List of Famous people born in Ludwigshafen, Germany

Helmut Kohl

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl

First Name Helmut

Born on April 3, 1930

Died on June 16, 2017 (aged 87)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Ludwigshafen

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German statesman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and as chairman of the CDU from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German Chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union.

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Erika Simon

First Name Erika

Last Name Simon

Born on June 27, 1927

Died on February 15, 2019 (aged 91)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Ludwigshafen

Erika Simon was a German scholar of classical archaeology and professor emeritus of the University of Würzburg. Simon died in February 2019 at the age of 91.

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Ernst Münch

First Name Ernst

Last Name Münch

Born on November 26, 1876

Died on October 9, 1946 (aged 69)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Ludwigshafen

Ernst Münch was a German plant physiologist who proposed the Pressure Flow Hypothesis in 1930.

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