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Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish presence in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 is older than Christianity
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
; the first Jewish population came with the Romans to the city Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews

File:Juden 1881.JPGAshkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish ethnic divisions of the Rhineland in the west of Germany....
, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards. A change of status in the late Renaissance Era, combined with the Jewish Enlightenment the Haskalah
Haskalah

Haskalah , the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the late 18th century that advocated adopting Age of Enlightenment values, pressing for better Social integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew language, and Jewish history....
, meant that by the 1920s Germany had one of the most integrated Jewish populations in Europe, contributing prominently to German culture and society.






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The Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish presence in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 is older than Christianity
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
; the first Jewish population came with the Romans to the city Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews

File:Juden 1881.JPGAshkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim , are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish ethnic divisions of the Rhineland in the west of Germany....
, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards. A change of status in the late Renaissance Era, combined with the Jewish Enlightenment the Haskalah
Haskalah

Haskalah , the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the late 18th century that advocated adopting Age of Enlightenment values, pressing for better Social integration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew language, and Jewish history....
, meant that by the 1920s Germany had one of the most integrated Jewish populations in Europe, contributing prominently to German culture and society. The vast majority either left the country or were murdered in the Holocaust
The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
. The current German Jewish population consists primarily of immigrants from the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 who claim to be Jewish, however, the better economic situation in Germany, coupled with the easy citizenship process for Jewish people immigrating to Germany, make it hard to determine the number of these people who are actually Jewish.

The following is a list of some famous Jewish people (by religion or descent) from Germany proper. For other German Jews
Yekke

The term Yekke is a generally jovial, mildly derogatory term used to refer to Jews originating from Germany or adhering to the Western-European minhag....
, see List of Austrian Jews
List of Austrian Jews

Austria first became a center of Jewish learning during the 13th century. However, increasing anti-semitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission in 1848, a sizable Jewish community developed once again, contributing strongly to Austrian culture....
 and List of West European Jews
List of West European Jews

Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Alhambra decree from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was onl...
. Also note that the idea of German nationality
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
 is rather broad, due to the many Germanic tribes, Jewish assimilation into Germany, and separate German ruled states through the history of Europe. Therefore, the same set of people could at times be referred to as Germans, Jews, or German Jews alike.

Historical figures


Politicians

  • Fischel Arnheim, politician
  • Ludwig Bamberger
    Ludwig Bamberger

    Ludwig Bamberger was a Germany economist and politician...
    , politician
  • Daniel Cohn-Bendit
    Daniel Cohn-Bendit

    Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a France-Germany politician and was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France. He was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge ....
    , member of European Parliament, student leader in 1968
  • Wilhelm Dröscher, SPD politician (half-Jewish)
  • Kurt Eisner
    Kurt Eisner

    Kurt Eisner was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the German Revolution that achieved the overthrow of the monarchy in Bavaria in 1918....
    , Bavarian prime minister
  • Heinrich von Friedberg
    Heinrich von Friedberg

    Heinrich von Friedberg was a Germany jurist and statesman.Friedberg was born in Miroslawiec in Pomerania. He studied law at the University of Berlin, earning his degree in 1836....
    , jurist, statesman (converted to Christianity)
  • Karl Rudolf Friedenthal
    Karl Rudolf Friedenthal

    Karl Rudolf Friedenthal was a Prussian statesman.Friedenthal was born in Wroclaw, Prussian Silesia, as a nephew of Markus B?r Friedenthal, the author, and later became a convert to Christianity ....
    , Prussian politician
  • Clement Freud
    Clement Freud

    Sir Clement Raphael Freud is an Great Britain writer, broadcaster and former politician.Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie n?e Brasch....
    , German-born British MP
  • Gregor Gysi
    Gregor Gysi

    Gregor Gysi is a Germany Lawyer and key politician of the The Left . He played an important role in the end of communism rule in East Germany in 1989, and was a main figure in the post-reunification Party of Democratic Socialism ....
    , leader of the Party of Democratic Socialism and The Left
  • Alex Himelfarb
    Alex Himelfarb

    Alexander "Alex" Himelfarb, is a senior Canada civil servant and former academic. He is currently Canadian Ambassador to Italy.Born in Germany, he was raised and educated in Toronto....
    , ambassador
  • Henry Kissinger
    Henry Kissinger

    Henry Alfred Kissinger is a Germany-born United States Jewish political scientist, bureaucrat, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as United States National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the Nixon administration....
    , US Secretary of State, Nobel Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize

    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
     (1973)
  • Ludwig Landmann
    Ludwig Landmann

    Dr. Ludwig Landmann was a liberal German politician of the Weimar Republic. Landmann belonged first to the National-Social Association party, then the Progressive People's Party , and finally after the German revolution of 1918, the German Democratic Party....
    , mayor of Frankfurt/Main
  • Eduard Lasker
    Eduard Lasker

    Eduard Lasker was a Germany politician and jurist.He was born at Jarotschin, a village in Province of Posen, being the son of a Jewish tradesman....
    , co-founder of the National Liberal Party
  • Eugen Levine
    Eugen Levine

    Eugen Levin? was a Communism, revolutionary and leader of the short lived Bavarian Soviet Republic.Levin? was born in St. Petersburg, to Jewish parents, and educated in Germany....
    , Bavarian prime minister
  • Rosa Luxemburg
    Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg was a Poland Germany Marxist theory, Socialism philosopher, and revolutionary for the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the German Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany....
    , Polish-born
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
     Marxist theorist, socialist
    Socialism

    Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation....
     philosopher, and revolutionary of the SPD
    Social Democratic Party of Germany

    The Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. After World War II, under the leadership of Kurt Schumacher, the SPD reestablished itself as an ideological party, representing the interests of the working class and the trade unions....
    , the Independent Social Democratic Party
    Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany

    The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany was a short-lived political party in Germany during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic....
     and the Communist Party of Germany
    Communist Party of Germany

    The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period....
    .
  • Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin, Member of parliament, Green party, Feminist party
  • Helmut Schmidt
    Helmut Schmidt

    Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt is a Germany Social Democratic Party of Germany politician who served as Chancellor of Germany of West Germany from 1974 to 1982....
    , German Chancellor, (his father was of Jewish ancestry)
  • Eduard von Simson, President of the Reichstag, President of the Reichsgericht
  • Hugo Preuss
    Hugo Preuss

    Hugo Preu? was a Germany lawyer and liberal politician.Preu? is often regarded as the father of the German constitution of the Weimar Republic ....
    , author of Weimar constitution
  • Walter Rathenau, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic
  • Herbert Weichmann
    Herbert Weichmann

    Herbert Weichmann was a German lawyer and politician and List of mayors of Hamburg of Hamburg . In his position as mayor of Hamburg, he served as President of the German Bundesrat of the Bundesrat of Germany ....
    , mayor of Hamburg
  • Jeanette Wolff, West Berlin politician
  • Walter Wolfgang
    Walter Wolfgang

    Walter Julius Wolfgang is a Germany-born United Kingdom socialism and peace activist.He is currently Vice President and Vice Chair of Labourof the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a supporter of the Stop the War Coalition....
    , German-born politician


Activists

  • Hedwig Dohm-Schleh
    Hedwig Dohm

    Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm born Schlesinger, later Schleh was a Germany actress, feminist, author.She was born in Berlin to Jewish parents, as a daughter of Wilhelmine J?lich, nee Beru and daughter of a tobacco-maker Gustav Adolph Schleh ....
    , feminist, author
  • Nahum Goldmann
    Nahum Goldmann

    Nahum Goldmann was a Poland-born Zionism and founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress....
    , president of World Jewish Congress
  • Josel of Rosheim
    Josel of Rosheim

    Josel of Rosheim was the great advocate of the Germany and Poland Jews during the reigns of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor....
    , court Jew & Jewish advocate
  • Paul Spiegel
    Paul Spiegel

    Paul Spiegel was leader of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland in Germany and the main spokesman of the German Judaism. He was widely praised for his leadership of the German Jewish community, which had grown from the remnants left by the Nazis into the third largest Jewish community in western Europe....
    , leader of the Zentralrat der Juden


Religious figures


Rabbis
  • Felix Adler
    Felix Adler

    Felix Adler was a Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer, religious leader and social Reform movement who founded the Ethical Culture movement....
  • Hermann Adler
    Hermann Adler

    Rabbi Dr. Hermann Adler Royal Victorian Order was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 Encyclop?dia Britannica writes that he "raised the position [of Chief Rabbi] to one of much dignity and importance."...
  • Nathan Marcus Adler
    Nathan Marcus Adler

    Rabbi Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, , was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain 1845?1891, probably the most prominent 19th century rabbi in the English language-speaking world....
  • Samuel Adler (rabbi)
    Samuel Adler (rabbi)

    Samuel Adler was a leading Germany-United States Reform Judaism rabbi, Talmud, and author. He was also the father of Felix Adler, the well-known founder of the Society for Ethical Culture....
  • Amnon of Mainz
    Amnon of Mainz

    Amnon of Mainz or Amnon of Mayence is the subject of a medieval legend that became very popular. It treats of Rabbi Amnon, a wealthy and respected Jew of Mainz, whom the Archbishop of Mainz, at various times, tried to convert to Christianity....
     (Amnon of Mayence, Mentz
    Mentz

    Mentz may refer to:* Mentz, New York, in the United StatesMentz is also a surname:* August Mentz , Denmark botanist* Judge Henry Mentz , Federal District Judge, American Jurist and Scholar...
    ), medieval rabbi, paytan
  • Yair Bacharach
    Yair Bacharach

    Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach was a German rabbi, initially in Koblenz and remainder of his life in Worms, Germany and Metz. His grandmother Chava was a granddaughter of the Judah Loew ben Bezalel, and his father and grandfather had served as rabbis of Metz....
  • Leo Baeck
    Leo Baeck

    Leo Baeck was an 20th century Germany-Poland-Jewish Rabbi, scholar, and a leader of Progressive Judaism....
    , Reform rabbi & scholar
  • Jacob ben Asher
    Jacob ben Asher

    Rabbi Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew language Ya'akov ben Asher, was born in Cologne, Germany in about 1269 and died in Toledo, Spain in about 1343....
    , medieval rabbi (German-born?)
  • Isaac Bernays
    Isaac Bernays

    Isaac Bernays was chief rabbi in Hamburg....
    , theologian
  • Jakob Bernays
    Jakob Bernays

    Jakob Bernays was a Germany philologist and philosophy writer....
    , classical philologist (Klassischer Philologe), philosophy historian (philosopheriehistoriker)
  • Carlebach
    Carlebach

    Carlebach is a Jewish surname. It may refer to:*Azriel Carlebach, an Israeli journalist and founding member of the Maariv newspaper*Ephraim Carlebach , a rabbi...
     family
    • Ephraim Carlebach
      Ephraim Carlebach

      Ephraim Carlebach , was a Germany-born Orthodox Judaism rabbi.Carlebach belonged to a well known German rabbi family. His father Salomon Carlebach was rabbi in L?beck....
    • Felix Carlebach
      Felix Carlebach

      Felix Falk Carlebach was a German-born British Rabbi in Manchester, England.He was an honorary citizen of the city of L?beck and had both German and British citizenship....
    • Joseph Carlebach
      Joseph Carlebach

      Dr. Joseph Hirsch Carlebach Carlebach was the eighth child of Esther Adler , the daughter of the former rabbi of L?beck, Rabbi Alexander Sussmann Adler , and L?beck's then Rabbi Salomon Carlebach ....
    • Shlomo Carlebach
      Shlomo Carlebach

      Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was a Jewish religious teacher, composer, and singer who was known as "The Singing Rabbi" during his lifetime. Although his roots lay in traditional Orthodox Judaism yeshiva, he branched out to create his own movement combining Hasidic Judaism-style warmth and personal interaction, public concerts, and song-filled sy...
  • Mordecai ben Hillel
    Mordecai ben Hillel

    Mordechai ben Hillel, also known as The Mordechai, , was a 13th century Germany rabbi and posek. His chief legal commentary on the Talmud, referred to as the Mordechai, is one of the sources of the Shulchan Aruch....
  • Immanuel Jakobovits
    Immanuel Jakobovits

    Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits of Regent's Park in Greater London, Order of the British Empire was the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1967 to 1991....
    , Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
  • Asher ben Jehiel
    Asher ben Jehiel

    Asher ben Jehiel was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, ?our Rabbi Asher? or by the Hebrew language acronym for this title, the ROSH ....
    , medieval rabbi and Talmudist, father of Jacob ben Asher
    Jacob ben Asher

    Rabbi Jacob ben Asher, in Hebrew language Ya'akov ben Asher, was born in Cologne, Germany in about 1269 and died in Toledo, Spain in about 1343....
  • Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi
    Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi

    Eliezer ben Yoel HaLevi was a noted rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was a grandson of Raavan and authored Sefer Avi Ezri which is more commonly known by its author's acronym as Sefer Ra'avyah....
  • Gershom ben Judah
    Gershom ben Judah

    Gershom ben Judah, best known as Rabbeinu Gershom and also commonly known to scholars of Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah , was a famous Talmudist and Halakha....
  • Yehuda ben Meir
    Yehuda ben Meir

    Yehuda ben Meir Rabbi Yehuda was the principal teacher of Gershom ben Judah, and his work was highly influential on the later writings of Rashi....
  • Eliezer ben Nathan
    Eliezer ben Nathan

    Eliezer ben Nathan of Mayence , Ra'aven , was a halakist and liturgical poet. As an early Rishonim, he was a contemporary of the Rashbam and Rabbeinu Tam, and one of the earliest of the Tosafists....
    , medieval rabbi
  • Yaakov ben Yakar
    Yaakov ben Yakar

    Yaakov ben Yakar was a Germany Talmud. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil of Gershom ben Judah in Mainz, and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi, who characterizes him as Mori HaZaken ....
  • Israel Bruna
    Israel Bruna

    Israel Bruna was a Germany rabbi and Posek . He is also known as Mahari Bruna, the Hebrew language acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Israel Bruna"....
     (born at Bruenn)
  • Yosef Burg
    Yosef Burg

    Dr Yosef Shlomo Burg was a long-serving Israeli politician and Rabbi....
  • David Einhorn
    David Einhorn

    David Einhorn was a German rabbi and leader of the Jewish reform Judaism movement in the United States of America. He was born in Dispeck, Bavaria....
    , Reform rabbi
  • Jacob Emden
    Jacob Emden

    Jacob Emden was a rabbi and notable talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Sabbatai Zevi. He was born at Altona, Hamburg June 4, 1697, and died there April 19, 1776....
  • Ettlinger pedigree
  • David Fränkel
  • Abraham Geiger
    Abraham Geiger

    Abraham Geiger was a Germany rabbi and scholar who led in the foundation of Reform Judaism, seeking to remove all nationalistic elements from Judaism, stressing it as an evolving and changing religion....
    , Reform rabbi
  • Jakob Guttmann (rabbi)
    Jakob Guttmann (rabbi)

    Rabbi Jakob Guttmann was a Germany Jewish theology, Philosophy of religion .He was the father of Julius Guttmann....
  • Julius Guttmann
    Julius Guttmann

    Julius Guttmann , born Yitzchak Guttmann was a Germany-born rabbi, Jewish theologian, and philosopher of religion....
  • Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller
    Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

    Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best-known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosefot Yom-Tov ....
  • Levi Herzfeld
    Levi Herzfeld

    Levi Herzfeld was a German rabbi and historian....
    , 19th century proponent of moderate reform
  • Susannah Heschel
  • Samson Raphael Hirsch
    Samson Raphael Hirsch

    Samson Raphael Hirsch was a Germany rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism....
    , Orthodox rabbi
  • Samuel Holdheim
    Samuel Holdheim

    Samuel Holdheim was a German rabbi and author, and one of the more extreme leaders of the early Reform Judaism movement. Although Holdheim was a pioneer in modern Jewish homiletics, he was often at odds with the Orthodoxy....
    , Reform rabbi
  • Walter Homolka
    Walter Homolka

