36 Notable alumni of University of Mannheim
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Mannheim is ranked #625 in the world and #46 in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from University of Mannheim sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Mannheim won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jürgen Creutzmann
1945-. (aged 81)
politician
Jürgen Creutzmann is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014.
2. Thilo Marauhn
1963-. (aged 63)
lawyer
professor
Thilo Marauhn is a German expert on international law. He currently holds the professorship for Public Law and International Law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and heads the research group “International Law” at the Leibniz Institute Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung / Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Apart from this, he is a researcher at the Asser Institute and...
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3. Claudia Klüppelberg
1953-. (aged 73)
mathematician
university teacher
Claudia Klüppelberg is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich.
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4. Roland Scholz
1950-. (aged 76)
mathematician
professor
psychologist
university teacher
Roland Werner Scholz is a German mathematician, psychologist, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. He famously coined the terms transdisciplinarity and societal didactics.
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5. Frauke Kreuter
1997-2001 (aged 4)
economist
statistician
sociologist
university teacher
Frauke Kreuter is a German sociologist and statistician. She is a professor of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology of the University of Maryland, College Park and a professor in statistics and data science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Her research in survey methodology includes work on sampling error and observational error.
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6. Karin Jöns
1953-. (aged 73)
journalist
politician
Karin Jöns is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany. During her time in parliament she was part of the Socialist Group and was on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
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7. Martin Schlichenmaier
1952-. (aged 74)
mathematician
university teacher
Martin Schlichenmaier is a German-Luxembourgish mathematician whose research deals with algebraic, geometric and analytic mathematical methods which partly have relations to theoretical and mathematical physics.
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8. Fritz Strack
1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher
professor
psychologist
Fritz Strack is a German social psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Würzburg. Strack is a member of Germany's National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for psychology in 2019.
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9. Claus E. Heinrich
1955-. (aged 71)
economist
Claus E. Heinrich is a German manager, entrepreneur, who is an honorary professor for operations research at both Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Mannheim and served as board member of SAP between 1996 and 2009. Since 2009 he serves as honorary senator of the Heidelberg University.
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10. Eckart Viehweg
1948-2010 (aged 62)
mathematician
university teacher
Eckart Viehweg was a German mathematician. He was a professor of algebraic geometry at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
11. Wolfgang Franz
1944-. (aged 82)
university teacher
economist
Wolfgang Franz is a German economist. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. Franz also is the chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts since March 2009.
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12. Norbert Schwarz
1953-. (aged 73)
university teacher
psychologist
Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center.
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13. Jürgen Walter
1968-. (aged 58)
politician
Jürgen Walter is a German lawyer and politician, and a former member of the Parliament of Hesse for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
14. Stefan Lippe
1955-2020 (aged 65)
economist
business executive
Stefan Lippe, was a German insurance manager. He was the CEO of Swiss Re from 2009 to 2012 when Michel M. Liès succeeded him as Swiss Re's group chief executive officer.
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15. Klaus F. Zimmermann
1952-. (aged 74)
university teacher
economist
Klaus Felix Zimmermann is a German economist and emeritus professor of economics at Bonn University. Additionally, he is an honorary professor at Maastricht University, the Free University of Berlin and the Renmin University of China as well as president of the Global Labor Organization. His research interests include population, labour, development and migration, with Zimmermann being among the leading economists...
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16. Lena Lattwein
2000-. (aged 26)
association football player
Lena Lattwein is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Germany national team.
17. Olav Gutting
1970-. (aged 56)
jurist
lawyer
politician
Olav Gutting is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002.
18. Melanie Ohme
1990-. (aged 36)
chess player
Melanie Lubbe is a German chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2012).
19. Christoph M. Schmidt
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
economist
Christoph Matthias Schmidt is a German economist. He has been President of RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen since 2002 and also holds the Chair for Economic Policy and Applied Econometrics at the Faculty of Management and Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2009 to 2020...
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20. Philipp Sandner
1980-2024 (aged 44)
economist
Philipp Sandner was a German economist and professor in the area of business and IT at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
21. Peter Kurz
1962-. (aged 64)
jurist
judge
politician
Peter Kurz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the Lord mayor of Mannheim, the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, from 4 August 2007 to 3 August 2023.
