Alumni
| Name | Affiliation | Years at Heidelberg | Importance / Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Baxter Adams
(1850–1901) |
Historian | ~around 1872–1876 | Founder of the American Historical Association. Established one of the first history Ph.D. programs to follow the new German seminary method at Johns Hopkins University around 1880. | |
| Felix Adler
(1851–1933) |
Educator | 1870–1874 | Founder of the Ethical Culture Movement in 1876. | |
| Louis Agassiz
(1807–1873) |
Paleontologist | ~around 1824–1829 | First to publish the Ice Age Hypothesis in 1840. | |
| Christoph Ahlhaus
(1990–) |
Politician | 1990–1993 | Mayor and Prime Minister of Hamburg | |
| Edward Andrade
(1887–1971) |
Physicist | 1911–1913 | Worked with Ernest Rutherford to show the wave nature of gamma rays in 1914. | |
| Hannah Arendt
(1906–1975) |
Political theorist | 1926–1928 | Author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition; reported on the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. | |
| Friedrich Arnold
(1803–1890) |
Anatomist | ?–1825 | Privy councillor; described the reflex of coughing when the ear is stimulated; the auricular branch of the vagus nerve was nicknamed "Arnold's nerve" | |
| William Backhouse Astor, Sr.
(1850–1901) |
Financier | Head of the Astor corporate enterprises; nicknamed "the Landlord of New York" | ||
| Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden
(1857–1928) |
Statesman | ? | Head of State of the Grand Duchy of Baden; General Field Marshal of the German Imperial Army | |
| Prince Maximilian of Baden
(1867–1929) |
Statesman | ? | Last Chancellor of the German Empire | |
| Adolf von Baeyer
(1835–1917) |
Chemist | ~around 1852–1858 | Synthesized indigo; discovered the phthalein dyes; proposed the correct formula for indole; introduced the strain theory in triple bonds and carbon rings. Chemistry Nobel Laureate | |
| George Bancroft
(1800–1891) |
Statesman and historian | ~around 1813–1822 | U.S. Secretary of the Navy; established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845; Author of "History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent" | |
| Auguste Beernaert
(1829–1912) |
Statesman | ~around 1850–1853 | Prime Minister of Belgium and Nobel Peace Laureate | |
| Rudolf Bernhardt
(1925–) |
Jurisprudent | 1956–1962 | President of the European Court of Human Rights | |
| Daniel Bernoulli
(1700–1782) |
Mathematician | 1718–1719 | Developed the Bernoulli's principle and together with Leonhard Euler the Euler-Bernoulli Beam Equation. | |
| Manfred Bischoff
(1942–) |
Executive | Chairman of EADS; Chairman of DaimlerChrysler | ||
| Franz Boas
(1858–1942) |
Anthropologist | April–Sept. 1877 | Started applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies; "Father of American Anthropology" | |
| Edgar Bodenheimer
(1908–1991) |
Jurisprudent | ? | Author of "Jurisprudence: The Philosophy and Method of the Law", "Treatise on Justice", "Philosophy of Responsibility" | |
| Max Born
(1882–1970) |
Physicist | ? | Formulated the matrix mechanics representation of quantum mechanics in collaboration with Werner Heisenberg; Physics Nobel Laureate | |
| Andreas von Bülow
(1937–) |
Statesman | ? | Federal Minister of Education and Research | |
| Reinhard Bütikofer
(1953–) |
Statesman | ? | Chairman of the Green Party of Germany | |
| George C. Butte
(1877–1940) |
Jurist | 1913 (Jurisprudence) | Republican gubernatorial nominee in Texas, 1924; member of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, 1932–1936 | |
| Moritz Cantor
(1829–1920) |
Mathematician | 1848–? | Founded the history of mathematics as a scientific discipline | |
| Conrad Celtes
(1459–1508) |
Humanist scholar | 1484–1485 | First to teach the history of the world as a whole; discovered the Tabula Peutingeriana | |
| Rangsit, Prince of Chainat
(1885–1951) |
Statesman | ? | Prince Regent of Thailand | |
| John W. Chanler
(1826–1877) |
Lawyer | ? | Top lawyer; U.S. Representative from New York; member of the Astor family | |
| Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
(1864–1892) |
Royalty | 1884 | Crown Prince of Britain | |
| John Amos Comenius
(1592–1670) |
