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Star of stage in Europe, she became just another "Another Garbo," like Anna Sten and others, whose importation to 1930's Hollywood led to movie stardom nary a whit. Her most often-seen performance is her brief role as the governess to the Empress's very young son in "The Song of Bernadette", who takes what is believed to be miraculous water from the grotto. She eventually went to Eastern Europe and into oblivion.- Sabine Schmitz was born on 14 May 1969 in Adenau, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany [now Germany]. She was married to Reck and Klaus Abbelen. She died on 16 March 2021 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Born in 1912 Adolf Galland became the youngest "General der Jagdflieger" (General of Fighters) in November 1941 at the age of 29. One of Germany's best known Luftwaffe Aces with 104 "kills", Galland was also famous for his alleged remark "give me a staffel of Spitfires". This remark was allegedly made during the actual Battle of Britain in 1940 to Hermann Göring when he questioned the bravery of the escort pilots led by Galland. However Galland denied he ever made the remark. Adolf Galland was seen by Allied pilots as a brave adversary who cared about those around him. He died at age 83 on February 9, 1996.- Ute Kittelberger was born on 7 October 1958 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She was an actress, known for Zwei im 7. Himmel (1974), Ludwig Ganghofer: Der Edelweißkönig (1975) and Schloß Hubertus (1973). She was married to Thomas Hensel and Bernd Clüver. She died on 4 September 2021 in Wachenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Helga Bender was born in 1942 in Kamenz, Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for Clattering Chastity Belts (1974), I Like the Girls Who Do (1973) and Laß jucken Kumpel 2. Teil: Das Bullenkloster (1973). She was married to Anton Maria Keim. She died in June 2018 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Judy Marie Bedard was born on 24 January 1963 in Escanaba, Michigan, USA. Judy Marie died on 20 March 2018 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA.
- Helmut Kohl earned his place in history by securing the successful reunification of Germany after the collapse of communism. His 16 years in office made him the longest-serving German chancellor since Bismarck and he was once described as the greatest European leader in the second half of the 20th Century. He was a passionate supporter of greater European integration and was one of the main architects of the Maastricht Treaty. Yet the end of his career was marred by economic problems in the old East Germany and a financial scandal within his own CDU party. Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was born on 3 April 1930 into a conservative, Catholic family, His political outlook was shaped by his experiences in his hometown of Ludwigshafen in the Rhineland during World War Two. Because of its huge chemical works, the town was heavily bombed and, at the age of 12, the young Helmut found himself helping to recover the charred bodies of his neighbours from the rubble. What he once described as "the blessing of a late birth" freed him from any taints of Nazism.
After studying politics and law at Heidelberg University, Kohl entered politics in the German federal system where, in the Rhineland Palatinate, he rose to become the youngest Land [federal state] minister-president at the age of 39. He built up a large network of political allies and forced through important changes, among them the law that outlawed denominational schools unless 80% of the parents approved. Three years later, Kohl became national chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the dominant post-war West German political party. He was the CDU's candidate for chancellor in the 1976 election, but was defeated by the Social Democrat/Free Democrat coalition of Helmut Schmidt. Four years later, Kohl looked on as another CDU candidate, and great rival, the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss, also went down to defeat by Schmidt. A bear of a man, Kohl was often ridiculed for his love of food - one nickname being "Birne" or pear - and for his often clumsy provincial manner. Beyond this, Kohl's critics relentlessly mocked him for what they said was his lacklustre oratory and apparent lack of vision. But many underestimated his ability to wield power, which he managed through a complex, but highly effective, network of patronage and political cronies.
In 1982, after the Free Democrats had left the ruling coalition, he took over as chancellor from Helmut Schmidt, and would go on to win the next four general elections, staying in power for 16 years. The 1980s witnessed a golden age of German economic and political power. Together with his closest ally, France's President Mitterrand, Kohl shaped the federal ideal of the European Union and laid the groundwork for the creation of the single currency. In 1987 there was a groundbreaking visit to West Germany by the East German leader, Erich Honecker. It was part of Kohl's policy of detente with the East, something his party had firmly rejected just 20 years before. Two years later, the Berlin Wall came down and Kohl began the negotiations that would lead to reunification.
