Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, died aged 50
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, an American convicted murderer, died by lethal injection on November 5, 2026, aged 50. His case stemmed from a fire set on April 9, 2010, at his…
Famous Dead People from Germany
Over 3,000 obituaries for famous people from Germany who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Jeffrey Weisheit passed away at age 50
Jeffrey Weisheit, an American convicted murderer, died aged 50 on November 5, 2026, after being executed by lethal injection. Born Jeffrey Allen Weisheit on March 28, 1976, he became the…
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, died aged 50
Jeffrey Allen Weisheit, an American convicted murderer, died at age 50 by lethal injection on November 5, 2026. Born March 28, 1976, he was convicted in a case stemming from…
Hubert Aiwanger passes away at age 55
Hubert Aiwanger, the German politician serving as Bavaria’s deputy minister-president and leader of the Free Voters, died November 4, 2026, aged 55. Born in Ergoldsbach, he studied at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University…
Janosch passes away at age 95
Janosch, the German children's author and illustrator born Horst Eckert, died November 3, 2026, aged 95. He was born on March 11, 1931, in Hindenburg, now Zabrze, Poland, to a…
Patrik Eichler dies at age 42
Patrik Eichler, a Czech journalist and political commentator, died November 2, 2026, aged 42. He was director of the Masaryk Democratic Academy, a social-democratic think tank, and held editorial posts…
Obituary: Georg Hack, dead at age 76
Georg Hack, a German speedway rider, died on November 2, 2026, aged 76. Born in Landshut on February 20, 1950, he represented the West German national speedway team, earning 26…
Regina Ziegler death at age 82
German film and television producer Regina Ziegler died November 1, 2026, aged 82. Born in Quedlinburg, she briefly studied law at the Free University of Berlin before leaving her studies…
Horst Fascher death at age 90
Horst Fascher, a German music manager, died October 31, 2026, aged 90. Born in Hamburg on February 5, 1936, he worked in a range of roles, including ship carpenter, nightclub…
Waldemar Gerhardt passes away at age 87
Waldemar Gerhardt, a German footballer, died on October 30, 2026, aged 87. Born in Gelsenkirchen on January 6, 1939, he played as a forward in association football. His Bundesliga record…
Obituary: Marvin Shanken, dead at age 83
Marvin Shanken, an American publisher and founder of M. Shanken Communications, died October 29, 2026, aged 83. Born in New Haven on October 4, 1943, he built a roster of…
Werner Broll died at age 94
Werner Broll, a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag, died October 29, 2026, aged 94. Born in Hanover on May 22,…
Elke Sommer passes away at age 85
Elke Sommer, a German actress whose screen career included comedies, mysteries and international productions, died October 28, 2026, aged 85. Born Elke Schletz in Berlin on November 5, 1940, she…
Ursula von Rydingsvard dead at age 84
Ursula von Rydingsvard, a German-born American sculptor, died October 27, 2026, aged 84, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Born Ursula Karoliszyn in Deensen, Germany, in 1942, she was the daughter…
David Rigert, died aged 79
David Rigert, a Russian Olympic weightlifter and coach, died October 26, 2026, in Rostov Oblast, aged 79. Born David Adamovich Rigert in Nagornoye, in the Kazakh SSR, he competed for…
Heiko Weber passes away at age 61
Heiko Weber, the German football player and manager who played for Carl Zeiss Jena and managed ZFC Meuselwitz and Carl Zeiss Jena, died of pancreatic cancer on October 26, 2026,…
Judith Blegen dies at age 85
Judith Blegen, an American soprano associated with light lyric roles in French, Italian and German repertories, died October 23, 2026, aged 85. Born in Lexington on April 27, 1941, Blegen…
Josef Duchač dies at 88
Josef Duchač, a German politician and chemical engineer who served as Thuringia’s minister-president from 1990 to 1992, died October 23, 2026, aged 88. He was also an engineering manager. Born…
Mélanie Berger-Volle dies at 105
