German Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Is an Australian rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional singer with Cold Chi

Is an Australian rock musician, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional singer with Cold Chisel. In that group's initial ten year career, Moss recorded eight albums, three of which were #1 national hits. His solo career began with a #1 album and single and five ARIA Awards. Since then his career has been more low-key, interspersed with periodic tours and albums with a reformed Cold Chisel.

Was an Austrian-German actress and theatre director and manager. In Nazi Germany, she was not allowe

Was an Austrian-German actress and theatre director and manager. In Nazi Germany, she was not allowed to work as an actress because she was Jewish, and so she helped in the gynaecolological practice of her husband, Dr. Bernhard Heyde (1899–1978), in Böblingen. After the Kristallnacht, she planned to emigrate to Chile with her husband and her daughter Ruth (born 20 October 1927 in Mannheim), but the ship they were on was ordered to return to Hamburg because of t he outbreak of World War II. She was later arrested by the Gestapo and interned in the concentration camp Fuhlsbüttel for six weeks.[1]

Was a German chemist and physicist. She was the first to mention the idea of nuclear fission in 1934

Was a German chemist and physicist. She was the first to mention the idea of nuclear fission in 1934.[3] With her husband Walter Noddack she discovered element 75 rhenium. She was nominated three times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[4] Noddack correctly criticized Enrico Fermi's chemical proofs in his 1934 neutron bombardment experiments, from which he postulated that transuranic elements might have been produced, and which was widely accepted for a few years. Her paper, "On Element 93" suggested a number of possibilities, centering around Fermi's failure to chemically eliminate all lighter than uranium elements in his proofs, rather than only down to lead.

Was a Polish-German composer and conductor. In 1907 Waghalter secured a post as conductor at the Kom

Was a Polish-German composer and conductor. In 1907 Waghalter secured a post as conductor at the Komische Oper in Berlin, assisting Arthur Nikisch, where his reputation grew rapidly. This was followed by a brief tenure at the Grillo-Theater, the Stadttheater in Essen (1911–12). Waghalter’s appointment as principal conductor at the new Deutsche Opernhaus in Berlin established his position as a major figure in German music. The house was inaugurated under Waghalter’s direction on 7 November 1912 with a performance of Fidelio. Waghalter championed the music of Giacomo Puccini, whose operas had previously failed to win public acceptance in Germany. The first performance of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West in Germany was conducted by Waghalter in March 1913 at the Deutsche Opernhaus. Its triumphant reception secured for Puccini's operas a permanent place in the repertoires of Germany's opera houses. Waghalter also conducted the German debut performances of Tosca and La Bohème, and also of Ralph Vaughan Williams' second symphony in 1923.[2]

Was an Austrian pianist and composer.Ignaz Brüll was born the eldest son of a prosperous Jewish mer

Was an Austrian pianist and composer.Ignaz Brüll was born the eldest son of a prosperous Jewish merchant family in the Moravian provincial town of Prostejov (Prossnitz). In 1850 he moved with his parents to Vienna, which became the centre of his life and work. Brüll was originally destined to take over his father's business, but because of his precocious gifts he also received a thorough musical education. He studied the piano with Julius Epstein, and composition with Johann Rufinatscha and Felix Otto Dessoff. An enthusiastic assessment when he was fourteen years old from Anton Rubinstein proved the decisive factor in his dedication to a musical career.

Was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannhe

Was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School.[2] Mozart who heard him at a concert in November 1777 wrote of him in a letter to his father: He may not be a sorcerer, but he is a very solid violinist indeed.[3] Fränzl carried the Mannheim violin technique, established by Johann Stamitz, one step further to real virtuosity. Mozart, quite a good violinist himself and thoroughly acquainted with the instrument, praised Fränzl’s double trill and said he had never heard a better one.

