Professor David Childs
Obituaries
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| Person | Date | Read Article | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leopold Engleitner | 24/05/2013 | Read Article | Leopold Engleitner: Concentration camp survivor |
| Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist | 16/03/2013 | Read Article | Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist last known survivor of the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler |
| Otfried Preussler | 26/02/2013 | Read Article | Otfried Preussler: Bestselling author of children's books |
| Rem Vyakhire | 14/02/2013 | Read Article | Rem Vyakhirev: Gas industry executive who built up Gazprom into a global player |
| Borislav Milosevic | 01/02/2013 | Read Article | Borislav Milosevic: Diplomat who defended his brother Slobodan |
| Leon Leyson | 24/01/2013 | Read Article | Leon Leyson: The youngest worker to be saved by Oskar Schindler |
| Peter Struck | 02/01/2013 | Read Article | Peter Struck: Politician who lost faith in the Afghan campaign |
| Michel Slitinsky | 20/12/2012 | Read Article | Michel Slitinsky: Resistant who exposed Vichyites |
| Birger Stromsheim | 17/12/2012 | Read Article | Birger Stromsheim: One of the ‘Heroes of Telemark’ |
| Sven Hassel | 14/11/2012 | Read Article | Sven Hassel: Soldier who won the Iron Cross and wrote best-sellers |
| Patriarch Maxim | 13/11/2012 | Read Article | Patriarch Maxim: Church leader under communism |
| Wilhelm Brasse | 26/10/2012 | Read Article | Wilhelm Brasse: A photographer in Auschwitz |
| Tomas Sedlacek | 06/09/2012 | Read Article | Tomas Sedlacek: General who fell foul of Stalinism |
| Abune Paulos | 28/08/2012 | Read Article | Abune Paulos: Religious leader and peace activist |
| Walter Haefner | 17/08/2012 | Read Article | Walter Haefner: Businessman and philanthropist |
| Margarete Mitscherlich | 18/06/2012 | Read Article | Margarete Mitscherlich: Psychoanalyst who dealt with German post-war guilt |
| Gunther Kaufmann | 21/05/2012 | Read Article | Gunther Kaufmann: Actor who was a favourite of Fassbinder |
| Fritz Theilen | 03/05/2012 | Read Article | Fritz Theilen: Member of the Edelweiss Pirates, the children who resisted Hitler |
| The Independent | 13/04/2012 | Read Article | Thomas Langhoff: Celebrated actor and theatre director |
| Timo Konietzka | 15/03/2012 | Read Article | Timo Konietzka: Footballer andeuthanasia advocate |
| Knud Wollenberger | 13/03/2012 | Read Article | Knud Wollenberger: Stasi agent who spied on his own family |
| MRD Foot | 02/03/2012 | Read Article | MRD Foot: Historian who chronicled the work of the SOE |
| Leopold Hawelka | 10/02/2012 | Read Article | Leopold Hawelka: Proprietor whose café played its part in the Cold War |
| Kazimierz Smolen | 04/02/2012 | Read Article | Kazimierz Smolen: Auschwitz Museum founder |
| Dr Horst-Eberhard Richter | 24/12/2011 | Read Article | Dr Horst-Eberhard Richter: Peace activist and psychoanalyst |
| Friedrich Kittler | 21/11/2011 | Read Article | Friedrich Kittler: Media theorist influential in the fields of literary and cultural studies |
| Manfred Gerlach | 25/10/2011 | Read Article | Manfred Gerlach:Last head of state of East Germany |
| General John Shalikashvili | 03/08/2011 | Read Article | First foreign-born soldier to rise to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| Leo Kirch | 16/07/2011 | Read Article | Leo Kirch: Entrepreneur who built up one of Europe's largest media empires only to see it fall apart |
| Hansjoachim Tiedge | 14/07/2011 | Read Article | Hansjoachim Tiedge: Intelligence officer whose defection to the East caused panic in the West |
| Detlef Girrmann | 08/07/2011 | Read Article | Detlef Girrmann: Lawyer who helped hundreds of students escape from East Germany |
