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HAMBURG

Most Famous People Born in Hamburg, Germany

Notable people
7,049
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1927
Most distinctive
Merchant 13.2×

A merchant republic in everything but name. Hamburg's most distinctive profession is merchant at more than thirteen times the global rate — the officers of a Hanseatic free port that governed itself through its own Senate until the 19th century — alongside an unusually thick column of authors, theologians, judges, and academics. Politicians still account for almost a sixth of all notable births here, more than in any other German city, and the 1800s are unusually heavy.

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What Hamburg Is Known For

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Politician is Hamburg's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (979).

Hamburg over-indexes on merchant 13.2× the global rate.

Hamburg under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Politician 979 1.2×
  2. Actor 725 1.9×
  3. Painter 335 1.8×
  4. Writer 277 1.2×
  5. Author 250 4.1×
  6. Football 241 0.3×
  7. Academic 239 3.4×
  8. Lawyer 170 1.4×
  1. Merchant 81 13.2×
  2. Author 250 4.1×
  3. Theologian 94 3.7×
  4. Academic 239 3.4×
  5. Judge 74 2.2×
  6. Actor 725 1.9×
  7. Painter 335 1.8×
  1. Football 241 0.3×
  2. Singer 101 0.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Hamburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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0418 ACADEMIC

Sven Kalisch

Born 1966

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Reinhard Baumeister

1833 - 1917

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0686 ACADEMIC

Ernestine Wiedenbach

1900 - 1998

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0758 ACADEMIC

Holger Herwig

Born 1941

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0856 ACADEMIC

Georg Dahm

1904 - 1963

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0887 ACADEMIC

Steven Muller

1927 - 2013

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0897 ACADEMIC

Frank Trentmann

Born 1965

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0903 ACADEMIC

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

Born 1962

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0964 ACADEMIC

Claus Bock

1926 - 2008

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Klaus Vogel

1930 - 2007

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1089 ACADEMIC

Johannes Vollmer

1845 - 1920

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1207 ACADEMIC

Knut Ipsen

Born 1935

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1233 ACADEMIC

Annelies Kammenhuber

1922 - 1995

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1235 ACADEMIC

Ursula Günther

1927 - 2006

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1327 ACADEMIC

Hedwig Voegt

1903 - 1988

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1353 ACADEMIC

Ottomar Anton

1895 - 1976

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1359 ACADEMIC

Peter C. Scriba

Born 1935

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1373 ACADEMIC

Wilfried Krätzig

1932 - 2017

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1530 ACADEMIC

Erika Fischer-Lichte

Born 1943

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1545 ACADEMIC

Peter Hommelhoff

Born 1942

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1621 ACADEMIC

Dietrich Murswiek

Born 1948

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1858 ACADEMIC

Silke Leopold

Born 1948

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1930 ACADEMIC

Klaus Roth (Volkskundler)

Born 1939

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1939 ACADEMIC

Michael Lukas Moeller

1937 - 2002

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1960 ACADEMIC

Barbara Dauner-Lieb

Born 1955

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1976 ACADEMIC

Hans Amandus Münster

1901 - 1963

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2014 ACADEMIC

Alexander Ljungqvist

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2021 ACADEMIC

Max Friederichsen

1874 - 1941

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2047 ACADEMIC

Matthias Buchholz

Born 1957

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2060 ACADEMIC

Detlev Claussen

Born 1948

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2093 ACADEMIC

Walter Magnussen

1869 - 1946

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2132 ACADEMIC

Hans Peter Ipsen

1907 - 1998

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2146 ACADEMIC

Karl-Friedrich Wessel (Philosoph)

Born 1935

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2148 ACADEMIC

Gundula Kreuzer

Born 1975

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2166 ACADEMIC

Carl Gehrts

1853 - 1898

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2186 ACADEMIC

Gerd Gudehus

Born 1938

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2320 ACADEMIC

Erich Samson

1940 - 2014

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2371 ACADEMIC

Katrin Ellermann

Born 1972

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2406 ACADEMIC

Reinhold Krohn

1852 - 1932

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2421 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Gaedechens

1834 - 1904

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2438 ACADEMIC

Siegfried Brie

1838 - 1931

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2491 ACADEMIC

Gregor Schiemann

Born 1954

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2504 ACADEMIC

Sabine Hering

Born 1947

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2515 ACADEMIC

Herbert Birtner

1900 - 1942

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2581 ACADEMIC

Gisela Beutler

1919 - 1996

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2587 ACADEMIC

Peter Mankowski

Born 1966

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2593 ACADEMIC

Katharina Zweig

Born 1976

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2596 ACADEMIC

Ferdinand Müller-Rommel

Born 1952

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2598 ACADEMIC

Detlev von Uslar

Born 1926

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2609 ACADEMIC

Jürgen Basedow

Born 1949

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2634 ACADEMIC

Philip Manow

Born 1963

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2671 ACADEMIC

Hanko Bommert

Born 1941

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2694 ACADEMIC

Pauline Sachse

Born 1980

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2698 ACADEMIC

Gerhart Laage

1925 - 2012

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2708 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Dittmann

