Famous German and Austrian People
Franz Klammer
Austrian champion alpine ski racer
Kurt Waldheim
Austrian president and secretary general
Marlene Dietrich
Famous German born Hollywood actress
Gregor Mendel
Father of modern science and genetics
Angela Merkel
First female German chancellor
Dietrich Bonhoefter
German Lutheran pastor, critic of Hitler and Nazism
Boris Becker
German Tennis player, youngest to win Wimbeldo
Steffi Graf
German Tennis star who won 22 grand slam titles
Walter Gropius
German architect and founder of Bauhaus School
Heidi Klum
German model, TV host, fashion disigner
Lotte Lehmann
German operatic soprano
Helmut Kohl
West German chancellor from 1982 to 1998
Richard Wagnar
a German composer and theater director, and was best known for his operas
Karl Marx
a German philosopher and socialist
Friedrich Nietzsche
a German philosopher in the late 1800s
Adolf Hitler
a German politician and leader of the Nazi party
Albert Einstein
a German scientist who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1921
Martin Luther
a prominent religious figure who helped lead the Protestant movement in Germany
Sigmund Freud
an Austrian psychologist who founded psychoanalysis
Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sissi)
the Empress of Austria, and was the longest serving empress for 44 years
Otto von Bismarck
the first chancellor of a united Germany in the late 1800s
Maria Teresa
the only female ruler and the last ruler of the Habsburgs in Austria
