List of people from Berlin

Berlin

The following is a list of notable people who were born in Berlin, Germany.

Statesmen

Frederick the Great

Wilhelm II, German Emperor

Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
Eberhard Diepgen (born 1941), politician (CDU)
Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), politician (SPD, USPD)
Frederick the Great (1712 – 1786), King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786
Gregor Gysi (born 1948), politician (The Left)
Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), Minister of Culture and state secretary for church affairs of GDR
Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942), politician (SPD), prime minister of Saarland and federal minister of transport, building and housing
Hans Luther (1879–1962), Chancellor in the Weimar Republic
David McAllister (born 1971), politician (CDU), former Prime Minister of (Niedersachsen)
Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi
Hugo Preuss (1860–1925), lawyer and "father of the Weimar Constitution"
Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), industrialist, politician (DDP) and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), leader of the Hitlerjugend 1931-1940, Reich governor in Vienna
Paul Singer (1844–1911), SPD co-founder, whose chairman and Reichstag, producer
Willi Stoph (1914–1999), politician (SED), Chairman of the State Council (the East German leader)
Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), politician (DVP), chancellor and foreign minister in the time of the Weimar Republic, Nobel Peace Prize carrier in 1926
Otto Wels (1873–1939), politician, (SPD)
William I, German Emperor (1797-1888), German Emperor
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941), German Emperor
Klaus Wowereit (born 1953) politician (SPD) and from 2001 to 2014 Governing Mayor of Berlin

Entrepreneurs

Hasso Plattner

Alexander Duncker (1813–1897), publisher and bookseller
Albert Göring (1895–1966), engineer and business manager
Gustav Langenscheidt (1832 – 1895), language teacher, book publisher, and the founder of Langenscheidt Publishing Group.
Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), publisher, inventor of the Litfaßsäule n
Harald Quandt (1921–1967), industrialist
Hasso Plattner (born in 1944), co-founder of SAP SE software company
Emil Rathenau (1838–1915), industrialist and founder of the AEG
Wolf Jobst Siedler (1926–2013), publisher and publicist
Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941), industrialist

Officers

Hans-Rudolf Boehmer (born 1938), Vice Admiral A.D. the German Navy, inspector of the navy (1995–1998)
Heinz Brandt (1907–1944), General Staff Officer
Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), Vice Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, politicians, Chancellor as a successor Bismarck
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), naval officer and commander of the German Navy in Second World War
Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), Field Marshal
Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William. I in Prussia, the Prussian commander army
Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), Field Marshal

Scientists

Alexander von Humboldt

Statue of Konrad Zuse

Hermann von Helmholtz
Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859), geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
Bernhard Hermann Neumann
Alfred Wegener
Konrad Zuse (1910 – 1995), civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer

Lawyers

Heinz Drossel (1916–2008), judge, was honored as Righteous Among the Nations
Wilhelm Heinrich von Grolman (1781–1856), lawyer, Berlin Court of Appeal president (the "righteous judge")
Jutta Limbach (1934–2016), President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, as the first woman in this office
Hans-Jürgen Papier (born 1943), President of the Federal Constitutional Court s 2002–2010

Theologians

Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490–1545), archbishop of Magdeburg and Elector of Mainz, Lord Chancellor of Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
Otto Dibelius (1880–1967), leading member of the Confessing Church, bishop of Berlin, Chairman of the Council of Evangelical Church, president of Ecumenical Council

Scholars

Herbert Marcuse

Bernd-Rainer Barth (born 1957), historian and publicist
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher
Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938), Egyptologist
Heinrich Brugsch (1827–1894), an Egyptologist
Georg Ebers (1837–1898), an Egyptologist
Ernst Ehrlich (1921–2007), German-Swiss Judaic scholar and historian
Joachim Fest (1926–2006), historian, journalist and author
Paul Friedlander (1882–1968), philologist and writer
Hans Gustav Güterbock (1908–2000), Hittitologist
Hans von Hentig (1887–1974), criminologist
Gerald Holton (born 1922), science historian and physicist
Robert Jungk (1913–1994), writer, journalist and futurist
Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), historian
Luise Kraushaar (1905–1989), historian
Bernhard von Kugler (1837–1898), historian
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German - American philosopher, political scientist and sociologist
Erich Maschke (1900–1982), historian and professor of history
Georg Simmel