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| x Gerhard Richter |
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Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German visual artist.
Richter was born in Dresden, Saxony, and grew up in Reichenau, Lower Silesia, and in Waltersdorf (Zittauer Gebirge) in the Upper Lusatian countryside. He left school after tenth...
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| x Albert I of Saxony |
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Albert (full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis) (Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort (Szczodre), 19 June 1902) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of...
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| x Robert Siodmak |
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Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.
Siodmak was born to a Polish Jewish family in...
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| x Erich Kästner |
Erich Kästner (German pronunciation: [ˈʔeːʁɪç ˈkɛstnɐ]) (February 23, 1899 – July 29, 1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.
Kästner was born in Dresden,...
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| x Pyotr Stolypin |
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Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Аркадевич Столыпин) (April 14 [O.S. April 2] 1862 – September 18 [O.S. September 5] 1911) served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the Prime Minister of Russia—from 1906 to 1911. His...
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| x Augustus III of Poland |
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Augustus III, known as the Saxon Polish: August III. Sas; German: August III. von Polen; also Prince-elector Friedrich August II (Dresden, 17 October 1696 – 5 October 1763 in Dresden) was the Elector of Saxony in 1733-1763, as Frederick Augustus II ...
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| x Max Immelmann |
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Max Immelmann (September 21, 1890 – June 18, 1916) was a German World War I flying ace.
He was born in Dresden, the son of a paper board container factory owner. After leaving school, he joined the Eisenbahnregiment Berlin. During 1913 - 1914, he...
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| x Felix von Luckner |
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Felix Graf von Luckner (born Dresden, Germany, 9 June 1881, died Malmö, Sweden, 13 April 1966) was a German nobleman, navy officer, author and noted sailor who earned the epithet Der Seeteufel (the Sea-Devil) -- and his crew that of Die Piraten des...
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| x Edith Hamilton |
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Edith Hamilton (12 August 1867–31 May 1963) was an American educator and author who was “recognized as the greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930. It was instantly successful...
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| x Herbert Wehner |
Herbert Richard Wehner (July 11, 1906 – January 19, 1990) was a German politician.
Herbert Wehner was born in Dresden. His father was active in his labor union and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). More radical than his father, Wehner...
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| x George of Saxony |
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George (German: Friedrich August Georg Ludwig Wilhelm Maximilian Karl Maria Nepomuk Baptist Xaver Cyriacus Romanus; 8 August 1832 – 15 October 1904) was a King of Saxony of the House of Wettin.
George was born in the Saxon capital Dresden. He was...
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| x Georgy L'vov |
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Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (Russian: Георгий Евгеньевич Львов Georgij Evgen'evič L'vov) (November 30, 1861 – March 7, 1925) was a Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia, from March 15 to July 21, 1917.
Prince...
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| x Hans von Bülow |
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Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow (January 8, 1830 – February 12, 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for...
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| x Matthias Sammer |
Matthias Sammer (born September 5, 1967 in Dresden) is a retired German football player who is now a coach. He played as a midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper.
He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1996, the year he led...
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| x George B. McClellan, Jr. |
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George Brinton McClellan, Jr., (November 23, 1865 – November 30, 1940) was an American politician, statesman, and educator. The son of American Civil War general and presidential candidate George B. McClellan, he served as Mayor of New York City...
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| x Ernst Engel |
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Ernst Engel (March 26, 1821 – December 8, 1896) was a German statistician and economist, famous for the Engel curve and the Engel's law.
Ernst was born in Dresden in 1821. He studied at the famous mining academy of Freiberg, in Saxony, and on...
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| x Adolf Merckle |
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Dr. Adolf Merckle was born on March 18, 1934. He is a businessman and one of the richest people in Germany. Although most of his wealth comes from inheritance, Adolf developed his grandfather's chemical wholesale company, Phoenix Pharmahandel, into...
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| x Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg |
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Johann Centurius Hoffmann Graf von Hoffmannsegg (August 23, 1766 – December 13, 1849) was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist.
Hoffmannsegg was born at Dresden and studied at Leipzig and Göttingen. He travelled through Europe acquiring...
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| x Curt Siodmak |
Curt Siodmak (August 10, 1902–September 2, 2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body. He made a name for himself in...
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| x Jan Hoffmann |
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Jan Hoffmann (born 26 October 1955 in Dresden) is a German figure skater who represented East Germany in competition. A four time Olympian, he is the 1980 Olympic silver medalist, the 1974 & 1980 World Champion, and a four-time (1974, 1977-1979)...
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| x Michael Gielen |
Michael Andreas Gielen (born July 20, 1927) is an Austrian conductor and composer.
Gielen was born in Dresden, Germany, to opera director Josef Gielen, and began his career as a pianist in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Erwin Leuchter and gave...
