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page 120th-century German writers
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
Herta Müller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
Albert Schweitzer
French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
Georg Cantor
German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
Clara Zetkin
Communist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Georg Simmel
German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858–1918)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal (1882–1946)
Alfred Rosenberg
Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
Karl Kautsky
Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
Elisabeth of Wied
German writer; queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Carol I (1843–1916)
Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher
Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
Cornelia Funke
German author (born 1958)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927)
Otfried Preußler
German children's books author (1923–2013)
Eric Voegelin
American philosopher (1901–1985)
Julius Wellhausen
German theologian and orientalist (1844–1918)
Alexander Kluge
German writer, philosopher, academic and film director (1932–2026)
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Crown Princess of Prussia (1886-1954)
Hans Delbrück
German historian (1848-1929)
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
German political scientist (1916–2010)
Esther Vilar
Argentine writer
Alice Salomon
German social reformer (1872–1948)
Brigitte Kronauer
German writer (1940-2019)
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
German author (1954–2023)
Leopold von Wiese
German sociologist and economist (1876-1969)
Ursula Haverbeck
German Holocaust denier
Konrad Kujau
German illustrator and forger (1938–2000)
Roderich Menzel
Czechoslovak tennis player (1907–1987)
Jutta Bauer
German children's illustrator and writer (1955-2025)
Barbara Rütting
German actress, politician and author (1927-2020)
Paul Bern
German-born American film director (1889-1932)
Martin Noth
German theologian (1902–1968)
Corinne Hofmann
Swiss writer
Hedda Zinner
German political writer, translator, actress, and journalist (1904–1994)
Ilse Hess
German author (1900-1995)
Otmar von Verschuer
German military physician, geneticist and biochemist (1896-1969)
Andreas Hillgruber
German historian (1925-1989)
Kate Bosse-Griffiths
Welsh-German Egyptologist (1910–1998)
Mite Kremnitz
German writer (1852-1916)
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
German actress (1905–1977)
Theodor Wolff
German writer (1868-1943)
Albrecht Alt
German Lutheran theologian (1883–1956)
Bert Hölldobler
German biologist
Marica Bodrožić
German writer
Franz Carl Weiskopf
German-Czech writer (1900-1955)
Katja Lange-Müller
German author
Johanna Elberskirchen
German writer (1864-1943)
Ida Marie Lipsius
German writer and music historian (1837–1927)
Ilja Richter
German actor and television presenter (born 1952)
Rudolf von Ribbentrop
German SS officer (1921–2019)
Ayyā Khemā
German Buddhist nun (1923–1997)
Henriette Goldschmidt
Jewish German feminist (1825–1920)
Elly Heuss-Knapp
German politician (1881-1952)
Martin Broszat
German historian (1926–1989)
Elisabeth von Heyking
German author (1861–1925)
Günter Wächtershäuser
German biochemist and patent attorney (born 1938)