Top Celebrity Names Starting With Heinrich

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   Heinrich Himmler

   1900 - 1945 Male
   

   Commander of the Schutzstaffel (ss) and One of the Most Powerful Men In Nazi Germany

   
   

   Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo.… read more

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   Heinrich Heine

   1797 - 1856 Male
   

   Journalist, An Essayist, and One of the Most Significant German Romantic Poet

   
   

   Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose is distinguished by its satirical wit and irony.… read more

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   Heinrich Rau

   1899 - 1961 Male
   

   Communist Politician

   
   

   Heinrich Gottlob "Heiner" Rau was a German communist politician during the time of the Weimar Republic; subsequently, during the Spanish Civil War, he was a leading member of the International Brigades and after World War II an East German statesman. Rau grew up in a suburb of Stuttgart, where early on he became active in socialist youth organizations. After military service in World War I, he participated in the German Revolution of 1918-19.… read more

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   Heinrich Göbel

   1818 - 1893 Male
   

   Engineer

   
   

   Heinrich Göbel, later Henry Goebel, born in Springe, Germany, was a precision mechanic. He emigrated in 1848 to New York City and lived there until his death. In 1865 he changed his nationality. In 1893 the public in the USA and in Europe took notice of Henry Goebel. Magazines and newspapers reported that Henry Goebel had developed incandescent light bulbs comparable to those invented in the year 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison 25 years earlier.… read more

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   Heinrich Bär

   1913 - 1957 Male
   

   World War Ii Fighter Pilot

   
   

   Oskar-Heinz "Pritzl" Bär (25 May 1913 – 28 April 1957) was a German Luftwaffe flying ace who served throughout World War II in Europe. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. He flew over a thousand combat missions, and fought in all major German theatres of the war, including the Western, Eastern and Mediterranean fronts.… read more

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   Heinrich Hertz

   1857 - 1894 Male
   

   Physicist and Electronic Engineer

   
   

   Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who clarified and expanded James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light, which was first demonstrated by David Edward Hughes using non-rigorous trial and error procedures.… read more

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   Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

   1916 - 1944 Male
   

   World War Ii Fighter Pilot

   
   

   Heinrich Alexander Ludwig Peter Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a German of aristocratic descent and a Luftwaffe night fighter flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. At the time of his death, he was the highest scoring night fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe and still the third highest by the end of World War II.… read more

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   Heinrich Müller

   1900 - 1945 Male
   

   General, Military Person

   
   

   Heinrich Müller was a German police official under both the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He became chief of the Gestapo, the political secret state police of Nazi Germany, and was involved in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. He was known as "Gestapo Müller" to distinguish him from another SS general named Heinrich Müller.… read more

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   Heinrich Schliemann

   1822 - 1890 Male
   

   Archaeologist

   
   

   Heinrich Schliemann (was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.… read more

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    Heinrich Brandler

    1881 - 1967 Male
    

    Politician, Communist, Writer

    
    

    Heinrich Brandler was a German communist trade unionist, politician, revolutionary activist, and writer. Brandler is best remember as the head of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the party's ill-fated "March Action" of 1921 and aborted uprising of 1923, for which he was held responsible by the Communist International.… read more

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    Heinrich Graetz

    1817 - 1891 Male
    

    Historian

    
    

    Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective. Born Tzvi Hirsh Graetz to a butcher family in Xions (Książ Wielkopolski), Poznan, in Prussia, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena though he had attended Breslau University because Jews at the time were barred from receiving Ph.D. s at that institution.… read more

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    Heinrich Brüning

    1885 - 1970 Male
    

    Politician; Chancellor of Germany From 1930 To 1932; Academic, Economist, Activist

    
    

    Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Soon after Brüning took power, he was confronted by an economic crisis caused by the Great Depression. Brüning responded with a tightening of credit and a rollback of all wage and salary increases. These policies made him very unpopular and lost him the support of the Reichstag.… read more

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    Heinrich von Kleist

    1777 - 1811 Male
    

    Poet, Dramatist, Novelist and Short Story Writer

    
    

    Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.

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    Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein

    1757 - 1831 Male
    

    Prussian Statesman and Reformer

    
    

    Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein, commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms that paved the way for the unification of Germany. He promoted the abolition of serfdom, with indemnification to territorial lords; subjection of the nobles to manorial imposts; and the establishment of a modern municipal system. Stein was from an old Franconian family.… read more

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    Heinrich Bullinger

    1504 - 1575 Male
    

    Reformer, Theologian

    
    

    Heinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster. A much less controversial figure than John Calvin or Martin Luther, his importance has long been underestimated; recent research shows that he was one of the most influential theologians of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.… read more