Students/graduates •
Ngozi Alaegbu – Journalist •
Frank Baffoe – Ghanaian economist, diplomat and businessman •
Eberhard Becker – Mathematician •
Wolfgang Burandt – Lawyer, legal academic and professor for commercial law •
Gerd Bucerius – Politician, the namesake of the
Bucerius Law School •
Ezriel Carlebach – Israeli journalist and editorial writer •
Shiing-Shen Chern – Winner of
Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1984 •
Jürgen Ehlers – Winner of Max Planck Medal in 2002 •
Alexander Estis – Swiss author, translator and journalist of Russian origin, winner of the in 2020 •
Jürgen Fitschen – Co-CEO of
Deutsche Bank from 2009 to 2016 •
Rainer Froese – Developer of
FishBase •
Klaus Hasselmann – oceanographer and climate modeller, and recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 •
Vera Hatz – Royal Numismatic Society medallist •
Harald zur Hausen – Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 •
Ingo Heidbrink – Maritime Historian. Secretary-General of the
International Commission for Maritime History •
Lorenz Hilty - Computer Scientist •
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem – Legal scholar and a former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany •
J. Hans D. Jensen – Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 •
Christine Klein – neurologist, medical researcher and academic •
Jan Kohlhaase – Mathematician •
Hein Kötz – Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international private law (MPI-PRIV), the Bucerius Law School and Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft •
Hans Adolf Krebs – Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 •
Jens Marklof – Mathematician and physicist. Winner of the
Whitehead Prize. •
Tuhi Martukaw – Taiwanese journalist and diplomat •
Emma Mbua – the first woman from East Africa to become a palaeontologist. •
Reinhard Moratz – Ausserplanmässiger Professor at the University of Münster's Institute for Geoinformatics •
Paul Nevermann – First Mayor of Hamburg (1961–1965) •
Silke Ospelkaus – Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics •
Jože Pučnik – Known as one of the "Fathers of Slovenian independence from Yugoslavia" •
Dagmar Reichardt – Cultural scholar •
Joachim Ritter – philosopher and founder of the so-called Ritter School of
liberal conservatism •
Waldemar R. Röhrbein, historian, director of
Historisches Museum Hannover •
Peter Schlechtriem – Law scholar •
Wolfgang Schäuble – Germany's
Federal Minister of Finance in the
second and
third Merkel cabinets since 2009 •
Helmut Schmidt – Graduate, Economist, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 •
Olaf Scholz – Lawyer,
Chancellor of Germany since 2021. •
Klaus-Peter Siegloch – Former journalist and reporter for
ZDF •
Peter Sloterdijk – Philosopher and cultural theorist •
Richard Sorge – Famous spy •
Leo Strauss – Political philosopher well known for US
esotericism •
Ole Wittmann – German art historian, curator, and publisher
Faculty •
Helmut Bley – (born 1935), German historian, academic councillor, supervising students from the Third World •
Ernst Cassirer – Neo-Kantian Philosopher and Historian, a professor from 1919 to 1933 •
Henry N. Chapman – X-ray physicist and crystallographer, winner of the
Leibniz Prize in 2015. •
Emil Artin – Mathematician, a professor from 1923 to 1937 •
Curt Kosswig – Zoologist who worked for many years in Turkey before spending 1955–1969 at Hamburg University •
Georg von Dadelsen – Musicologist, 1960 to 1971,
Neue Bach-Ausgabe •
Rudolf Fleischmann – Experimental nuclear physicist •
Otto Franke – first Sinology Chair at Hamburg •
Wolfgang Franke – Sinology Chair, son of Otto •
Anke Grotlüschen – Professor for Lifelong Learning. •
Leonhard Harding – (born 1936)
historian and
scholar in African studies •
Klaus Hasselmann – oceanographer and climate modeller, and recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 •
Wilhelm Lenz – Physicist, advisor of
J. Hans D. Jensen •
Willibald Jentschke – Experimental nuclear physicist •
Klaus Koch – Expert in the growth of Biblical Studies •
Arnold Kohlschütter – Well-known astronomer and astrophysicist •
Yu-chien Kuan – Chinese defector, Sinologist, and writer •
Agathe Lasch – First female professor at Hamburg (1917–1934), Germanic philologist and Holocaust victim •
Wolfgang Paul – Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, founder of the DESY. •
Wolfgang Pauli – Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945 •
Johann Radon – Mathematician •
W. G. Sebald – Literary critic and writer •
Otto Stern – Winner of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943 •
William Stern – Inventor of the concept of the
intelligence quotient (IQ) •
Jakob Johann von Uexküll – Founder of
biosemiotics •
Alfred Wegener – Founder of the
continental drift theory •
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker – Nuclear physicist known as the longest-living member of the research team that performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War ==See also==