| Professor Christian Lambertsen | 07/05/2011 | Read Article | Professor Christian Lambertsen: Inventor of the scuba device known as 'father of the frogmen' |
| Arnost Lustig | 01/03/2011 | Read Article | Arnost Lustig: Survivor of three Nazi concentration camps who became an award-winning author and aca |
| Walter Haussermann | 14/02/2011 | Read Article | Walter Haussermann: Rocket scientist who worked on V1s and V2s then later for Nasa |
| Lord Windlesham | 05/02/2011 | Read Article | Lord Windlesham: Government minister who fell out with Thatcher over 'Death on the Rock' |
| Jiri Dienstbier | 18/01/2011 | Read Article | Jiri Dienstbier: Czech politician who supported the ‘Prague Spring’ and served in his country’s firs |
| Gerhard Beil | 06/11/2010 | Read Article | Gerhard Beil: Politician who helped bring down the Berlin Wall |
| Hannelore Schmidt | 28/10/2010 | Read Article | Hannelore Schmidt: Conservationist who worked to protect endangered plants |
| Walter Womacka | 24/09/2010 | Read Article | Walter Womacka: East German painter who remained loyal to communism all his life |
| Bärbel Bohley | 15/09/2010 | Read Article | Bärbel Bohley: Political activist who played a key role in the dismantling of the East German state |
| Benjamin Kaplan | 10/09/2010 | Read Article | Judge who played a crucial role in preparations for the Nuremberg trials |
| Markus Liebherr | 27/08/2010 | Read Article | Entrepreneur who saved Southampton FC |
| Geoffrey Johnson Smith | 26/08/2010 | Read Article | Television journalist who became a Conservative M |
| Doctor Hans Sewering | 17/08/2010 | Read Article | Doctor Hans Sewering: Physician whose activities under the Nazis caused controversy in later years |
| Günter Behnisch | 07/08/2010 | Read Article | Günter Behnisch: The architect behind Munich's groundbreaking Olympic Stadium |
| Suzanne von Paczensky | 12/07/2010 | Read Article | Suzanne von Paczensky: Campaigning journalist who fought for women's rights |
| Colonel Bud Mahurin | 10/06/2010 | Read Article | Colonel Bud Mahurin: Pilot who shot down enemies over both Europe and the Pacific in the Second Worl |
| Günter Wendt | 27/05/2010 | Read Article | Günter Wendt: Space engineer who fought for Germany in the Second World War then worked on Nasa’s Ap |
| Elisabeth Noelle Neumann | 10/04/2010 | Read Article | Elisabeth Noelle Neumann was an internationally recognised pioneer of public opinion research who en |
| Wolfgang Wagner | 24/03/2010 | Read Article | Composer's grandson who ran the Bayreuth Festival in sometimes controversial circumstances |
| Professor Gordon Smith | 01/03/2010 | Read Article | Pioneer in the study of German and comparative European politics |
| Freya Gräfin von Moltke | 08/01/2010 | Read Article | Freya Gräfin von Moltke was one of the last survivors of the Gestapo purge after the failed attempt |
| John Hurst | 31/12/2009 | Read Article | John Hurst was a passionate campaigner for the NHS, civil liberties and public housing. Born in Redc |
| Hans Matthöfer | 28/12/2009 | Read Article | Hans Matthöfer was the West German trade unionist who became Finance Minister under Helmut Schmidt a |
| Otto Graf Lambsdorff | 15/12/2009 | Read Article | Otto Graf Lambsdorff, as he was known, had the distinction of serving as economics minister in Helmu |
| Günther Rall | 08/12/2009 | Read Article | Günther Rall, a seasoned German fighter ace who was still only 23 years old, was told he would not w |
| Günter Kießling | 08/12/2009 | Read Article | The dismissal of General Günter Kießling at the end of 1983 sent shock waves through Nato and the Ge |
| Bishop Werner Krusche | 13/11/2009 | Read Article | Werner Krusche was a bishop in the East German Protestant Church who clashed with the ruling SED, Co |
