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Heinz Jurgen Bothe

Heinz-Jürgen Bothe (born 1941, Berlin) is an East German rower who won 1968 Olympic gold in the coxless pairs with Jörg Lucke, then developed GDR racing boats at the FES institute. Not the Hannover 96 footballer Heinz Bothe.

Heinz Köhler

Heinz Köhler is an immunologist known for studies of antibody diversity, idiotypy, and immune networks, including anti-idiotype vaccines, now emeritus at the University of Kentucky.

Heinz Körvers

Heinz Körvers (Heinrich Theodor Körvers, 1915-1942), German field handball goalkeeper; 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist with Germany, five caps, German champion 1936 and 1940; missing near Stalingrad.

Heinz L. Sänger

Heinz L. Sänger (1928–2010) was a German molecular biologist and virologist who directed viroid research at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and established the molecular nature of viroids.

Heinz Linge

Heinz Linge (1913-1980) was Adolf Hitler's SS valet and head of household staff from 1935 to 1945, burned Hitler's body, was interrogated for the NKVD dossier The Hitler Book, released 1955, memoirist.

Heinz London

Heinz London (1907–1970) was a German-British physicist who co-created the 1935 London equations of superconductivity with his brother Fritz and proposed the dilution refrigerator, which enabled sustained millikelvin experiments.

Heinz Ludwig

Heinz Ludwig (born 1947) is an Austrian hematologist-oncologist who leads the Wilhelminen Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, known for showing in 1990 that erythropoietin corrects myeloma anemia.

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (1911–2000) was a German experimental physicist who built Germany's first research reactor at Garching, co-founded and directed the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble, and served as president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1974 to 1979.

Heinz Neuber

Heinz August Paul Neuber (1906–1989) was a German engineer of technical mechanics whose notch stress work, the Neuber rule and Kerbspannungslehre (1937), founded modern fracture mechanics.

Sep 19, 2026

Heinz Nixdorf

Heinz Nixdorf (1925–1986) was a German computing pioneer who built Nixdorf Computer AG of Paderborn into one of Europe's leading computer makers, with 23,000 employees.

Oct 15, 2026

Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) is a computer museum in Paderborn, Germany, opened in 1996 in the former Nixdorf Computer AG headquarters and described as the world's largest.

Heinz Prüfer

Heinz Prüfer (Ernst Paul Heinz Prüfer, 1896–1934) was a German mathematician, a pioneer of abelian group theory, known for the Prüfer sequence, group, and domain.

Oct 20, 2026

Heinz Renneberg

Heinz Renneberg (Karlheinz Renneberg, 1927–1999), West German rower from RV Gelsenkirchen; 1952 Olympian in coxless pairs and 1960 Rome Olympic gold medalist in the coxed pairs with Bernhard Knubel and cox Klaus Zerta.

Heinz Saedler

Heinz Saedler is a German molecular biologist known for work on transposable elements and flower development, directing the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research from 1980 to 2009.

Heinz Schaller

Heinz Schaller (1932–2010) was a German molecular biologist and virologist, professor at Heidelberg University, who identified DNA polymerase III, established hepatitis B virus replication, and co-founded Biogen.

Heinz Tomato Ketchup

Heinz Tomato Ketchup (Heinz Ketchup, Heinz catsup), the flagship condiment of H. J. Heinz/Kraft Heinz since 1876 Pittsburgh: corn-syrup-sweetened US recipe, sugar-based European recipe, 57 Varieties, ~650 million bottles a year.

Heinz von Heiden Arena

Heinz von Heiden Arena, formerly Niedersachsenstadion, AWD-Arena, and HDI-Arena, is Hannover 96's 49,000-capacity stadium in Hannover, opened 1954 on war rubble, rebuilt 2003–2005 for the 2006 World Cup.

Heinz Wiendl

Heinz Wiendl is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who has chaired Neurology at University Hospital Freiburg since 2024, after leading the department at Münster from 2013.

Heinz Wolff

Heinz Wolff, full name Heinz Siegfried Wolff, was a German-born British bioengineer who founded the Brunel Institute for Bioengineering and presented The Great Egg Race.

Heinz-Günter Wittmann

Heinz-Günter Wittmann (1927–1990) was a German biochemist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and sequenced nearly all E. coli ribosomal proteins.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

Heinz-Harald Frentzen (HHF), German F1 driver born 1967 in Mönchengladbach; Mercedes Junior with Schumacher; 1997 championship runner-up with Williams, 1999 third with Jordan; 3 Grand Prix wins, 2 poles.

Heinz-Otto Kreiss

Heinz-Otto Kreiss (1930–2015) was a German-born mathematician who worked in Stockholm and at UCLA, known for the Kreiss matrix theorem and stability theory for the numerical solution of differential equations.

Heinz‐Josef Lenz

Heinz-Josef Lenz is a German-trained American medical oncologist at the University of Southern California who leads gastrointestinal cancer research, known for pharmacogenomics of colorectal cancer drug response.

Heir apparent

Heir apparent: the person first in line to inherit or succeed whose position cannot be displaced by later births, unlike an heir presumptive; covers estate law, royal succession, titles, and primogeniture reforms.

Heir presumptive

Heir presumptive: the person next in line to a throne, title, or estate whose claim can be displaced by the birth of a nearer heir, unlike the heir apparent; Elizabeth II under George VI is the classic example.

Heiress Harris

Heiress Diana Harris (born 2016) is an American child actress and singer, daughter of T.I. and Tameka "Tiny" Harris; starred as Addie in Grosse Pointe Garden Society and released the single "In the Wind".

Heiri Angst

Heiri Angst (Heinrich Angst, 1915–1989), Swiss bobsledder of the Zürcher Bob Club; four-man Olympic gold at Cortina 1956 with Kapus, Diener, and Alt, plus seven World Championship medals 1949–1955; brother of Olympians Max and Willy Angst.

Heirloom

An heirloom is a valued family possession passed down generations; in strict English law, a chattel passing by custom with land to the heir, abolished in 1925, now mainly an estate-planning and horticultural term.

Heirloom plant

Heirloom plant: an open-pollinated cultivar, typically 50 to several hundred years old, whose seed is saved and passed down through generations. Comes true from seed, unlike F1 hybrids; valued for flavor, heritage, and crop diversity.