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- Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) | Came from Nürnberg and held important musical positions as an organist-composer there and in several other German cities as well as in Vienna, Austria. His works include suites, cantatas, and various chorale works. His "Canon" is a popular classical work to this day.
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) | Born in Zurich. A champion of the poor and underprivileged, he established an orphanage (1774) and later a renowned boarding school in Yverdon, Switzerland (1805), which attracted observers from many countries to witness Pestalozzi's theories in practice. It was Pestalozzi who first developed educational concepts like teacher training and curriculum innovations like group work, field trips, grade levels, ability grouping, and allowing for individual differences. He had a profound influence on many others in educational theory, including Friedrich Froebel, the German inventor of the kindergarten.
- Wolfgang Petersen | The director of Das Boot and Air Force One is just one of many Germans and Austrians who made or are now making The German-Hollywood Connection!
- Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) | Born in Austria-Hungary. In 1868 he became a reporter for the St. Louis Westliche Post, a German-language newspaper which he came to own three years later. After problems in St. Louis, Pulitzer bought the New York World and turned it into a successful, aggressive newspaper. He endowed the Columbia University school of journalism in 1912 and established the Pulitzer prizes for literature and journalism.
- Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) | The father of the modern, scholarly approach to history. Before Ranke, most historical works were based on legend, tradition, and hearsay rather than objective research using original source material. Ranke, a professor of history in Berlin, published his own English, French, German, and world histories drawn on historical documents and other scholarly sources.
- Erich Maria Remarque (Remark) (1898-1970) | Born Erich Paul Remark in Osnabrück, Germany, Remarque came to the U.S. in the 1930s after the huge success of his WWI novel Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929), which became an equally big hit movie in 1930. In Hollywood Remarque was romantically involved with Marlene Dietrich, but he eventually married the American actress Paulette Goddard.
- Paul Julius Baron von Reuter (Israel Beer Josaphat, 1816-1899) | Founded a news agency in Aachen, Germany and Verviers, Belgium in 1849, using carrier pigeons to dispatch the news that arrived by telegraph in the two cities. Two years later Reuter moved to London and established the Reuters Telegrams news agency. Today Reuters is one of the largest international news and press agencies. Born in Kassel, Reuter adopted his new name in 1844, later became a British citizen, and received the title of baron in 1871. > Reuters auf Deutsch (www.reuters.de).
- Rainer Maria Rilke (René Karl Wilhelm Johann Joseph Maria Rilke, 1875-1926) | The Austrian poet was born in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic). He studied there and in Munich. Rilke infused his poetry with the essence of the "thing in itself" ("das Ding an sich," from Kant's philosophy) to avoid traditional subjective or objective views. His work had great influence on English poetry and poets such as Auden. - View Rilke's grave in Switzerland.
John (Johann) August Roebling (1806-1869) | Designed and supervised the building of the Brooklyn Bridge (opened in 1883). Washington Roebling finished the project following his father's death) and other spans using his "wire rope" suspension system. Educated in Berlin, J.A. Roebling came to the U.S. from Thuringia in 1831. His company later supplied cable for the Golden Gate and other modern suspension bridges.
Erwin Rommel (Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, 1891-1944) | The famous "Desert Fox" commander of the North African campaign was born in Heidenheim, near Ulm on Nov. 15, 1891. While earning the respect of both sides in WWII, Rommel became disillusioned with Hitler. Although the Nazis accused him of being involved in the abortive July 20, 1944 bombing/assassination attempt against Hitler, his active role in the plot is doubtful. Two Nazi generals visited Rommel at his home and forced him to choose between suicide by poison or a trial for treason. After saying good-bye to his wife and son, Rommel took the poison the Nazis so thoughtfully provided. Several days later a huge state funeral in Ulm honored the popular field marshal. His suicide and alleged treason were kept quiet. Rommel's son Manfred would later become the mayor of Stuttgart. - View Rommel's grave near Ulm, Germany.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) | The German word for x-ray is Röntgen, named for the German physicist who discovered them. The very first Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to Röntgen in 1901.
Mayer Anselm Rothschild (1743-1812) | Founder of the famous House of Rothschild and its European banking empire. (See Money and banking.) His five sons later helped spread the Rothschild ("red shield") name beyond Frankfurt to London, Naples, Paris, and Vienna. All of the sons were made barons by Austria in 1812, receiving the right to use the noble "von" in front of their names. Later Rothschilds were involved in establishing a Jewish homeland.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) | One of the leading masters of German Expressionism and a member of the artistic school known as Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). His favored medium was the woodcut. Born near Chemnitz, Schmidt-Rottluff was made an honorary citizen of Berlin in 1970 and he died there six years later. - For more about Schmidt-Rottluff and his art see the Schmidt-Rottluff bio at DHM (in German).
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