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3 unusual facts about German people


Erhard Eppler

Eppler joined Heinemann's new party, the All-German People's Party (Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei - GVP), in 1952, but like most members of the GVP, including Heinemann, he changed over to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1956 after the GVP only attracted small numbers of voters in elections.

Karl Steinhoff

During that time, he was a member of the German People's Council (Deutscher Volksrat) from 1948-49, and from 1950-54 a member of the Volkskammer.

Neuerkirch

Richard Oertel (1860–1932), born in Horn, clergyman and from 1912 to 1918 an elected member of the National Liberal Party in the Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus (Prussian Parliament), and later, in 1919 and 1920 an elected member of the German People's Party (DVP) in the Weimar National Assembly and from 1920 to 1924 a member of the first Weimar Reichstag.


Arved von Schultz

Arved Carl Ludwig von Schultz (born 14 November 1883 at Good Rinkuln in Talsen, now Latvia; died 13 December 1967 in Hilden at Düsseldorf) was a German geographer.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Axel Scheffler

Axel Scheffler (born Hamburg, 1957) is a German book illustrator best known for his cartoon-like pictures for children's books, particularly The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child written by Julia Donaldson.

Bergheim, Haut-Rhin

The majority of people who immigrated at that times were Swiss, German, Hungarian, Austrian, or Romanian.

Boston and Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company

Adolph and Leonard Lewisohn were German Jews whose father had established in 1858 an American subsidiary, Lewisohn Brothers, which bought and sold bristles, feathers, hair, metals, and wood.

Dahomey Amazons

Dahomey Amazons were represented in the 1987 film Cobra Verde by German director Werner Herzog.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski

Daniel Ernst Jablonski (20 November 1660 Nassenhuben – 25 May 1741 Berlin), German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

Deism

The term was used in 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.

Denis Wolf

Denis Santos Wolf (born 15 January 1983) is a FilipinoGerman footballer who plays as a forward for Global FC and the Philippines national team.

Denise Low

A 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage, she was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas, where she began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Emporia Gazette.

Emanuel Hirsch

Emanuel Hirsch (June 14, 1886/1888, Bentwisch, Mecklenburg - July 17, 1972, Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian and also a member of the Nazi Party and the Nazi supporting body.

Friedrich Hermann Wölfert

Friedrich Hermann Wölfert (17 November 1850 in Riethnordhausen, Kreis Sangerhausen - 12 June 1897 in Tempelhof (in Berlin)) was a German publisher and aviation pioneer.

Georg Wüst

Georg Adolf Otto Wüst (June 15, 1890 - November 8, 1977) was a German oceanographer known for his work on the Atlantic Ocean.

Gustav Bischof

Karl Gustav Bischof (January 18, 1792 – November 30, 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria.

Heiko Antoniewicz

Heiko Antoniewicz (born 10 November 1965 in Dortmund) is a German chef who uses techniques of molecular gastronomy, including sous-vide.

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Heinz-Otto Peitgen (born April 30, 1945 in Bruch, Nümbrecht near Cologne) is a German mathematician and was President of Jacobs University from January 1, 2013 to January 1, 2014, following a controversial resignation.

Ingo Schwichtenberg

Ingo "Mr. Smile" Schwichtenberg (18 May 1965 - 8 March 1995) was a German drummer and one of the founding members of German power metal band Helloween.

Jacob Praetorius

Jacob Praetorius or Schultz (* 8 February 1586 † 21 or 22 October 1651) was a German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius.

Jean Chrétien Fischer

Jean Chrétien Fischer (German: Johann Christian Fischer; 17 January 1713 in Stuttgart – 1 July 1762 near Kassel) was a German-born soldier in the French service.

Johann Christian Senckenberg

Johann Christian Senckenberg (28 February 1707 – 15 November 1772) was a German physician, naturalist and collector.

Johann Heinrich Alting

Johann Heinrich Alting (1583–1644), German divine, was born at Emden, where his father, Menso Alting (1541–1612), was minister.

Johannes Haw

Johannes Maria Haw (b. 26 May 1871; d. 28 October 1949) was a German Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Johannesbund of Leutesdorf and of the religious communities of the Community of the Sisters of St John of Mary the Queen (Ordensgemeinschaft der Johannesschwestern von Maria Königin) and the Society of Missionaries of Saint John the Baptist (die Gemeinschaft der Missionare vom Hl. Johannes dem Täufer).

Josef Ochs

Josef Ochs (March 31, 1905 in Schmitten – November 12, 1987) was a German Police officer and SS-Obersturmführer.

Karl Emil Lischke

Karl Emil Lischke (born 30 December 1819 in Stettin – died 1886 in Bonn) was a German lawyer, politician, diplomat, and amateur naturalist.

Lignum nephriticum

In 1646, Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit scholar residing in Rome, published an account of his experiments on lignum nephriticum in his work Ars Magna Lucis et Umbræ.

Luca Turilli's Rhapsody

Luca Turilli's Rhapsody (often simply referred by itself as Rhapsody or LT's Rhapsody) is an Italian symphonic power metal band created and led by Luca Turilli after his split from Rhapsody of Fire, also including German, French and Finnish members.

