Famous People with Name Kurt

Kurt Grelling            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Grelling: was a logician, philosopher and member of the Berlin Circle. Shortly after his arrival in 1905 at University of Göttingen, Grelling began a collaboration with philosopher Leonard Nelson, with whom he tried to solve Russell's paradox, which had shaken the

Kurt Sternberg            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Sternberg: was a German philosopher and author. Sternberg, who was Jewish, fled to the Netherlands in 1939 to escape the National Socialists. He was nonetheless detained and sent to the Westerbork concentration camp and from there, to Auschwitz, where he perished in September 1942.

Kurt Hutton            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Hutton: was a German-born photographer who pioneered photojournalism in England. He then became one of the founding staff of the groundbreaking pictorial weekly news magazine Picture Post. One of his most famous images used there showed working-class girls enjoying themselves in Funfair, Southend, Essex (1938).[1]

Kurt Lingens            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Lingens: was honored by Yad Vashem as a righteous among the nations. The german medic Dr. Kurt Lingens was 1933 disqualified from all german academies because of his membership in an anti-fascistic group of students. In summer 1942 the Nazi regime began to deport Jewish people from Vienna. Many of them asked Kurt Lingens and his wife Ella Lingens for help. Some of the Jewish people stored their valuables at the house of Kurt Lingens. A polish underground movement, with which the couple worked together, asked them to help two Jewish couples to escape or to find a suitable hideaway.

Kurt Sieveking            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kurt Sieveking: was a German politician (CDU) and First Mayor of Hamburg. In his position as the head of a German state, he was serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1956–1957. In 1951, Sieveking was appointed as the consul in Stockholm and later ambassador in Sweden. In 1953, Sieveking was the canditate of the conservative parties for the office of the First Mayor. He won the election, in his office term he reformed the school system and initiated the town twinning with Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) in 1957. After the election defeat he remained member of the Hamburg Parliament.[1]