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Decker Famous a-h
Decker Famous Germans/Austrians a-h
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Konrad Adenauer | (1876-1967) First chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| Alois Alzheimer | (1864-1915) Discoverer of the brain disease named for him - Web > German Alzheimer bio |
| Marie Antoinette | (1755-1793) Daughter of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph who married the French king Louis XVI - Web > M. Antoinette Bio (in English) |
| Arminius | (Hermann der Cherusker) Defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburger Forest Web > Arminius bio (Wikipedia) |
| Fred Astaire | (1899-1988) The famous dancer's real name was Frederick Austerlitz; his father was born in Linz, Austria. Web > Astaire - German-Hollywood Connection |
| Nadja Auermann | (1970- ) German fashion model |
| Melissa Auf der Maur | (1972- ) Canadian-born rock singer whose family comes from Switzerland. Web > Auf Der Maur - laut.de (Deutsch) and Auf Der Maur (English) |
| Andreas Baader | (1943-1977) was a key member of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang, a German terrorist group (Red Army Faction, RAF) in the 1970s. Web > Baader-Meinhof | Baader Biographie - DHM |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | (1685-1750) German composer - Web > Bach's life (with map) |
| Karl Baedeker | (1801-1859) invented the first travel guides and created the field of travel writing. Web > German Baedeker bio | Baedeker Verlagsgeschichte (German) |
| Boris Becker | (1967- ) German tennis star, first German and youngest ever to win at Wimbleton (1985) - Web > German Becker bio (Rasscass) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | (1770-1827) German composer - Beethoven bio (in English) |
| Peter Behrens | (1868-1940) German architect - Web > German Behrens bio (DHM) |
| Karl Benz | (1844-1929) and Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) Inventors of the first motor car (1885), although the two never met! |
| Otto von Bismarck | (1815-1898) German political figure (Prussia), first chancellor of the German Reich (1871) - Web > Bismarck bio (German Wikipedia) |
| Heinrich Böll | (1917-1985) German author, Nobel Prize winner (1972) - Web > Heinrich Böll Foundation (Ger., Engl., Span.) |
| Robert Bosch | (1861-1942) German scientist, inventor |
| Johannes Brahms | (1833-1897) German composer - Web > Brahms bio (Johannesbrahms.org) |
| Willy Brandt | (Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, 1913-1992) German chancellor and mayor of Berlin - Web > Brandt bio (Brandt-Stiftung) - Willy Brandt (Wikipedia) |
| Wernher von Braun | (1912-1977) German rocket scientist who helped put Americans on the moon |
| Bertolt Brecht | (1898-1956) German author, dramatist, best known for his "Dreigroschenoper" ("Threepenny Opera") co-authored with composer Kurt Weill - German bio (DHM) |
| Alfred Edmund Brehm | (1829-1884) was a German zoologist, explorer, and author whose Thierleben lexicon (1864-69) and animal stories for children helped popularize a more sympathetic understanding of animals and their environment. Web > German bio (MDR) |
| Elias Canetti | (1905-1994) Jewish writer often claimed by the Austrians. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Born in Bulgaria, Canetti was educated in Vienna, wrote in German, but was a British subject when he died in Switzerland. - Web > Canetti (Nobelprize. |
| Charlemagne | (Karl der Grosse, 742-814) The first European unifier - Web > Charlemagne | Karl der Grosse (German Wikipedia) |
| Adolf (Adi) Dassler | (1900-1959)founder of Adidas shoe company |
| Rudolf Diesel | (1858-1913) German engineer and inventor of the diesel engine |
| Otto Dix | (1891-1969) German expressionist painter and graphic artist |
| Ruth Dreifuss | (1940- ) Swiss political figure, first woman president of Switzerland |
| Albrecht Dürer | (1471-1528) German artist |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | (1921-1990) Swiss writer of crime stories, dramas, and other German literature (Der Besuch der alten Dame) |
| Rudi Dutschke | (1940-1979) Sociologist, former student rebellion leader in the late 1960s (APO and SDS) |
| Albert Einstein | (1879-1955) German scientist and theoretician |
| Elisabeth | (1837-1898), better known as Sisi. Austrian royalty |
| Ludwig Erhard | (1897-1977) German economist, first German chancellor after Adenauer, from 1963 to 1966 |
| Erik H. Erikson | (Homburger, 1902-1994) German-American psychoanalyst and university professor who coined the term "identity crisis" |
| Max Ernst | (1891-1976) Dadaist/surrealist painter, sculptor, and graphic artist born in Brühl, Germany, now home to a new Max Ernst Museum - Web > Ernst bio (Guggenheim) | Artchive - Max Ernst | Max Ernst paintings (CSU Hayward) |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | (1686-1736) German physicist who developed an improved mercury-in-glass thermometer and invented the temperature scale that bears his name (and is now used only in the USA!) - Web > Fahrenheit - Wikipedia | D.G. Fahrenheit - BBC |
| Lyonel Feininger | (1871-1956) German artist |
| Joseph (Joschka) Fischer | (1948- ) German politician, foreign minister under chancellor Gerhard Schröder (1998 to present) |
| Sigmund Freud | (1856-1939) Austrian inventor of psychoanalysis (with photos) |
| Friedrich der Grosse | (Frederick the Great, 1712-1786) King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786. |
| Anton Fugger | (1493-1560) Member of an important German banking family |
| Hans Geiger | (1882-1945) German physicist, inventor of the Geiger counter (Geiger-Müller-Zählrohr) |
| H.R. Giger | (1940- ) Swiss-German artist who designed the Alien creature - WEB > Giger - German-Hollywood Connection |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | (1749-1832) German poet, writer; the German "Shakespeare" |
| Stefanie (Steffi) Maria Graf | (1969- ) German tennis star (Grandslam winner 1988) now married to Andre Agassi |
| Günter Grass (1927- ) | German writer, Nobel Prize winner |
| Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | (1785-1863/1786-1859) German authors and linguistic researchers - WEB > Grimm Brothers |
| Read some Grimm Fairy Tales | (blank) |
| Walter Gropius | (1883-1969) German-American architect |
| Johannes Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg | (ca. 1397-1468) Inventor of movable type and modern printing |
| Peter Handke | (1942- ) Austrian novelist and playwright |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | (1732-1809) Austrian composer |
| Werner Karl Heisenberg | (1901-1976) German physicist, co-founder of quantum mechanics |
| Hermann der Cherusker | (Arminius in Latin, ca. 18B.C.-19A.D.) Germanic warrior who defeated the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburger Forest |
| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | (1857-1894) German physicist who did research into radio waves and frequency (see Erfinder/Inventors) |
| Roman Herzog | (1934- ) President of Germany from 1994 to 1999 |
| Hermann Hesse | (1877-1962) German writer (Siddharta, Der Steppenwolf), poet, and artist |
| Paul von Hindenburg | (1847-1934) German army officer and politician who was the chancellor who gave in to the Nazi takeover in 1933 |
| Martina Hingis | (1980- ) Swiss tennis player |
| Andreas Hofer | (1776-1822) Austrian patriot (Tyrol) |
| E.T.A. Hoffmann | (1776-1822) Writer, painter, composer |
| Erich Honecker | (1912-1994) Leader of East Germany when the Wall fell |
| Alexander von Humboldt | (1769-1859) German researcher, botanist, and explorer who traveled in the Americas |
| Wilhelm von Humboldt | (1767-1835) German academic and statesman, founder of the Humboldt University in Berlin, brother of Alexander (above) |
| Friedensreich Hundertwasser | (Friedrich Stowasser, 1928-2000) Austrian artist and architect > |
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