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Question: Famous Dead Germans!.!.!?
Please no Hitler!. My German teacher already said no ADOLF HITLER!.

I need people who have made a significant difference in our lives!. Like something we use everyday!.!.Names would be helpful because I cant seem to find any!.
5 stars to the one who gives me the most names!.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
was a philosopher,musician,mission doctor!. Whit his own hands he's built a hospital in Africa, operating far into the nights under the most primitive conditions!. He took care of patients suffering from leprosy and a host of other tropical diseases!.He is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952!.

Albrecht Duerer,
was a painter and print maker!. He is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist!.

Willy Brandt (1913 -1992) Politician,
was the Chancellor of West Germany from 1964 to 1987!. he is best known for his East block Politic, aiming to improve relations with the bordering East block countries, Poland,East Germany and the Soviet Union!.Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971!.

Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
von Braun was a german rocket physicist and engineer in astronautics!.
He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States!. In 1945 he left Germany and came to U!.S!.A and in 1955 became a US citizen!. In 1975 he received the national Medal of Science!. (Hes worth reading up on it, very interesting person!.)

Wilhelm Roentgen (1845 - 1923)
Roentgen was a german physicist and professor, who discovered what we know as X-rays!. A very humble man who was awarded with the 1st Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901!.

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Johann Gutenberg (1400!?–1468!?), who is generally regarded in the Western world as the inventor of movable precision-cast metal type, and therefore as the father of modern book printing, might well head the list of notable Germans!.

Martin Luther (1483–1546), founder of the Reformation, still exerts profound influence on German religion, society, music, and language!.

20th-century novelists Ernst Wiechert (1887–1950)!.

Nobel Prize winners Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (1862–1946)!.

Actress Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)!.

The two giants of German church music were Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) and, preeminently, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)!.

Significant composers of the 18th century were German-born Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–88), and Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714–87)!.
The classical period and music in general were dominated by the titanic figure of Ludwig von Beethoven (1770–1827)!.

Famous German scientists are Johann Rudolf Glauber (1694–1768), Justus von Liebig (1803–73), Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–99), and Nobel Prize winners Fritz Haber (1868–1934)!.

German inventors and engineers are Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), developer of the thermometer; Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), Rudolf Diesel (b!.Paris, 1858–1913), and Felix Wankel (1902–88), developers of the internal combustion engine; airship builder Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917); and rocketry pioneer Wernher von Braun (1912–77)!.

Outstanding figures in German political history are the Holy Roman emperors Otto I (the Great, 912–973), Frederick I (Barbarossa, 1123–90), Frederick II (1194–1250), and Spanish-born Charles V (1500–58); Frederick William (1620–88), the "great elector" of Brandenburg; his great-grandson Frederick II (the Great, 1712–86), regarded as the most brilliant soldier and statesman of his age; Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815–98)!.

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben (1730–94) was a general in the American Revolution!. Karl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) is one of the great names connected with the science of war!. Important military leaders were Hellmuth von Moltke (1800–1891); Gen!. Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), who also served as president of the German Reich (1925–34); and Gen!. Erwin Rommel (1891–1944)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe AlbertEinstein
Friedrich Schiller
Heinrich Boell
Hegel
Immanuel Kant
Gerhardt Hauptmann
Brahms
Hitler was no German anyway he came from Austria
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Max Emil Friedrich von stephanitz!.
He combined a lot of dogs until he produced the German Shepherd in 1899!. AWESOME dog!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wasn't Einstein German!?

