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| x Lucie Mannheim |
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Lucie Mannheim (30 April 1899 – 28 July 1976) was a German singer and actress.
Mannheim was born in Berlin–Köpenick where she studied drama and quickly became a popular figure appearing on stage in plays and musicals. Among other roles, she played ...
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| x Leni Riefenstahl |
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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈriːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August , 1902 – 8 September , 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famous film...
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| x Rudolf Arnheim |
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking ...
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| x Werner Lucas |
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Werner Georg Emil Lucas was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, born on December 27, 1917 in north Berlin, Germany. He was a highly decorated 'ace' with some 106 aircraft claimed destroyed in total, including one four engined bomber ('viermot') whilst in the...
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| x Georg Lassen |
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Lieutenant Commander Georg Lassen (born May 12, 1915) is a former German U-boat captain who served with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He was a Watchkeeping Officer on U-29 at the outbreak of the war and later the skipper of the U-160 and...
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| x Joachim Peiper |
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Joachim Peiper (German pronunciation: [joˈaχɪm ˈpaɪpər]) (30 January 1915–14 July 1976) more often known as Jochen Peiper from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a field grade Waffen-SS officer in World War II, convicted of war crimes in...
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| x Hans-Joachim Marseille |
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Hans-Joachim Marseille (13 December 1919–30 September 1942; German: IPA: [hants joˈaχɪm mɑrˈseɪ]) was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot and flying ace during World War II. He is noted for his aerial battles during the North African Campaign and his bohemian...
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| x Ernest J. Sternglass |
Ernest J. Sternglass (born 1923, Berlin) is an emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He is an American physicist and author, best known for his controversial research on the...
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| x Carl Wilhelm Borchardt |
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Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (22 February 1817 – 27 June 1880) was a German mathematician.
Borchardt was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, Moritz, was a respected merchant, and his mother was Emma Heilborn. Borchardt studied under a number of...
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| x Adolf von Baeyer |
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Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: [ˈbaɪɐ]; October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially...
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| x Ludwig Aschoff |
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Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (January 10, 1866 – June 24, 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German pathologist...
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| x Heinrich Gustav Magnus |
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Heinrich Gustav Magnus (2 May 1802 – 4 April 1870) was a German chemist and physicist. The Magnus effect was named after him.
He was born in Berlin. His father was a wealthy merchant; and of his five brothers one, Eduard (1799-1872), became a...
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| x Francis Simon |
Sir Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a...
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| x Gunther Eysenbach |
Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, is a senior researcher on Open access, health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics.
Eysenbach was born on 22 March 1967 in Berlin, Germany. While a medical student, he served on the executive board as elected...
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| x Andreas Neuendorf |
Andreas "Zecke" Neuendorf (born February 9, 1975) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder. He has played for Bayer Leverkusen and Hertha BSC. He left Hertha after the 2006-07 season, having played with the club for six years. He now plays...
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| x Martin Pieckenhagen |
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Martin Pieckenhagen (born 15 November 1971 in Berlin) is a German football player playing in the Netherlands for Heracles Almelo. He has previously played for Union Berlin, Tennis Borussia Berlin, MSV Duisburg, Hansa Rostock and Hamburger SV.
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| x Marko Rehmer |
Marko Rehmer (born 29 April 1972 in East Berlin) is a former German footballer, who played mainly as a central defender.
In his youth Rehmer played for hometown 1. FC Union Berlin; he arrived in the first division at almost 25, joining former East...
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| x Ümit Karan |
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Ümit Karan (born October 1, 1976 in Berlin, Germany) is a Turkish football player, currently playing as a striker for Turkish side Eskişehirspor.
He formerly played for Gençlerbirliği S.K., Ankaraspor and Galatasaray.
After playing for...
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| x Robert Huth |
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Robert Huth (born 18 August 1984) is a German footballer currently playing for Stoke City. He was signed for Chelsea from the youth system of German club Union Berlin in 2001 by then Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri. He is often referred to as "The...
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| x Oliver Schröder |
Oliver Schröder (born June 11, 1980 in Berlin, Germany) is a German footballer, who plays for F.C. Hansa Rostock.
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| x Kevin-Prince Boateng |
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Kevin-Prince Boateng (born 6 March 1987 in Berlin, Germany) is a German footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Portsmouth in the English Premier League.
A player with dual German-Ghanaian nationality, Boateng is a central midfielder. He...