| Josef Burg | 29/09/2009 | Read Article | The award-winning Yiddish author Josef Burg was one of the few remaining known Yiddish authors in Eu |
| Karel Van Miert | 13/07/2009 | Read Article | Karel Van Miert was best known for his work as European competition commissioner from 1993 to 1999, |
| Lord Dahrendorf | 23/06/2009 | Read Article | The son of a Social Democratic Party politician and journalist, Ralf Dahrendorf looked destined for |
| Elfriede Gerstl | 29/05/2009 | Read Article | Elfriede Gerstl was an award-winning Viennese writer and feminist campaigner who, as a Jewish child |
| Albrecht Schonherr | 19/03/2009 | Read Article | Albrecht Schönherr helped to ensure that no blood was spilled during the struggles which led to Germ |
| Domenica Niehoff | 07/03/2009 | Read Article | Known to her clients and her many fans as "Hamburg Domenica", Germany's best-known prostitute, Domen |
| Konrad Dannenberg | 20/02/2009 | Read Article | Konrad Dannenberg was key to the NASA space programme which enabled Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin t |
| Hans Beck | 12/02/2009 | Read Article | Hans Beck's invention, Playmobil, transformed a small, little-known toy firm into one of the leading |
| Adolf Merckle | 09/02/2009 | Read Article | Adolf Merckle was one of Germany’s, and the world’s, richest entrepreneurs who, after 40 years of su |
| Johannes Mario Simmel | 16/01/2009 | Read Article | The writer Johannes Mario Simmel wrote 35 novels whose serious themes – the Third Reich, the Cold Wa |
| Jörg Haider | 13/10/2008 | Read Article | Jörg Haider, the right-wing Austrian politician and governor of Carinthia, was killed in a car accid |
| Fred Sinowatz | 08/09/2008 | Read Article | Jörg Haider, the right-wing Austrian politician and governor of Carinthia, was killed in a car accid |
| Wolfgang Vogel | 25/08/2008 | Read Article | Wolfgang Vogel lurked in and out of the shadows of Cold War Germany. He was known to many prominent |
| Lenka Reinerova | 28/07/2008 | Read Article | Lenka Reinerova was one of that remarkable group of German-speaking writers which included Max Brod, |
| Erwin Wickert | 19/06/2008 | Read Article | The diplomat Erwin Wickert witnessed the war in China, the beginning of change after Mao and faced B |
| Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager | 05/05/2008 | Read Article | Philipp von Boeselager was haunted for most of his life by the fact that, as a 25-year-old lieutenan |
| Annemarie Renger | 17/03/2008 | Read Article | The slight, elegant figure of Annemarie Renger was a familiar sight in leading West German circles f |
| Walter Kempowski | 11/10/2007 | Read Article | Walter Kempowski was one of Germany's most widely read and prolific authors, with about 40 books to |
| Jupp Derwall | 28/09/2007 | Read Article | The football coach Jupp Derwall took the West German national team to victory in the 1980 European c |
| Marion Grafin Yorck von Wartenburg | 28/06/2007 | Read Article | Despite her success as a judge in post-war Berlin, Marion Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg never escaped |
| Kurt Waldheim | 15/06/2007 | Read Article | Very few Austrian politicians since 1945 have been known outside their own country, even in neighbou |
| Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker | 23/05/2007 | Read Article | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was the last of the German team who researched atomic weapons for the |
| Professor Werner Maser | 02/05/2007 | Read Article | Werner Maser was best known for his 1971 study of Hitler, Adolf Hitler: Legende, Mythos, Wirklichkei |
