree
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- philosopherastrologertheologianuniversity teacherProtestant reformer
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Philip Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and influential designer of educational systems.
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Paul Tillich
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- university teachertheologianphilosopher
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Paul Johannes Tillich was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich taught at German universities before immigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago.
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Martin Walser
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- 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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Claude Lanzmann
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- documentariandirectorwriterFrench resistance fighterfilm producer
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Claude Lanzmann was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film Shoah (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical footage. He is also known for his 2017 documentary film Napalm, about a love affair he had with a North Korean nurse whilst visiting North Korea in 1958, several years after the Korean War.
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Thomas Oppermann
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- juristjudgepolitician
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Thomas Ludwig Albert Oppermann was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From October 2017 until his death, he served as Vice President of the Bundestag. In his earlier career, he served as First Secretary (2007–2013) and later as chairman (2013–2017) of the SPD Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag.
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Ernst Albrecht
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- politician
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Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and a former high-ranking European civil servant. He was one of the first European civil servants appointed in 1958 and served as director-general of the Directorate-General for Competition from 1967 to 1970. He served as Minister President of the state of Lower Saxony from 1976 to 1990. He was the father of the politician Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.
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Michel Tournier
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- translatorchildren's writernovelistwriter
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Michel Tournier was a French writer. He won awards such as the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 for Friday, or, The Other Island and the Prix Goncourt for The Erl-King in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as The Wind Spirit (Beacon Press, 1988). He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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William Ramsay
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1871-1872
- Graduated with Doctor of Natural Sciences
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- historianprofessorarchaeologistchemist
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Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for their discovery of argon. After the two men identified argon, Ramsay investigated other atmospheric gases. His work in isolating argon, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon led to the development of a new section of the periodic table.
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Wilhelm Hauff
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1820-1824
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- writerlyricistchildren's writerfairy tales writerpoet
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Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist known for his stories and novels. Raised in Stuttgart and educated in Tübingen, he wrote fairy tales such as Der kleine Muck (Little Muck) and Das kalte Herz (Heart of Stone), the historical romance Lichtenstein, and the parody Der Mann im Mond (The Man in the Moon). He died of typhoid fever at age 24. Blending exotic and fantastic motifs with German settings, his tales remain popular in German-speaking countries.
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Hellmuth Karasek
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- playwrightliterary criticuniversity teacherdramaturgetheatre critic
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Hellmuth Karasek was a German journalist, literary critic, novelist, and the author of many books on literature and film. He was one of Germany's best-known feuilletonists.
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Rita Süssmuth
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1961 graduated with bachelor's degree in study of history and Romance studies
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- university teacherpoliticianpedagoguepsychologistsociologist
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Rita Süssmuth was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the tenth president of the Bundestag.
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Günther Oettinger
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1982 studied jurisprudence
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- politicianlawyerjudgeconsultantjurist
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Günther Hermann Oettinger is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources from 2017 to 2019, as European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society from 2014 to 2016 and as European Commissioner for Energy from 2010 to 2014.
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Franz Brentano
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1862 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- university teacherphilosopherpsychologist
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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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Wilhelm II of Württemberg
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- monarch
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William II was the last King of Württemberg. He ruled from 6 October 1891 until the dissolution of the kingdom on 30 November 1918. He was the last German ruler to abdicate in the wake of the November Revolution of 1918.
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Heiner Geißler
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- writerjuristlawyerpolitician
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Heinrich "Heiner" Geißler was a German politician and judge who served as the Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health from 1982 to 1985. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), he served as the party's general secretary from 1977 to 1989.
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Rudolf Bultmann
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- university teachertheologianphilosopher
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Rudolf Karl Bultmann was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early 20th-century biblical studies. A prominent critic of liberal theology, Bultmann instead argued for an existentialist interpretation of the New Testament. His hermeneutical approach to the New Testament led him to be a proponent of dialectical theology.
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Margot Käßmann
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- pastorparsonuniversity teachertheologian
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Margot Käßmann is a Lutheran theologian, who was Landesbischöfin (bishop) of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany. On 28 October 2009, she was also elected to lead the Protestant Church in Germany, a federation of Protestant church bodies in Germany. She stepped down from both offices on 24 February 2010 following a drink-driving incident. After serving as a "Reformation Ambassador" for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, she retired in 2018.
