German Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. She won a gold medal in 4x400 metres

Is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. She won a gold medal in 4x400 metres relay at the 1974 European Championships, together with teammates Angelika Handt, Ellen Streidt and Brigitte Rohde. She had finished fifth in the same event at the 1969 European Championships.

Is a former East German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Sum

Is a former East German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.She played three matches including the final and scored eight goals.

Is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She won the silver medal at th

Is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She won the silver medal at the 1962 European Championships, finished eighth at the 1966 European Championships and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics without reaching the final. In domestic competitions, she represented the sports club SC Chemie Halle. She became East German champion in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1966.[1] and East German indoor champion in 1964, 1965 and 1967.[2] In 1967 she also became 1500 metres champion.[3]

Is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. As a teenager she won the silv

Is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. As a teenager she won the silver medal at the 1968 European Junior Championships and the gold medal at the 1970 European Junior Championships.[1] She also competed at the European Championships in 1966, 1969 and 1971 without reaching the final.

Is an Austrian Olympic fencer. She competed at the 1960 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

Is an Austrian Olympic fencer. She competed at the 1960 and 1972 Summer Olympics.

Was a German astronomer.Waltraut Carola Seitter was born in Zwickau in 1930, where her father worked

Was a German astronomer.Waltraut Carola Seitter was born in Zwickau in 1930, where her father worked as an engineer with the Horch automobile company. She went to school in Cologne, where she finished high school in 1949 (after jobs as tramway ticket collector, refugee aide, and draftswoman), and entered the university to study physics, mathematics, chemistry and astronomy. She continued her studies at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts with a grant from the Fulbright Program, obtained her Master of Arts in physics in 1955, and became astronomy instructor. From 1958 to 1962 she worked at Hoher List Observatory of Bonn University, obtained her Ph.D., and held the positions of assistant, observer, and extranumeral professor at Bonn University. In 1967,

Was the widow of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a high ranking German official who was killed by the Red Arm

Was the widow of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a high ranking German official who was killed by the Red Army Faction which shocked West Germany during the 1970s. [1][2] Schleyer's husband, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, was the head of the employers association in West Germany and a former SS lieutenant.[1] He was kidnapped and then killed by the Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1977.[2] The RAF was also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, which was named after two of the group's early leaders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof.[1] The RAF was a radical Communist terrorist group, with a Marxist-Leninist ideology, which sought to overthrow the West German government, which was capitalist and a close ally of the United States during the Cold War.[2]

Is a retired professional tennis player from Taiwan. Wang turned pro in 1985. During her career, she

Is a retired professional tennis player from Taiwan. Wang turned pro in 1985. During her career, she won 6 singles on the WTA Tour. She played 49 ties over 11 years for the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team, earning a 51-25 overall record and setting many team records. She retired from the tour in 2000. Wang is currently the captain of the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team.

Is a teacher of African American Studies, English and comparative literature at Harvard University.

Is a teacher of African American Studies, English and comparative literature at Harvard University. Among his writings include "Beyond Ethnicity" and "Neither Black nor White yet Both." He was also the editor for the Modern Library Classics release of Georges by Alexander Dumas. He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1975 from the Free University of Berlin.[1]

Was a German architect. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Be

Was a German architect. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and Dresden. Luckhardt and his brother Hans worked closely together for most of their lives. Both were members of the November Group (Novembergruppe),

Is a retired ice hockey centre. During the 1984–85 NHL season, he played one game for the Quebec N

Is a retired ice hockey centre. During the 1984–85 NHL season, he played one game for the Quebec Nordiques. He represented Austria in the 1992 World Hockey Championship.

Is an Australian country music/50s/60s/70s Memory Lane singer, who started his career in 1959 in the

Is an Australian country music/50s/60s/70s Memory Lane singer, who started his career in 1959 in the city of Sydney, Australia. Since then he has toured with Charley Pride (twice) & Buddy Williams, made over 100 TV appearances and appeared as the opening act for Don Williams in early 2004.

