Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich

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Discover the notable alumni of Ludwig Maximilian University Of Munich. The list includes people like Kurt Lewin, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Dietrich Eckart & Theodor Heuss. This list of notable alumni is loosely sorted by popularity and has people from different domains of life, such as miscellaneous, intellectuals & academics, scientists, leaders and media personalities etc.
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 1 
Max Planck
(German Theoretical Physicist and Originator of 'Quantum Theory')
Max Planck
9
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: April 23, 1858
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Kiel, Germany
Died: October 4, 1947
 2 
Thomas Mann
(German Novelist Who Won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Thomas Mann
6
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 6, 1875
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Lübeck, Germany
Died: August 12, 1955
 3 
Walter Benjamin
(German Jewish Philosopher, Cultural Critic and Essayist)
Walter Benjamin
7
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 15, 1892
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: September 26, 1940
 4 
Sophie Scholl
(German Student and Anti-Nazi Political Activist)
Sophie Scholl
18
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: May 9, 1921
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Forchtenberg, Germany
Died: February 22, 1943
 5 
Joseph Campbell
(American Writer Best Known for His Book ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’)
Joseph Campbell
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: March 26, 1904
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: White Plains, New York, United States
Died: October 30, 1987
 6 
Kurt Lewin
(Psychologist)
Kurt Lewin
3
Birthdate: September 9, 1890
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Mogilno, Poland
Died: February 12, 1947
 7 
Geli Raubal
(Austrian Woman Who Was the Half-Niece of Adolf Hitler)
Geli Raubal
19
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 4, 1908
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Linz, Austria
Died: September 18, 1931
 8 
Edda Göring
(Only Child of German Politician Hermann Göring and Actress Emmy Sonnemann)
Edda Göring
13
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: June 2, 1938
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: December 21, 2018
 9 
Hjalmar Schacht
(Reichsminister of Economics (1934 - 1937))
Hjalmar Schacht
3
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: January 22, 1877
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Tinglev, Denmark
Died: June 3, 1970
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
 10 
Lou Bega
(German Singer Best Known for His 1999 Song 'Mambo No.5')
Lou Bega
3
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: April 13, 1975
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
 11 
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
(Prince)
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
5
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: July 4, 1906
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Marmorpalais, Potsdam, Germany
Died: May 26, 1940
 12 
Armin Laschet
(Leader of the Christian Democratic Union)
Armin Laschet
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: February 18, 1961
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Aachen, Germany
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
 13 
Inaara Aga Khan
(Aga Khan IV's ex wife)
Inaara Aga Khan
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: April 1, 1963
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
 14 
Hans Adolf Krebs
(British Biologist Who was a Pioneer Scientist in the Study of Cellular Perspiration)
Hans Adolf Krebs
1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: August 25, 1900
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Hildesheim, Germany
Died: November 22, 1981
 15 
Ludwig I of Bavaria
(King)
Ludwig I of Bavaria
0
Birthdate: August 25, 1786
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Strasbourg, France
Died: February 29, 1868
 16 
Robert Schuman
(Politician)
Robert Schuman
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: June 29, 1886
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Clausen, Luxembourg
Died: September 4, 1963
 17 
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
(German Experimental Physicist Who Won the Nobel Prize for His Work on Inelastic Electron Collisions in Gases)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: July 22, 1887
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: October 30, 1975
 18 
Veronica Ferres
(Actress)
Veronica Ferres
0
Birthdate: June 10, 1965
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Solingen, Germany
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
 19 
Theodor Heuss
(First President of West Germany (1949 -1959))
Theodor Heuss
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: January 31, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Brackenheim, Germany
Died: December 12, 1963
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
 20 
Max Horkheimer
(German Philosopher and Sociologist Famous for His Work in 'Critical Theory')
Max Horkheimer
1
Birthdate: February 14, 1895
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Zuffenhausen, Stuttgart, Germany
Died: July 7, 1973
 21 
Ulrich Beck
(German Sociologist and One of the Most Cited Social Scientists in the World During His Lifetime)
Ulrich Beck
1
Birthdate: May 15, 1944
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Slupsk, Poland
Died: January 1, 2015
 22 
Karl von Frisch
(German-Austrian Ethologist and 1973 Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine)