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| x Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony |
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Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (Maria Josepha Luise Philippine Elisabeth Pia Angelika Margarete von Wettin), (31 May 1867 - 28 May 1944), was the mother of Emperor Karl I of Austria; she was never Empress herself.
She was the daughter of future...
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| x Yosef Burg |
Dr Yosef Shlomo Burg (Hebrew: יוסף שלמה בורג, born 31 January 1909, died 15 October 1999) was a long-serving Israeli politician and Rabbi.
Born in Dresden, Germany, he attended the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin and the University of Berlin from...
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| x Peter Viertel |
Peter Viertel (November 16, 1920 – November 4, 2007) was an author and screenwriter.
He was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel. In 1928, his parents moved to Santa Monica,...
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| x Alexander Zickler |
Alexander Zickler (born 28 February 1974) is a German footballer who currently plays for FC Red Bull Salzburg, as a striker.
Zickler began his career in 1980 with Dynamo Dresden as a six-year old, working his way through the youth system into the...
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| x Maria Reiche |
Maria Reiche (1903-1998) was a German-born mathematician and archaeologist who is famous for her research in the Nazca lines in Peru.
Maria Reiche was born May 15, 1903 in Dresden. She studied mathematics, geography and languages at the Dresden...
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| x Sabine Baeß |
Sabine Baeß, married Marbach, (born March 15, 1961 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany/GDR/East Germany) is a German figure skater.
Sabine Baeß became with her skating partner Tassilo Thierbach 1982 World and European champion in pair figure skating,...
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| x Evelyn Großmann |
Evelyn Großmann (born July 16, 1971 in Dresden, Saxony, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater.
She was representing first East Germany (GDR) and later Germany after the German reunification in 1990. Evelyn Großmann was practicing in Chemnitz...
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| x Uwe Kagelmann |
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Uwe Kagelmann (born September 6, 1950 in Dresden, Saxony, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater, twice pair skating bronze medalist at the Olympics, and figure skating coach.
Kagelmann's pair skating partner was Manuela Groß. They skated for...
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| x Manuela Mager |
Manuela Mager (married name: Holzapfel) (born July 11, 1962 in Dresden, Saxony, German Democratic Republic) is a German figure skater.
Manuela Mager was a team with Uwe Bewersdorf in pair skating. She skated for the club SC Einheit Dresden and was...
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| x Fritz Wiessner |
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Fritz Wiessner (February 26, 1900 - July 3, 1988) was a pioneer of free climbing. Born in Dresden, Germany, he emigrated to New York City in 1929. He became a U.S. citizen in 1935.
Wiessner started climbing with his father in the Austrian Alps...
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| x Carl Tanzler |
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Carl Tanzler or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 23, 1952) was a German-born radiologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis...
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| x Andreas von Bülow |
Andreas von Bülow (born 17 July 1937 in Dresden) is a German writer, lawyer and former SPD politician. He has been working on books about intelligence agencies, including In the Name of the State. CIA, BND and the criminal machinations of secret...
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| x Maria Amalia of Saxony |
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Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen Consort of Spain (24 November, 1724 – 27 September 1760) was a German princess from the House of Wettin and was the wife of Charles III of Spain; she was the Queen Consort of Naples and Sicily from 1738 till 1759 and...
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| x Ruth Berghaus |
Ruth Berghaus (July 2, 1927 – January 25, 1996) was a German choreographer and opera and theatre director.
Berghaus was born in Dresden and studied Expressionist dance and Dance direction with Gret Palucca there and was an advanced student at the...
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| x Udo Zimmermann |
Udo Zimmermann was born in Dresden on October 6, 1943. He is a German composer, music director, and conductor.
Zimmermann was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1954 to 1962. He then continued his music education at the Dresden Music School. He...
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| x Simone Koch |
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Simone Koch (born October 25, 1969 in Dresden) is a German figure skater.
Simone Koch learned her first triple jumps with coach Ingeburg Walter (still coach at the Dresdner EC). Later she was coached by Ingrid Lehmann in Berlin. Simone Koch...
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| x Hermann Schulz |
Hermann Schulz (born December 14, 1961 in Dresden, Saxony) is a former German figure skater.
Hermann Schulz learned his first triple jumps at the club Dresdner DEC. Coached by Ingrid Lehmann he became a world class figure skater. Already with the...
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| x Marcus Hesse |
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Marcus Hesse (b. March 22, 1984 in Dresden) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper, he has recently been released by Dynamo Dresden.
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| x Hans-Jürgen Kreische |
Hans-Jürgen Kreische (born July 19, 1947 in Dresden) is a former East German footballer. Kreische spent his entire career with his hometown club, Dynamo Dresden, scoring 127 goals in 234 DDR-Oberliga games between 1964 and 1978. He was East Germany...
