Who's Who

WHO'S WHO

Noteworthy people within the Brief History collection

(for artists and cartoonists click here)

A

Adler, Johannes (1899-1963)

Musical instrument manufacturer - see 27/7

B

Bartels, Adolf (1862-1945)

German journalist, writer and poet - see 23.01.1943 - 33/9

Behring, Emil von (1854-1917)

German physiologist

Bergkessel, Erich (1889-????)

Kapitänleutnant - see 08.03.1939

Bochmann, Julius (????-????)

German philatelist and postmark expert

Brauchle, Alfred (1898-1964)

German physician and naturopath

C

Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)

British Prime Minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955

'Give us the tools' speech, February 1941

D

Dahmann, Kurt (1915-2005)

German philatelist - see 33/21

Diebitsch, Karl (1899-1985)

German artist and SS officer responsible for designing much of the SS regalia

Dollfuss, Engelbert (1892-1934)

Austrian politician, President and Dictator of Austria 1932-1934

See 17/80

Dreschel, Margot (1908-1945)

Concentration camp prison guard

F

Fehleisen, Georg (1893-1936)

German architect

Franco, Francisco (1892-1975)

(see P.140 of LBC Spain in Revolt)

Spanish general, dictator

Frederick the Great (1712-1786)

King in/of Prussia

G

Glasewald, A.E. (1861-1926)

German philatelist

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1932)

German polymath

Göring, Hermann (1893-1946) - see 33/43

German politician, aviator, military leader, and convicted war criminal

Göring, Emmy (1893-1973)

Second wife of Hermann Göring

Göring, Edda (1938-2018)

Only daughter of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

Guderian, Heinz (1888-1954)

German general of WWII

H

Heinrich of Saxony, Ernst (1896-1971)

Prince of the Saxon Royal Family

Hindenburg, Paul von (1847-1934)

President of Germany 1925-1934

Högler, Sigmund (????-????)

Retired Lieutenant-Colonel. Jewish persecution.

Höhlig, Martin (1882-1948)

German society photographer

Hompel, Rudolf ten (1878-1948) - postcard sent to Sofie ten Hompel (self-addressed?). A relative? - see 34/53

Horthy, Niklaus (Miklós) (1868-1957)

Hungarian admiral, statesman and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary

I

Imhoff, Sigmuind von (1881-1967)

German Generalmajor

K

Kestenberg, Leo (1882-1962)

Prussian Ministry of Culture in 1932

Kramerius, Václav Matěj (1753-1808)

Czech publisher, important early figures of the Czech National Revival

L

Lämmel, Wilfried (1904-1974)

Kreisleiter and SS-Standartenführer

Lauterbacher, Hartmann (1909 - 1988)

Senior regional leader of the Hitler Youth

Lehár, Franz (1870-1948)

Austro-Hungarian composer

Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von (1870-1964)

German Colonel of WWI, 'Rommel' of East Africa

M

May, Karl (1842-1912)

German writer of adventure novels

Meyer, Dr. Sepp (????-????)

Regierungsdirektor Vienna?, Amts für Kommunalpolitik (Gauleitung Niederdonau)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)

Composer and musician

Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)

Italian Prime Minister (1922-1943), leader of Italian Fascism (1919-1945)

N

Nadolny, Rudolf (1873-1953)

German Diplomat

Neurath, Konstantin von (1873-1956)

Protector of Bohemia and Moravia

P

Paul, Prince Regent (1893-1976) of Yugoslavia

Pictured with Princess Olga (1903-1997).

Pope Pius XI  (1857-1939)

Italian priest, 260th Pope, 1922-1939

R

Roettig, Wilhelm Fritz von (1888-1939)

German general, first general to be killed in World War II

Rosegger, Peter (1843-1918)

Austrian poet and author

S

Sauer, Arthur (1874-1946)

German Chemist and entrepreneur

Schickedanz, Arno (1892-1945)

German journalist

Schirp, Will (1874-1952)

Poet (https://www.heimatjahrbuch-vulkaneifel.de/VT/hjb2009/hjb2009.81.htm) - see 27/36

Schirach, Baldur (1907-1974)

German politician, Leader of the Hitler Youth, Governor of Vienna

Schlegelberger, Franz (1876-1970)

State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice

Schnitzler, George von (1884-1962)

Board member at I G Farben, war criminal

Schönerer, Georg von (1842-1921)

Austrian politician (German nationalist) - see 7/12

Schulenburg, Graf von der (1875-1944)

German diplomat, conspirator of the 20th July Bomb Plot

Schwarz, Franz Xaver (1875-1947)

National Treasurer of the Nazi party

Schweitzer, Hans (1901-1980)

Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design, potage stamp designer

Sieger, Hermann E. (1902-1954)

German National Socialist politician and philatelist

Simmross, Krafft Friedrich Wilhelm (????-????)

German Military Intelligence

Spies, Otto von (????-????)

German Kapitanleutnant ('Arkona', floating anti-aircraft battery)

Spitzweg, Carl (1808-1885)

German artist

Stein, Edith (1891-1942)

Canonised Catholic convert

Stein, Heinrich Friedrich Karl (1757-1831)

Prussian statesman and reformer

Stephan, Heinrich von (1831-1897)

Postal Director for the German Empire

T

Thieme,Clémens (1861-1945)

German architect

Thyssen, 'Fritz' (1873-1951)

German Industrialist

Tschammer, Hans von (1887-1943)

German Reichs Sports Leader

W

Wagner, Josef (1899-1945)

Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South and Gau Silesia, Reichskommissar for Pricing

Wagner, Winifred (1897-1980)

Wife of Siegfried Wagner, Richard Wagner's son.

Webb, Sidney (1859-1947)

British socialist, economist and reformer

Wegerer-Seebach, Asta von (1854-1931)

German poet and composer

Z

Zamenhof, L.L. (1859-1917)

Russian linguist, creator of Espernto

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