Catharine Gutheil was born on 12 July 1864 in St Johannisberg, Rhine Province, Germany, the daughter of Freidrich Gutheil (1836-1920) and Elisabetha Gutheil née Schwenk (1842-1916). Her brother, P...
Film actor and singer. Born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape in Hornsey. Her father, a German businessman moved the family to Magdeburg. She studied at the dance and voice school of the Berlin Opera, taki...
Born Helmut Herzfeld in the outskirts of Berlin. Changed his name in 1917 in protest at the anti-British feelings in Germany. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 he came to England where he was interned for ...
German poet and essayist. Born Dusseldorf. Died Paris.
Nazi official. Born Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich in Halle an der Saale. An architect of the Holocaust, he is regarded as one of the most extreme members of the Nazi regime, with even Hitler call...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia, Germany
Footballer. Born in Achern, Germany. He was the first Jewish player in the German national football team, and played in the 1912 Olympic Games. He fought in the German Army in WW1, and was decorate...
August Wilhelm von Hofmann was born on 8 April 1818 in Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse, now known as Germany. Our picture source and his Wikipedia page give a full biography of his life. In 1854 Ho...
Photographer. Born Munich. Co-founded the London Salon of Photography in 1910. Grandfather of the musician Michael Hoppé. Died Hampshire.
Born Münster, Germany. Music critic. He studied philology and music in Leipzig, Berlin, Paris and London. He moved to London in 1869 and worked as music critic for The Times. He was naturalized in ...
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