Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Herrmann Hengstenberg,was a German Lutheran churchman and neo-Lutheran theologian from an old and important Dortmund family.
Heinrich Karl Ludolf von Sybel was a German historian.
Ernst Ludwig Dümmler was a German historian.
Walter Simons was a German lawyer and politician. He was Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic in 1920-21 and served as president of the Reichsgericht from 1922 to 1929.
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm was a German lawyer,politician,and diplomat. He was the mayor of Danzig from 1919 and President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig under League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1931. Subsequently,he served as mayor of Berlin until 1935,and joined the Nazi Party in 1933. From 1936 until his death,Sahm served as the ambassador of the German Reich to Norway.
Harry Bresslau was a German historian and scholar of state papers and of historical and literary muniments. He was born in Dannenberg/Elbe and died in Heidelberg. He is the father of Ernst Bresslau and his daughter,Helene married the polymath,Albert Schweitzer.
Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg was a German jurist and Prussian politician.
Friedrich Wilhelm,Count of Brandenburg was a morganatic son of King Frederick William II and politician,who served as Minister President of Prussia from 1848 until his death.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron was a German Ambassador to the United States under the Weimar Republic,from 1928 until 14 April 1933. He was in office at the time that Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany,and resigned from the diplomatic corps in protest the day after Hitler was appointed Chancellor. He had hosted German Jewish playwright Lion Feuchtwanger at a dinner that day. On the day of his resignation,Prittwitz called Feuchtwanger and recommended that he not return to Germany. In 1945 he was a founding member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria,and he served as a member of the Parliament of Bavaria from 1946 to 1954.
Arnold Heinrich Albert von Maybach was a German lawyer,politician and railway manager.
Friedrich von Müller was a German physician remembered for describing Müller's sign. He was the son of the head of the medical department in the hospital in Augsburg. He studied natural sciences in Munich and medicine in Munich,under Carl von Voit,and Würzburg. He was awarded his doctorate in Munich in 1882,and became assistant to Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt in Würzburg and later Berlin. He was habilitated in internal medicine in 1888 and became professor of clinical propaedeutics and laryngology in Bonn. He moved to Breslau in 1890,Marburg in 1892,and Basel in 1899,before returning to Munich in 1902. His approach to clinical teaching and how to improve medical education were widely recognised and influenced medical education in the UK and USA.
Victor I,Duke of Ratibor,Prince of Corvey,Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst was a member of House of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst and later Duke of the Silesian duchy of Ratibor and Prince of Corvey.
Ernst Constantin Ranke was a German Protestant theologian;since 1850,a professor of church history. He was the brother of historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886),theologian Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798–1876) and philologist Karl Ferdinand Ranke (1802–1876).
Lieutenant general Ernst Ludwig von Tippelskirch was a Prussian Army officer during the Napoleonic wars. Later he was commandant of Berlin and commander of the Royal Prussian State Gendarmerie.
Erich Marcks was a German historian.
Ernst Brandes was a German lawyer,estate manager and politician. During the Weimar Republic he was an influential agricultural administrator at the state and national levels. After the Nazi Party came to power,he was removed from his administrative positions.
Carl Ferdinand,Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg was a Prussian mining industrialist and Free Conservative politician. As a Privy Councilor of Commerce,baron,member of the Prussian House of Representatives,member of the Reichstag and founding chairman of the German Reich Party,he was one of the most influential men in Prussia and one of the richest people in the German Empire.
Hans Otto Theodor von Bülow was a German diplomat.
Hans Christian Friedrich Wilhelm,Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten was a Prussian civil servant and politician who served as Interior Minister.
Ernst Georg,Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten was a German lawyer and politician in the Kingdom of Hanover. After Hanover's annexation by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866,he was Prussian Minister of Agriculture from 1894 to 1901.
