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Ruth Westheimer (1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. William the Silent (1533–1584), German-born main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs [25] Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), art historian and archaeologist
Jack Steinberger: German-American-Swiss physicist, co-discovered the muon neutrino, shared 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. Georg Wilhelm Steller: Chief naturalist on Vitus Bering's expedition during which Alaska was discovered (1741) and pioneer of Alaskan Natural History. Steller's sea cow (now extinct) was named after him.
From the Nobel Prize's establishment in 1901 until 1956, Germany had the highest number of Nobel laureates in the world. [1] Today, Germany is the nation with the 3rd most Nobel Prize winners: 2nd most in the category of physics, 3rd most in chemistry [2] and physiology or medicine, [3] and 4th most in literature.
Germany: 14 billion Aldi Nord and Trader Joe's: 164 Hasso Plattner Germany: 12.1 billion SAP: 195 Georg Schaeffler Germany: 10.9 billion Schaeffler Group: 203 Friedhelm Loh Germany: 10.6 billion Friedhelm Loh Group: 232 Andreas Strüngmann Germany: 9.8 billion Hexal, BioNTech: 232 Thomas Strüngmann Germany: 9.8 billion Hexal, BioNTech: 256 ...
Germany A former medical professor at the University of Jena, Albrecht was accused of killing a patient in 1941, as part of the Nazi euthanasia program which carried out mass killings of the mentally ill and physically disabled. She was further linked to the deaths of 159 people at a hospital in Stadtroda. In 2005, Albrecht was ruled unfit to ...
He left Germany in 1933 and worked as a military adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. Willi Stöhr – From late 1944, he was Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Gau Westmark. In addition, he was the Chief of Civil Administration in occupied Lorraine. Gregor Strasser – early prominent German Nazi official and politician.
Gustav Gerneth (15 October 1905 – 21 October 2019) [7] was born in Stettin, German Empire (now Szczecin, Poland). [109] He worked in a shipping company and at a gas plant. During the Second World War, he was a mechanic in the German air force . [110] He married Charlotte Grubert in 1930 and the couple had three sons; she died in 1988.
Werner Otto (1909–2011), founder of Otto GmbH, now Otto Group, a mail order company; Hasso Plattner (born 1944), co-founder of SAP; Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer and founder of Porsche; Günther Quandt (1881–1954), industrial, entrepreneur of different companies (today includes BMW AG and Altana (chemicals)