Category
page 1Emigrants from Nazi Germany to Switzerland
Erich Maria Remarque
German-born novelist (1898–1970)
Paul Klee
German-Swiss artist (1879–1940)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)
Richard Willstätter
German chemist (1872–1942)
Ruth Westheimer
German-American sex therapist
Brigitte Helm
German actress (1908–1996)
Otto Braun
German politician (1872-1955)
Wilhelm Röpke
German economist (1899–1966)
Heinz Hopf
German mathematician (1894–1971)
Hermann Scherchen
German conductor (1891–1966)
Helene Stöcker
German feminist, pacifist and gender activist (1869–1943)
Friedrich Pollock
German social scientist (1894–1970)
Richard Kohn
association football player (1888-1963)
Alfred Pringsheim
German Jewish mathematician, art collector, patron of the arts and refugee from Nazis (1850-1941)
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
German academic, philosopher, editor and pacifist (1869-1966)
Therese Giehse
German actress (1898–1975)
Inge Borkh
German soprano (1921–2018)
Lisa Tetzner
Swiss writer (1894-1963)
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Marxist economist and philosopher (1899-1990)
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
German diplomat and politician (1862-1939)
Arthur Crispien
German politician (1875-1946)
Hans Mayer
German literary scholar (1907–2001)
Josef Ganz
German car designer (1898–1967)
Tilla Durieux
Austrian actress and art collector who fled Nazis (1880-1971)
Kurt Landauer
German association football executive (1884-1961)
Wladimir Vogel
Swiss composer (1896-1984)
Wolfgang Heinz
East German actor (1900-1984)
Kurt Held
German writer (1897-1959)
Heinrich Kaminski
German composer (1886–1946)
Georg Ledebour
German politician and journalist (1850-1947)
Adolph Goldschmidt
German art historian (1863-1944)
Emil Cohn
German physicist (1854-1944)
Fritz Delius
German actor (1890-1966)
Hedwig Pringsheim
German actress (1855–1942)
Peter Thullen
German mathematician (1907–1996)
Margarete Wittkowski
German politician and economist (1910-1974)
Gertrude Fehr
German photographer (1895-1996)
Leonard Steckel
German actor and film director (1901–1971)
Erna Schilling
German craftswoman, model, and partner of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1884-1945)
Hugo Döblin
German actor (1876-1960)
Ernst Ehrlich
German philosopher (1921-2007)
Erich Nelson
German artist and botanist (1897-1980)
Regina Ullmann
Swiss poet (1884-1961)
Dezső Ernster
Hungarian opera singer (1898–1981)
Fritz Rotter
Austrian composer and author (1900–1984)
Erich Arendt
German translator (1903–1984)
Karl Schefold
Swiss-German classical archaeologist (1905-1999)
Grete von Urbanitzky
Austrian writer and translator (1891–1974)
Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel
Dutch architect and urban planner (1926–2011)
Cioma Schönhaus
graphic designer (1922-2015)
Hans Josephsohn
sculptor (1920–2012)
Wilhelm Herzog
German historian (1884–1960)
Paul Silverberg
German Jewish entrepreneur and jurist (1876-1959) Industrialist, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rheinische AG, Braunkohlenbergbau und Brikettfabrikation and Rheinisches Braunkohlensyndikat GmbH Cologne
Alfons Rosenberg
German writer (1902–1985)
Max Alsberg
German lawyer (1877-1933)
Traute Carlsen
German actress (1887–1968)
Robert Neppach
Austrian architect and film producer (1890–1939)
Bruno Kaiser
German academic (1911–1982)
Siegfried Einstein
German poet (1919–1983)
Oskar Seidlin
German-born American professor of German and author (1911-1984)