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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with specific characters, locales, or plot... More »
Martin Luther
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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 way of potassium cyanide. Last commander of Manfred von Richthofen's famous air squadron, Göring was... More »
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a Prussian philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Marx addressed a wide range of issues; he is most famous for his analysis of history, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the ''Communist Manifesto'' : "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marx believed that capitalism would be replaced by socialism which in turn would bring upon communism. Marx was both a scholar and a political activist,... More »
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia . He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. More »
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller , was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist. During the last several years of his life , Schiller struck a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he discussed much on issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this thereby gave way to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. More »
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands , King of Spain , King of Naples and Sicily , Archduke of Austria , King of the Romans (or German King), and Holy Roman Emperor . In Spain, though he is often referred to as Carlos V or Carlos Quinto, he ruled officially as Carlos I, Charles I of Spain. He was the son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad of Castile. His maternal grandparents were Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, whose marriage had first united their... More »
Otto von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, Count von Bismarck-Schönhausen was a European statesman of the 19th century, born to a wealthy family. As Minister-President of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he engineered the Unification of Germany. From 1867 on, he was Chancellor of the North German Confederation. When the German Empire was declared in 1871, he served as its first Chancellor. Bismarck held conservative monarchical views in the tradition of Clemens von Metternich,... More »
Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration. He began his career at the University of Berlin, and later worked at Freiburg University, University of Heidelberg, University of Vienna and University of Munich. He was influential in contemporary German politics, being an advisor to Germany's negotiators at the Treaty of Versailles and to the commission charged with... More »
Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer , was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two bestselling autobiographical works, detailing his often close personal relationship with Adolf Hitler, have allowed readers and historians an unequalled personal view inside the workings of the Third Reich. Speer was Hitler's chief architect before becoming his Minister for... More »
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