Famous People with Name Rehn

Märta Elisabeth Rehn            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Märta Elisabeth Rehn: a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first woman Minister of Defence in Finland. In the 1994 presidential elections she was narrowly defeated by Martti Ahtisaari.Elisabeth Rehn spent her childhood in Mäntsälä, where her father worked as a community Medical Doctor. Rehn went to a local school in Mäntsälä before entering a boarding school in Grankulla (fi. Kauniainen).Rehn received the degree of Master of Science in Economics in 1957 and has honorary degrees in political science from both Svenska handelshögskolan and Åbo Akademi. In the beginning of the 1960s Rehn was known to be the first person in Finland to import and market the plastic Tupperware containers.

Olli Ilmari Rehn            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Olli Ilmari Rehn: is a Finnish politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Enlargement. Recently his name has come up as a potential presidential candidate for the 2012 election in Finland.

Fritz Rehn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Fritz Rehn: was a German lawyer and the first Judge-President of the Nazi People's Court. In 1901 he became an attorney. In 1905 he was appointed to the court in Bochum and in 1913 he moved to Koblenz. In 1920, he became a Regional Director and he moved to Berlin in

Ludwig Wilhelm Carl Rehn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ludwig Wilhelm Carl Rehn: was a German surgeon. Rehn was born in 1849, in the village of Allendorf, the youngest of five children. After the visiting the convent school in Bad Hersfeld, he studied medicine at the University of Marburg from 1869 to 1874, where he became a member of the student corps Hasso-Nassovia. Rehn served as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. In 1875 he received his doctorate from University of Marburg and started to practice at Griesheim near Frankfurt am Main and later in Rödelheim. While there in 1880, he carried out the first thyroidectomy. From 1886 on he was a surgeon and late head of department and manager of the surgical facility of the urban hospital in Frankfurt am Main.