List of Famous people named Friedrich

Name Friedrich is among the most common names in Germany, Austria. Shortened forms: Frederick, Fritz. Similar names: Frederick, Fritz, Fredrik, Fredrika, Fredrick, Freidrich. Here are some famous Friedrichs:

Friedrich Joseph Haass

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Haass
Born on August 10, 1780
Died on August 16, 1853 (aged 73)

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.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Hackländer
Died on July 6, 1877

Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, in later life von Hackländer, was a successful German author.

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Prince Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen

Friedrich Christian Albert Leopold Anno Sylvester Macarius von Sachsen
First Name Prince
Last Name Meissen
Born on December 31, 1893
Died on August 9, 1968 (aged 74)
Born in Germany, Saxony

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.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Schelling
Born on January 27, 1775
Died on August 20, 1854 (aged 79)

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.

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Friedrich Gottlob Keller

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Keller
Born on June 27, 1816
Died on September 8, 1895 (aged 79)
Born in Germany, Saxony

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.

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Fouqué
Born on February 12, 1777
Died on January 23, 1843 (aged 65)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué was a German writer of the Romantic style.

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Friedrich Griese

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Griese
Died on June 1, 1975 (aged 5)

Friedrich Griese was a German novelist. He was associated with the nationalist literary movement during the Third Reich.

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Friedrich von Waldersee

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Waldersee
Born on July 21, 1795
Died on January 15, 1864 (aged 68)

Friedrich Gustav Graf von Waldersee was a Prussian Lieutenant General and military author.

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Friedrich von Loeffelholz

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Loeffelholz
Born on March 7, 1955
Died on October 2, 2017 (aged 62)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Friedrich von Löffelholz was a German cyclist. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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Friedrich Schorlemmer

First Name Friedrich
Last Name Schorlemmer
Born on May 16, 1944 (age 81)
Born in Germany, Brandenburg

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.

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