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The Bavarians are a German people from Bavaria, Germany. They are the inheritors of the Bavarii, which occupied modern-day Bavaria and its surroundings in Roman times. Bavarians are identified: #by birth or residence in the Freestate of Bavaria #by language and culture (Austro-Bavarian dialects, History of Bavaria, Bavarian culture). There exists a political party called Bayernpartei which calls for a distinct Bavarian citizenship. - Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (Latin: "Benedictus PP. XVI"; Italian: "Benedetto XVI"), born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, is the 265th and reigning Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, and as such, Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on April 19, 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on April 24, 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. - Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber (born September 28, 1941) is a German politician, currently minister-president of the state of Bavaria and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU). On January 18, 2007, he announced his decision to stand down from the posts of minister-president and party chairman by September 30, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks. - Heinrich Luitpold Himmler
Heinrich Himmler was Reichsfuhrer-SS (Reich SS Leader) and Chief of the German police. In this capacity, he was responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution - the extermination of the Jews - as ordered by the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. ... When it came time for Hitler to order the annihilation of the Jews, who better to select to carry it out than the man who was at once his most loyal follower and also in control of the apparatus necessary for its execution? - Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauss was the German-born American creator of the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His namesake firm, Levi Strauss & Company, was founded in 1853 in San Francisco. - Adam Weishaupt
Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 in Ingolstadt - 18 November 1830 in Gotha) was a German who founded the Order of Illuminati. - Jean Paul
Jean Paul (21 March 1763 - 14 November 1825), born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a German writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. - Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Hitler (February 6, 1912 - April 30, 1945) was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and briefly his wife. - Bertolt Brecht
"' (born "' February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956) was an influential German socialist, dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. - Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi "Der Stürmer" newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 "Der Giftpilz" ("The Poison Mushroom"), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, … - Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging; however, he escaped the hangman's noose around two hours before his scheduled execution by taking his life through the use of potassium cyanide. - Dietrich Eckart
Dietrich Eckart (23 March 1868 - 26 December 1923) was a German politician, one of the early key members of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and one of the participants in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. - Franz von Lenbach
Franz von Lenbach (December 13, 1836 - May 6, 1904) was a German painter - Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser (May 31, 1892 - June 30, 1934) was a politician of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP). He was murdered in Berlin during the Night of the Long Knives. - Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel. - Oskar Maria Graf
Oskar Maria Graf (born July 22 1894 in Berg, Bavaria ; died June 28 1967 in New York) was a German author. He wrote several socialist-anarchist novels and narratives about life in Bavaria, mostly autobiographical. In the beginning Graf wrote under his real name Oskar Graf. Since 1918, he edited his works for newspapers under the pseudonym, Oskar Graf-Berg; for himself as "worth being read", regarded his works, … - Günther Beckstein
Günther Beckstein is a Bavarian politician from the CSU party, the designated Minister-President of Bavaria. He is quite well known outside Bavaria for his outspoken views on law and order. - Bastian Schweinsteiger
"'"' (born August 1 1984 in Kolbermoor, Bavaria, Germany) is a professional footballer from Germany who currently plays in midfield for Bayern Munich. Bastian's older brother, Tobias, currently plays for the German second division club Eintracht Braunschweig. - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. - Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter and printmaker, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He is best known as a significant pioneer of landscape in art. - Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 - November 15, 1787) was a German composer, one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered for "Orfeo ed Euridice". He is also remembered as the music teacher of Marie Antoinette who as Queen of France promoted Gluck and was his patron. Some regard him as the father of the Rococo and Classical age of music---at least in Opera. - Hermann Fegelein
Obergruppenführer Hermann Otto Fegelein was a senior officer of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany, a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage, and brother-in law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister, Gretl. However, he probably died before Braun married Hitler, and details of his death are controversial. - Heinrich Hoffmann
Heinrich Hoffmann was a German photographer, who is best known for his numerous pictures of Adolf Hitler. He joined the NSDAP in 1920 and was chosen personally by its new leader Hitler as his official photographer. Hoffmann became a constant companion and close friend of Hitler's. His photographs were published as postage stamps, postcards, posters, and picture books. It was at Hoffmann's suggestion that royalties were received from all uses of Hitler's image, … - Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (November 18, 1906 - May 21, 1949) was a German writer. - Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19 1873 - May 11 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. - Alfred Andersch
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch (February 4, 1914 - February 21, 1980) was a German writer, publisher and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer. - Charlotte Knobloch
Charlotte Knobloch was elected President of Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland in June, 2006. She is also Vice President of the European Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress. She has for many years been one of the primary leaders of the Jewish community in Munich, as President of the "Israelitische Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern" since 1985. Knobloch was born into a well-to-do Jewish family of lawyers. - Georg Ohm
Georg Simon Ohm (March 16, 1789 - july 6 1854) was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm started his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation, Ohm determined that the current that flows through a wire is proportional to its cross sectional area and inversely proportional to its length or Ohm's law. - Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Herbert Matthäus is a legendary Germany former football player and now manager. In 1990 he was named European Footballer of the Year and World Soccer Player of the Year after captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 World Cup. One year later, he was also named the first ever FIFA World Player of the Year. He has played in five World Cups (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998) more than any other outfield player, … - Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. - Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Erhard (February 4, 1897-May 5, 1977) was a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. - Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele (March 16 1911 - February 7, 1979), was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced labourer, and for performing human experiments on camp inmates, … - Georg Ratzinger
Georg Ratzinger (born April 3, 1844 in Rickering at Deggendorf, died December 3, 1899 in Munich) was a German Catholic priest, political economist, social reformer, author and politician. Ratzinger was a pupil at the gymnasium at Passau during the years 1855-63, studied theology at Munich, 1863-67, and was ordained priest in 1867. In 1868 he received the degree of Doctor of Theology at Munich. During the following years he devoted himself partly to pastoral, … - Matthias Grünewald
Matthias Grünewald, is a highly regarded figure from the German Renaissance. He painted primarily religious works, especially somber and awe-filled crucifixion scenes. The visionary character of his work, with its expressive colour and line, is in stark contrast to Albrecht Dürer's works. His paintings are known for their dramatic forms, vivid colors, and depiction of light. - Matthias Stormberger
Matthias Stormberger was a Bavarian mystic who many say predicted World War I, World War II and an upcoming war (possibly World War III). He also predicted the technological advances of the 19th Century. According to the research of J.R. Nyquist, the following is an English translation of Matthias Stormberger's World War predictions: "Two or three decades after the first war it will come a second war still larger. Almost all the nations of the world will be involved. - Robert Ritter von Greim
Robert Ritter von Greim (Robert Greim; June 22, 1892 - May 24, 1945) was a German Field Marshal, pilot and army officer. - Albertus Magnus
Albertus Magnus (b. 1193/1206 - d. November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge and advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion. He is considered to be the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. He was the first medieval scholar to apply Aristotle's philosophy to Christian thought at the time. - Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma (January 21, 1867 - August 26, 1921) was a German author, publisher and editor, who gained popularity through his partially exaggerated description of a Bavarian workday. After graduation from the Imperial Latin School in Landstuhl (today: Sickingen- Gymnasium Landstuhl), he first studied Forestry in Aschaffenburg, then Law until 1893 in Munich and Erlangen. Subsequently, he settled down as a lawyer, at first in Dachau, later in Munich. - Daniel Küblböck
Daniel Küblböck is a German pop-singer and actor who gained short-term popularity in 2003, in the hype around the first edition of "Deutschland sucht den Superstar", the German version of "Pop Idol", in which he won the third place. As a public persona, Küblböck is extremely polarising due to his carefully cultivated image as "der schräge Daniel" (Wacky Daniel), a boy-girl persona with a distinctly Bavarian dialect, who, … - Franz Halder
Franz Ritter Halder (June 30 1884 - April 2 1972) was a German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler.
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