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Christoph Martin Wieland
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1750-1752
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- translator of William Shakespearepoet lawyeruniversity teacherwritertranslator
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Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer, representative of literary Rococo. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon), as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the basis for both Friederike Sophie Seyler's opera of the same name and Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the same name. His thought was representative of the cosmopolitanism of the German Enlightenment, exemplified in his remark: "Only a true cosmopolitan can be a good citizen." He was a key figure of Weimar Classicism and a collaborator of Abel Seyler's theatre company.
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Klaus Kinkel
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1960 studied jurisprudence
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- lawyerpolitician
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Klaus Kinkel was a German statesman, civil servant, diplomat and lawyer who served as the minister of Foreign affairs (1992–1998) and the vice chancellor of Germany (1993–1998) in the government of Helmut Kohl.
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Ernst Kretschmer
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- university teacherpsychiatristjudgepsychologistpsychotherapist
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Ernst Kretschmer was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology.
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Romano Guardini
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- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianwriterphilosopher
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Romano Guardini was an Italian, naturalized German Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.
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Franz Walter Stahlecker
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- juristpolice officer
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Franz Walter Stahlecker was commander of the SS security forces, the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for the Reichskommissariat Ostland in 1941–42. Stahlecker commanded Einsatzgruppe A, the most murderous of the four Einsatzgruppen (death squads during the Holocaust) active in German-occupied Eastern Europe. He was fatally wounded in action by Soviet partisans and was replaced by Heinz Jost.
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Walter Kasper
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopuniversity teachertheologian
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Walter Kasper is a German Catholic prelate who served as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 2001 to 2010. He was previously Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart from 1989 to 1999.
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Susanne Stichler
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied pedagogy
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- news presenterjournalisttelevision presenterradio personality
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Susanne Stichler is a German journalist and newscaster.
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Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim
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- military officer
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Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. A supporter of the Catholic League, he was mortally wounded during the Battle of Lützen fighting the Protestant forces under Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.
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Julian Nida-Rümelin
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- university teacherphilosopherpolitician
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Julian Nida-Rümelin is a German philosopher and public intellectual. He served as State Minister for Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany under Chancellor Schröder. He was professor of philosophy and political theory at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich until 2020. Nida-Rümelin is vice chairman of the German Ethics Council.
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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- biologistuniversity teacherbiochemistpsychologistgeneticist
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Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ( German pronunciation: [kʁɪsˈti̯anə ˈnʏslaɪ̯n ˈfɔlˌhaʁt]; born 20 October 1942) is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.
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Wolfgang Kapp
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- juristpolitician
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Wolfgang Kapp was a German conservative and nationalist and political activist who is best known for his involvement in the eponymous 1920 Kapp Putsch. He spent most of his career working for the Prussian Ministry of Finance and then as director of the Agricultural Credit Institute in East Prussia. During World War I, Kapp was a vocal annexationist and critic of the government's policies, which he saw as not aggressive enough. His strong dislike of parliamentary government and the Weimar Republic led him to take a leading role in the 1920 putsch that bears his name. Following the putsch's failure to overthrow the German government, Kapp went into exile in Sweden. He returned to Germany in late 1921 to appear in court, but died while under medical care before he could testify.
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Karl I of Württemberg
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- politician
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Charles was the third King of Württemberg from 25 June 1864 until his death in 1891.
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Alfred Weber
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- economistpedagoguesociologistuniversity teacher
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Carl David Alfred Weber was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography.
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Carl Peters
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1877 studied jurisprudence
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- explorercolonialistopinion journalistpolitician
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Carl Peters was a German explorer and colonial administrator. He was a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of today’s Tanzania) and one of the founders of the German East Africa Company. He was a controversial figure in Germany for his views and his brutal treatment of native Africans, which ultimately led to his dismissal from government service in 1897.
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David Strauss
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- writerChristian theologianphilosopherbiographer
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David Friedrich Strauss was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth. Strauss conceived of myths as expressions of truths, as opposed to the modern shorthand of myth for "falsity"- Strauss did not deny Jesus' divine nature. His work was connected to the Tübingen School, which revolutionized study of the New Testament, early Christianity, and ancient religions. Strauss was a pioneer in the historical investigation of Jesus.
