Darmstadt category of associated people Category:People from Darmstadt
Notable people
Christoph Graupner (1683–1760), composer and Hofkapellmeister (chapel master) at the court of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1711 to 1754
Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), botanist
Justus Freiherr von Liebig (1803–1873), chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and was considered the founder of organic chemistry
Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883), opera composer, died in Darmstadt.
Georg Büchner (1813–1837), dramatist, poet and revolutionist
Carl Amand Mangold (1813–1889), composer and conductor
Friedrich August Kekulé (1829–1896), prominent organic chemist and the principal founder of the theory of chemical structure
Eugen Bracht (1842–1921), landscape painter
Georg von Hertling (1843–1919), politician
Benjamin Altheimer (1850–1938), American banker and philanthropist
Karl Muck (1859–1940), conductor
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868–1937), last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
Karl Wolfskehl (1869–1948), poet, editor and translator
Alexandra Feodorovna (1872–1918), Russian Empress, born as Alix of Hesse, married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Christian Stock (1884–1967), politician
Anton Köllisch (1888–1916), chemist who first synthesized MDMA (known as "ecstasy")
Beno Gutenberg (1889–1960), German-American seismologist
Karl Plagge (1897–1957), Wehrmacht officer, saved Lithuanian Jews from extermination during The Holocaust, Righteous among the Nations
Karl-Otto Koch (1897–1945), commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen
Josef Ganz (1898–1967), automotive engineer and pioneer, studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt
Heinrich von Brentano (1904–1964), Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1955 to 1961
Hans Möser (1906–1948), Nazi SS concentration camp officer executed for war crimes
Walter Schmiele (1909–1998), author and translator
Zinaida Petrovna Ziberova (born 1909), composer
Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), author and translator
Hans Stark (1921–1991), head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration camp
Georg Stern (1921–1980), operatic singer
Richard von Frankenberg (1922–1973), journalist and racing driver
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007), leading 20th-century electronic composer
Günter Strack (1929–1999), actor
Maciej Łukaszczyk (1934–2014), Polish pianist at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, founder and president of the Chopin organisation, porter of the Polish and German order
Helmut Markwort (born 1936), journalist
Annegret Soltau (born 1946), artist
Cord Meijering (born 1955), Dutch composer
Christoph Lanz (born 1959), journalist
Volker Weidermann (born 1969), writer and journalist
Florika Fink-Hooijer (born 1962), prominent European civil servant
Markus Rühl (born 1972), bodybuilder
Nina Gerhard (born 1974), singer
Sascha Bert (born 1975), racing driver
Karola Obermüller (born 1977), composer
Björn Bürger (born 1985), operatic baritone
Andrea Petkovic (born 1987), tennis player
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