Theologian | ? | Bishop of Lissa; author of "Didactica Magna"; became the symbol of the Czech nation | |
| Wilhelm Cuno
(1876–1933) |
Statesman | ? | Chancellor of the German Weimar Republic | |
| Nicholas of Cusa
(1401–1464) |
Theologian and polymath | ? | Roman Catholic Cardinal | |
| Thomas Dieterich
(1934–) |
Jurisprudent | –1963 | President of the Federal Labor Court of Germany; Justice in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
| Jürgen Dormann
(1940–) |
Executive | ? | CEO of ABB Group | |
| Karl Drais
(1785–1851) |
Inventor | 1803–1805 | Inventor of the two-wheeler principle that started mechanized transport | |
| Johann Eck
(1486–1543) |
Theologian | 1498–1501 | Martin Luther's Catholic opponent during Protestant Reformation; Papal legate and Inquisitor | |
| Norbert Elias
(1897–1990) |
Sociologist | ~around 1917–1920 | Founder of figurational sociology; author of The Civilizing Process | |
| Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
(1788–1857) |
Poet | 1807–1808 | Author of "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts", "Die Zauberei im Herbst", "Ahnung und Gegenwart", "Auch ich war in Arkadien" | |
| Richard T. Ely
(1854–1943) |
Economist | ? | Co-founder and president of the American Economic Association; editor of Macmillan's Citizen's Library of Economics, Politics, and Sociology; Professor at Johns Hopkins University and University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
| Ludwig Feuerbach
(1804–1872) |
Philosopher | ? | Author of The Essence of Christianity | |
| James Franck
(1882–1964) |
Physicist | ? | Invented the Franck-Hertz experiment; confirmed the Bohr model of the atom; Physics Nobel Laureate | |
| Sebastian Franck
(1499–1542) |
Theologian | ? | Author of "Weltbuch", "Chronicle of Germany", "Universal Chronicle of the World's History from the Earliest Times to the Present", "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil", "The Vanity of Arts and Sciences" | |
| Wilhelm Frick
(1877–1946) |
Nazi government | ?–1901 | Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich | |
| Carl Joachim Friedrich
(1901–1984) |
Political scientist | ?–1925 | Developed the concept of a "good democracy"; laid out a theoretical framework for the European Union; co-author of "Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy" with Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of "Man and His Government: An Empirical Theory of Politics"; Professor at Harvard University | |
| Erich Fromm
(1900–1980) |
Psychologist | ?–1922 | Co-founder of political psychology; author of The Art of Loving, Escape from Freedom; co-founder of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy | |
| Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs
(1833–1902) |
Mathematician | ? | Developed the Fuchsian groups and functions, the Picard–Fuchs equation and the Fuchsian differential equations | |
| Otto von Gerlach
(1801–1849) |
Theologian | ? | Published a major rewrite of the Old and New Testament after Martin Luther; Dome Minister and Konsistorialrat | |
| Georg Gottfried Gervinus
(1805–1871) |
Political historian | 1826–1828 | Advocate of democracy before and during the 1848 revolution; member of the Göttingen Seven; member of the 1848 Frankfurt Parliament; | |
| Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu
(1916–1992) |
Writer | ? | Author of "The 25th Hour", "Les inconnus de Heidelberg", "Dieu a Paris", "Le peuple des immortels", "Calligraphies sur la Neige" | |
| J. Willard Gibbs
(1839–1903) |
Physicist, chemist and mathematician | 1868 | Pioneer of chemical thermodynamics and physical chemistry; inventor of vector analysis; member of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans | |
| Albert Gobat
(1843–1914) |
Statesman | ?–1867 | Director of the International Peace Bureau; Member of the Swiss National Council; Nobel Peace Laureate | |
| Joseph Goebbels
(1897–1945) |
Nazi government | ?–1921 | Minister of Public Enlightenment of the Third Reich; succeeded Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Nazi Germany | |
| Franciscus Gomarus
(1563–1641) |
Theologian | ?–1591 | Founder of the Gomarist movement; leader of the 1618 Synod of Dordrecht | |
| Constantine I of Greece
