German Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Is a retired Austrian football player and a football manager currently working as a scout with FC Re

Is a retired Austrian football player and a football manager currently working as a scout with FC Red Bull Salzburg.

A German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he Emigrated to En

A German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he Emigrated to England in 1933, and to Israel in 1952. There he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he founded the Department of Genetics.In 1980 Sachs became the first Israeli scientist to win the Wolf Prize – for his "contributions to knowledge of the function and disfunction of the body cells through [his] studies on ... the elucidation of mechanisms governing the control and differentiation of normal and cancer cells". Other honors have included the Israel Prize (1972), and election as a Foreign Associate to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) (1995).

German major general and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany. Capriv

German major general and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany. Caprivi served as German Chancellor from March 1890 to October 1894.

German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo v

German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, Leo von Klenze was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek revival style.

A former German football player.

A former German football player.

Also known by his party name of Leon Tyszka (Tyska, Tyshko, Tyshka) was a Marxist revolutionary acti

Also known by his party name of Leon Tyszka (Tyska, Tyshko, Tyshka) was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.Jogiches was a founding member of the Spartacus League, a revolutionary left-wing organization of the Social Democrati

Was an Austrian actor.Askin was born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malv

Was an Austrian actor.Askin was born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malvine (Susman) and Samuel Aschkenazy. Askin already wanted to be an actor as a child. His dream came true, and in the 1930s he worked as a cabaret artist and director at the "ABC Theatre" in Vienna: in this position he also helped the career of the writer Jura Soyfer get off the ground in 1935. As a highly versatile stage actor, he was well-known as "the man of a thousand faces."

Is a German professional footballer. As of May 2009, he plays for Hannover 96. He made his debut in

Is a German professional footballer. As of May 2009, he plays for Hannover 96. He made his debut in the Fußball-Bundesliga on April 19, 2009 for Hannover 96 in a game against Hamburger SV.

Was a German composer of operettas. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the po

Was a German composer of operettas. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers," also known as "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote many light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music. He achieved considerable acclaim with a number of his operettas — in particular Schwarzwaldmädel (Black Forest Girl), which remains popular to this day.

Who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his third wife Dale Evans, hi

Who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured two sidekicks, Pat Brady, (who drove a jeep called "Nellybelle"), and the crotchety Gabby Hayes. Roy's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Dale's nickname was "Queen of the West." For many Americans (and non-Americans), he was the embodiment of the all-American hero.

Was a German actor and director of stage and screen. He began his career as a stage actor, and spent

Was a German actor and director of stage and screen. He began his career as a stage actor, and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a train accident near Aitrang in 1971.

Was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. He was a member of the von Blumenthal family.Brought up on his

Was a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall. He was a member of the von Blumenthal family.Brought up on his grandfather's estate at Reddenthin, where his uncle Gustav von Below was founding what would become the Pentecostal movement, Blumenthal was educated at the military schools of Culm and Berlin. He entered the Guards as 2nd lieutenant in 1827.

Is a German footballer who plays for SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

Is a German footballer who plays for SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

Is an Austrian professional association football player currently playing for Austrian Football Bund

Is an Austrian professional association football player currently playing for Austrian Football Bundesliga side SK Austria Kärnten. He plays as a midfielder.

Was a German composer and music editor who worked with Orlando de Lassus.

Was a German composer and music editor who worked with Orlando de Lassus.

Is an Austrian former skier who won a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New Yor

Is an Austrian former skier who won a gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. In Lake Placid, Stock started very low on the starting list - in heavy snow and on a track that was worn down. All the favorites were down the hill, the

Was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and

Was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock (also called Hieronymus Tragus.Like his medieval predecessors and his contemporaries, Fuchs was heavily influenced by the three Greek and Roman writers on medicine and materia medica, Dioscorides, Hippocrates, and Galen. He wanted to fight the Arab hegemony in medicine, as it had been transmitted by the medical school of Salerno, and to "return" to the Greek authors. But he saw the importance of practical experience as well and offered botanical field days for the students, where he demonstrated the medicinal plants in situ. He founded one of the first German botanical gardens.

Was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Mi

Was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics.he studied medicine in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1897. He then moved to Berlin, where he received his doctorate the same year. Michaelis worked as assistant to Paul Ehrlich (1898–1899), Moritz Litten (1899–1902) and Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1902–1906). In 1906 he started as director of the bacteriology lab in Berlins Charité hospital, becoming Professor extraordinary at Berlin University in 1908.In 1914 he published a paper suggesting that Emil Abderhalden's notorious pregnancy tests could not be reproduced, a paper which fatally compromised Michaelis' position as an academic in Germany (L. Michaelis, L von Lagermark, Deutsche Med. Wochenschr. 1914, 7, 316-319). In 1922 he moved to the Medical School of the University of Nagoya (Japan) as Professor of biochemistry

Was an Austrian actress and theatre director. An alternate ending of the movie, which pandered to pr

Was an Austrian actress and theatre director. An alternate ending of the movie, which pandered to pro-Nazi ideals, enabled the film to be screened in Germany, but eventually even this version of the film was banned as 'decadent' by the Nazi regime and Sagan fled Germany soon after.

Was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Köthen in 1717. He was the elder brother of Kar

Was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Köthen in 1717. He was the elder brother of Karl Friedrich Abel. He studied violin under Benda. He played in the orchestra of the theatre at Brunswick, and was successively conductor of the court band to the Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1758), the Margrave of Schwedt (1766), and the Duke of Schwerin (1770). He composed a sinfonia a 8 voci in 1766, and some of his violin studies and other compositions are in the possession of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna. However, he never rose to the reputation of his brother. He died at Ludwigslust on August 25, 1794.[1]

Was a German American orchestral conductor. Damrosch first appeared as a conductor during the season

Was a German American orchestral conductor. Damrosch first appeared as a conductor during the season of 1859 where he conducted the Philharmonic concerts in Breslau. He continued to conduct the Philharmonic for three years due to the success of this season. In 1862 Damrosch founded a symphonic society in Breslau with an orchestra of eighty performers, modeled after the Gewandhaus concerts of Leipzig.

Is a Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector, the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will, an

Is a Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector, the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will, and speaks publicly on his experiences with students. Leopold Engleitner is now the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück.

Was an Austrian politician of the ÖVP (Christian Democrats) and the first Federal Chancellor after

Was an Austrian politician of the ÖVP (Christian Democrats) and the first Federal Chancellor after the Second World War. He was also the youngest Federal Chancellor of Austria after the Second World War.After graduation (Dipl.-Ing. of Agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna), he became vice chair of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund (Farmer's League) in 1931 and chairman in 1933.After the authoritarian revolution of Engelbert Dollfuss, who had served as his mentor within the Farmer's League, Figl became member of the federal council of economic policy and became leader of the paramilitary organisation of Ostmärkische Sturmscharen for the state of Lower Austria.

Was an Austrian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the

Was an Austrian weightlifter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the light-heavyweight class.

Was an Austrian politician.Born in Vienna, Gratz was a law graduate and a member of the Austrian Soc

Was an Austrian politician.Born in Vienna, Gratz was a law graduate and a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the Bundesrat, from 1970 to 1971 Federal Minister of Education and the Arts. From 1966 to 1973 he served as a member of Thr National Council of Austria and from 1986 to 1989 also as the president of The National Council of Austria, from 1971 to 1973 as the leader of the Socialist group in parliament.