Ludwig Thienemann

Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann ( 25 December 1793, Freyburg – 24 June 1858, Dresden) was a German physician and naturalist.

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) in Karachi, Pakistan is run by Dr. Ruth Pfau, who is also a Roman Catholic religious sister of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary, originally of German descent.

Max Meyer-Olbersleben

Max Meyer-Olbersleben (5 April 1850 in Olbersleben – 31 December 1927 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist.

Max von Oppenheim

Max (Freiherr) von Oppenheim (July 15, 1860 in Cologne – November 17, 1946 in Landshut) was a German ancient historian, and archaeologist, "the last of the great amateur archaeological explorers of the Near East.".

Music of Transylvania

Inhabited by Romanians, Székely and other Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, Slovaks, Gypsies and others, Transylvania has long been a center for folk music from all of these different cultures.

Neoregelia 'Dr. Who'

The root of the genus name, which was originally Regelia in the family Myrtaceae, was in honor of German botanist Eduard August von Regel, superintendent of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden in Russia in the 19th century.

Nicolaus Bruhns

Nicolaus Bruhns (Nikolaus, Nicholas) (late 1665 – in Schwabstedt; 29 March 1697 in Husum) was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer.

Ottokar Domma

Ottokar Domma (pseudonym; properly Otto Häuser) (20 May 1924, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia - 15 July 2007, Woltersdorf) was a German journalist and writer specialising in satire.

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow is a 2010 Sophie Fiennes documentary about the German industrial artist Anselm Kiefer's creation of a gesamtkunstwerk in an abandoned factory complex outside Barjac, France.

Paul Mahlo

Friedrich Paul Mahlo (born July 28, 1883 in Coswig, Anhalt, died August 20, 1971 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt) was a Germanmathematician.

Paul Sintenis

Paul Ernst Emil Sintenis (4 April 1847 Seidenberg, Oberlausitz, Prussia – 1907) was a German botanist, pharmacist and plant collector.

Pope Urban IV

Tannhäuser, a prominent German Minnesänger and poet, was a contemporary of Pope Urban IV—the pope died in 1264, and the Minnesänger died shortly after 1265.

Ralf Souquet

Ralf Souquet (pronounced soo-kay) (born 29 November 1968 in Eschweiler, Germany) is a German professional pool player.

Sigi Schwab

Sig(g)i Schwab, real name Siegfried,(* August 5. 1940 ) in Ludwigshafen is an outstanding German guitar player and teacher, having performed on more than 15000 recordings for film, television, and as an accompanist to various artists.

Soul Boy

It developed under the mentorship of German director and producer Tom Tykwer in Kibera, one of the largest slums in the African continent, in the middle of Nairobi, Kenya.

The Eyes of a Traitor

The band did only two one-off shows in 2012, initially in Madrid, Spain, with the German metalcore band Caliban, on 4 May 2012, but then they were confirmed to play at Ghostfest 2012 on Sunday 1 July.

Theodor Bartus

Theodor Bartus (January 30, 1858 in Lassan, Germany - January 28, 1941 in Berlin) was a German sailor, museum technician, and conservator.

Vicki Vomit

Vicki Vomit (born Jens Hellmann, July 9, 1963, Trusetal) is a German satirical musician and comedian.

Werner Döring

Werner Döring (2 September 1911, Berlin – 6 June 2006, Malente) was a German theoretical physicist.

Wilhelm Heitmeyer

Wilhelm Heitmeyer (born 28 June 1945, Nettelstedt, Lübbecke) is a German academic, sociologist, administrator and Professor of Socialisation at Bielefeld University in Germany.

Wilhelm Wachsmuth

Wilhelm Gottfried Wachsmuth (born 28 December 1784 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany — died 23 January 1866 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany) was a German historian and academic.


see also

Anti-German

Anti-German sentiment suspicion or hostility towards Germany or the German people

Deutscher Michel

Der Deutsche Michel (literal. "The German Michael") is a figure representing the national character of the German people, rather as John Bull represents the British and Uncle Sam represent the Americans.

Enzo Sellerio

In 1962 ZDF invited Sellerio, Hiroshi Hamaya and Will McBride to make a film on the German people; Mit offenen Augen was the result.

Plan Frederiks

Plan-Frederiks was a plan made up by the Dutch politicians K.J. Frederiks and J. van Dam that was meant to protect Jewish people in name of the German people during World War II.

Society for the Prevention of World War III

For example in 1944 they distributed a booklet by T.H. Tetens entitled Know Your Enemy where the German people were depicted as inherently aggressive, militaristic and a permanent threat to peace.

St Stephen's Green

a group representing the Three Fates inside the Leeson Street gate (a gift from the German people in thanks for Irish help to refugees after World War II)

Volksgemeinschaft

In addition to the duties and responsibilities shared by those in the community, they were expected to build and create a "Volksgeist" that would encompass the best aspects of the German people.

Wilhelm Marr

He was influenced by the Burschenschaft movement of the early nineteenth century, which developed out of frustration among German students with the failure of the Congress of Vienna to create a unified state out of all the territories inhabited by the German people.