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Born July 31, 1526 • Freiberg • Saxony
Died February 12, 1586 (aged 59) • Dresden • Saxony
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
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John
elector of Saxony
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Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau
German statesman
Hans Luther
Hans Luther
German statesman
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Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht
German financier
John Frederick the Magnanimous, portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder; in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
John Frederick
elector of Saxony
Nazi official Walther Funk seated and looking to the side during the Nuremberg trials, November 24, 1945.
Walther Funk
German economist
Franz von Sickingen
Franz von Sickingen
German knight
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Rudolph von Delbrück
German statesman
Ludwig Bamberger, engraving by A. Neumann, c. 1890.
Ludwig Bamberger
German economist and publicist
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
British economist
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Reinhard Gehlen
German general
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August Thyssen
German industrialist
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Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
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Fritz Fischer
German historian
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Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
Portrait of Adolf Hitler in a collared shirt and tie, facing forward with a serious expression, circa 1933.
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer