Notable Alumni of University of Erlangen Nuremberg [Sorted List]

1. Moritz Wagner

1997-. (aged 29)

basketball player

Moritz Wagner was a German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian. Wagner devoted three years (1836–1839) to the exploration of Algiers: it was here that he made important observations in natural history, which he later supplemented and developed: that geographical isolation could play a key role in speciation.

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2. William Fogg Osgood

1864-1943 (aged 79)

mathematician

William Fogg Osgood was an American mathematician.

3. Siegfried Balleis

1953-. (aged 73)

politician

Siegfried Balleis is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

4. Rudolf Kippenhahn

1926-2020 (aged 94)

author astronomer university teacher physicist science communicator

Rudolf Kippenhahn was a German astrophysicist and science author.

5. Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein

1770-1840 (aged 70)

politician

Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein was a Prussian politician and the first Prussian education minister. His most lasting impact was the reform of the Prussian educational system.

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6. Sasagu Arai

1930-2024 (aged 94)

biblical scholar

Sasagu Arai was a Japanese scholar of New Testament Study and researcher of early Christianity and Gnosticism. Arai was a Doctor of Theology. Professor emeritus of University of Tokyo and Keisen University (in which he took office as president), and a member of the Japan Academy. He graduated (1962) at Erlangen-Nürnberg University in Germany.

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7. Wilhelm Bousset

1865-1920 (aged 55)

university teacher theologian

Wilhelm Bousset was a German theologian and New Testament scholar. He was of Huguenot ancestry and a native of Lübeck. His most influential work was Kyrios Christos, an attempt to explain the origins of devotion to Christ as the product of second century Hellenistic forces, and is still the most widely influential academic work on early Christology, even though its...

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8. David Einhorn

1809-1879 (aged 70)

rabbi

David Einhorn was a German rabbi and leader of Reform Judaism in the United States. In 1855, he became the first rabbi of the Har Sinai Congregation in Baltimore, the oldest Jewish-American congregation affiliated with the Reform movement since its inception. While there, he created an early American prayer book for the congregation that became one of the progenitors of...

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9. İlhan Fuat Akyıldız

1954-. (aged 72)

academic university teacher computer scientist researcher engineer

Ian F. Akyildiz is a Turkish-American electrical engineer. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the President and CTO of the Truva Inc. since March 1989. He retired from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia...

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10. Ludwig Knorr

1859-1921 (aged 62)

university teacher chemist

Ludwig Knorr was a German chemist. Together with Carl Paal, he discovered the Paal–Knorr synthesis, and the Knorr quinoline synthesis and Knorr pyrrole synthesis are also named after him. The synthesis in 1883 of the analgesic drug antipyrine, now called phenazone, was a commercial success. Antipyrine was the first synthetic drug and the most widely used drug until it was...

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11. Kai Brodersen

1958-. (aged 68)

classical philologist translator editing staff university teacher historian of classical antiquity

Kai Brodersen is a contemporary ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of Erfurt. He has edited, and translated, both ancient works and modern classical studies. His research focuses on "Applied Sciences" in antiquity, geography, historiography, rhetoric and ancient jokes, mythography and paradoxography, Septuagint studies and Aristeas, inscriptions and curse tablets, early Greek and Hellenistic history, Roman...

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12. Heinrich Scholz

1884-1956 (aged 72)

university teacher theologian philosopher mathematician historian of mathematics

Heinrich Scholz was a German logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. He was a peer of Alan Turing who mentioned Scholz when writing with regard to the reception of "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem": "I have had two letters asking for reprints, one from Braithwaite at King's and one from a professor in Germany... They seemed very...

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13. Andreas Dombret

1960-. (aged 66)

university teacher economist banker

Andreas Raymond Dombret is a German-American banker who served as member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 2010 until 2018. In that capacity, he held responsibility for Banking and Financial Supervision, Risk Controlling and the Bundesbank's Representative Offices abroad.

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14. Jürgen Mittelstraß

1936-. (aged 90)

university teacher philosopher

Jürgen Mittelstraß is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science.

15. Klaus-Dieter Fritsche

1953-. (aged 73)

politician

Klaus-Dieter Fritsche is a former German civil servant who served as State Secretary and Commissioner for the Intelligence Services in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2018. He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).

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16. Walter Höllerer

1922-2003 (aged 81)

writer literary critic linguist university teacher

Walter Höllerer was a German writer, literary critic, and literature academic. He was professor of literary studies at Technische Universität Darmstadt from 1959 to 1988. Höllerer was a member of the Group 47, founder of the German literary magazine Akzente (1953) and the Literary Colloquium of Berlin (1963).

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17. Nathan Marcus Adler

1803-1890 (aged 87)

rabbi theologian

Nathan Marcus HaKohen Adler was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1845 until his death.

18. Bruno Reichart

1943-. (aged 83)

university teacher cardiac surgeon physician

Bruno Reichart is a retired German cardiothoracic surgeon who performed Germany's first successful heart transplant in 1981 and its first combined heart–lung transplant in 1983.

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19. Albert Döderlein

1860-1941 (aged 81)

university teacher obstetrician gynecologist

Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderlein was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. He was the father of gynecologist Gustav Döderlein.

20. Adolf Slaby

1849-1913 (aged 64)

electrotechnician physicist university teacher politician

Adolf Karl Heinrich Slaby was a German electronics pioneer and the first Professor of electro-technology at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg (today Technische Universität Berlin, 1886).

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21. Julius Eduard Hitzig

1780-1849 (aged 69)

writer publisher judge biographer

Julius Eduard Hitzig, born Isaac Elias Itzig, was a German author and civil servant.

22. Carl August von Steinheil

1801-1870 (aged 69)

astronomer physicist optician mathematician inventor

Carl August von Steinheil was an Alsatian physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer.

23. Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana

1949-. (aged 77)

politician

Pierrette Gabrielle Herzberger-Fofana is a German-Malian politician of Alliance 90/The Greens and member of the European Parliament.

24. Karl Hase

1800-1890 (aged 90)

university teacher Protestant theologian church historian

Karl August von Hase was a German Protestant theologian and church historian.

25. Eberhard Arnold

1883-1935 (aged 52)

theologian philosopher writer

Eberhard Arnold was a German theologian and Christian writer. He was the founder of the Bruderhof in 1920.

26. Georg Friedrich Daumer

1800-1875 (aged 75)

translator poet philosopher writer

Georg Friedrich Daumer was a German poet and philosopher.

27. Katja Hessel

1972-. (aged 54)

jurist lawyer politician

Katja Hessel is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2017 to March 2025.

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28. Helmut Haussmann

1943-. (aged 83)

university teacher politician

Helmut Haussmann is a German academic and politician. He served as minister of economy from 1988 to 1991.

29. Arthur Eichengrün

1867-1949 (aged 82)

art collector chemist

Arthur Eichengrün was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics: co-developing (with Theodore Becker) the first soluble cellulose acetate materials in 1903, called "Cellit", and creating processes for the manufacture...

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30. Christian August Vulpius

1762-1827 (aged 65)

writer librarian

Christian August Vulpius was a German novelist and dramatist. His sister married the noted German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

31. Georg August Goldfuss

1782-1848 (aged 66)

mineralogist zoologist biologist university teacher geologist

Georg August Goldfuß was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist. He became a professor of zoology at the University of Erlangen and later at the University of Bonn. He coined the terms "protozoa" and "pelecypoda".

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32. Georg Friedrich Puchta

1798-1846 (aged 48)

jurist judge legal historian university teacher

Georg Friedrich Puchta was a German Legal scholar.

33. Friedrich Kohlrausch

1840-1910 (aged 70)

university teacher chemist physicist

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.

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34. Martin Ohm

1792-1872 (aged 80)

university teacher mathematician politician

Martin Ohm was a German mathematician and a younger brother of physicist Georg Ohm.

35. Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe

1808-1872 (aged 64)

theologian

Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe was a pastor of the Lutheran Church, Confesional Lutheran writer, and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheranism and a founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). From the small town of Neuendettelsau, he sent pastors to North America, Australia, New Guinea, Brazil, and Ukraine. His work for a...

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36. Friedrich Paulsen

1846-1908 (aged 62)

university teacher educator philosopher

Friedrich Paulsen was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher and educator.

37. Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach

1800-1834 (aged 34)

mathematician university teacher

Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach was a German geometer and the son of legal scholar Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, and the brother of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. After receiving his doctorate at age 22, he became a professor of mathematics at the Gymnasium at Erlangen. In 1822 he wrote a small book on mathematics noted mainly for a theorem on the...

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38. Hermann Haken

1927-2024 (aged 97)

author theoretical physicist physicist university teacher

Hermann Haken was a German physicist and professor emeritus in theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics and one of the "fathers" of quantum-mechanical laser theory. He is a cousin of the mathematician Wolfgang Haken, who proved the Four color theorem. He was a nephew of Werner Haken, a doctoral student of...