Mélanie Berger-Volle, an Austrian-born French veteran of World War II and member of the French Resistance, died October 22, 2026, aged 105. Born in Vienna, she grew up in the…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German game developer known for Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. He developed Stick Run, a free-to-play jump-and-run game that became available…
Manuel Otto obituary: died at age 30
Manuel Otto, a German video game developer who created Stick Run, died by suicide on October 20, 2026, aged 30. Born on July 18, 1996, Otto was a 14-year-old secondary-school…
Ibrahima Sory Sow passed away at age 85
Ibrahima Sory Sow, a Guinean politician and member of Ghana’s Parliament from 1995 to 2002, died in Dakar on October 18, 2026, aged 85. Born in Conakry on March 13,…
Obituary: Benito di Paula, dead at age 84
Benito di Paula, the Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer and pianist, died of prostate cancer on October 18, 2026, aged 84. Born Uday Vellozo in Nova Friburgo, he became known professionally as…
Death of Rinze Visser at age 87
Rinze Visser, a Dutch communist politician, died on October 17, 2026, aged 87, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Born in Lemmer, he encountered communist ideas early through his father and…
Marianne Helms died at age 90
Marianne Helms, a German musicologist, died October 17, 2026, aged 90. Born Marianne Henze in Berlin on July 3, 1936, she began her studies at the Free University of Berlin…
Death of Rudolf Křesťan at age 83
Rudolf Křesťan, a Czech writer, editor and feuilletonist, died October 15, 2026, aged 83. Born in Prague on March 14, 1943, he spent his childhood in Stará Role, near Karlovy…
Liu Changcheng obituary: died at age 62
Liu Changcheng, a Chinese Olympic volleyball player who later coached in Germany, died October 12, 2026, aged 62. Born in Beijing on May 3, 1964, he represented China at the…
Obituary: Meta Grosman, dead at age 90
Meta Grosman, a Slovenian linguist, anglicist and literary historian, died in Ljubljana on October 11, 2026, aged 90. Born in Ljubljana on May 18, 1936, she attended the Classical Gymnasium…
Juan Pablo Cárdenas Squella died at age 76
Chilean journalist Juan Pablo Cárdenas Squella died of cancer on October 11, 2026, aged 76. Born in Santiago on December 1, 1949, he attended the German Lyceum of Santiago and…
Obituary: Sven Hirdman, dead at age 87
Sven Hirdman, a Swedish diplomat and ambassador, died October 9, 2026, aged 87. Born Henrik Sven Hirdman on September 28, 1939, in Stavanger, Norway, he worked in diplomacy from 1963…
António Vitalino Dantas dead at age 84
António Vitalino Dantas, a Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate who served as auxiliary bishop of Lisbon and bishop of Beja, died October 9, 2026, aged 84. Born on November 3, 1941,…
Hans-Dieter Schmidt died at age 78
Hans-Dieter Schmidt, a German football manager and former player, died on October 7, 2026, aged 78. Born in Hanover on January 9, 1948, Schmidt played football, including for Hannover 96.…
Barbara Spinelli passes away at age 80
Barbara Spinelli, an Italian journalist, writer and politician, died in Rome on October 7, 2026, aged 80. Born in Rome on May 31, 1946, she was the daughter of Altiero…
Bisera Alikadić, died aged 87
Bisera Alikadić, a Bosnian poet and author, died on October 6, 2026, aged 87. Born in Podhum near Livno, she built a body of work that included poetry, romance novels…
German Quiles dies at age 87
German Quiles, a politician and businessman, died October 6, 2026, aged 87, in Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Born in Añasco, Puerto Rico, he moved to Philadelphia at age six…
Tadeusz Lutak dies at 109
Tadeusz Lutak, a Polish World War II veteran and soldier, died October 5, 2026, aged 109. Born Tadeusz Władysław Lutak on August 29, 1917, in Żarnowa, then part of Austria-Hungary,…
Marlene Fuchs obituary: died at age 84
Marlene Fuchs, the German Olympic shot putter, died October 5, 2026, aged 84. Born Marlene Klein on March 31, 1942, in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, she competed in athletics under the…
Otto Rössler death at age 86
Otto Eberhard Rössler, a German interdisciplinary scientist in theoretical biochemistry and nonlinear physics, died October 5, 2026, aged 86. Born in Berlin on May 20, 1940, he became internationally known…
Lothar Milde died at age 91
Lothar Milde, the German discus thrower, died October 5, 2026, aged 91. Born in Halle an der Saale on November 8, 1934, he was an East German athlete whose principal…
