Dieter Meinel passed away at age 76
Dieter Meinel, a German Olympic cross-country skier, died on May 30, 2026. Tags Athletes, 30 May 2026, Dieter, Germany, Meinel, May 2026, May 30
Famous Dead People from Germany
Over 3,000 obituaries for famous people from Germany who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Death of Bruno Kant at age 110
Bruno Kant died on May 29, 2026. He was a German Catholic priest and supercentenarian, and was born on February 26, 1916, in Werblinia. Wikidata describes him as a Roman…
S. Sathyendra death at age 64
S. Sathyendra, an Indian actor and film director, died on May 28, 2026. He was 64. Known also as an actor in Tamil and Kannada cinema, he began his screen…
Klaus Emmerich obituary: died at age 82
Klaus Emmerich, a German film director and screenwriter known for The First Polka and Trokadero, died on May 27, 2026. He was 82. Born in Freital on August 10, 1943,…
Death of Theo Diegelmann at age 86
Theo Diegelmann, a German football goalkeeper who played for SSV Reutlingen 05, VfL Bochum and 1. FC Nürnberg, died on May 26, 2026, at the age of 86. Born on…
Klaus Lehnertz dies at 88
Klaus Lehnertz, a German pole vaulter and Olympic bronze medalist, died on May 26, 2026. He was 88. Born in Solingen on April 13, 1938, Lehnertz competed for the United…
Emanuel Raasch obituary: died at age 70
Emanuel Raasch, a German racing cyclist, died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 70. He competed for SG Dynamo Magdeburg, part of Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo, and won many…
Heinrich Jarczyk passed away at age 101
Heinrich Jarczyk died on May 24, 2026, at the age of 101. The German natural scientist, draftsman and painter was also described in records as a biologist and artist. Born…
Norbert Kartmann death at age 77
Norbert Kartmann, a German politician and longtime member and president of the Landtag of Hesse, died on May 23, 2026. He was 77. A member of the Christian Democratic Union,…
Obituary: Gerd vom Bruch, dead at age 84
Gerd vom Bruch, a German football player and coach, died on May 22, 2026, at the age of 84. He played for Sportfreunde Siegen and later coached Borussia Mönchengladbach and…
Death of Wendelgard von Staden at age 100
Wendelgard von Staden, a German diplomat and author, died on May 21, 2026, at the age of 100. Known as Wendi von Staden, she wrote the 1979 memoir "Darkness Over…
Death of Inge Wettig-Danielmeier at age 89
Inge Wettig-Danielmeier died on May 20, 2026. She was a German politician who served as treasurer of the SPD from 1991 to 2007. She was a member of the Landtag…
Johannes Müller has died at age 57
Johannes Müller, the German politician who served as a member of the Landtag of Saxony from 2004 to 2014, died on May 20, 2026, at the age of 57. Born…
Heinz-Helmich van Schewick, died aged 85
Heinz-Helmich van Schewick, a German politician and member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1985 to 2000, died on May 19, 2026. He was 85. Van Schewick was a…
Gunter Hampel, died aged 88
Gunter Hampel, a German jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer, died on May 19, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Göttingen on Aug. 31, 1937, he was a jazz musician…
Frank Land, died aged 97
Frank Land, a German-born British information systems researcher, died on May 16, 2026, at the age of 97. Born Frank Landsberger in Berlin in October 1928, he was the first…
Angelica Domröse dead at age 85
Angelica Domröse, the German actress known for Love's Confusion, The Adventures of Werner Holt and The Legend of Paul and Paula, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of…
Egon Loy, died aged 95
Egon Loy, a German footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Eintracht Frankfurt, died on May 15, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on May 14, 1931, he began…
Timmy dead
Timmy, a humpback whale also known as Hope, died on May 14, 2026, when his body was discovered near the Danish island of Anholt. He had strayed into the Baltic…
Obituary: Harald Metzkes, dead at age 97
