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page 1People from Hesse-Nassau

Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)

Hans-Georg Gadamer
German philosopher (1900–2002)

Hans Fischer
German chemist (1881–1945)

Karl Ziegler
German chemist (1898–1973)

Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
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German physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1873–1916)
Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)

Willy Messerschmitt
German aircraft designer and manufacturer (1898-1978)

Otto Heinrich Frank
father of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank (1889–1980)

Erwin Piscator
German theatre director (1893–1966)

Dieter Rams
German industrial designer (born 1932)

Helmut Hasse
German mathematician (1898–1979)

Ernst vom Rath
German diplomat (1909-1938)

Walter Gerlach
German physicist (1889-1979)
Oskar Fischinger
German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter (1900-1967)
Wilhelm Stuckart
German judge and politician (1902-1953)
Ludwig Mond
British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)
Richard Huelsenbeck
German poet, dadaist and psychoanalyst (1892-1974)

Leo Löwenthal
German sociologist (1900–1993)
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
daughter of Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen and Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1891-1971)
Heinz Jost
German SS functionary (1904–1964)
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
German judge (1930-2019)
Willibald Kreß
German footballer (1906-1989)
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
German writer (1920–1989)
Leni Junker
German sprinter (1905–1997)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
German astronomer (1885–1964)
Hermann Volk
German catholic theologian (1903-1988)
Georg Konrad Morgen
SS judge and chief investigator, Reich Criminal Police Office (1909-1982)
Karl Joseph Schulte
Catholic cardinal (1871–1941)
Hans Mommsen
German historian (1930–2015)
Hans Grimm
German politician (1875-1959)
Dieter Henrich
German philosopher (1927–2022)
Wilhelm Kreis
German architect (1873-1955)
Gerhard Ritter
German historian (1888-1967)
Alexander Rüstow
German academic (1885–1963)
Adolf Reichwein
German educator, economist, and cultural policymaker for the SPD, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (1898-1944)
Otto Blumenthal
German mathematician (1876-1944)
Reinhard Hauff
German film director and screenwriter
Otmar von Verschuer
German military physician, geneticist and biochemist (1896-1969)
Gustav Adolf Deissmann
German theologian (1866–1937)
Ernst Winter
gymnast (1907–1943)
Wolfgang Mommsen
German historian (1930-2004)
Friedrich Blume
German musicologist (1893–1975)
Theodor Ziehen
German neurologist (1862–1950)
Thorwald Proll
German writer (born 1941)

Ernst Scholz
German politician (1874-1932)
Hans John
German resistance member (1911–1945)
Alexander Demandt
German historian
Lis Verhoeven
German actress (1931–2019)
Michael Rossmann
German-American physicist and microbiologist
Theodor Habicht
German national socialist politician (1898-1944)
Mary Bauermeister
German artist (1934–2023)
Fritz Peter Schäfer
German physicist (1931–2011)
Karl Willy Wagner
German electrical engineer (1883–1953)
Michael Stürmer
German historian
Walter Bodmer
German-born British human geneticist (born 1936)
Theodor Haubach
German journalist and politician (1896-1945)
Georg Groscurth
German physician (1904-1944)
Johanna Kirchner
German opponent of Nazism (1889–1944)