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22. Thomas Schäfer
1970-. (aged 56)
chief executive officer
business executive
manager
Thomas Schäfer is a German manager. Since July 2022, he has been chief executive officer (CEO) of Volkswagen Passenger Cars (VW) and a board member of the Volkswagen Group. Schäfer is responsible for all volume brands. This includes Škoda Auto, which he managed from 2020 to 2022. Before that, Schäfer worked for Daimler and Mercedes-Benz.
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23. Alexander Nuno Alvaro
1975-. (aged 51)
lawyer
consultant
lobbyist
politician
Alexander Nuno Alvaro is a German politician and was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. During his first mandate he worked in the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; he was a substitute for the Committee...
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24. Clemens Fuest
1968-. (aged 58)
university teacher
economist
Clemens Fuest is a German economist who has been President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and director of the Center for Economic Studies at the University of Munich (LMU) since 2016.
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25. Isabel Schnabel
1971-. (aged 55)
university teacher
economist
bank teller
Isabel Schnabel is a German economist who has been serving as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 2020.
26. Florian Gerster
1949-. (aged 77)
economist
lobbyist
university teacher
politician
Florian Gerster is a German politician and former government official.
27. Christian von Stetten
1970-. (aged 56)
merchant
entrepreneur
politician
Christian Freiherr von Stetten is a Swiss-German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He has served as Member of the Parliament of Germany, the Bundestag, since 2002. He represents the constituency of Schwäbisch Hall-Hohenlohe, and succeeded his father Wolfgang von Stetten as the Member of Parliament from that constituency.
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28. Gitanas Nausėda
1964-. (aged 62)
university teacher
economist
politician
Gitanas Nausėda is a Lithuanian politician, economist, and banker who is serving as the ninth and incumbent president of Lithuania since 2019. Born in Klaipėda, Nausėda graduated from Vilnius University with an economics degree in 1987. He was director of monetary policy at the Bank of Lithuania from 1996 to 2000 and chief economist to the chairman of SEB bankas...
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29. Franziska Brantner
1979-. (aged 47)
political scientist
social scientist
politician
Franziska Katharina Brantner is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. Since 2024, she has also been serving as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongside Felix Banaszak.
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30. Hans-Werner Sinn
1948-. (aged 78)
university teacher
economist
Hans-Werner Sinn is a German economist who served as President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research from 1999 to 2016. He currently serves on the German ministry of economy’s advisory council. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich.
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31. Hans-Peter Wild
1941-. (aged 85)
business executive
attorney at law
rugby union executive
patron of the arts
Hans-Peter Wild is a German-born Swiss businessman and lawyer. Wild is the owner and chairman of Capri-Sun a fruit juice manufacturer based in Zug, Switzerland. Until 2014, he was the majority shareholder in the company Wild Flavors, one of the leading manufacturers of natural flavours for the food industry. Hans-Peter Wild lives in Zug with his Partner Christine E. Drage,...
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32. Jutta Allmendinger
1956-. (aged 70)
university teacher
professor
sociologist
Jutta Allmendinger is a German sociologist who has been serving as professor of educational sociology and labor market research at Humboldt University since 2007. She was president of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center from 2007 to 2024.
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33. Christine Lambrecht
1965-. (aged 61)
lawyer
politician
Christine Lambrecht is a German senior politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the German Federal Minister of Defence in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, from 2021 to 2023. In Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration, Lambrecht previously served as Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection (2019–2021), Minister for Family Affairs (2021) and as one of two Parliamentary...
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34. Malaika Mihambo
1994-. (aged 32)
athletics competitor
Malaika Mihambo is a German athlete, 2020 Olympic champion and 2022 world champion in long jump. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Mihambo added a silver medal in the long jump.
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35. 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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36. Elisabeth Moreno
1970-. (aged 56)
anciens cadres
business executive
politician
Élisabeth Moreno is a French-Cape Verdean businesswoman and politician who served as Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities at the Prime Minister's Office in the government of Prime Minister Jean Castex from 2020 to 2022.
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