List of German Argentines
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German Argentines (in Spanish referred as germano argentinos) are Argentines of German descent.
The following is a list of some prominent or notable German Argentines:
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[edit] Academia
- Marcella Althaus-Reid (professor of contextual theology and writer)
- Carlos Berg (prominent scientist)
- Efraín Bischoff (historian)
- Guillermo Bodenbender (prominent scientist)
- Luis Brackebusch (prominent scientist)
- Carlos Octavio Bunge (sociologist, pedagogue and historian)
- Mario Bunge (prominent scientist)
- Arturo Eduardo Burkart (prominent scientist)
- Hermann Burmeister (prominent scientist)
- Adolfo Döring (prominent scientist)
- Oscar Döring (prominent scientist)
- Pablo Groeber (prominent scientist)
- Juan Hartmann (astronomer)
- Christofredo Jakob (prominent scientist)
- Juan Keidel (geologist)
- Alejandro Korn (physician, philosopher and reformist)
- Otto Krause (engineer, he founded the first Technical School in Argentina in 1899)
- Franz Kühn (prominent scientist)
- Federico Kurtz (prominent scientist)
- Pablo G. Lorentz (prominent scientist)
- Gustavo Niederlein (prominent scientist)
- Anastasius Nordenholz (writer and scientist)
- Werner Schad (linguistic scientist and educator)
- Friedrich Schickendantz (prominent scientist)
- Walter Schiller (prominent scientist)
- Otto Schneider (prominent scientist)
- Hans Schumacher (physicist and chemist)
- Alfred Stelzner (prominent scientist)
- Kurt Tank (prominent scientist, he designed FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II in Argentina)
- Max Tepp (prominent scientist)
- Ricardo Wichmann (prominent scientist)
- Anselmo Windhausen (prominent scientist)
[edit] Business
- Guillermo Bauer (manager, proprietor of the first steam-operated flour mill in Argentina)
- Otto Bemberg (founder of Cerveza Quilmes)
- Emilio Bieckert (manager, founder of Cerveza Bieckert and owner of the first ice factory of Argentina)
- Carlos Miguens Bemberg (one of the Latin America's most Important Businessmen and descendant of the wealthy Bemberg family)
- Francis Mallmann (one of the best Latin America's chefs, and prominent manager)
- Roberto Mertig (founder of Orbis)
- Alberto Roemmers (founder of Laboratorios Roemmers, the most important Latin American Pharmaceutical Laboratory)
- Juan Rosauer (founder of Los Alamos de Rosauer SA)
- Enrique Wollmann (prominent manager, he founded Ingenio Jujeño Ledesma- Ledesma Sugar Estates and Refining Co. Limited- The first export sugar exploitation company in Argentina run by his descendants)
[edit] Entertainment
- Axel (singer)
- Christian Bach (actress and producer of telenovelas)
- María Luisa Bemberg (film writer, director and actress)
- Sergio Denis (singer)
- Ingrid Grudke (model, TV host)
- Annemarie Heinrich (prominent Celebrity Photographer)
* Walter Heinze (guitarist, composer)
- Javier Herrlein (drummer of Catupecu Machu)
- Carlos Kaspar (actor)
- Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
- Manfredo Kraemer (violinist)
- Nicole Neumann (model, TV host)
- Gastón Pauls (actor, TV host)
- Pipo Pescador (his real name is Enrique Fischer, humourist, actor)
- Catalina Rautenberg (model, TV host)
- Rosa Rosen (actress)
- Evelyn Scheidl (ex model, TV host)
- Milagros Schmoll (model)
- René Strickler (actor)
- Alejandro Wiebe (TV host)
[edit] Historical Figures
- Tamara Bunke (famous communist revolutionary)
- Richard Walther Darré (one of the ideologist of Blood and soil)
- Dietrich Meyer (he founded Sierra de La Ventana with German settlers)
- Federico Rauch (he won many argentinian wars)