    Professor Walter Homolka is a Germany rabbi.He studied in Munich, London, Lampeter and Leipzig and has a PhD from King's College London. He is an adjunct full professor at University of Potsdam and rector at its Abraham Geiger College, Germany's only rabbinical seminary which was founded in 1999 and ordained the first three rabbis since t...
  • Israel Isserlin
    Israel Isserlin

    Rabbi Israel Isserlin ben Petahiah was a Talmud, and Halakha, best known for his Terumat HaDeshen, which served as one source for HaMapah, the component of the Shulkhan Arukh by Moses Isserles....
  • Regina Jonas
    Regina Jonas

    Regina Jonas was a Berlin-born rabbi. Historically, she was the first Jewish woman to be ordained as a Rabbi ....
    , Reform rabbanith
  • Kaufmann Kohler
    Kaufmann Kohler

    Kaufmann Kohler was a German-born U.S. reform rabbi and theologian....
    , Reform rabbi
  • Pinchas Lapide
    Pinchas Lapide

    Pinchas Lapide was a Jewish theologian and Israeli historian . He was an Israeli diplomat from 1951 to 1969, among other position acting as Israeli consul to Milan, and was instrumental in gaining recognition for the young state of Israel....
  • Isaac Leeser
    Isaac Leeser

    Isaac Leeser was an United States rabbi, author, translator, editor, and publisher; pioneer of the Jewish pulpit in the United States, and founder of the Jewish press of America....
    , rabbi and Bible translator
  • Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin
    Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin

    Jacob b. Moses Moelin was a Talmudist and posek best known for his codification of the customs of the Ashkenazi. He is also known as Maharil - the hebrew language acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Yaakov Levi" - as well as Mahari Segal or Mahari Moelin....
  • Gunther Plaut
    Gunther Plaut

    Wolf Gunther Plaut, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Reform Judaism rabbi and author. Plaut was the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades and is currently its Rabbi Emeritus....
  • Petachiah of Ratisbon
    Petachiah of Ratisbon

    Petachiah of Ratisbon, also known as Petachiah ben Yakov, Moses Petachiah, and Petachiah of Regensburg, was a Bohemian rabbi of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries Common Era....
    , medieval rabbi, traveller
  • Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg
    Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

    Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg , also called He-Hasid or 'the Pious' in Hebrew language, was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany....
  • Elazar Rokeach
    Elazar Rokeach

    Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms, Germany was a leading Talmudist and kabbalist, and the last major member of the Chassidei Ashkenaz , a group of Jewish German pietists....
  • Meir of Rothenburg
    Meir of Rothenburg

    Meir of Rothenburg was a Germany rabbi and poet, a major author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud. He is also known as Meir Ben Baruch, the Maharam of Rothenburg....
  • Shimon Schwab
    Shimon Schwab

    Rabbi Shimon Schwab was an Orthodox Judaism rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States. Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the yeshiva of Lithuania, he was rabbi in Ichenhausen, Bavaria, after immigration to the United States in Baltimore, and from 1958 until his death at Khal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, Man...
  • Moses Sofer
    Moses Sofer

    Rabbi Moshe Sofer, , also known by his main work Chasam Sofer, , , was one of the leading Orthodox Judaism rabbis of European Judaism in the first half of the nineteenth century....
  • Hermann Tietz (rabbi)
    Hermann Tietz (rabbi)

    Hermann Tietz was a German rabbi.He was educated at the University of Berlin . He was rabbi in Schrimm, and from 1888 was a Stiftrabbiner and teacher in the bet ha-midrash at Inowrazlaw....
     (born on Posen district)


Scholars
  • Hugo Bergmann
    Hugo Bergmann

    Samuel Hugo Bergman, or Samuel Bergman was a Czech Republic-born Germany and Israelis Jewish philosopher.He emigrated to British Mandate of Palestine in 1920, and founded, together with Martin Buber, a movement promoting a "binational solution" area where Jews and Arabs could live under equal conditions....
     (born in Prague)
  • Max Bodenheimer
    Max Bodenheimer

    Max Isidor Bodenheimer was a lawyer and one of the main figures in Germany Zionism.In 1914, he was one of co-founders of German Committee for Freeing of Russian Jews, and seems to be an author of conception of establishment League of East European States-German client state with autonomous Jewish cooperation during World War I....
  • Moses Buttenweiser
    Moses Buttenweiser

    Moses Buttenweiser was an United States Bible scholar, born at Beerfelden, Germany and educated at the universities of University of Würzburg, University of Leipzig, and Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg....
     (1862-1939), Bible scholar
  • David Cassel
    David Cassel

    David Cassel was a Germany historian and Jewish theologian....
  • Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch
    Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch

    Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch was a Germany oriental scholar of Jewish extraction. He was born in Neisse, Prussian Silesia .On reaching his sixteenth year he began his studies at the university of Berlin, paying special attention to theology and the Talmud....
     (1829-1873), Semitic scholar and orientalist
  • Ismar Elbogen
    Ismar Elbogen

    Ismar Elbogen was a Jewish-German rabbi, scholar and historian.Educated by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the "Neuhebr?isches W?rterbuch", and then at the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, he received his doctor's degree from the Breslau University....
  • Emil Ludwig Fackenheim
  • Eugen Fraenkel
    Eugen Fraenkel

    Eugen Fraenkel was born on September 28, 1853, in Neustadt, now Prudnik, Poland, and died in Hamburg, Germany, on December 20, 1925.Eugen Fraenkel worked as pathologist and bacteriologist researcher at the Eppendorf Hospital affiliated with the Universit?t Hamburg where he discovered the gas gangrene bacillus ....
     (1853–1925), pathologist and bacteriologist
  • Jonas Fränkel
    Jonas Fränkel

    Jonas Fr?nkel or Jonas Fraenckel was a Germany banker and philanthropist; son of Joel Wolf, grandson of David Fr?nkel, the author of Korban 'Edah....
  • Heinrich Graetz
    Heinrich Graetz

    Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.Born Tzvi Hirsh Graetz to a butcher family in Ksiaz-Wielkopolski in Germany , he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena....
    , Jewish historian (born in Posen)
  • Manuel Joël
    Manuel Joel

    Manuel Jo?l or Joel was a Germany Jewish philosopher and preacher from Miedzych?d, Grand Duchy of Posen.After teaching for several years at the Breslau rabbinical seminary, founded by Zecharias Frankel, he became the successor of Abraham Geiger in the rabbinate of Breslau....
    , Jewish philosopher
  • Isaak Markus Jost
    Isaak Markus Jost

    Isaak Marcus Jost was a Jewish history writer.He studied at the universities of University of G?ttingen and Humboldt University of Berlin. In Berlin he began to teach, and in 1835 received the appointment of upper master in the Jewish commercial school at Frankfort-on-the-Main....
    , Jewish historian
  • Marcus Kalisch
    Marcus Kalisch

    Marcus Kalisch was a Jewish scholar born in Trzebiat?w, Pomerania, and died in Derbyshire, England.He was educated at Berlin University, where he studied classics, philology, and the Semitic languages, and at the Rabbinical College of Berlin....
    , Biblical scholar
  • Jakob Klatzkin
    Jakob Klatzkin

    Jakob Klatzkin, Yakov/Jakub Klaczkin was a Jewish philosopher, publicist, publisher.He was a son of Rabbi Eliyahu Klaczkin .His birthplace Kartoz-Brioza was the place his father was called rabbinate....
  • Arthur Liebert
  • Israel Lewy
    Israel Lewy

    Israel Lewy was a Germany-Jewish scholar. He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and the University of Breslau in Breslau....
  • Moses Mendelssohn
    Moses Mendelssohn

    Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah is indebted. For some he was the third Moses heralding a new era in the history of the Jewish people....
    , Jewish Enlightenment philosopher
  • David Rosin
    David Rosin

    David Rosin was a Germany Jewish theologian from Olesno, Province of Silesia.Having received his early instruction from his father, who was a teacher in his native town, he attended the yeshibah of Kempen, of Myslowitz , and of Prague ; but, wishing to receive a regular school education, he went to Breslau, where he entered the Gymnasium ,...
  • Gershom Scholem
    Gershom Scholem

    Gershom Scholem , also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Jewish scholar & historian
  • Ernst Simon
    Ernst Simon

    Ernst Akiba/Akiva Simon, or aqibhah Ernst Simon , was a Germany-Israelis Jewish educator, and religious philosopher....
  • Friedrich Weinreb
    Friedrich Weinreb

    Friedrich Weinreb was a Jewish philosopher, narrative writer, authorWeinreb grew up in Scheveningen, to which his family had move in 1916, and became notorious for selling a fictitious escape route for Jewish people from the occupied Netherlands in the Second World War....
     (born in Lemberg)
  • Benedict Zuckermann
    Benedict Zuckermann

    Benedict Zuckermann was a Germany scientist....
  • Leopold Zunz
    Leopold Zunz

    Leopold Zunz was the founder of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism" , the critical investigation of rabbinic literature, hymnology and ritual....
    , Jewish scholar


Other
  • Michael Solomon Alexander
    Michael Solomon Alexander

    Michael Solomon Alexander was the first Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem.He was born into an English people Jewish family living in Germany; his father was a rabbi....
    , first Anglican bishop of Jerusalem (born Jewish; see British Dictionary of National Biography
    Dictionary of National Biography

    The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from History of the United Kingdom, published from 1885....
    )
  • Abraham of Augsburg
    Abraham of Augsburg

    Abraham of Augsburg was a Germany proselyte to Judaism; died a martyr's death. He seems to have adopted his new faith with such enthusiasm that he publicly assailed Christianity and attacked images of the saints, for which he was sentenced to torture and death....
    , a Christian German proselyte
  • Moritz Henle
    Moritz Henle

    Moritz Henle was a prominent Germany composer of liturgical music and hazzan of the Jewish reform judaism.Henle was born in the Upper Swabian town of Laupheim at a time when Laupheim had the largest Jewish community in the History of W?rttemberg....
    , composer
    Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
     of liturgical music and cantor
    Hazzan

    A hazzan or chazzan is a Jewish cantor, a musician trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the synagogue in songful prayer.There are many rules relating to how a cantor should lead services, but the idea of a cantor as a paid professional does not exist in classical rabbinic sources....
     of the Jewish reform movement
    Reform Judaism

    Reform Judaism refers to the spectrum of beliefs, practices and organizational infrastructure associated with Reform Judaism in Reform Judaism and in Reform Judaism ....
  • Ridley Haim Herschell
    Ridley Haim Herschell

    Ridley Haim Herschell was an England-Poland minister who converted from Judaism to Evangelical Christianity.Herschell was born in Strzelno in the Duchy of Warsaw, a France satellite state in Poland that had previously been under Prussian control....
    , missionary
  • Ayya Khema
    Ayya Khema

    Ayya Khema , a buddhism teacher, was born as Ilse Ledermann in Berlin, Germany, to Jewish parents.Khema dodged the Nazism during World War II, but was interned by the Japanese....
    , Buddhist teacher (born Jewish)
  • Adolf Lasson
    Adolf Lasson

    Adolf Lasson was a German people Jewish philosophy writer, strident Prussianist, and the father of Georg Lasson.He educated at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neu-Strelitz, and the University of Berlin ....
    • Georg Lasson
      Georg Lasson

      Georg Lasson was a German people Protestant theologian, and a son of Adolf Lasson....
  • Johannes Pfefferkorn
    Johannes Pfefferkorn

    Johannes Pfefferkorn was a Jewish-Germany Catholicism theologian and writer who religious conversion from Judaism. Pfefferkorn actively preached against the Jews and attempted to destroy copies of the Talmud, and engaged in a long running pamphleteering campaign against and with Johann Reuchlin....
    , antisemitic controversialist (born Jewish)
  • Friedrich Adolf Philippi
    Friedrich Adolf Philippi

    Friedrich Adolf Philippi was a Lutheran theologian of Jewish origin.He was the son of a wealthy Jewish banker, a friend of Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy....
  • Johann Peter Spaeth
    Johann Peter Spaeth

    Johann Peter Spaeth, Moses Germanus or Moses Ashkenazi was a German people convert to Judaism....
     (Moses Germanus Ashkenazi), a Christian German proselyte
  • Edith Stein
    Edith Stein

    Edith Stein was a Germany-Jews Philosophy, a Carmelites nun, martyr, and saint of the Roman Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz concentration camp....
    , canonized nun, Holocaust victim (born Jewish)
  • Joseph Wolff
    Joseph Wolff

    Joseph Wolff , Jewish Christian missionary, was born at Weilersbach, near Bamberg, Germany.His father became rabbi at W?rttemberg in 1806, and sent his son to the Protestant lyceum at Stuttgart....
    , missionary


Scientific Figures


Natural Scientists

  • Max Abraham
    Max Abraham

    Max Abraham was a Germany physicist.Abraham was born in Danzig, Germany to a family of Jewish merchants. Attending the University of Berlin, he studied under Max Planck....
    , physicist
  • Adolf von Baeyer
    Adolf von Baeyer

    Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a Germany chemistry who synthesized indigo dye, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry....
    , industrial chemist, Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
     (1905) (Jewish mother)
  • Norbert Berkowitz
    Norbert Berkowitz

    Norbert Berkowitz, Order of Canada was a Canada scientist involved in researching coal technology in conjunction with the Alberta Research Council and the University of Alberta....
    , physicist
  • Sir Hans Bethe
    Hans Bethe

    Hans Albrecht Bethe was a Germany-United States physicist, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis....
    , nuclear physics, Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize in Physics

    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
     (1967)
  • Sir Walter Bodmer
    Walter Bodmer

    Sir Walter Bodmer is a Germany-born United Kingdom human genome. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the HLA system and the use of somatic cell Hybrid for human linkage studies....
    , medical researcher
  • Max Born
    Max Born

    Max Born was a Germany physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s....
    , quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize (1954)
  • Heinrich Caro
    Heinrich Caro

    Heinrich Caro , was a Germany Chemist.He started his study of chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin and later chemistry and dyeing in Berlin at the Royal Trades Institute....
    , industrial chemist
    • Nikodem Caro
      Nikodem Caro

      Nikodem Caro was an industrial chemist and entrepreneur. Caro was born in L?dz, and studied chemistry in Berlin at the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg and got his doctorate from Rostock University....
      , industrial chemist
  • Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
    , theoretical physics, Nobel Prize (1921)
  • Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
    Erwin Finlay-Freundlich

    Erwin Finlay-Freundlich [Scottish name:"Finlay"] was a Germany astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. He was born in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany....
    , astronomer
  • James Franck
    James Franck

    James Franck was a German physicist and Nobel Prize ....
    , quantum physics, Nobel Prize (1925)
  • Adolph Frank
    Adolph Frank

    Adolph Frank was a Germany chemist, engineer, and businessman. He is best known for having discovered uses of potash and creating the industry....
    , industrial chemist
  • Herbert Fröhlich
    Herbert Fröhlich

    Herbert Fr?hlich was a Germany-born Great Britain physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.Fr?hlich was the son of Fanny Frida and Jakob Julius Fr?hlich, members of an old-established Jewish family....
    , physicist
  • Eugen Glueckauf
    Eugen Glueckauf

    Eugen Glueckauf was a Germany-born Great Britain expert on atomic energy.After an education at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, he escaped from the Nazis to London....
    , chemist, expert on atomic energy
  • Hans Goldschmidt
    Hans Goldschmidt

    Johannes Wilhelm 'Goldschmidt' was a Germany chemist.Born in Berlin, he was a student of Robert Bunsen. His father, Theodor Goldschmidt, was the founder of the chemical company Chemische Fabrik Th....
    , industrial chemist
  • Eugen Goldstein, physicist
  • Leo Graetz
    Leo Graetz

    Leo Graetz was a Germany physicist. He was born in Wroclaw, Poland as the son of the historian Heinrich Graetz.Graetz was one of the first to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic radiation....
    , physicist
  • Fritz Haber
    Fritz Haber

    Fritz Haber was a German chemistry, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for Haber process, important for fertilizers and explosives....
    , developed the Haber process
    Haber process

