(1912–1977),
engineer, designer of the first
ballistic missile and
NASA rockets , Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1918 (1902–1995),
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963 (1874–1940),
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1931 (1781–1841), graduate of the
Bauakademie, architect (1910–1995), designed the
first modern computer and
first high-level programming language (Including those of the Academies mentioned in the History section) •
Bruno Ahrends (1878–1948), architect •
Steffen Ahrends (1907–1992), architect •
Zora Arkus-Duntov (1909–1996), Russian and American engineer and racing car driver •
Stancho Belkovski (1891–1962), Bulgarian architect, head of Higher Technical School in Sofia and the department of public buildings. •
August Borsig (1804–1854), businessman •
Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist,
Nobel Prize winner 1931 •
Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in
electrical engineering. •
Wilhelm Cauer (1900–1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the
design of
filters. •
Henri Marie Coandă (1886–1972), Romanian aircraft designer; discovered the
Coandă Effect. •
Lotte Cohn (1893-1983), German-Israeli architect •
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), Polish chemist •
Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989), musicologist. •
Kurt Daluege (1897–1946), SS official, chief of Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, hanged as a war criminal •
Walter Dornberger (1895–1980), Major-General, developer of the Air Force-
NASA X-20
Dyna-Soar project. •
Ottmar Edenhofer (born 1961), economist •
Krafft Arnold Ehricke (1917–1984),
rocket-propulsion engineer, worked for the
NASA, chief designer of the
Centaur •
Gerhard Ertl (born 10 October 1936 in Stuttgart) Physicist and Surface Chemist, Hon. Prof. and
Nobel Prize winner 2007 •
Ladislaus Farkas (1904–1948), Austro-Hungarian/Israeli chemist •
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941), economist and key member of the National Socialist Party •
Wigbert Fehse (born 1937) German engineer and researcher in the area of automatic space navigation, guidance, control and docking/berthing. •
Ursula Franklin (1921–2016), Canadian physicist (
archaeometry) and theorist on the political and social effects of technology, Pearson Medal of Peace winner 2001 •
Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), Hungarian-British physicist (
holography), Nobel Prize winner 1971 •
Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist, co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter •
Elsa Gidoni (1901–1978), German-American architect and interior designer. •
Thomas Gil (born 1954), Professor of Practical Philosophy. •
Heinrich Nordhoff (1899-1968) First
Volkswagen CEO •
Fritz Gosslau (1898–1965), German engineer, known for his work at the
V-1 flying bomb. •
Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 •
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1925 •
Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948), archaeologist and Iranologist •
Franz Hillinger (1895–1973), architect of the
Neues Bauen (New Objectivity) movement in Berlin and in Turkey. •
Fritz Houtermans (1903–1966) Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist •
Hugo Junkers (1859–1935), former of
Junkers & Co, a major German aircraft manufacturer. •
Anatol Kagan (1913–2009), Russian-born Australian architect. •
Helmut Kallmeyer (1910–2006), chemist and Action T4 perpetrator •
Walter Kaufmann (1871–1947), physicist, well known for his first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass. •
Diébédo Francis Kéré (born 1965), Burnikabe architect •
Nicolas Kitsikis (1887–1978), Greek civil engineer, rector of the Athens Polytechnic School, senator and member of the Greek Parliament, doctor
honoris causa of the Technische Universität Berlin. •
Heinz-Hermann Koelle (born 1925) former director of the
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, member of the launch crew on
Explorer I and later directed the
NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center's involvement in
Project Apollo. •
Abdul Qadeer Khan (born 1936),
Pakistani nuclear physicist and
metallurgical engineer, who founded the
uranium enrichment program for Pakistan's
atomic bomb project. •
Arthur Korn (1870–1945), physicist, mathematician, and inventor of the fax machine. •
Franz Kruckenberg (1882–1965), designer of the first
aerodynamic high-speed train 1931 •
Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977),
electrical engineer, essential contributions to system theory •
Konrad Kwiet (born 1941), historian and scholar of the Holocaust. •
Edward Lasker (1885–1981), German-American chess player •
Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), architect •
Georg Hans Madelung (1889–1972), academic and
aeronautical engineer. •
Herbert Franz Mataré (1912–2011), physicist and
Transistor-pioneer •
Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), Austrian
electrical engineer •
Otto Metzger, German-British engineer •
Joachim Milberg (born 1943), Former
CEO of
BMW AG. •
Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911–1977), physicist (
field emission microscope,
field ion microscope,
atom probe) •
Klaus-Robert Müller (born 1964), computer scientist and physicist, a leading researcher in
machine learning •
Hans-Georg Münzberg (1916–2000), engineer, airplane turbines •
Gustav Niemann (1899–1982), mechanical engineer •
Ida Noddack (1896–1978), nominated three times for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. •
Egon Orowan (1902–1989), Hungarian-British physicist, metallurgist, and academic •
Jakob Karol Parnas (1884–1949), Polish-Soviet biochemist,
Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway •
Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1989 •
Roland Posner (1942–2020), semiotician •
Hans Reissner (1874–1967), aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics •
Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905), mechanical engineer, often called the father of
kinematics •
Klaus Riedel (1907–1944), German
rocket pioneer, worked on the
V-2 missile programme at
Peenemünde. •
Alois Riedler (1850–1936), Austrian inventor of the
Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine; proponent of practically oriented engineering education. • Hermann Rietschel (1847–1914), inventor of modern
HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). •
Arthur Rudolph (1906–1996) worked for the U.S. Army and
NASA, developer of
Pershing missile and the
Saturn V Moon rocket. •
Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (
electron microscope), Nobel Prize winner 1986 •
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect (at the predecessor Berlin Building Academy) •
Bernhard Schölkopf (born 1968), computer scientist •
Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010), founder of
Sennheiser •
Adolf Slaby (1849–1913), German
wireless pioneer •
Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect, politician, Minister for Armaments during the Third Reich, was sentenced to 20 years prison in the
Nuremberg trials •
Ernst Steinitz (1871–1928), mathematician. •
Edmund Stinnes (1896–1980), German-American industrialist, professor, and heir •
Ivan Stranski (1897–1979), Bulgarian chemist, considered the father of
crystal growth research •
Zdenko Strižić (1902–1990), Croatian architect •
Ernst Stuhlinger (1913–2008), German-American member of the
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, director of the space science lab at
NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center. •
Kurt Tank (1893–1983), head of design department of
Focke-Wulf, designed the
Fw 190 •
Willibald Trinks (1874–1966), head of the Department of Mechanical of Engineering of the
Carnegie Institute of Technology •
Hermann W. Vogel, (1834–1898) photo-chemist •
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977), German-American head of Nazi Germany's
V-2 rocket program, saved from prosecution at the
Nuremberg Trials by
Operation Paperclip, first director of the United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (
NASA)
Marshall Space Flight Center, called the father of the U.S. space program. •
Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff (1877–1959), engineer and architect •
Julius Weingarten (1836–1910), mathematician, contributed to the differential geometry of surfaces •
Chaim Weizmann, first president of
Israel •
Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (1882–1978), physicist •
Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), Hungarian-American physicist, discovered the Wigner-Ville-distribution, Nobel Prize winner 1963 •
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher •
Martin C. Wittig (born 1964), Former CEO of the management consultant firm
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. •
Constantin Zablovschi (1882–1967), Romanian pioneer radio engineer in Romania •
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1887–1973) chemist, graduated 1912, female engineering pioneer. •
Günter M. Ziegler (born 1963),
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2001) •
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer ==Rankings==