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Here are just a few the site I attached has a whole lot more!.
1!. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) The most prominent in an amazing series of musical Bachs spanning the 16th to the 19th centuries!. J!.S!. Bach’s career began in earnest when he became court organist at Weimar in 1708!. By 1714 he had been appointed Konzertmeister!. He went on to compose musical monuments like the “Brandenburg Concertos,” the “Pastoral Symphony,” and “The Well-Tempered Clavier!.”
2!. Karl Baedeker (1801-1859) Father of the travel guide (Reiseführer)!. The first Baedeker guide, Rheinlande, was published in 1839 in Koblenz!. That first book established the Baedeker's reputation for accuracy and detail!. Karl Baedeker was born into a publishing family in Essen!. The eldest son of Gottschalk Diederich Baedeker, whose father Zacharias (1750-1800) had established the Baedeker publishing house in 1775, Karl Baedeker continued his family’s publishing tradition in Essen!. After his death the Baedekers moved their travel publishing to Leipzig!. After WWII, the Baedeker headquarters relocated to Freiburg in southwest Germany!.
3!. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Born in tiny Bonn, he moved to Vienna, the musical capital of Europe, at the age of 22!. Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” became the official anthem of the European Community in 1986, and the unofficial anthem of German unification in 1989!. Beethoven’s grand symphonies, chamber music, and other classical works now also belong to the entire world!.
4!.Peter Behrens (1868-1940) Became famous as the chief designer and architect for Germany's AEG electrical concern between 1909 and 1912!. Behrens proved that industrial plants could also be eye-pleasing architectural works!. He influenced the later work of Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier, all of whom worked under Behrens!.
5!. Karl Benz (1844-1929) and Gottfried Daimler (1834-1900) Independently invented the first practical internal-combustion powered automobile (Benz in 1885, Daimler in 1886), though they never met!. The two firms merged in 1926 to form Daimler-Benz, today Germany’s largest industrial concern!. Benz, born in Karlsruhe, invented the differential drive and other automotive technology, including two types of internal-combustion engines and electrical ignition!.
6!.Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Unified Germany in 1871!. As Reichskanzler (imperial chancellor) Bismarck stayed at the helm of the Prussian Second Reich until 1890!. A scheming manipulator to the end, even his introduction of the first social security system for workers (1883) was politically motivated!.
7!.Willy Brandt (1913-1992) Became mayor of West Berlin in 1957, was German chancellor (SPD, Social Democrats) from 1969 to 1974, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his Ostpolitik of rapprochement with East Germany!. Brandt was a popular statesman and remained influential in the SPD party right up to his death!.
8!.Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) | Born in Wirsitz in eastern Germany (now Poland) and worked at Peenemünde developing the V2 rockets that struck at Britain in 1944-45!. One of the first true “rocket scientists,” he and about 120 other German scientists were brought to the U!.S!. to work on rocket systems!. The U!.S!. space program was greatly speeded up by their work, culminating in the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon on the Apollo mission in 1969, when von Braun was the head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama!.
9!.Charlemagne (Karl der Gro?e, 742-814) Emperor (Kaiser) of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (das Heilige R?mische Reich Deutscher Nation), the First Reich!. He had become King of the Franks in 776!. The Germanic Charlemagne and his Frankish tribe gave France its name!. Frankreich (empire of the Franks) is the German word for France!.
10!. Adolf (Adi) Dassler (1900-1959) |In 1924 Adi and his brother Rudolph (Rudi) founded the German sports shoe company Gebrüder Dassler OHG—now known as adidas (pron!. AH-dee-DAHS, not ah-DEE-duhs)!. Born the son of a cobbler in Herzogenaurauch, Germany, Adi invented spiked shoes for track and field in 1920!. Jesse Owens was wearing a pair of Dassler’s shoes when he won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics!. The brothers split in 1948 when Rudi founded Puma (one of adidas’ biggest competitors in Europe) and Adi renamed his firm by combining elements of his name!. In the 1970s, adidas was the top athletic shoe brand in the US!. Today it has about eight percent of the sports shoe market!. (Dassler links)
11!. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Published his theory of relativity in 1905!. Born in Ulm, Germany, Einstein later attended university in Zurich, Switzerland, where he received his Ph!.D!. In 1916, while a professor at the University of Berlin, Einstein published his general theory of relativity, a significant expansion of his earlier work!. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics!. In 1933 Einstein moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where he was to live for the rest of his life!. Einstein's letter to President Roosevelt helped start the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb by the United States!. Einstein became a U!.S!. citizen in 1940!.
