- Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 - September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era and early modern era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor.
- Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with impossible dreams or people with unique talents in obscure fields.
- 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?
- Franz Josef Strauß
Franz Josef Strauß (September 6, 1915 – October 3, 1988) was a German politician (CSU) and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria. Press reports called him the "Strong Man of Europe"
- 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.
- Franz Beckenbauer
Franz Anton Beckenbauer (born September 11, 1945) is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed "der Kaiser" ("the emperor") because of his elegant style, his leadership qualities, his first name "Franz" (reminiscent of the Austrian emperors), and his dominance on the football pitch. He is generally regarded as the greatest German footballer of all time and also as one of the greatest footballers in the history of the game.
- Dj Hell
DJ Hell (real name Helmut Josef Geier, born in Munich on September 6, 1962) is a German House/Techno DJ. He is the label boss of International DeeJay Gigolo Records and has been responsible for many of the big records to come out of the Electroclash or German Squelch scene that emerged in Berlin in the mid-nineties.
- Philipp Lahm
Philipp Lahm (born November 11, 1983 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich and Germany at Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored the opening goal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is considered one of the best young fullbacks in the world, as is shown by his inclusion in the Mastercard All Star Team. Known to be young and energetic, Lahm's pace is unbelievable, …
- Christian Ude
Christian Ude is the current mayor of Munich. He is a member of the German Social Democratic Party. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the football (AE: soccer) club TSV 1860 München. After his career as a journalist and lawyer, he was elected as second mayor of Munich on May 2 1990. On September 12 1993, he was elected as lord mayor and successor of Georg Kronawitter.
- Franz Marc
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 - March 4, 1916) was one of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement.
- Traudl Junge
Traudl Junge (16 March, 1920 - 10 February, 2002), born Gertraud Humps, was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945.
- Ernst Röhm
Ernst Julius Röhm, also known as Ernst Roehm in English (Munich November 28, 1887 – july 2, 1934) was a German military officer, and the commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung — the SA.
- Carl Orff
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 - March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for "Carmina Burana" (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education.
- Münchener Freiheit
Münchener Freiheit is a German pop band that, as of 2005, has released 15 albums, of which six have gone gold and sold over 5 million copies in Europe. They are named after a square in the city of Munich in Germany, the name translating to "Munich liberty". They are best known in the English-speaking world for their single "Keeping The Dream Alive". This song became a Top 15 hit in the United Kingdom when released, …
- Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer (born 15 june 1983) is a German violinist.
- Heinrich Müller
Heinrich Müller, a German police official, was head of the Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany, and played a leading role in the planning and execution of the Holocaust. He was last seen leaving the Führerbunker in Berlin on April 29, 1945 and remains one of the few senior figures of the Nazi regime (along with Alois Brunner and others) who was never captured or confirmed to have died.
- Christian Lell
Christian Lell (born 29 August 1984, Munich, Germany) is a German football defender who currently plays for FC Bayern Munich.
- Andreas Ottl
Andreas Ottl (born March 1, 1985 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is a German footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Bayern Munich. He signed his 1st professional contract on July 1, 2005. He also plays for Germany's U21 Team.
- Karl von Piloty
Karl von Piloty (October 1, 1826 - July 21, 1886) was a German painter.
- Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor. He is the son of actress Monica Bleibtreu and actor Hans Brenner. Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg. His first appearance on TV was in the late seventies on a children's television series called "Neues aus Uhlenbusch", written by his mother Monica and Rainer Boldt. Next roles in Boldts "Ich hatte einen Traum" and beside his mother Monica in miniseries "Mit meinen heißen Tränen". After he left school when he was 16, …
- 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, …
- Julius Schaub
Julius Schaub (August 20 1898 - December 27 1967) was the chief aide and adjutant of German dictator Adolf Hitler at the end of World War II. Schaub was born in Munich in Bavaria. He become Hitler's aide in 1940. In the aftermath of the July 20 Plot to kill Hitler in 1944, Hitler had a badge struck to honor all those injured or killed in the blast. Hitler's aides later said that Schaub, who was in a building some distance from the explosion, …
- Ludwig Stumpfegger
SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Stumpfegger was a German SS doctor in World War II and Adolf Hitler's personal physician from 1944. Stumpfegger was born in Munich in Bavaria. He initially worked as an assistant doctor under Professor Karl Gebhardt in the Sanatorium Hohenlychen, which specialised in sports accidents. As a result of this experience, he was part of the medical team, along with Gebhardt, …
- Andreas Baader
Andreas Bernd Baader was one of the first leaders of the German organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as "the Baader-Meinhof group". Born in Munich, Baader was a high school dropout and criminal before his RAF involvement. He was one of the few members of the RAF movement who did not attend a university.