1933 - 2014

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2750 ACADEMIC

Christoph Gutknecht

Born 1939

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2774 ACADEMIC

Friedrich Wohlwill

1881 - 1958

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2791 ACADEMIC

Harro Kiendl

Born 1936

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2806 ACADEMIC

Helmut Quaritsch

1930 - 2011

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2807 ACADEMIC

Erika Schuchardt

Born 1940

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2819 ACADEMIC

Claus Dieter Classen

Born 1960

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2827 ACADEMIC

Andreas von Arnauld

Born 1970

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2849 ACADEMIC

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf

Born 1971

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2851 ACADEMIC

Margot Kruse

1928 - 2013

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2901 ACADEMIC

Fritz Krafft

Born 1935

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2908 ACADEMIC

Paul Marquard Schlegel

1605 - 1653

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2919 ACADEMIC

Heiner Müller-Merbach

1936 - 2015

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2935 ACADEMIC

Hubertus Gersdorf

Born 1962

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2976 ACADEMIC

Karl Robert Mandelkow

1926 - 2008

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2995 ACADEMIC

Klaus Weimar

Born 1941

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3001 ACADEMIC

Johann Behrens (Pflegewissenschaftler)

Born 1949

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3003 ACADEMIC

Titus Heydenreich

1936 - 2013

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3014 ACADEMIC

Carsten Schäfer

Born 1964

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3032 ACADEMIC

Petra Ahrweiler

Born 1963

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3051 ACADEMIC

Wedig Kausch-Blecken von Schmeling

Born 1934

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3110 ACADEMIC

Holger Jung

Born 1953

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3124 ACADEMIC

Klaus Ramm

Born 1939

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3136 ACADEMIC

Johann Friedrich Bubendey

1848 - 1919

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3154 ACADEMIC

Bernd-Peter Lange (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler) –

Born 1938

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3162 ACADEMIC

Max L. Strack

1867 - 1914

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3163 ACADEMIC

Norbert Ehrhardt

Born 1953

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3182 ACADEMIC

Gerhard M. Buurman

Born 1961

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3194 ACADEMIC

Heiner Alwart

Born 1951

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3197 ACADEMIC

Kerstin S. Jobst

Born 1963

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3207 ACADEMIC

Mara-Daria Cojocaru

Born 1980

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3240 ACADEMIC

Ulrich Mölk

1937 - 2019

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3246 ACADEMIC

Jens Martin Gurr

Born 1974

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3262 ACADEMIC

Edith Braemer

1909 - 1969

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3265 ACADEMIC

Ingrid Strohschneider-Kohrs

1922 - 2014

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3267 ACADEMIC

Kerstin von der Decken

Born 1968

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3277 ACADEMIC

Knut Ebeling

Born 1970

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3302 ACADEMIC

Ralph R. Schneider

Born 1958

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3322 ACADEMIC

Carsten Roth

Born 1958

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3345 ACADEMIC

Claus Rainer Bartram

Born 1952

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3376 ACADEMIC

Arthur Kreuzer

Born 1938

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3403 ACADEMIC

Salomé Berrocal Gonzalo

Born 1965

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3427 ACADEMIC

Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer

Born 1953

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3453 ACADEMIC

Martin Führ

Born 1958

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3458 ACADEMIC

Sieglind Ellger-Rüttgardt

Born 1941

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3471 ACADEMIC

Heinrich Wilhelm Kruse

1931 - 2019

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3473 ACADEMIC

Armin Hatje

Born 1959

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3479 ACADEMIC

Alexander Bruns

Born 1966

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3492 ACADEMIC

Hans-Joachim Priester

Born 1937

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3493 ACADEMIC

Ferdinand Bertram

1894 - 1960

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3501 ACADEMIC

Justus Grimm

Born 1970

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3506 ACADEMIC

Heiner Dunckel

Born 1954

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3507 ACADEMIC

Knut Werner Lange

Born 1964

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3517 ACADEMIC

Erika Lorenz

1923 - 2003

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3519 ACADEMIC

Moritz Bauer (Musiker)

1875 - 1932

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3541 ACADEMIC

Hans Brinckmann

Born 1934

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3550 ACADEMIC

Wilhelm Holzmann

1878 - 1949

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3559 ACADEMIC

Siegfried Behn

1884 - 1970

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3564 ACADEMIC

Vera Schwarz (Cembalistin)