Obituary: Emil Poklitar, dead at age 87
Emil Poklitar, a German footballer and coach, died in Saarbrücken on October 4, 2026, aged 87. Born in Tatanir on June 14, 1939, he was the son of Vladimir and…
Hubert Colin de Verdière death at age 84
Hubert Colin de Verdière, a French diplomat who served as ambassador to Russia and Algeria, died on October 2, 2026, aged 84. Born in Roubaix on October 31, 1941, during…
Irene Butter death at age 95
Irene Butter, the German-American academic and Holocaust survivor, died on October 2, 2026, aged 95. Born Irene Hasenberg in Berlin in 1930, she became a public health scholar and professor…
Irene H. Butter passed away at age 95
Irene H. Butter, a German-American academic and Holocaust survivor, died on October 2, 2026, aged 95. Born Irene Hasenberg in Berlin in 1930, she was a public health scholar and…
Amos Rapoport passed away at age 97
Amos Rapoport, the Polish-American architect and professor, died September 29, 2026, aged 97. He was one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS) and produced more than 200 academic publications…
Manfred Letzerich has died at age 84
Manfred Letzerich, a German Olympic long-distance runner, died September 28, 2026, aged 84. Born on August 15, 1942, he competed in the men’s 5,000 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.…
Ludwig Gössing death at age 88
Ludwig Gössing, the German equestrian and Olympic medalist, died on September 27, 2026, aged 88. Born in Dortmund on May 13, 1938, he represented Germany in eventing at the 1972…
Bruno Kramm death at age 58
Bruno Kramm, the German musician and co-founder of the electro-industrial duo Das Ich, died on September 25, 2026, aged 58. Born in Munich on October 13, 1967, he became known…
Peter Nogly dies at 79
Peter Nogly, the German footballer who spent his entire 320-match West German top-flight career with Hamburger SV and later went on to coach, died on September 25, 2026, aged 79.…
Lucien Lazare died at age 101
Lucien Lazare, the French-Israeli history teacher and French Resistance fighter, died on September 22, 2026, aged 101. Born in Strasbourg on November 24, 1924, he studied at the University of…
Jochen Fahrenberg dies at 89
Jochen Fahrenberg, a German psychologist whose work spanned personality research, psychophysiology and the philosophy of science, died on September 21, 2026, aged 89. Born in Berlin on September 18, 1937,…
Peter Hermann, died aged 74
Peter Hermann, the German football coach and former player, died on September 19, 2026, aged 74. Born Franz-Peter Hermann in Kleinmaischeid on March 22, 1952, he went on to build…
Hans Grodotzki passes away at age 90
Hans Grodotzki, the East German long-distance runner who won two silver medals at the 1960 Rome Olympics, died on September 18, 2026, aged 90. Born on April 4, 1936, in…
Peter Petrel dies at 86
Peter Petrel, the German singer best known for the 1972 number-one hit “How Do You Do,” died on September 18, 2026, aged 86. Born Peter Sauer in Bad Frankenhausen on…
Ralf Richter death at age 69
Ralf Richter, the German actor known for films including Das Boot, Bang Boom Bang and Fußball ist unser Leben, died on September 15, 2026, aged 69. He began his screen…
Martin Gutzeit obituary: died at age 74
Martin Gutzeit, a German clergyman and politician who served as commissioner of the Stasi Records Agency, died on September 15, 2026, aged 74. Born in Cottbus in 1952, he was…
Peter Max, died aged 88
Peter Max, the German-American pop artist known for his bright, vividly colored work, died on September 14, 2026, at age 88. Born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin on October 19,…
Ralf Richter death at age 69
Ralf Richter, the German actor known for Das Boot and Bang Boom Bang, died on September 14, 2026, aged 69. Richter made his screen debut as the rough-edged sailor Frenssen…
Hartmut Welker died at age 84
Hartmut Welker, the German opera singer and operatic bass-baritone, died on September 12, 2026, aged 84. Born in Velbert on October 27, 1941, he first trained as a toolmaker before…
Paul Butzer obituary: died at age 98
Paul Butzer, the German mathematician and historian of mathematics, died on September 9, 2026, aged 98. Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr on April 15, 1928, he built a career…
