Hans Thoma

Hans Thoma

male, deceased (1924)
Hans Thoma was a German painter. He was born in Bernau in the Black Forest, Germany. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in...
Robert Gerwig

Robert Gerwig

male, deceased (1885)
Robert Gerwig was a German civil engineer. Gerwig attended the Großherzogliches Polytechnikum (now known as Karlsruhe University) where he studied c...
Franz Ketterer

Franz Ketterer

male, deceased (1749)
Franz Anton Ketterer was a German clockmaker. Ketterer, one of the founding fathers of the Black Forest clockmaking industry in Germany, was born...
Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

male, deceased (1946) (Hoboken, New Jersey, United States)
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1,1864 - July 13,1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making...
Kingsley Wood

Kingsley Wood

male, deceased (1943)
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood (19 August 1881 - 21 September 1943) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was first elected to office...
Josef Schneider

Josef Schneider

male, deceased (1927)
Josef Schneider Sr. was the first producer of electricity in Germany and founded the Elektrizitätswerk Horb. He was born in Bühlertann and died at...
Maximilian Berlitz

Maximilian Berlitz

male, deceased (1921)
Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz was the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools in 1878, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born an orphan with his...

Karl Nessler

male, deceased (1951)
Karl Ludwig Nessler (2 May 1872 in Todtnau, Germany - 22 January 1951 in Harrington Park New Jersey, USA) was the inventor of the permanent wave....
Artur Fischer

Artur Fischer

male, 90 years old
Artur Fischer (born 1919 in Tumlingen, Black Forest Germany) is an inventor. He has 1080 patents and invented fischertechnik.
Christabel Bielenberg

Christabel Bielenberg

female, deceased (2003)
Christabel Bielenberg was a British woman married to a German lawyer, Peter Bielenberg. She described her experiences living in Germany during the...