Having realised that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts to reform communism would fail, Kohl persuaded him to withdraw from East Germany, while allowing a reunited Germany to remain a member of Nato. The 350,000 Soviet troops based in the East were sent home, the costs borne by the West German government. On 3 October 1990, East Germany ceased to exist with its five historical states becoming part of the new federal republic. Kohl's drive for reunification was not welcomed by everyone, with Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir publicly opposing it. While broadly welcomed by the West, there were concerns, notably in Britain and Poland, that a strong unified Germany would come to dominate the continent.
But Kohl was able to convince Gorbachev and US President George HW Bush that a united Germany would not destabilize or threaten Europe in the way Hitler's Germany had done. "George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity," he said. Kohl also made the political decision to grant East Germans immediate economic parity, even though his central bankers told him of the massive economic dislocation this would incur. They predicted correctly that Germany's economy would be badly affected for a decade. Even so, Helmut Kohl had pulled off a remarkable political coup that might not have occurred had he dithered. But the huge economic repercussions of reunification robbed him of some of the popularity he might have expected, particularly in the former East where, during one visit, he was pelted with eggs. Under his rule, the East suffered an economic collapse, with high rates of poverty and unemployment the norm. And the costs of reunification led to an economic downturn throughout Germany.
He was slow to respond when neo-Nazis burned down the homes of immigrant Turkish families and hostels for refugees from Africa. He sometimes pushed aside the concerns of smaller nations to the east, like the Czechs and the Poles. And he had a strained relationship with the UK and other countries that did not share his vision of a federal Europe. Chief among Kohl's perceived antagonists was Margaret Thatcher. In a revealing volume of autobiography, published in 2005, he alleged that her anger boiled over in December 1989 after she was obliged to sign a communique supporting German reunification
"I will never forget Margaret Thatcher's angry observation: 'We have beaten the Germans twice. Now they're back.'" After he lost power in elections in 1998, it was revealed that Kohl had accepted, for his party, millions of dollars of secret political donations. Despite refusing to name the donors, and despite his destroying much potentially incriminating evidence before he left the chancellery, he was spared possible corruption charges out of respect for his years of leadership. But his reputation was badly damaged. To his opponents, Helmut Kohl could be insensitive and a bully. The suicide of his wife, Hannelore, in July 2001, seemed to exemplify his political and personal eclipse. In 2010, an ailing Helmut Kohl joined Chancellor Angela Merkel in celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of German reunification, something that will be seen as his greatest achievement. "I have been underestimated for decades," he once said. "I have done very well that way." - Music Department
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Hildegard von Bingen was born on 16 September 1098 in Bermersheim vor der Höhe, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She was a composer and writer, known for Breath of God, Personal Shopper (2016) and A Beautiful Mind (2001). She died on 17 September 1179 in Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Theodore Olsen was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He graduated from Rhinelander High School in 1950 and from Stevens Point State College (now the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point) in 1955. Originally, he had planned on being a comic strip artist but eventually found his passion in writing rather than in art. In 1955, after many rewrites, he sold his first book, Valley of the Hunted to Ace Books. It was published in 1956 as Haven of the Hunted. Olsen has written other genres besides westerns, including adventure, gothic, romance and historical. He has written under various pen names as well, such as Christopher Storm, Cass Willoughby, and Joshua Stark. His novel The Stalking Moon was made into a movie The Stalking Moon (1968) and his novel Arrow in the Sun became the movie Soldier Blue (1970) in 1970. He died of a stroke on July 13, 1993 at his home in Rhinelander at the age of 61.
- Hannelore Kohl (7 March 1933 in Berlin - 5 July 2001) was the first wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old.
She was born in Berlin and was christened Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner. Her father Wilhelm Renner, who joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1933, was Wehrwirtschaftsführer at Hugo Schneider AG and also headed the employment office that developed the anti-tank weapon Panzerfaust.
