1. Else Lasker-Schüler (1869)

Jewish German Poet And Playwrigh

German-Jewish poet and playwright known for Meine Wunder and other expressionist works. Her best-known play, Die Wupper, was performed in Berlin in 1919.

2. Sigurd Rascher (1907)

Saxophonist

Classical saxophone pioneer who had more than twenty major compositions created for him, including Ballade for Alto Saxophone, String Orchestra, Piano and Tympani by Frank Martin.

3. Werner Eggerath (1900)

German Politician

Eggerath was an East German author and communist politician. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and its first secretary in Thuringia from 21 April 1946...

4. Jürgen Kuczynski (1904)

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5. Martin Gauger (1905)

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Martin Gauger was a German jurist and pacifist from Wuppertal Rhenish Prussia. He was a member of the Kreisau Circle which sought to overthrow the National Socialist regime in Germany...

6. Walter Simons (1861)

German Politician And Judge

Simons was a German lawyer and politician. He served as president of the Reichsgericht from 1922 to 1929.

7. Hermann Heinrich Becker (1820)

German Politician

Hermann Heinrich Becker was a German politician and member of the DFP. Becker was born to Dr. Hermann Becker and Theodora Helene Caroline Wilhelmine Friedrike Becker née Krackrügge. Becker studied...

8. Carl Wirths (1897)

German Politician

Carl Wirths was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party. He was a representative of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from October 2 1946 until September 1 1949 and...

9. Karl Ludwig von Bruck (1798)

Austrian Politician

Karl Ludwig von Bruck was an Austrian statesman.

10. Willi Stöhr (1903)

Official

Stöhr German NSDAP official was born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. He joined the NSDAP in 1923. In 1932 he was made a senior official of the Hitler Youth movement and in 1933...

11. Erich Koch (1896)

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Erich Koch was a Gauleiter of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Party in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was the Chief of Civil...

12. Helene Weber (1881)

German Politician

Helene Weber Rhine Province died 25 July 1962 in Bonn) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. She had an instrumental role in founding modern German law.

13. Julius Dorpmüller (1869)

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Julius Heinrich Dorpmueller was general manager of Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft from 1926 to 1945 and the German Reich Transport Minister from 1937 to 1945.

14. August von der Heydt (1801)

German Economist

August von der Heydt was an influential German economist. Von der Heydt was born in Elberfeld in the Duchy of Berg. During the Revolution of 1848 he was appointed as...

15. Mathilde Wesendonck (1828)

German Poet

Mathilde Wesendonck was a German poet and author. She is best known as the friend and possible paramour of Richard Wagner who set five songs to her words called the...

16. Bob Lochmueller (1927)

American Basketball Player

Robert L. Bob Lochmueller is a former National Basketball Association player. He was drafted with the seventh pick in the first round of the 1952 NBA Draft by the Syracuse...