Notable Alumni of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz [Sorted List]

1. Martin Gerster

1971-. (aged 55)

political scientist politician editing staff

Martin Gerster is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005.

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2. Matthäus Zell

1477-1548 (aged 71)

theologian

Matthäus Zell was a Lutheran pastor and an early Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg. He joined the Reformation as early as 1521.

3. Ferdi Schüth

1960-. (aged 66)

university teacher chemist

Ferdi Schüth is a German chemist.

4. Thomas Steffen

1961-. (aged 65)

lawyer jurist

Thomas Steffen is a German lawyer who has been serving as State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025.

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5. Gordon Hillman

1943-2018 (aged 75)

anthropologist archaeologist

Gordon Hillman was a British archaeobotanist and academic at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has been described as "a pivotal figure in the development of archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, through his research, publications and teaching had a major influence on the field worldwide."

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6. Astrid Epiney

1965-. (aged 61)

jurist university teacher

Astrid Epiney, born Wander is a German-Swiss jurist. She is professor of international law, European law and Swiss public law at the University of Fribourg, and became its first female rector in 2015.

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7. Elisabeth Scholl

1966-. (aged 60)

opera singer university teacher

Elisabeth Scholl is a German soprano and academic teacher.

8. Mamoru Morimoto

1939-2021 (aged 82)

athletics competitor track and field coach middle-distance runner

Mamoru Morimoto was a Japanese middle distance runner who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. His daughter Tsuru Morimoto is a former footballer who played for the Japanese national team.

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9. Malte Herwig

1972-. (aged 54)

journalist

Malte Herwig is a German-born author, journalist, and literary critic.

10. Hans Grauert

1930-2011 (aged 81)

mathematician university teacher

Hans Grauert was a German mathematician. He is known for major works on several complex variables, complex manifolds and the application of sheaf theory in this area, which influenced later work in algebraic geometry. Together with Reinhold Remmert he established and developed the theory of complex-analytic spaces.

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11. Frank Schimmelfennig

1963-. (aged 63)

university teacher political scientist

Frank Schimmelfennig is a professor of European politics at the Center for Comparative and International Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

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12. Franz Ludwig von Erthal

1730-1795 (aged 65)

Catholic deacon Catholic bishop Catholic priest

Franz Ludwig Freiherr von Erthal was the Prince-bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg from 1779 until his death. He was buried at the Würzburg Cathedral (#45 diagram).

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13. Jürgen Zöllner

1945-. (aged 81)

university teacher physician politician

Emil Jürgen Zöllner is a German medical professional and politician (SPD). From 1991 to 2006, he served as Minister of Education and Science in Rhineland-Palatinate, and additionally as Deputy Minister-President from May to November 2006. During the 2006 to 2011 legislative period, he headed the Senate Department for Education, Youth, and Science of the Berlin Senate.

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14. Adam Lonitzer

1528-1586 (aged 58)

university teacher mathematician physician botanist naturalist

Adam Lonicer, Adam Lonitzer or Adamus Lonicerus was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's herbal.

15. Adolfas Mekas

1925-2011 (aged 86)

university teacher film director writer film editor children's writer

Adolfas Mekas was a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator. With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine Film Culture, as well as the Film-Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning. He made several short films, culminating in the feature Hallelujah the Hills in 1963, which was...

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16. Claudia Schreiber

1958-. (aged 68)

writer journalist television presenter screenwriter

Claudia Schreiber is a German journalist and author.

17. Eugen Eckert

1954-. (aged 72)

writer hymnwriter social worker pastor

Eugen Eckert is a German social worker, minister, singer-songwriter and academic teacher. He is known for his lyrics for new spiritual songs (Neues Geistliches Lied), and his oratorios and musical plays.

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18. Michael Cramer

1949-. (aged 77)

politician

Michael Cramer is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party.

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19. Rainer Blatt

1952-. (aged 74)

physicist university teacher

Rainer Blatt is a German-Austrian experimental physicist. His research centres on the areas of quantum optics and quantum information. He and his team performed one of the first experiments to teleport atoms, the other was done at NIST in Boulder Colorado. The reports of both groups appeared back-to-back in Nature.

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20. Jens Beutel

1946-2019 (aged 73)

chess player judge politician

Jens Beutel was a German judge and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he served as Oberbürgermeister (mayor) of Mainz, the state capital of Rheinland-Pfalz, from 1997 to 2011. During his tenure, the city improved especially by building projects, including the new synagogue, and new parks.

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21. Axel Gehrke

1942-2021 (aged 79)

physician scientist politician

Axel Gehrke was a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag from 2017 until 2021.

