List of Famous people born in Wuppertal, Germany

Ferdinand Sauerbruch

Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch
First Name Ferdinand
Last Name Sauerbruch
Born on July 3, 1875
Died on July 2, 1951 (aged 75)

Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch was a German surgeon.

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Else Lasker-Schüler

Elisabeth Schüler
First Name Else
Born on February 11, 1869
Died on January 22, 1945 (aged 75)

Else Lasker-Schüler was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her unique poetic genius. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.

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Friedrich Engels

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Engels
Born on November 28, 1820
Died on August 5, 1895 (aged 74)

Friedrich Engels, sometimes anglicised as Frederick Engels, was a German philosopher, historian, political scientist and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman, journalist and political activist, whose father was an owner of large textile factories in Salford and Barmen, Prussia.

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Hans Günter Winkler

First Name Hans
Last Name Winkler
Born on July 24, 1926
Died on July 9, 2018 (aged 91)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Hans Günter Winkler was a German show jumper. He is the only show jumper to have won five Olympic gold medals and a total of seven Olympic medals, and to compete and win medals in six different Olympic Games. In the 1950s and 1960s Winkler was one of Germany's most popular athletes.

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Ilse Steppat

First Name Ilse
Born on November 30, 1917
Died on December 21, 1969 (aged 52)

Ilse Paula Steppat was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

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Julius Dorpmüller

Julius Heinrich Dorpmüller
First Name Julius
Last Name Dorpmüller
Born on July 24, 1869
Died on July 5, 1945 (aged 75)

Julius Heinrich Dorpmueller was general manager of Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft from 1926 to 1945, a Nazi politician and the Reich Minister for Transport from 1937 to 1945.

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Horst Tappert

First Name Horst
Last Name Tappert
Born on May 26, 1923
Died on December 13, 2008 (aged 85)

Horst Tappert was a German movie and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.

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Reimar Lüst

First Name Reimar
Born on March 25, 1923
Died on March 31, 2020 (aged 97)

Reimar Lüst was a German astrophysicist. He worked in European space science from its beginning, as the scientific director of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) from 1962 and as Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) from 1984 until 1990.

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Helene Weber

First Name Helene
Born on March 17, 1881
Died on July 25, 1962 (aged 81)

Helene Weber was a German politician and was known as a women's rights activist. In the Weimar Republic she rose to prominence in the Catholic Centre Party. In 1945 she was among the founders of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In 1948 she was a co-founder of the CDU Women's Task Force, a precursor of the party's Women's Union, which she chaired from 1951 to 1958. Weber is one of four women who, alongside 61 men, drafted Germany's constitution, the Basic Law, in 1948-49. After initial hesitation, she closed ranks with the women delegates of the Social Democratic Party to successfully fight for the inclusion of the sentence "Men and women shall have equal rights" in Article 3 of the Basic Law. She is often cited for her anti-war statement: "The entirely male-run state is the ruin of nations".

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Harald Leipnitz

First Name Harald
Born on April 22, 1926
Died on November 21, 2000 (aged 74)

Harald Leipnitz was a German actor, who was born in Wuppertal and died in Munich. Lung cancer

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