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This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the German language. It includes both living and deceased writers. Most of the medieval authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet
Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed the duties of head of state as Führer and Chancellor from 1934 until his suicide in April 1945. In 1949, Germany was divided into two states. The Federal President, head of state of West Germany, became head of state for all of Germany following German reunification in 1990.
Ruth Westheimer (born 1928), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. William the Silent (1533–1584), German-born main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs [25] Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), art historian and archaeologist
The office was created in the North German Confederation in 1867, [3] when Otto von Bismarck became the first chancellor. With the unification of Germany and establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the Confederation evolved into a German nation-state and its leader became known as the chancellor of Germany. [4]
Bätzing. Bauder. Baudisch. Bauer (surname) (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: German language. Surnames by language. Germanic-language surnames.
The common names Schmidt and Schmitz lead in the central German-speaking and eastern Low German-speaking areas. Meyer is particularly common in the Low German-speaking regions, especially in Lower Saxony (where it is more common than Müller). Bauer leads in eastern Upper German-speaking Bavaria. Rarer names tend to accumulate in the north and ...
Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk. Albrecht Goes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Nikolaus Götz. Yvan Goll. Eugen Gomringer. Nora-Eugenie Gomringer. Peter Gosse. Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter.
Terézia Mora (born 1971), writing in German; Péter Nádas (born 1942) Borbála Nádasdy (born 1939) László Németh (1901–1975) Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), writing in English; Géza Ottlik (1912–1990) Jenő Rejtő (1905–1943) Henriett Seth F. (born 1980), science-fiction author; Magda Szabó (1917–2007), author of The Door