People from Germany
81 people remembered here.
Karl Lagerfeld1933 – 2019 · Fashion designerSweatpants are a sign of defeat.
224 candles · 10 tributes
Michael Mendl1944 – 2026 · Actor (theatreBeloved German character actor who gave Willy Brandt, a wartime general, and a pope their human faces.
95 candles · 7 tributes
Frank Schambor1971 – 2026 · Radio hostThe voice that woke Lower Saxony, as ffn-Morgenmän Franky.
94 candles · 10 tributes
Robert Alexy1945 – 2026 · German jurist and legal philosopherMade principles optimization commands and insisted law claim correctness.
82 candles · 7 tributes
Gunther von Hagens1945 – 2026 · AnatomistInventor of plastination who put human anatomy before millions through Body Worlds.
72 candles · 9 tributes
Karl Corino1942 – 2026 · Broadcast journalistMusil's detective: Transit voice for DDR letters, no forged marble left standing.
71 candles · 6 tributes
Andreas Hoppe1960 – 2026 · Actor (theatreCiao Kopper: heart on the right side.
65 candles · 5 tributes
Christoph von Dohnányi1929 – 2025 · ConductorPrecision, conscience, and the Cleveland sound.
64 candles · 5 tributes
Eberhard Vogel1943 – 2026 · Footballer (left winger / striker)Oberliga record man who said no to Santos and stayed East.
49 candles · 6 tributes
Ralf Richter1957 – 2026 · ActorRuhrpott original who made Frenssen and Kalle Grabowski unforgettable, then kept playing the honest roughnecks.
48 candles · 7 tributes
Klaus Hänsch1938 – 2026 · SPD politicianFormer EP President who brought Klartext from Erkrath to Strasbourg and made Commissioner hearings public.
47 candles · 4 tributes
Klaus-Michael Kühne1937 – 2026 · German billionaire businessmanLogistics patriarch who built a global freight empire and left it to a Swiss foundation.
34 candles · 8 tributes
Manuel Otto† 2026 · Video game developerCreator of Stick Run, who gave millions of players a game he built as a schoolboy.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Horst Johanning† 2026 · Theatre director and managerBonn theatre maker who led the Contra-Kreis-Theater for more than four decades.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Bruno Kramm1967 – 2026 · MusicianCo-founder of Das Ich whose keyboards and Danse Macabre label shaped German darkwave.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Fritz Schramma1947 – 2026 · German politicianA Latin teacher who became Cologne's mayor and was always out among the people of his city.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Cordula Trantow1942 – 2026 · ActressThe girl from Die Brücke who chose the stage over Hollywood.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Udo Kier1944 – 2025 · Actor and voice actorCult icon of more than 200 films, from Warhol's Dracula to Lars von Trier, who made every villain unforgettable.
10 candles · 1 tributes
Gitta Lindemann1939 – 2026 · Journalist and poetShe gave Mecklenburg's writers a voice on the radio and kept her curiosity to the end.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Henning Wrede1939 – 2026 · Classical archaeologist and university teacherGerman classical archaeologist of herms, Roman art and the history of collecting.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Jürgen Habermas1929 – 2026 · Philosopher and social theoristGerman philosopher of the public sphere who believed democracy lives in free, reasoned conversation.
9 candles · 1 tributes
Marianne Helms1936 – 2026 · MusicologistBerlin-born scholar who edited the music of Bach and Haydn for half a century.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Hermann Höllenreiner1933 – 2026 · Holocaust survivor and contemporary witnessSinto boy who survived Auschwitz and, after decades of silence, made sure Germany would remember.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Kristina Safrany1972 – 2026 · SingerGerman Eurodance vocalist of Hungarian origin whose First Base hits lit up 1990s dancefloors.
8 candles · 1 tributes- JJochen Fahrenberg1937 – 2026 · Psychologist
Freiburg psychologist who linked personality research to psychophysiology and everyday assessment.
8 candles · 1 tributes 
Hans Grodotzki1936 – 2026 · Long-distance runnerThe only German Olympic medallist in the men's 10,000 metres, and a Potsdam legend.
8 candles · 1 tributes
Gisbert Baltes† 2026 · WDR radio and television presenterHier ist Köln, hier ist der Alter Markt! The Sauerland voice who brought Cologne Carnival to all of Germany.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Adam Wolke1988 – 2026 · Live streamer and presenter (SkylineTV)The streamer who took his audience everywhere with him, live.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Klaus Bresser1936 – 2026 · Television journalistHe asked the powerful the questions viewers wanted answered.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Lutz Gössing1938 – 2026 · Eventing and show-jumping riderOlympic eventing bronze medallist who bred champions and mentored Westphalian riders
7 candles · 1 tributes
Martin Gutzeit1952 – 2026 · Evangelical pastorPastor and SDP co-founder who spent decades opening Stasi files and defending victims of the SED state.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Paul Gauselmann1934 – 2026 · BusinessmanMerkur Group founder who turned a jukebox side hustle into a global games empire
7 candles · 1 tributes
Uwe-Karsten Heye1940 – 2026 · JournalistSchröder's first government spokesman and a steadfast voice against the far right.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Georg Baselitz1938 – 2026 · PainterHe turned painting upside down so the world would look again.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Peer Bork1963 – 2026 · bioinformaticianEMBL bioinformatician who opened the human microbiome to computational science.
7 candles · 1 tributes
Peter Zinkann1928 – 2026 · Mechanical engineer and industrialist (Miele)Engineer and co-owner of Miele who built its first fully automatic washing machine.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Emil Poklitar1939 – 2026 · FootballerSaarbrücken's white whale, a centre forward who escaped East Germany and scored 112 goals for the club.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Gisela Marx1942 – 2026 · JournalistFounder of Filmpool and the producer who reinvented German afternoon television.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Josef Buchmann1930 – 2026 · Real estate investor and philanthropistHolocaust survivor who shaped Frankfurt's skyline and endowed TAU's law and music schools.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Paul Butzer1928 – 2026 · German mathematician (not Paul Butler)Aachen analyst who linked approximation theory to Fourier analysis, sampling, and the long history of mathematics.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Constantin Floros1930 – 2026 · MusicologistGreek-German musicologist who joined Mahler, Berg and Byzantine chant in one lifelong reading of musical meaning.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Anny Schlemm1929 – 2026 · Opera and operetta singerNeu-Isenburg-born Kammersängerin who carried German music theatre from Halle to Bayreuth for nearly sixty years.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Dietmar Wolter1941 – 2026 · SurgeonGerman trauma surgeon and inventor whose locking-plate technology changed fracture care worldwide.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Mario Adorf1930 – 2026 · ActorGerman screen veteran of The Tin Drum and more than 200 film and television roles.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Francis Buchholz1950 – 2026 · Bass guitarist (Scorpions 1973 to 1992)The bass behind the Scorpions: Rock You Like a Hurricane, Still Loving You and Wind of Change.
6 candles · 1 tributes
Josef Duchač1938 – 2026 · Politician and chemical engineerThuringia's first minister-president after reunification, who led the state through its founding months.
5 candles · 1 tributes
Joachim Heiden1955 – 2026 · Classical archaeologistAn archaeologist of Olympia and Samos who read ancient Greece through its roofs, waters and hills.
5 candles · 1 tributes