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39. Arthur Harden

1865-1940 (aged 75)

university teacher biochemist chemist

Sir Arthur Harden, FRS was a British biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes. He was a founding member of the Biochemical Society and editor of the Biochemical Journal for 25 years.

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40. Carl Ludwig

1816-1895 (aged 79)

physician physiologist university teacher anatomist

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology.

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41. Ulrich Maly

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Dr. Ulrich Maly is a German politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who served as Mayor of Nuremberg from 2002 till 2020.

42. Walter Flex

1887-1917 (aged 30)

military personnel poet writer

Walter Flex was a German author of The Wanderer between the Two Worlds: An Experience of War (Der Wanderer zwischen beiden Welten) of 1916, a war novel dealing with themes of humanity, friendship, and suffering during World War I. Due to his idealism about Prussian virtues and the Great War, as well as the posthumous popularity of his writings, Walter...

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43. Joseph Seligman

1819-1880 (aged 61)

financier banker

Joseph Seligman was an American banker and businessman who founded J. & W. Seligman & Co. He was the patriarch of what became known as the Seligman family in the United States and related to the wealthy Guggenheim family through Peggy Guggenheim's mother Florette.

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44. Friedrich Carl Andreas

1846-1930 (aged 84)

orientalist interpreter linguist university teacher

Friedrich Carl Andreas was an orientalist of German, Malay, and Armenian parentage (descendant of the Bagratuni royal family). He was the husband of psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé.

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45. Alexander von Middendorff

1815-1894 (aged 79)

zoologist ornithologist botanist land owner biologist

Alexander Theodor von Middendorff was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He was known for his expedition in 1843–45 to the extreme north and east of Siberia, describing the effects of permafrost on the spread of animals and plants.

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46. Lorentzos Mavilis

1860-1912 (aged 52)

chess player chess composer poet translator politician

Lorentzos Mavilis was a Greek sonneteer, war poet, and chess problems composer. He is best known for his sonnets.

47. Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

1739-1810 (aged 71)

lichenologist university teacher naturalist botanical collector botanist

Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, often styled J.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.

48. Otto Gessler

1875-1955 (aged 80)

lawyer politician

Otto Karl Gessler was a liberal German politician during the Weimar Republic. From 1910 until 1914, he was mayor of Regensburg and from 1913 to 1919 mayor of Nuremberg. He served in numerous Weimar cabinets, most notably as Reichswehrminister (Minister of Defence) from 1920 to 1928.

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49. Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

1773-1798 (aged 25)

writer jurist poet lawyer art historian

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck and the Schlegel brothers, he co-founded German Romanticism.

50. Siegfried Russwurm

1963-. (aged 63)

executive

Siegfried Russwurm is a German business executive who was president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) from 2021 to 2024. He has held a number of positions and is chairman of the supervisory board of Thyssenkrupp and Voith Group and a former member of the Siemens Executive Board.

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51. Ossama bin Abdul Majed Shobokshi

1943-2023 (aged 80)

diplomat physician politician

Ossama bin Abdul Majed Shobokshi was a Saudi Arabian academic, physician, diplomat and politician.

52. Hermann Blumenau

1819-1899 (aged 80)

scientific explorer chemist pharmacist settler naturalist

Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau was a German pharmacist who founded the city of Blumenau, situated in the Itajaí-Açu river valley in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

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53. Albert Neisser

1855-1916 (aged 61)

physician pathologist dermatologist university teacher

Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae).

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54. Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

1794-1868 (aged 74)

scientific collector pteridologist university teacher cartographer botanist

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His most important work was a comprehensive flora of Brazil, Flora Brasiliensis, which he initiated in 1840 and was completed posthumously in 1906.

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55. Wilhelm Hoegner

1887-1980 (aged 93)

writer lawyer judge politician

Wilhelm Johann Harald Hoegner was the second Bavarian minister-president after World War II (1945–1946 and 1954–1957), and the father of the Bavarian constitution. He has been the only Social Democrat to hold this office since 1920.

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56. Alma Adamkienė

1927-2023 (aged 96)

philanthropist philologist politician

Alma Adamkienė was a Lithuanian philologist and philanthropist. She was the wife of the president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, and was First Lady during his two terms (1998–2003 and 2004–2009). She also held United States citizenship.

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57. Jürgen Kuczynski

1904-1997 (aged 93)

sociologist historian economic historian economist essayist

Jürgen Kuczynski was a German economist, journalist, and communist. He also provided intelligence to the Soviet Union during World War II.