Harald Metzkes, a German painter and graphic artist, died on May 14, 2026, at the age of 97. Born in Bautzen, Saxony, on January 23, 1929, he grew up there…
Death of Manfred Steinbach at age 92
Manfred Steinbach died on May 13, 2026. He was a German Olympic sprinter and long jumper. Steinbach represented Germany in track and field and was known for his work in…
Paul Wischeidt dead at age 82
Paul Wischeidt died on May 13, 2026. He was a German Olympic fencer. Tags Athletes, 13 May 2026, Aquarius, Germany, Paul, Wischeidt, May 13, May 2026
Luna Jordan death at age 25
Luna Jordan, a German actress, died on May 13, 2026. Tags Actors, 13 May 2026, Germany, Jordan, Luna, May 13, May 2026
Obituary: Albrecht Weinberg, dead at age 101
Albrecht Weinberg died on May 12, 2026. Albrecht Weinberg [de], 101, German Holocaust survivor. (death announced on this date) Tags Other, 12 May 2026, Albrecht, Germany, Weinberg, 2026-05-12, May 12,…
Anna Wagner, died aged 111
Anna Wagner died on May 12, 2026. She was an Austrian supercentenarian. Anna Wagner [de], 111, Austrian supercentenarian. Tags Other, 12 May 2026, Anna, Austria, Wagner, 2026-05-12, May 12, May…
Alexander Held dies at 67
Alexander Held, a German actor known for roles in Der Untergang, Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, died on May 12, 2026, at age 67.…
Rainer Lux dies at 75
Rainer Lux, the German politician who served as a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1995 to 2010, died on May 11, 2026. He was 75. Lux, a…
Rainer Nitschke passes away at age 79
Rainer Nitschke, a German radio and television presenter, died on May 10, 2026. No cause of death was stated in the available information. Rainer Nitschke [de], 79, German radio and…
Günther Maria Halmer, died aged 83
Günther Maria Halmer, a German actor, died on May 10, 2026, at the age of 83, according to reports that said he died of cancer. Born in Rosenheim, Germany, on…
Harald Mothes death at age 69
Harald Mothes, a German footballer, died on May 9, 2026, at the age of 69. He played as a forward or midfielder and made more than 300 appearances for Erzgebirge…
Obituary: Karl-Heinz Ripkens, dead at age 88
Karl-Heinz Ripkens, the German footballer who played as a forward, died on May 8, 2026, aged 88. He began his career with 1. FC Köln, where he won two championships,…
Death of Günter Jena at age 92
Günter Jena, a German choral conductor and musicologist, died on May 8, 2026, at the age of 92–93. Born in Leipzig in 1933, he attended the Thomasschule there before studying…
Friedrich Seifert dies at 84
Friedrich Seifert, the German mineralogist and geophysicist, died on May 7, 2026. He was 84. Seifert was the founding director of the Bayerisches Geoinstitut at the University of Bayreuth. Born…
Manuela Hoelterhoff obituary: died at age 77
Manuela Hoelterhoff, a German-born American cultural journalist who was executive editor of Muse, the arts and culture section of Bloomberg News, died on May 6, 2026, of cancer. She was…
Death of Henk Beckers at age 81
Henk Beckers, Dutch politician and senator from 2011 to 2015, died on May 4, 2026. Born Henricus Gerardus Josephus Maria Beckers on May 30, 1944, in Mheer, in the German-occupied…
Karl-Heinz Mühe dies at 77
Karl-Heinz Mühe, a German politician and member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony from 1986 to 2003, died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 77. Born in Schöppenstedt…
Hans-Wilhelm Pesch dies at age 88
Hans-Wilhelm Pesch, a German politician and member of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1998, died on May 1, 2026, at the age of 88. Born on June 19, 1937, in…
Georg Baselitz dead at age 88
Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor, died on April 30, 2026, at the age of 88. Born Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Germany, on January 23, 1938, he was also a…
Obituary: Lutz Goepel, dead at age 83
Lutz Goepel died on April 29, 2026. Tags Politicians, 29 April 2026, Cancer, Germany, Goepel, Lutz, April 2026, April 29
Volker Hage death at age 76
