34 Notable alumni of University of Regensburg
Updated: June 09, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Regensburg is 404st in the world, 1st in North America, and 36st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from University of Regensburg 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 Regensburg won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Herbert Zimmermann
1944-. (aged 82)
neuroscientist
university teacher
Herbert Zimmermann is a German neuroscientist who pioneered the studies on the biochemical, structural and functional heterogeneity of cholinergic synaptic vesicles from the electric organ of the electric ray Torpedo, and the functional and biochemical characterization of enzymes hydrolyzing extracellular nucleotides.
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2. Martin Kreuzer
1962-. (aged 64)
mathematician
correspondence chess player
university teacher
chess player
Martin Kreuzer is a German mathematics professor and chess player who holds the chess titles of International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and FIDE Master.
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3. Stephan Kirste
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
jurist
philosopher
Stephan Kirste is a German legal scholar and university professor of legal and social philosophy at the Faculty of Law of the University of Salzburg (Austria). Since 2020, Kirste is also an associate professor (Professor Colaborador) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) in the graduate program.
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4. Peter Schneider
1953-. (aged 73)
mathematician
university teacher
Peter Bernd Schneider is a German mathematician, specializing in the p-adic aspects of algebraic number theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and representation theory.
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5. Michael Gross
1963-. (aged 63)
journalist
non-fiction writer
Michael Gross is a British science writer based at Oxford and has been awarded an honorary research fellowship at the School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.
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6. Günther K. H. Zupanc
1958-. (aged 68)
neurobiologist
university teacher
Günther K.H. Zupanc is a German-American neurobiologist, researcher, university teacher, book author, journal editor, and educational reformer. He is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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7. Georg Friedrich von Martens
1756-1821 (aged 65)
diplomat
jurist
university teacher
Georg Friedrich von Martens was a German jurist and diplomat. Educated at the universities of Göttingen, Regensburg and Vienna, he became professor of jurisprudence at Göttingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789. He was made a counsellor of state by the King of Westphalia in 1808, and in 1810 was president of the financial section of the council of...
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8. Max Stadler
1949-2013 (aged 64)
politician
judge
Max Josef Stadler was a German politician. He was a Free Democratic Party member of the Bundestag from 1994 until his death.
9. Javier Cremades
1965-. (aged 61)
lawyer
Javier Cremades García is a Spanish lawyer, founder and president of the international law firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo and he is the President of the World Jurist Association.
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10. Artur Walther
1948-. (aged 78)
art collector
Artur Walther is a German-American art collector focused on exhibiting and publishing contemporary photography and video art. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Walther was a General Partner at Goldman Sachs until his retirement in 1994. He began collecting photography in the late 1990s and later established The Walther Collection, which is open to the public at its museum campus...
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11. Anna-Nicole Heinrich
1996-. (aged 30)
research assistant
philosopher
Anna-Nicole Heinrich is the current praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
12. Florian Pronold
1972-. (aged 54)
lawyer
politician
bank teller
Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017, he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria.
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13. Markus Brunnermeier
1969-. (aged 57)
university teacher
economist
Markus Konrad Brunnermeier is an economist, who is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
14. Klaus Regling
1950-. (aged 76)
economist
Klaus P. Regling is a German economist and the former Chief Executive Officer of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism. Regling was reportedly considered as a possible head of the European Central Bank to succeed Jean Claude Trichet.
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15. Edith Sitzmann
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
Edith Sitzmann is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party served as State Minister of Finance in the second cabinet of Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2021. She was also a member of the State Parliament, representing the Freiburg II constituency. From 2011 to 2016, she led the Green Party's Group in the State Parliament.
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16. Joseph Fessio
1941-. (aged 85)
theologian
publisher
presbyter
Joseph Fessio SJ is an American Jesuit priest, as well as the founder and editor of Ignatius Press. After studying with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), he founded the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, one of the first Catholic Great Books programs in the United States, then served as the founding provost of Ave Maria University....
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17. Markus Uhl
1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Diploma of Business Administration
Markus Alexander Uhl is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland from 2017 to 2025. Following his departure from parliament, he returned to a civil service position in Saarland’s State Ministry of the Interior.
