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Hans Joachim Klein

Hans Joachim Klein (born 1942, Darmstadt), West German freestyle swimmer nicknamed Little; 1964 Tokyo Olympic silver in three relays, bronze 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle world record 1:58.2, later German Olympic Society president.

Hans Joachim Luck

Hans-Joachim Lück (born 1953, Stralsund) is a German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's coxed eight for East Germany at Montreal 1976, then World Championship gold in 1977, and later became a rowing coach in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, known as John Schellnhuber, is a German climate scientist who founded the Potsdam Institute and introduced climate tipping elements and the 2 °C warming limit.

Hans Joachim Weise

Hans Joachim Weise (Rudolf Hans-Joachim Weise, 1912-1991), German Star-class sailor, VSaW Berlin; won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold with Peter Bischoff aboard Wannsee, plus 1938 world and 1936-37 European titles.

Hans Joenje

Hans Joenje is a Dutch human geneticist and Professor Emeritus at Amsterdam University Medical Centers who spent four decades defining the genetic basis of Fanconi anemia, cloning causative genes and linking the pathway to BRCA1.

Hans Johann Farber

Hans-Johann Färber (born 1947, Šljivoševci) is a German rower, West Germany's 1972 Munich Olympic gold medalist in the coxed four (Bullenvierer), 1976 Montreal bronze medalist, grandfather of sculler Oliver Zeidler.

Hans Jurgen Gerhardt

Hans-Jürgen Gerhardt (born 1954, Altenburg) is an East German former bobsledder and hurdler; at Lake Placid 1980 he won four-man gold with Nehmer and two-man silver with Germeshausen, plus three world titles.

Hans Jurgen Riediger

Hans-Jürgen Riediger, East German forward (born 1955, Finsterwalde), BFC Dynamo 1972-84, 193 Oberliga games and 105 goals, five GDR titles 1979-83, Olympic gold 1976 Montreal, 41 East Germany caps with 6 goals.

Hans K. Fauske

Hans Kare Fauske (1935–2021) was a Norwegian-born American chemical engineer who founded Fauske & Associates in 1980 and was an authority on fast breeder reactor safety.

Hans Kammler

Hans Kammler (1901, Stettin; died after May 1945, date disputed) was an SS-Obergruppenführer and engineer who built Auschwitz-Birkenau's crematoria, directed the underground Mittelwerk V-2 complex with concentration-camp labor, and vanished in 1945 amid evidence of US custody.

Sep 24, 2026

Hans Karl von Diebitsch

Hans Karl von Diebitsch (Ганс Карл фон Дибич), 1785 to 1831, was a Silesian-born Russian field marshal who signed the Convention of Tauroggen and took Adrianople in 1829.

Hans Keiter

Hans Keiter (Ferdinand Johannes Keiter, 1910-2005), German field handball captain and 1936 Berlin Olympic gold medalist, also double 1938 world champion, later coach of Spain and TV Krefeld-Oppum.

Hans Kelsen

Hans Kelsen (Reine Rechtslehre, Pure Theory of Law) was an Austrian jurist (1881–1973), co-designer of Austria's 1920 constitution, originator of the Grundnorm and the constitutional-court model of judicial review, later a Berkeley professor.

Hans Kende

Hans Janos Kende (1937–2006) was a Hungarian-born plant physiologist at Michigan State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, known for work on ethylene and gibberellic acid.

Oct 10, 2026

Hans Kohn

Hans Nathan Kohn (1866–1935) was a German internist and leading Berlin specialist for lung and heart disease, remembered for the pores of Kohn, interalveolar lung connections he described in 1893.

Hans Kornberg

Sir Hans Kornberg (1928–2019) was a British-American biochemist, born in Germany, who trained under Hans Krebs, discovered the glyoxylate cycle, coined "anaplerotic" reactions, and was knighted in 1978.

Hans Kössel

Hans Kössel (1934–1995) was a German molecular biologist at the University of Freiburg who determined the first plant nucleic acid sequence and discovered RNA editing in chloroplasts in 1991.

Hans Kosterlitz

Hans Kosterlitz was a German-born British biochemist and pharmacologist at the University of Aberdeen who, in his seventies, led the discovery of enkephalin, the first endogenous opioid, in 1975.

Oct 10, 2026

Hans Kramers

Hans Kramers, full name Hendrik Anthony Kramers, was a Dutch theoretical physicist (1894–1952) and Niels Bohr's first assistant, known for the Kramers–Heisenberg dispersion formula and WKB method.

Hans Krebs (German-born British biochemist)

Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British biochemist who discovered the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle, the Krebs cycle, winning the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht general)

Hans Krebs (Hans Otto Wilhelm Eugen Krebs, 1898-1945), German General of Infantry, last acting Chief of Staff of the OKH. Eastern Front staff chief, former Moscow military attache; negotiated with Chuikov on 1 May 1945, then died by suicide in Berlin.

Hans Kristian Wear

Hans Kristian Wear (born 1980) is a Norwegian rifle shooter from Styrvoll, 2012 skytterkonge, gunsmith (Børsemaker Wear), HV-03 soldier, and holder of four individual and seven team military shooting world titles.

Oct 22, 2026

Hans Kundt

Hans Kundt (1869–1939) was a German general who spent 25 years in Bolivian service and commanded the army in the Chaco War until the surrender of 7,500 soldiers at Campo Vía ended his command.

Hans Küng

Hans Küng (1928–2021) was a Swiss Catholic priest and theologian at the University of Tübingen who lost his Vatican teaching authorization in 1979 after questioning papal infallibility.

Hans Kurath

Hans Kurath (1891-1992), Austrian-born American linguist, directed the Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939-43), defined the Northern, Midland, and Southern dialect regions of American English, and edited the Middle English Dictionary.