German Famous Names Starting with Letter O

Was a German philosopher. A forerunner of Neo-Kantianism, in his best known book, Kant und die Epigo

Was a German philosopher. A forerunner of Neo-Kantianism, in his best known book, Kant und die Epigonen, he deals with the philosophy after Kant, discussing Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Fries, Herbart and Schopenhauer. Having credited Kants philosophy (though criticizing it on the vital point of accepting a thing-in-itself), he focuses on what he sees as the shortcomings in the approaches of Kants successors. He frequently ends a section with the statement that one should return to Kant.

German" was a pioneer of human aviation. He was the first person to make repeated successful gliding

German" was a pioneer of human aviation. He was the first person to make repeated successful gliding flightsHe followed an experimental approach first established earlier in the century by Sir George Cayley.

Was a German pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The dis

Was a German pharmacologist 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. He has been referred to as the "Father of Neuroscience."After being arrested, along with two of his sons, on the night of the German invasion of Austria, March 11, 1938, Loewi was released on condition that he "voluntarily" relinquish all his possessions to the Nazis. Loewi moved to the United States in 1940, where he became a research professor at the New York University College of Medicine. In 1946, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1954, he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He died in New York City on December 25, 1961.

Was a German conductor and composer. In 1882 he became conductor of two music societies in Riga, the

Was a German conductor and composer. In 1882 he became conductor of two music societies in Riga, the Wagner Society and the Imperial Russian Music Society; seven year's later he became the first kapellmeister of the city's Stadttheater. In 1893 he became director of the Hamburg Stadttheater; while in Hamburg he married singer Katharina Klafsky. The couple traveled to the United States in 1896 to join the Damrosch Opera Company, returning to Germany a year later.

Was a German dramatist, novelist and critic born in Eisfeld in Thuringia. But ill health and constit

Was a German dramatist, novelist and critic born in Eisfeld in Thuringia. But ill health and constitutional shyness caused him to give up a musical career and he turned exclusively to literary studies, and wrote several stories and dramas. Of the latter, Der Erbförster (The Hereditary Forester) (1850) attracted immediate attention as a masterly psychological study. It was followed by Die Makkabäer (The Maccabees) (1852), in which the realistic method of Der Erbförster was transferred to an historical milieu, which allowed more brilliant coloring and a freer play of the imagination. With these tragedies, to which may be added Die Rechte des Herzens (The Rights of the Heart) and Das Fräulein von Scuderi (The Lady of Scuderi), the comedy Hans Frey, and an unfinished tragedy on the subject of Agnes Bernauer, Ludwig ranks immediately after Christian Friedrich Hebbel as Germany's most notable dramatic poet at the middle of the 19th century.

Was a German mathematician born in Stuttgart. He is famous for many things including: Hölder's ineq

Was a German mathematician born in Stuttgart. He is famous for many things including: Hölder's inequality, the Jordan–Hölder theorem, the theorem stating that every linearly ordered group that satisfies an Archimedean property is isomorphic to a subgroup

Was an Austrian film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature fil

Was an Austrian film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959), and homosexuality (Advise and Consent, 1962). He was twice nominated for the Best Director Academy Award. He also had a few acting roles.

Is a retired German football player and coach. As a player, he spent 3 seasons in the Bundesliga wit

Is a retired German football player and coach. As a player, he spent 3 seasons in the Bundesliga with TSV 1860 München.

Was a German rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the German boat,

Was a German rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the German boat, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event. For this competition there are two coxswains reported. Maier and Karl Leister are known to compete, but it is not known who participated in the final. However the IOC medal database credits the gold medal to Karl Leister.

Was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.Carpeaux was born in 1900 i

Was a Brazilian literary critic born in Austria and multilingual scholar.Carpeaux was born in 1900 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family, and lived there until 1939. In the University of Vienna he studied exact sciences and received his PhD in Chemistry with a work concerning the brain, and possibly also a degree in Physics. Later he studied Sociology and Philosophy in Paris, Comparative literature in Naples, Politics in Berlin and, supposedly, Mathematics in Leipzig.At some point in his life, Karpfen converted to Christianity, adding the Maria to his name and using Fidelis as his surname for some time. This conversion was evident in his political books (such as Wege Nach Rom) and his thinking, and led to his participation in the right-wing government of Engelbert Dollfuss.

Was a German geographer and geopolitician. He taught human geography at University of Graz, in Austr

Was a German geographer and geopolitician. He taught human geography at University of Graz, in Austria. Author of several books ("Political geography" 1925, "Introduction in to geopolitics", 1928, etc).

