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Ernst Röhm
Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), German Reichswehr officer and SA Chief of Staff, built the Nazi storm troopers into a mass militia, demanded a second revolution, and was murdered by the SS in the Night of the Long Knives, June 30–July 2, 1934.
Ernst Rosell
Ernst Rosell (Ernst Oscar Rosell, 1881–1953), Swedish sport shooter from Jönköpings SG; won Olympic gold in the running deer single shot team event at London 1908 with Alf Swahn, Arvid Knöppel, and Oscar Swahn.
Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg
Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701) was an Austrian imperial field marshal best known for commanding the defense of Vienna against the Ottoman siege of 1683.
Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska was a German physicist and electrical engineer who built the first electron microscope in 1931 and shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Ernst Schröder (mathematician)
Ernst Schröder (1841–1902) was a German mathematician whose three-volume Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik (1890–1905) gave the first abstract lattice theory and the most comprehensive calculus of relations.
Ernst Sigismund Fischer
Ernst Sigismund Fischer (1875–1954) was an Austrian-German mathematician who proved the Fischer–Riesz theorem in 1907, was professor at Erlangen and Cologne, and influenced Emmy Noether.
Ernst Späth
Ernst Späth (1886–1946) was an Austrian chemist at the University of Vienna, regarded as a founder of alkaloid chemistry, who first synthesized mescaline (1919) and nicotine (1928).
Ernst Specker
Ernst Specker (1920–2011) was a Swiss mathematician and logician who spent his career at ETH Zürich, known for the Specker sequence, the Specker theorem, and the Kochen-Specker theorem.
Ernst Stadler
Ernst Stadler (1883–1914) was a German expressionist poet best known for the collection Der Aufbruch and its signature long verse lines; he died in the First World War.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming, the head of the criminal organization SPECTRE and the archenemy of James Bond in novels and films.
Ernst Steinitz
Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928) was a German mathematician born in Silesia whose 1910 paper founded abstract field theory, and who also proved the Steinitz exchange theorem.
Ernst Streng
Ernst Streng (1942-1993), West German track cyclist, RC Schmitter Köln; Olympic gold in the 1964 Tokyo men's 4,000 m team pursuit with Claesges, Henrichs, and Link, beating Italy by 0.07 seconds, plus 1964 world title and 1963 world silver.
Ernst Stückelberg
Ernst Stückelberg (Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg, 1905–1984) was a Swiss theoretical physicist at Geneva and Lausanne who, with André Petermann, discovered the renormalization group in the early 1950s.
Ernst Stueckelberg
Ernst Stueckelberg (1905–1984) was a Swiss theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum field theory, including covariant perturbation theory and the first renormalization group.
Ernst Tanner (businessman)
Ernst Tanner is a business executive who has led the Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli since 1993, as CEO until 2016 and since then as executive chairman.
Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), German communist politician, KPD chairman 1925–1933, Hamburg dockworker background, 1932 presidential candidate, arrested 1933, executed at Buchenwald 1944, later GDR antifascist martyr cult.
Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (1893–1939) was a German dramatist and political activist, the leading German-language playwright of the 1920s, whose best plays were written in prison for his role in the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
Ernst Trommsdorff
Ernst Trommsdorff (1905–1996) was a German chemist at Röhm & Haas in Darmstadt who developed polymerization manufacturing processes and gave his name to the Trommsdorff effect.
Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet (1896-1941) was a German fighter pilot who scored 62 victories in World War I, second only to Manfred von Richthofen, and later oversaw Luftwaffe technical development.
Ernst Vettori
Ernst Vettori, Austrian ski jumper born 1964 in Hall in Tirol; 1992 Albertville Olympic normal hill champion, 1992 team silver, 15 World Cup wins, twice Four Hills winner, later ÖSV sports director 2010–2018.
Ernst von der Recke
Ernst von der Recke (1848–1933) was a Danish poet, playwright, and metrist whose lyrical drama Bertran de Born was a great success at the Royal Theatre in 1873.
Ernst von Dobschütz
Ernst von Dobschütz (1870–1934) was a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar who worked on the New Testament text and its cultural, especially iconographic, afterlife.
Ernst von Koerber
Ernst von Koerber (1850–1919) was an Austrian statesman who served twice as Minister-President of Cisleithanian Austria, from 1900 to 1904 and briefly in 1916, best known for his public-works and press-liberalization program, the Koerber Plan.
Ernst von Leyden
Ernst von Leyden (Ernst Viktor von Leyden, 1832–1910) was a German internist, professor in Berlin, who discovered Charcot–Leyden crystals and treated Bismarck and Tsar Alexander III.
Ernst Weber (electrical engineer)
Ernst Weber (1901–1996) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who founded Polytechnic's Microwave Research Institute and served as the first president of the IEEE in 1963.
Ernst Weiß
Ernst Weiß (1882–1940) was an Austrian physician and writer of German-language expressionist fiction, a friend of Franz Kafka, who died in Paris exile in 1940 and is best known for Der Augenzeuge.
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1802–1869) was a German Protestant theologian who held the Old Testament chair at the University of Berlin from 1826 and edited the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung for 42 years.
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819–1892) was a German-born physiologist who headed physiology at the University of Vienna from 1849 to 1890, taught Sigmund Freud, and postulated water channels in 1843.
Ernst Winter
Ernst Winter (Ernst Friedrich Winter, 1907-1943), German artistic gymnast of Eintracht Frankfurt: 1934 world horizontal bar champion, 1936 Berlin Olympic team gold medalist, missing in action near Stalingrad; distinct from a KPD politician and Ernst Karl Winter.
Ernst Witebsky
Ernst Witebsky (1901–1969) was a German-American immunologist who fled Nazi Germany to the University at Buffalo, proved autoimmunity with Noel Rose in 1957, and formulated the Witebsky postulates.