Karl von Frisch
2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: November 20, 1886
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: June 12, 1982
 23 
Walter Hallstein
(German Diplomat, Academic, and Statesman)
Walter Hallstein
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 17, 1901
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Mainz, Germany
Died: March 29, 1982
 24 
Lord Acton
(Historian and Member of Parliament for Bridgnorth)
Lord Acton
4
Birthdate: January 10, 1834
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Naples, Italy
Died: June 19, 1902
 25 
Joachim Frank
(Nobel Prize-Winning German-American Biophysicist Known for Developing Cryo-EM)
Joachim Frank
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: September 12, 1940
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Weidenau, Siegen, Germany
 26 
Dietrich Eckart
(Poet)
Dietrich Eckart
1
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: March 23, 1868
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
Died: December 26, 1923
 27 
Rudolf Jaenisch
(A Pioneer of Transgenic Science)
Rudolf Jaenisch
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: April 22, 1942
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Wölfelsgrund, Germany
 28 
Roman Herzog
(President of Germany (1994 - 1999))
Roman Herzog
2
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 5, 1934
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Landshut, Germany
Died: January 10, 2017
 29 
Fereydoun Farrokhzad
(Known for his variety TV show 'Mikhak-e Noghrei' (The Silver Carnation) which introduced many artists)
Fereydoun Farrokhzad
3
Birthdate: October 7, 1936
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Tehran, Iran
Died: August 4, 1992
 30 
Gershom Scholem
(Israeli Philosopher, Historian and Founder of the Modern, Academic Study of 'Kabbalah')
Gershom Scholem
1
Birthdate: December 5, 1897
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: February 21, 1982
 31 
Valdas Adamkus
(President of Lithuania (1998 - 2003, 2004 - 2009))
Valdas Adamkus
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: November 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kaunas, Lithuania
 32 
Lion Feuchtwanger
(Novelist)
Lion Feuchtwanger
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 7, 1884
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: December 21, 1958
 33 
Stephan Winkelmann
(Chief executive officer and Businessperson)
Stephan Winkelmann
1
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: October 18, 1964
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
 34 
Eva Justin
(German Anthropologist Who Specialised in Scientific Racism)
Eva Justin
1
Birthdate: August 23, 1909
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
Died: September 11, 1966
 35 
Alfred Einstein
(Physicist)
Alfred Einstein
6
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: March 14, 1879
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: April 18, 1955
 36 
Fritz Gerlich
(German Historian and Journalist)
Fritz Gerlich
0
Birthdate: February 15, 1883
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Died: June 30, 1934
 37 
Alexander Schmorell
(Russian-German Revolutionary Who Opposed the Nazi German Regime)
Alexander Schmorell
1
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: September 16, 1917
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Orenburg, Russia
Died: July 13, 1943
 38 
Otto Loewi
(Former pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter)
Otto Loewi
0
Listed In: Physicians
Birthdate: June 3, 1873
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
Died: December 25, 1961
 39 
Erwin Panofsky
(German Art Historian)
Erwin Panofsky
1
Birthdate: March 30, 1892
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Hannover, Germany
Died: March 14, 1968
 40 
Carl Spitzweg
(Painter)
Carl Spitzweg
0
Birthdate: February 5, 1808
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Germering, Germany
Died: September 23, 1885
 41 
Theodor Geiger
(Professor)
Theodor Geiger
0
Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: November 9, 1891
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: June 16, 1952
 42 
Jürgen Todenhöfer
(Author)
Jürgen Todenhöfer
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: November 12, 1940
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Offenburg, Germany
 43 
Maria Furtwangler
(Actress)
Maria Furtwangler
0
Birthdate: September 13, 1966
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Munich, West Germany
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
 44 
Gottfried Semper
(Architect)
Gottfried Semper
0
Listed In: Architects
Birthdate: November 29, 1803
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Altona, Hamburg, Germany
Died: May 15, 1879
 45 
Eugen Fischer
(Professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party)
Eugen Fischer
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 5, 1874
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Karlsruhe, Germany
Died: July 9, 1967
 46 
Claudia Roth
(Member of the German Bundestag)
Claudia Roth
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: May 15, 1955
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Ulm, West Germany
 47 
Frank Appel
(CEO)
Frank Appel
0
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 29, 1961
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
 48 
Bastian Obermayer
(Journalist)
Bastian Obermayer
0
Birthdate: December 10, 1977
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Rosenheim, Germany
 49 
Robert Michels
(Sociologist)
Robert Michels
1
Birthdate: January 9, 1876
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Cologne, Germany
Died: May 3, 1936
 50 
Theobald Boehm
(Inventor)
Theobald Boehm
0
Birthdate: April 9, 1794
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: November 27, 1881