Iskhak Mashbash death at age 96
Iskhak Mashbash, a Russian poet, died on September 7, 2026, aged 96. Also known as Iskhak Shumafovich Mashbash and anglicised as Isaac Mashbash, he was a Circassian poet, writer and…
Georg Westenfelder died at age 91
Georg Westenfelder, a German organ builder, died on September 7, 2026, aged 91. Born in Stuttgart on August 8, 1935, he owned and led the Uergelmanufaktur Georg Westenfelder organ shop…
Obituary: Robert Alexy, dead at age 80
Robert Alexy, the German jurist and legal philosopher, died on September 5, 2026, aged 80. Born in Oldenburg on September 9, 1945, he studied law and philosophy at the University…
Michael Mendl died at age 82
Michael Mendl, the German actor known for roles in Downfall, 14 Days to Life and Dark, died on September 5, 2026, aged 82. Born Michael Sandrock in Lünen on April…
Constantin Floros, died aged 96
Constantin Floros, the Greek-German musicologist known for his work on the Second Viennese School, died on September 4, 2026, aged 96. Born in Thessaloniki on January 4, 1930, he studied…
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher has died at age 95
Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher, a German-born American literary scholar, died September 4, 2026, at age 95. A Princeton University professor emeritus, he taught there from 1979 to 2006 as the William…
Klaus Becker died at age 91
Klaus Becker, a German civil servant and former Regierungspräsident of Lüneburg, died on September 3, 2026, aged 91. Born in Celle on November 27, 1934, he served as Regierungspräsident of…
Bernard Haisch passed away at age 77
Bernard Haisch, the German-born American astrophysicist who died on September 3, 2026, at age 77 from complications of Parkinson's disease, studied solar-stellar astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, observational X-ray and ultraviolet astronomy,…
Death of Konrad Jarausch at age 85
Konrad Jarausch, the German-American historian and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor, died on September 1, 2026, aged 85. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, on August 14, 1941, he…
Eberhard Vogel died at age 83
Eberhard Vogel, the German football player and manager who won Olympic bronze medals, died on September 1, 2026, aged 83. A former East German international, he was born in Frankenberg…
Hana Pastejříková passes away at age 82
Hana Pastejříková, a Czech actress known for her work in film and television, died on August 29, 2026, aged 82. Born in Prague on March 2, 1944, she was a…
Obituary: Ulrich Berner, dead at age 78
Ulrich Berner, a German scholar of religion, died on August 26, 2026, aged 78. Berner was a German religionist and phenomenologist of religion whose work combined phenomenological approaches with historical…
Manfred Poerschke passed away at age 92
Manfred Poerschke, the German sprinter, died on August 25, 2026, aged 92. Born in Dortmund on February 26, 1934, he represented Germany as an athletics competitor and was best known…
Obituary: Noah Segsy, dead at age 22
Noah Segsy, a German pornographic actor, died on August 24, 2026, aged 22, after drowning. Known professionally as Noah Segsy, he performed in gay adult content and built an online…
Obituary: Klaus-Michael Kühne, dead at age 89
Klaus-Michael Kühne, the German transport and logistics magnate and chairman of Kuehne + Nagel, died on August 24, 2026, aged 89. The Hamburg-born businessman built his career around the family-linked…
Gerhard Schwedes passed away at age 88
Gerhard Schwedes, an American football player who played for the New York Titans and Boston Patriots, died on August 23, 2026, aged 88. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau on April…
Bruno Schrecker has died at age 97
Bruno Schrecker, the German-born British cellist, died on August 23, 2026, aged 97. Born in Frankfurt on August 27, 1928, he was the son of Robert Schrecker and Lisl Bischitsky.…
Hans Maurer death at age 93
Hans Maurer, a German politician and teacher who served in the Landtag of Bavaria from 1970 to 1998, died on August 22, 2026, aged 93. A member of the Christian…
Paul Gauselmann passed away at age 91
Paul Gauselmann, the German businessman who founded and led the Gauselmann group, died on August 21, 2026, aged 91. Born on August 26, 1934, in Steinfurt, he built the company…