(1868–1920) |
Statesman | ? | King of Greece | |
| August Grisebach
(1814–1879) |
Botanist | ? | Founded biogeography as a scientific discipline; author of "The Earth's vegetation after its climatic arrangement" and "Catalogus plantarum cubensium" | |
| Max Güde
(1902–1984) |
Jurisprudent | ? | Attorney General of Germany | |
| Friedrich Gundolf
(1880–1931) |
Writer | ? | Co-founder of the Georgekreis; author of "Die deutsche Literärgeschicht, Reimweis kurz fasslich hergericht´", "Andreas Gryphius", "Shakespeare", "Paracelsus", "Romantiker"; also Professor at Heidelberg from 1916 onwards. | |
| Fritz Haber
(1868–1934) |
Chemist | 1886–1891 | Developed synthetic ammonia; developed and deployed chlorine and other poison gases; "father of chemical warfare"; Chemistry Nobel Laureate | |
| Gunther von Hagens
(1945–) |
Artist and physician | ?–1975 | Inventor the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination; initiator of the Body Worlds exhibition of human bodies and body parts. | |
| Theodor W. Hänsch
(1941–) |
Physicist | ? | Developed an optical "frequency comb synthesiser", which makes it possible, for the first time, to measure with extreme precision the number of light oscillations per second; Physics Nobel Laureate | |
| James Hannen, Baron Hannen
(1821–1849) |
Justice | ? | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Life Peer | |
| Monika Harms
(1946–) |
Jurisprudent | 1966–1967 | Attorney General of Germany | |
| Franz-Ulrich Hartl
(1957–) |
Biochemist | ? | Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry; Wiley Prize Laureate in Biomedical Science "for his significant contribution in protein folding"; Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award Laureate "for distinguished work in basic medical science" | |
| Christian Friedrich Hebbel
(1813–1863) |
Writer | ? | Author of "Maria Magdalene", "Judith", "Genoveva", "Herodes and Mariamne", and of the trilogy "Die Nibelungen " | |
| Rudolf Heinze
(1865–1928) |
Statesman | ? | Vice-Chancellor of Germany; Federal Minister of Justice | |
| Barnabas Kelet Henagan
(1798–1855) |
Statesman | ? | Governor of South Carolina | |
| Heinrich Hoffmann
(1885–1957) |
Writer | 1829–1832 | Author of children's books including "Der Struwwelpeter" | |
| Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
(1819–1901) |
Statesman | Chancellor of the German Empire | ||
| Charles Henry Huberich
(1877–1945) |
Jurisprudent | (?–?) | Dean of Stanford Law School | |
| Heinrich Hübsch
(1795–1863) |
Architect | 1813–1815 | Designer of the University of Karlsruhe main building, State Art Gallery Karlsruhe, Baden State Theater, west front of the Speyer Cathedral | |
| Sir Muhammad Iqbal
(1877–1938) |
Poet, philosopher and politician | ? | Leader of the All India Muslim League; author of "Asrar-i-Khudi", "Rumuz-i-Bekhudi", "Payam-i-Mashriq", "Bang-i-Dara", "Zabur-i-Ajam", "Javid Nama", "Bal-i-Jibril", "Zarb-i-Kalim", "What should then be done O people of the East", "Armaghan-i-Hijaz" | |
| Philipp von Jolly
(1809–1884) |
Physicist | ? | Contributed significantly to the understanding of gravitational acceleration and osmosis; teacher of Max Planck; also Professor at Heidelberg from 1839 onwards | |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
(1853–1926) |
Physicist | 1871–1873 | Explored extremely cold refrigeration techniques and the associated phenomena; Physics Nobel Laureate | |
| Ernst Kantorowicz
(1895–1963) |
Historian | ? | Author of "The King's Two Bodies" and of "Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite"; Professor at Oxford University, University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University | |
| Hans-Peter Kaul
(*1943) |
Jurisprudent | 1967–1971 | Vice President of the International Criminal Court | |
| James E. Keeler
(1857–1900) |
Astronomer | ? | Discovered the Encke Division, the Keeler Gap and two asteroids; co-founder of the Astrophysical Journal; Henry Draper Medalist | |
| Gottfried Keller
(1819–1890) |
Writer | 1848–1850 | Author of "Green Henry", "A Village Romeo and Juliet", "The People of Seldwyla", "Zurich Novellas", "Martin Salander" | |
| Jerome Kern
(1885–1945) |
