berühmte Deutsche (Famous Germans)
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
Complete List of Famous Germans.
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