Later, she chose the portmanteau "Hannelore" to be used as her first name.
In the days following Germany's defeat in World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subsequently "thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes by the Russians." In addition to the obvious psychological impact, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life. In order to help others with similar injuries, in 1983 she founded the Kuratorium ZNS, a foundation that helps those with trauma-induced injuries to the central nervous system, and became its president.
On 5 July 2001, Hannelore was found dead at age 68 in her Ludwigshafen home. She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of medication, after years of suffering from what she had claimed to be a very rare and painful allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years. Hannelore's biographer, Heribert Schwan, cited "medical experts to support his theory that the bizarre light allergy of her later years may have been a psychosomatic reaction to the suppressed traumas of the war." In 2005, the Kuratorium ZNS was renamed ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Stiftung in her honor.
Kohl's collection of German-style cooking recipes, Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions), was published in 1996. - Actor
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Rolf Schult was born on 16 April 1927 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Sturm (1969), Eden End (1977) and Wer zu spät kommt - Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990). He died on 13 March 2013 in Horhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Director
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Frank Wisbar was born on 9 December 1899 in Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and producer, known for Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959), Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten (1935) and Strangler of the Swamp (1945). He died on 17 March 1967 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Director
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Baldur von Schirach was born on 9 May 1907 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director, known for Before the Fall (2004), Nürnberg NSDAP Parteitag August 1-4, 1929 (1929) and Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933). He was married to Henrietta von Schirach. He died on 8 August 1974 in Kröv, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Sound Department
Heino Rindsfüsser was born on 1 April 1945. Heino is known for Das literarische Quartett (1988). Heino died on 14 October 2020 in Traisen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Director
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Phil Jutzi was born on 22 July 1896 in Altleiningen, Palatinate, Bavaria [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. She was a director and cinematographer, known for Die das Licht scheuen...! Aus dem Tagebuch des Meisterdetektivs Ferry White (1919), Kladd und Datsch, die Pechvögel (1926) and Der maskierte Schrecken (1921). She was married to Emmy Philippine. She died on 1 May 1946 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Fritz Walter was born on 31 October 1920 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das große Spiel (1942), Squirrel (1955) and V FIFA World Cup 1954 (1954). He was married to Italia Bartolucci. He died on 17 June 2002 in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Josef Stingl was born on 19 March 1919 in Maria-Kulm, Czechoslovakia [now Chlum Svaté Marí, Czech Republic]. He was married to Elvira Lougear and Dorothea Behmke. He died on 19 March 2004 in Leutesdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Holger Meins is nomally known as a member of the so-called "first generation" of the German left-terrorist group RAF ("Rote Armee Fraktion", "Red Army Fraction"; aka "Baader Meinhof Group"), and he is famous for being the first group member to die in prison due to the physical consequences of his long-lasting hunger-strike. Meins was among the first 2 dozen students of the Berliner Film-und Fernseh-Akademie (Berlin Film and Television Academy) founded in 1966. Already open for communist ideology, he produced a small number of films of which several belong to the "Agitprop" genre (agitation and propaganda), e.g. a filmographic manual on how to produce a Molotov cocktail. His life has been documented by Gerd Conradt in the documentary movie Starbuck Holger Meins (2002).- Johannes Gutenberg was born in 1398 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He died on 3 February 1468 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Willy Brandt was born on 18 December 1913 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was married to Brigitte Seebacher, Rut Brandt and Carlota Thorkildsen. He died on 8 October 1992 in Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- The father was a member of the Prussian manor house and a member of the Reichstag. In 1924, Marion Dönhoff survived a serious accident when, as a passenger in a car with several other children, she fell into the Pregel on the way back from a trip to the Baltic Sea resort of Cranz. She was the last one to free herself from the car. Her cousin Huberta Kanitz and Franz Coudenhove were found dead hours later. The family sent her to a girls' boarding school in Berlin, against whose strict rules the girl rebelled. After two years she was allowed to transfer to a high school in Potsdam, where she lived with a family friend and was the only girl in a boys' class to pass her Abitur in 1929. She then attended a household school in Samaden near St. Moritz, made a tour of the USA and from December 1930 spent a long time with her brother Christoph in Africa near Nairobi.