Was an Austrian businessman from Prague and the founder of one of the biggest sheet glass factories

Was an Austrian businessman from Prague and the founder of one of the biggest sheet glass factories in the k.u.k. monarchy.In 1881 in Bürmoos near Salzburg he used the legal estate of a former glassworks company that went bankrupt four years earlier and he bought a giant moor area. He expanded the factory with four glass ovens, which worked with turf. He also founded a brickyard, which was very successful and which existed throughout the 1970s. Bit by bit he then bought further moor areas in the neighboring Weidmoos and at Ibmer moor, where he also started to cultivate hops. In the middle of the Ibmer area, in Hackenbuch, Upper Austria, he established another glass factory. The turf factory was very unstable because it depended on the weather a lot and the turf supplies drew to a close. Thus Glaser bought a closed sugar factory in North Bohemian Bruex and established a new glass factory. In that factory ovens were heated with coal from an open pit, which made the company independent from weather conditions. After Glaser’s death in 1916, his son Dr. Hermann Glaser, born on August 18, 1889, took over the glass factory, which experienced a short economic boom after World War I. But then the company missed the update to mechanical flat glass fabrication and the Glaser empire broke down in 1926. In Bürmoos, flat glass was produced by a company named Stiassny until the end of 1929, which then bought the holdings. At this point glass fabrication was shut down totally. Eighty percent of the population there was unemployed.

Was a German sculptor and woodcarver within the Bavarian rococo tradition.He studied under Johann Ba

Was a German sculptor and woodcarver within the Bavarian rococo tradition.He studied under Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750 and under Paul Egell in Mannheim from 1751 to 1752. In 1753, he worked at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1754, he started his own shop in Munich.He is best remembered for his work in churches, especially his altars.

Was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim sch

Was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the Sturm und Drang "movement" of German art and literature. His opera Günther von Schwarzburg, based on the life of the eponymous king (and described here), was an early German national opera, a performance of which Mozart and his sister attended, through which they met Anton Raaff, who was later to premiere a role in Idomeneo. This opera has recently been recorded on the label cpo.

Was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and educated at the universities of Breslau, Ber

Was a German economist and historian, born in Nakel and educated at the universities of Breslau, Berlin, and Göttingen. He became a university docent at Berlin in 1885 and was Leopold von Ranke's assistant in historical work.

Was a German composer and conductor. Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. H

Was a German composer and conductor. Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. He was the second of the three famous Lachner brothers. Lachner's brothers Franz and Vinzenz, were also composers. His older brother Franz was the best known, having heavily traded on his youthful friendship with Franz Schubert, certainly more than Ignaz who also knew Schubert. Ignaz was taught (as were the others) organ, piano and violin. Upon the latter instrument, he was somewhat of a prodigy, but despite this, his father insisted he become a teacher. After his father’s death, he studied violin with Bernhard Molique, a violin virtuoso and then joined his brother Franz in Vienna where he too befriended and was influenced by Schubert, not to mention Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Was a rabbi and 20th century liberal Jewish theologian. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo, spen

Was a rabbi and 20th century liberal Jewish theologian. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo, spending six weeks in prison before being released. In 1939 he left Germany on a Kindertransport and went to London, England. His mother and sisters were killed in the Holocaust. In 1949 he became rabbi of the Edgware and District Reform Synagogue. From 1956 until his retirement in 1963, he lectured in homiletics and theology at Leo Baeck College. He was also active in inter-religious dialogue. His students include Nicholas de Lange.

Was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.He was a teacher at the Theresianum coll

Was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera.He was a teacher at the Theresianum college in Vienna. His collection was presented to the old United Royal and Imperial Natural History Collections (Vereinigtes k.k. Naturalien-Cabinet) at the Hofburg where it burnt during the revolution in 1848.

Was an Austrian politician who served as Chancellor during the 1920s.Ordained a Catholic priest, he

Was an Austrian politician who served as Chancellor during the 1920s.Ordained a Catholic priest, he gained his doctorade in theology in 1903 at the University of Vienna. He was a member of the Christian Social Party, the party established by Vienna mayor Karl Lueger and served as cabinet secretary in the Austro-Hungarian government during World War I. At that time he also wrote and published a number of famous works, including Nation und Staat (Nation and State) (1916), which helped cement his later prominent role in the party. In these writings, unlike most contemporaries swept up by Wilsonian rhetoric, he saw the state as the primary vindication of sovereignty, rather than the nation.