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Wilhelm Schickard
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1606-1613
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- theologiancartographeruniversity teachermathematicianHebraist
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Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer (along with Max Caspar) of Johannes Kepler, claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public release of Pascal's calculator by twenty years, had been discovered in two unknown letters written by Schickard to Johannes Kepler in 1623 and 1624.
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Ole Nydahl
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- yogiteacherwriter
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Ole Nydahl, also known as Lama Ole, is a lama providing Mahamudra teachings in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Since the early 1970s, Nydahl has toured the world giving lectures and meditation courses. With his wife, Hannah Nydahl (1946-2007), he founded Diamond Way Buddhism, a worldwide Karma Kagyu Buddhist organization with over 600 centers for lay practitioners.
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Heinrich von Treitschke
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- historian of Modern Agewriteruniversity teacheropinion journalistpolitician
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Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke was a German historian, political writer and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire.
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Albrecht Glaser
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- politician
- Biography
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Albrecht Heinz Erhard Glaser is a German politician (AfD, formerly CDU). From 1997 to 2001, he served as the treasurer of Frankfurt.
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Ludwig Uhland
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- literary historianuniversity teacherpoet lawyerwriterlinguist
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Johann Ludwig Uhland was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician.
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Aurel Stein
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1883 graduated with doctorate in humanities
- Occupations
- exploreruniversity teacherarchaeologistart historiananthropologist
- Biography
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Sir Marc Aurel Stein, KCIE, FRAS, FBA was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at Indian universities.
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Adolph Diesterweg
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- writerteacherpedagogueopinion journalist
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Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg was a German educator, thinker, and progressive liberal politician, who campaigned for the secularization of schools. He is said to be precursory to the reform of pedagogy. Diesterweg is considered as "a teacher of teachers".
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Robert Mayer
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1838
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- physicistphysician
- Biography
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Julius Robert von Mayer was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics, namely that "energy can be neither created nor destroyed". In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. He also proposed that plants convert light into chemical energy.
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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
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- diplomatpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and the early 1920s. From December 1916 to November 1918, he was one of the most important members of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's War cabinet.
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Karl Bonhoeffer
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- psychiatristuniversity teacherneurologist
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Karl Bonhoeffer was a German neurologist, psychiatrist and physician.
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Sebastian Münster
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- astronomercartographercosmographermathematicianHebraist
- Biography
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Sebastian Münster was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists.
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Carlo Schmid
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- university teacherjudgepoetlawyertranslator
- Biography
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Carlo Schmid was a German academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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Antje Jackelén
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- pastortheologian
- Biography
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Antje Jackelén is archbishop emerita and primate emerita (prima inter pares) of the Church of Sweden, the national church. On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received through a service in Uppsala Cathedral on 15 June 2014, making her Sweden's first foreign-born archbishop since the 12th century, and the first female archbishop.
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Christof Koch
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- journalistneuroscientistpsychologistuniversity teacher
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Christof Koch is an American cognitive scientist, neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness.
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Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern
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- politician
- Biography
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Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the last reigning prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1849. Afterwards, he continued to be titular prince of his house and – with the death of the last prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen in 1869 – of the entire Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. He served as Minister President of Prussia from 1858 to 1862, the only Hohenzollern prince to hold that post. His second son, Karl, became king of Romania. The offer of the throne of Spain to his eldest son, Leopold, was one of the causes of the Franco-Prussian War, which led to the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire.
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Aleida Assmann
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- university teacheranthropologistscholar of English
- Biography
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Aleida Assmann is a German professor of English and literary studies, who studied Egyptology and whose work has focused on cultural anthropology and cultural and communicative memory.
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Walter Jens
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- librettistphilologistliterary criticliterary scholargermanist
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Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer.
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Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
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- priestmilitary officerCatholic priest
- Biography
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Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony or George was the last Crown Prince of Saxony and the heir to Frederick Augustus III, the final King of Saxony, at the time of the monarchy’s abolition on 13 November 1918.
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Lisa Federle
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- writerphysician
- Biography
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Lisa Federle is a German doctor and emergency physician. In 2015, she introduced a "mobile doctor's practice" in the Tübingen district to treat refugees in their emergency shelters as well as homeless people. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became a mobile fever and diagnostic clinic. With the test strategy she had initiated, she adapted the Tübingen model for targeted pandemic control. In 2020, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment.