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| x Benjamin Köhler |
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Benjamin Köhler (born August 4, 1980 in Berlin) is a German footballer playing with Eintracht Frankfurt in Bundesliga. Köhler, who is left-footed, can play flexibly on all offensive positions but often finds himself on the left wing. After getting...
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| x Pierre Littbarski |
Pierre Michael Littbarski (born 16 April 1960 in Berlin) is a former German football player and current manager of FC Vaduz. He is best known for his brilliant dribbling abilities. He was a FIFA World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990. He was...
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| x Thorben Marx |
Thorben Marx (born 1 June 1981) is a German footballer who currently plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach.
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| x Jérome Polenz |
Jérome Polenz (born November 7, 1986 in Berlin, Germany) is a German football player, who currently plays for Alemannia Aachen.
Polenz first began his youth career with SC Siemensstadt at the age of 7. After stints within the youth systems of CFC...
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| x Carsten Ramelow |
Carsten Ramelow (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁstn̩ ˈʁamɛloː]; born 20 March 1974 in Berlin) is a retired German international footballer who last played for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. He played as a Central defender and often as a defensive...
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| x Horst Wolter |
Horst Wolter (born 8 June 1942 in Berlin, Germany) is a former German international football player.
A Bundesliga winner with Eintracht Braunschweig in 1967, Wolter was doing occasional jobs in the West Germany goal in between 1967 and 1970. He...
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| x Christian Müller |
Christian Müller (born February 28, 1984 in Berlin) is a German footballer who currently plays for TuS Koblenz.
Müller began his career on youthside with six years on SV Tasmania-Gropiusstadt 73 and joined in 2001 to Hertha BSC Berlin.
On February 3...
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| x Alexander Bade |
Alexander Bade (born August 25, 1970 in Berlin) is a retired German footballer who last plays as a goalkeeper for Arminia Bielefeld.
Bade began his career with Tennis Borussia Berlin where he had played as a youngster. In the 1988/89 season he...
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| x René Renno |
René Renno (born February 19, 1979) is a German footballer.
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| x Christian Ziege |
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Christian Ziege (born February 1, 1972 in Berlin) is a former German football (soccer) defender and midfielder. With the German national team, Ziege won Euro 96. Ziege is formerly head coach, assistant coach and director of football at Borussia...
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| x Sybille Bedford |
Sybille Bedford, OBE (née Freiin Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck) (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer. Many of her works are partly autobiographical. Julia Neuberger proclaimed her "the finest woman writer of the...
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| x Sebastian Haffner |
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Sebastian Haffner (December 27, 1907 – January 2, 1999, pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) was a German journalist and author. He wrote mainly about recent German history.
In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, where...
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| x Oswald Hanfling |
Oswald Hanfling, (December 21, 1927 – October 25, 2005) was a German philosopher.
Oswald Hanfling was born to in Berlin in 1927. His parents were Jewish and when their business was vandalised on Kristallnacht in 1938, he was sent to England by...
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| x August Kavel |
August Ludwig Christian Kavel ( 3 September 1798 – 12 February 1860). Pastor Kavel was a founder of Lutheranism in Australia.
Kavel was born in Berlin, Germany 1798. In 1826, he was ordained and installed as the Pastor at the church in the village...
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| x Michael Mietke |
Michael Mietke I (c.1656/1671 - 1719) was a German harpsichord and harp maker, whose sons also became instrument makers.
He apparently lived his entire life in Berlin and is known to have been an instrument maker there from, at the latest, 1695. He...
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| x Peter Zadek |
Peter Zadek (pronounced [cạ:dɛk]; 19 May 1926 – 30 July 2009) was a German theatre and film director, play translator and screenwriter and is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater. He was the head of the...
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| x Martin Liebers |
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Martin Liebers (born June 22, 1985 in Berlin) is a German figure skater. He is a four-time German national bronze medalist (2005-2008), was the Junior National Champion in 2000 and the Novice National Champion in 1997.
In 2009 he started training...
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| x Constantin Carathéodory |
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Constantin Carathéodory (or Constantine Karatheodori) (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή) (September 13, 1873 – February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus...
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| x Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius |
Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius (1883 - 1970) was a German fluid dynamics engineer.
He was one of the first students of Prandtl who provided a mathematical basis for boundary-layer drag but also showed as early as 1911 that the resistance to flow...
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| x Erich Schmidt-Leichner |
Dr. Erich Schmidt-Leichner (October 14, 1910–March 17, 1983) was a German lawyer who made a name as a distinguished defense counsel at the Nuremberg Trials. In 1978, he was a defense counsel in the Klingenberg Case, where a married couple were...
