List of Famous people named Hedwig

Name Hedwig is among the most common names in Germany, Austria. Here are some famous Hedwigs:

Hedwig Kohn

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Kohn
Born on April 5, 1887
Died on March 26, 1964 (aged 76)

Hedwig Kohn was a physicist who was one of only three women to obtain habilitation in physics in Germany before World War II. Born in Breslau in the German Empire, she was forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime because she was Jewish. She continued her academic career in the United States, where she settled for the rest of her life.

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Hedwig Porschütz

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Porschütz
Died on March 26, 1977 (aged 7)
Born in Germany, Berlin

Hedwig Porschütz was active in the German resistance to Nazism. She was recognised posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations for aiding and rescuing Jews during the Holocaust.

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Hedwig of Silesia

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Silesia
Died on October 15, 1243
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Hedwig of Silesia, also Hedwig of Andechs, a member of the Bavarian comital House of Andechs, was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238. She was reported in the two-volume historical atlas of Herman Kinder and another author to have been great in war and defended from the Teutonic Knights. She was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1267 by Pope Clement IV.

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Hedwig Potthast

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Potthast
Born on February 6, 1912
Died on September 22, 1994 (aged 82)

Hedwig Potthast was the private secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler with whom she had two children.

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Hedwig Klein

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Klein
Born on February 19, 1911
Died on July 11, 1942 (aged 31)

Hedwig Klein was a German Jewish Arabist who died in Auschwitz.

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Hedwig Dohm

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Dohm
Died on June 1, 1919
Born in Germany

Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm was a German feminist and author. She was one of the first feminist thinkers to see gender roles as a result of socialization and not biological determinism.

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Hedwig Bleibtreu

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Bleibtreu
Born on December 23, 1868
Died on January 24, 1958 (aged 89)

Hedwig Bleibtreu was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952. Bleibtreu is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949). From 1893 to 1956 she played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Hedwig Bleibtreu is the great aunt of actress Monica Bleibtreu, and the great-great aunt of Monika's son actor Moritz Bleibtreu.

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Hedwig von Beverfoerde

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Beverfoerde
Born on November 30, 1962 (age 61)

Baroness Hedwig von Elverfeldt gennant Beverfoerde zu Werries is a German conservative politician and Catholic activist. A former member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany who worked to shorten daycare hours in Saxony-Anhalt and protect parental rights, she is the founder of the Family Protection Initiative and an organizer of the Demo für Alle rallies in Hanover and Stuttgart, campaigning against same-sex marriage.

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Hedwig Courths-Mahler

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Courths-Mahler
Died on November 26, 1950

Hedwig Courths-Mahler, née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler was a German writer of formula fiction romantic novels. She used the pseudonyms Relham, H. Brand, Gonda Haack, Rose Bernd.

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Hedwig Bleuler-Waser

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Bleuler-Waser
Born on December 29, 1869
Died on February 1, 1940 (aged 70)

Sophie Hedwig Bleuler-Waser was a Swiss suffragette who founded the Swiss Federation of Abstinent Women.

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