Was head of the Office of the President of Germany during the entire period of the Weimar Republic u

Was head of the Office of the President of Germany during the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg and, finally, at the beginning of the Nazi era under Adolf Hitler. Thanks to his good contacts, in 1919 Meißne

Was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of

Was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Leipzig in 1666 with a thesis entitled: Ex Theologia naturali — De Absoluta Dei Simplicitate, Micropolitiam, id est Rempublicam In Microcosmo Conspicuam.

Was a German composer, pianist, writer on music, and lecturer. Neitzel was born in the town of Falke

Was a German composer, pianist, writer on music, and lecturer. Neitzel was born in the town of Falkenburg in Farther Pomerania (modern Zlocieniec, Poland). From 1873 to 1875 he was a student of Franz Liszt. He composed several operas. Neitzel died in Cologne)[1]

Is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m e

Is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He won a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1938 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Vaxholm, Sweden.

Was an Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. Before he was forced t

Was an Austrian philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. Before he was forced to flee his native country for Great Britain in the wake of the Nazi occupation, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.Neurath was the son of Wilhelm Neurath, a well-known political economist at the time. Otto Neurath studied mathematics in Vienna and gained his D.Phil in the department of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Berlin. He married Anna Schapire in 1907. She died as a result of childbirth in 1911, and he married a close friend, the mathematician and philosopher Olga Hahn-Neurath. Perhaps because of Olga's blindness and then because of the outbreak of war, his son, the sociologist Paul Neurath was sent to a children's home outside Vienna, where Neurath's mother lived, and returned to live with his father and Olga when he was 9 years old.

Was a German painter, graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist. He best known as one the 20th ce

Was a German painter, graphic designer, illustrator and cartoonist. He best known as one the 20th century's pioneer wordless novelist, along with Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward. Nückel's series of "Studio Visits" (Atelierbesuche) to studios from Ensor to Bosch were famous. Nückel earned his living as an illustrator and cartoonist. He was a contributor to the satirical magazines Simplicissimus and Simpl and to children's perioical Ping-Pong.

Was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Returning to Düsseldorf in 1919, he was a founder of

Was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor.Returning to Düsseldorf in 1919, he was a founder of the "Junge Rheinland" (Young Rhineland) group. With Otto Dix, Gert Heinrich Wollheim, and Adolf Uzarski, among others, he was one of the painters championed by the art dealer Johanna Ey. In 1921 he married the journalist Hulda Droste.When Hitler came to power in 1933, Pankok was declared a degenerate artist. Subsequently, 56 of his pictures were seized from museums, some of which were included in the infamous exhibition Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art), mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937.

Is a German football manager, and one of Germany's most successful coaching exports, voted Africa's

Is a German football manager, and one of Germany's most successful coaching exports, voted Africa's Manager of the Year in 1992. He has never coached in Germany, and most of his success has come in Africa, Asia and in Switzerland. He began his coaching ca

A German artist.Between 1949 and 1953 he studied painting and art education at the Academy of Art in

A German artist.Between 1949 and 1953 he studied painting and art education at the Academy of Art in Munich and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He was lecturer at the Fashion Institute in Düsseldorf. From 1952 to 1957 he studied philosophy at the University of Cologne.He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1964. From 1968 to 1971, he was the first Fellow of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), founded by Gyorgy Kepes. In 1972, he became a Professor of Environmental Art at MIT. In 1974 he succeeded Kepes as director of the CAVS, in which position he served until 1994.

Was an Austrian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics. In 1928 he finished eighth in

Was an Austrian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics. In 1928 he finished eighth in the 5000 metres event and 21st in the 500 metres competition. He also started in the abandoned 10000 metres competition.

Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher and therapist. Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one

Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, teacher and therapist. Born in Vienna as Otto Rosenfeld, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, an editor of the two most important analytic journals, managing director of Freud's publishing house and a creative theorist and therapist. In 1926, after Freud accused Rank of "anti-Oedipal" heresy, he chose to leave the inner circle and move to Paris with his wife, Tola, and infant daughter, Helene. For the remaining 14 years of his life, Rank had an exceptionally successful career as a lecturer, writer and therapist in France and the U.S.

Is a German football coach and former football player. With Helmut Schön, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Udo Latt

Is a German football coach and former football player. With Helmut Schön, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Udo Lattek and Hennes Weisweiler, he is one of the most successful German managers ever. Rehhagel began his playing career with local club TuS Helene Altenessen in

Was a German plant geneticist. Following the work of Erwin Baur, Renner established the theory of ma

Was a German plant geneticist. Following the work of Erwin Baur, Renner established the theory of maternal plastid inheritance as a widely accepted genetic theory.

Was a German comedian and singer.Born into a poor Catholic family, Reutter attended the Catholic sch

Was a German comedian and singer.Born into a poor Catholic family, Reutter attended the Catholic school in Gardelegen and was then trained as a salesman's assistant. After completing his apprenticeship, he moved to Berlin and became active in theater and