Prominent Mischlinge
Some examples of Mischlinge:
- Commander Paul Ascher, 1st degree Mischling receiving the German Blood Certificate.
- ice hockey player and participant of the 1936 Olympic Winter Games Rudi Ball, 1st degree Mischling
- Erich Collin, second tenor of the Comedian Harmonists, emigrated to the US in 1935, 1st-degree Mischling
- Muriel Gardiner, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, anti-Fascist activist, emigrated in autumn 1939 to the US, 1st-degree Mischling
- Iron Cross-awarded soldier Horst Geitner, 1st degree Mischling
- future German writer and journalist Ralph Giordano, 1st-degree Mischling
- Wehrmacht soldier and Nazi model Werner Goldberg, 1st-degree Mischling
- Hans von Herwarth, German diplomat, providing the Allies with information prior to and during World War II, 2nd degree Mischling, later ranged with full Aryans
- Rainer Hildebrandt, future anti-communist resistance fighter, historian and founder of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, 1st degree Mischling
- Colonel Walter H. Hollaender, 1st degree Mischling receiving the German Blood Certificate.
- future German sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger, 1st degree Mischling
- Helene Jacobs, member of the Confessing Church and of the German Resistance against National Socialism, 1st degree Mischling
- Elisabeth Langgässer, author and teacher, 1st degree Mischling
- world champion Olympic fencer and participant of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games Helene Mayer, 1st degree Mischling
- Harry Meyen, future German film actor, 1st degree Mischling
- German actress and future TV performer Inge Meysel, 1st degree Mischling
- Luftwaffe Field Marshall Erhard Milch (Jewish father and Gentile mother, 1st degree Mischling) reclassified as Aryan by Adolf Hitler.
- Composer Carl Orff, would-be 2nd degree Mischling, whose descent was discovered only post mortem
- Hamburg's future first post-war First Burgomaster (i.e. simultaneous mayor and governor of the city state) Rudolf Petersen, 1st degree Mischling
- Kriegsmarine captain Bernhard Rogge, 2nd degree Mischling
- then Wehrmacht soldier and future German federal chancellor Helmut Schmidt, would-be 2nd degree Mischling
- Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, aviatrix, obscured ancestry, unveiled in 1940 as 1st degree Mischling, received the German Blood Certificate
- Jona von Ustinov, German diplomat in London and British MI5 agent, would-be 2nd degree Mischling
- Otto Heinrich Warburg, physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate, leading biochemists, 1st-degree Mischling
- Luftwaffe general Helmut Wilberg, 1st degree Mischling and declared Aryan in 1935 by Hitler.
- General Arty Johannes Zukertort, 1st degree Mischling, who received the German Blood Certificate; brother of General Karl Zukertort.
- General Karl Zukertort, 1st degree Mischling, who received the German Blood Certificate; brother of General Arty Johannes Zukertort.
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