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18. Karl Stetter
1941-. (aged 85)
researcher
inventor
microbiologist
university teacher
Karl Otto Stetter is a German microbiologist and authority on astrobiology. Stetter is an expert on microbial life at high temperatures.
19. Michael Piazolo
1959-. (aged 67)
jurist
political scientist
university teacher
politician
Michael Piazolo is a German Free Voter politician, lawyer and political scientist. In 2018 he was appointed as the Bavarian State Minister for Culture and Education in Minister President Söder's second Cabinet.
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20. Gerda Hasselfeldt
1950-. (aged 76)
politician
Gerda Hasselfeldt is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who served as deputy chairperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and chairwoman of the Bundestag group of CSU parliamentarians.
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21. Natascha Kohnen
1967-. (aged 59)
biologist
politician
Natascha Kohnen is a German politician of the SPD who has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since 2009. From 2017 until 2021, she served as chairwoman of the SPD Bavaria.
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22. Wolfgang A. Herrmann
1948-. (aged 78)
university teacher
chemist
Wolfgang Anton Herrmann is a German chemist and academic administrator. From 1995 to 2019, he was President of the Technical University of Munich.
23. May Ayim
1960-1996 (aged 36)
writer
pedagogue
activist
speech and language therapist
poet
May Ayim is the pen name of May Opitz (born Brigitte Sylvia Andler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist. The child of a German dancer and Ghanaian medical student, she lived with a white German foster family when young. After reconnecting with her father and his family in Ghana, in 1992 she took his surname for a pen...
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24. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
1950-. (aged 76)
physicist
climatologist
non-fiction writer
university teacher
Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber is a German atmospheric physicist, climatologist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Since 1 December 2023, Schellnhuber is the Director General of IIASA.
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25. Stefanie Hubig
1968-. (aged 58)
prosecutor
judge
politician
Stefanie Hubig is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Justice in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. From 2016 to 2025, she served as State Minister for Education in the government of Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer.
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26. Elli Erl
1979-. (aged 47)
singer
songwriter
Elisabeth Maria Erl is a German singer-songwriter. She came to fame as the winner of the second season of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German Idol series adaptation. With DSDS, Erl appeared on the collaborative top ten single "Believe in Miracles", while her coronation song and debut single "This Is My Life" peaked at number three on...
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27. Hannes Ringlstetter
1970-. (aged 56)
television presenter
musician
film actor
stage actor
television actor
Johannes "Hannes" Ringlstetter is a German kabarettist, comedian, musician, actor, TV presenter and writer of his book "Bekenntnisse" (2005) and of several short stories.
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28. Henriette Reker
1956-. (aged 70)
local politician
jurist
lawyer
Henriette Reker is a German lawyer and independent politician. She is known for her pro-immigration stance and for being the victim of an assassination attempt in 2015. A day after the attack, Reker was elected mayor of Cologne after gaining 52.66% of the votes, becoming the first woman to hold the office. Reker was re-elected in 2020. Her term as...
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29. Stephan Brandner
1966-. (aged 60)
lawyer
politician
Stephan Brandner is a German politician. He has been a member of the Bundestag for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) since 2017 and served as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee from 31 January 2018 to November 2019. He was the front runner candidate of the AfD in the state of Thuringia for the 2017 German federal election....
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30. Heribert Prantl
1953-. (aged 73)
jurist
writer
university teacher
editor-in-chief
judge
Heribert Prantl is a German author, journalist and jurist (former judge, prosecutor and lawyer). At the Süddeutsche Zeitung he was head of the department of domestic policy from 1995 to 2017, head of the department "opinion" from 2018 to 2019, member of the chief editors from 2011 to 2019 and is now columnist and author. Since 2002 he has been...
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31. Marcin Romanowski
1976-. (aged 50)
jurist
politician
Marcin Romanowski is a Polish politician. He was a deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland in the Second and Third Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki. He was elected as a member of the Sejm on 15 October 2023 from the Law and Justice list. Since January 2024 deputy representative of the Sejm in the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
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32. Gerd Müller
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who is currently serving as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization since 2021.
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33. Martin Walser
1927-2023 (aged 96)
screenwriter
novelist
writer
journalist
playwright
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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34. Archbishop Ieronimos II of Athens
1938-. (aged 88)
historian
Eastern Orthodox bishop
Ieronymos II is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.
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