1929 - 1980

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3577 ACADEMIC

Lucas Beckmann

1571 - 1624

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3596 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Struve (Philosoph)

1917 - 2011

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3606 ACADEMIC

Ulrike Weckel

Born 1961

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3634 ACADEMIC

Georg Juckel

Born 1961

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3651 ACADEMIC

Richard von Sichowsky

1911 - 1975

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3662 ACADEMIC

Peter Nicolaisen

1936 - 2013

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3668 ACADEMIC

Inge Diersen

1927 - 1993

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3697 ACADEMIC

Hans Heinrich Wieck

1918 - 1980

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3707 ACADEMIC

Gertrude Joch Robinson

Born 1927

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3717 ACADEMIC

Barthold Moller (Theologe)

1460 - 1530

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3720 ACADEMIC

Hans Lübbert

1870 - 1951

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3729 ACADEMIC

Walther Manshard

Born 1923

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3746 ACADEMIC

Paul Albrecht (Mediziner)

1851 - 1894

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3828 ACADEMIC

Hans-Reimer Rodewald

Born 1958

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3861 ACADEMIC

Axel Flessner

Born 1935

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3865 ACADEMIC

Edgar Schultze

1905 - 1986

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3878 ACADEMIC

Werner Baltes

1929 - 2013

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3881 ACADEMIC

Reinhold Mokrosch

Born 1940

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3893 ACADEMIC

Ralph Sauer

Born 1928

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3918 ACADEMIC

Jan von Hein

Born 1967

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3925 ACADEMIC

Albert Malte Wagner

1886 - 1962

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3936 ACADEMIC

Torsten Meyer

Born 1965

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3950 ACADEMIC

Hannes Möhring

Born 1949

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3959 ACADEMIC

Bernd-Jürgen Wendt

Born 1934

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3976 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Stucken

1891 - 1984

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3980 ACADEMIC

Holger Nohr

Born 1961

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3992 ACADEMIC

Hermann Schröder (Architekt)

1928 - 2016

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4023 ACADEMIC

Jürgen Timm (Rektor)

Born 1941

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4024 ACADEMIC

Carl-Gottlieb Bennholdt-Thomsen

1903 - 1971

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4026 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Wohlers

Born 1962

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4036 ACADEMIC

Karl Garbers (Orientalist)

1898 - 1990

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4043 ACADEMIC

Gert Nicolaysen

1931 - 2016

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4048 ACADEMIC

Andreas Schulz (Historiker)

Born 1958

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4051 ACADEMIC

Boris Otto

Born 1971

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4084 ACADEMIC

Hans-Jürgen Benedict

Born 1941

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4109 ACADEMIC

Ernst Delbanco

1869 - 1935

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4230 ACADEMIC

Silke Petersen

Born 1965

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4231 ACADEMIC

Albert Lemeier

1530 - 1595

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4236 ACADEMIC

Friedrich Christiansen-Weniger

1897 - 1989

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4240 ACADEMIC

Detlef Rahe

Born 1964

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4246 ACADEMIC

Ludwig Hempel

1922 - 2011

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4247 ACADEMIC

Peter Kujath

Born 1946

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4256 ACADEMIC

Günter C. Behrmann

Born 1941

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4278 ACADEMIC

Claus Howitz

1927 - 1997

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4284 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Wurmnest

Born 1969

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4285 ACADEMIC

Florian Jacoby

Born 1971

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4297 ACADEMIC

Karl Christian Führer

Born 1954

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4304 ACADEMIC

Nils Claussen

Born 1937

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4331 ACADEMIC

Karl-Heinz Vosteen

1925 - 2009

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4367 ACADEMIC

Hermann Peter Fersenfeldt

1786 - 1853

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4399 ACADEMIC

Knud Andresen

Born 1965

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4453 ACADEMIC

Nikolaus Maler

Born 1972

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4456 ACADEMIC

Dietrich Sahrhage

1926 - 2009

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4464 ACADEMIC

Wera Mahler

1899 - 1991

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4466 ACADEMIC

Jürgen Plöhn

Born 1957

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4471 ACADEMIC

Carsten Nicolaisen

1934 - 2017

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4481 ACADEMIC

Daniel Thulesius

1889 - 1967

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4486 ACADEMIC

Dieter Ohlmeier

Born 1936

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4501 ACADEMIC

Christine Gerber

Born 1963

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4522 ACADEMIC

Thomas Klie (Jurist)

Born 1955

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4530 ACADEMIC

Jakob Sebastian Lauremberg

1619 - 1668

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4547 ACADEMIC

Walter Stein (Astronom)

