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Carol I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1839–1914), Prince (1867–1881) and King (1881–1914) of Romania. Catherine the Great (1729–1796), Empress of Russia. Charles IV (1316–1378), King of Germany 1346, Holy Roman Emperor 1355–78. Charles V (1500–1558), King of Spain 1516, King of Germany 1519, Holy Roman Emperor 1530–56.
Felix Schlag (1891–1974), designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004. Erwin Straus (1891–1975), German-American phenomenologist and neurologist. Hans Leybold (1892–1914), poet. Jakob Weiseborn (1892–1939), SS- Sturmbannführer (major) and commandant of Flossenbürg concentration camp.
Paul Singer (1844–1911), SPD co-founder, whose chairman and Reichstag, producer. Willi Stoph (1914–1999), politician (SED), Chairman of the State Council. Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), politician (DVP), chancellor and foreign minister of the Weimar Republic, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Manfred von Ardenne in 1933. Ernst Abbe: Invented the first refractometer, and many other devices. Donated his shares in the company Carl Zeiss to form Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, still in existence today. Franz Carl Achard: Developed a process to produce sugar from sugar beet. Built the first factory for the process in 1802.
Germany: 7.9 billion Tchibo, Beiersdorf: 329 Wolfgang Herz Germany: 7.9 billion Tchibo, Beiersdorf: 358 Jürgen Blickle Germany: 7.4 billion SEW Eurodrive: 385 Nadia Thiele Germany: 7.1 billion Knorr-Bremse AG: 432 Wolfgang Marguerre Germany: 6.4 billion Octapharma: 432 Maximilian Viessmann Germany: 6.4 billion Viessmann: 498 Theo Müller ...
Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2] Ottomar Anschütz and the Skladanowsky brothers were early pioneers of film technology , while Paul Nipkow and Karl Ferdinand Braun laid the foundation of the television with their Nipkow disk and ...
Before 1750. Eric of Friuli (8th century), Frankish duke of Friuli. Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (ca. 1205–ca. 1270), theologian. Johannes Tauler (1300–1361), mystic and theologian. Fritsche Closener (died before 1373), priest, historian. Rulman Merswin (ca. 1307–1382), mystic. Jakob Twinger von Königshofen (1346–1420), chronicler.
Germany portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to People of Hamburg . People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Hamburg , Germany and its surrounding metropolitan area.