Weizsäcker family

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The family (von) Weizsäcker was and is influential over the span of several generations, hailing from Southern Germany's state of Württemberg. Among others, they produced a President of Germany, a war criminal and the physicist after whom the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula was named.

I. Christian Ludwig Weizsäcker (1785-1831), preacher in Öhringen

A. Hugo Weizsäcker (1820-1834)

B. Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker (1822–1899), protestant theologian and chancellor of University of Tübingen

1. Karl von Weizsäcker (1853–1926), 1906–1918 Ministerpräsident for King William II of Württemberg

a. Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882–1951), Diplomat and state secretary in Auswärtiges Amt 1938–1943, later judged to be a war criminal by U.S military occupation trial

i. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), physicist and philosopher

(a). Carl Christian von Weizsäcker (* 1938), professor of political economy

(b). Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (* 1939), scientist and politician

ii. Heinrich von Weizsäcker (1917-1939), killed in action (World War II)

iii. Richard von Weizsäcker (* 1920), politician (CDU) and President of Germany 1984–1994

(a). Robert Karl von Weizsäcker (* 1954), professor of political economy

(b). Andreas von Weizsäcker (* 1956), professor of art

(c). Beatrice von Weizsäcker (* 1958), graduated jurist and freelance journalist

(d). Fritz von Weizsäcker (* 1960), professor of medicine

b. Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957), neurologist

C. Julius Weizsäcker (1828–1889), historian

1. Julius Hugo Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1861-1939), lawyer

2. Heinrich Weizsäcker (1862–1945), professor of art history

a. Karl Hermann Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1898-1918)