From 1932 Dönhoff studied economics in Frankfurt/M. After the National Socialist seizure of power at the beginning of 1933, Dönhoff publicly rejected the National Socialists, for example by distributing leaflets with oppositional content. During this time she was known as the "Red Countess" because she sympathized with the left. Countess Dönhoff emigrated to Basel to avoid persecution. In 1935, Dönhoff received his doctorate on a topic about family property. She then went on longer trips, including to Africa. After her return, she worked in the administration of the family estate from 1937, which she took over when the war broke out. Between 1940 and 1945 she was active as a resistance fighter under the guise of a noblewoman loyal to the regime. As part of the investigation into the failed assassination attempt on Hitler by Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg on July 20, 1944, Dönhoff was also suspected of complicity, but she was quickly released.
When the Soviet army invaded, she fled from Friedrichstein Castle, which was set on fire and completely destroyed by the Red Army. In the immediate post-war period, two statements about National Socialism written by Dönhoff for the British occupying power went unnoticed. As an observer at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, she criticized the victorious powers' one-sided image of Germany, in which the German resistance movement remained unnoticed. From 1946, Dönhoff worked for the weekly newspaper "DIE ZEIT", whose editorial team had previously become aware of her two statements on National Socialism. Many of her journalistic contributions are based on her experiences in resistance, international cooperation and the loss of home and are characterized by a critical tone. In 1955, Dönhoff became head of the politics department and deputy editor-in-chief of ZEIT. As a journalist, Dönhoff criticized Adenauer's policies and campaigned for the reunification of Germany.
When construction of the Wall began in August 1961, she came to East Berlin and commented negatively on the progressive separation of the two German states. The following year her book "Names that no one knows anymore: East Prussia, people and history" was published, in which she tells about her escape in 1945. With her participation in the publication "Journey to a Faraway Land - Economics and Politics in the GDR" in 1964, the Countess became involved in an active Eastern policy. Four years later she became editor-in-chief of ZEIT. In 1970 she received an invitation from Willy Brandt to accompany the then Chancellor to the signing of the Warsaw Treaty. The journalist thus received recognition for her political commitment. A year later she was honored with the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for her work towards international reconciliation. Dönhoff became editor of ZEIT in 1972, and she also published her own books.
In 1976 her title "People who know what it's about" was published, in which she examined the political effects of people. She felt committed to the common good and founded the "Marhoff" association in Hamburg in 1981, whose task was to take care of the integration of released prisoners. In "American Baths of Change" (1983) she commented on 40 years of US foreign and domestic policy. Historical observations can be found in her 1987 work "Prussia - Moderation and Intemperance". In 1988, the "Marion Dnhoff Foundation" was founded, which had her book fees and prize money as its financial basis and was the sole heir in her will. The book "Childhood in East Prussia", published in 1988, was an autobiographical work about his own childhood and youth. During this time, Dönhoff received the Heinrich Heine Prize from the city of Düsseldorf. In her acceptance speech she condemned the mutual killing in the Israeli-occupied areas of Palestine This caused the displeasure of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
In the fall of 1992, Dönhoff formulated a manifesto entitled "Because the country must change." The impetus for this was the fundamental change in values in society that, in her view, no longer wanted to know anything about virtues such as fulfillment of duty and a sense of responsibility and was inclined towards self-realization, self-interest and hedonism. Among the seven co-authors of this work were Wilhelm Nölling, Wolfgang Thierse and Edzard Reuter as well as Helmut Schmidt. A year later, the second manifesto "Because the country needs reconciliation" followed, which dealt with the GDR's past and was concerned with reconciliation. In the title "For the Sake of Honor" (1994), Dönhoff wrote about the historical events leading up to Stauffenberg's attempted assassination of Hitler. In 1996 she was awarded the "Erich Kästner Prize" from the Presseclub Dresden e.V. In the same year, Alice Schwarzer's biography of the countess was published.