    The Haber process, also called the Haber?Bosch process, is the nitrogen fixation reaction of nitrogen and hydrogen, over an enriched iron Catalysis, to produce ammonia....
    , Nobel Prize (1918)
  • Walter Heitler
    Walter Heitler

    Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding....
    , chemist
  • Arthur Korn
    Arthur Korn

    Arthur Korn was a German people-born physicist, mathematician and inventor, who was of Jewish ancestry. He developed an early forerunner of the fax, which tied into early attempts at developing a practical mechanical television system....
    , physicist
  • Ernst Ising
    Ernst Ising

    Ernst Ising was a German physicist, who is best remembered for the development of the Ising model. He was a professor of physics at Bradley University until his retirement in 1976....
    , statistical mechanics
  • Albert Ladenburg
    Albert Ladenburg

    Albert Ladenburg was a German chemist.Ladenburg, member of a well known Jewish family in Mannheim, studied Mathematics and modern languages in Karlsruhe, then Chemistry and Physics in Heidelberg with Robert Bunsen and finally physics in Berlin....
    , chemist
  • Fritz London
    Fritz London

    Fritz Wolfgang London was a Germany-born United States theoretical physicist. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry....
    , quantum mechanics
  • Leonard Mandel
    Leonard Mandel

    Leonard Mandel was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester when he died at the age of 73 at his home in Pittsford, New York....
    , quantum optics
  • Kurt Mendelssohn
    Kurt Mendelssohn

    Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn Fellow of the Royal Society was a Germany-born Great Britain medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951....
    , German-born British medical physicist
  • Viktor Meyer
    Viktor Meyer

    Viktor Meyer was a Germany chemist and significant contributor to both organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound....
    , organic chemist
  • Leonor Michaelis
    Leonor Michaelis

    Leonor Michaelis was a Germany biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics....
    , biochemist
  • Albert Michelson, measured speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907) (Jewish father)
  • Ludwig Mond
    Ludwig Mond

    Dr Ludwig Mond , was a Germany-born chemist and Business magnate who took United Kingdom nationality....
    , chemist & industrialist
  • Sir Rudolf Peierls
    Rudolf Peierls

    Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, , was a Germany-born British physicist. Rudolph Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear program, but he also had a role in many modern sciences....
    , solid state theory
  • Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of CMB
    CMB

    CMB can mean:*China Medical Board*Core-mantle boundary*Combat Medical Badge*Compagnie Maritime Belge*Cosmic microwave background radiation...
    , Nobel Prize (1978)
  • Alfred Philippson
    Alfred Philippson

    Alfred Philippson was a German geologist and geographer.He was born at Bonn, son of Ludwig Philippson. He received his education at the Gymnasium and university of his native town and at the University of Leipzig ....
    , geologist
  • John Charles Polanyi
    John Charles Polanyi

    John Charles Polanyi, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society is a Hungary-Canada chemist....
    , chemist, Nobel Prize (born Berlin)
  • Ernst Pringsheim
    Ernst Pringsheim

    Ernst Pringsheim:* Ernst Pringsheim, Sr. or Ernst Pringsheim sen. , German physicist* Ernst Pringsheim, Jr. or Ernst Georg Pringsheim , German scientist, botanist, bacteriologist...
    , spectrometry, black-body radiation
  • Michael Rossmann
    Michael Rossmann

    Michael G. Rossmann is a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level....
    , physicist and microbiologist (Jewish mother);
  • Rudolf Schoenheimer, biochemist
  • Arthur Schuster
    Arthur Schuster

    Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster Royal Society was a versatile Germany-born United Kingdom physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics....
    , spectroscopist
  • Karl Schwarzschild
    Karl Schwarzschild

    Karl Schwarzschild was a Germany Jewish physicist. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.He is best known for providing the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished in 1915, the same year that Einste...
    , physicist & astronomer
  • Franz Simon
    Francis Simon

    Sir Francis Simon CBE, born Franz Eugen Simon , was a Germany and later Great Britain physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb....
    , physicist, separation of Uranium 235
  • Jack Steinberger
    Jack Steinberger

    Jack Steinberger is a Germany-United States physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, for which he was given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988....
    , particle physics, Nobel Prize (1988)
  • Otto Stern
    Otto Stern

    Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics....
    , experimental physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
  • Otto Wallach
    Otto Wallach

    Otto Wallach was a Germany chemist and Nobel laureate for work on alicyclic compounds....
    , chemist, Nobel Prize (1910)
  • Richard Willstätter
    Richard Willstätter

    Richard Martin Willst?tter was a Germany organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry....
    , chemist, Nobel Prize (1915)
  • Nathan Zuntz
    Nathan Zuntz

    Nathan Zuntz was a German physiologist who was born in Bonn. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn, where he was an assistant to Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfl?ger....


Physicians and Medical Researchers

  • Adolph Baginsky, pediatrician, diphtheria researcher
  • Alfred Bielschowsky
    Alfred Bielschowsky

    Alfred Bielschowsky Bielschowsky was born in Namysl?w, Prussian Silesia. After attending the K?nigliches Katholisches Gymnasium of Klodzko, he studied medicine at the University of Wroclaw and the University of Heidelberg, graduating in 1891....
    , ophthalmologist
  • Max Bielschowsky
    Max Bielschowsky

    Max Bielschowsky was a German neuropathologist who was born in Breslau.Bielschowsky worked with Ludwig Edinger at the Senckenberg Museum Pathology Institute in Frankfurt-am-Main where he learned histology staining techniques from Carl Weigert ....
    , neuropathologist
  • Konrad Bloch, biochemist, Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
     (1964)
  • Marcus Elieser Bloch
    Marcus Elieser Bloch

    Marcus Elieser Bloch was a Germany medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologys of the 18th century....
    , physician
  • Gustav Born
    Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

    Gustav Victor Rudolf Born is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St....
    , professor of pharmacology
  • Edith Bulbring, Professor of pharmacy (Jewish mother)
  • Sir Ernst Chain, developed penicillin
    Penicillin

    Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They are Beta-lactam antibiotics used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms....
    , Nobel Prize (1945)
  • Ferdinand Cohn
    Ferdinand Cohn

    Ferdinand Julius Cohn was a Germany biologist.Cohn was born in Wroclaw in the Kingdom of Prussia Province of Silesia. At the age of 10 he suffered hearing impairment....
    , pioneer in microbiology
  • Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
    Julius Friedrich Cohnheim

    Julius Friedrich Cohnheim was a history of the Jews in Germany pathologist....
    , pathologist
  • Julius Dreschfeld
    Julius Dreschfeld

    Julius Dreschfeld Royal College of Physicians was a leading British physician and pathologist.Born in Bavaria of Jewish parents, he was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Manchester Royal School of Medicine....
    , physician
  • Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is noted for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"....
    , developed magic bullet
    Magic bullet

    Magic bullet may refer to:* An enchanted bullet of German folklore and a feature of Carl Maria von Weber's ghostly opera Der Freisch?tz* "Magic bullet", a concept of selectively targeting a bacterium without affecting other organisms, most associated with Dr....
     concept, Nobel Prize (1908)
  • Arthur Eichengrün
    Arthur Eichengrün

    Arthur Eichengr?n was a Germany chemist, best known through a controversy about who invented aspirin....
    , possible inventor of aspirin
  • Wilhelm Feldberg
    Wilhelm Feldberg

    Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society was a German-British physiologist and biologist....
    , biologist
  • Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
    Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat

    Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat was a biochemistry, famous for his virus research.Fraenkel-Conrat was born in Breslau/Germany and received an MD from the University of Breslau in 1933....
    , biochemist
  • Hermann Friedberg
    Hermann Friedberg

    Hermann Friedberg was a Jewish Germany physician from Olesno, Province of Silesia.He studied at the universities of University of Berlin, University of Vienna, Charles University in Prague, University of Paris, and University of Breslau, receiving from the last-named the degree of doctor of medicine in 1840....
    , physician
  • Carl Friedländer
    Carl Friedländer

    Carl Friedl?nder was a Germany pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882. He also first described thromboangiitis obliterans....
    , bacteriologist
  • Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
    Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch

    Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch was a Germany-born United States genetics and co-founder of developmental genetics.She studied under Hans Spemann at the University of Freiburg before escaping from Nazi Germany as a Jew....
    , geneticist
  • Ernst Gräfenberg
    Ernst Gräfenberg

    Ernst Gr?fenberg was a Germans-born medical doctor and scientist. He is known for developing the intrauterine device , and for his studies of the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm....
    , obstetrician, the G-spot
    G-spot

    The Gr?fenberg spot, or G-spot, is a female erogenous zone which when stimulated can lead to high levels of sexual arousal and powerful orgasms....
  • Martin Gumpert
    Martin Gumpert

    Martin Gumpert was a German-born American physician and writer.In 1936, he went to America. In 1942, he became a US citizen. Gumpert provided the German author Thomas Mann with information about the course of the disease of syphilis....
    , physician, writer
  • Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
    Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle

    Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a Germany physician, pathologist and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney....
    , physician
  • Sir Bernard Katz
    Bernard Katz

    Sir Bernard Katz, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Germany-born biophysics, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler....
    , biophysicist, Nobel Prize (1970)
  • Hans Kornberg
    Hans Kornberg

    Professor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, Fellow of the Royal Society is a Great Britain biochemist....
    , biochemist researcher
  • Hans Kosterlitz
    Hans Kosterlitz

    Hans Walter Kosterlitz was a Germany-born Great Britain biologist, who graduated Dr. med in Berlin. He settled in Scotland and took a DSc at the University of Aberdeen where he was, for many years, Reader in Physiology....
    , discovered endorphins
  • Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
    Hans Adolf Krebs

    Hans Adolf Krebs was a German born British physician and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle....
    , biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
  • Fritz Lipmann, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
  • Jacques Loeb
    Jacques Loeb

    Jacques Loeb was a Germany-born United States of America physiologist and biologist....
    , physiologist
  • Otto Loewi
    Otto Loewi

    Otto Loewi was a Germany pharmacology whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale....
    , pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936)
  • Elisabeth Mann, biologist (Jewish mother)
  • Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1922) (Jewish father)
  • Oskar Minkowski
    Oskar Minkowski

    Oskar Minkowski He held a professorate at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He is the brother of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski....
    , physiologist
  • Hermann Munk
    Hermann Munk

    Hermann Munk was a Jewish people German people physiology. He was born at Posen, studied at Berlin and Göttingen, and in 1862 became docent in the former university....
    , German physiologist who studied threadworm
    Strongyloides stercoralis

    Strongyloides stercoralis, also known as the threadworm, is the scientific name of a human parasitic roundworm causing the disease of strongyloidiasis....
    s
  • Albert Neisser, physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea
    Gonorrhea

    Gonorrhea is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae and is a common sexually transmitted infection. In the US, its incidence is second only to Chlamydia infection....
     (Jewish father)
  • Emin Pasha
    Emin Pasha

    Mehmet Emin Pasha , born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, was a physician, Natural history and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile....
    , physician, naturalist, explorer
  • Nathanael Pringsheim
    Nathanael Pringsheim

    Nathanael Pringsheim was a Germany botanist.He was born at Gorz?w Slaski, Prussian Silesia, and studied at the universities of University of Wroclaw, University of Leipzig, and Humboldt University of Berlin successively....
    , botanist
  • Ottomar Rosenbach
    Ottomar Rosenbach

    Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach was a German physician.Krappitz was a Silesian city where his father, Samuel Rosenbach, practised medicine. He received his education at the universities of Berlin and Breslau ....
    , physician
  • Moritz Traube
    Moritz Traube

    Moritz Traube was a German chemist and universal private scholar.Traube worked on chemical, biochemical, medical, physiological, pathophysiological problems, he was engaged in hygienics, physically chemistry and chemical basic research....
    , biochemist
  • Wilhelm Traube
    Wilhelm Traube

    Wilhelm Traube was a Germany chemist....
    , physician, inventor of the fever thermometer
  • Otto Warburg, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1931) (Jewish father)
  • Karl Weigert
    Karl Weigert

    Karl Weigert, Carl Weigert was a Germany Jewish pathologist.He received his education at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Breslau, graduating in 1868....
    , pathologist


Mathematicians

  • Felix Bernstein
    Felix Bernstein

    Felix Bernstein was a Germany mathematician known for developing Cantor?Bernstein?Schroeder theorem in 1897, and less well known for demonstrating the correct Blood type inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one Locus in 1924 through statistical analysis....
    , set theory
  • Maurice Block
    Maurice Block

    Maurice Block was a Germany-France statistician and economist.He was born in Berlin of Jewish parents. He studied at Bonn and Giessen, but settled in Paris, becoming naturalized there....
    , statistician
  • Richard Brauer
    Richard Brauer

    Richard Dagobert Brauer was a leading Germany and USA mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory....
    , modular representation theory
  • Moritz Cantor
    Moritz Cantor

    Moritz Benedikt Cantor was a Germany History of mathematics.He was born at Mannheim, Germany. He came from a family that had emigrated to the Netherlands from Portugal, another branch of which had established itself in Russia, where Georg Cantor was born....
    , historian of mathematics
  • Paul Cohn
    Paul Cohn

    Paul Moritz Cohn Fellow of the Royal Society was Waldorf Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra....
    , algebraist
  • Richard Courant
    Richard Courant

    Richard Courant was a Germany mathematician....
    , mathematical analysis & applied mathematics
  • Max Dehn
    Max Dehn

    Max Dehn was a German mathematician and a student of David Hilbert. He is most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory....
    , topology
  • Paul Epstein
    Paul Epstein

    Paul Epstein was a Germany mathematician. He is known for his contributions to number theory, in particular the Epstein zeta function.Epstein was raised in Frankfurt where his father was a professor....
    , number theory
  • Adolf Fraenkel, set theory
  • Hans Freudenthal
    Hans Freudenthal

    Hans Freudenthal was a The Netherlands mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education....
    , algebraic topology
  • Felix Hausdorff
    Felix Hausdorff

    Felix Hausdorff was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis....
    , topology
  • Heinz Hopf
    Heinz Hopf

    Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician born in Gr?bschen, Germany . He attended Dr. Karl Mittelhaus' higher boys' school from 1901 to 1904, and then entered the K?nig-Wilhelm- Gymnasium in Breslau....
    , topology (Jewish father)
  • Adolf Hurwitz
    Adolf Hurwitz

    Adolf Hurwitz , was a Germany mathematician, and was described by Jean-Pierre Serre as "one of the most important figures in mathematics in the second half of the nineteenth century"....
    , mathematician
  • Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi
    Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi

    Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a Prussian mathematician, widely considered to be the most inspiring teacher of his time and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time ....
    , analysis
  • Leopold Kronecker
    Leopold Kronecker

    Leopold Kronecker was a Germany mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and Mathematical analysis must be founded on "whole numbers", saying, "God made the integers; all else is the work of man" ....
    , number theory
  • Edmund Landau
    Edmund Landau

    Edmund Georg Hermann Landau was a Germany Jewish mathematician and author of over 250 papers on number theory.Edmund Landau was born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family....
    , number theory
  • Rudolf Lipschitz
    Rudolf Lipschitz

    Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz was a Germany mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. Peter Gustav Dirichlet was his teacher....
    , mathematician
  • Kurt Mahler
    Kurt Mahler

    Kurt Mahler was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and G?ttingen, graduating with a Ph.D....
    , mathematician
  • Hermann Minkowski
    Hermann Minkowski

    Hermann Minkowski was a Germans mathematician of Jewish and Poles descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity....
    , geometrical theory of numbers
  • Claus Moser, Statistician
  • Leonard Nelson
    Leonard Nelson

    Leonard Nelson was a Germany mathematician and philosopher. He was part of the Neo-Friesian School and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert, and devised the Grelling-Nelson paradox with Kurt Grelling....
    , mathematician, philosopher
  • Bernhard Neumann
    Bernhard Neumann

    Bernhard Hermann Neumann was a Germany-born United Kingdom mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject....
    , mathematician
  • Emmy Noether
    Emmy Noether