- Ernesto Tornquist (prominent manager, he founded the Tornquist Bank, the Tornquist city and Tornquist Partido in Buenos Aires Province among many other contributions)
* Carlos von der Becke (military leader)
- Carlos Wiederhold (a Pioneer, he founded the famous city of San Carlos de Bariloche in 1895)
- Kurt Gustav Wilckens (famous anarchist revolutionary)
[edit] Journalism
- Osvaldo Bayer (journalist and writer)
- Andrés Klipphan (journalist)
- Romina Mohr (journalist, Canal 9)
[edit] Literature
- Roberto Arlt (short-story writer, novelist, and playwright)
- Elsa Bornemann (one of the best writers of children's literature in Latin America)
- Silvina Bullrich (writer)
- Hermann Federico Arturo Hassel (prominent writer)
- Paola Kaufmann (writer)
- Bertha Koessler Ilg (writer)
- Héctor Germán Oesterheld (comic writer, considered the greatest South American to work in his field)
- Alan Pauls (novelist)
[edit] Politics
- Luis Alberto Ammann (politician, writer)
- Silvia Augsburger (socialist politician)
- Juan Carlos Blumberg (political activist)
- Cristian Breitenstein (mayor of Bahía Blanca)
- Maurice Closs (governor of Misiones Province)
- Néstor Kirchner (ex president of Argentina)
- María Luisa Kugler (socialist politician)
- Walter Kugler (engineer and politician)
- Rodolfo Lehmann (ex governor of Santa Fe Province)
- Ítalo Luder (politician)
- Carlos Reutemann (former Formula One racing driver and a prominent politician)
- Pablo Tschirsch (ex vice governor of Misiones Province)
- Ernesto Ueltschi (ex governor of Mendoza Province)
[edit] Religion
- Jorge Gottau (bishop of Añatuya, creator of "Colecta Más por Menos")
- Jorge Mayer (Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
- Jorge Novak (founder of "Movimiento Ecuménico por los Derechos Humanos")
- Enrique Rau (bishop, well known for his humanitarian labour)
- Bernarda Seitz (nun, TV host)
- Christian Von Wernich (notorious Roman Catholic chaplain of the Buenos Aires Province Police during the Dirty War)
[edit] Sports
- Damián Akerman (soccer player)
- Fabián Assmann (soccer player)
- Pablo Birger (racing driver, he raced in two World Championship Grands Prix for the Gordini team)
- Gabriel Dietrich (soccer player)
- Juan Esnáider (soccer player)
- Rodolfo Fischer (soccer player)
- Elvio Fredrich (soccer player)
- Mauro Gerk (soccer player)
- Claudio Fernando Graf (soccer player)
- Sonja Graf (chess master)
- Gabriel Heinze (soccer player, currently at Real Madrid)
- Adolfo Heisinger (soccer player)
- Diego Herner (soccer player)
- Wálter Herrmann (basketball player)
- René Houseman (soccer player)
- Horacio Humoller (soccer player)
- Hernán Jasen (basketball player)
- Federico Kammerichs (basketball payer)
- Federico Lussenhoff (soccer player)
- Germán Lux (soccer player)
- Leonardo Mayer (tennis player)
- Paul Michel (chess player) (chess payer)
- Leonardo Sebastián Prediger (soccer player)
- Heinrich Reinhardt (chess master)
- Raúl Daniel Schmidt (ex soccer player and coach)
- Gabriel Schürrer (soccer player)
- Dante Senger (soccer player)
- Martín Wagner (soccer player)
- Solange Witteveen (athlete, high jumper)
- Walter Yacob (soccer player)
[edit] Other
- Helmut Ditsch (prominent Hyperrealism painter)
- Silvio Gesell (merchant, theoretical economist, social activist, anarchist and founder of Freiwirtschaft)
- Alejandro Guinder (lawyer, he founded the "Festival del Folklore de Cosquín")
- Naty Hollmann (also known as Naty Petrosino, elected "International Woman of the Year"- 2006- by the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta in Northern Italy)
- Fernando von Reichenbach (engineer and inventor)
- Claus Zieschank (his body was the first one found in Río de La Plata edges, as an evidence of crimes during National Reorganization Process)