- Wilhelm Zander
A native of Munich, SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Zander served as an adjutant to Martin Bormann during the Second World War. As the war in Europe ended, he had accompanied Bormann to the Führerbunker in Berlin. He later fled the bunker during Battle of Berlin, carrying documents that included Hitler's will. It was subsequently discovered that he had adopted the surname Paustin and worked as a gardener.
- Anton Drexler
Anton Drexler (13 June 1884 - 24 February 1942) was a German Nazi political leader of the 1920s
- Elisabeth Of Bavaria
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, (December 24, 1837 - September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was the Empress consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. Her father was Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria and her mother was Ludovika, Royal Princess of Bavaria; her family home was Possenhofen Castle.
- Thomas Hitzlsperger
Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982 in Munich, Germany) is a midfielder for VfB Stuttgart. He signed for VfB Stuttgart in Summer 2005, having left Aston Villa on a Bosman free transfer. This was the base for his nomination for Germany's World Cup squad 2006 but failed to make it into Klinsmann's starting eleven. Hitzlsperger joined Aston Villa from Bayern Munich, where he was a player in the youth team.
- Ferdinand Maria Elector of Bavaria
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector ("Kurfürst") of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. He was born in Munich. He was the eldest son of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria - whom he succeeded, and his second wife Maria Anna of Austria, daughter of the emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. He was crowned on October 31, 1654. His absolutistic style of leadership became a benchmark for the rest of Germany.
- Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber, also known as Hans Rattenhuber, was a German police and SS Oberführer. He was the head of Adolf Hitler's Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD) from 1933-1945. Rattenhuber was born in Munich, where he made a career as a police officer. In March 1933 he was appointed head of Hitler's bodyguards, the RSD (not to be confused with the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD), a unit created to provide personal security to members of the Nazi leadership, …
- Barbara Dennerlein
Barbara Dennerlein (born 25 September 1964 in Munich, Germany), is a hard bop and post-bop Hammond B3 organist whose 1980s recordings helped to revive interest in the Hammond organ.
- Carl Rottmann
Carl Rottmann (b. January 11 1797 in Handschuhsheim - d. July 7 1850, Munich) was a German landscape painter and the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters. Rottmann belonged to the circle of artists around the Ludwig I of Bavaria, who commissioned large landscape paintings exclusively from him. He is best known for mythical and heroising landscapes. The landscape painter Karl Lindemann-Frommel belonged to his school.
- Geli Raubal
Angela "Geli" Raubal (June 4, 1908 - September 19/18, 1931). Born in Linz, Austria, was the second child and eldest daughter of Leo Raubal Sr. and Adolf Hitler's half sister, Angela Raubal. She was Hitler's half-niece and rumored to be his lover (Hitler's own mother Klara was his father Alois' second cousin).
- Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller was a German Waffen - SS officer who commanded 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen", 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen" and the 27. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Langemarck" during World War II. He saw action on the East and the West, finishing the war on the Oder front. Müller was born in Munich, Bavaria on February 2, 1902. Little is known about Müller during the early stages of the war.
- Philipp Bouhler
Philipp Bouhler was a Nazi German government official, SS-Obergruppenführer, head of the Führer's Chancellery and leader of the euthanasia programme, the so-called "Aktion T4". Bouhler was born in Munich to a retired colonel and spent five years in the Royal Bavarian Cadet Corps. He took part in the First World War and was badly wounded.http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=106998 From 1919 to 1920, …
- Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is with good certainty both Austria's most esteemed and most controversial active filmmaker. His feature Benny's Video (1992) shocked crowds with its restrained, antipsychological portrait of a teenager who kills a young girl to see how it is. Funny Games (1997) inspired a fierce debate on how one can interrogate violence in film.
- Ernst Hanfstaengl
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (Munich, February 2, 1887 - November 6, 1975) was the only person known to have worked directly for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler.
- Edmund Heines
Edmund Heines was Ernst Röhm's deputy in the SA, and possibly one of his lovers as well. Adolf Hitler had a close friendship with Röhm, and to a lesser degree with with Heines. Hitler's chauffeur Erich Kempka claimed in a 1946 interview that Edmund Heines was caught in bed with an unidentified 18 year old when he was arrested during the Night of Long Knives, although he has not actually witnessed this himself.
- Maximilian Ii Emanuel Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian II Emanuel was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector ("Kurfürst") of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last Governor of the Spanish Netherlands and duke of Luxembourg. An able soldier, his ambition led to conflicts that limited his ultimate dynastic achievements. He was born in Munich to Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (d.1676).
- Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (November 18, 1906 - May 21, 1949) was a German writer.