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Dezember Geburtstage (Birthdays)

3Katarina Witt (1965-  )

Eiskunstläuferin / former figure skater from East Germany who won two Olympic gold medals (1984, 1988), was World Champion (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988), and was European Champion (1983-88)

5Werner Heisenberg (1901-1546)

Physiker / a theoretical physicist, one of the key pioneers of quantrum mechanics, worked with nuclear physics, and won the Nobel Prize in 1932

5Fritz Lang (1890-1976)

Regisseur / German-Austrian filmmaker, screen writer, producer, and actor

10Paracelsus (1493-1541)

Mediziner / a Swiss German physician, botanist, alchemist, who founded the discipline of toxicology

11Robert Koch (1843-1910)

Bakteriologe / bacteriologist, who discovered the causes of tuberculosis and cholera and won the Nobel Prize in 1905

13Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Dichter / poet, who wrote many poems and ballads and whose most famous one was die Lorelei

13Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)

Physiker, Elektroingenieur, und Großindustrieller / physicist, electro-engineer, and industrialist, who started a large electro-technology company and who was the inventor of the dynamo in 1866

16Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer, who was born in Bonn, was famous for writing symphonies, and continued to write after becoming tone deaf at the age of 29

18Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer, who was famous for chamber music and operas

18Willy Brandt (1913-1992)

Staatsmann und Politiker / statesman and politician, who was the leader of the Social Democratic Party 1964-1987 and Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany 1969-1974

21Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)

Politiker und Diplomat / Austrian politician and diplomat, who was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-1981), the ninth President of Austria (1986-1992)

21Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)

Schriftsteller / one of Germany’s foremost writers, who was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972

23Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015)

Politiker und Kanzler / a Social Democratic politician, who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 and negotiated treaties with East Germany

27Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

Mathematiker und Astronom / mathematician and astronomer during the Middle Ages, who established the laws of planetary motion

27Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)

Sängerin und Schauspielerin / German-American actress and singer, who was known as “Lily Marlene” during WWII and remained popular throughout her long career

28Hildegard Knef (1925-2002)

Schauspielerin, Schriftstellerin, und Sängerin / actress, writer, and singer, who was popular in both Germany and in the United States

31Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005)

Schriftsteller / Austrian writer and Jewish Holocaust survivor, who became famous after World War Two for his work as a Nazi hunter