Famous People with Name Pohl

Richard Pohl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Richard Pohl: was a German music critic, writer, poet, and amateur composer. He figured prominently in the mid-century War of the Romantics, taking the side opposite Eduard Hanslick, and championing the "Music of the Future" (the progressive Romantic style of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner). In 1854 Pohl moved to Weimar, where he became an editor at the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. He wrote invective-laden articles under the pseudonym "Hoplit" (from the Greek term hoplite, the foot-soldier of ancient Greece) in support of Liszt and Wagner, and critical of music of the more conservative Romantic composers.

Hans-Peter Pohl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hans-Peter Pohl: is a former German nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Karl Otto Pöhl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Otto Pöhl: is a German economist and a President of the Bundesbank and Chairman of its Central Bank Council from 1980 to 1991.[1][2] During the 1970s and 1980s, Pöhl was the driving force behind German efforts to get Europe's rampant inflation under control and to l

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sabine Bergmann-Pohl: is a German politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), she was president of the People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic from April to October 1990 and as such the last head of state. After the reunification of Germany, she served in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Robert Wichard Pohl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Robert Wichard Pohl: was a German physicist. In 1938 Robert Pohl and Rudolf Hilsch, from the University of Göttingen, built the first functioning solid-state amplifier using salt as the semiconductor [1].