    Amalie Emmy Noether, , was a German mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Described by Albert Einstein and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics, she revolutionized the theories of ring , field , and algebra over a field....
    , algebra & theoretical physics
  • Alfred Pringsheim
    Alfred Pringsheim

    Alfred Israel Pringsheim was a Germany mathematician and artist. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia and died in Z?rich, Switzerland. He was a student of Weierstrass, his mathematical work was in the area of real analysis....
    , analysis, theory of functions
  • Richard Rado
    Richard Rado

    Richard Rado was a Jewish, Germany mathematician. He earned 2 Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge....
    , combinatorics
  • Abraham Robinson
    Abraham Robinson

    Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and transfinite number numbers were incorporated into mathematics....
    , nonstandard analysis
  • Klaus Roth
    Klaus Roth

    Klaus Friedrich Roth, is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and discrepancy theory. He was born in Breslau but raised and educated in the UK....
    , diophantine approximation, Fields Medal (1958)
  • Arthur Moritz Schönflies
    Arthur Moritz Schönflies

    Arthur Moritz Sch?nflies was a Germany mathematician, known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography, and for work in topology....
    , mathematician
  • Issai Schur
    Issai Schur

    Issai Schur was a mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life. He studied at Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1901, became lecturer in 1903 and, after a stay at Bonn, professor in 1919....
    , mathematician
  • Otto Toeplitz
    Otto Toeplitz

    Otto Toeplitz was a leading Germany born mathematician, working on infinite Linear functional and Quadratic form forms. He was a professor at Bonn...
    , linear algebra & functional analysis


Technical Scientists

  • Ralph Baer, inventor of the games console
  • Emile Berliner
    Emile Berliner

    Emile Berliner was a Germany-born United States inventor, best known for developing the gramophone record gramophone . He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gramophone#Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Mon...
    , inventor of the gramophone
    Gramophone

    Gramophone might refer to:* The British English term for U.S. English "phonograph", the first device for recording and replaying sound. The two names were originally those used by rival manufacturers...
  • Emanuel Goldberg
    Emanuel Goldberg

    Emanuel Goldberg Emanuel Goldberg was born in Moscow and moved first to Germany and later to Israel. He described himself as ?a chemist by learning, physicist by calling, and a mechanic by birth.? He contributed a wide range of theoretic and practical advances relating to light and media and was the founding head of Zeiss Ikon, th...
     (1881-1970, from Russia, but published in German), pioneered Microdot
    Microdot

    A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size onto a 1mm disc to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular around one millimetre in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester....
    s and microfilm retrieval technology
  • Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
    Julius Edgar Lilienfeld

    Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was an Austro-Hungarian physicist. He was born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary ....
    , electrical engineer
  • Siegfried Marcus
    Siegfried Marcus

    Siegfried Samuel Marcus was a Germany-born Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer.Marcus was born in Malchin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1852....
    , automobile
    Automobile

    An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
     pioneer
  • Michael O. Rabin
    Michael O. Rabin

    Michael Oser Rabin is an Israelis computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award....
    , computer algorithms, Turing Award
    Turing Award

    The A. M. Turing Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community....
     (1976)
  • Reinhold Rudenberg
    Reinhold Rudenberg

    Reinhold Rudenberg was a German-American electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields....
    , electrical engineer and inventor,
  • Joseph Weizenbaum
    Joseph Weizenbaum

    Joseph Weizenbaum was a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Born in Berlin, Germany to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1935, emigrating with his family to the United States....
    , AI critic, ELIZA
    ELIZA

    ELIZA is a computer program by Joseph Weizenbaum, designed in 1966, which parodied a Rogerian psychotherapy, largely by rephrasing many of the patient's statements as questions and posing them to the patient....


Psychologists

  • Karl Abraham
    Karl Abraham

    Karl Abraham was an early Germany psychoanalyst, and a correspondent of Sigmund Freud, who called him his 'best pupil'. He founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, and was the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association from 1914 to 1918 and again in 1925....
    , psychoanalyst
  • Rudolf Arnheim
    Rudolf Arnheim

    Rudolf Arnheim was a Germany-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye , Visual Thinking , and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts , but it is Art and Visual Perception...
    , perception theorist
  • Erik Erikson
    Erik Erikson

    Erik Homburger Erikson was a Denmark-Germany-United States Developmental psychology and psychoanalyst known for his Erikson's stages of psychosocial development of human beings....
    , developmental psychologist (Jewish mother)
  • Erich Fromm
    Erich Fromm

    Erich Seligmann Fromm was an internationally renowned social psychology, psychoanalyst, and humanism philosophy. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory....
    , psychologist & humanistic philosopher
  • Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
    Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

    Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a Germany psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who emigrated to America during World War II.She was born to Alfred and Klara Reichmann in Karlsruhe, German Empire....
    , psychoanalyst
  • Kurt Goldstein
    Kurt Goldstein

    Kurt Goldstein was a Germany neurologist and psychiatrist who was a pioneer in modern neuropsychology. He created a holistic theory of the organism based on Gestalt psychology which deeply influenced the development of Gestalt therapy....
    , Gestalt-influenced neurologist
  • Max Hamilton
    Max Hamilton

    Professor Max Hamilton was born on 9 February 1912 at Offenbach am Main, near Frankfurt, Germany. In 1915, his family emigrated to England. He was educated at the Foundation School in Cowper Street and went on to study medicine at University College Hospital, London....
    , psychiatrist
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
    Magnus Hirschfeld

    Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay German-Jewish physician, sexologist, and early gay rights advocate....
    , sexologist
  • Kurt Koffka
    Kurt Koffka

    Kurt Koffka was born and educated in Berlin and earned his PhD there in 1909 as a student of Carl Stumpf. In addition to his studies in Berlin, Koffka also spent one year at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he developed his strong fluency in English, a skill that later served him well in his efforts to spread Gestalt psycholo...
    , Gestalt psychologist
  • Kurt Lewin
    Kurt Lewin

    Kurt Zadek Lewin , a German-born psychology, is one of the modern pioneers of social psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, and applied psychology....
    , social psychologist
  • Hugo Münsterberg
    Hugo Münsterberg

    Hugo M?nsterberg was a Germany-United States psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial / Organizational , legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings....
    , industrial psychologist
  • Ulric Neisser
    Ulric Neisser

    Ulric Neisser is an United States psychologist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a faculty member at Cornell University....
    , cognitive psychologist (Jewish father)
  • Erich Neumann
    Erich Neumann (psychologist)

    Erich Neumann was a psychologist, writer, and one of Carl Jung's most gifted students. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Berlin in 1927....
    , analytical psychologist
  • Fritz Perls
    Fritz Perls

    Friedrich Salomon Perls , better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted Germany-born psychiatrist and psychotherapy of Jewish descent.He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964....
    , psychotherapist
  • Otto Selz
    Otto Selz

    Otto Selz, was a Germany psychologist from Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, who formulated the first Association theory of thinking, in 1913. Selz used the method of introspection, but unlike his predecessors, his theory developed without the use of images and associations....
    , cognitive psychologist
  • William Stern
    William Stern

    William Lewis Stern , born Wilhelm Louis Stern, was a Germany psychologist and philosopher noted as a pioneer in the field of the psychology of personality psychology and intelligence ....
    , the Intelligence Quotient
    Intelligence quotient

    An Intelligence Quotient or IQ is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence. The term "IQ," a calque of the German language Intelligenz-Quotient, was coined by the German psychologist William Stern in 1912 as a proposed method of scoring early modern children's intelligenc...
  • Max Wertheimer
    Max Wertheimer

    Max Wertheimer was a Czechs-born Jewish teacher who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang K?hler....
    , Gestalt psychologist


Academic figures


Philosophers

  • Theodor Adorno, philosopher (Jewish father)
  • Ernst Bloch
    Ernst Bloch

    Ernst Simon Bloch was a Germany Marxism Philosophy.Bloch was influenced by both Hegel and Marx. He was also interested in music and art . He established friendships with Georg Lukacs, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Theodor W....
    , philosopher
  • Constantin Brunner
    Constantin Brunner

    Constantin Brunner was the pen-name of the Germany Jewish philosopher Leopold Wertheimer. He was born in Altona . He came from a prominent Jewish family that had lived in the vicinity of Hamburg for generations; his grandfather, Akiba Wertheimer, was chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein....
    , philosopher
  • Ernst Cassirer
    Ernst Cassirer

    Ernst Cassirer was a Germany Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a Phenomenology of epistemology....
    , philosopher
  • Hermann Cohen
    Hermann Cohen

    Hermann Cohen was a Germany-Jewish philosophy, one of the founders of the University of Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, and he is often held to be "probably the most important Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth century" ....
    , philosopher
  • Friedrich Dessauer
    Friedrich Dessauer

    Friedrich Dessauer was an important physicist, a philosopher, a socially engaged entrepreneur and a journalist.Friedrich Dessauer was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany....
    , philosopher
  • Max Dessoir
    Max Dessoir

    Max Dessoir was a Germany philosopher and theorist of aesthetics.Dessoir was born in Berlin. He earned doctorates from the universities of Humboldt University of Berlin and University of W?rzburg ....
    , philosopher
  • Julius Frauenstädt
    Julius Frauenstädt

    Christian Martin Julius Frauenst?dt was a Germany student of philosophy. He was educated at the house of his uncle at Nysa, Poland, and converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1833....
    , philosopher
  • Kurt Grelling
    Kurt Grelling

    Kurt Grelling was a logician, philosopher and member of the Berlin Circle ....
    , philosopher
  • Richard Hönigswald
    Richard Hönigswald

    Richard H?nigswald was a well-known philosopher belonging to the wider circle of Neo-Kantianism.H?nigswald studied medicine and philosophy under Alois Riehl and Alexius von Meinong and from 1916 was professor of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy in Breslau ....
     (Jewish father)
  • Max Horkheimer
    Max Horkheimer

    Max Horkheimer was a Germany philosopher and sociologist, and a founding member of the Frankfurt School)....
    , philosopher & sociologist
  • Edmund Husserl
    Edmund Husserl

    Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a philosophy who is deemed the founder of phenomenology . He broke with the positivist orientation of the science and philosophy of his day, believing that experience is the source of all knowledge, while at the same time he elaborated critiques of psychologism and historicism....
    , philosopher (converted to Christianity)
  • Hans Jonas
    Hans Jonas

    Hans Jonas was a Germany-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City....
    , philosopher
  • Horace Kallen
    Horace Kallen

    Horace Meyer Kallen was a Jewish-American philosopher....
    , philosopher
  • Adolf Lasson
    Adolf Lasson

    Adolf Lasson was a German people Jewish philosophy writer, strident Prussianist, and the father of Georg Lasson.He educated at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neu-Strelitz, and the University of Berlin ....
    , philosopher
  • Theodor Lessing
    Theodor Lessing

    Theodor Lessing was a Germans Jewish philosopher.According to Theodore Ziolkowski in Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen ,"this cultural critic, writing in the tradition of Nietzsche, argued that history, having no objective validity, amounts to a mythic construct imposed on an unknowable reality, in order to give its some sembl...
    , philosopher, writer
  • Karl Löwith
    Karl Löwith

    Karl L?with was a Germany-Jewish philosopher, a student of Heidegger. Like most of his ethnicity and profession he left Germany during the Nazi Germany, but returned in 1952 to teach as Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg....
    , philosopher
  • Salomon Maimon
    Salomon Maimon

    Salomon ben Josua Maimon was a Germany philosopher born of Jewish parentage in Belorussia....
    , philosopher
  • Karl Marx
    Karl Marx

    Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
    , philosopher, founder of communism
    Communism

    Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
  • Fritz Mauthner
    Fritz Mauthner

    Fritz Mauthner was a German language-speaking philosopher and writer from Horice , Bohemia. His most famous work is Beitr?ge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, which was published in three parts in 1901 and 1902....
    , author & philosopher
  • Moses Mendelssohn
    Moses Mendelssohn

    Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah is indebted. For some he was the third Moses heralding a new era in the history of the Jewish people....
    , philosopher, scholar
  • Helmuth Plessner
    Helmuth Plessner

    Helmuth Plessner was a Germany philosopher and sociologist, and a primary advocate of "philosophical anthropology" .He was Chairman from 1953-1959 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Soziologie....
    , philosopher (Jewish father)
  • Hans Reichenbach
    Hans Reichenbach

    Hans Reichenbach was a leading Philosophy of science, educator and proponent of logical positivism. Reichenbach is best known for founding the Berlin Circle , and as the author of The Rise of Scientific Philosophy....
    , philosopher (Jewish father)
  • Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
    Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

    Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was a historian and social philosophy, whose work spanned the disciplines of history, theology, sociology, linguistics and beyond....
    , philosopher (Jewish father)
  • Max Scheler
    Max Scheler

    Max Scheler was a Germany philosopher known for his work in Phenomenology , ethics, and philosophical anthropology.Scheler developed further the philosophical method of the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, and was called by Jos? Ortega y Gasset "the first man of the philosophical paradise." After his demise in 1928, Heidegger aff...
    , philosopher (Jewish mother)
  • Kurt Sternberg
    Kurt Sternberg

    Kurt Sternberg was a German people philosopher....
    , philosopher
  • Leo Strauss
    Leo Strauss

    Leo Strauss was a Germany-born Jewish-American Political philosophy who specialized in classical political philosophy. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published 15 books....
    , political philosopher
  • Richard Rudolf Walzer
    Richard Rudolf Walzer

    Richard Rudolf Walzer was a Germany-born Great Britain expert on Greek philosophy.Education: Werner-Siemens-Realgymnasium, Berlin-Sch?neberg; Humboldt University of Berlin....
    , philosopher (Jewish Year Book
    Jewish Year Book

    The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targeted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. It has been published every year since 1896 and is currently published by Vallentine Mitchell in association with The Jewish Chronicle and is edited by Stephen W....
     1975 p214)


Economists

  • Robert Aumann
    Robert Aumann

    Robert John Aumann is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
    , Nobel Prize for Economics
  • Gerhard Colm, economist de
  • Richard Ehrenberg
    Richard Ehrenberg

    Richard Ehrenberg was a German economist.He taught at Rostock University from 1899 to 1921....
    , economist
  • Ludwig Lachmann
    Ludwig Lachmann

    Ludwig Lachmann was a Germany economist who became a member of and important contributor to the Austrian School....
    , economist
  • Emil Lederer
    Emil Lederer

    Emil Lederer was a Bohemian-born Germany economist and sociologist....
    , economist
  • Robert Liefmann
    Robert Liefmann

    Robert Liefmann was a Germany economist.He was a professor at Freiburg University....
    , economist
  • Adolph Lowe
    Adolph Lowe

    Adolph Lowe born Adolf L?we was a Germany sociologist and economist....
    , economist
  • Rosa Luxemburg
    Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg was a Poland Germany Marxist theory, Socialism philosopher, and revolutionary for the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the German Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany....
    , economist, co-founder of the KPD
  • Fritz Naphtali, economist, editor, later Israeli finance minister
  • Hans Neisser, economist de
  • Sigbert Prais
    Sigbert Prais

    Professor Sigbert Jon Prais Fellow of the British Academy is an economist and has been the Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research since 1970....
    , economist (JYB 2005 p215)
  • Reinhard Selten
    Reinhard Selten

    Reinhard Selten is a German economics.Selten was born in Wroclaw in Province of Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father and protestant mother....
    , Nobel prize (1994)
  • Hans Singer
    Hans Singer

    Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer was a development economics best known for the Singer-Prebisch thesis, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products....
    , economist


Social Scientists

  • Reinhard Bendix
    Reinhard Bendix

    Reinhard Bendix was an accomplished Sociology born in Berlin, Germany.As a teenager, he briefly belonged to Neu beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis....
    , sociologist
  • Eduard Bernstein
    Eduard Bernstein

    Eduard Bernstein was a Germany social democracy political theory and politician, a member of the SPD, and the founder of evolutionary socialism or reformism....
    , founder of evolutionary socialism
  • Franz Boas
    Franz Boas