1904 - 1993

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4550 ACADEMIC

Rainer Hering

Born 1961

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4559 ACADEMIC

Carl Schietzel

1908 - 1995

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4570 ACADEMIC

Oliver Remien

Born 1957

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4574 ACADEMIC

Monika Scheidler

Born 1962

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4607 ACADEMIC

Heiner Dürr

1940 - 2010

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4711 ACADEMIC

Kurt Illies

1908 - 1987

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4730 ACADEMIC

Paul Schaffshausen

1712 - 1761

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4738 ACADEMIC

Max-Gotthard Schulz

1940 - 2000

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4740 ACADEMIC

Alexander von Hoffmann

Born 1974

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4742 ACADEMIC

Johann Huswedel

1575 - 1651

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4760 ACADEMIC

Johannes Freder der Jüngere

1544 - 1604

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4761 ACADEMIC

Ludolph Fischer

1900 - 1972

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4763 ACADEMIC

Werner Alpers

Born 1936

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4786 ACADEMIC

Johannes Baumgardt

1930 - 2017

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4814 ACADEMIC

Malte Braack

Born 1966

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4817 ACADEMIC

Sönke Gerhold

Born 1979

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4845 ACADEMIC

Ludwig Steindorff

Born 1952

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4856 ACADEMIC

Rolf Hübner (Agronom)

1908 - 1978

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4881 ACADEMIC

Annette Weber (Kunsthistorikerin)

Born 1957

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4883 ACADEMIC

Robert Haul

1912 - 2000

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4910 ACADEMIC

Andreas Blaschczok

1952 - 2000

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4928 ACADEMIC

Paul Busching

1877 - 1945

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4941 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Lütgens

1881 - 1972

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4950 ACADEMIC

Gesine Dreyer

Born 1969

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5072 ACADEMIC

Alfred Führböter

1931 - 1992

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5080 ACADEMIC

Alfons Zettler

Born 1953

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5094 ACADEMIC

Walter Windfuhr

1878 - 1970

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5137 ACADEMIC

Nikolaus Georg Bernhard von Löwenstern

1745 - 1779

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5160 ACADEMIC

Carl Heinrich Dencker

1900 - 1967

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5182 ACADEMIC

Tomas Tomasek

Born 1949

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5204 ACADEMIC

Hans Robert Mehlig

Born 1934

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5219 ACADEMIC

Jesús Adrián Escudero

Born 1964

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5230 ACADEMIC

Lars Rüpke

Born 1975

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5234 ACADEMIC

Ernst Loewenberg

1896 - 1987

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5275 ACADEMIC

Martin Röllinghoff

Born 1941

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5277 ACADEMIC

Bernhard Pattenhausen

1855 - 1926

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5345 ACADEMIC

Frank Hatje

Born 1962

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5357 ACADEMIC

Herman Reichenbach

1898 - 1958

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5419 ACADEMIC

Richard Geith

1900 - 1945

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5438 ACADEMIC

Gudrun Ehlert

Born 1958

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5538 ACADEMIC

Beate Heinemann

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5554 ACADEMIC

Sophie Barrelet

1893 - 1987

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5605 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Mond

1894 - 1960

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5619 ACADEMIC

Johann Volkmar

Died 1617

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5667 ACADEMIC

Hartwig H. Geiger

Born 1939

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5712 ACADEMIC

Hedwig Wallis

1921 - 1997

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5717 ACADEMIC

Tobias Hoffmann (Philosoph)

Born 1967

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5748 ACADEMIC

Ferdinand Adolph Wilda

1812 - 1862

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5752 ACADEMIC

Rita Falke

Born 1919

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5811 ACADEMIC

Jakob Margreth

1879 - 1925

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5850 ACADEMIC

Alfred Dornheim

1909 - 1969

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5897 ACADEMIC

Malte Refardt

Born 1974

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5907 ACADEMIC

Hans-Harald Schumacher

1920 - 2008

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6031 ACADEMIC

Arndt Wigger

Born 1943

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6150 ACADEMIC

Thomas Siefer

Born 1956

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6245 ACADEMIC

Alvin Anger

1859 - 1924

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6267 ACADEMIC

Ernst Roedelius

1882 - 1971

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6288 ACADEMIC

Christian Decker (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler) –

Born 1966

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6408 ACADEMIC

Philipp Kamps

Born 1966

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6443 ACADEMIC

Heinrich Keller (Musiker)

1918 - 1990

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6560 ACADEMIC

Christian Köster

1947 - 2019

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6608 ACADEMIC

Bernhard Cramer (Geologe)

Born 1965

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6879 ACADEMIC

Robert Biewend

1844 - 1913

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7018 ACADEMIC

Oskar Hickfang

1885 - 1926

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