Volker Hage, the German journalist, author and literary critic who worked for Der Spiegel, died on April 29, 2026, at the age of 76. Born in Hamburg in 1949, he…
Petra Ruhrmann passes away at age 75
Petra Ruhrmann died on April 28, 2026. Tags Athletes, 28 April 2026, Cancer, Germany, Petra, Ruhrmann, April 2026, April 28
Peter Gülke dead at age 91
Peter Gülke, the German conductor and musicologist, died on April 26, 2026, at the age of 91. Born in Weimar on April 29, 1934, he studied cello and musicology at…
Jean-Yves Hugon death at age 76
Jean-Yves Hugon, French politician and deputy from 2002 to 2007, died on April 24, 2026, at the age of 76. Born in Aurillac on May 16, 1949, he worked first…
Erich Arndt has died at age 87
Erich Arndt, a German international table tennis player, died on April 24, 2026. Born in Frankfurt on May 18, 1938, he represented Germany in international competition and won a bronze…
Peter Kramer died at age 93
Peter Kramer, a German physicist whose career centered on theoretical physics, died on April 23, 2026, at the age of 93. Born on March 16, 1933, Kramer studied physics at…
Manfred T. Reetz died at age 82
Manfred T. Reetz died on April 23, 2026. He was a chemist and academic. Tags Scientists, 23 April 2026, Germany, Manfred, Reetz, April 2026, April 23
Manfred Kreuz passes away at age 90
Manfred Kreuz, a German footballer, died on April 22, 2026, at the age of 90. Born on 7 March 1936, he spent his entire career with Schalke 04. From 1956…
Manfred Böckl death at age 77
Manfred Böckl, a German writer, died on April 20, 2026, at the age of 77. Born in Landau an der Isar, Bavaria, on September 2, 1948, he wrote historical fiction…
Karl O. Christe dies at age 89
Karl O. Christe, a German-born American inorganic chemist known for his work in fluorine chemistry, died on April 19, 2026. He was 89. Born Karl Otto Christe on July 24,…
Death of Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden at age 88
Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, German conductor and founder of the Tölzer Knabenchor, died on April 19, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, on June 19, 1937, he…
Ivan Rebernik obituary: died at age 86
Ivan Rebernik, a Slovenian diplomat and librarian, died on April 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He served as Slovenia’s ambassador to the Vatican and as Chancellor of the…
Klaus Ihlenfeld has died at age 92
Klaus Ihlenfeld died on April 15, 2026. Tags Artists, 15 April 2026, America, Germany, Ihlenfeld, Klaus, April 15, April 2026
Obituary: Mark Mobius, dead at age 89
Mark Mobius, the American-born German businessman and emerging markets fund manager, died on April 15, 2026, at age 89. Born Joseph Bernhard Mark Mobius in Hempstead, New York, he founded…
Obituary: Hans Wagner, dead at age 76
Hans Wagner died on April 14, 2026. He was a German Olympic bobsledder. Tags Other, 14 April 2026, Cancer, Germany, Hans, Wagner, April 14, April 2026
Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt has died at age 76
Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt, a German judoka, died on April 14, 2026, at the age of 76. Born on May 5, 1949, he competed for the SG Dynamo Brandenburg and Sportvereinigung (SV)…
Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58
Annetta Alexandridis died on April 13, 2026. Tags Scientists, 13 April 2026, Alexandridis, America, Annetta, Germany, April 13, April 2026
Hans-Jürgen Becher dies at age 84
Hans-Jürgen Becher, a German footballer who played for Schalke 04, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 84. A defender, he made 32 appearances in the Oberliga West…
Roger Prinzen passes away at age 57
Roger Prinzen, a German football manager and former player, died on April 13, 2026, at the age of 57. He was head coach of Balzers and served as assistant coach…
Ursula Donath obituary: died at age 94
Ursula Donath, a German runner and Olympic bronze medalist, died on April 12, 2026. She was 94. Born Ursula Jurewitz in Saldus, Latvia, she competed in the 400 metres and…
Leo Nowak dead at age 97