In 1999, the journalist was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize and the Hermann Sinsheimer Prize. In 1999 she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Hamburg. As an author, she has written more than twenty books. The only luxury she afforded herself were sports cars, which she drove until old age. Marion Countess Dönhoff died at the age of 92 on March 11, 2002 at Crottorf Castle near Friesenhagen in the northern district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2003, the "Marion Dönhoff Foundation" took part in the founding of the Marion Dönhoff Prize, which honors personalities who have committed themselves to international understanding and good relations between Germany and Eastern Europe. - Writer
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Rudolf Herzog was born on 6 December 1869 in Barmen, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Der Abenteurer (1926), Hanseaten (1925) and Die Wiskottens (1926). He was married to Emma Elisabeth Lux and Minna Seiler. He died on 3 February 1943 in Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Hans Hellmut Hillrichs was born on 27 May 1945 in Barsinghausen, Germany. Hans Hellmut was a producer, known for Unternehmen Köpenick (1986) and Terra X - Rätsel alter Weltkulturen (1982). Hans Hellmut was married to Ursula. Hans Hellmut died on 3 April 2024 in Bennhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Renate Brausewetter was born on 1 October 1905 in Málaga, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926), Menschen untereinander (1926) and Schwere Jungs - leichte Mädchen (1927). She was married to Hubert Wagner. She died on 19 August 2006 in Linz am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Gerd Prager was born on 1 February 1920 in Oberplanitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for In Sachen Erzberger gegen Helfferich (1967), Der Bund der Haifische (1961) and Hautfarbe Nebensache (1971). He died on 17 July 1975 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Joachim Engel-Denis was born on 7 November 1933 in Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Firma Hesselbach (1960), Operation Walküre (1971) and 24 Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (1965). He was married to Dagmar Sorel and Gisela Spahlinger. He died on 29 January 2013 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Frank Hensel was born on 9 July 1893 in Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Frank was a producer, known for Ein Feiertag in Hessen-Nassau (1930). Frank died on 23 December 1972 in Bad Breisig, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Onofre Marimón was born on 19 December 1923 in Zárate, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He died on 31 July 1954 in Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Leonhard Joa was born on 9 December 1909 in Carlsberg, Germany. He was married to Luise Fauss and Katharina Becker. He died in 1981 in Carlsberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Manfred Miller was born on 11 April 1943 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Sympathy for the Devil (1972) and Beat-Club (1965). He died on 4 June 2021 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Udo Scholz was born on 15 April 1939 in Lüdenscheid, Germany. He died on 1 July 2020 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Erwin Wickert was born on 7 January 1915 in Bad Freienwalde, Brandenburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for John Rabe (2009), Der Verrat von Ottawa (1956) and Der Klassenaufsatz (1963). He was married to Ingeborg Weides. He died on 26 March 2008 in Remagen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Wolfgang Leonhard was born on 16 April 1921 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder (1962), In the Name of the Revolution (1989) and Pro & Contra (1968). He was married to Elke Schmid and Yvonne Sgarella di Fini. He died on 17 August 2014 in Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Will Glahé was born on 12 February 1902 in Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft (1934), So ein Früchtchen (1942) and Jakob the Liar (1999). He was married to Josefine Schönenkorb. He died on 21 November 1989 in Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Actress
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Friedel Schuster was born on 12 May 1904. She was an actress, known for Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein (1962), The Only Girl (1933) and Junger Herr für Jenny (1964). She was married to Iván Petrovich. She died on 20 January 1983 in Mendig, Rhineland-Palatinate, West-Germany.