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Bavarians are an ethnographic group of Germans of the Bavaria region, a state within Germany. The group's dialect or speech is known as the Bavarian language, native to Altbayern, roughly the territory of the Electorate of Bavaria in the 17th century.
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Fritz Walther Meissner was a German technical physicist.
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Werner Egk, born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer.
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Dießen am Ammersee is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany. It is located on the shores of Ammersee lake.
Bernau am Chiemsee is a municipality in the district of Rosenheim in Germany on the Lake Chiemsee, and a Luftkurort.
Schondorf am Ammersee is a municipality in the district Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany and is a member of the municipal association Schondorf am Ammersee The municipal association based in Schondorf.
Géza von Cziffra was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.
Joseph Anton von Maffei was a German industrialist. Together with Joseph von Baader (1763–1835) and Baron Theodor Freiherr von Cramer-Klett (1817–1884), Maffei was one of the three most important railway pioneers in Bavaria.
Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone, known as Eugénie de Beauharnais, princess of Leuchtenberg was a Franco-German princess. She was the second daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais and Princess Augusta of Bavaria, and a member of the House of Beauharnais. In 1826 she married Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
Richard Trunk was a German composer, pianist, conductor, and critic.
Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878–1965) was a German graphical designer, typographer and illustrator.
Franz Herre is a German biographer, historian and journalist.
Erich Angermann was a German historian for North American history at the University of Cologne.
Ludwig Gustav Wilhelm Scheuermann was a German painter and caricaturist.
, the village is popular with travellers for its water-sports and as the starting point of trips to the Benedictine Andechs Abbey. Herrsching is also a stop for touring steamships of the Bavarian Seenschiffahrt or lake fleet.