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Rita Dove
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- writerpoetessayistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937–86). Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds the chair of Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing.
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Johann Eck
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- translatoruniversity teacherpundittheologian
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Johann Eck, also known as Johann Maier von Eck and often anglicized as John Eck, was a German Roman Catholic theologian, scholastic, prelate, and opponent of Martin Luther.
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Agnieszka Brugger
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 2004 studied philosophy, political science, and public law
- Occupations
- studentpolitician
- Biography
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Agnieszka Brugger is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009. Since 2018 she serves as Vice-Chair of Alliance ‘90/The Greens in the Bundestag.
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Konrad Adam
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- politiciannon-fiction writerjournalist
- Biography
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Konrad Adam is a German journalist, publicist and former politician who co-founded the Alternative for Germany party. He served as one of three federal spokesmen for the party until 2015.
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Heinrich August Winkler
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 88)
- Occupations
- historianhistorian of Modern Ageuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian.
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Fritz Kuhn
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- university teacherenvironmentalistpolitician
- Biography
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Fritz Kuhn is a German politician who served as Mayor of Stuttgart from 2012 until 2021. He was co-chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens, the German Green party, in 2002 and its parliamentary group from 2002 to 2013.
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Albrecht von Haller
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- surgeonbiologistlibrarianphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave and Jacob Winslow, he is sometimes referred to as "the father of modern physiology."
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Philipp Jenninger
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- diplomatjuristpolitician
- Biography
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Philipp Jenninger was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and diplomat. He was the ninth president of the Bundestag from 1984 to 1988. He also served as Member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag (1969–1990), Minister of State at the German Chancellery (1982–1984), German Ambassador to Austria (1991–1995) and German Ambassador to the Holy See (1995–1997).
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Qiao Guanhua
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Qiao Guanhua was a politician and diplomat in the People's Republic of China and played an important role in the talks with United States on the opening of China and the drafting of the Shanghai Communiqué.
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Gert Voss
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Gert Voss was a German actor. He was known for his roles in Labyrinth of Lies (2014), Sometime in August (2009) and Ritter, Dene, Voss (1987). He was member of the ensemble of the Burgtheater, and a Kammerschauspieler.
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Theo Sommer
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- journalisttelevision presenternon-fiction writeropinion journalistwriter
- Biography
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Theo Sommer was a German newspaper editor and intellectual. He began working for Die Zeit in 1958, rising to an editor-in-chief and publisher. His editorials for Die Zeit shaped the paper's social-liberal attitude. He advocated the policy of détente with the Eastern bloc states (Entspannungspolitik). From 1992, Sommer was publisher of Die Zeit, together with Marion Dönhoff and Helmut Schmidt. He was considered one of Germany's authorities on international relations and strategic issues.
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Günter Blobel
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistcell biologistbiochemistphysician
- Biography
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Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.
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Ulrich Kienzle
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ulrich Kienzle was a German journalist and author. He was known for specializing in the politics and culture of the Middle East. He worked for several broadcasters, including German public television networks ARD and ZDF. He was one of the few Western journalists to interview Muammar Gaddafi in the 1970s. In 1990, he was the last western journalist who interviewedSaddam Hussein, days before Gulf War started. Kienzle was known for appearing on Frontal, a ZDF series of political discussions also featuring broadcast journalist Bodo Hugo Hauser. He was one of the most famous journalists in the six German speaking countries.
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Gustav Schwab
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- Studied in 1809-1814
- Occupations
- mythographerpoetpastorwritersecondary school teacher
- Biography
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Gustav Benjamin Schwab was a German writer, pastor and publisher.
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Hans Mommsen
- Occupations
- historianhistorian of Modern Ageuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Hans Mommsen was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended from Nobel Prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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Annette Widmann-Mauz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Annette Widmann-Mauz is a German politician of the Christian Democrats who served as a member of the German Bundestag (the German federal parliament) from 1998 to 2025, representing the electoral district of Tübingen. In addition to her work in parliament, she served as Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet from 2009 until 2021.