    Franz Boas was a Germans-United States anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology"....
    , cultural anthropologist
  • Micha Brumlik
    Micha Brumlik

    Micha Brumlik is professor of education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. From October 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Fritz Bauer Institute for the Study and Documentation of the History of the Holocaust....
    , professor of education
  • Lewis A. Coser
    Lewis A. Coser

    Lewis Coser was an American sociologist.Born in Berlin , Coser was the first sociologist to try to bring together structural functionalism and conflict theory; his work was focused on finding the functions of social conflict....
    , sociologist
  • Norbert Elias
    Norbert Elias

    Norbert Elias was a Germany sociology of Jewish descent, who later became a Great Britain citizen.His work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time....
    , sociologist
  • Amitai Etzioni
    Amitai Etzioni

    Amitai Etzioni is a Germany-Israelis-United States sociologist, known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He was a founder of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s and established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement?s ideas....
    , sociologist
  • Shelomo Dov Goitein
    Shelomo Dov Goitein

    Shelomo Dov Goitein was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages....
    , Arabist
  • Moses Hess
    Moses Hess

    Moses Hess was a secular Jewish philosopher and one of the founders of socialism....
    , socialist
  • Eugene Kamenka
    Eugene Kamenka

    Eugene Kamenka was born in Cologne in 1928 and taken to Australia in 1937. Kamenka family is of Odessa descent. He was educated at the Sydney Technical High School, and went on to take first-class honours in philosophy at the University of Sydney under John Anderson ....
    , sociologist
  • Siegfried Kracauer
    Siegfried Kracauer

    Siegfried Kracauer was aGermany writer, journalism, sociology, cultural critic, and film theory....
    , sociologist & film critic
  • Ferdinand Lassalle
    Ferdinand Lassalle

    Ferdinand Lassalle was a Germans-Jewish jurist and socialism political activist....
    , founder of first German worker's party
  • Karl Mannheim
    Karl Mannheim

    Karl Mannheim , or Mannheim K?roly in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociology, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology....
    , sociologist
  • Herbert Marcuse
    Herbert Marcuse

    Herbert Marcuse was a German people philosophy and sociology, and a member of the Frankfurt School. His best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension....
    , sociologist, New Left
    New Left

    The New Left were the left-wing movements in different countries in the 1960s and 1970s that, unlike the earlier leftist focus on labour movement activism, instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism....
     figurehead
  • Karl Marx
    Karl Marx

    Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
    , founder of communism
    Communism

    Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
     (parents converted to Protestantism)
  • Franz Oppenheimer
    Franz Oppenheimer

    Franz Oppenheimer was a German sociologist and political economist, who published also in the area of the fundamental sociology of the state....
    , sociologist & economist
  • Leo Loewenthal, sociologist
  • Georg Simmel
    Georg Simmel

    Georg Simmel was one of the first generation of Germany sociology. His studies pioneered the concept of social structure, and he was a key precursor of social network analysis....
    , sociologist
  • Georg Steindorff
    Georg Steindorff

    Georg Steindorff was a Germany Egyptologist....
    , egyptologist (Jewish father)
  • Jacob Taubes
    Jacob Taubes

    Jacob Taubes was a sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism.Taubes was born into an old rabbinical family. He obtained his doctorate in 1947 for a thesis on "Occidental Eschatology" and initially taught religious studies and Jewish studies in the United States....
    , theologist
  • Louis Wirth
    Louis Wirth

    Louis Wirth was an United States sociologist and member of the Chicago school of sociology....
    , sociologist


Historians

  • Ernst Bernheim
    Ernst Bernheim

    Ernst Bernheim was a Germany-Jewish historian, best known for an influential Lehrbuch der historischen Methode on historical method....
    , historian
  • Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
    Victor Ehrenberg (historian)

    Victor Ehrenberg was a Germany historian. He is a nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg .He married with Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, n?e Sommer ....
    , historian
  • Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
    Geoffrey Rudolph Elton

    Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a British historian of the Tudor period....
     (son of Wictor Ehrenberg)
  • Richard Ettinghausen
    Richard Ettinghausen

    Richard Ettinghausen was a historian of Islamic art and chief curator of the Freer Gallery....
    , art historian
  • Henry Friedlander
    Henry Friedlander

    Henry Friedlander is an American historian of the Holocaust noted for his arguments in favor of broadening the scope of victims of the Holocaust....
    , historian
  • Saul Friedlander, historian
  • Peter Gay
    Peter Gay

    Peter Gay , is a Jewish United States historian of the social history of ideas, born as Peter Joachim Fr?hlich in Berlin, where he was educated at the Goethe-Gymnasium ....
    , history
  • George W. F. Hallgarten
    George W. F. Hallgarten

    George W. F. Hallgarten, or Georg Wolfgang Felix Hallgarten was a German-born American historian.He had a US citizenship since his grandfather....
    , historian
  • Richard Krautheimer
    Richard Krautheimer

    Richard Krautheimer was a 20th century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantine Art.He was born in Germany in 1897, the son of Nathan Krautheimer and Martha Landman ....
    , historian
  • Arno Lustiger
    Arno Lustiger

    Arno Lustiger is a Germans historian and author of Jewish origin. He is father of the author Gila Lustiger and cousin to Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris....
    , historian
  • Lothar Machtan
    Lothar Machtan

    Lothar Machtan Ph.D., is a Germany historian, author and professor of Modern and Current History at University of Bremen. He earned a PhD in 1978 and became a university professor in 1989....
     
  • Golo Mann
    Golo Mann

    File:Golo-mann-1978.jpgGolo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular Germany historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann....
    , historian
  • George Mosse
    George Mosse

    File:George L Mosse.jpgGeorge Lachmann Mosse was a German-born Jewish-American social and cultural historian. One of the most respected scholars of his generation, Mosse authored 25 books that encompassed several fields, ranging from English Constitutional Law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of...
    , historian
  • Eva Reichmann
    Eva Gabriele Reichmann

    Eva Gabriele Reichmann was an eminent German historian and sociologist of Jewish origin. From 1945 on she became famous for her research on anti-Semitism....
    , historian and sociologist
  • Ludwig Riess
    Ludwig Riess

    Ludwig Riess was a Germany-born historian and educator, noted for his work in late 19th century Japan....
    , historian
  • Hans Rothfels
    Hans Rothfels

    Hans Rothfels was a conservatism Germany-United States Nationalism historian....
    , historian
  • Fritz Stern
    Fritz Stern

    Fritz Richard Stern is a Germany-born United States historian of history of Germany, Jewish history, and historiography. He is a University Professor Emeritus and a former provost at New York's Columbia University....
    , historian
  • Michael Wolffsohn
    Michael Wolffsohn

    Michael Wolffsohn is an Israeli-born German historian. Wolffsohn was born in Tel Aviv, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine and today is Israel....
    , historian


Jurists

  • Hannah Arendt
    Hannah Arendt

    Hannah Arendt was an influential Germany-Jewish political theorist. She has often been described as a philosopher, although she always refused that label on the grounds that philosophy is concerned with "man in the singular." She described herself instead as a political theory because her work centers on the fact that "men, not Man, live on...
    , political theorist
  • Jacob Friedrich Behrend
    Jacob Friedrich Behrend

    Jacob/Jakob Friedrich Behrend was a Germany jurist. His father was Friedrich Jakob Behrend, a German physician.He finished his studies in his native city at the university....
    , jurist
  • David Daube
    David Daube

    David Daube DCL, Fellow of the British Academy was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and later Professor-in-Residence at the University of California, Berkeley....
    , Professor of Law
  • Heinrich Dernburg
    Heinrich Dernburg

    Heinrich Dernburg was a Germany jurist, professor, and politician. Born in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse, he was the brother of Friedrich Dernburg....
    , jurist
  • Victor Ehrenberg
    Victor Ehrenberg (jurist)

    Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg was a German jurist.He is the uncle of historian Victor Ehrenberg , and Geoffrey Elton & Lewis Elton's great uncle....
    , jurist
  • Hugo Haase
    Hugo Haase

    Hugo Haase was a Germany politician, jurist and pacifist....
    , jurist
  • Sir Otto Kahn-Freund
    Otto Kahn-Freund

    Sir Otto Kahn-Freund was professor of comparative law, University of Oxford.He was born in Frankfurt am Main of Jewish parents and educated at the Goethe-Gymnasium there and Frankfurt University....
    , Professor of Law
  • Hermann Kantorowicz
    Hermann Kantorowicz

    Hermann Kantorowicz was a distinguished German people jurist.He was a professor at Freiburg University , Visiting Professor, Columbia University, Kiel University , dismissed from Kiel on both political and semitic grounds, 1933, lecturer at the 'University in Exile' and at City College, New York, 1933-34, lecturer at London School of Econo...
    , jurist
  • Walter Kaskel
    Walter Kaskel

    Carl John Walter Kaskel was an Germans jurist....
    , jurist
  • Paul Laband, jurist, b. Breslau
  • Otto Lenel
    Otto Lenel

    Otto Lenel was a Germany Jewish jurist and legal historian. His most important achievements are in the field of Roman law....
    , jurist
  • Franz Neumann
    Franz Leopold Neumann

    Franz Leopold Neumann was a Germany left-wing political activist and labour law, who became a political scientist in exile and is best-known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism....
    , legal theorist
  • Arthur Nussbaum
    Arthur Nussbaum

    Arthur Nussbaum was a Germany-born United States jurist.He taught at Berlin University .In 1934 he moved to United States, and in 1940, he became a US citizen....
    , jurist
  • Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, financial planner & court Jew
  • Gabriel Riesser
    Gabriel Riesser

    Gabriel Riesser was a German Confederation politician and lawyer....
    , deputy speaker of Frankfurt Assembly in 1848, first Jewish judge in Hamburg
  • Rudolf Schlesinger
    Rudolf Schlesinger

    Rudolf Schlesinger was a Germany-born United States legal scholar known for his contributions to the study of comparative law, a discipline that examines the differences and similarities among the legal systems of nations....
    , jurist
  • Georg Schwarzenberger, jurist
  • Hugo Sinzheimer
    Hugo Sinzheimer

    Hugo Sinzheimer was a Germany legal scholar.Sinzheimer was one of the first academics specializing in labour law; he published an introduction to this field in 1907....
    , legal scholar
  • Sigmund Zeisler
    Sigmund Zeisler

    Sigmund Zeisler was an Austrian-born U.S. attorney, known for his defense of radicals in Chicago in the 1880s. His wife was the famed concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler....
    , jurist


Linguists and philologists

  • Theodor Benfey
    Theodor Benfey

    Theodor Benfey was a Germany philologist and the son of a Jewish trader from N?rten, near G?ttingen.Although originally destined for the medical profession, Benfey's taste for philology was awakened by a careful instruction in Hebrew language which he received from his father....
    , linguist (Jewish father)
  • Eduard Fraenkel
    Eduard Fraenkel

    Eduard David Mortier Fraenkel was a German-English philologist....
    , philologist
  • Wilhelm Freund
    Wilhelm Freund

    Wilhelm Freund was a German Jewish philologist, born at Kepno. He studied education at Berlin and Breslau, and was chiefly occupied in teaching till 1870, when he retired in order to devote himself to his literary pursuits....
    , philologist
  • Ludwig Friedländer
    Ludwig Friedländer

    Ludwig Henrich Friedlaender was a Germany philologist.He studied at the universities of his hometown University of K?nigsberg, University of Leipzig, and Humboldt University of Berlin from 1841 to 1845....
    , philologist
  • Julius Fürst
    Julius Fürst

    Julius F?rst , was a Jewish German people orientalist.F?rst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature. During his years as chairman of the department of Oriental languages and literature at the University of Leipzig , he wrote major works on literary history and linguistics....
    , orientalist
  • Theodor Goldstücker
    Theodor Goldstücker

    Theodor Goldst?cker was a Germany Sanskrit scholar. He was born of Jewish parents in K?nigsberg. After attending the Gymnasium of that town, he entered its University of K?nigsberg in 1836 as a student of Sanskrit....
    , linguist[https://secure.peeters-leuven.be/POJ/downloadpdf.php?ticket_id=453c55926ddd9]
  • Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
    Moshe Goshen-Gottstein

    Moshe Goshen-Gottstein was a German-born professor of Semitic linguistics and biblical philology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and director of the lexicographical institute and Biblical research institute of Bar-Ilan University....
    , linguist
  • Victor Klemperer
    Victor Klemperer

    Victor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Age of Enlightenment at the Technische Universit?t Dresden....
    , linguist & diarist
  • Siegbert Salomon Prawer
    Siegbert Salomon Prawer

    Siegbert Salomon Prawer is Taylor Emeritus Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He was Lecturer at the University of Birmingham from 1948 to 1963, Professor of German at Westfield College London from 1964, and became Taylor Professor in 1969....
    , Professor of German
  • Chaim Menachem Rabin
    Chaim Menachem Rabin

    Chaim Menachem Rabin was an Israeli professor of Hebrew language and Semitic languages. He was born in Germany.Chaim Rabin studied in England, at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London where he received his BA degree....
    , linguist
  • Edward Sapir
    Edward Sapir

    Edward Sapir , was a Jewish-Germany-United States anthropologist-linguistics and a leader in American structuralism. He was one of the creators of what is now called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis....
    , anthropologist-linguist
  • Ernest Simon
    Ernest Simon

    Ernest Simon may refer to:* Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe , English industrialist and politician* Ernest Julius Walter Simon , Berlin-born sinologist and librarian...
    , professor of Chinese
  • Heymann Steinthal
    Heymann Steinthal

    Heymann or Hermann Steinthal was a German philologist and philosopher.He studied philology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, and was in 1850 appointed privat-dozent of philology and mythology at that institution....
    , linguist


Educationalists

  • Lewis Elton
    Lewis Elton

    Lewis R. B. Elton is a Germany-born United Kingdom physicist and researcher into education, specialising in higher education.Born Ludwig Ehrenberg in T?bingen to the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer, his family moved to Prague in 1929, and from there to England in February 1939, to escape the threat of Nazism....
    , educationalist
  • Kurt Hahn
    Kurt Hahn

    Kurt Martin Hahn was a Germany educator whose philosophies are considered internationally influential....
    , educationalist


Cultural figures


Showbusiness

  • Hugo Egon Balder
    Hugo Egon Balder

    Hugo Egon Balder is a Jewish Germany actor and comedy.Balder was a founding member of the Krautrock band Birth Control in 1968. He received acting training at a private acting school in Berlin from 1973 to 1976....
    , comedian, producer (Jewish mother),
  • Mark Bellinghaus
    Mark Bellinghaus

    Mark Bellinghaus , is a Marilyn Monroe activist and a collector of Monroe memorabilia. Bellinghaus is also a blogger, and "first rate skeptical investigator" of claims relating to Monroe....
    , actor, writer, poet, Marilyn Monroe activist, historian & collector
  • Ludwig Berger, director
  • Lotte Berk
    Lotte Berk

    Lotte Berk was a dancer and teacher.She was born Liselotte Heymansohn in Cologne, Germany, to a German mother and Russian-born father, both of whom were Jewish....
    , dancer and health guru
  • Kurt Bernhardt, director
  • Artur Brauner
    Artur Brauner

    Artur "Atze" Brauner is a Germany film producer and entrepreneur. He was born in L?dz, Poland....
    , film producer
  • Friedrich Dalsheim, director
  • Michael Degen, actor
  • Ernst Dohm
    Ernst Dohm

    Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Dohm, pseudonym is Karlchen Mie?nick was a Germany editing, actor, and translator.He was Jewish and a convert to Christianity....
    , actor, editor
  • Hedwig Dohm-Pringsheim, actress
  • E.A. Dupont, director
  • Don Francisco
    Don Francisco

    Don Francisco may refer to:*Don Francisco *Don Francisco *Don Francisco de Paula Marin, Hawaiian...
    , Chilean television host
  • Michel Friedman
    Michel Friedman

    Michel Friedman is a German lawyer, Christian Democratic Union politician and talk show host. Though he had to withdraw from his public offices and lost his licence as lawyer based on legal offenses....
    , TV personality
  • Kurt Gerron
    Kurt Gerron

