20th-century German male writers

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

German-born novelist (1898–1970)

German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

German writer (1917–1985)

German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)

German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)

German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)

German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)

German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)

German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)

German writer (1871–1950)

Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)

German philosopher (1900–2002)

German filmmaker (born 1945)

German mathematician (1885–1955)

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

German general

German writer (1929–1995)

German philosopher (1874-1928)

American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist

German journalist and politician (1884-1963)

German field marshal (1887-1973)

German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)

German general (1890–1957)

German writer and screenwriter

German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)

German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (1888-1985)

German filmmaker (born 1955)

German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)

German philosopher (1885–1977)

German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)

Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)

German writer (1884-1958)

German singer (born 1963)

German writer (1906–1949)

German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1885-1946)

German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)

Jewish-German journalist, satirist and writer (1890–1935)

German philosopher (1882-1936)

Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)

German author (1926-2014)

German-American theologian and philosopher

German playwright (1864-1918)

German novelist, poet (1886–1956)

German writer

Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)

German sociologist (1897–1990)

History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)

German theologian (1884–1976)

German general (1884–1972)

German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of intentionality (1838–1917)

German writer and editor (1929–2022)

Swedish-German playwright and author (1916–1982)

German writer (1893–1947)