List of Famous people who died in 1945

Rüdiger Schleicher was a German legal academic and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.

Friedrich Martin Adalbert Kayssler, also spelled Kayßler, was a German theatre and film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1913 and 1945.

Alexey Yevgrafovich Favorsky, was a Soviet-Russian chemist.

Christa Tordy was a German film actress. She was discovered while visiting her cousin Mady Christians in Berlin, and briefly became a leading star before retiring after marrying Harry Liedtke. She was murdered along with her husband by the Soviet Red Army at her home during its invasion of Germany during World War II.

Karl Mey was a prominent German industrial physicist who directed the research and development branch of Osram AG. His presidency of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, starting the year Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, was crucial in that organization’s ability to assert its independence from National Socialist policies.