Famous People with Name Hans

Hans Folz            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hans Folz: was a notable medieval German author. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486. Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been allowed by the twelve "Alten Meister" (old masters) up to that point. His Meisterlieder (a type of song), of which he wrote about a thousand, were mostly devoted to religious questions. He also wrote twelve Fastnachtsspiele (short plays that made light of people in medieval society, for instance farmers, priests, and the bourgeoisie) in the same style as Hans Rosenplüt, but with more subtle language.

Hans Gerle            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hans Gerle: was a German lutenist and arranger of the Renaissance. Gerle published three volumes of lute music through Hieronymus Formschneider, a Nuremberg publisher. The first two were issued in 1532-33, and the last in 1552; this third volume refers to Gerle as "the elder" on the title page, so it is presumed that Gerle had either a son or another relative with the same name. The first publication contains an introduction to the performance of lute, viola da gamba (Grossgeigen), and rebec (Kleingeigen), as well as an explanation of musical notation, and is a significant source of information on performance practice. The book is primarily made up of intabulations of German composers such as Ludwig Senfl, Johann Walter, Heinrich Isaac, Thomas Stoltzer, and Paul Hofhaimer.

Hans G Helms            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hans G Helms: is a German experimental writer, composer, and social and economic analyst and critic. Hans G Helms was born into a Jewish family, who were able to escape the Holocaust by using falsified papers. He spent his childhood and youth in Teterow and Berlin. He received his first musical education whilst young, learning the piano and theory from an immigrant from Byelorussia. During the Nazi era he became acquainted with Swing and jazz from secretly listening to “enemy transmitters”.

Hans-Joachim Hespos            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hans-Joachim Hespos: is a German composer of avant-garde music. Since für Cello solo (written 1964), he has composed in all genres, including many pieces for unaccompanied solo instruments and theatre works. He has always remained outside of the mainstream and has never been associated with any of the many movements in postwar European music, though he did attend summer courses at Darmstadt in the 1980s. Today, Hespos is still relatively unknown in the United States.

Hans Judenkönig            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hans Judenkönig: was a German lutenist of the Renaissance. He was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd and died in Vienna. He worked as a lutenist in the vicinity of the University of Vienna and was best known for his two lute books written for the self-teaching of a lay audience.

Ludwig Friedrich Victor Hans            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ludwig Friedrich Victor Hans: was a Westphalian and Prussian statesman.Hans Count von Bülow was Finance Minister of the Kingdom of Westphalia from 1808 to 1811. In 1813, he accepted the same position in Prussia. In 1825, he was Senior President of the Prussian province of Silesia for