58. August Engelhardt

1877-1919 (aged 42)

cult leader nutritionist settler

August Engelhardt was a German author. He promoted fruitarianism, specifically the consumption of coconuts and coconut products, and was the founder of a sect of sun worshipers.

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59. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart

1739-1791 (aged 52)

composer poet journalist writer

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart was a German poet, organist, composer, and journalist. He was repeatedly punished for his social-critical writing and spent ten years in severe conditions in jail.

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60. Alexander Rüstow

1885-1963 (aged 78)

university teacher economist sociologist

Alexander Rüstow was a German sociologist and economist. At the Colloque Walter Lippmann in August 1938 he popularised the term "neoliberalism". He became one of the fathers of the "Social Market Economy" that shaped the economy of West Germany after World War II. Rüstow was the grandnephew of Wilhelm Rüstow, the grandson of Cäsar Rüstow and the father of Dankwart...

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61. Martin Sichert

1980-. (aged 46)

merchant politician

Martin Johannes Sichert is a German merchant and politician (AfD). He has been a member for the 19th Bundestag and was AfD Bavarian state chairman from 2017 to 2019.

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62. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

1960-. (aged 66)

university teacher theologian pastor

Heinrich Bedford-Strohm is a German Lutheran bishop. Since September 2022 he is the Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC).

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63. Johann Peter Hebel

1760-1826 (aged 66)

theologian university teacher Protestant theologian writer poet

Johann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, Lutheran theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems (Allemannische Gedichte) and one of German tales (Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes – "Treasure Chest of Rhenish Tales").

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64. Erich Neumann

1905-1960 (aged 55)

mythographer poet writer art historian philosopher

Erich Neumann was a German analytical psychologist and student of Carl Jung.

65. Melanie Huml

1975-. (aged 51)

politician physician

Melanie Huml is a German physician and politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for European and International Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President Markus Söder since 2021. She has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 2003.

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66. Eduard Buchner

1860-1917 (aged 57)

university teacher biochemist chemist

Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and expert on fermentation (sometimes called a zymologist), awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation.

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67. Joachim Herrmann

1956-. (aged 70)

lawyer politician

Joachim Herrmann is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU party. Herrmann is an MP in the Landtag, the parliament of Bavaria since 1994. Since 16 October 2007 he has been Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria.

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68. Klaus Schmidt

1953-2014 (aged 61)

university teacher historian archaeologist anthropologist prehistorian

Klaus Schmidt was a German archaeologist and prehistorian who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014.

69. Ferdinand von Lindemann

1852-1939 (aged 87)

mathematician university teacher

Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that π (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any nonzero polynomial with rational coefficients.

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70. Karlheinz Brandenburg

1954-. (aged 72)

electrical engineer university teacher audio engineer mathematician engineer

Karlheinz Brandenburg is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widespread MP3 method for audio data compression. He is also known for his elementary work in the field of audio coding, perception measurement, wave field synthesis...

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71. Wilhelm Kempff

1895-1991 (aged 96)

university teacher pianist autobiographer musicologist composer

Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a German pianist, teacher and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, recording the complete sonatas of both composers. He is considered to have been one of the chief exponents of the...

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72. Günther Beckstein

1943-. (aged 83)

lawyer politician

Günther Beckstein is a German CSU politician from Bavaria and was the 17th minister-president of Bavaria from 9 October 2007 to 27 October 2008. He is well known for his outspoken views on law and order.

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73. Friedrich Naumann

1860-1919 (aged 59)

geopolitical analyst theologian editor politician

Friedrich Naumann was a German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor. In 1896, he founded the National-Social Association that sought to combine liberalism, nationalism and (non-Marxist) socialism with Protestant Christian values, proposing social reform to prevent class struggle. He led the party until its merger into the Free-minded Union in 1903. From 1907 to 1912 and again from 1913 to...

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74. Sandra Ciesek

1978-. (aged 48)

researcher virologist

Sandra Ciesek is a German physician and virologist. She is the director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt and professor of medical virology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main areas of research include new forms of therapy for hepatitis C and, more recently, the search for drugs against COVID-19.

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75. Christian Schmidt

1957-. (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Hans Сhristian Friedrich Schmidt is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina since August 2021.

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76. Hans Geiger

1882-1945 (aged 63)

scientist university teacher nuclear physicist laboratory director inventor

Johannes Wilhelm "Hans " Geiger was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.

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77. Ludwig Tieck

1773-1853 (aged 80)

novelist writer publisher English–German translator translator

Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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78. Rudolf Otto

1869-1937 (aged 68)

theologian university teacher politician non-fiction writer philosopher

Rudolf Otto was a German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist. He is regarded as one of the most influential scholars of religion in the early twentieth century and is best known for his concept of the numinous, a profound emotional experience he argued was at the heart of the world's religions. While his work started in the domain of...

