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Ludwig Haetzer
Ludwig Haetzer, also spelled Hätzer, was a Swiss radical reformer and Bible translator who, with Hans Denck, produced the first Protestant German translation of the Prophets in 1527.
Ludwig Heilmeyer
Ludwig Heilmeyer (1899–1969) was a German internist and hematologist who directed the University of Freiburg Medical Clinic from 1946 to 1967 and became founding rector of the University of Ulm.
Ludwig Hirsch
Ludwig Hirsch (1946–2011) was an Austrian Liedermacher and actor whose dark, morbid songs in Viennese dialect made him one of the most successful German-language singer-songwriters.
Ludwig Hofacker
Ludwig Hofacker was a German Lutheran pastor, a leading preacher of the Württemberg Awakening whose sermons reached hundreds of thousands of readers after his death.
Ludwig I of Bavaria
Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868), also Ludwig I., Wittelsbach king of Bavaria 1825–1848 who abdicated in the 1848 Revolution after the Lola Montez affair; builder of Walhalla and Munich's neoclassical ensemble, father of Otto I of Greece.
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), the Fairy Tale King, reigned 1864–1886, built Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, and Herrenchiemsee, patronized Wagner, joined the German Empire in 1870, and was deposed in 1886 before drowning in Lake Starnberg.
Ludwig III of Bavaria
Ludwig III (1845–1921) was the last king of Bavaria, regent from 1912 and king from 1913 after Otto I's deposition, overthrown by Kurt Eisner's revolution on 7 November 1918 and the last Wittelsbach ruler.
Ludwig J. Gauckler
Ludwig J. Gauckler is a Swiss-based materials scientist in ceramics, professor emeritus of Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials at ETH Zurich, where he held the chair from 1988.
Ludwig Jahn Stadion
Ludwig Jahn Stadion, formally Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Stadion in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg: 1951 rubble-built stadium, 18 athletics world records, GDR football venue, demolished 2024 for a 20,000-seat inclusive stadium opening from 2028.
Ludwig Kaiser
Ludwig Kaiser, born Marcel Barthel in 1990, is a German professional wrestler in WWE, a two-time NXT Tag Team Champion and the reigning AAA Mega Champion.
Ludwig Kappos
Ludwig Kappos is a Swiss neurologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel who led pivotal trials of most approved multiple sclerosis therapies and helped set diagnostic criteria.
Ludwig Klages
Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) was a German psychologist and philosopher, a founder of modern graphology and characterology whose biocentric philosophy of life against spirit influenced Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger.
Ludwig Landen
Ludwig Karl Landen (1908–1985), German flatwater canoeist of Verein für Kajaksport Köln; won K-2 10,000 m gold with Paul Wevers at Berlin 1936 in 41:45.0 and the 1936 European K-4 1,000 m title; a non-swimmer.
Ludwig Lemme
Ludwig Lemme (1847–1927) was a German Protestant theologian and university teacher, ordinary professor at Heidelberg from 1891, who wrote on doctrine, apologetics, ethics, and hermeneutics.
Ludwig Maurer
Ludwig Maurer (1859–1927) was a German mathematician who worked on Lie groups and invariant theory, taught at Strasbourg and Tübingen, and lent his name to the Maurer-Cartan forms.
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Founded in 1472 in Ingolstadt, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is a comprehensive research university in Germany. It has been a University of Excellence since 2006.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies, was a German-born American architect and Bauhaus director known for steel-and-glass buildings like the Seagram Building and the Barcelona chair.
Ludwig Pick
Ludwig Pick (1868–1944) was a German Jewish pathologist at Berlin's Friedrichshain hospital who delineated Niemann-Pick disease and was deported to Theresienstadt, dying there in 1944.
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, called the father of aerodynamics, who founded modern fluid mechanics with his 1904 boundary layer theory.
Ludwig Quidde
Ludwig Quidde was a German historian, liberal politician, and pacifist who shared the 1927 Nobel Peace Prize and is known for Caligula, an 1894 satire of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Ludwig Stickelberger
Ludwig Stickelberger was a German mathematician who earned his doctorate in Berlin in 1874 and became a professor at Freiburg im Breisgau, best known for the Stickelberger theorem.
Ludwig Straub
Ludwig Straub is a Harvard University economist and professor who won the 2026 John Bates Clark Medal for work on inequality, debt, and heterogeneous-agent macroeconomics.
Ludwig Stubbendorff
Ludwig Stubbendorff (1906-1941), German cavalry officer and eventing rider; with horse Nurmi won individual and team eventing gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; died in Belarus in 1941 during World War II.
Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921) was a German author, publisher, and satirist, regarded as the Bavarian writer par excellence, known for the Lausbubengeschichten and the comedy Moral.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer and pianist of Bonn and Vienna, links Classical and Romantic eras; nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, Fidelio, and late deaf works set him apart.
Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder
Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder (1712–1773), Flemish bass singer from Mechelen who joined the Bonn electoral court chapel in 1733 and became its Kapellmeister in 1761; grandfather, namesake, and baptismal godfather of the composer.
Ludwig von Benedek
Ludwig August Ritter von Benedek (1804–1881) was an Austrian general of Hungarian descent, regarded before 1866 as the Habsburg monarchy's most trusted soldier and defeated at Königgrätz.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901–1972) was an Austrian theoretical biologist and philosopher, known as the father of general system theory, whose growth equation still dominates fisheries science.
Ludwig Von Drake
Ludwig Von Drake (Italian: Pico de Paperis) is a Disney cartoon duck professor, Donald Duck's uncle, debuting September 24, 1961 in An Adventure in Color; the first major Disney character created for television, voiced by Paul Frees, later Corey Burton.
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was an Austrian economist of the Austrian School, author of Theory of Money and Credit and the 1920 socialist calculation argument, developer of praxeology, and author of Human Action (1949).