15 Notable alumni of European University Viadrina
Updated: May 30, 2026 EliteDegrees
European University Viadrina is ranked #1,896 in the world and #88 in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from European University Viadrina sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with European University Viadrina won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Volodymyr Demchyshyn
1974-. (aged 52)
manager
banker
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Demchyshyn is a Ukrainian former banker and politician, who served as Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016 in the second Yatsenyuk Government.
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2. Christian Garve
1742-1798 (aged 56)
university teacher
philosopher
translator
Christian Garve was one of the best-known philosophers of the late Enlightenment along with Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn.
3. Carl Gottfried Woide
1725-1790 (aged 65)
orientalist
librarian
Carl Gottfried Woide, also known in England as Charles Godfrey Woide, was an Orientalist, a biblical scholar and a pastor.
4. Simon Heinrich Sack
1723-1791 (aged 68)
Anwalt
lawyer
politician
Simon Heinrich Sack was Hofrat (Privy Councilor), Justice Commissioner and adviser to King Frederick II of Prussia. He accumulated considerable wealth in this capacity with which he founded the Privy Councillor Simon Heinrich Sack Family Foundation in Prussia and which still exists to this day.
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5. Krystian Kamiński
1983-. (aged 43)
businessperson
politician
Krystian Kamiński is a Polish politician. From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the Sejm. In the 2024 European Parliament election in Poland, he was the lead candidate of the Confederation Liberty and Independence in Warsaw.
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6. Daniel Ernst Jablonski
1660-1741 (aged 81)
pastor
Daniel Ernst Jablonski was a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.
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7. Linn Selle
1986-. (aged 40)
political scientist
Linn Selle is president of the European Movement Germany.
8. Johann Tetzel
1465-1519 (aged 54)
Catholic priest
religious
preacher
theologian
Johann Tetzel OP was a German Dominican friar and preacher. He was appointed Inquisitor for Poland and Saxony, later becoming the Grand Commissioner for indulgences in Germany. Tetzel was known for granting indulgences on behalf of the Catholic Church in exchange for tithes to the Church. Indulgences grant a degree of expiation of the punishments of purgatory due to sin....
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9. George William, Elector of Brandenburg
1595-1640 (aged 45)
aristocrat
George William, of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death. His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War. He was the father of Frederick William, the "Great Elector".
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10. Albert of Mainz
1490-1545 (aged 55)
Catholic priest
Catholic bishop
Albert von Brandenburg was a German cardinal, elector, Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 to 1545.
11. Martin Chemnitz
1522-1586 (aged 64)
university teacher
astrologer
theologian
writer
librarian
Martin Chemnitz was an eminent second-generation German, Evangelical Lutheran, Christian theologian, and a Protestant reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Evangelical Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset ("If Martin had not come along, Martin would hardly have survived") goes a common saying concerning him. He is listed and...
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12. René Wilke
1984-. (aged 42)
mediator
politician
René Wilke is a German politician (SPD), minister of interior of the state of Brandenburg, and a former member of Brandenburg's regional parliament. 2014 he became a directly elected Member of parliament for his native Frankfurt (Oder). On 18 March 2018 he was elected Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Frankfurt (Oder). With his inauguration on 6 May 2018, Wilke became the...
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13. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
1979-. (aged 47)
historian
cultural historian
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is a German–Polish historian based in Berlin, associated with the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin. He specializes in the history of the Holocaust and East-Central Europe, fascism, nationalism, the history of antisemitism, the history of the Soviet Union, and the politics of memory.
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14. Atanazy Raczyński
1788-1874 (aged 86)
military personnel
politician
diplomat
art historian
art collector
Count Atanazy Raczyński was a Polish count (hrabia) and diplomat in Prussian service. He was a noted art critic and built a notable collection of paintings during his long stays in major European metropolises.
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15. Johann Anton Güldenstädt
1745-1781 (aged 36)
explorer
ichthyologist
zoologist
botanist
ornithologist
Johann Anton Güldenstädt was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service.