Category:German

Germany / German (Home Page) The category: German, highlights the national and linguistic identity of Scholars, Authors and Artists, associated with Germany and German culture. The Germans are an ethnic group that primarily inhabit Germany and speak the German language (circa 150 million worldwide). Most Germans today live within the borders of independent Germany (circa 80 million). There are German minorities in the nearby Czech Republic, and Poland, and sizeable populations of immigrants and their descendants in the United States, Canada and other countries. See Wikipedia German : Scholars, Authors, & Artists Language(s) : German English - French - German - Italian - Spanish -//- Afrikaans - Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Bulgarian - Catalan - Chinese - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dutch - Estonian - Farsi - Finnish - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Icelandic - Japanese - Korean - Latin - Latvian - Lithuanian - Maltese - Norwegian - Persian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Serbian - Slovak - Slovenian - Swedish - Ukrainian - Welsh - Yiddish

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Famous Germans

• Johannes Gutenberg (1400c-1463) -- Printer. Inventor of movable type printing in Europe.

• Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Priest, theologian and Protestant Reformer.

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Composer. Creator of Mass in B Minor, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, Matthaus Passion, Johannes Passion and many other musical works which are still regarded as some of the greatest of all time.

• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) -- Philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason). He is the central figure of modern philosophy who greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism and idealism.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) -- Poet, novelist and playwright, author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust; widely admired as the most important and influential German-language author of all time.

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) -- Ludwig van Beethoven is considered one of the greatest musical geniuses that ever lived. His famous Symphony 5 is a beloved classic. He was a pianist and composer.

• Richard Wagner (1813–1883) -- Composer (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

• Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Writer, economist and philosopher. Founder of scientific socialism.

• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra)

• Richard Strauss (1864-1949) -- Composer.

• Thomas Mann (1875–1955) -- Novelist (Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice). Received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929.

• Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) -- Physician and philanthropist. Nourished the sick in Africa. Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

• Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) -- Chancellor, admired for making post-war West Germany a democratic nation again and a political and economical power.

• Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Theoretical physicist, discovered the general theory of relativity and the law of the photoelectric effect. Hailed for his pacifist stance. Received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

• Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) -- Writer and playwright

• Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) film actress and singer (Der Blaue Engel).

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) -- Theologian and Lutheran pastor. Co-founder of the Confessing Church. Resisted against Nazism. He was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1943 and spent time in various concentration camps. He was executed on April 9, 1945, shortly before the end of the war.

• Willy Brandt (1913-1992) -- Chancellor, implemented the Ostpolitik and admired for his pacifist policies and official public apologies for Germany's war past. Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.

• Joseph Alois Ratzinger / Benedict XVI (1927) -- German-born pope from April 19, 2005 to February 28, 2013. Benedict XVI became the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.

• Helmut Kohl (1930–2017) -- Chancellor (1982–1998). Played an important role in Germany's reunification in 1990.

• Wim Wenders (1945) -- A prominent German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer.

• Angela Merkel (1954) -- Politician and scientist who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union, she previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018.

• Boris Becker (1967) -- Tennis champ of the 1980s and ’90s.

• Steffi Graf (1969–) tennis player.

• Michael Schumacher (1969) -- A racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Further, he has a joint record of seven World Drivers’ Championship titles. He retired from the sports world in 2012 with the most wins (91), pole positions (68), and most importantly, podium finishes (155).