22. Frederick Charles of Schönborn

1674-1746 (aged 72)

Catholic priest Catholic bishop Catholic deacon deacon

Friedrich Karl von Schönborn was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1729 to 1746. He also served as Reichsvizekanzler (Vice-Chancellor) of the Holy Roman Empire from 1705 to 1734.

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23. Hans-Dieter Sues

1956-. (aged 70)

paleobiologist geologist curator paleontologist

Hans-Dieter Sues is a German-born American palaeontologist who is a Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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24. Katrin Eder

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

Katrin Eder is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as State Minister for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy and Mobility in the government of Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer since 2021.

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25. Carolin Hingst

1980-. (aged 46)

pole vaulter athletics competitor

Carolin Tamara Hingst is a German pole vaulter.

26. Sabine Hark

1962-. (aged 64)

university teacher gender studies scholar sociologist

Sabine Hark is a German feminist and sociologist, and sits on the editorial board of the journal Feministische Studien (Feminist Studies).

27. Randolf Stich

1966-2023 (aged 57)

politician

Randolf Stich was a German lawyer and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he served as Secretary of State of the Interior and Sport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 2015 to 2022.

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28. Johannes zu Eltz

1957-. (aged 69)

Catholic priest judge

Johannes zu Eltz is a German Catholic priest, who has served as Dean of Frankfurt, and a member of the cathedral chapter of the Diocese of Limburg. Trained as a jurist, he became a priest in important parishes in Hesse, Germany. In Frankfurt, he has pursued ecumenism and collaboration with other Christian churches and the Jewish community. He is a...

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29. Hans Alfred Nieper

1928-1998 (aged 70)

physician

Hans Alfred Herbert Eugen Nieper was a controversial German alternative medicine practitioner who devised "Nieper Therapy". He claimed "Nieper Therapy" could treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases. His therapy has been discredited as ineffective and unsafe.

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30. Anna Sauerbrey

1979-. (aged 47)

journalist

Anna Sauerbrey is a German journalist and a member of the editorial board of Der Tagesspiegel.

31. Albrecht Beutelspacher

1950-. (aged 76)

university teacher mathematician writer

Albrecht Beutelspacher is a German mathematician and founder of the Mathematikum. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Giessen, where he held the chair for geometry and discrete mathematics from 1988 to 2018.

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32. Felix Reda

1986-. (aged 40)

graduate student project manager politician

Felix Reda is a German researcher, politician, and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. He was a member of the Pirate Party Germany until 27 March 2019, part of The Greens–European Free Alliance. He has been Vice-President of the Greens/EFA group since 2014. He was also previously the president of Young Pirates of Europe. After the 2019...

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33. Michael Hartmann

1963-. (aged 63)

politician

Michael Hartmann is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2017. Hartmann is a specialist politician for internal security and was the domestic policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group as well as the chairman of his parliamentary group in the Committee on...

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34. Kees Moeliker

1960-. (aged 66)

biologist ornithologist

Cornelis W. "Kees" Moeliker is a Dutch biologist and former curator and director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. He is also European Bureau Chief of the Annals of Improbable Research.

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35. Michael Weiß

1965-. (aged 61)

association football player association football coach

Hans Michael Weiß is a German football manager.

36. Doris Ahnen

1964-. (aged 62)

politician

Doris Maria Ahnen is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as Minister for Finance in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2014. Prior to that she served as the Minister for Education, Research and Culture since 2001. She has been a part of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate since the 2006 elections. She is...

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37. Herbert Mertin

1958-2025 (aged 67)

politician

Herbert Mertin was a German politician for the FDP and was from 2016 to 2025 minister for justice in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

38. Abbas Zaryab

1919-1995 (aged 76)

literary scholar writer translator historian

Abbas Zaryab or 'Abbās Zaryāb was a historian, translator, literature Professor and Iranologist. He was the author of several books, including a life of Muhammad, and articles in The Persian Encyclopedia (published in Iran), Western peer reviewed Journals as well as Iranica.

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39. Otto Brunfels

1488-1534 (aged 46)

biologist theologian university teacher botanist entomologist

Otto Brunfels was a German theologian and botanist. Carl von Linné listed him among the "Fathers of Botany".

40. Klaus-Peter Willsch

1961-. (aged 65)

politician political economist

Klaus-Peter Willsch is a German politician of the CDU and member of the Bundestag, representing Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg since 1998.

41. Uwe Conradt

1977-. (aged 49)

merchant politician

Uwe Conradt is a German Christian Democratic politician who has been serving as Mayor of Saarbrücken since 2019.