Was an Austrian statesman.It was intended that Kaunitz should become a clergyman when he was a boy,

Was an Austrian statesman.It was intended that Kaunitz should become a clergyman when he was a boy, but he soon decided otherwise and studied law instead. During his career, he was Austria's ambassador in Turin (1741), then minister in the Austrian Netherlands during the absence of its ruler Prince Charles of Lorraine, October 1744 to June 1746; he was virtually the head of government after the death of the governor, Archduchess Maria-Anna, sister of Maria Theresa in December 1744.[2] The following French advance forced his retreat with the government of the Austrian Netherlands, first to Antwerp, then to Aachen, where Kaunitz represented Austria at the Congress of Aachen at the close of the War of the Austrian Succession (1748) and was ambassador at Versailles 1750-53, where he cooperated in laying the groundwork for the future Bourbon-Habsburg alliance. He had long been a strong opponent of the Anglo-Austrian Alliance which had existed since 1731.

Was a German actor best known for his role as various characters in the West German crime-drama tele

Was a German actor best known for his role as various characters in the West German crime-drama television series Tatort. Abrolat first appeared in a number of Spaghetti Western Italian films in the mid 1960s, appearing as a member of Indio's gang in the 1965 Sergio Leone film For a Few Dollars More in only his second role.

Is a German television actor, director, and writer. He played several roles in Derrick during the 80

Is a German television actor, director, and writer. He played several roles in Derrick during the 80`s and 90`s.

Is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000

Is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Tampere.

Was a German composer.

Was a German composer.

Was a German rower who competed for the German Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1] The German tea

Was a German rower who competed for the German Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1] The German team won the bronze medal in the eights.[2]

Is a German football coach and a former player. As a player, he spent 9 seasons in the Bundesliga wi

Is a German football coach and a former player. As a player, he spent 9 seasons in the Bundesliga with SV Werder Bremen, Hamburger SV, 1. FC Nuremberg and Borussia Dortmund.

Was a German physicist and biologist who helped to establish the field of biological cybernetics. He

Was a German physicist and biologist who helped to establish the field of biological cybernetics. He co-founded the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and the Journal of Biological Cybernetics. From 1946 to 1950 he studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin. From 1950 he was a doctoral student of Ernst Ruska, studying solid state semiconductors at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, and received his doctorate in 1952. From 1952 to 1954 he was an assistant at the Institute where his teacher Max von Laue was a large influence to his later research. During the war, Reichardt had known Bernhard Hassenstein, who had studied otptomotor turning behaviour after the war. Realising these experiments could be formalised in a similar way to electronics experiments, he developed interdisciplinary theories of motion perception.

Originally Werner Mayer, was a German composer.Egk studied under Carl Orff in Munich. When radio bro

Originally Werner Mayer, was a German composer.Egk studied under Carl Orff in Munich. When radio broadcasting became available to the public, Egk immediately realised its importance as a mass media and developed operas and radio plays.

Is an Austrian tennis player. In his first 12 years as a pro, he found very little success, winning

Is an Austrian tennis player. In his first 12 years as a pro, he found very little success, winning just 7 ATP-level matches and cracking the top-100 for just a few weeks in late 2003, peaking at #96. His most notable match was playing Rafael Nadal on Cen

Was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem e

Was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem extremely funny.He founded the cabaret "Die Katakombe" (The Catacombs") with some friends in 1929. He, and the cabaret, became successful because of his cri

Is a Doctor of mechanical engineering and was between 1980 and 1990 Vice-President and between 1990

Is a Doctor of mechanical engineering and was between 1980 and 1990 Vice-President and between 1990 and 2005 President of the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe in Germany.

Physician from Germany. He is credited with the first catheterization of a human heart. In 1929, whi

Physician from Germany. He is credited with the first catheterization of a human heart. In 1929, while working in Eberswalde, he made an incision into his arm and fed a urinary catheter into the right atrium of his own heart.