German Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal as member

Was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal as member of the German boat in the coxed fours competition.

Is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Was a German Generalfeldmarschall.Reichenau stayed in the army under the Weimar Republic as a Genera

Was a German Generalfeldmarschall.Reichenau stayed in the army under the Weimar Republic as a General Staff officer. From 1931 he was Chief of Staff to the Inspector of Signals at the Reichswehr Ministry, and later served with General Werner von Blomberg in East Prussia.

Was a German football striker during the 1970s and 1980s.Wagner played for Eintracht Frankfurt betwe

Was a German football striker during the 1970s and 1980s.Wagner played for Eintracht Frankfurt between 1969 and 1971. He came to Greece in the summer of 1974 and played for AEK Athens FC from 1975 until 1977, for Aris FC in 1978 and for Panathinaikos FC

Is an Austrian football player currently playing for Union Pettenbach.

Is an Austrian football player currently playing for Union Pettenbach.

Is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourn

Is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he finished sixth in the C-2 1000 m and eighth in the C-2 10000 m event.

Was an Austrian football (soccer) player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the

Was an Austrian football (soccer) player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Austrian team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as forward and scored two goals.

Was a German artist. He was mainly known for his very colourful artist prints and the deep symbolism

Was a German artist. He was mainly known for his very colourful artist prints and the deep symbolism of his paintings. From 1936 to 1939 he educated as a painter in Mühlhausen / Thuringia. Walter Werneburg studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1951 at Landesschule für Angewandte Kunst in Erfurt (succeeding institute). He worked as an art teacher from 1951 to 1959 and as a lecturer at Pädagogischen Hochschule Erfurt (department of Education of Art). From 1964 to 1965 he graduated external studies at the University of Leipzig.

Was a German pianist and composer.Gieseking first started playing the piano at age 4, but without tu

Was a German pianist and composer.Gieseking first started playing the piano at age 4, but without tuition. His family travelled frequently and he was privately schooled. From 1911 to early 1916 he studied at the conservatorium in Hanover. His mentor was the director Karl Leimer, with whom he later co-authored a piano method (Piano Technique, published by Dover Press). Because of his gifts—he had a natural technique, perfect pitch, and an abnormally acute photographic memory—he was able to learn repertoire with relatively little practice. As taught in the Gieseking-Leimer method, he usually studied new pieces away from the piano. Consequently

Was a German composer of operettas and revues. Goetze began as composer of songs; the first of his m

Was a German composer of operettas and revues. Goetze began as composer of songs; the first of his many works for the stage was the revue Nur nicht drängeln (Don't Rush) in 1912, followed by his first operetta Der liebe Pepi (The Charming Pepi) in 1913. His most successful works in this form were Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin (1919) which achieved almost 700 performances in Berlin alone, Adrienne (1926) and Der goldene Pierrot (1934).

Was a German Socialist Realist artist. He lived in East Berlin for most of his life, and was the hea

Was a German Socialist Realist artist. He lived in East Berlin for most of his life, and was the head of the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee from 1968 until 1988. In the post-war rebuilding of Berlin, he designed many large public artworks including stained glass windows using the gemmail technique and large external murals in mosaic. These artworks showing the socialist ideal of "ordinary people" contributing to society are found decorating the buildings of government departments and factories.

Was an Austrian football goalkeeper and an integral part of the second Austrian Wunderteam of the 19

Was an Austrian football goalkeeper and an integral part of the second Austrian Wunderteam of the 1950s.Zeman began his youth career at local club SV Wienerberger, but he soon moved on to FC Vienna. In 1945 Zeman joined Rapid Vienna and also won his first cap for the Austria national football team. With Rapid Zeman won 8 Austrian league championships and one Austrian cup.

Is a German composer. Zimmerman's works are infused by a personal adaptation of minimal technique. W

Is a German composer. Zimmerman's works are infused by a personal adaptation of minimal technique. Whereas many early American minimalist composers were influenced in their works by rock, jazz, and world musics, Zimmermann has drawn a great deal of inspiration from his Franconian heritage. A number of his works, particularly his groups of pieces known as Lokale Musik, use the traditional music of this area as source material. These works frequently begin with melodic material derived from Franconian folk songs, which are rearranged and transformed in novel ways.

Was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker. Bens

Was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication, Kicker. Bensemann was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux, Switzerland, he learned about the new

Was a German freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the president of swi

Was a German freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the president of swimming's world governing body, FINA from 1932 - 1936 and was also a member of the International Olympic Committee.

A German physicist, mathematician, chemist, and Nobel Prize laureate who with Max Born invented the

A German physicist, mathematician, chemist, and Nobel Prize laureate who with Max Born invented the coincidence circuit.

prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 19

prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945.

Was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the Universit

Was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the University of Rostock, graduating in 1868. Afterwards. he served in 1870-1871 as a military physician in the Franco-Prussian War. From 1873 to 1876 he worked as a teacher at the University of Prague. In 1876 he accepted a post as a professor of anatomy at the University of Kiel. He became the director of the Anatomical Institute and stayed there until his death.Making use of aniline dyes he was able to find a structure which strongly absorbed basophilic dyes, which he named chromatin. He identified that chromatin was correlated to threadlike structures in the cell nucleus— the chromosomes (meaning coloured body), which were thus named later on by German anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921).

Was a Prussian General of the Infantry à la suite, Adjutant-General to the Kaiser and King, and Pru

Was a Prussian General of the Infantry à la suite, Adjutant-General to the Kaiser and King, and Prussian Minister of War.1884 he became a Lieutenant General and at the same time commander of the 17th Division, and in 1888 was made general officer commandi

Was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from

Was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945, tried as a Major War Criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

German physicist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodi

German physicist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodied in the third law of thermodynamics,

Was a German Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée and team sabre events at the 1912

Was a German Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée and team sabre events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany du

German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

The most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.

The most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.

Was a prominent German Orientalist in the first half of the 20th century who became Rector of the Un

Was a prominent German Orientalist in the first half of the 20th century who became Rector of the University of Munich from 1941 to 1945. He was also a leading Nazi intellectual, and from 1937 the President of the Research Institute of the Ahnenerbe SS.