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Decker Famous Germans/Austrians g-p
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Helmut Jahn | (1940- ) German-American architect with offices in Chicago |
| Carl Gustav Jung | (1875-1961) Swiss psychoanalyst |
| Franz Kafka | (1883-1924) Austrian writer born in Prague |
| Immanuel Kant | (1724-1804) German philosopher |
| Karl der Grosse | (Charlemagne, 747-814) The first unifier of Europe, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (800-814) |
| Johannes Kepler | (1571-1630) German astronomer and mathematician who calculated the planetary orbits |
| Henry A. Kissinger | (1923- ) German-American politician, Secretary of State under Nixon |
| Paul Klee | (1879-1940) Swiss artist |
| Gustav Klimt | (1862-1918) Austrian artist |
| Robert Koch | (1843-1910) German medical researcher, inventor of TB vaccine, Nobel Prize 1905 |
| Helmut Kohl | (1930- ) Former German Kanzler (1982-1998) |
| Oskar Kokoschka | (1886-1980) Austrian artist |
| Karl Lagerfeld | (1938- ) German fashion designer |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | (1646-1716) German philosopher and mathematician |
| Otto Lilienthal | (1848-1896) German aviator and glider pilot whose pioneering work inspired the Wright Brothers |
| "Mad" Ludwig II | (King of Bavaria, 1864-1886) > Web Link |
| Martin Luther | (1483-1546) German religious reformer |
| Ernst Mach | (1838-1916) Austrian physicist |
| Heinrich Mann | (1871-1950) German writer |
| Thomas Mann | (1875-1955) German writer, Nobel Prizze |
| Maria Theresia | (1717-1780) Habsburg Austrian empress (1745-80) who had 16 children |
| Marie Antoinette | (1755-1793) Daughter of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph who married the French king Louis XVI |
| Karl Marx | (1818-1883) German philosopher and co-founder of the communist movement (Marxism) |
| Kurt Masur | (1927- ) German musical director, Leipzig (1970-1996), New York (1991-2000) |
| Paul (1838-1914) and Wilhelm Mauser (1834-1882) | German gun inventors, weapons manufacturers |
| Karl May | (1842-1912) German author of westerns and other adventure stories |
| Lise Meitner | (1878-1968) Austrian physicist who coined the term "nuclear fission" (Kernspaltung) |
| Phillip Melanchthon | (Phillip Schwartzerd, 1497-1560) German religious reformer |
| H.L. Mencken | (1880-1956) German-American writer, journalist |
| Gregor Johann Mendel | (1822-1884) Austrian biologist and genetics researcher (Mendel's Laws) |
| Felix Mendelsohn-Bartholdy | (1809-1847) German composer and musical director (Leipzig) |
| Ulf Merbold | (1941- ) German physicist who flew on missions aboard the American Columbia (1983) and Discovery (1992) space shuttles as well as the Russian Mir space station (1994) |
| Gerhard Mercator | (Kremer, 1512-1594) German cartographer, inventor of the Mercator projection for sea charts and maps |
| Ottmar Mergenthaler | (1854-1899) German-american inventor of the Linotype typesetting system (1886) |
| Matthäus Merian | (1593-1650) Swiss engraver who began publishing "Topographia" in Frankfurt in 1642, a 30-volume collection of European city view etchings |
| Angela Merkel | (1954- ) German politician, chairperson of the CDU party since 2000, current German chancelor |
| Franz Anton Mesmer | (1734-1815) German inventor of magnetotherapy and source of the term "mesmerize" |
| Willy Messerschmidt | (1898-1978) German aircraft designer |
| Rheinhold Messner | (1944- ) Italian (South Tyrol) mountain climber, first to climb all 14 peaks above 8000 meters |
| Prince Metternich | (Klemens Wenzel Lothar Fürst von M., 1773-1859) Austrian chancellor (1810-48), leading figure at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | (1886-1969) German architect considered one of the most influential in modern history; went to the U.S. in 1937 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | (1756-1791) Austrian composer |
| Robert Musil | (1880-1942) Austrian writer |
| Anne-Sophie Mutter | (1963- ) Internationally recognized German violinist |
| Thomas Nast | (1840-1902) German-American journalist, political cartoonist; see The 'Nasty' Myth |
| Richard Josef Neutra | (1892-1970) Austrian-American architect |
| Helmut Newton | (Neustädter, 1920-2004) Internationally recognized German fashion and glamour photographer; born in Berlin as Helmut Neustädter, died in an auto accident in Los Angeles on January 24, 2004 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | (1844-1900) German writer and philosopher |
| Georg Simon Ohm | (1789-1854) German physicist (Ohm's Law, 1826) |
| Carl Orff | (1895-1982) German composer ("Carmina Burana") |
| Otto | Many Germanic princes, kings, and emperors have borne this name, from Otto I (der Grosse, 912-973) to Otto I (Bavaria, 1848-1916) |
| Nikolaus August Otto | (1832-1891) German engineer, inventor of the four-stroke internal combustion (Otto) engine (1862), which was used for the first motor cars invented by Benz and Daimler. |
| Johann Pachelbel | (1653-1706) German composer and organist |
| Wolfgang Pauli | (1900-1958) Austrian physicist, one of the developers of the quantum theory, discoverer of the Pauli principle for electrons in an atom |
| Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | (1746-1827) Swiss educational reformer |
| Wolfgang Petersen | (1941- ) German film director (Das Boot, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm) WEB > Petersen |
| Phillip | Many Germanic counts, dukes and kings have borne this name, from Phillip von Schwaben (1178-1208) to Phillip I (der Grossmütige, 1504-1567) |
| Max Planck | (1858-1947) German physicist, quantum theory, Nobel prize 1918 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | (Joseph Ratzinger, 1927- ) German cardinal who became pope on April 19, 2005. |
| Louis Prang | (1824-1909) German-American printer born in Breslau, Silesia (then in Prussia, now Wroclaw, Poland) to a French Huguenot father and a German mother. Considered the "father of the American Christmas card," Prang founded a printing company (L. Prang Co.) in |
| Joseph Pulitzer | (1847-1911) Austrian-American journalist and newspaper publisher |
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