berühmte Deutsche (Famous Germans)
März Geburtstage (Birthdays)
- 2Carl Schurz (1829-1906)
- Staatsmann und Militärsoffizier / a German immigrant, who became a military officer, fought in the Civil War, and became a statesman in New York
- 10Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829)
- Schriftsteller / author and philosopher of the Romantic period
- 13Hugo Wolf (1860-1906)
- Musiker und Komponist / Austrian musician and composer, who put to music many poems from famous German and foreign poets
- 14Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Physiker / physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his Theory of Relativity and immigrated to the US
- 14Johann Strauß I (1804-1849)
- Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer from Vienna who was famous for his waltzes. His most famous piece is the Radetzky March
- 15Emil von Behring (1854-1917)
- Chemiker und Mediziner / chemist and doctor who discovered vaccine against diptheria and tetanus
- 16Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854)
- Physiker / physicist who worked in the field of electrical resistance, and a law was named after him
- 17Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900)
- Techniker / engineer and maschine builder, who built the first motor and helped create the first automobile
- 18Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913)
- Techniker / engineer & inventor of diesel engine
- 18Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)
- Dichter / dramtic writer and poet
- 18Otto Hahn (1879-1968)
- Chemiker / chemist who split uranium nucleus and led to the development of the atomic bomb
- 21Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927-2016)
- Politiker / politician of the FDP (Free Democratic Party), who served from 1974 to 1992 as foreign minister and vice-chancellor and was very instrumental in “diplomatically deconstructing the Iron Curtain”
- 21Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer during the Barock period (early 1700’s) and wrote musical works for the church
- 23Werner von Braun (1912-1977)
- Raketeningenieur und Konstrukteur / rocket engineer and designer, who was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and in the US
- 23Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
- Mathemathiker / mathematician best known for her contributions to algebra and theoretical physicals. Many consider her the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- 27Wilhelm Konrad von Röntgen (1845-1923)
- Physiker / physicist who discovered X-rays
- 31Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)
- Chemiker / chemist who invented the Bunsen burner
- 31Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
- Musiker und Kompinist / Austrian musician and composer, whose musical works dealt with instrumental music and chamber music
Complete List of Famous Germans.
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