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79. Markus Söder

1967-. (aged 59)

journalist politician

Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician from Bavaria, Germany serving as Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since 2019.

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80. Philipp Plein

1978-. (aged 48)

fashion designer designer dressmaker

Philipp Patrick Hannes Plein is a German fashion designer, entrepreneur, and the founder of the Philipp Plein International Group, which includes the Philipp Plein, Plein Sport, and Billionaire brands.

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81. Max Stirner

1806-1856 (aged 50)

gymnasial teacher educator journalist professor of philosophy translator

Max Stirner, born Johann Kaspar Schmidt, was a German philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism, individualist anarchism, and egoism.

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82. Georg Simon Ohm

1789-1854 (aged 65)

university teacher mathematician physicist

Georg Simon Ohm was a German mathematician and physicist. As a school teacher, Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell, invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current; this relation is known...

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83. Dagmar Wöhrl

1954-. (aged 72)

beauty pageant contestant lawyer politician

Dagmar Gabriele Wöhrl is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). She was elected to the German Bundestag six times, serving from 1994 to her retirement in 2017. From 2005 until 2009 she was a Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. She has served as Chairwoman of the Committee for Economic...

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84. Samuel Hahnemann

1755-1843 (aged 88)

chemist pharmacologist university teacher librarian homeopath

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.

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85. Justus von Liebig

1803-1873 (aged 70)

university teacher writer chemist inventor agronomist

Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is...

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86. Oscar Schneider

1927-2024 (aged 97)

jurist politician

Oscar Schneider was a German politician (CSU). From 1982 to 1989 he was Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development.

87. Ernst Troeltsch

1865-1923 (aged 58)

theologian historian university teacher sociologist philosopher

Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of the history of religions school. His work was a synthesis of a number of strands, drawing on Albrecht Ritschl, Max Weber's conception of sociology, and the Baden school...

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88. Thomas Silberhorn

1968-. (aged 58)

jurist lawyer politician

Thomas Silberhorn is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2002.

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89. Jean-Pol Martin

1943-. (aged 83)

writer university teacher

Jean-Pol Martin studied teacher education for foreign language teachers in Germany, and developed a teaching method called learning by teaching. He spent most of his career at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and was a professor there until his retirement in 2008.

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90. Gerd Schaller

1965-. (aged 61)

conductor

Gerd Schaller is a German conductor, best known for his performing and recording rare works, including the first full recordings of Bruckner's output.

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91. Louis Agassiz

1807-1873 (aged 66)

philosopher writer botanical collector scientific collector physical geographer

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS FRSE was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.

92. Emanuel Lasker

1868-1941 (aged 73)

philosopher mathematician bridge player chess composer chess player

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion, winning 6 World Chess Championships. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions.

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93. Emmy Noether

1882-1935 (aged 53)

university teacher mathematician physicist

Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. Noether was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians...

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94. Ludwig Feuerbach

1804-1872 (aged 68)

critic of religions anthropologist theologian university teacher philosopher

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach was a German philosopher and anthropologist who was a leading figure among the Young Hegelians. He is best known for his 1841 book, The Essence of Christianity, which argued that God is a projection of the essential attributes of humanity. His critique of religion formed the basis for his advocacy of atheism, materialism, and sensualism. In his...

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95. Christian Friedrich Schönbein

1799-1868 (aged 69)

university teacher chemist politician

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.

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96. Helmuth Plessner

1892-1985 (aged 93)

anthropologist philosopher sociologist university teacher

Helmuth Plessner was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology".

97. Hans Magnus Enzensberger

1929-2022 (aged 93)

playwright journalist reporter writer translator

Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading...

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98. Hans Reichenbach

1891-1953 (aged 62)

university teacher philosopher physicist

Hans Reichenbach was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism. He founded the Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in Berlin in 1928, also known as the "Berlin Circle". Carl Gustav Hempel, Richard von Mises, David Hilbert and Kurt Grelling all became members of the Berlin Circle.

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99. Roland Busch

1964-. (aged 62)

chief executive officer manager physicist

Roland Emil Busch is a German business executive and physicist who serves as the chief executive officer and president of Siemens AG.

100. Otto Bradfisch

1903-1994 (aged 91)

economist Gestapo employee jurist

Otto Bradfisch was an economist, a jurist, an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant colonel), leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or SiPo) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam.

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