People from Germany

83 people remembered here.

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  Adam Wolke (SkylineTV)

  † 2026 · Livestreamer and web video producer

  Germany's IRL streaming pioneer, who took his viewers everywhere with him.

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  Christian Bussmann

  1942 – 2026 · Film architect and production designer

  Production designer who built the worlds of German film and taught new designers at Babelsberg.

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  Bärbel Steinkemper

  1947 – 2026 · Economist

  First full-time mayor of Alfter; she modernised a Rhineland municipality without forgetting its villages.

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  Josef Settele

  1961 – 2026 · Biodiversity researcher and agricultural ecologist

  He counted butterflies and helped the world count what it was losing.

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  Hans-Dieter Schmidt

  1948 – 2026 · Football manager

  German football coach who led SV Meppen upward, helped Bayern and Magdeburg, and managed clubs from Egypt to Ghana.

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  Otto E. Rössler

  1940 – 2026 · Biochemist and chaos theorist

  Biochemist who gave chaos theory the Rössler attractor.

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  Bernhard Töpper

  1944 – 2026 · Television journalist and lawyer

  ZDF's longtime legal interpreter who made court and statute plain for viewers.

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  Peter Hermann

  1952 – 2026 · Football player and coach

  Heynckes's trusted right hand; a quiet giant of the Bundesliga touchline.

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  Georg Westenfelder

  1935 – 2026 · Organ builder

  German organ builder who made Lintgen a cross-border centre of the craft.

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  Helmut Lethen

  1939 – 2026 · Literary and cultural scholar

  A scholar who traced the culture of coldness in Weimar Germany and wrote with warmth.

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  Adolf Prokop

  1939 – 2026 · Football referee

  East German referee who took charge at two World Cups and three European club finals.

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  Moritz Borman

  1955 – 2026 · Film producer and film financier

  German-born producer who built bridges between Europe and Hollywood, from Under the Volcano to Snowden.

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  Hartmut H. Forche

  1945 – 2026 · Theatre director and translator

  He gave the German stage its musicals, in his own words and under his own direction.

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  Heiko Weber

  1965 – 2026 · Footballer and football coach

  He scored the last goal of East German football and brought Jena home again.

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  Joachim Lottmann

  1956 – 2026 · Novelist and journalist

  The self-declared inventor of German pop literature, who turned his life, and finally his own dying, into literature.

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  Sönke Hartlef

  1962 – 2026 · Mayor of Stade

  A village councillor who became mayor of Stade and served his home town with all his heart.

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  Dieter L. Kaufmann

  1937 – 2026 · Chef

  Two-star chef who made Zur Traube in Grevenbroich a landmark of German fine dining.

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  Winfried Matter

  † 2026 · Motorsport safety entrepreneur and sports administrator

  Safety pioneer whose roll cages protected drivers and who gave Germany's sport drivers a voice.

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  Georg Moesta

  1963 – 2026 · Lawyer

  Rhineland-Palatinate constitutional judge and Mayen-Koblenz CDU leader.

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  Gerhard Gribkowsky

  1958 – 2026 · Bank executive

  BayernLB risk chief at the centre of the Formula One bribery case, later killed in a motorcycle crash.

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  Martin Klingenberg

  1928 – 2026 · Biochemist

  Munich biochemist who showed how the energy made in mitochondria reaches the rest of the cell.

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  Johannes Doerfert

  1989 – 2026 · Computer scientist

  LLVM OpenMP and Attributor pioneer who made compilers serve the people who write code.

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  Heinz-Peter Gasse

  1952 – 2026 · Trade unionist and politician

  Duisburg steelworker's son of the union who never forgot the works he called home.

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  Wolfgang Haber

  1925 – 2026 · Biologist and landscape ecologist

  A founder of landscape ecology who helped give Germany its first national parks.

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  Josef Deimer

  1936 – 2026 · Politician

  Landshut's lord mayor for 35 years and a fearless voice for Bavaria's towns and cities.

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  Carola von Braun

  1942 – 2026 · Politician

  Berlin's first Women's Representative, a liberal who built bridges for women across party lines.

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  Günther Jung

  1937 – 2026 · Chemist

  Tübingen chemist whose peptide school helped seed modern mRNA vaccine science.

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  Horst Gramlich

  1938 – 2026 · Politician

  Potsdam's first mayor after the Wende, who rebuilt the city's government in the years of reunification.

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  Matthias Strauss

  1956 – 2026 · Basketball player and dentist

  He led Germany's basketball team as captain with heart, dignity and tireless commitment.

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  Günter Ederer

  1941 – 2026 · Economics journalist

  A reporter who travelled the world to explain how nations create and keep their prosperity.

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  Nikolaus Gerhart

  1944 – 2026 · Sculptor

  Munich sculptor who opened up stone to show its inner life, and led the city's art academy.

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  Lothar Milde

  1934 – 2026 · Discus thrower

  Olympic silver medallist in Mexico City, a giant of the discus circle and a lifelong son of Halle.

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  Peter Nogly

  1947 – 2026 · Association football player and coach

  HSV captain known as Eiche, the oak of Hamburg's golden 1970s defence.

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  Hartmut Welker

  1941 – 2026 · Opera singer

  German bass-baritone who rose from toolmaker to Bayreuth and the world stages.

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  Elke Sommer

  1940 – 2026 · Actress

  The pastor's daughter from Franconia who conquered Hollywood, then painted the world in Chagall colours.

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