Anny Schlemm death at age 97
Anny Schlemm, the German opera singer, died on August 21, 2026, aged 97. Born in Neu-Isenburg on February 22, 1929, she studied in Berlin with Erna Westenberger and made her…
Elisabeth Kiausch dies at 93
Elisabeth Kiausch, a German politician and retailer, died on August 20, 2026, aged 93. Born on January 19, 1933, in Hamburg, she was a member of the Social Democratic Party…
Thomas Freienstein passes away at age 66
Thomas Freienstein, the German Olympic cyclist who competed at the 1984 Summer Games, died on August 19, 2026, aged 66. Born in Fulda on March 9, 1960, he built his…
Roland Hahn dies at age 80
Roland Hahn, a German teacher and Social Democratic politician who served in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1972 to 1984, died on August 18, 2026, aged 80. Born on January…
Andreas Hoppe dies at age 66
Andreas Hoppe, the German actor best known for roles in Alaska.de and Black Forest, died on August 17, 2026, aged 66. Born in West Berlin on June 1, 1960, he…
Fritz Schramma passes away at age 78
Fritz Schramma, the German politician who served as mayor of Cologne, died on August 17, 2026, aged 78. Born in Cologne on August 27, 1947, he built his career in…
Death of Elisabeth Schnell at age 93
Elisabeth Schnell, a German politician and catechist who served in the Landtag of Bavaria, died on August 15, 2026, aged 93. Born on October 27, 1932, in Sontheim, she was…
Heinz-Peter Gasse death at age 73
Heinz-Peter Gasse, a German politician and electrician, died on August 15, 2026, aged 73. Born in Duisburg on October 17, 1952, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party…
Werner Breitwieser passes away at age 89
Werner Breitwieser, a German politician and school administrator who served in the Landtag of Hesse from 1989 to 1999, died on August 14, 2026, aged 89. A member of the…
Wallace Kirsop obituary: died at age 92
Wallace Kirsop, an academic and bibliographer, died on August 14, 2026, aged 92. An Australian scholar in French studies and book trade history, he was born in Chatswood, New South…
Adolf Prokop dies at age 87
Adolf Prokop, a German football referee, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Altenbuch on February 2, 1939, he began his refereeing career in 1969 and became best…
Wolfgang Haber dead at age 100
Wolfgang Haber, the German biologist who helped establish landscape ecology, died on August 13, 2026, aged 100. Born in Datteln in 1925, he studied botany, zoology, chemistry and geography at…
Helmut Lethen death at age 87
Helmut Lethen, the German Germanist and cultural scholar, died on August 13, 2026, aged 87. Born in Mönchengladbach in 1939, he studied at universities in Bonn, Amsterdam and Berlin after…
Horst Jaunich has died at age 96
Horst Jaunich, a German politician and trade unionist who served in the Bundestag from 1972 to 1994, died on August 13, 2026, aged 96. Born on June 7, 1930, in…
Cordula Trantow dead at age 83
Cordula Trantow, the German actress and director known for Die Brücke, Hitler and The Castle, died on August 12, 2026, aged 83. Born in Berlin on December 29, 1942, she…
Josef Deimer, died aged 90
Josef Deimer, the German politician who served in the Landtag of Bavaria and the Bavarian Senate, died on August 12, 2026, aged 90. Born in Landshut on January 1, 1936,…
Ingeborg Friebe dead at age 95
Ingeborg Friebe, the German politician and trade unionist who served as president of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, died on August 11, 2026, aged 95. Born Ingeborg Röh in Brunswick…
Kurt Danziger dead at age 100
Kurt Danziger, a German-born Canadian academic whose work shaped the history of psychology, died on August 10, 2026, aged 100. Born in Wrocław on June 3, 1926, he studied at…
Adolf Niggemeier died at age 95
Adolf Niggemeier, a German civil servant and politician who served as a member of the Volkskammer, died on August 8, 2026, aged 95. Born on May 21, 1931, in Riesa,…
Andrzej Gąsiorowski, died aged 75
Andrzej Gąsiorowski, a Polish academic and historian, died on August 7, 2026, aged 75. He worked as a research scientist at the Stutthof concentration camp Museum in Sztutowo and as…
Peter Faber, died aged 82
Peter Faber, the German-born Dutch actor known for roles in films including A Bridge Too Far, Soldier of Orange and Max Havelaar, died on August 7, 2026, aged 82. Born…