    Kurt Gerron was a German Jewish actor and film director.Born Kurt Gerson to Jew parents in Berlin, Germany, Gerron initially studied medicine but became a stage actor in 1920....
    , stage actor & film director
  • Dora Gerson
    Dora Gerson

    Dora Gerson was a Jewish people German people cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was killed with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp....
    , actress, cabaret singer
  • Therese Giehse
    Therese Giehse

    Therese Giehse was a German actress. Born in Munich to German-Jewish parents, she first appeared on the stage in 1920. She became a major star on stage, in films, and in political cabaret....
    , actress Pepermill
  • Lou Jacobs
    Lou Jacobs

    Johann Ludwig Jacob was an Auguste clown who performed for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College for more than 60 years. He was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1989....
    , clown
  • Ludwig Karl Koch
    Ludwig Karl Koch

    Ludwig Karl Koch MBE was a broadcaster and sound recordist. An expert on recording animal sounds, he played a significant part in increasing the British public's appreciation of wildlife....
    , broadcaster and sound recordist
  • Carl Laemmle
    Carl Laemmle

    Carl Laemmle Sr. , born in Laupheim, W?rttemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal Studios....
    , film producer
  • Dani Levy
    Dani Levy

    Dani Levy is a film maker, theatre director director and actor....
    , film maker, theatrical director and actor
  • Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
    , director
  • Inge Meysel
    Inge Meysel

    Inge Meysel was a Germany actor. From the early 1960s until her death, Meysel was one of Germany's most popular actresses. She had a successful stage career and played more than 100 roles in film and on television....
    , actress (Jewish father)
  • Max Ophuls, director
  • Richard Oswald
    Richard Oswald

    Richard Oswald was an Austrians Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter.Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage....
    , director
  • Lilli Palmer
    Lilli Palmer

    Lilli Palmer, born Lillie Marie Peiser, was a Golden Globe nominated Germany actress....
    , actress
  • Marcel Reif, presenter (Jewish father)
  • Hans Rosenthal
    Hans Rosenthal

    Hans Rosenthal was a Germany entertainer and radio and TV presenter....
    , one of Germany's most popular TV personalities in history
  • Susan Sideropoulos
    Susan Sideropoulos

    Susan Sideropoulos is a Germans actress and singer.Her father is of Greeks descent while her mother is from Israel. Susan is fluent in German language, English language, Greek language, Spanish language, Mandarin language and Hebrew....
    , actress
  • Robert Siodmak
    Robert Siodmak

    Robert Siodmak was a German born United States film director. He is best remembered for the series of Hollywood Film noirs he made in the 1940s....
    , director
  • Ruth Westheimer
    Ruth Westheimer

    Ruth Westheimer is a sex therapist. media personality, and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the New York Times described her as "a cultural icon in the 1980s....
    , sex therapist
  • Konrad Wolf
    Konrad Wolf

    Konrad Wolf was an East German film director, son of Friedrich Wolf, brother of Markus Wolf.He and his family left Germany for Moscow when the Nazism took power in 1933, where Wolf came into intense contact with Soviet film....
    , film director
  • Peter Zadek
    Peter Zadek

    Peter Zadek is a Germany theatre director and film director, play translator and screenwriter. He was impresario of Schauspielhaus Bochum, Bochum and Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg and was chosen "Director of the year" by Theater heute magazine numerous times....
    , theatre director


Musicians


  • Samuel Adler
    Samuel Adler (composer)

    Samuel Hans Adler is an United States composer and conducting.Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a hazzan, and Selma Adler....
    , composer
  • Haim Alexander
    Haim Alexander

    Haim Alexander is a German-born composer who has lived in Israel since 1936. He studied composition with Stefan Wolpe before graduating from the Academy of Music in 1945....
    , composer
  • Tzvi Avni
    Tzvi Avni

    Tzvi Avni is an Israeli composer. He emigrated to British Mandate of Palestine as a child and studied with Paul Ben-Haim.On the recommendation of Edgard Var?se, he became involved at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s....
    , composer
  • Paul Ben-Haim
    Paul Ben-Haim

    Paul Ben-Haim was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924....
    , composer
  • Julius Benedict
    Julius Benedict

    Sir Julius Benedict , was a Germany-born composer and conducting, resident in England for most of his career....
    , composer
  • Wolf Biermann
    Wolf Biermann

    Karl Wolf Biermann is a former East Germany dissident who now works as a German singer-songwriter....
    , singer/songwriter (Jewish father)
  • Yehezkel Braun
    Yehezkel Braun

    Yehezkel Braun is an Israelis composer.From the age of two Yehezkel Braun, born 1922, was brought up in British Mandate of Palestine, in close contact with Jewish and East-Mediterranean traditional music....
    , Israeli composer
  • Ignaz Brull, composer
  • Manfred Bukofzer
    Manfred Bukofzer

    Manfred Bukofzer was a Germany-United States musicologist and Humanism. He studied at Heidelberg University and the Stern conservatory in Berlin, but left Germany in 1933, going to Basle, where he received his doctorate....
    , musicologist
  • Paul Dessau
    Paul Dessau

    Paul Dessau was a German composer and Conducting....
    , composer
  • Abel Ehrlich
    Abel Ehrlich

    Abel Ehrlich was an Israeli composer notable for winning the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers and the Israel Prize for Music.Erlich was born in 1915 in Cranz, East Prussia and died on October 30, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel....
    , Israeli composer
  • Alfred Einstein
    Alfred Einstein

    Alfred Einstein was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was noted as one of the widest-ranging music historians in the first half of the 20th century....
    , musicologist
  • Hanns Eisler
    Hanns Eisler

    Hanns Eisler was a Germany and Austrian composer....
    , German-born composer (Jewish father)
  • Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss

    Lukas Foss was a German-born United States composer, conducting, pianist, and professor....
    , composer & conductor
  • Alexander Goehr
    Alexander Goehr

    Alexander Goehr is an England composer and academic.He was born in Berlin, the son of Walter Goehr. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where he met Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth....
    , composer
  • Walter Goehr
    Walter Goehr

    Walter Goehr was a Germany composer.Goehr was born in Berlin where studied with Arnold Schoenberg and embarked on a conducting career, before being forced as a Jew to seek employment outside Germany, while working for Berlin Radio in 1932....
    , conductor
  • Berthold Goldschmidt
    Berthold Goldschmidt

    Berthold Goldschmidt was a Germany composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernism critics elsewhere dismissed his "anachronistic" lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade....
    , composer
  • Bernard Greenhouse
    Bernard Greenhouse

    Bernard Greenhouse is an United States Cello and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio.He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at Juilliard when he was eighteen....
    , cellist
  • George Henschel
    George Henschel

    Sir George Henschel , was an England baritone, pianist, conducting, and composer. He was knighted in 1914.Henschel was born at Breslau of Poland-Jewish parentage, and educated as a pianist, making his first public appearance in Berlin in 1862....
    , singer & conductor
  • Alfred Hertz
    Alfred Hertz

    Alfred Hertz , a German Conducting born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Hertz first came to prominence conducting Richard Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera in New York....
    , conductor
  • André Herzberg, musician (Pankow)
  • Ferdinand Hiller
    Ferdinand Hiller

    Ferdinand Hiller was a German people composer, Conductor , writer and music-director....
    , composer
  • Gerard Hoffnung
    Gerard Hoffnung

    Gerard Hoffnung was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.Born in Berlin, he was the only child of a well-to-do Jewish couple, Hilde and Ludwig Hoffnung....
    , musicologist
  • Friedrich Holländer
    Friedrich Hollaender

    Friedrich Hollaender was a Germany composer born in London. He was the son of composer Victor Hollander. The family returned to Germany and Frederick was educated at the Berlin Conservatory....
    , composer
  • Salomon Jadassohn
    Salomon Jadassohn

    Salomon Jadassohn was a Germany composer and pedagogue....
    , composer
  • Leon Jessel
    Leon Jessel

    Leon Jessel, or L?on Jessel was a Germans Jewish composer of operettas.Jessel's best known work was Schwarzwaldm?del, an opera premiered in Berlin at the Komische Oper, in August 1917....
    , composer
  • Robert Kahn
    Robert Kahn (composer)

    Robert Kahn was a Germany composer, pianist, and music teacher....
    , composer
  • Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer

    Otto Klemperer was a German-born Conducting and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century....
    , conductor
  • Robert Lachmann
    Robert Lachmann

    Robert Lachmann a German Ethnomusicology, linguist , musicologist, orientalist and library official. Expert in the music of the Orient, a member of the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology and one of its founding fathers....
    , musicologist
  • Ludwig Lenel
    Ludwig Lenel

    Ludwig Lenel was an organist and composer....
    , organist and composer
  • Hermann Levi
    Hermann Levi

    Hermann Levi was a Germany orchestral conductor.Levi was born in Gie?en, Germany, the son of a rabbi. He was educated at Gie?en and Mannheim, and came to Vinzenz Lachner's notice....
    , conductor
  • Alfred Lion
    Alfred Lion

    Alfred Lion was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939 Blue Note recorded many of the biggest names in jazz throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s....
     & Frank Wulff, founders of Blue Note Records
    Blue Note Records

    Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
  • Edward Lowinsky
    Edward Lowinsky

    Edward Elias Lowinsky was an American musicologist born in Stuttgart, Germany.Lowinsky studied piano, composition, and conducting in Stuttgart at the Hochschule f?r Musik, 1923-28....
    , musicologist
  • Michael Mann, musician (Jewish mother)
  • Arnold Mendelssohn
    Arnold Mendelssohn

    Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn was a Germany composer and music teacher.Mendelssohn was born in Racib?rz, Province of Silesia. Paul Hindemith was one of his students....
    , organist[https://web3.unt.edu/the/centers.php?css=lost_composers]
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    , composer & conductor (Jewish ancestry but raised Lutheran)
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, composer
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer
    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted Germany-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera....
    , composer
  • Ben-Zion Orgad
    Ben-Zion Orgad

    Ben-Zion Orgad was an Israeli composer.His original last name was B?schel. His family emigrated to British Mandate of Palestine in 1933, where he started violin lessons in 1936....
    , Israeli composer
  • Menahem Pressler
    Menahem Pressler

    Menahem Pressler is a German-born Israeli pianist.Menahem Pressler is the founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, an ensemble widely considered to be the world's leading piano trio for more than 50 years....
    , pianist
  • André Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
    , conductor
  • Franz Reizenstein
    Franz Reizenstein

    Franz Reizenstein was a Germany United Kingdom composer and concert-piano....
    , pianist, composer
  • Curt Sachs
    Curt Sachs

    Curt Sachs was a Germany musicology. He was one of the founders of modern organology , and is probably best remembered today for co-authoring the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification with Erich von Hornbostel....
    , musicologist, co-founder of modern organology
    Organology

    Organology is the science of musical instruments and their classification . It embraces study of instruments' history, instruments used in different cultures, technical aspects of how instruments produce sound, and musical instrument classification....
  • Kurt Sanderling
    Kurt Sanderling

    Kurt Sanderling is a Germany conducting....
    , conductor
  • Adolf Martin Schlesinger
    Adolf Martin Schlesinger

    Adolf Martin Schlesinger was a German people music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century....
    , music publisher
  • Heinrich Sontheim
    Heinrich Sontheim

    File:Heinrich Sontheim.jpgHeinrich Sontheim , also known as Honas B?r Sontheimer, was a prominent late-19th-Century tenor and kammers?nger based in Stuttgart, Germany....
    , tenor
  • William Steinberg
    William Steinberg

    William Steinberg was a German-American Conducting....
    , conductor
  • Erich Walter Sternberg
    Erich Walter Sternberg

    Erich Walter Sternberg was a Germany-born Israelis composer. One of the founders of Israeli art music, Sternberg had a profound impact on the musical life of Palestine and Israel during the 1930s and 1940s....
    , composer
  • Josef Tal, composer
  • Ilia Trilling
    Ilia Trilling

    Ilia Trilling, was a Germany-born Yiddish theatrical producer and composer for Yiddish theatrical works. He was active in Poland, Ukraine and the United States....
    , synagogue composer
  • Ignatz Waghalter
    Ignatz Waghalter

    Ignatz Waghalter was a Poland-Germany composer and conducting.Born into an impoverished Jewish family in Warsaw, Waghalter made his way to Berlin at the age of 17 where he first studied with Philipp Scharwenka....
    , composer & conductor
  • Bruno Walter
    Bruno Walter

    Bruno Walter was a Germany-born Conducting and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939....
    , conductor (Jewish father)
  • Franz Waxman
    Franz Waxman

    Franz Waxman was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....
    , film composer
  • Kurt Weill
    Kurt Weill

    Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
    , composer
  • Stefan Wolpe
    Stefan Wolpe

    Stefan Wolpe was a Germany-born composer.Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Berlin Conservatory from the age of fourteen, attended the Berlin Hochschule f?r Musik 1920-1921....
    , composer
  • Alec Empire
    Alec Empire

    Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, Record producer and Disc jockey, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for artists popular and relatively unknown alike....
    , member of Atari Teenage Riot
    Atari Teenage Riot

    Atari Teenage Riot was a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fused anarchist, Anti-fascism and Anti-fascism views with punk rock vocals and the newly emerging techno sound called digital hardcore, which is a term band member Alec Empire used as the name of Digital Hardcore Recordings....
  • Hilde Zadek
    Hilde Zadek

    Hilde Zadek is a German operatic soprano of Polish origin.Zadek spent her youth in Stettin, however as a Jew she was forced to leave Germany in 1934, and settled in then Palestine, where she worked as a nurse in Jerusalem, while studying voice with Rose Pauly....
    , soprano


Artists

  • Friedrich Adler
    Friedrich Adler (artist)

    Friedrich Adler, , was a Germany academia, artist and designer. He was especially renowned for his accomplishments in designing metalwork in the Art nouveau and Art deco styles; he was also the first designer to use bakelite....
    , Jugendstil and Art Deco designer
  • Anni Albers
    Anni Albers

    Annelise Albers was a Germany-United States textile artist and printmaking. She is perhaps the best known textile artist of the 20th century....
    , textile designer
  • Frank Auerbach
    Frank Auerbach

    Frank Helmut Auerbach is a Germany-born United Kingdom Painting. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of mainly female models, or scenes around London, especially Camden Town....
    , painter
  • Eduard Bendemann
    Eduard Bendemann

    Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann was a Germany Painting.His father, a Jewish banker, had closely monitored his education, one that would have naturally led him to some sort of technical occupation, but due to his talent and propensity towards art, he was allowed to pursue other interests....
    , painter
  • Martin Bloch, British painter
  • Erwin Blumenfeld
    Erwin Blumenfeld

    Erwin Blumenfeld was a famous United States Photography of Germany origin.In the 1930s, he published collages mocking Adolf Hitler. In 1936, he emigrated to Paris....
    , photographer
  • Siegfried Einstein
    Siegfried Einstein

    Siegfried Einstein was a Germany-Jewish poet, novelist, essayist and journalist....
    , author and poet
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt
    Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German American photography and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photography, frequently made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera....
    , photographer
  • Benno Elkan
    Benno Elkan

    Benno Elkan OBE was a Germany-born British people sculpture and medallist. Married to Hedwig Einstien, sister of Carl Einstein and a concert pianist in her own right....
    , sculptor
  • James Ingo Freed
    James Ingo Freed

    James Ingo Freed was an United States architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic.His family, which was Jewish, fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany....
    , architect
  • Lucian Freud
    Lucian Freud

    Lucian Michael Freud, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour is a British Painting of Germany origin....
    , painter
  • Gisèle Freund
    Gisèle Freund

    Gis?le Freund was a German-born French photographer, famous for her documentary photographs and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book is Photographie et soci?t? , about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium....
    , photographer
  • Eva Hesse
    Eva Hesse

    Eva Hesse , was a Germany United States sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ...
    , materials artist
  • Erich Kahn
    Erich Kahn