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Erhard Eppler
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Erhard Eppler was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and founder of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ). He studied English, German and history in Frankfurt, Bern and Tübingen, achieved a PhD and worked as a teacher. He met Gustav Heinemann in the late 1940s, who became a role model. Eppler was a member of the Bundestag from 1961 to 1976. He was appointed Minister for Economic Cooperation first in 1968 during the grand coalition of Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU) and Willy Brandt (SPD), continuing under Chancellor Brandt in 1969 and Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) in 1974, when he stepped down.
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Erwin Bälz
- Occupations
- anthropologistphysicianuniversity teacherinternist
- Biography
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Erwin Otto Eduard von Bälz, often simply known as Erwin Bälz (without the noble von particle), was a German internist, anthropologist, and personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan.
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Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Occupations
- poetwriterastrologertheologianmathematician
- Biography
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Johannes Valentinus Andreae, also known as Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian and writer.
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Eugen Gerstenmaier
- Occupations
- Protestant theologiantheologianresistance fighterpolitician
- Biography
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Eugen Karl Albrecht Gerstenmaier was a German Protestant theologian, resistance fighter in the Third Reich, and a CDU politician. From 1954 to 1969, he served as the third president of the Bundestag. With a tenure of over 14 years, he is, as of January 2026, the longest serving presiding officer of the German parliament and also the only person to preside over the Bundestag during four legislative periods (the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Bundestag).
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Asfa-Wossen Asserate
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- writer
- Biography
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Le'ul Ras Asfa-Wossen Asserate is an Ethiopian-German political analyst and consultant for African and Middle-Eastern Affairs and best-selling author. A member of the Ethiopian royalty, he is the great-nephew of the last Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I, great-grandson of the Empress Menen and son of the last President of the Imperial Crown Council, Le'ul Ras (Duke) Asserate Kassa and his wife Leult (Princess) Zuriash Worq Gabre-Iqziabher.
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Herta Däubler-Gmelin
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Herta Däubler-Gmelin is a German lawyer, academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She served as Federal Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002, and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2009. She currently teaches as an honorary professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin, particularly on international relations and human rights, and was the Hemmerle Professor at RWTH Aachen University in 2011. She is married to the legal scholar Wolfgang Däubler.
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Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
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- politicianaristocrat
- Biography
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Ernst I Christian Carl, 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the son of Prince Carl Ludwig of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms-Baruth.
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Martin Bangemann
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Martin Bangemann was a German politician and a leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 1985 to 1988. He was German Federal Minister of Economics and European Commissioner.
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
- Occupations
- pteridologistuniversity teacherbryologistmineralogistchemist
- Biography
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
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Matthias Wissmann
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- juristpoliticianfield hockey player
- Biography
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Matthias Wissmann is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the president of the German Automobile Industry Association (VdA) from 2007 until 2018.
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Ingmar Hoerr
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- entrepreneurbiologist
- Biography
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Ingmar Malte Hoerr is a German biologist. He pioneered vaccinology research concerning the use of RNA and is a founder of the German biotechnology company CureVac. He created the initial technology used in RNA vaccines and has reportedly been nominated for a Nobel Prize. He is currently an Ambassador for the European Innovation Council for the years 2021–2027.
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Justinus Kerner
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- 1804-1808 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- magnetizerpoetwriterscientistphysician writer
- Biography
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Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner was a German poet, practicing physician, and medical writer. He gave the first detailed description of botulism.
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Miroslav Volf
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- university teachertheologiannon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Miroslav Volf is a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. He previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatia (1979–80, 1983–90) and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1990–1998).
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Hans Vaihinger
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- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Hans Vaihinger was a German philosopher, best known as a Kant scholar and for his Die Philosophie des Als Ob (The Philosophy of 'As if'), published in 1911 although its statement of basic principles had been written more than thirty years earlier.
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Gustav von Schmoller
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Gustav Friedrich Schmoller ( German: [ˈʃmɔlɐ]; 24 June 1838 – 27 June 1917) was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.
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Nils Schmid
- Enrolled in the University of Tubingen
- In 1999 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- juristlawyerministerpolitician
- Biography
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Nils Schmid is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017.
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Christian Friedrich Schönbein
- Occupations
- university teacherchemistpolitician
- Biography
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Christian Friedrich Schönbein HFRSE was a German-Swiss chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. He also created the concept of geochemistry in 1838.
