Weizsäcker family
The (von) Weizsäcker family was and is influential over the span of several generations, hailing from the former Kingdom of Württemberg. Their members include a Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg, a President of Germany, a leading diplomat, a prominent environmental scientist, 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), a diplomat who served as Secretary of State at the Foreign Office and Ambassador to the Holy See
- 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, president of German Chess Federation
- (b). Andreas von Weizsäcker (1956-2008), 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)
As part of a political élite
An unsympathetic 2010 article noted that: "The Weizsäcker family is a prime example of the continuity of the political elite (sic) across different political systems. Coming from the educated upper middle class, ennobled in 1916, in three successive generations this family has served in the highest state offices of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship and the German Federal Republic."[1]