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| x Thomas Fritsch |
Thomas Fritsch (b. January 16, 1944 in Dresden, Germany) is a German television actor. He voiced Scar in the German dub of The Lion King and starred in Rivalen Der Rennbahn.
He is the son of actor Willy Fritsch.
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| x Stefan Rothe |
Stefan Rothe (born August 8, 1981) is a German amateur road bicycle racer.
Originally from Dresden, Germany, Rothe moved to the USA in 2003 after receiving a cycling scholarship from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He started...
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| x Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch |
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Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (7 March 1857 in Dresden – 14 March 1935 in Dresden), was a German chemist.
Hantzsch studied chemistry in Dresden and graduated at the University of Würzburg under Johannes Wislicenus. As a professor, he taught at the...
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| x Gerhard Schmidhuber |
Gerhard Schmidhuber (9 April 1894–11 February 1945 in the battle of Budapest) was a German major general.
Born in Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony, Schmidhuber was commanding officer of the Wehrmacht Heer's 13th Panzer Division during World War II....
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| x Christian August Hausen |
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Christian August Hausen (June 19, 1693 in Dresden, Germany–1743 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German mathematician who is known for his research on electricity.
Hausen studied mathematics at the University of Wittenberg and received his master's degree...
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| x Volker Oppitz |
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Volker Oppitz (born February 16, 1978 in Dresden) is a German footballer who plays as a defender for Dynamo Dresden. He broke into the Dynamo first-team in 2001 after the club had been relegated to the Oberliga, and has been a first-team regular...
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| x René Beuchel |
René Beuchel (born July 7, 1973 in Dresden) is a German former footballer. He is best known for two spells with Dynamo Dresden, the first beginning in 1992. He moved to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1995, and later played for FSV Zwickau and Dresdner SC...
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| x Marc Hensel |
Marc Hensel (born April 17, 1986) is a German footballer who plays for FC Erzgebirge Aue.
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| x Hartmut Schade |
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Hartmut Schade was born on November 13, 1954 in Dresden, Germany and is a former football player, who won the 1976 Summer Olympics. He played for Dynamo Dresden.
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| x Wolfgang Späte |
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Major Wolfgang Späte was a German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.
He was born on 8 September 1911 in Dresden.
Before World War II Späte was a well-known and award-winning glider pilot and a student of the TH Darmstadt. After serving with a...
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| x Achim Richter |
Achim Richter (born September 21, 1940 in Dresden) is a German nuclear physicist. He has been a professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology since 1974.
Richter was born to builder Georg Edmund Richter and...
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| x Ronald Wolf |
Ronald Wolf (born April 23, 1987) is a German footballer who plays as a defender midfielder for SC Borea Dresden.
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| x Sally Anne Golden |
Sally Anne Golden (July 31, 1910 – January 29, 1982) was born Sally Annaźecsky Goldenni in Dresden, Germany. She and her family immigrated to the United States, settling in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Upon arriving her name was changed to Sally Anne...
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| x Marco Foerster |
Marco Förster is a central football defender, currently playing for AEP Paphos in Cyprus. His main abilities are his good balance and defensive positioning, along with his consistency during the game. Förster was a personal selection of Giorgos...
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| x Victor G Bloede |
![Victor Bloede (ca.) 1900[1]](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb/wikipedia/images/en_id/13567654?pad=1&errorid=%2Ffreebase%2Fno_image_png&maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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Victor Gustav Bloede (1849-1937), (pronounced as Blerda) was a chemist and manufacturer of chemicals, and president of the Victor G. Bloede Company.
Bloede was born in 1849, in Dresden, Germany, the son of Gustav Bloede, a physician and member of...
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| x Maik Kegel |
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Maik Kegel (born December 8, 1989) is a German footballer who plays for Dynamo Dresden. He was promoted to the Dynamo first team during the 2007-08 season, and made an immediate impact, making his debut against Hamburger SV II, where he scored just...
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| x The Prophesying Nun of Dresden |
The Prophesying Nun of Dresden (c. 1680–1706 in Dresden, Germany), better known in Italy as la Monaca di Dresda, was a nun reported to have had the gift of clairvoyance. She wrote many prophetic letters to princes and senior churchmen. Her...
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| x Dora Altmann |
Dora Altmann (20 February 1881 – 24 December 1971) was a German actress who was on screen during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Altmann was 80 years old before she made her screen debut in 1961 as Veronika in Drei Eisbären, Die. She appeared as Grandma...
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| x Tom Starke |
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Tom Starke (born March 18, 1981 in Germany) is a German football goalkeeper who currently plays for MSV Duisburg in the 2nd Bundesliga.
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