    Erich Kahn was a German Expressionist, and a survivor of the Nazism persecution of Jews and Roma people during the events that led to World War II....
    , painter, expressionist
  • Eugen Kaufmann
    Eugen Kaufmann

    Eugen Carl Kaufmann or Eugene Charles Kent was German-born English Jewish architect.From 1925, he was engaded the new-city planning of Frankfurt am Main under the leadership of Ernst May....
    , architect
  • Hugo Lederer
    Hugo Lederer

    Professor Hugo Lederer was a Moravian-born Germany sculptor.Lederer studied in Dresden under sculptor John Schilling from 1890, then briefly under Christian Behrens....
     (1871 - 1940) sculptor
  • Max Liebermann
    Max Liebermann

    Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography....
    , painter
  • Wilhelm Löwith, artist
  • Peter Max
    Peter Max

    Peter Max is a Germany-born United States artist best known for his iconic art style in the 1960s. At first, his ?Cosmic 60s? art, as it came to be known, appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms all across United States....
    , pop artist
  • Ludwig Meidner
    Ludwig Meidner

    Ludwig Meidner was a German Expressionism painter and printmaker. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but the apprenticeship was not completed....
    , painter
  • Erich Mendelsohn
    Erich Mendelsohn

    Erich Mendelsohn was a Germany Jewish architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas....
    , architect
  • Helmut Newton
    Helmut Newton

    Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neust?dter was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women.Born in Berlin to a German-Jewish button-factory owner and an American mother, Newton attended the Heinrich von Treitschke-Gymnasium and the American School in Berlin....
    , photographer (Jewish father)
  • Felix Nussbaum
    Felix Nussbaum

    Felix Nussbaum was a Germany surrealist Painting....
    , painter
  • Meret Oppenheim
    Méret Oppenheim

    Meret Oppenheim was a Germany-born Swiss, Surrealist artist, and photographer. Oppenheim is highly associated with the Dada movement because of her circle of friends....
    , surrealist
  • Erwin Panofsky
    Erwin Panofsky

    Erwin Panofsky was a German Jewish art historian who emigrated to America and remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography....
    , art historian
  • Heinz Julius Rosenthal, painter
  • Hans Schleger, designer
  • Charlotte Salomon
    Charlotte Salomon

    Charlotte Salomon was a Germany-Jewish artist born in Berlin. She is primarily remembered as the creator of an autobiographical series of paintings Leben? oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel consisting of 769 individual works painted between 1941 and 1943 in the south of France, while Salomon was in hiding from the Nazism....
    , artist
  • Erich Salomon
    Erich Salomon

    Erich Salomon was a German-born news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them....
    , news photographer
  • Victor Weisz
    Victor Weisz

    Victor Weisz was a German-British political cartoonist, drawing under the name of Vicky....
    , Vicky, cartoonist


Writers

Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbach

Erich Auerbach was a Germany philology and comparative literature and literary critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times....
, literature critic Julius Bab
Julius Bab

Julius Bab was a Germany dramatist and theater critic.He was a cofounder of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden. Bab was a close friend of journalist and theater critic Siegfried Jacobsohn and a key contributor to the early years of the magazine Schaub?hne, the later Die Weltb?hne....
, dramatist and theater critic Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker

Jurek Becker was a Poland-born Germany writer, film-author and GDR dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films....
, writer Maxim Biller
Maxim Biller

Maxim Biller is a Germany writer.Born in Prague to Russian-Jewish parents, he emigrated with his parents and sister to Germany in 1970, when he was ten years old....
, writer Ludwig Börne
Ludwig Börne

Karl Ludwig B?rne was a Germany political writer and satirist.He was born Loeb Baruch at Frankfurt am Main, where his father, Jakob Baruch, carried on the business of a banker....
, satirist Otto Brahm
Otto Brahm

Otto Brahm was a Germany drama and literary criticism, theatre manager and director. His productions were noted for being accurate and realistic....
, literary critic Henryk Broder
Henryk Broder

File:Broder Henryk M.-by Steschke.jpgHenryk Modest Broder is a Polish born Germany journalist and author.Broder is well known for his polemics and Columns and his comments in written and oral media....
, journalist Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
, literary critic & philosopher Emil Carlebach
Emil Carlebach

Emil Carlebach was a Hesse Landtag member, a writer, and a journalist. He was born and died in Frankfurt am Main....
, writer, dissident Joseph Derenbourg
Joseph Derenbourg

Joseph Derenbourg, or Joseph Naftali Derenburg was a Franco-German orientalist.He was born on French-Mayence, as a youngest son of the lawyer Jacob Derenburg....
, orientalist, father of Hartwig Derenbourg
Hartwig Derenbourg

Hartwig Derenbourg was an Orientalist.He was born in Paris, son of scholar Joseph Derenbourg. He was educated at G?ttingen and Leipzig. Subsequently he studied Arabic language at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales....
 Hilde Domin
Hilde Domin

Hilde Domin , whose real name was Hilde Palm, was a Germany lyric poet and writer. She was amongst the most important German-language poets of her time....
, poet Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger was a Germany-Jewish novelist and playwright....
, novelist Hubert Fichte
Hubert Fichte

Hubert Fichte was a Germany novelist....
, author (Jewish father) Anne Frank
Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a Jewish people girl who was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Republic, and who lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands....
, diarist Karen Gershon
Karen Gershon

Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal was a Germany-born United Kingdom writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938.Her book We came as Children: A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account....
, poet (1923-1993) Gad Granach
Gad Granach

Gad Granach is the son of German actor Alexander Granach known for his roles in Ninotchka, and For Whom the Bell Tolls . Gad Granach fled Germany at the age of twenty-one during the rise of Nazism, immigrating to the then-British Mandate of Palestine in 1936....
 Friedrich Gundolf
Friedrich Gundolf

Friedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger was a Germany-Jewish literary scholar and poet and one of the most famous academics of the Weimar Republic....
, literary man Glückel of Hameln
Glückel of Hameln

Gl?ckel of Hameln was a Jewish businesswoman and List of diarists, whose account of her life provides scholars with an intimate picture of Jewish life in Germany in the late-seventeenth century-early eighteenth century....
, 18th-century Yiddish diarist Maximilian Harden
Maximilian Harden

Maximilian Harden was an influential German journalist who published the journal Die Zukunft from 1892 to 1922 in Berlin. His baroque style was mocked by former friend Karl Kraus, who even wrote about "Translation from Harden"....
, journalists Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German literature German Romanticism poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers....
, poet Stefan Heym
Stefan Heym

Helmut Flieg was a Germany-Jewish writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States between 1935 and 1952, before moving back to the part of his now-partitioned native Germany which was the German Democratic Republic ....
, novelist, politician Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a Germany author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing....
 Edgar Hilsenrath
Edgar Hilsenrath

Edgar Hilsenrath is a German-Jewish writer living in Berlin. His main works are Night , The Nazi and the Barber and The Story of the Last Thought....
, novelist Barbara Honigmann
Barbara Honigmann

Barbara Honigmann is a German author and artist.Barbara Honigmann is the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain....
, writer Heinrich Eduard Jacob, writer and journalist Siegfried Jacobsohn
Siegfried Jacobsohn

Siegfried Jacobsohn was a Germany writer and influential theatre critic....
, journalist and theater critic Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Order of the British Empire is a Booker Prize novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Awards screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant....
, novelist and screenwriter Wladimir Kaminer
Wladimir Kaminer

Wladimir Kaminer is a Russian-born Germany short story writer, columnist, and disc jockey of Jewish origin.Kaminer was born in Moscow, and after initially training as an Audio engineering for theatre and radio, then studied dramaturgy at the Moscow Institute of Theater....
, short story writer Judith Kerr
Judith Kerr

Judith Kerr is a writer. She was born in Germany, but at the age of thirteen she moved with her family, Jewish refugees, to the United Kingdom, where she has lived ever since....
, children's writer Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Age of Enlightenment at the Technische Universit?t Dresden....
, writer Else Lasker-Schüler
Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Sch?ler was a Jewish Germany poet and playwright famous for her Bohemianism lifestyle in Berlin. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement....
, writer, poet & artist Gila Lustiger, author Erika Mann
Erika Mann

Erika Julia Hedwig Mann was a German actress and writer, the eldest daughter of novelist Thomas Mann and Katia Mann....
, writer, actress (Jewish mother) Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann

Klaus Mann was a Germany writer....
, writer (Jewish mother) Monika Mann
Monika Mann

Monika Mann was a novelist.Born in Munich, she was the daughter of novelist Thomas Mann. Also sister to Klaus Mann, Erika Mann, Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, Michael Mann and Golo Mann, and niece of the novelist Heinrich Mann....
, writer (Jewish mother) Julius Mosen
Julius Mosen

Julius Mosen , German poet and author, was born at Marieney in the Saxon Vogtland on July 8, 1803. He studied law at Jena, and, after two years in Italy, at Leipzig....
, born Moses Erich Mühsam
Erich Mühsam

Erich M?hsam was a German-Jewish anarchism, writer, poet, dramatist, and cabaret performer.Both a prolific poetry, dramatist and a Bohemianism, M?hsam emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a Federalism Bavarian Soviet Republic....
, anarchist poet Henning Pawel, child-book author, writer. Solomon Perel
Solomon Perel

Solomon Perel is an author and motivational speaker. He was born 21 April, 1925 in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German....
, author Alan Posener, chief columnist of Welt am Sonntag
Welt am Sonntag

Welt am Sonntag is a Germany national Sunday newspaper published by Axel Springer AG, and established in 1948. Its head office is in Berlin, and it has local editions for Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and D?sseldorf....
 (Jewish father) Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Marcel Reich-Ranicki is a German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47 of Germans and Polish-Jewish origin. He is regarded as the most influential contemporary literary critic of German literature....
, literary critic H. A. Rey
H. A. Rey

Hans Augusto "H.A." Rey , together with his wife Margret Rey, were the authors and illustrators of Children's literature, best known for their Curious George series....
 & Margret Rey
Margret Rey

Margret Elizabeth Rey , born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was , the co-author and illustrator of Children's literature, the most famous of which are the Curious George series....
, creators of Curious George
Curious George

Curious George is the protagonist of a series of popular children's books by the same name, written by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey. The books feature a curious monkey named George, who is brought from his home in Africa by "The Man with The Yellow Hat" to live with him in a big city....
 Renate Rubinstein
Renate Rubinstein

Renate Ida Rubinstein was a Dutch writer, journalist and columnist....
 (Jewish father)[https://www.nias.knaw.nl:10051/en/oudfellows/research_group_1999_2000/summaries_99_00/hans_goedkoop/] Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs, was a German language poet and dramatist whose Nazism experience transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews....
, poet, Nobel Prize (1966) Moriz Seeler
Moriz Seeler

Moriz Seeler was a German poet, writer, film producer, and man of the theatre. He was also a victim of the Holocaust.Seeler was born at the small, provincial town of Gryfice in Pomerania, Germany , to a Jewish family....
, poet Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F0114-0204-003, Berlin, 1. DSV-Jahreskonferenz, Anna Seghers.jpgAnna Seghers was a Germany writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War....
, novelist Oskar Seidlin
Oskar Seidlin

Oskar Seidlin ; German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children?s stories. He is also said to have co-authored several Crime fiction or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant under the collective pen-name of Stefan Brockhoff....
, writer Rafael Seligmann, writer Süßkind von Trimberg
Süßkind von Trimberg

S??kind von Trimberg or Susskind of Trimberg was a Germany minnesinger, and, in all probability, the first documented Jewish poet of the German language....
, middle age writer, minnesinger Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky

Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satire and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel....
, writer (converted to Protestantism) Samuel Ullman
Samuel Ullman

Samuel Ullman was an United States businessman, poet, humanitarian. He is best known today for his poem Youth which was a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur....
, poet Rahel Varnhagen
Rahel Varnhagen

Rahel Varnhagen n?e Levin was a German-Jewish writer who hosted one of the most prominent salon s in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries....
, writer and saloniste (converted to Christianity) Moritz Callmann Wahl
Moritz Callmann Wahl

Moritz Callmann Wahl was a German writer.He was born in Sondershausen, Germany. He studied Oriental languages at Leipzig under Julius F?rst and Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer....
 Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann

Jakob Wassermann was a Jewish-Germany writer and novelist....
, novelist Trude Weiss-Rosmarin
Trude Weiss-Rosmarin

Trude Weiss-Rosmarin was a Jewish-Germany-United States writer, editor, scholar, and Jewish feminism activist. With her husband, she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York in 1933, and in 1939 founded the Jewish Spectator, a quarterly magazine, which she edited for 50 years....
 Jeanette Wohl
Jeanette Wohl

Jeanette Wohl was a longtime friend and correspondent of Ludwig B?rne. She inherited the rights to his literary works after his death and edited his works....
 Friedrich Wolf
Friedrich Wolf

Friedrich Wolf was a Germany Physician and writer....
, writer, physician Carl Zuckmayer, playwright (Jewish mother) Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig

Arnold Zweig was a Germany writer and anti-war activist.He is best known for his World War I tetralogy....
, writer Stefanie Zweig
Stefanie Zweig

Stefanie Zweig is a Yekke writer.Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika , based on her early life in Kenya, which was filmed and won an Academy Awards in 2002 for "Best Foreign Film"....
, novelist

Entrepreneurs

:See also Court Jew
Court Jew

Court Jew is a term for historical Jewish bankers or businessmen who lent money and handled the finances of some of the Christian European noble houses....
s Albert Ballin
Albert Ballin

Albert Ballin was a Germany businessman. He was born into a modest Jewish family of Hamburg with origins in Denmark. His father was part owner of an emigration agency that arranged passages to the United States, and when he died in 1874, young Albert took over the business....
, cruise ship entrepreneur Alfred Beit
Alfred Beit

Alfred Beit was a British Empire Cape Colony gold and diamond magnate, a supporter of British imperialism in Southern Africa and a major donor towards infrastructure development in central and Southern Africa, and to university education and research in several countries....
, financier August Belmont * August Belmont II Gottfried Bermann
Gottfried Bermann

Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer was a Germany publisher. He owned the S. Fischer Verlag....
 Gerson von Bleichröder
Gerson von Bleichröder

Gerson von Bleichr?der was a Jewish Germany banker.Bleichr?der was born in Berlin. He was the eldest son of Samuel Bleichr?der, who founded the Bleichr?der Bank in 1803 in Berlin....
, financier, advisor of Bismarck Buchsbaum
Buchsbaum

Buchsbaum is a surname and may refer to:* Otto Buchsbaum , writer and ecological activist* Florence Buchsbaum , theater director and musician...
 family Sir Ernest Cassel
Ernest Cassel

Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of Great Britain was a Great Britain merchant banker and capitalist....
, banker Otto Frank
Otto Frank

Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust, he inherited Anne's manuscripts after her death, and arranged for the publication of her The Diary of a Young Girl in 1947....
, ran pectin-related small business, but most famous as father of Anne Frank
Anne Frank

Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a Jewish people girl who was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Weimar Republic, and who lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands....
 Friedenthal
Friedenthal

Friedenthal may refer to:* Karl Rudolf Friedenthal , Prussian statesman* Markus B?r Friedenthal , Jewish merchant, landowner, writer* Richard Friedenthal , German writer...
 family * Markus Bär Friedenthal
Markus Bär Friedenthal

Markus B?r Friedenthal was a Germans Jewish banker and scholar.Although one of the leading bankers at Breslau, he devoted much time to study and to communal affairs....
, banker, scholar Fritz von Friedländer-Fuld, industrialist de Fürst
Fürst

is a German nobility, usually translated into English language as Prince.The term refers to the head of a principality and is distinguished from the son of a monarch, which is referred to as Prinz....
 family, court Jews in Hamburg * Moses Israel Fürst
Moses Israel Fürst

Moses Israel F?rst was a merchant and financier of Hamburg, Germany. He was also active as a Court Jew, a term describing the role of historical Jewish bankers or businessmen who lent money and managed finances of some of the European Nobility houses....
 financier and merchant * Chajim Fürst
Chajim Fürst

