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Hans Eller

Hans Eller (Johannes Edmund Karl Eller), German rower born 14 August 1910 in Danzig; won Olympic gold in the coxed fours at Los Angeles 1932 with Berlin RC; died 4 April 1943 in a POW camp in Russia.

Hans Engelbrecht

Hans Engelbrecht (1599–1642) was a German clothmaker from Braunschweig who, after a near-death vision in 1622, became a wandering penitential preacher and visionary remembered as a mystic.

Hans Engnestangen (1908–2003), Norwegian speed skater and 1933 World Allround Champion, set 500 m world records of 42.5, 42.3, and 41.8 and a 1,500 m record of 2:13.8, all at Davos; later convicted of wartime collaboration.

Hans Erich Nossack

Hans Erich Nossack (1901–1977) was a German writer from Hamburg whose eyewitness report Der Untergang, written weeks after the 1943 firebombing of Hamburg, made him immediately famous.

Hans Ernst August Buchner

Hans Ernst August Buchner (1850–1902) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist who discovered alexine, the heat-labile blood-serum principle now known as complement, and held the hygiene chair at Munich from 1894.

Hans Eugster

Hans Eugster (1929–1956), Swiss artistic gymnast, Olympic parallel bars champion at Helsinki 1952 and double world champion at Basel 1950, where he scored the first perfect 10 under the 1949 men's Code of Points.

Hans Eysenck

Hans Eysenck (Hans Jürgen Eysenck, 1916–1997) was a German-born British psychologist known for the PEN model of personality, built around psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism, and for championing behavior therapy.

Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada, pen name of Rudolf Ditzen (1893–1947), was a German novelist whose bestsellers Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947) brought him fame.

Oct 20, 2026

Hans Fassnacht

Hans Fassnacht (Hans-Joachim Faßnacht, born 1950) is a retired West German swimmer, 1972 Olympic 4x200 m freestyle relay silver medalist, former world record holder in the 400 m freestyle and 200 m butterfly, and 1992 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee.

Hans Ferdinand Mayer

Hans Ferdinand Mayer was a German physicist and Siemens engineer who anonymously passed the 1939 Oslo Report on German military research to British intelligence, revealed in 1989.

Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for working out the structure of haemin and chlorophyll and synthesizing haemin in 1929.

Hans Fitting

Hans Fitting (1906–1938) was a German mathematician who worked in group theory and commutative algebra, a student of Emmy Noether, known for the Fitting lemma, Fitting subgroup, and Fitting ideals.

Hans Frank

Hans Frank (1900–1946) was a German lawyer, Hitler's personal legal advisor, head of the NSDAP legal office, and Governor General of occupied Poland 1939–1945; hanged at Nuremberg in 1946 for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Hans Frauenfelder

Hans Frauenfelder (1922–2022) was a Swiss-born physicist who discovered perturbed angular correlation and introduced conformational substates and the protein energy landscape, working at Illinois and Los Alamos.

Hans Frederick Blichfeldt

Hans Frederick Blichfeldt (1873–1945) was a Danish-born American mathematician who spent his career at Stanford University, working in group theory and the geometry of numbers.

Hans Freese

Hans Freese (Johann Heinrich Freese, 1918–1941), German freestyle swimmer from Bremen; 1936 Olympian, 1938 European 4x200m relay champion, world 4x100m relay record holder, died of war wounds near Leningrad.

Hans Freudenthal

Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990) was a German-born Dutch mathematician at Utrecht University who founded the theory of ends, introduced the suspension in homotopy theory, and pioneered realistic mathematics education.

Hans G. Boman

Hans G. Boman (1924–2008) was a Swedish microbiologist who discovered the inducible antibacterial immune response in Drosophila in 1972 and characterized cecropin, work credited as foundational for innate immunity research.

Hans G. Börner

Hans G. Börner, also known as Hans Börner, is a German polymer chemist and materials scientist who has been a professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009, known for sequence-defined biohybrid polymers.

Sep 20, 2026

Hans G. Zachau

Hans G. Zachau, also cited as H. G. Zachau, was a German biochemist and molecular biologist in Munich known for tRNA sequencing and mapping immunoglobulin kappa genes.

Hans Geiger

Hans Geiger (Johannes Wilhelm Geiger, 1882–1945) was a German experimental physicist whose alpha-scattering experiments with Marsden verified Rutherford's nuclear atom and whose particle counter became the Geiger–Müller tube.

Hans Geitel

Hans Geitel, full name Hans Friedrich Karl Geitel (1855–1923), was a German physicist and schoolteacher in Wolfenbüttel who, with Julius Elster, published about 130 papers pioneering radioactivity research and atmospheric electricity.

Hans Georg Aschenbach

Hans Georg Aschenbach, born 1951, East German ski jumper; 1973 ski-flying world champion, 1974 double world champion and Four Hills winner, 1976 Olympic normal-hill champion; defected 1988 and exposed GDR state doping.

Hans Georg Beyer

Hans Georg Beyer (born 1956, Eisenhüttenstadt) is a German former handball right wing who won gold for East Germany at Moscow 1980, scoring the decisive overtime goal in the 23:22 final win over the USSR; brother of Udo and Gisela Beyer.

Hans Georg Dehmelt

Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German-American physicist at the University of Washington who developed the Penning trap and shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Hans Georg Jaunich

Hans-Georg Jaunich (born 1951, Schwaan) is a German handball player, East Germany Olympic gold medalist in men's handball at Moscow 1980, SC Empor Rostock champion 1973 and 1978, later sports teacher and coach.

Hans Georg Reimann

Hans Georg Reimann (Hans-Georg Reimann), East German race walker, SC Dynamo Berlin; two Olympic 20 km walk medals, bronze Munich 1972 and silver Montreal 1976, 1962 European silver, 20,000 m world record 1:25:19.4.

Hans Georg Wilhelm von Schubert

Hans Georg Wilhelm von Schubert (1859–1931) was a German Protestant church historian at Strasbourg, Kiel, and Heidelberg, known for his thesis of the Germanization of Christianity.

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964), German psychiatrist and neurologist, co-namesake of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which he described in 1920/21 in Breslau; later Kiel professor, rector, and a reevaluated Nazi-era record.