Famous People with Name Meier

Jennifer Meier            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jennifer Meier: is a German football striker. She currently plays for Djurgårdens IF Dam, and has been capped 7 times for the German national team.

Günther Meier            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Günther Meier: is a former German boxer who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) category.

Paul Meier            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Paul Meier: is former German decathlete who won a bronze medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart where he set a personal best of 8548 points. A year earlier he had finished in sixth place at the 1992 Summer Olympics. At the 1996 European Cup for Decathlon in Lage, Meier injured himself in the long jump and was unble to participate in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. His personal best of 8548 points ranks him seventh among German decathletes, behind Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz, Frank Busemann, Torsten Voss and Guido Kratschmer.

Georg Friedrich Meier            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Georg Friedrich Meier: was a German philosopher and aesthetician. A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Meier reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff by introducing elements of John Locke's empiricist theory of knowledge.[1] Meier studied philosophy and theology at the University of Halle, where he was a pupil of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. Meier succeeded Baumgarten as extraordinary professor, and became a full professor at Halle in 1748.[2]

Stefan Meier            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Stefan Meier: was a German politician (SPD) who was one of the MPs who voted against the adoption of the Enabling Act which formed the legal basis for the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.In December 1924, Meier was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic