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Hermann Bahr
Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and theater and literary critic who served as one of the chief spokesmen and organizers of Viennese modernism around 1900.
Hermann Balck
Hermann Balck (Georg Otto Hermann Balck) was a German panzer general in World War II, commander of the 11th Panzer Division, 4th Panzer Army, and 6th Army.
Hermann Barrelet
Hermann Barrelet (Hermann Joseph Barrelet de Ricou), French rower, 1879–1964; won the men's single sculls at the 1900 Paris Olympics in 7:35.6, his only Games, after protesting St George Ashe's inclusion in the final.
Hermann Bondi
Hermann Bondi (1919–2005) was an Austrian-born British mathematician and cosmologist who, with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold, formulated the steady-state theory of the universe in 1948 and made lasting contributions to general relativity.
Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner is a German physician and cancer epidemiologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, known for colorectal cancer screening research and the period-analysis method.
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an Austrian Jewish novelist and essayist who wrote The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil and fled to America in 1938.
Hermann Brunn
Hermann Brunn, also known as Karl Hermann Brunn, was a German mathematician whose 1887 dissertation founded the theory of convex bodies, giving Brunn's theorem and the Brunn–Minkowski inequality.
Hermann Bujard
Hermann Bujard (1934–2020) was a German molecular biologist who developed the Tet system for switching genes on and off, founded Heidelberg University's ZMBH, and directed EMBO from 2007 to 2009.
Hermann Burmeister
Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892) was a German-born Argentine zoologist, paleontologist, and entomologist, professor at Halle and director of the Buenos Aires natural history museum from 1862 until his death.
Hermann Busenbaum
Hermann Busenbaum, also spelled Busembaum (1600–1668), was a German Jesuit moral theologian at Münster whose Medulla theologiae moralis appeared in over 200 editions and served as a seminary textbook for two centuries.
Hermann Carl Vogel
Hermann Carl Vogel (1841–1907) was a German astronomer who pioneered the photographic measurement of stellar radial velocities and discovered the spectroscopic binary stars Algol and Spica.
Hermann E. Gaub
Hermann E. Gaub is a German biophysicist who held the Applied Physics chair at LMU Munich from 1995 to 2022 and pioneered single-molecule force spectroscopy and molecular motors.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), German psychologist, founder of experimental memory research; author of Über das Gedächtnis (1885); invented nonsense syllables and the savings method, described the forgetting curve, spaced practice, and remote associations.
Hermann Epenstein
Hermann Epenstein (1850–1934) was a German physician and castle owner, godfather and family friend of Hermann Göring, who restored the castles Burg Veldenstein and Schloss Mauterndorf.
Hermann Esser
Hermann Esser (1900–1981), NSDAP member no. 2, early Nazi propagandist and Hitler confidant; editor of the Völkischer Beobachter, Bavarian economics minister 1934–35, RMVP State Secretary for tourism, denazified as a major offender.
Hermann Fegelein
Hermann Fegelein (Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein, 1906-1945), Waffen-SS general, commander of the SS Cavalry Brigade that murdered over 20,000 Jewish civilians in 1941, and Hitler's brother-in-law via Gretl Braun; executed for desertion in the Berlin bunker, 28 or 29 April 1945.
Hermann Fischer (biochemist)
Hermann Fischer (1888–1960) was a German-born American biochemist and carbohydrate chemist, son of Nobel laureate Emil Fischer, who synthesized the phosphorylated sugars of intermediary metabolism.
Hermann Frahm
Hermann Frahm (1867–1939) was a German shipbuilding engineer, technical director of the Hamburg yard Blohm & Voß from 1904 to 1936, and inventor of the Schlingertank.
Hermann Gehri
Hermann Gehri names two people: a German painter, lithographer, and illustrator (1879-1944) of Freiburg, dismissed in 1933 and killed in a 1944 bombing raid; and a Swiss freestyle wrestler (1899-1979), 1924 Olympic welterweight champion and 1930 European champion.
Hermann Georg Grimmeiss
Hermann Georg Grimmeiss (born 19 August 1930) was a Swedish semiconductor physicist who led Philips research on efficient gallium phosphide LEDs and became the first professor of solid state physics at Lund.
Hermann Glauert
Hermann Glauert (1892–1934) was a British aerodynamicist at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, who established the Prandtl–Glauert compressibility rule, rebuilt propeller theory, and wrote a still-in-print textbook.
Hermann Gmeiner
Hermann Gmeiner (1919–1986) was an Austrian philanthropist who co-founded SOS Children's Villages in 1949, a federation raising children without parental care in family-style houses rather than large orphanages.
Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring (1893–1946), Nazi Germany's second most powerful official, Luftwaffe commander-in-chief, Four Year Plan chief, and Hitler's designated successor; he ordered Heydrich to plan the Final Solution and was sentenced to death at Nuremberg.
Hermann Gunkel
Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932), born in Springe near Hannover, was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar who pioneered form criticism, with major works on Genesis, the Psalms, and the Prophets.
Hermann Guthe
Hermann Guthe (1849–1936) was a German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar who taught at Leipzig and co-founded the German society for the exploration of Palestine in 1877.
Hermann Gutzmann
Hermann Carl Albert Gutzmann (1865–1922) was a German physician regarded as the founder of phoniatrics, the medical specialty for communication disorders, established at the Berlin Charité in 1905.
Hermann Haken
Hermann Haken (1927–2024) was a German theoretical physicist at the University of Stuttgart who formulated the quantum theory of the laser and founded synergetics, the theory of self-organization.
Hermann Haller (German nephrologist)
Hermann Haller, born 1953 in Stuttgart, is a German nephrologist and hypertension researcher who directed the Hannover kidney clinic from 1999 to 2022 and leads the MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine.
Hermann Hamelmann
Hermann Hamelmann (1526–1595) was a German Lutheran theologian, reformer, and historian, born in Osnabrück, who reformed Westphalian towns, helped draft church ordinances, and served as Oldenburg's superintendent from 1573.
Hermann Hauser
Hermann Hauser (Hermann Maria Hauser), born 1948, is an Austrian-born physicist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England, co-founder of Acorn Computers, maker of the BBC Micro, and of Amadeus Capital Partners.