List of Famous people named Friedrich
Friedrich Joseph Haass
Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass was the "holy doctor of Moscow". Born in Bad Münstereifel, as a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system. During the last nine years before his death, he spent all of his assets to run a hospital for homeless people. He died in Moscow. Twenty thousand people attended his funeral at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery, which was paid for by the state as he had no more money.
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer, was a successful German author.
Prince Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen
Albert Leopold Friedrich Christian Sylvester Anno Macarius, Prince of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen was the second son of Frederick Augustus III, the last reigning king of Saxony before the abolition of the monarchy in 1918. Upon his father's death in 1932, he became the head of the Royal House of Saxony. He was Captain à la suite in the Royal Bulgarian Infantry, and Grand Master of the Order of the Rue Crown, and also a Knight in the Order of the Black Eagle and Knight Grand Cross in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. As head of the House of Wettin after 1932, he styled himself as Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, later von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him between Johann Gottlieb Fichte, his mentor in his early years, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, his one-time university roommate, early friend, and later rival. Interpreting Schelling's philosophy is regarded as difficult because of its evolving nature.
Friedrich Gottlob Keller
Friedrich Gottlob Keller was a German machinist and inventor, who invented the wood pulp process for use in papermaking. He is widely known for his wood-cut machine. Unlike Charles Fenerty, F.G. Keller took out a patent for his wood-cut invention.
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué was a German writer of the Romantic style.
Friedrich Griese
Friedrich Griese was a German novelist. He was associated with the nationalist literary movement during the Third Reich.
Friedrich von Waldersee
Friedrich Gustav Graf von Waldersee was a Prussian Lieutenant General and military author.
Friedrich von Loeffelholz
Friedrich von Löffelholz was a German cyclist. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Friedrich Schorlemmer
Friedrich Schorlemmer is a German Protestant theologian. He was a prominent member of the civil rights movement in the German Democratic Republic and has continued to take part in politics after German reunification in 1990.