Is a German actor. Dolgatschew began performing in theatre plays while still attending school in Mag

Is a German actor. Dolgatschew began performing in theatre plays while still attending school in Magdeburg. He was soon cast in films and television shows like Wolffs Revier, Für alle Fälle Stefanie, Alphateam, Neues vom Bülowbogen, Beautiful Bitch and Frau fährt, Mann schläft. In 2007, he won the groundbreaking role of Deniz Öztürk in Alles was zählt. Igor plays the part of a young Turkish man coming to terms with his sexual identity with devotion and passion, winning fans both in Germany - where he was voted "Sexiest Soap Star" in 2008 and 2010[1] - and worldwide. In February 2008, he accepted Blu Magazine's Best National TV Format award, along with co-star Dennis Grabosch, for AWZ's portrayal of the relationship between their characters.[2]

Is a German chess player. He achieved the FIDE rank of Grandmaster in 1992, and is currently at his

Is a German chess player. He achieved the FIDE rank of Grandmaster in 1992, and is currently at his peak rating of 2655. Igor Khenkin has been one of the top 100 FIDE players for 8 out of the past 9 years.[1] He participated in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, but was knocked out in the second round against Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

Is an ice dancer who competes internationally for Azerbaijan with Kristin Fraser.

Is an ice dancer who competes internationally for Azerbaijan with Kristin Fraser.

An Australian/Austrian actor, martial artist, stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director and film

An Australian/Austrian actor, martial artist, stunt performer, stunt coordinator, director and film producer.Breakenback's martial arts career began at the age of 10 at the jujutsu club Olympia; and at the age of 14, he also began training in Kickboxing and Goju-ryu Karate at the Octagon Gym - both in Vienna. At the age of 16, he began pracicing Tae Kwon Do. With suich a busy traiign schedule, he began to concentrate on Kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do. In all, he spent ten years at Octogan training under Fritz "Der Dicke" Exenberger.

Was a professional ice hockey player. Pavlovs was also the coach of Krefeld Pinguine and left the te

Was a professional ice hockey player. Pavlovs was also the coach of Krefeld Pinguine and left the team on 29 April 2009 on the way to Kölner Haie and was released on 02 December 2009.

Was a German-born Yiddish theatrical producer and composer for Yiddish theatrical works. He was acti

Was a German-born Yiddish theatrical producer and composer for Yiddish theatrical works. He was active in Poland, Ukraine and the United States. Throughout the 1920s, until he emigrated to USA. He was able to obtain passage to America by being granted a passport by Russian authorities solely for Ilya Trilling and then getting a friend to change the word Ilya to "familya", meaning family in the native language. This forgery paid off and the entire family emigrated to America through Ellis Island, never to return to Europe. He continued his work in the Yiddish theater in America. His children and their offspring are still in the United States. They live in California, Pepper Pike, Ohio, Sharon, Massachusetts, Missouri, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, and many other locations.

Is a volleyball player from Germany, who played for the Men's National Team in the 2000s. He played

Is a volleyball player from Germany, who played for the Men's National Team in the 2000s. He played as a setter, and is nicknamed "Ilse".

She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came

She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.Grünig's first film, at age 43, was a German silent movie called Todesurteil in 1919. Next, she starred with Conrad Veidt in Peer Gynt. Later that year, she and Veidt appeared in Die sich verkaufen.She continued making silent movies in Germany into the 1920s. In 1920, she appeared in the film Die Bestie im Menschen based on a Émile Zola novel. This were two of 11 films she appeared in that year alone. Grünig appeared in a couple of Veidt's "Christian Wahnschaffe" movies; Weltbrand in 1920 and Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker in 1921. In 1922, she had a small part as a landlady in Lady Hamilton starring Veidt as Lord Horatio Nelson

Is a former discus thrower from Germany. She set eleven junior records at discus throw and even two

Is a former discus thrower from Germany. She set eleven junior records at discus throw and even two at shot put, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins, only to be beaten by Tzvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships. Wyludda never won the world championships, but she became Olympic champion in 1996.

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer O

Is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

An Austrian writer, who is noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jew

An Austrian writer, who is noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.She spent her childhood in Linz and Vienna, where her family was subjected to Nazi persecution starting in 1933. Aichinger began to study medicine in 1945, working as a writer on the side. In her first novel, Das vierte Tor (The Fourth Gate), she writes of her own experience under Nazism. In the same year, Aichinger's essay, Aufruf zum Misstrauen (A Call for Mistrust) was criticized for the extent to which it calls for self-doubt (Selbstmisstrauen): "The clarity of our intentions, the depth of our thoughts, the goodness of our acts! We even have to mistrust our own truthfulness!"