42. Frederic Vester

1925-2003 (aged 78)

opinion journalist university teacher biologist non-fiction writer biochemist

Frederic Vester was a German biochemist, and an expert in the field of ecology.

43. Karl-Josef Rauber

1934-2023 (aged 89)

Catholic priest

Karl-Josef Rauber was a German prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an apostolic nuncio from 1982 until his retirement in 2009. He was created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2015.

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44. Lisa Hahner

1989-. (aged 37)

long-distance runner athletics competitor

Lisa Hahner is a German long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon.

45. Lee Charm

1954-. (aged 72)

actor television actor

Lee Charm, formerly known as Lee Han-woo (이한우), is a South Korean actor and entrepreneur. He was CEO of the Korea Tourism Organization from July 2009 to November 2013.

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46. Hans Belting

1935-2023 (aged 88)

media scholar anthropologist university teacher art critic cultural studies scholar

Hans Belting was a German art historian and media theorist with a focus on image science, and this with regard to contemporary art and to the Italian art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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47. Susanne Schröter

1957-. (aged 69)

anthropologist university teacher

Susanne Schröter is a contemporary Social Anthropologist focusing primarily on Islam, Gender and Conflict Studies.

48. Paul Josef Cordes

1934-2024 (aged 90)

Catholic theologian Catholic bishop Catholic priest

Paul Josef Cordes was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum (1995–2010) and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2007.

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49. Zsuzsa Bánk

1965-. (aged 61)

writer novelist bookseller editing staff

Zsuzsa Bánk is a German writer.

50. Michael Ebling

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Michael Ebling is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister of the Interior in the government of Minister-President Malu Dreyer of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2022. From 2012 to 2022, he was the mayor of Mainz.

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51. Joseph Martin Kraus

1756-1792 (aged 36)

choreographer conductor composer university teacher music critic

Joseph Martin Kraus, was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Holy Roman Empire. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. He has been referred to as "the Swedish Mozart", although his music is rarely performed today. He is best known for having been...

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52. Johann Joachim Becher

1635-1682 (aged 47)

university teacher alchemist economist chemist physician

Johann Joachim Becher was a German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar, polymath and adventurer, best known for his terra pinguis theory which became the phlogiston theory of combustion, and his advancement of Austrian cameralism.

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53. Karl-Rudolf Korte

1958-. (aged 68)

university teacher political scientist

Karl-Rudolf Korte is a German political scientist. From 2002 till the beginning of 2025 he has been professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen on Campus Duisburg. He appears regularly in national media as a guest for election analyses.

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54. Alexander Schweitzer

1973-. (aged 53)

politician

Alexander Schweitzer is a German politician of the SPD. From 2021 to 10 July 2024, he served as Rhineland-Palatinate State Minister for Labour. On 10 July 2024, he formed the Schweitzer cabinet and currently serves as the 9th minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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55. Anna Hahner

1989-. (aged 37)

long-distance runner athletics competitor

Anna Hahner is a German long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon.

56. Theo Zwanziger

1945-. (aged 81)

lawyer judge politician

Theo Zwanziger is a German lawyer and sports official. He was the president of the German Football Association (DFB) from 2006 to 2012. For his contributions to German football, he received the Bundesverdienstkreuz in 2005.

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57. Khola Maryam Hübsch

1980-. (aged 46)

journalist

Khola Maryam Hübsch is a German journalist and writer of German-Indian origin. Hübsch is the daughter of the German writer Hadayatullah Hübsch. She is a prominent member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Germany.

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58. Franz Josef Jung

1949-. (aged 77)

lawyer politician

Franz Josef Jung is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He became Federal Minister of Defence in the Grand coalition cabinet of Angela Merkel on 22 November 2005. In October 2009 he became Minister of Labour and Social Affairs but resigned a month later.

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59. Karl-Otto Apel

1922-2017 (aged 95)

university teacher philosopher

Karl-Otto Apel was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He specialized on the philosophy of language and was thus considered a communication theorist. He developed a distinctive philosophical approach which he coined transcendental pragmatics.

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60. Hanns-Josef Ortheil

1951-. (aged 75)

autobiographer screenwriter literary critic writer university teacher

Hanns-Josef Ortheil is a German author, scholar of German literature, and pianist. He has written many autobiographical and historical novels, some of which have been translated into 11 languages, according to WorldCat: French, Dutch, Modern Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Lithuanian, Japanese, Slovenian, and Russian.