Composer | 1904 | Composed The Way You Look Tonight, Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Academy Award for the soundtrack of the movie Swing Time | |
| Wolfgang Ketterle
(1957–) |
Physicist | 1976–1979 | Contributed significantly to fundamental studies of condensates; completed experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose-Einstein condensation in these systems; Physics Nobel Laureate; also assistant professor at Heidelberg from 1986–1990 | |
| Helmut Kohl
(1930–) |
Statesman | 1951–1956 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; "Architect of the German Reunification" | |
| Juliane Kokott
(1957–) |
Jurisprudent | 1982–1985 | Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union | |
| Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
(1817–1892) |
Chemist | ?–1839 | Discovered several important correlations of the physical properties of substances with their chemical constitution; significant research on specific volumes and on the connection of the boiling point of compounds with their composition; also Professor at Heidelberg from 1864 onwards | |
| Sofia Kovalevskaya
(1850–1891) |
Mathematician | ? | Developed the Cauchy-Kowalevski theorem; first woman who was appointed to a full professorship in Europe | |
| Gustav Krupp
(1870–1950) |
Industrialist | 1888–1893 | Owner and Chairman of the Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate; Prussian Ambassador to the Holy See | |
| Hans Heinrich Lammers
(1879–1962) |
Nazi government | ? | Head of the Reich Chancellery; Reich Minister without Portfolio | |
| John S. Kyser
(1900–1975) |
Educator and university president | President of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana | ||
| Judah Leon Magnes
(1877–1948) |
Rabbi, Pacifist and university chancellor | Doctorate 1902 | First Chancellor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Golo Mann
(1909–1994) |
Writer and historian | 1929–1932 | Author of "Friedrich von Gentz", "Vom Geist Amerikas", "Von Weimar nach Bonn. Fünfzig Jahre deutsche Republik", "Erinnerungen und Gedanken. Eine Jugend in Deutschland", "Wir alle sind, was wir gelesen", "Wissen und Trauer. Historische Portraits und Skizzen"; Son of Thomas Mann and Katia Mann | |
| W. Somerset Maugham
(1874–1965) |
Novelist | 1890–? | Author of "Of Human Bondage", "The Moon and Sixpence", "Cakes and Ale", "The Razor's Edge", "The Magician" | |
| Georg Ludwig von Maurer
(1790–1872) |
Statesman | ?–1812 | Member of the Council of Regency of Greece; Bavarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Justice; | |
| Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
(1850–1934) |
Statesman | ? | Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; member of the House of Lords; Order of the Redeemer (Greece); Order of the Sacred Treasures (Japan) | |
| Philipp Melanchthon
(1497–1560) |
Theologian | 1509–1512 | Key leader of the Protestant Reformation; friend and associate of Martin Luther | |
| Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
(1801–1869) |
Paleontologist | ? | Introduced vertebrate paleontology in Germany; proposed the classification of fossil reptiles into four major groups based on their limbs | |
| Otto Meyerhof
(1884–1951) |
Physician | ?–1909 | Cardinal work on muscle metabolism, including glycolysis; also Director of the Heidelberg Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research; Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate | |
| Johann von Miquel
(1829–1901) |
Statesman | ? | Prussian Minister of Finance; Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main | |
| Alfred Mombert
(1872–1942) |
Poet | ? | Author of "Der Sonnengeist", "Aeon, der Weltgesuchte", "Aeon vor Syrakus", "Der Himmlische Zecher", "Der Held der Erde, Aeon Zwischen den Frauen" | |
| Rudolf Mössbauer
(1929–) |
Physicist | 1955–1957 | Discovered the Mössbauer effect; Professor at the California Institute of Technology; Physics Nobel Laureate | |
| F. W. Murnau
(1888–1931) |
Film director | ? | Director of "Nosferatu", "The Last Laugh", "Faust", "Sunrise"; Academy Award for "Sunrise" | |
| Karl Friedrich Neumann
(1793–1870) |
