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| Konrad Adenauer | show 🗑
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| Alois Alzheimer | show 🗑
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| Marie Antoinette | show 🗑
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| show | (Hermann der Cherusker) Defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburger Forest Web > Arminius bio (Wikipedia)
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| Fred Astaire | show 🗑
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| show | (1970- ) German fashion model
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| show | (1972- ) Canadian-born rock singer whose family comes from Switzerland. Web > Auf Der Maur - laut.de (Deutsch) and Auf Der Maur (English)
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| show | (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
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| show | (1685-1750) German composer - Web > Bach's life (with map)
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| Karl Baedeker | show 🗑
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| show | (1967- ) German tennis star, first German and youngest ever to win at Wimbleton (1985) - Web > German Becker bio (Rasscass)
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | show 🗑
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| Peter Behrens | show 🗑
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| show | (1844-1929) and Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) Inventors of the first motor car (1885), although the two never met!
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| show | (1815-1898) German political figure (Prussia), first chancellor of the German Reich (1871) - Web > Bismarck bio (German Wikipedia)
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| Heinrich Böll | show 🗑
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| Robert Bosch | show 🗑
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| Johannes Brahms | show 🗑
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| Willy Brandt | show 🗑
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| Wernher von Braun | show 🗑
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| show | (1898-1956) German author, dramatist, best known for his "Dreigroschenoper" ("Threepenny Opera") co-authored with composer Kurt Weill - German bio (DHM)
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| show | (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)
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| Elias Canetti | show 🗑
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| Charlemagne | show 🗑
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| show | (1900-1959)founder of Adidas shoe company
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| show | (1858-1913) German engineer and inventor of the diesel engine
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| show | (1891-1969) German expressionist painter and graphic artist
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| Ruth Dreifuss | show 🗑
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| Albrecht Dürer | show 🗑
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| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | show 🗑
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| Rudi Dutschke | show 🗑
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| Albert Einstein | show 🗑
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| show | (1837-1898), better known as Sisi. Austrian royalty
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| Ludwig Erhard | show 🗑
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| show | (Homburger, 1902-1994) German-American psychoanalyst and university professor who coined the term "identity crisis"
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| show | (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)
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| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | show 🗑
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| show | (1871-1956) German artist
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| Joseph (Joschka) Fischer | show 🗑
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| show | (1856-1939) Austrian inventor of psychoanalysis (with photos)
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| show | (Frederick the Great, 1712-1786) King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
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| Anton Fugger | show 🗑
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| Hans Geiger | show 🗑
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| show | (1940- ) Swiss-German artist who designed the Alien creature - WEB > Giger - German-Hollywood Connection
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| show | (1749-1832) German poet, writer; the German "Shakespeare"
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| show | (1969- ) German tennis star (Grandslam winner 1988) now married to Andre Agassi
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| show | German writer, Nobel Prize winner
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| Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | show 🗑
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| Walter Gropius | show 🗑
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| show | (ca. 1397-1468) Inventor of movable type and modern printing
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| Peter Handke | show 🗑
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| show | (1732-1809) Austrian composer
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| show | (1901-1976) German physicist, co-founder of quantum mechanics
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| Hermann der Cherusker | show 🗑
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| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | show 🗑
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| Roman Herzog | show 🗑
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| show | (1877-1962) German writer (Siddharta, Der Steppenwolf), poet, and artist
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| show | (1847-1934) German army officer and politician who was the chancellor who gave in to the Nazi takeover in 1933
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| show | (1980- ) Swiss tennis player
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| Andreas Hofer | show 🗑
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| E.T.A. Hoffmann | show 🗑
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| Erich Honecker | show 🗑
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| show | (1769-1859) German researcher, botanist, and explorer who traveled in the Americas
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| show | (1767-1835) German academic and statesman, founder of the Humboldt University in Berlin, brother of Alexander (above)
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| show | (Friedrich Stowasser, 1928-2000) Austrian artist and architect >
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