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61. Sinem Öztürk

1985-. (aged 41)

actor

Gözde Sinem Öztürk is a Turkish actress and presenter. Between 2007-2012, She played in youth series Arka Sıradakiler. She notably played the fashionably conservative role of Sukran in Turking TV series Huzur Sokağı (2012–14).

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62. Valdis Dombrovskis

1971-. (aged 55)

economist politician physicist

Valdis Dombrovskis is a Latvian politician serving as European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, and Commissioner for Implementation and Simplification. He previously served as Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People (2019-2024), European Commissioner for Trade (2020-2024). European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (2016-2020) and Prime Minister of...

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63. Rainer Brüderle

1945-. (aged 81)

economist political economist minister politician

Rainer Brüderle is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He served as Minister of Economics and Transport of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1987–1998. On 28 October 2009, he was appointed Federal Minister for Economics and Technology in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following his election in May 2011 as chairman of his party's parliamentary group,...

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64. Hanns Dieter Hüsch

1925-2005 (aged 80)

actor radio personality writer cabaret performer voice actor

Hanns Dieter Hüsch was a German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator.

65. Béla Réthy

1956-. (aged 70)

journalist sports journalist

Béla Andreas Réthy is a German sports reporter of Hungarian ancestry.

66. Ruth Pfau

1929-2017 (aged 88)

nun physician

Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM was a German–Pakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Pfau was honoured with Hilal-e-Pakistan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam awards.

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67. Peter Scholl-Latour

1924-2014 (aged 90)

opinion journalist Irregular intelligence source editor-in-chief journalist paratrooper

Peter Roman Scholl-Latour was a French-German journalist, author and reporter. Scholl-Latour was regarded as one of Europe's most important journalists, akin to what Walter Cronkite was in the US. For over six decades, he was one of the continent's most influential voices. During the Vietnam War, he was captured by the Viet Cong and managed to secure unique film footage...

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68. Jonas Mekas

1922-2019 (aged 97)

screenwriter opinion journalist film director artist poet

Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas's work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. Mekas was active in New York City, where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, and the journal Film Culture. He was also the first film critic for The...

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69. Werner Forssmann

1904-1979 (aged 75)

military physician cardiologist urologist physiologist surgeon

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm. Not knowing if the catheter might...

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70. Kristina Schröder

1977-. (aged 49)

politician sociologist

Kristina Schröder is a German politician who served as the Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2009 to 2013. She served as a Member of Parliament between 2002 and 2017.

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71. Sönke Neitzel

1968-. (aged 58)

historian military historian sociologist university teacher

Sönke Neitzel is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War. He is editor of the journal German History in the 20th Century and has written several books such as Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying; The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs based on recordings of German POWs held at Trent Park which...

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72. Thomas J. Kinne

1961-. (aged 65)

writer translator television personality

Thomas J. Kinne is a German translator, author, editor, proofreader, travel writer, movie expert, and comic-book collector. He became widely known in his home country for his frequent appearances as a contestant and winner on a wide variety of game shows on German and U.S. television. Since 2018, he is one of the “chasers” on Gefragt – Gejagt, the German...

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73. Majid Samii

1937-. (aged 89)

surgeon writer professor inventor neurosurgeon

Majid Samii is an Iranian neurosurgeon and medical scientist.

74. Malu Dreyer

1961-. (aged 65)

jurist judge politician

Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the 8th minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate from 2013 to 2024. She is the first woman to hold this office. She served a one-year-term as president of the Federal Council from 1 November 2016 – 31 October 2017, which made her deputy to the president of...

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75. Omid Nouripour

1975-. (aged 51)

rapper translator politician

Omid Nouripour is a German-Iranian politician who has been serving as Vice President of the Bundestag since 2025. A member of Alliance '90/The Greens, he has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2006, representing the state of Hesse. From 2022 to 2024, he also served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Ricarda Lang.

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76. Hannelore Kohl

1933-2001 (aged 68)

interpreter translator

Johanna Klara Eleonore "Hannelore" Kohl was the first wife of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a school party in Ludwigshafen, Allied-occupied Germany in 1948, when she was 15 years old, and they became engaged in 1953. They were married from 1960 until her death in 2001, a span which included his entire political...

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77. Marcel Reif

1949-. (aged 77)

university teacher sports journalist journalist

Marcel Reif is a Swiss television sport journalist and commentator

78. Mario Adorf

1930-. (aged 96)

audiobook narrator film actor stage actor actor voice actor

Mario Adorf is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum. He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books.

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79. Manuela Schwesig

1974-. (aged 52)

civil servant politician

Manuela Schwesig is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party serving as Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 4 July 2017, becoming the first woman to serve in that post. Previously she served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the third cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2013 to 2017. She was President of the...