Leo Nowak, the German Roman Catholic prelate who served as apostolic administrator of Magdeburg from 1990 to 1994 and as bishop from 1994 to 2004, died on April 12, 2026,…
Reinhold Wittig death at age 88
Reinhold Wittig died on April 11, 2026. He was a German board game designer and geologist. His work spanned both fields, reflecting a career that combined science and game design.…
Rudi Schmitt passed away at age 98
Rudi Schmitt, a German politician and former teacher, died on April 10, 2026, at the age of 98. Born in Frankfurt on January 8, 1928, he was a member of…
Ari Ben-Menahem death at age 97
Ari Ben-Menahem, a German-born Israeli mathematician and geophysicist, died on April 9, 2026. He was 97. Born in Berlin on November 4, 1928, he was a professor of mathematics and…
Mario Adorf, died aged 95
Mario Adorf, the German actor and writer known for Major Dundee, Short Night of Glass Dolls and Fedora, died on April 8, 2026, at age 95. Born in Zürich, Switzerland,…
Death of Gerd Winner at age 89
Gerd Winner, a German painter and sculptor, died on April 8, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Braunschweig in 1936, he graduated from the Berlin University of the…
Leïla Marouane has died at age 65
Leïla Marouane, a Tunisian-born French creative writer and journalist who wrote for El Watan and Jeune Afrique, died on April 8, 2026. She was 65. Born Leyla Zineb Mechentel in…
Helena Vovsová passes away at age 100
Helena Vovsová, a Czech resistance member, died on April 6, 2026, aged 100. Born in Prague on February 12, 1926, she came of age during the Nazi German occupation of…
Christian Schwarz-Schilling dies at age 95
Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-born German politician and former minister of post and telecommunications and High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, died on April 6, 2026. He was 95. Schwarz-Schilling served as…
Konrad Carl dies at 96
Konrad Carl, a German trade unionist and former president of the Building and Construction Union, died on April 6, 2026, at the age of 96. Born in Fürth on January…
Eberhard Riedel dies at age 88
Eberhard Riedel died on April 5, 2026. He was a German Olympic alpine skier who competed in the 1960, 1964, and 1968 Winter Games. His career included appearances across three…
Lawrence J. Ryan has died at age 93
Lawrence J. Ryan, an Australian-born scholar of German literature, died on April 5, 2026, at age 93 in Tübingen, Germany. Born in Sydney on December 20, 1932, he earned a…
Thomas Zipp died at age 59
Thomas Zipp, a German artist, died on April 3, 2026. Thomas Zipp, 59–60, German artist. Tags Artists, 03 April 2026, Germany, Thomas, Zipp, 2026-04-03, April 2026, April 3
Obituary: Peter Neumeyer, dead at age 96
Peter Neumeyer, a German-American academic, literary scholar, poet, and educator, died on April 2, 2026. He was 96. Born in Munich, Germany, on August 4, 1929, he emigrated to the…
Birgit Collin-Langen dead at age 69
Birgit Collin-Langen, a German politician and Member of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2019, died on April 1, 2026, at the age of 69. Born in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, West…
Hans-Jürgen Kreische passed away at age 78
Hans-Jürgen Kreische, a German football player and manager best known for his long association with Dynamo Dresden and the East Germany national team, died on March 30, 2026. He spent…
Karsten Wettberg obituary: died at age 84
Karsten Wettberg, a German football manager, died on March 28, 2026. Born in Friesack, near Berlin, on November 10, 1941, he was one of the most successful football managers in…
Alexander Kluge has died at age 94
Alexander Kluge, the German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company, died on March 25, 2026, at the age of 94. Born in Halberstadt in 1932,…
François Morlaes has died at age 82
François Morlaes, a French rugby union player who played as a scrum-half, died on March 23, 2026. Born in Pau, German-occupied France, on October 6, 1943, he won the 1968–69…
Carsten Träger dies at age 52
