Famous People with Name Vollmer

Ruth Vollmer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ruth Vollmer: was a German artist born in Munich. She moved to New York in 1935 and had her first and only solo exhibition in 1960.[1]

Gerhard Vollmer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gerhard Vollmer: is a German physicist and philosopher. He tries to build bridges between the natural science and the more social or humanistic disciplines. He is perhaps best known for his development of an evolutionary theory of knowledge. Vollmer studied in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg and Freiburg. After finishing his degree in physics in 1968 he studied philosophy and linguistics in Freiburg. He worked as a trainee in Deutschen Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg. In Freiburg he attained a doctorate (1971) in theoretical physics. He stayed here after completing a year's stint as a research assistant in Montreal in 1975. In 1974, Vollmer attained an additional doctorate in philosophy.

Antje Vollmer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Antje Vollmer: is a German politician of the German Green Party. Since 1994 she has been one of the vice presidents of the German parliament, the Bundestag. She was born in Lübbecke (Westphalia) and studied theology. From 1971 to 1974 she worked as a pastor in Berlin-Wedding, later as a teacher in an adult education center. In 1985 she joined the Green Party, even though she already had been in the Bundestag since 1983 for that party. Due to the party principle of rotation she had to give up the parliamentary seat in 1985, but was reelected in 1987 and again in 1994.