| Hans Filbinger | 09/04/2007 | Read Article | Hans Filbinger's life revealed how Hitler's Third Reich has continued to haunt the German political |
| Markus Wolf | 10/11/2006 | Read Article | Markus Wolf was a former head of the East German foreign intelligence division of the Ministry for S |
| Joachim Fest | 14/09/2006 | Read Article | Although he wrote about many aspects of the Germany of his childhood, Nazi Germany, Joachim Fest wil |
| Klaus Conrad | 02/09/2006 | Read Article | Josef Klaus appeared to be inaugurating a new era in Austrian politics when he headed the first sing |
| Rainer Barzel | 29/08/2006 | Read Article | Rainer Barzel chaired the German Christian Democratic parliamentary group for 10 years, later becomi |
| Rut Brandt | 05/08/2006 | Read Article | Rut Brandt was for 32 years married to Willy Brandt, supporting him during his early political caree |
| Johannes Rau | 28/01/2006 | Read Article | As President of Germany from 1999 to 2004, Johannes Rau urged his fellow citizens to open their door |
| Franz Schönhuber | 30/11/2005 | Read Article | Franz Schönhuber hit the headlines in 1981 after he was fired from his job as deputy chief editor of |
| Geoffrey Stern | 22/10/2005 | Read Article | Geoffrey Stern spent all his working career as an international relations specialist at the London S |
| Carl Amery | 13/08/2005 | Read Article | Carl Amery was one of the spiritual fathers of the German Greens and influenced the ecology movement |
| Paul Ricoeur | 25/05/2005 | Read Article | The philosopher Paul Ricoeur was the last of the dazzling group of French intellectuals who came to |
| Prof Kurt Sontheimer | 21/05/2005 | Read Article | Kurt Sontheimer was one of the most influential German intellectuals of the post-war generation, who |
| Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski | 28/02/2005 | Read Article | The German Social Democratic minister Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski came to world prominence in October 19 |
| Prof Josef Paul Kleihues | 10/09/2004 | Read Article | Josef Paul Kleihues was an outstanding architect who over decades helped to transform the face of Be |
| Rudolf Miele | 02/09/2004 | More Info | |
| Günter Rexrodt | 24/08/2004 | More Info | |
| Prof Wolfgang Mommsen | 19/08/2004 | More Info | |
| Joseph Rovan | 02/08/2004 | More Info | |
| Walter Frentz | 27/07/2004 | More Info | |
| Walter Wager | 20/07/2004 | More Info | |
| Inge Meysel | 14/07/2004 | More Info | |
| Thomas Klestil | 08/07/2004 | More Info | |
| Hans Guido Mutke | 01/05/2004 | More Info | |
| Christel Bloom | 09/04/2004 | More Info | |
| Cyla Wiesenthal | 22/11/2003 | More Info | |
| Robert Lochner | 10/10/2003 | More Info | |
| Peter Hacks | 19/09/2003 | More Info | |
| Leni Riefenstahl | 16/09/2003 | More Info | |
| Ludwig Bölkow | 31/07/2003 | More Info | |
| Pierre Graber | 29/07/2003 | More Info | |
| Walter Zapp | 25/07/2003 | More Info | |
| Gerhard Rosenfeld | 22/03/2003 | More Info | |
| Horst Buchholz | 05/03/2003 | More Info | |
| Anton Malloth | 19/12/2002 | More Info | |
| Werner Eberlein | 09/11/2002 | More Info | |
| Fritz Hippler | 18/10/2002 | More Info | |
| John Willett - Expanded | 17/09/2002 | More Info | |
| Horst Wendlandt | 09/09/2002 | More Info | |
| Per Anger | 30/08/2002 | More Info | |
| John Willett | 26/08/2002 | More Info | |
| Alfred Dregger | 12/08/2002 | More Info | |
| Lt-Gen Gerhard Wessel | 02/08/2002 | More Info | |
| Horst Waffenschmidt | 10/06/2002 | More Info | |
| Fritz Heine | 18/05/2002 | More Info | |
| Richard Stücklen | 14/05/2002 | More Info | |
| Rudolf Hell | 08/04/2002 | More Info | |
| Luise Rinser | 03/04/2002 | More Info | |
| Lotte Ulbricht | 29/03/2002 | More Info | |
| Traudl Junge | 18/02/2002 | More Info | |
| General Alfred Krause | 03/12/2001 | More Info | |
| Regine Hildebrandt | 30/11/2001 | More Info | |
| Thomas Brasch | 29/11/2001 | More Info | |
| Gerhard Stoltenberg | 27/11/2001 | More Info | |
| Emilie Schindler | 08/10/2001 | More Info | |
| Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler | 04/10/2001 | More Info | |
| Beate Uhse | 10/09/2001 | More Info | |
| Josef Klaus | 30/07/2001 | More Info | |
| Otto Rosenberg | 14/07/2001 | More Info | |
| Hannelore Kohl | 11/07/2001 | More Info | |
| Prof Emil Bücherl | 11/07/2001 | More Info | |
| Prof Hans Mayer | 16/06/2001 | More Info | |
| Peter Bielenberg | 05/04/2001 | More Info | |
| Hilmar Pabel | 21/11/2000 | More Info | |
| Josef Felder | 01/11/2000 | More Info | |
| Ron Fryer | 17/08/2000 | More Info | |
| Fred Gebhardt | 17/08/2000 | More Info | |
| Jan Karski | 17/07/2000 | More Info | |
| Ruth Werner | 10/07/2000 | More Info | |
| Erich Mielke | 27/05/2000 | More Info | |
| Rudolf Kirchschläger | 01/04/2000 | More Info | |
| Gerald Graber | 01/03/2000 | More Info | |
| Ibrahim Böhme | 06/01/2000 | More Info | |
| Crezentia Troike-Loewig | 31/08/1999 | More Info | |
| Theodor Eschenburg | 03/08/1999 | More Info | |
| Jürgen Fuchs | 15/05/1999 | More Info | |
| Willi Stoph | 21/04/1999 | More Info | |
| Michaela Geiger | 26/01/1999 | More Info | |
| Kenneth Duke | 19/01/1999 | More Info | |
| Sebastian Haffner | 11/01/1999 | More Info | |
| Max Streibl | 14/12/1998 | More Info | |
| Professor Niklas Luhmann | 28/11/1998 | More Info | |
| Gerhard Jahn | 24/10/1998 | More Info | |
| Jean-Pascal Delamuraz | 06/10/1998 | More Info | |
| Kurt Hager | 21/09/1998 | More Info | |
| Admiral Otto Kretschmer | 25/08/1998 | More Info | |
| Hellmut Andics | 21/08/1998 | More Info | |
| Professor Richard Hiscocks | 11/08/1998 | More Info | |
| Karl Schirdewan | 10/08/1998 | More Info | |
| Professor Bernhard Häring | 11/07/1998 | More Info | |
| Jafar Sharif Emami | 04/07/1998 | More Info | |
| Ernst Brugger | 30/06/1998 | More Info | |
| Gerhard Gundermann | 24/06/1998 | More Info | |
| Richard Jaeger | 09/06/1998 | More Info | |
| Theodor Oberländer | 01/06/1998 | More Info | |
| Hermann Lenz | 15/05/1998 | More Info | |
| Erich Mende | 08/05/1998 | More Info | |
| Hans Joachim von Ohain | 29/04/1998 | More Info | |
| Professor Richard Pear | 04/03/1998 | More Info | |
| Erich Mückenberger | 23/02/1998 | More Info | |
| Roger Loewig | 26/11/1997 | More Info | |
| Otto Ernst Remer | 09/10/1997 | More Info | |
| Professor Jürgen Kuczynski | 13/08/1997 | More Info | |
| Kai-Uwe von Hassel | 10/04/1997 | More Info | |
| Otto John | 01/04/1997 | More Info | |
| Gerd Bucerius | 02/10/1995 | More Info | |
| Egon Franke | 21/06/1995 | More Info | |
| Harry Tisch | 20/06/1995 | More Info | |
| Günter Guillaume | 14/04/1995 | More Info | |
| Wolfgang Harich | 22/03/1995 | More Info | |
| Alexander Stahlberg | 22/02/1995 | More Info | |
| Professor Karl Schiller | 28/12/1994 | More Info | |
| Professor David Regan | 15/09/1994 | More Info | |
| Manfred Wörner | 15/08/1994 | More Info | |
| Erich Honecker | 30/05/1994 | More Info | |
| Heinz-Werner Meyer | 16/05/1994 | More Info | |
| Günter Mittag | 21/03/1994 | More Info | |
| Norbert Burger | 04/10/1992 | More Info | |
| Joachim Herrmann | 06/08/1992 | More Info | |
| Lutz Stravenhagen | 02/06/1992 | More Info | |
| Karl Carstens | 01/06/1992 | More Info | |
| Detlev Rohwedder | 03/04/1991 | More Info | |
| Horst Bienek | 18/12/1990 | More Info | |
| Johannes von Thurn und Taxis | 17/12/1990 | More Info | |
| Werner Jarowinsky | 16/11/1990 | More Info | |
| Horst Sindermann | 25/04/1990 | More Info | |
| Herbert Wehner | 05/02/1990 | More Info | |
| Werner Felfe | 09/09/1988 | More Info |
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