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| x Erik Zabel |
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Erik Zabel (born July 7, 1970 in East Berlin) is a former German professional road bicycle racer who last raced Milram. With over 200 professional wins he is considered by some one of the greatest German cyclists and best cycling sprinters of...
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| x Erhan Aydın |
Erhan Aydın (born February 13, 1981 in Berlin, Germany) is a Turkish football player. He currently plays winger for Ankaraspor in the Turkcell Super League.
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| x Fritz Bornemann |
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Fritz Bornemann (born 12 February 1912 in Berlin; died there 28 May 2007) was a German architect.
Bornemann studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. After graduating in 1936, he was Assistant Scenic Designer at the Berlin...
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| x Karl Anton Eckert |
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Karl Anton Florian Eckert (17 December 1820 – 14 October 1879) was a German conductor and composer.
Eckert was born in Berlin, Germany, and by the age of five, had already proved himself as a musical child prodigy. After coming to the attention of...
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| x Serdar Güneş |
Serdar Güneş (born June 24, 1987 in Berlin, Germany) is a Turkish football player. He currently plays midfielder for Büyükşehir Belediye Ankaraspor in the Turkcell Super League.
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| x Murat Tosun |
Murat Tosun (born February 26, 1984 in Berlin, Germany) is a Turkish football player. He currently plays striker for Ankaraspor in the Turkcell Super League.
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| x Richard Jaeger |
Richard Jaeger (16 February 1913 in Berlin – 15 May 1998 in Munich) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Under Ludwig Erhard's second ministry, he was Minister of Justice (26 October 1965 - 1 December 1966).
From 1949 to...
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| x Erich Unger |
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Erich Unger (1887-1950) was a Jewish philosopher of standing who published many articles and a number of books, many of them in his native tongue, German. His writings cover a wide range of topics: poetry, Nietzsche, political theory, general...
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| x Ernst Zermelo |
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Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (July 27, 1871, Berlin, German Empire – May 21, 1953, Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on philosophy. He...
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| x Joachim Lemelsen |
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Joachim Lemelsen (28 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during the Second World War.
Born in Berlin as the son of a German career military officer, Lemelsen entered the German army in 1907. During the First World War Lemelsen...
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| x Guido Buchwald |
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Guido Ulrich Buchwald (born January 24, 1961) is a German former football defender and manager.
The best game of Buchwald's career was probably the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup when he effectivelly marked the skilled footballer, Diego Maradona,...
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| x Friedrich-Karl "Tutti" Müller |
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Friedrich-Karl "Tutti" Müller (25 December 1916 – 29 May 1944) was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1935 until his death on 29 May 1944. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down...
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| x Marie Malavoy |
Marie Malavoy (born March 23, 1948 in Berlin, Germany) is a Quebec politician and teacher. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Taillon in the Montérégie region and represents the Parti Québécois.
Malavoy went...
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| x Wolfgang Falck |
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Wolfgang Falck (19 August 1910 in Berlin – 13 March 2007) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II. He was one of the key organisers of the German night fighter defences.
On 7 April 1931, he began his pilot training at the Deutsche...
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| x Nestor Papoutsis |
Nestor Papoutsis August 28, 1975 in Berlin, Germany) is a retired Greek professional basketball player. The son of a Greek father and a Yugoslav mother. At a height of 202 cm (6 ft. 7.5 in.) he played at the power forward position.
He was famous for...
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| x Natja Brunckhorst |
Natja Brunckhorst (born on September 26, 1966 in Berlin) is a German film actress. She is mostly known for her role as Christiane F. in the drama Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.
Natja Brunckhorst started her career at age 14 in the drama...
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| x Isadore S. Jachman |
Isadore Seigfreid Jachman (December 14, 1922 -January 4, 1945)was a United States Army sergeant who was killed in World War II after defending the town of Flamierge, Belgium from a Nazi attack on January 4, 1945. For his "conspicuous gallantry and...
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| x Frederick William I of Prussia |
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Frederick William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm I) (14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740) of the House of Hohenzollern, was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg (as Frederick William II) from 1713 until his death. He is popularly known as "the...
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| x Björn Andrae |
Björn Andræ (born May 14, 1981 in Berlin, Germany) is a German volleyball player. He is playing in Panathinaikos.
He began to play with SCC Berlin. After that, he went to VfB Friedrichshafen. His next clubs were Noicom Cuneo, Sempre Volley Padua and...
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