German Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Was a German physician and explorer of Africa. Richard Kandt started as a psychiatrist in Bayreuth a

Was a German physician and explorer of Africa. Richard Kandt started as a psychiatrist in Bayreuth and Munich. Between 1897 and 1907 he explored the North-West of German East Africa and in 1908 was appointed as Resident of Rwanda, where he founded Kigali. Nearly a century after his death, Kandt still is a well-respected person in Rwanda. His former house in Kigali is now a natural history museum.[1]

Was a German cartographer who was the son of famed geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899). Richard

Was a German cartographer who was the son of famed geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899). Richard Kiepert studied geography and history in Berlin and Heidelberg, and in 1874 received his Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Jena.Kiepert prepared maps from data amassed by German explorers of Africa such as Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896) and Heinrich Barth (1821-1865). From 1874 until 1878 he worked on the compilation of Ferdinand von Richthofen's atlas of China, and from 1875 to 1887 he was editor of the geographical periodical Globus. Two other important African geographic works of his were Deutscher Kolonialatlas and Spezialkarte von DeutschOstafrika. From 1902 until 1908 he worked on the Spezialkarte von Kleinasien,

Is an Austrian football (soccer) player for Red Bull Salzburg II in the Austrian Football First Leag

Is an Austrian football (soccer) player for Red Bull Salzburg II in the Austrian Football First League.He made his debut for Austria in April 1996 against Hungary but was ignored for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Was a German artist, known mainly for his work as a favoured artist of the Nazi regime. Klein was di

Was a German artist, known mainly for his work as a favoured artist of the Nazi regime. Klein was director of the Munich School of Applied Arts and was one of Hitler's favourite painters.[2] Klein was one of the artists exhibited at the "Great German Art Exhibition" held at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 1937, meant as a contrast to the modern art condemned by the Nazis as Entartete Kunst. Klein's work at the exhibition included plaques contributed from Adolf Hitler's private collection.[3] The poster for the exhibition, "The Awakening", was designed by Klein and also used as the front cover for the Nazi art review Art in the Third Reich.[4]

Was a German cellist, composer and a renowned teacher. As a child Richard Klemm received from his fa

Was a German cellist, composer and a renowned teacher. As a child Richard Klemm received from his father a musical education in several instruments (the cello, piano, violin and trumpet), and he also sang in the Dresden Kreuzchor (Dresden Boys' Choir). In 1919 Klemm left Dresden and took up the position of cellist with the Königsberg Spaorchester. During the years 1923-1926 he studied the cello with Hugo Becker in Berlin, composition with Paul Juon, and the piano. He graduated in both musical disciplines, the cello and the piano. For his final graduation examination pieces he played the cello solo sonata by Zoltán Kodály and Beethoven's piano concerto No 3.

Was an Austrian football player and later coach of FC Bayern Munich and Feyenoord Rotterdam. He was

Was an Austrian football player and later coach of FC Bayern Munich and Feyenoord Rotterdam. He was a jew, born in Vienna. His nickname was Little Dombi, meaning little eminence.

Is a German football midfielder who plays for FC Energie Cottbus II.He began his career by FV Dresde

Is a German football midfielder who plays for FC Energie Cottbus II.He began his career by FV Dresden-Nord on youthside, before in summer 2007 joined to FC Carl Zeiss Jena, who played for the A-Youth (U-18) under his follow 2. Bundesliga coach Henning Bür

Was a German footballeHe played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1953 until 1964 as a typical right wing

Was a German footballeHe played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1953 until 1964 as a typical right winger and won the German championship in 1959 and played the European Cup final in 1960 which was lost to Real Madrid 3-7 on May 18 at Hampden Park in Glasgow in front of 135,000 spectators. Kress scored 1-0 lead for Frankfurt.

Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Was chairman of the chamber of commerce and honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim, Germany. Richa

Was chairman of the chamber of commerce and honorary citizen of the city of Mannheim, Germany. Richard Lenel joined his father's company "Fabrik wasserdichter Wäsche Lenel, Bensinger u. Co." at the age of 23 and was promoted to general manager in 1897. In

Was a German Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1952 Summer

Was a German Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s.

Is an Austrian bobsledder who competed from the late 1920s to the mid 1930s.