Orientalist | ? | Author of "A History of the United States of America"; "Geschichte des englischen Reichs in Asien", "Versuch einer Geschichte der armenischen Literatur", "Die Volker des südlichen Russland", "Geschichte des englisch-chinesischen Kriegs " | |
| George Newlands
(????–) |
Theologian | ? | Convenor of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland's Panel on Doctrine; member of the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England; Chair of the Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies panel of the UK's Research Assessment Exercise; Professor of Divinity, Glasgow | |
| Max Nonne
(1861–1959) |
Neurologist | 1879–1881 | Discovered the Nonne-Apelt reaction and the Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease | |
| Robert E. Park
(1864–1944) |
Sociologist | 1903 | One of the main founders of the Chicago School of sociology; president of the American Sociological Association and of the Chicago Urban League; Professor at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago | |
| Talcott Parsons
(1902–1979) |
Sociologist | 1925–1927 | Produced a general theoretical system for the analysis of society that came to be called structural functionalism; created the Harvard Department of Social Relations | |
| Jean Paul
(1763–1825) |
Novelist | 1817 | Author of "Greenland Lawsuits", "Selections from the Devil's Papers", "The Invisible Lodge", "Life of the Cheerful Schoolmaster Maria Wutz", "Biographical Recreations under the Brainpan of a Giantess" | |
| George H. Pendleton
(1825–1889) |
Statesman | ? | United States Senator from Ohio; nominee for Vice President of the United States; United States Ambassador to Germany; | |
| Hugo Preuß
(1860–1925) |
Statesman | ~around 1879–1883 | Minister of the Interior; "Father of the German constitution of the Weimar Republic" | |
| Sir William Ramsay
(1852–1916) |
Chemist | ? | Discovered argon; significant contributions to the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air; Chemistry Nobel Laureate | |
| Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer
(1894–1957) |
Diplomat | ?–1921 | Executive, supervisor, and diplomat for the League of Nations and United Nations Organization; author of "Portrait of the British Labour Party" | |
| Jovan Ristic
(1894–1957) |
Statesman | ?–? | Acted as regent of Serbia twice and served as Serbian prime minister four times (1867, 1875, 1877–81, 1887–88). | |
| José Rizal
(1861–1896) |
Writer | 1887 | Author of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo; founder of La Liga Filipina; "national hero of the Philippines" | |
| Richard Rothe
(1799–1867) |
Theologian | ? | Co-founder of the Protestantenverein; author of "Die Anfänge der christlichen Kirche und ihrer Verfassung", "Theologische Ethik", "Zur Dogmatik" | |
| Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
(1818–1874) |
Financier | ? | Banker; High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire; MP for Hythe | |
| Henrique de Carvalho Santos
(????) |
Statesman | ? | Minister of Industry of Angola | |
| Matthias Jakob Schleiden
(1804–1881) |
Biologist | ? | Co-founder of the cell theory | |
| Hanns Martin Schleyer
(1915–1977) |
Executive | 1933–1938 | Entrepreneur and head of Confederation of German Employers' Associations; killed by Red Army Faction during the German Autumn | |
| Bernhard Schlink
(* 1944) |
Novelist and jurisprudent | Author of The Reader | ||
| Robert Schumann
(1810–1856) |
Composer | 1829–1830 | Composed "piano quintet", "Paradise and the Peri", "Faust", "Genoveva", "Rhenish Symphony" | |
| Jacob Gould Schurman
(1854–1942) |
Diplomat | ~around 1877–1880 | President of Cornell University; U.S. Ambassador to Greece, China and Germany; Benefactor of the University of Heidelberg | |
| William Berryman Scott
(1858–1947) |
Paleontologist | ?–1880 | Authority on mammals; author of the White River Oligocene monographs; Professor at Princeton University; Penrose Medalist | |
| Anna Seghers
(1900–1983) |
Poet | ? | Author of "The Seventh Cross", "The Dead Stay Young", "Benito's Blue and Nine Other Stories", "A Price on His Head", "Revolt of the Fishermen of Santa Barbara" | |
| Walter Seuffert
(1907–1989) |
Jurisprudent | 1925– | Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany | |
| Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
(1855–1919) |
Industrialist | ~around 1876–1879 | Owner and Chairman of Siemens AG; privy councillor | |
| Georg von Siemens
(1839–1901) |
Banker | ? | Co-founder and director of Deutsche Bank; financed the Northern Pacific Railway and Baghdad Railway; member of the imperial Reichstag | |
| Hans Spemann
(1869–1941) |
Physician | ? | Discovered the effect now known as embryonic induction ; Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate | |
| Carl Spitteler
(1845–1924) |
Poet | ? | Author of "The Olympic Spring"; Literature Nobel Laureate | |
| Jakob Steiner
(1796–1863) |
Mathematician | 1818–1821 | Renowned Swiss mathematician | |
| Konstantin Stoilov
(1853–1901) |
Statesman | ?–1877 | Prime Minister of Bulgaria | |
| Hans-Christian Ströbele
(1939–) |
Statesman | 1960–? | Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Green Party of Germany | |
| Thomas Sydserf
(1581–1663) |
Theologian | ? | Bishop of Brechin; Bishop of Galloway; Bishop of Orkney | |
| Haldun Taner
(1915–1986) |
Playwright | 1935–1938 | Author of "Kesanli Ali"; Founder of Devekuşu Kabere | |
| Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon
(1875–1947) |
Industrialist | ?–1900 | Founder and Chairman of the Thyssen AG heavy industry conglomerate | |
| Arnold J. Toynbee
(1889–1975) |
Historian | ?–? | Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; professor at the London School of Economics | |
| Gianni Vattimo
(1936–) |
Philosopher | ? | Author of "The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture", "The Transparent Society", "After Christianity", "The Future of Religion", "After the Death of God"; member of the European Parliament | |
| Bernhard Vogel
(1932–) |
Statesman | 1953–1960 | Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia | |
| William Walker
(1824–1860) |
Statesman and filibuster | ? | President of Nicaragua | |
| Carl Warburg
(1805–1892) |
Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist | ? Late 1820s ? | Inventor of Warburg's Tincture, a famed antipyretic and antimalarial medicine of the 19th-century | |
| Otto Warburg
(1883–1970) |
Physician | 1906–1911 | Discovered flavine; important work on nicotinic acid amide; Order Pour le Mérite; Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate | |
| Alfred Wegener
(1880–1930) |
Earth Scientist | ? | Discovered the continental drift and the thermodynamics of the atmosphere; developed the theory of the super-continent Pangea; eponym of the Wegener Impact Craters on both Mars and Moon | |
| Hermann Weinkauff
(1894–1981) |
Jurisprudent | ? | President of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany; Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany | |
| Luzius Wildhaber
(1937-) |
Jurisprudent | ? | President of the European Court of Human Rights; Vice President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration; Judge at the Constitutional Court of Liechtenstein | |
| Bohdan Winiarski
(1884–1969) |
Jurisprudent | ? | President of the International Court of Justice | |
| Friedrich Wöhler
(1800–1882) |
Chemist | ?–1823 | Synthesized urea and calcium carbide; co-discoverer of beryllium and silicon; first to isolate yttrium, beryllium, and titanium | |
| Manfred Wörner
(1934–1994) |
Statesman | Secretary General of NATO; Federal Minister of Defense | ||
| Joseph Wright
(1855–1930) |
Linguist | ?–1885 | Author of the six-volume English Dialect Dictionary, Dialect Test, Rustic Speech and Folklore; Professor at Oxford University | |
| Wilhelm Wundt
(1832–1920) |
Psychologist | ~around 1851–1856 | Author of "Principles of Physiological Psychology"; eponym of "Wilhelm Wundt-William James Award for Exceptional Contributions to Trans-Atlantic Psychology" awarded by the American Psychological Association; "Father of Psychology" | |
| Karl Zell
(1793–1873) |
Statesman | ~around 1810–1814 | Member of the Upper Chamber of the Diet of Baden; reformer of the high-school system of Baden; established a special board for the supervision and encouragement of the higher studies; president of the congresses for Catholic Germany |
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