Category
page 1German anti-fascists
Marlene Dietrich
German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
Willy Brandt
German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Heinrich Mann
German writer (1871–1950)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
Sophie Scholl
German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)
Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Till Lindemann
German singer (born 1963)
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
Friedrich Kellner
German Justice inspector (1885-1970)
Conrad Veidt
German actor (1893–1943)
Clemens August von Galen
German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism (1878–1946)
Silvio Gesell
German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
Walter Eucken
German economist (1891–1950)
Albert Göring
German engineer, businessman, and the younger brother of Hermann Göring (1895-1966)
Beate Klarsfeld
Franco-German journalist, Nazi hunter, and historian (born 1939)
John Heartfield
German artist (1891–1968)
Sebastian Haffner
German journalist and author (1907–1999)
Ernst Busch
German actor (1900-1980)
Dorothee Sölle
German theologian (1929–2003)
Hans Richter
German artist (1888–1976)
John Henry Mackay
German writer (1864–1933)
Dietrich von Hildebrand
German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
Fritz Bauer
German judge (1903-1968)
Sonja Graf
German-born American chess player
Hugo Eckener
manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company (1868–1954)
Alice Salomon
German social reformer (1872–1948)
Otto Rühle
German councilist activist (1874-1943)
Olga Benário Prestes
German-Brazilian Communist militant (1908-1942)
Gustav von Wangenheim
German actor (1895-1975)
Reinhold Schneider
German poet (1903–1958)
Bela B
German rock musician
Alice Herz
American-based German activist
Erich Przywara
German Jesuit priest (1889–1972)
Rudolf Bahro
German politician and writer (1935-1997)
Josef Müller
German politician (1898–1979)
Helmuth Hübener
German resistance member (1925–1942)
Herbert Baum
German resistance fighter (1912-1942)
Hans Massaquoi
American journalist and author (1926–2013)
Lilly Becher
German writer (1901–1978)
Johannes Prassek
German Catholic priest and Lübeck martyr (1911–1943)
Hermann Lange
Roman Catholic priest and martyr of the Nazi period in Germany (1912-1943)
Otto and Elise Hampel
working class couple who resisted Nazism
Alec Empire
German musician
Theodor Haecker
German writer (1879-1945)
Gerhard Hirschfelder
German priest (1907–1942)
Artur Becker
German politician (1905-1938)
Eduard Müller
German Catholic priest and Lübeck martyr (1911–1943)
Franz Böhm
German economist (1895-1977)
Maria Terwiel
German resistance member (1910–1943)
John Rittmeister
German psychiatrist (1898–1943)
Sergei Chakhotin
Russian microbiologist and sociologist (1883–1973)
Ellen Ammann
German politician and activist (1870-1932)