A successful Austrian entrepreneur in the construction industry, a Viennese society figure, and a fo

A successful Austrian entrepreneur in the construction industry, a Viennese society figure, and a former political candidate not affiliated with any of the Austrian political parties. Lugner has been nicknamed Tosspot ("Mortar", as in masonry) by the media, while his former wife, Christina (born June 2, 1968), is generally known as Mausi ("Little Mouse"). Since August 2, 2007 he has been divorced from Christina. The divorce was filed the same day by a mutual agreement.Lugner got a licence to work as a building contractor (Baumeisterkonzession) in 1962 and at first specialised in the erection of filling stations and the renovation of old buildings. His company started to prosper, and he eventually became known to a wider public with the completion, in 1979, of Vienna's first mosque, situated on the banks of the river Danube. In 1990 he opened his own shopping mall, Lugner City, in a working class district of Vienna and, from the start, aggressively advertised his business by regularly inviting celebrities—starting with Thomas Gottschalk—who would perform there and sign autographs—a marketing strategy not very common in a city that, back then, hardly had any shopping malls.

Is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Marburg in Marburg, Germany and an associ

Is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Marburg in Marburg, Germany and an associate of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at Paris-Sud 11 University in Orsay, France. Weiner got his PhD in Physics at the University of Bucharest in 1958, and from 1951 to 1968 he worked as a research scientist at the Physics Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Because of his intention to leave the Romanian communist regime, he was retrograded and denied an exit visa, being one of the first refuseniks of Central and Eastern Europe. His 1969 flight from communist Romania and joining CERN made headlines in the media.[1]

A Jewish-German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included

A Jewish-German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.

Was a German freestyle and backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 19

Was a German freestyle and backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Four years later at the 1912 Olympics he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 100 metre freestyle event. In the 400 metre freest

Is a retired Austrian football player.Currently he works for a regional football association and use

Is a retired Austrian football player.Currently he works for a regional football association and used to be co-trainer of Gleisdorf, where he lives together with his wife (who is former Miss Belgium Françoise Bostoen) and two kids.

Is a retired boxer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the men's featherweight division (

Is a retired boxer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the men's featherweight division (– 57 kg) at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he was defeated in the final by Ángel Herrera of Cuba.

Was a German press photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photographs of Dresden

Was a German press photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photographs of Dresden just after the end of World War II. He was drafted into the German army in 1914 to serve in World War I. After the war he settled in Halle and later in Dresden. He joined the labor movement and the Communist Party of Germany. During the 1920s and early 1930s he published his photographs in various left-wing publications. Because of this he was promptly barred from working as a press photographer when the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933. During the Third Reich he worked in advertising, before being drafted again to serve in World War II.

Was a German music critic, writer, poet, and amateur composer. He figured prominently in the mid-cen

Was a German music critic, writer, poet, and amateur composer. He figured prominently in the mid-century War of the Romantics, taking the side opposite Eduard Hanslick, and championing the "Music of the Future" (the progressive Romantic style of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner). In 1854 Pohl moved to Weimar, where he became an editor at the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. He wrote invective-laden articles under the pseudonym "Hoplit" (from the Greek term hoplite, the foot-soldier of ancient Greece) in support of Liszt and Wagner, and critical of music of the more conservative Romantic composers.

Was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he finished f

Was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he finished fourth in the 200 metres competition. In the 100 metres event he was eliminated in the semi-finals. He was also a member of the German relay team which was disqualified in the final of the 4x100 metre relay competition after a fault with its second baton passing.

Was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame

Was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. His older brother Rudolph Réti was a noted composer and pi

Was a German architect and city planner from Munich,he trained as a painter and was a major figure i

Was a German architect and city planner from Munich,he trained as a painter and was a major figure in Art Nouveau in Germany, and a member of the Deutscher Werkbund .As founder and principal of United Workshops for Art in Craftwork in Munich (est 1897),he was happy to create furnishings for special commission that would be largely be executed by hand,yet his simple rational designs were well suited to machine production.He also designed for Dresden Workshop of Arts & Crafts (est 1898) [1].He was Director of the Munich Kunstgewerbeschule 1913-1924.[2]

Is a German composer, musician and teacher. His compostional output is diverse, including nursery rh

Is a German composer, musician and teacher. His compostional output is diverse, including nursery rhymes and music for children, choral music and hymns, incidental music, orchestral music as well as chamber music.[1] Klein attended the humanistic Gymnasium in Landau, Germany and learned to play the piano, the violin, and the viola. He later learned the trumpet and the organ. He started composing at a young age and as an adolescent had already conducted his own works with his school orchestra on the occasion of school and commemorative events. In 1935, at the age of fourteen, he started performing piano pieces and songs in broadcasts at the former Rundfunk-Sender Kaiserslautern.

Is a German rower.

Is a German rower.