- Wolf-Dieter Poschmann was born on 22 May 1951 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das aktuelle Sportstudio (1963), ZDF Sport Extra (1980) and Das große Los (1996). He was married to Elfi. He died on 27 August 2021 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Annemarie Renger was born on 7 October 1919 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. She was married to Aleksandar Lonkarevic and Emil Ernst Renger. She died on 3 March 2008 in Oberwinter, Remagen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Jacques Berndorf was born on 22 October 1936 in Duisburg, Germany. He was a writer, known for Brennendes Schweigen (2000) and Wortwechsel (1982). He was married to Angelika Koch, Geli Gatzke-Preute and ???. He died on 3 July 2022 in Dreis-Brück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Erika Köth was born on 15 September 1925 in Darmstadt, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Life and Loves of Mozart (1955), Der Barbier von Sevilla (1959) and Mein ganzes Herz ist voll Musik (1959). She was married to Ernst Dorn. She died on 20 February 1989 in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.- Werner von Moltke was born on 24 May 1936 in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, Germany. He was married to Margitta. He died on 29 July 2019 in Nieder-Olm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Theo Zwierski was born on 21 December 1911 in Berlin, Germany. Theo was a production designer and art director, known for Man on a Tightrope (1953), Night People (1954) and Mein ganzes Herz ist voll Musik (1959). Theo died on 30 January 1989 in Ober-Olm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Karl Mildenberger was born on 23 November 1937 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was married to Miriam and Astrid. He died on 4 October 2018 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Champion shooter and modern pentathlete Heinrch-Georg "Heinz" Hax was born on January 24, 1900 in Berlin, Germany. The son of Olympian Georg Hax, Heinz joined the German Reichswehr in 1918 and achieved the rank of senior lieutenant in 1927. Hax participated in the Olympic games for the first time in 1928 in modern pentathlon (he finished in fifth place). Heinz went on to compete as a sport shooter and won silver medals in the 25 meter rapid-fire pistol event in both the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. Hax was promoted to captain in 1934 before eventually being named chief commander of the 71st Infantry Regiment in 1938. Heinz was then promoted to major and subsequently achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1939. Hax took part in the Polish campaign during World War II, where he earned two Iron Crosses. Moreover, Heinz participated in the Western campaign as a general staff officer. Hax was named colonel in 1942 and became the chief of general staff for the 16th Panzer Corps the following year. On May 4, 1944 Heinz was nominated as the commander of the 111th Panzer-Grenadier Regiment of the 11th Panzer Division (he relinquished that post in November of that same year). Hax took command of the 8th Panzer Division in January, 1945; he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on March 8, 1945.
On April 1, 1945 Heinz became a major general of the 8th Panzer Division and was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves later that same month. Hax surrendered to American troops on May 9, 1945 in Plzen and was handed over to the Soviet Union Red Army. Heinz wound up being sentenced to twenty-five years of compulsory labor and remained a prisoner of war until he was released in October, 1955. Hax returned to the army the following year: He joined the German Bundeswehr with the rank of brigadier general as commander of the 3rd Panzer Division in Buxtehude, Northern Germany and retired in 1961 with the rank of major general as deputy commanding general of the 3rd Army Corps in Koblenz, Germany. Heinz died at age 69 on September 1, 1969 in Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. - Ernst Neger was born on 14 January 1909 in Mainz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Hurra, mir erwe! (1964), Babbelnit (1965) and Mainz bleibt Mainz (1965). He died on 15 January 1989 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Dieter Lintz was born on 9 March 1959 in Konz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was an actor, known for 125 Jahre Trierischer Volksfreund (2000). He died on 9 August 2014 in nearby Temmels, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Karl Lehmann was born on 16 May 1936 in Sigmaringen, Germany. He died on 11 March 2018 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Rudi Zörns was born on 6 February 1922 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He died on 26 January 2009 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Peter Rafael was born on 17 July 1965 in Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany. He died on 22 February 2008 in Bad Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Hajo Schedlich was born on 4 June 1925 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Das Klavier oder Die Geschichte vom Mann, der auszog, eine Insel zu suchen (1967), Bahnwärter Thiel (1968) and Ein heißer Tag (1967). He was married to Mady Riehl. He died on 23 March 2015 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Marie Madeleine was born on 4 April 1881 in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia, Germany. She was a writer, known for Tillas Vormund (1915) and Ihr schlechter Ruf (1922). She was married to Heinrich Georg Ludwig Baron von Puttkamer. She died on 27 September 1944 in Katzenelnbogen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.