WWilhelm Adam was an officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Following the German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad, he became a member of the National Committee for a Free Germany. Adam later served in the National People's Army of East Germany.
WRudolf Albert August Wilhelm Asmis was a German jurist, colonial official and diplomat who served as Minister to Siam and Consul-General for Australia.
WMarie Bernays was a German politician, educator, writer and women's rights activist. She co-founded the Mannheim Women's Social School and served in the Landtag of the Republic of Baden from 1921 until 1925 as a member of the Deutsche Volkspartei.
WJulius Curtius was a German politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic.
WJohannes Dieckmann was a German journalist and politician. He served as president of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer), the parliament of East Germany, from 1949 to 1969. As such he was acting head of state after the death of President Wilhelm Pieck in 1960.
WKarl Rudolf Heinze was a German jurist and politician. During the Weimar Republic, as a member of the right-of-centre German People's Party (DVP) he was vice-chancellor of Germany and minister of Justice in 1920/21 in the cabinet of Konstantin Fehrenbach and from 1922 to 1923 again minister of Justice under Wilhelm Cuno.
WHugo Hickmann was a German politician.
WKarl Jarres was a politician of the German People's Party during the Weimar Republic. From 1923 to 1924/25, he was the minister of the Interior and vice-chancellor of Germany. Jarres was also the long-serving mayor of Duisburg from 1914 to 1933. After the Nazis deposed him, he started a career in industry.
WEdgar Julius Jung was a German lawyer born in Ludwigshafen in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
WWilhelm (Jakob) Ferdinand Kalle was a German chemist, industrialist and politician.
WGerhard Theodor Alexander Graf von Kanitz was a German politician of the German National People's Party (DNVP) and the German People's Party (DVP). He was a member of several Prussian and German Parliaments and served as Weimar Germany's Minister of Food and Agriculture from 1923 to 1926
WSiegfried Alfred Rudolf Friedrich von Kardorff was a German politician.
WOtto Carl Kiep was the Chief of the Reich Press Office (Reichspresseamt). He became involved with the resistance against the Nazis and was executed in 1944.
WWalter Franz Koch was a Saxon and German diplomat, lawyer and politician for the liberal German People's Party, who served as Saxon Minister of State for the Interior, Saxon Ambassador to Prague and Berlin, and finally as German Ambassador to Prague.
WErich Köhler was a German politician. He was the 1st President of the Bundestag from 7 September 1949 to 18 October 1950.
WPaul Moldenhauer was a German cabinet minister, lawyer, economist and politician (DVP). He served as a German congressman (reichstagsabgeordneter) 1920-1932 and was German Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and Industry in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
WHermann Paasche was a German statistician and economist. He is known for his Paasche Index, which provides a calculation of the Price Index. Paasche studied economics, agriculture, statistics and philosophy at University of Halle. In 1879, he became a professor of political science at Aachen University of Technology. Paasche died in 1925 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
WMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
WViktoria Margarete Poehlmann was a German educator and politician.
WWerner Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Rheinbaben was a German diplomat and author.
WKarl Sack was a German jurist and member of the resistance movement during World War II.
WKarl Alfred Walther Schieck was a German politician who served as the last Minister-President of Saxony during the Weimar Republic.
WHeinrich Albert Schnee was a German lawyer, colonial civil servant, politician, writer, and association official. He served as the last Governor of German East Africa.
WErnst Scholz was a lawyer as well a politician in the Weimar Republic. He was chairman of the German People's Party (DVP) proceeding the death of Gustav Stresemann and a member of the Reichstag from 1921 to 1930.
WKurt Freiherr von Schröder was a German nobleman, financier and SS-Brigadeführer. He is most famous for hosting the negotiations between members of Paul von Hindenburg's camarilla, Franz von Papen and Adolf Hitler in order to form a government after the German federal election of November 1932.
WElisabeth Schwarzhaupt was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. She was Federal Minister of Health in the German Cabinet from 1961 to 1966, the first woman to hold a Ministerial position in Germany.
WJohannes "Hans" Friedrich Leopold von Seeckt was a German military officer who served as Chief of Staff to August von Mackensen and was a central figure in planning the victories Mackensen achieved for Germany in the east during the First World War.
WEmil Georg von Stauss was a German banker who served as Director-General of the board of the Deutsche Bank.
WHugo Dieter Stinnes was a German industrialist.
WGustav Ernst Stresemann was a German statesman who served as chancellor in 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929, during the Weimar Republic.
WErnst Tengelmann was a German entrepreneur. From 1912 he was Director-General of the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG and CEO of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG. In addition to Carl Hold and Gustav Knepper he was one of the most influential mining figures in 1930s Ruhr Valley.
WGeorg Christian Thilenius was a German physician and anthropologist who was a native of Soden am Taunus.
WAlbert Vögler was a German politician, industrialist and entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of the German People's Party, and an important executive in the munitions industry during the Second World War.
WArthur Heinrich Ludwig Zarden was a leading personality in German tax legislation and for a short time State Secretary in the Reich Finance Ministry.