Carsten Träger, a German politician and member of the Bundestag since 2013, died on March 21, 2026, aged 52. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he represented Bavaria…
Bettina Köster dies at 66
Bettina Köster, a German singer, musician and composer, died on March 16, 2026. Born on June 15, 1959, in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, she was also a saxophonist, songwriter…
Obituary: James N. Hardin Jr., dead at age 87
James N. Hardin Jr., an American Germanist, died on March 16, 2026, at age 87. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 17, 1939, he earned a BA in German from…
Egidio Marzona dead at age -1
Egidio Marzona, an Italian art collector, gallerist and publisher, died on March 15, 2026, in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 81. Born in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on October…
Jürgen Habermas passed away at age 96
Jürgen Habermas, the German philosopher and sociologist, died on March 14, 2026, at age 96. Born in Düsseldorf in 1929, he was a German philosopher and social theorist associated with…
Jochen Bachfeld obituary: died at age 73
Jochen Bachfeld, a German boxer and East German Olympic champion, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 73. Born in Sülte, East Germany, on December 17, 1952, he…
Jens Blauert dies at age 87
Jens Blauert, a German scientist known for his work in psychoacoustics, died on March 13, 2026. He was an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute…
Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie dies at 83
Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, a British life peer and member of the House of Lords from 2005 to 2024, died on March 12, 2026. Born Irene Tordoff Fennell on April…
Joachim Wanke, died aged 84
Joachim Wanke, a German Roman Catholic prelate, died on March 12, 2026. He was 84. Wanke served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Erfurt after its re-establishment following…
Rolf Birkhölzer, died aged 76
Rolf Birkhölzer, a German professional footballer and goalkeeper, died on March 12, 2026. Born on 29 September 1949, he began playing football at the age of nineteen with 1. FC…
Hans-Georg Backhaus, died aged 96
Hans-Georg Backhaus, a German Marxian economist and philosopher, died on March 12, 2026, in Frankfurt. He was 96 or 97. Backhaus was one of the main authors of the Neue…
Hermann Kulke died at age 87
Hermann Kulke, a German historian and Indologist, died on March 10, 2026. He was 87. Kulke was professor of South and Southeast Asian history at Kiel University from 1988 to…
Death of Klaus Kribben at age 88
Klaus Kribben, a German politician and lawyer who served in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 1975 to 1996, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 88. A member…
Ingrid Schmithüsen dies at age 66
Ingrid Schmithüsen, the German operatic soprano who specialized in concert music and Lied recitals, died on March 6, 2026, aged 66. Born in Aachen on February 18, 1960, she studied…
Hans Wagner passed away at age 62
Hans-Christoph Wagner, a German-born Dutch politician and communications manager, died on March 6, 2026, at the age of 62. A member of the Labour Party, he served in the House…
Peter Schneider dies at age 85
Peter Schneider, the German writer, died on March 4, 2026. Born in Lübeck on April 21, 1940, he was the son of a conductor and composer. He spent his early…
Georg Koch dies at age 54
Georg Koch, a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, died on March 4, 2026. Born in Bergisch Gladbach, he began his career at amateur club SpVgg Erkenschwick before…
Gustav Gunsenheimer death at age 91
Gustav Gunsenheimer, a German composer and director of church music, died on March 3, 2026, at the age of 91. He composed mostly sacred music and chamber music, including the…
Tim Gerresheim, died aged 87
Tim Gerresheim, the German fencer and Olympic bronze medalist, died on March 3, 2026, at the age of 87. Born in Berlin on February 24, 1939, he represented the United…
Friedhelm Ptok died at age 92
German actor Died on Tuesday March 3rd 2026