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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844-1900)
Heinrich Heine
German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)
Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
Paul Heyse
German writer (1830–1914)
Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)
Friedrich Merz
German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Emil Fischer
German chemist (1852–1919)
Karl Weierstraß
German mathematician (1815–1897)
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
Frederick III, German Emperor
as King of Prussia German Emperor (1831–1888)
Robert Schuman
Luxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable (1886-1963)
Felix Klein
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
Max Ernst
German artist (1891–1976)
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician (1805–1859)
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Harald zur Hausen
German virologist and professor emeritus (1936–2023)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria and consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer (1928–2007)
Guido Westerwelle
German politician (FDP), Foreign Minister of Germany (1961-2016)
Jacob Burckhardt
Swiss historian (1818–1897)
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
Theodor Schwann
German physiologist (1810–1882)
Maryna Viazovska
Ukrainian mathematician (born 1984)
Wilhelm Marx
German politician (1863–1946)
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
German psychologist (1850-1909)
Heinrich Brüning
German chancellor (1885-1970)
Armin Laschet
German politician (CDU)
August Schleicher
German philologist (1821–1868)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German scholar and poet (1798–1874)
Christian Lindner
German politician, former Federal Minister of Finance
Klaus Kinkel
Chairman of the FDP (1936-2019)
Johannes Peter Müller
German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)
Wolfgang Köhler
German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967)
Andrea Nahles
German politician
Walter Schellenberg
German police and SS general, head of the military secret services and convicted war criminal (1910-1952)
Emanuel Geibel
German poet and playwright (1815–1884)
E. F. Schumacher
British economist (1911–1977)
Thilo Sarrazin
German economist and politician
Hans-Gert Pöttering
German politician
Emil du Bois-Reymond
German physician and physiologist (1818–1896)
Albert I of Saxony
King of Saxony (1828–1902)
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian-born French mathematician and Fields Medallist
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
German classical philologist (1848-1931)
Hermann Heinrich Gossen
Prussian economist (1810–1858)
Anton Reicha
Czech-born French composer (1770–1836)
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
German physician (1809–1885)
Heinrich von Treitschke
Historian, political writer (1834-1896)
Peter Scholze
German mathematician
Carl Schurz
Union Army general, politician (1829-1906)
Gaston Paris
French medievalist and writer (1839-1903)
Hermann Diels
German classical scholar (1848–1922)
Albert von Kölliker
Swiss anatomist, physiologist (1817–1905)
Walter Eucken
German economist (1891–1950)