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80. Thomas Anders

1963-. (aged 63)

singer-songwriter singer

Bernd Weidung, known professionally as Thomas Anders ( German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈandɐs]), is a German singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the vocalist of the former pop duo Modern Talking.

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81. Klemens von Metternich

1773-1859 (aged 86)

diplomat writer politician

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service of the Austrian Empire. A conservative, Metternich was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as Austrian foreign minister from 1809 and chancellor...

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82. Julia Klöckner

1972-. (aged 54)

editing staff theologian politician journalist political scientist

Julia Klöckner is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as President of the German Bundestag since 25 March 2025.

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83. Kollegah

1984-. (aged 42)

motivational speaker rapper

Felix Martin Andreas Matthias Blume, known professionally as Kollegah, is a German rapper. He releases his music via his own label, Alpha Music Empire.

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84. Christoph Bernhard von Galen

1606-1678 (aged 72)

Catholic priest Catholic bishop

Christoph Bernhard Freiherr von Galen was Prince-bishop of Münster. He was born into a noble Westphalian family.

85. Jörg Meuthen

1961-. (aged 65)

university teacher economist politician

Jörg Hubert Meuthen is a German economist, academic and politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany from 2017 until 2024.

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86. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

1987-. (aged 39)

chemist science journalist YouTuber television producer science communicator

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is a German chemist, science communicator, television presenter and YouTuber. In June 2020 she was elected to the senate of the Max Planck Society.

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87. Armin Willingmann

1963-. (aged 63)

politician university teacher legal historian jurist minister

Armin Willingmann is a German legal scholar and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Research, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment in the government of Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff since 2021.

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88. Gitta Connemann

1964-. (aged 62)

lawyer politician

Gitta Connemann is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2002. Since 2021, she has been serving as the chairwoman of MIT, the pro-business wing in the CDU/CSU.

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89. Bettina Stark-Watzinger

1968-. (aged 58)

politician political economist

Bettina Stark-Watzinger is a German economist and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Minister of Education and Research in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet from 2021 to 2024. She was a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2017 to 2025.

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90. Michel Friedman

1956-. (aged 70)

jurist lawyer opinion journalist politician journalist

Julien Michel Friedman is a German author, former CDU politician, and talk show host. From 2000 to 2003, Friedman was vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and president of the European Jewish Congress from 2001 to 2003, when he resigned after being convicted in a case involving forced prostitution and cocaine usage. From 1998 to 2003,...

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91. Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

1770-1827 (aged 57)

businessperson politician

Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, full German name: Karl Alexander Fürst von Thurn und Taxis was the fifth Prince of Thurn and Taxis, head of the Thurn-und-Taxis Post, and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis from 13 November 1805 until his death on 15 July 1827. With the death of his father on 13...

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92. Susanne Wasum-Rainer

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat

Susanne Wasum-Rainer is a former German diplomat who has been serving as Germany's Ambassador to Israel between 2018 and 2022.

93. Christoph von Marschall

1959-. (aged 67)

historian opinion journalist journalist

Christoph von Marschall is a German journalist working for the daily Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. He is currently titled the diplomatic correspondent of the newspaper's editorial offices.

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94. Gerhard Ludwig Müller

1947-. (aged 79)

university teacher Catholic priest theologian Catholic bishop archbishop

Gerhard Ludwig Müller is a German Catholic prelate who served as the Cardinal-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 until 2017. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal in 2014.

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95. Anne Spiegel

1980-. (aged 46)

politician

Anne Spiegel is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. She served as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 8 December 2021; she announced her resignation on 11 April and was dismissed by the President on 25 April 2022

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96. Carl-Ludwig Wagner

1930-2012 (aged 82)

jurist politician

Carl-Ludwig Wagner was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

97. Łukasz Opaliński

1581-1654 (aged 73)

politician

Łukasz de Bnin Opaliński was a Polish nobleman, poet, political activist and one of the most important Polish political writers of the 17th century.

98. Walter Krämer

1948-. (aged 78)

writer economist statistician university teacher

Walter Krämer is a German economist. He is a professor for economic and social statistics at the Technical University of Dortmund.

99. Hans Friderichs

1931-2025 (aged 94)

jurist politician

Hans Friderichs was a German politician who served as the minister of economy from 1972 to 1977. He was also a jurist and businessman.

100. Carlos Mateo Balmelli

1961-. (aged 65)

writer academic lawyer politician

Carlos Mateo Balmelli was a Paraguayan politician, who is the former President of the Senate of Paraguay. He belongs to the Authentic Radical Liberal Party.

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