Famous People with Name Wolff

Max Wolff            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Max Wolff: was a German physician who was a native of Potsdam. He studied medicine in Berlin, where he was a student of Rudolf Virchow. Following graduation in 1866, he became an assistant at the clinic of internal medicine at Rostock. From 1875 to 1882 he worked at the University of Berlin policlinic, and in 1900 became head of the policlinic for lung diseases. In 1890 he earned the title of associate professor in Berlin.

Karin Wolff            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karin Wolff: is a German politician and vice-president of Hesse. Wolff studied history, evangelical theology and philosophy at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Philipps-Universität Marburg. She finished university and worked as a teacher in Darmstadt. In 1976 Wolff became a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union. In 1995 she became a member of parliament in Hesse and became minister in Hesse on April 7, 1999.

Ludwig Wolff            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ludwig Wolff: was a German chemist. He studied chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his Ph.D. from Rudolph Fittig in 1882. He became Professor at the University of Jena in 1891 and held this position till his death in 1919. In 1912 he published a new reaction now known as the Wolff-Kishner reduction.

Michael Wolff            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Michael Wolff: is the Consul-General for the Republic of Austria in Victoria, Australia.He is a former extreme sport personality, known as the first person to skydive and scuba dive the North Pole on the same day.He additionally has served as the captain of the Austrian

Wilhelm Friedrich Wolff            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Friedrich Wolff: was a German schoolmaster from Tarnau (Tarnów), Galicia. In 1831 he became active as a radical student organization member, something he was imprisoned for between 1834 and 1838. In 1846, in Brussels, he became a close friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich En