- Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970) was the pseudonym of Erich Paul Remark, a German author.
- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945.
- Paul Bäumer
Paul Bäumer was a German fighter ace in the First World War. Bäumer learned to fly before the war but joined the infantry and was wounded in 1915. He transferred to the air service as a dental assistant before being accepted for military pilot training. In 1917 he gained experience on two-seaters with FA7 before acceptance as a noncommissioned fighter pilot. Bäumer joined Jagdstaffel 5 in June of 1917, …
- Franz von Hipper
Franz Ritter von Hipper (September 13, 1863 - May 25, 1932) was a German admiral during the First World War. He is most famous for commanding the German Battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland. Born in Weilheim in Bavaria, Franz Hipper joined the German Imperial Navy in 1881 as an 18-year-old cadet, serving on the frigates SMS "Niobe" and SMS "Leipzig".
- 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.
- 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.
- Paul Klee
Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 to June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. He was influenced by many different art styles in his work, including expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He and his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, were also famous for teaching at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture.
- Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 - July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of "modern" architecture.
- Bruno Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 - April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter and former criminal, sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the 20-month old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The Lindbergh kidnapping gained international infamy, and has become known as "The Crime of the Century."
- Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (October 2, 1847 - August 2, 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman. Hindenburg enjoyed a long if undistinguished career in the Prussian army, eventually retiring in 1913. He was recalled at the outbreak of the First World War, and first came to national attention, at the age of sixty-six, as the victor at Tannenberg in 1914.
- Franz von Papen
"'"' (29 October 1879 - 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, Catholic politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany (Reichskanzler) in 1932. To many historians, Papen was also a key member in the small clique of right-wing politicians who "jobbed Adolf Hitler into power by backstairs intrigue". He has been called a "stirrup holder" ("Steigbügelhalter") for Hitler.
- Werner von Blomberg
Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg was a leading member of the German Army until January 1938. Born in Stargard, Pomerania, German Empire, Werner von Blomberg joined the army at a young age and attended Germany's Kriegsakademie in 1904. After graduating in 1907, Blomberg entered the General Staff in 1908. Serving with distinction on the Western Front during World War I, Blomberg was awarded the Pour le Mérite.
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (April 30, 1893 – October 16, 1946) was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials.
- Kurt von Schleicher
"'"' (7 April 1882 - 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic
- Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Erhard (February 4, 1897-May 5, 1977) was a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966.
- Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and a senior military leader during World War II.
- Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht (June 30, 1893 - August 1, 1973) was a German communist statesman. As First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he held arguably the central role in the early development and establishment of German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
- Wolfram von Richthofen
Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (10 October 1895 - 12 July 1945) was a German a general and field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II. Von Richthofen was a distant cousin of the German World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the "Red Baron" (who had shot down 80 enemy aircraft before being killed in action in 1918), and the baron's younger brother Lothar von Richthofen, who himself shot down 40 enemy aircraft.
- 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.
- Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet was the second-highest scoring German flying ace of World War I. He was one of the youngest aces and was the highest scoring German ace to survive the war (at the age of only 22). His 62 victories were second only to Manfred von Richthofen, his commander in the Flying Circus.
- Lothar von Richthofen
Lothar-Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 40 victories during the war. He was younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") and a cousin of the Luftwaffe field marshal Wolfram von Richthofen. Starting the war as a cavalry officer, Lothar transferred to the German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) in 1915 and his first posting was to his brother's "Jasta 11" on 6 March 1917.
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (August 8 1881 - c. November 13 1954) was a leading German field marshal during World War II. Born in Braunfels an der Lahn into an aristocratic family, von Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I. After the war he served as a commander of a cavalry division from 1932 to 1935. With Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris the head of Abwehr, Military Intelligence, …
- Ludwig von Reuter
Ludwig von Reuter (9 February 1869 - 18 December 1943) was a German admiral during World War I, who commanded the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet when it was interned at Scapa Flow at the end of the war. On 21 June 1919 he ordered the scuttling of the fleet to prevent the British from seizing the ships. Von Reuter was born in Guben into a Prussian military family. By the time WWI began, he was captain of the battlecruiser SMS "Derfflinger", …
- Franz Seldte
Franz Seldte (June 29, 1882 - April 1, 1947) was a cofounder of the paramilitary organization "Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten", a National Socialist politician, and a Reich labour minister (Reichsarbeitsminister)
- Walther von Brauchitsch
Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch (October 4, 1881 - October 18, 1948) was an aristocratic German General and the Commander-in-Chief of the Heer (German Army) in the early years of World War II.
- Bruno Loerzer
Bruno Loerzer was an officer in the German Luftstreitkräfte during World War I and Luftwaffe during World War II. Born in Berlin, Loerzer was a prewar army officer who learned to fly in 1914. Hermann Goering flew as Loerzer's observer until mid-1915. Transferring to fighters, Loerzer flew with two Jagdstaffeln in 1916 before joining "Jasta" 26 in January 1917. By then he had scored two victories over French aircraft.
- Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch (6 July, 1885 - 17 July, 1945) was a German field marshal during World War II.
- Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz ; September 16, 1891-December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, who was in command of the "Kriegsmarine" during World War II and was President of Germany for 23 days after Adolf Hitler's suicide. Dönitz was born in the suburb Grünau of Berlin. He entered the "Kaiserliche Marine" (Imperial German Navy) in 1911. During World War I, he served on surface ships before transferring to submarines.
- Erich Raeder
Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank – that of "Großadmiral" (Grand Admiral) – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the "Kriegsmarine" (German Navy) for the first half of World War II, but resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Dönitz. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials, …
- Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz (10 July 1883 - 5 February 1948) was a German general during World War II.
- Prince Heinrich Of Prussia
Heinrich (born "Albert Wilhelm Heinrich", August 14, 1862 - April 20, 1929), sometimes known as Henry, was a younger brother of Emperor William II of Germany and a Prince of Prussia. A career naval officer, he held various commands in the Imperial German Navy and eventually rose to the rank of Grand Admiral.
- Friedrich Ebert Junior
Friedrich "Fritz" Ebert (September 12, 1894 - December 4, 1979) was the son of Germany's first President Friedrich Ebert. He was a Social Democrat like his father before him, but is best known for his role in the origins of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, whom in he served in various positions.
- Hans Speidel
Hans Speidel (28 October 1897 - 28 November 1984) was a German general during World War II and during the Cold War.
- Erich Bey
Erich Bey was a German naval officer who most notably served as a commander of the German Navy’s destroyer forces and commanded the battlecruiser "Scharnhorst" in the Battle of North Cape on 26 December 1943, during which the German ship was sunk. He was killed during that action. Bey joined the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) on 13 June 1916 and served most of his naval career in the destroyer arm of that and its successor organizations.
- Fedor von Bock
Fedor von Bock (December 3, 1880 - May 4, 1945) was an officer in the German military from 1898 to 1942, attaining the rank of "Generalfeldmarschall" during World War 2. He served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in 1939, commander of Army Group B during the Invasion of France in 1940, and later as the commander of Army Group Center during the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941; his final command was that of Army Group South in 1942.
- Maximilian von Weichs
Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von Weichs zu Glon (12 November 1881 - 27 June 1954) was a German Nazi generalfeldmarschall and a military leader in World War II.
- Reinhard Scheer
Reinhard Scheer Reinhard Scheer ( September 30 , 1863 – November 26 , 1928 ) was a Vice-admiral in the German navy. He was in command of the Kaiserliche Marine High Seas Fleet at the battle of Jutland , one of the largest naval battles in history. Scheer was born in Obernkirchen , Germany . He entered the navy in 1879 , becoming Kapitän zur See in 1905 and Rear Admiral in 1910 .
- Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel (Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, 1891-1944) | The famous "Desert Fox" commander of the North African campaign was born in Heidenheim, near Ulm on Nov. 15, 1891. While earning the respect of both sides in WWII, Rommel became disillusioned with Hitler. Although the Nazis accused him of being involved in the abortive July 20, 1944 bombing/assassination attempt against Hitler, his active role in the plot is doubtful.
- Carl Degelow
Carl "Charly" Degelow was a German fighter pilot during World War I. Initially serving in an infantry regiment, he transferred to the air service in 1916. Subsequently credited with 30 victories, he was the last German pilot to be awarded the Blue Max, just a few days before the war ended. Degelow went on to serve in the Luftwaffe.
- Theo Osterkamp
Theodor "Theo" Osterkamp (15 April 1892 - 2 January 1975) was a World War I and World War II Luftwaffe fighter ace. He flew alongside Oswald Boelcke and was a friend of Manfred von Richthofen during the first World War, scoring 32 victories. In World War II he led Jagdgeschwader 51 through the Battle of Britain and claimed a further 6 victories, in the process becoming one of only a few men to score victories in both World Wars.