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Decker Famous Germans/Austrians q-z
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leopold von Ranke | (1795-1886) German historian who developed the basic tenets of modern, scientific historical research |
| Joseph Ratzinger | (Pope Benedict XVI, 1927- ) German cardinal who became pope on April 19, 2005. |
| Johannes Rau | (1931- ) German politician (SPD), president of Germany since 1999 |
| Marcel Reich-Ranicki | (ra-nitz-key, 1920- ) German writer and influential literary critic |
| Philipp Reis | (1838-1874) German inventor of a telephone prototype (1861) |
| Erich Maria Remarque (Remark) | (1898-1970) German writer (All Quiet on the Western Front) |
| Paul Julius Baron von Reuter | (Israel Beer Josaphat, 1816-1899) German-British publisher, founder of the first worldwide news agency (Reuters) |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | (Renￃﾩ Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Maria Rilke, 1875-1926) Austrian poet who lived in Switzerland after 1919 |
| John (Johann) August Roebling ( | 1806-1869) German-American engineer, designer/builder of the Brooklyn Bridge |
| Erwin Rommel | (Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, 1891-1944) German general known as the "Desert Fox" |
| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | (1845-1923) German physicist who discovered x-rays and whose name means "x-ray" in German, Nobel Prize 1901 |
| Mayer Anselm Rothschild | (Meyer Amschel R., 1743-1812) German-Jewish banker, founder of the Rothschild banking house in Frankfurt am Main |
| Heinz Rühmann | (1902-1994) German film and stage actor ("Ship of Fools") |
| Ernst Ruska | (1906-1988) German scientist and engineer who co-invented the electron microscope, Nobel Prize for physics in 1986 |
| Egon Schiele | (1890-1918) Austrian artist |
| Claudia Schiffer | (1971- ) Fashion model |
| Friedrich Schiller | (1759-1805) German poet and writer |
| Max Schmeling | (1905-2005) German boxer who fought the American Joe Louis twice. |
| Helmut Schmidt | (1918- ) German politician and publisher (Die Zeit) who was chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982 |
| Romy Schneider | (1938-1982) Austrian actress (The Cardinal, Good Neighbor Sam) |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | (1788-1869) German philosopher |
| Gerhard Schröder | (1944- ) Elected German chancellor (SPD) in September 1998 |
| Franz Schubert | (1797-1828) Austrian composer of nine symphonies and over 600 "Lieder" |
| Carl Schurz | (1829-1906) German-American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1877-81) |
| Karl von Schuschnigg | (1897-1977) Austrian politician who resisted the Nazi takeover of his country in 1938 and was imprisoned by the Nazis during the war; later a professor in the U.S. (1948-67) > Web Link (DHM) |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | (1947- ) Austrian-American movie superstar and politician |
| Albert Schweitzer | (1875-1965) German physician and theologian who set up and ran a hospital in Africa (1913), also known for his organ music; Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 |
| Aloys Senefelder | (Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder, 1771-1834) Failed Bavarian actor who invented the lithographic printing technique in 1797. Senefelder was born to a Bavarian father (an actor) in Prague; he died in Munich. |
| Heidi Simonis | (1943- ) First woman governor of a German Bundesland (Schleswig-Holstein) |
| Elke Sommer | (Elke Schletz, 1940- ) German actress (The Victors, A Shot in the Dark, Zeppelin) - WEB > Elke Sommer - German-Hollywood |
| Alexander Spoerl | (1917-1978) German writer |
| Claus Spreckels | (1828-1908) German "sugar baron" in California and Hawaii |
| Friedrich St. Florian | (1933- ) Austrian-born architect who designed the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC; his firm's design was selected from 400 entries. WEB > St. Florian.com |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | (1865-1923) German physicist who did important work on alternating current and lightning |
| Franz Josef Strauss | (1915-1988) German politician (CSU) who was the governor of Bavaria (1978-88) and an unsuccessful candidate for Bundeskanzler (1980); involved in the "Spiegel affair" scandal of 1962, forcing his resignation as foreign minister |
| Johann Strauss | (father, 1804-1849) Austrian composer and director of Vienna's "Hofball" |
| Johann Strauss | (son, 1825-1899) Austrian composer and director of Vienna's "Hofball," known as the "Waltz King" ("The Blue Danube," "The Emperor Waltz"); also composed marches, polkas, and operettas ("Die Fledermaus") |
| Richard Strauss | (1864-1949) German composer ("Rosenkavalier") and orchestra director (Munich, Weimar, Berlin), director of the Vienna State Opera (1919-24) |
| Rita Süssmuth | (1937- ) First woman president of the German Bundestag (legislature), 1988-1998 |
| Johann August Sutter | (1803-1880) Swiss immigrant who founded Neu-Helvetien (Sutter's Mill) in 1839, now Sacramento, California |
| Bertha von Suttner | (1814-1914) Austrian pacifist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 |
| Edward Teller | (1908- ) Physicist of Austro-Hungarian background who developed the hydrogen bomb |
| Gerhard Thiele | (1953- ) German physicist who was on board the Endeavour misson for NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mapping Mission (SRTM) in February 2000 |
| Kurt Tucholsky | (1890-1935) German writer, satirist |
| Ludwig Uhland | (1787-1862) German lawyer, politician, and poet from Tübingen |
| Walter Ulbricht | (1893-1973) Head of East Germany when the Berlin Wall was built |
| Wernher von Braun | (1912-1977) German rocket scientist who helped put Americans on the moon |
| Richard Wagner | (1813-1883) German composer |
| Bruno Walter | (B.W. Schlesinger, 1876-1962) German-American orchestra director |
| Walter von der Vogelweide | (ca. 1170-1229) German "Minnesänger" and poet |
| Felix Wankel | (1902-1988) German inventor of the rotary cylinder engine (Kreiskolbenmotor) |
| August Paul von Wassermann | (1866-1925) German bacteriologist who did important work in the field of immunization |
| Alfred Wegener | (1880-1930) German geophysicist who developed the theory of continental drift (Kontinentalverschiebung) |
| Richard von Weizsäcker | (1920- ) German politician (CDU) who was the mayor of West Berlin (1981-84) and Bundespräsident from 1984 to 1994 |
| Franz Werfel | (1890-1945) Austrian novelist (The Song of Bernadette) and poet who had a brief Hollywood career during his California exile years |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | (1889-1951) Austrian-British philosopher |
| Carl Zeiss | (1816-1888) German founder of the Zeiss-Werke in Jena (1846), a manufacturer of optical and precision equipment |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | (1838-1917) German inventor of the rigid air ship in 1900 |
| Konrad Zuse | (1910-1995) German inventor of the first programmable digital computer (Z3) |
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