Heinrich Chajim F?rst, born 1592 in Copenhagen, Denmark, died 1653 in Hamburg-Altona, Germany, was a merchant and court agent as well as an elder of the Jewish community of Hamburg....
, financier and head of the Jewish community Marcus Goldman
Marcus Goldman

Marcus Goldman was a German-American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in Trappstadt, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1848....
, founder of Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs , is a bank holding company that engages in investment banking, Security services, and investment management....
 in America Eduard Gümbel Charles Hallgarten
Charles Hallgarten

Charles Hallgarten, or Charles/Karl Lazarus Hallgarten was a Germany banker and philanthropist.His father was Lazarus Hallgarten and his mother was Eleonore Hallgarten ....
 Maurice de Hirsch
Maurice de Hirsch

Maurice de Hirsch, or Baron Moritz von Hirsch auf Gereuth, , Germany - Jewish businessman and philanthropist who lived in France, in England and in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire,...
, banker Karl Amson Joel
Karl Amson Joel

Karl Amson Joel was a Germany-Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer. He is the grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel....
 (not philosopher Karl Joel (philosopher)
Karl Joel (philosopher)

Karl Joel was a Germany philosopher and professor.Joel was born in Jelenia G?ra, Silesia, and died in Walenstadt, Switzerland. Joel was a professor at the University of Basel from 1902....
), textile merchant & manufacturer, the greatfather of Alexander Joel
Alexander Joel (conductor)

Alexander Joel is a pianist and conductor.He was raised in Vienna, where he also studied piano and composition.He began his conducting career in N?rnberg, followed by positions at Baden bei Wien, Klagenfurt and the Vienna Volksoper....
 and Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
 Otto Hermann Kahn
Otto Hermann Kahn

Otto Hermann Kahn was an investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts....
 Richard Lenel
Richard Lenel

Richard Lenel was chairman of the chamber of commerce and honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim, Germany....
, German industrialist, founding member of Lufthansa and German Bank Sir Robert Mayer, German-born businessman and philanthropist Joseph Mendelssohn
Joseph Mendelssohn

Joseph Mendelssohn was a German Jews banker.He was the oldest son of the influential philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In 1795, he founded his own banking house....
, banker Alexander Mendelssohn, banker Mosse
Mosse

Mosse may refer to:In medicine:* Bartholomew Mosse, Irish surgeon and founder of the Rotunda Hospital* Markus Mosse, German physician...
 family * Rudolf Mosse
Rudolf Mosse

Rudolf Mosse was a Germany publisher and philanthropist.Mosse was born in Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Grand Duchy of Posen, as the son of Dr. Markus Moses, a noted physician....
 and family, newspaper magnates Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer as a surname may refer to:* J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist who headed the Manhattan Project, known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb"...
 family * Ernest Oppenheimer
Ernest Oppenheimer

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers Consolidated Mines and founded the Anglo American plc of South Africa....
, diamond tycoon Emil Rathenau
Emil Rathenau

Emil Moritz Rathenau was a Germany entrepreneur and industrialist, a leading figure in the early European electricity industry.Biography...
, founder of AEG
AEG

AEG was a Germany producer of electronics and electrical equipment. AEG was founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau who had bought some patents from American inventor Thomas Edison....
, father of Walter Rathenau Paul Reuter
Paul Reuter

Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter was a Germans entrepreneur and later naturalized United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland citizen. The pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was journalist and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency....
, founder of Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
 Rothschild banking family of Germany * Mayer Amschel Rothschild and family, financiers & bankers Seligman family * Joseph Seligman
Joseph Seligman

Joseph Seligman was a prominent U.S. banker and businessman. He was born in Baiersdorf, Germany, emigrating to the United States when he was 18....
, banker & US civil war financier Schocken
Salman Schocken

Salman Schocken was a Germany Jewish publisher and businessman.Salman Schocken was the son of Jewish shopkeeper in Poznan. In 1901, he went to Zwickau, a German town in southwest Saxony, to help run a department store owned by his brother, Simon....
 family * Salman Schocken
Salman Schocken

Salman Schocken was a Germany Jewish publisher and businessman.Salman Schocken was the son of Jewish shopkeeper in Poznan. In 1901, he went to Zwickau, a German town in southwest Saxony, to help run a department store owned by his brother, Simon....
 (born at Posen district) Jacob Schiff
Jacob Schiff

Jacob Henry Schiff, born Jacob Hirsch Schiff was a German-born New York City investment banking and philanthropist, who helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War....
 (Jacob H. Schiff), railroad financier Kilian von Steiner
Kilian von Steiner

Kilian von Steiner was a Germany banker and Business magnate.Born in Laupheim as the eighth child of Jewish merchant Viktor Steiner and his wife Sophie, Kilian Steiner spent his youth in the small Upper Swabian town....
, banker Max Stern
Max Stern (businessman)

Max Stern was born in Fulda, Germany and emigrated to United States in 1926. He established and built the Hartz Mountain Pet Food Company, which eventually became one of America?s most successful private companies....
 Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss, born L?b Strau? was a Germany-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans....
, clothing manufacturer Straus family * Isidor Straus
Isidor Straus

Isidor Straus ?a German Jewish United States ? was co-owner of the Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served as a United States House of Representatives....
 owner of Macy's
Macy's

Macy's is a chain of mid to high range United States department stores. Its flagship store in Herald Square, New York City has been billed as the "world's largest store" since 1924, although today it ties with London's Harrods in vastness of selling space....
 department store & RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic

The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was an Olympic class ocean liner superliner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
 victim Leonhard Tietz
Leonhard Tietz

Leonhard Tietz was born March 3, 1849 in Birnbaum an der Warthe, Province of Posen, Prussia and died November 14, 1914). He was a Germany merchant of Jewish origin....
, Oscar Tietz
Oscar Tietz

Oscar Tietz was a Jewish-Germany businessman He was one member of the Tietz family, and one of founders of the Hertie, KaDeWe....
 & Hermann Tietz
Hermann Tietz

Hermann Tietz was a German merchant of Jewish origin. Tietz was born on April 29, 1837 in Birnbaum an der Warthe near Posen and died on May 3, 1907 in Berlin)....
, founders of Kaufhof & Hertie department stores Oscar Troplowitz
Oscar Troplowitz

Oscar Troplowitz was a Silesian-German pharmacist and entrepreneur who purchased Beiersdorf AG, which was then a laboratory and chemist's shop in Hamburg from Paul Carl Beiersdorf in 1890....
, pharmacist, entrepreneur Beiersdorf
Beiersdorf

Beiersdorf Aktiengesellschaft is a multinational corporation based in Hamburg, Germany, manufacturing personal care products. Its brands include:...
, developer of Nivea
Nivea

Nivea is a global skin- and body-care brand, owned by the Germany company Beiersdorf. The company began in 1911 when Beiersdorf developed a water-in-oil emulsifier as a skin cream with Eucerit, the first stable emulsion of its kind....
 and other household products Warburg family
Warburg family

The Warburg family is a Germany-Jewish family of bankers.The Warburgs moved from Bologna to Warburg in Germany in the 16th century before moving to Altona, Hamburg, near Hamburg in the 17th century....
 * Siegmund Warburg, banker Georg Wertheim
Georg Wertheim

Georg Wertheim was a German merchant and founder of the popular Wertheim chain of department stores.Wertheim grew up in Stralsund. After being an apprentice at Wolff and Apolant, Wertheim along with his brother Hugo, took over in 1876 their parents' haberdashery, founded in 1875....
, founder of Wertheim department stores Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek

Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft between 1900 and 1909....
, born in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
. He was a wealthy entrepreneur down the French Riviera
French Riviera

The C?te d'Azur , often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeastern corner of France, extending from Menton near the Italy border on the east to either Hy?res or Cassis in the west....
, coining Mercedes trademark --which became Mercedes Benz nowadays--. He was Austro-Hungarian diplomat also --residing in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
--. Adolf Silverberg [de] * Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a German people Jewish banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn....
 Itzig family
Itzig family

Many of the thirteen children of Daniel Itzig and Miriam Wulff, and their descendants and spouses, had significant impact on both Jewish and Germany social and cultural history....
 * Daniel Itzig
Daniel Itzig

Daniel Itzig was a Court Jew of Kings Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick William II of Prussia of Kingdom of Prussia.Itzig was born in Berlin....
 Alois Dessauer
Alois Dessauer

Alois Joseph Dessauer was a famous Germany court banker .He was the son of Baruch Dessauer. He married Anna Elisabeth David, with whom he had 4 children: Joseph Dessauer , Georg Dessauer , Karl Friedrich Dessauer and Franz Johann Dessauer ....
 Mannheimer
Mannheimer

Mannheimer is a German language surname meaning "from Mannheim", and may refer to:* Fritz Mannheimer , German-Dutch banker and art collector* Isaac Noah Mannheimer , Jewish preacher and rabbi...
 pedigree * Fritz Mannheimer
Fritz Mannheimer

Fritz Mannheimer was a powerful German Jewish banker and art collector who was the director of the Netherlands branch of the Berlin-based investment bank Mendelssohn & Co.....
 * Max Mannheimer * Victor Mannheimer (-1928), brother of Fritz Warburg family
Warburg family

The Warburg family is a Germany-Jewish family of bankers.The Warburgs moved from Bologna to Warburg in Germany in the 16th century before moving to Altona, Hamburg, near Hamburg in the 17th century....
 * Felix Warburg * Max Warburg
Max Warburg

Max M. Warburg was a Jewish-German-American banker and was, from 1910 until 1938, director of M.M.Warburg & CO in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to his directing of the Warburg banking company, he developed apprenticeships in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, and London....
 * Paul Warburg
Paul Warburg

File:Paul Warburg 01.jpgPaul Moritz Warburg was a German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S Federal Reserve system....
 Stef Wertheimer
Stef Wertheimer

Stef Wertheimer is considered the wealthiest Israeli living in Israel. He is an entrepreneur and industrialist, a former Member of the Knesset, a winner of the Israel Prize and is most famously known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries....
  "77 year old German-born Stef Wertheimer" Hugo Reiss * Marie Annette Reiss / Jane Engelhard
Jane Engelhard

Jane Engelhard was an United States philanthropist, best known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., as well as her donation of an elaborate 18th-century Neapolitan cr?che to the White House in 1967....
 (Jewish father) Oppenheim
Oppenheim (disambiguation)

Oppenheim is a small town in Germany.Oppenheim may also refer to:* Oppenheim, New YorkPeople:* Oppenheim family, a prominent family in banking and finance in the European markets since the 1700s...
 pedigree and-banking family; founders of Sal. Oppenheim
Sal. Oppenheim

Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. SCA is one of the largest privately owned banks in Europe, currently headquartered in Luxembourg. It manages and administers ?138 billion of assets and employs around 3,800 emloyees in more than 30 sites in Germany and Europe...
 * Abraham Oppenheim * Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim
Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim

Alfred Paul Ernst Freiherr von Oppenheim known in America as Alfred Oppenheim was a Germany billionaire and banker.Born in Cologne, Germany, Oppenheim was a descendant of Salomon Oppenheim, who founded the Credit Institute in Bonn and moved to Cologne in 1798....
 Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb
Solomon Loeb

Solomon Loeb was an American banker, who was born into a Jewish family in Germany. Loeb came to the United States from Worms, Germany, in the present day Germany, in 1849....
, founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.

Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was an investment bank founded in 1867 by Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. Under the leadership of Jacob H. Schiff, it grew to be one of the most influential investment banks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, financing America's expanding railways and growth companies, including Western Union and Westinghouse Electric...
 Loeb
Loeb

Loeb may refer to:* Loeb , a Canadian chain of supermarket/grocery stores* Loeb's , a fine specialty department store* Loeb Classical Library, a series of books containing the works of Greek and Latin authors with the original text and the English translation on facing pages....
 pedigree * Maurice Loeb * Solomon Loeb
Solomon Loeb

Solomon Loeb was an American banker, who was born into a Jewish family in Germany. Loeb came to the United States from Worms, Germany, in the present day Germany, in 1849....
 Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff

Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a United Kingdom shipbuilding and politics. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he moved to Liverpool in 1849 to live with his uncle, Gustav Christian Schwabe....
, founder of Harland and Wolff
Harland and Wolff

Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Diversification Heavy industry company specialising in shipbuilding, ship breaking, offshore construction, Modular design, Civil engineering and marine engineering, renewables and project management, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
 Markus Wolf
Markus Wolf

Markus Johannes "Mischa" Wolf was head of the Hauptverwaltung Aufkl?rung , the foreign Intelligence agency division of East Germany's Stasi ....
, East German spymaster (Jewish father)

Sports

Rudi Ball
Rudi Ball

Rudi Victor Ball was a champion ice hockey player.He was born in Berlin and died in Johannesburg, South Africa.Ball was one of two athletes of Jewish descent to represent Germany in the 1936 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin....
, hockey player Gretel Bergmann
Gretel Bergmann

Gretel Bergmann, also known as Margaret Bergmann-Lambert is a History of the Jews in Germany Athletics who competed as a high jumper during the 1930s....
, high jumper Hans Berliner
Hans Berliner

Hans Jack Berliner , a Professor of , is a former World Correspondence Chess Champion, from 1965?1968. He is a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess, and an International Master for List of chess terms#Over-the-board chess....
, world postal chess champion Barney Dreyfuss
Barney Dreyfuss

Bernhard "Barney" Dreyfuss was a German-Jewish-American executive in Major League Baseball who owned the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise from 1900 to 1932....
, co-founder of the World Series
World Series

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 Gottfried Fuchs
Gottfried Fuchs

Gottfried Fuchs was a famous Germany national football team association football. Being Jewish, he fled Germany because of the The Holocaust and immigrated to Canada....
, soccer player Ludwig Guttmann
Ludwig Guttmann

Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann was a Germany-born neurologist who founded the Paralympics and is considered one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for the disabled....
, founder of the Paralympics Bernhard Horwitz
Bernhard Horwitz

Bernhard Horwitz was a Germany England chess master and chess writer.Horwitz was born in Neustrelitz, and went to school in Berlin, where he studied art....
, chess player Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker

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, world chess champion Helene Mayer, fencer (Jewish father) Sarah Poewe
Sarah Poewe

Sarah Poewe is a professional swimmer.At the age of 14, she made her international debut at the 1997 Pan American Championships. Sarah was the voted the Best Female Swimmer in the 1998 Junior Olympics in Moscow....
, swimmer (Jewish mother) Daniel Prenn
Daniel Prenn

Dr. Daniel Prenn was a German and British tennis player....
, tennis player Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....
, chess player

Literature

Walter Tetzlaff, ed. "2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Lindhorst: Askania, 1982).

See also

History of the Jews in Germany
History of the Jews in Germany

Jews have lived in Germany, or "Ashkenazi Jews", at least since the early 4th century, through both periods of tolerance and spasms of Antisemitism violence, culminating in the Holocaust and the genocide of the Jewish community in Germany and much of Europe, the subsequent division of Germany and reunification, and post-unification immigratio...
 List of Austrians
List of Austrians

Presented below are lists of famous Austrians.Arts/culture*Pauline von Metternich, patron of music and cultureActors/Actresses...
 List of Austrian Jews
List of Austrian Jews

Austria first became a center of Jewish learning during the 13th century. However, increasing anti-semitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669. Following formal readmission in 1848, a sizable Jewish community developed once again, contributing strongly to Austrian culture....
 List of Ashkenazi Jews
List of Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim are Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland....
 List of Czech, Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak Jews
List of Czech, Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak Jews

There was a large and thriving community of Jews, both religious and secular, in Czechoslovakia before World War II. Many perished during the Holocaust....
 List of Germans
List of Germans

Below are lists of famous Germans....
 List of Galician Jews
List of Galician Jews

This a list of Galicia Jews - Jews born in Galicia or identifying themselves as Galitzianer...
 Lists of Jews
Lists of Jews

By type*List of Jewish historians*List of Jewish scientists and philosophers*List of Jewish nobility*List of Jewish economists*List of Jewish United States Supreme Court justices...