12!. Erik H!. Erikson (1902-1994) Grew up in Karlsruhe as Erik Homburger but changed his name to Erikson before coming to the United States!. Erikson was a disciple of Freud, but disagreed with the Freudian philosophy that early childhood and sex mainly determined a person’s identity!. Erikson, a psychoanalyst, author, and professor (Yale, Harvard, Berkeley), coined the term “identity crisis” and wrote several “psychobiographies” on figures such as Darwin, Einstein (above), Gandhi, and Jesus!. He never obtained a college degree!.
13!. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) The German physicist who invented the temperature scale named for him!. Although born in Danzig, he lived most of his life in England and the Netherlands!.
14!. Anton Fugger (1493-1560) Presided over the Fugger dynasty and fortune at the height of its wealth and power!. In 1546 the Fugger empire was worth 5,100,000 gulden!. Anton’s uncle and predecessor, Jakob Fugger II (“the Rich,” 1459-1525), built the “Fuggerei”—52 low-rent houses in Augsburg—between 1516 and 1523!. The Fuggerei (FOO-gehr-eye) foundation operates to this day!. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Fuggers developed their great wealth through world-wide enterprises in banking, trading, and mining!.
15!. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) The “Gothic Shakespeare” — with contemporaries Schiller and von Kleist—began the German literature movement known as Romanticism!. This giant of German culture wrote the famous two-part drama, Faust, many classic poetic works, and an international best selling novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, that precipitated a rash of youth suicides across Europe!. Goethe was also interested in science!. His Metamorphose der Pflanzen (“Metamorphosis of Plants”) was more accurate than Farbenlehre (“Theory of Color”)!. 1999 was “das Goethe-Jahr” — a year-long celebration of the 250th birthday of the Germany's best-known cultural icon!.
16!. Johannes Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg (ca!. 1397-1468) Working in Mainz, he started printing the Bible in Latin in 1450!. It took five years for Gutenberg and his assistants to produce just 200 copies!. Today his 42-line Bible is the most valuable book in the world, but Gutenberg lost money on the deal!. Only 48 Gutenberg Bibles are known to still exist!. Gutenberg revolutionized the world with his printing press using metal moveable type!.
17!. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Considered one of the greatest composers who ever lived!. Born in Lower Austria, Haydn's genius spanned 50 years of creativity in the service of the Esterhazy court in Eisenstadt and Vienna!. Although he traveled little, his time in London was important to his career and his musical work!. By the time of his death in Vienna in 1809, Haydn had composed over 100 symphonies, 84 string quartets, and numerous other works, some of which have been lost!.
18!. Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) German physicist who is best known for his “uncertainty principle!.” Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 for his work in quantam mechanics!. He was a professor at Leipzig University from 1927 to 1941!. Heisenberg also led the unsuccessful German effort to develop an atomic bomb during WWII!.
19!. Hermann der Cherusker (Arminius in Latin, ca!. 18B!.C!.-19A!.D!.) A Roman-trained chief of the Cherusci, defeated the Romans at the battle of the Teutoburger Wald (Forest) in 9 A!.D!. The Romans had difficulties bringing the Germanic tribes under control, and the Rhine remained the northeastern border of the Roman empire for 300 years!. Hermann was slain by his own tribesmen in 19 A!.D!. Although the Roman historian Tacitus labeled him “the liberator of Germany,” the concept of a unified Germany was not even imagined in Arminius’ time!. But that did not prevent German nationalists from adopting Arminius as a German hero in the 19th century!. They erected a huge, rather ugly monument to Hermann (and his defeat of P!. Quintilius Varus' three legions) that still stands near the German city of Detmold today!.
20!. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) German physicist who did pioneering research related to electricity and electromagnetic waves, which were first known as “hertzian waves!.” His name also became the term used for radio and electrical frequencies: hertz (Hz), as in kilohertz (KHz) or megahertz (MHz)!. The hertz designation has been an official part of the international metric system since 1933!. Before Hertz gained professorships in Karlsruhe and Bonn, he had studied under the famous scientist Hermann von Helmholtz in Bonn, and it was Helmholtz who encouraged Hertz to attempt to win the science prize that led to some of Hertz's most important discoveries!. From 1885 to 188Www@QuestionHome@Com

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