Top Celebrity Names Starting With Erich

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   Erich von Manstein

   1887 - 1973 Male
   

   Field Marshal, Writer, Military Person

   
   

   Erich von Manstein was a field marshal in World War II. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces. During World War II he attained the rank of Field Marshal and was held in high esteem by his fellow officers as one of the Wehrmacht's best military strategists. He was the initiator and one of the planners of the Ardennes offensive alternative in the invasion of France in 1940.… read more

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   Erich Hartmann

   1922 - 1993 Male
   

   World War Ii Fighter Pilot

   
   

   Erich Alfred Hartmann, nicknamed "Bubi" (the hypocoristic form of "young boy") by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions.… read more

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   Erich Honecker

   1912 - 1994 Male
   

   East German Politician

   
   

   Erich Honecker was a German socialist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well after Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976. Following the definite end of the Cold War, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes and was ousted by the party in late 1989 and removed from power.… read more

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   Erich Maria Remarque

   1898 - 1970 Male
   

   Novelist

   
   

   Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his novel, All Quiet on the Western Front.

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   Erich Mielke

   1907 - 2000 Male
   

   President, Communist, Minister

   
   

   Erich Fritz Emil Mielke was a German communist politician and Minister of State Security—and as such head of the Stasi—of the German Democratic Republic between 1957 and 1989. Mielke spent more than a decade as an operative of the NKVD during the rule of Joseph Stalin. He was one of the perpetrators of the Great Purge as well as the Stalinist decimation of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.… read more

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   Erich Heller

   1911 - 1990 Male
   

   Essayist

   
   

   Erich Heller was a British essayist, known particularly for his critical studies in German-language philosophy and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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   Erich Kunzel

   1935 - 2009 Male
   

   Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

   
   

   Erich Kunzel, Jr. was an American orchestra conductor. Called the "Prince of Pops" by the Chicago Tribune, he performed with a number of leading pops and symphony orchestras, especially the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, which he led for over 44 years.… read more

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   Erich Fromm

   1900 - 1980 Male
   

   Psychologist, Analyst, Sociologist

   
   

   Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.… read more

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   Erich Ludendorff

   1865 - 1937 Male
   

   Army Officer

   
   

   Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, victor of Liège and of the Battle of Tannenberg. From August 1916 his appointment as Quartermaster general made him joint head, and chief engineer behind the management of Germany's effort in World War I until his resignation in October 1918.… read more

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    Erich Kästner

    1901 - 1974 Male
    

    Authors, Screenplay Writers, and Satirist

    
    

    Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.

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    Erich Eliskases

    1913 - 1997 Male
    

    Grandmaster, Rival, Chess Player

    
    

    Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s, who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. Born in Innsbruck, Austro-Hungarian Empire, he learned chess at the age of twelve and quickly displayed an aptitude for the game, winning the Schlechter chess club championship in his first year at the club, aged just fourteen.… read more

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    Erich Priebke

    Age 98 Male
    

    Soldier, Military Person

    
    

    Erich Priebke is a former Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS. In 1996 he was convicted of war crimes in Italy, for participating in the massacre at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, on March 24, 1944. 335 Italian civilians were killed there in retaliation after a partisan attack had claimed the lives of 33 German soldiers. Priebke was one of those who was held responsible for this mass execution.… read more

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    Erich Kern

    1906 - 1991 Male
    

    Writer, Wing, Revisionist

    
    

    Erich Kern, was an Austrian right-wing extremist journalist. He became noted as a writer of revisionist books that sought to glorify the activities of the German soldiers during the Second World War.

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    Erich Mende

    1916 - 1998 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Dr. Erich Mende was a German politician of the FDP and CDU. He was the leader of FDP 1960 - 1968.

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    Erich Leinsdorf

    1912 - 1993 Male
    

    Conductor, Musician

    
    

    Erich Leinsdorf (February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was a naturalized American Austrian conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.… read more

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    Erich von Däniken

    Age 77 Male
    

    Author and Ufologist

    
    

    Erich Anton Paul von Däniken is a Swiss author best known for his controversial claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, in books such as Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968. Däniken is one of the main figures responsible for popularizing the "paleo-contact" and ancient astronaut hypotheses.… read more

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    Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    1897 - 1957 Male
    

    Composer, Musician

    
    

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest. Along with such composers as Max Steiner and Alfred Newman, he is considered one of the founders of film music.… read more

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    Erich Mühsam

    1878 - 1934 Male
    

    Poet, Politician, Dramatist

    
    

    Erich Mühsam was a German-Jewish anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic. Also a cabaret performer, he achieved international prominence during the years of the Weimar Republic for works which, before Hitler came to power in 1933, condemned Nazism and satirized the future dictator. Mühsam was murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934.… read more