List of well-known personalities at the University of Cologne
This list of personalities of the University of Cologne contains personalities who studied or worked or work at the new University of Cologne founded in 1919, as well as personalities who have received the title of honorary citizen or honorary senator . Personalities who have made a special contribution to the university or to research have been made honorary citizens since 1925, and since 1933 the university has also awarded honorary senatorial titles.
Honorary citizen
- Konrad Adenauer (1925)
- Sister Ignatia (née Countess Spee ) (1925)
- Louis Hagen (1925)
- Paul von Hindenburg (1926)
- Christian Eckert (1926)
- Friedrich Moritz (1935)
- Balbino Giuliano (1938)
- Anton Waldmann (1938)
- Viktor Rolff (1938)
- Heinrich Ritter von Srbik (1938)
- Karl House (1950)
- Robert Pferdmenges (1955)
- Josef Kroll (1956)
- Christine Teusch (1963)
- Leopold von Wiese and Kaiserswaldau (1965)
- Theo Burauen (1969)
- Karl Carstens (1984)
- Hermann Jahrreiß (1984)
- Kurt Hansen (1988)
Honorary senators
The university's 44 honorary senators include:
- Eugen Schmalenbach (1953)
- Ernst Schwering (1956)
- Max Adenauer (1965)
- Heinrich Brüning (1965)
- Hermann Pünder (1967)
- Friedrich Carl Freiherr von Oppenheim (1975)
- John van Nes Ziegler (1980)
- Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim (2004)
- Heinrich Haake (1934)
- Fritz Schramma (2011)
Well-known university professors
Other well-known professors at the University of Cologne can also be found under the category: University professors (University of Cologne) .
- Kurt Alder ( chemistry ), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950
- Klaus Peter Berger ( Law )
- Günther Binding ( art history )
- Günter Blamberger ( German Studies )
- Gotthold Bohne ( law , rector 1949–1951)
- Helmut Bonheim ( English Studies )
- Ottmar Bühler ( Law )
- Roland Bulirsch ( Mathematics )
- Joachim Bumke ( Old German Studies )
- Christoph Butterwegge ( Political Science )
- Karl Carstens ( Law )
- Karl Otto Conrady ( German Studies )
- Max Delbrück ( Genetics )
- Otto Depenheuer ( Law )
- Juergen B. Donges ( Economics )
- Hans Driesch ( philosophy )
- Johann Eekhoff ( Economics )
- Odilo Engels ( History )
- Karl Gustav Fellerer ( musicology )
- Detlef Fetchenhauer ( Business Psychology / Social Psychology )
- Norbert Finzsch ( history )
- Barbara Fornefeld ( Special Education )
- Martin Gimm ( Sinology / Lawyer Studies )
- Martin Göpfert ( biology )
- Peter Grünberg ( Physics ), Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
- Erich Gutenberg ( Business Administration )
- Hans Ludwig Hamburger ( Mathematics )
- Cornelia Harte , Developmental Biology , first female professor at the university in 1951
- Herbert Hax ( business administration )
- Martin Henssler ( Law ), President of the German Lawyers' Association
- Johanna Hey ( tax law )
- Andreas Hillgruber ( History )
- Bernd Irlenbusch ( Economics )
- Hermann Jahrreiß ( Law )
- Ulrich Jux ( geology , paleontology )
- Gerhard Kegel ( Law )
- Hermann Kellenbenz ( economic history , director of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv)
- René König ( sociology )
- Hans Kelsen ( Law )
- Frauke Kraas ( geography )
- Claus Kreß ( Law )
- Josef Kuckertz ( ethnomusicology )
- Jörg-Detlef Kühne (legal scholar)
- Johannes Kunisch ( History )
- Joachim Lang ( Tax Law )
- Karl Lauterbach ( Health Economics )
- Karl-Heinz Lauterjung ( Physics )
- Erich Meuthen ( History )
- Alex Meyer ( law , especially aviation law )
- Peter Mittelstaedt ( physics )
- Renate Möhrmann (theater, film and television studies)
- Alfred Müller-Armack ( Economics )
- Thomas Mussweiler ( Psychology )
- Volker Neuhaus ( German Studies )
- Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller ( musicology )
- Hans Carl Nipperdey ( Law )
- Axel Ockenfels ( Economics )
- Ion N. Petrovici ( medicine )
- Veronika Petrovici ( medicine )
- Holger Pfaff ( Medical Sociology )
- Helmuth Plessner ( philosophy )
- Beatrice Primus ( German Studies )
- Ulrich Radtke ( geography )
- Achim Rosch ( Theoretical Physics , Leibniz Prize Winner)
- Hans-Jürgen Sasse ( General Linguistics )
- Wilhelm Salber ( psychology )
- Fritz Schalk ( Romance Studies )
- Werner Scheid ( neurology )
- Max Scheler ( Philosophy and Sociology )
- Erwin K. Scheuch ( Sociology )
- Harald Schicha ( nuclear medicine )
- Theodor Schieder ( history )
- Eugen Schmalenbach ( Business Administration )
- Hans Karl Schneider ( Economics )
- Josef Schrudde ( medicine )
- Martin Schwarzbach ( geology )
- Hansjakob Seiler ( Linguistics )
- Andreas Speer ( Philosophy )
- Heinrich von Stackelberg ( Economics )
- Klaus Stern ( Law )
- Joseph Straub ( botany )
- Manfred Thaller ( historical IT )
- Klaus Tipke ( tax law )
- Andreas von Tuhr , lawyer
- Gerhard Uhlenbruck ( medicine , immunology , immune and sports therapy) and aphorist
- Jürgen Untermann ( Comparative Linguistics )
- Heinz Vater ( German Linguistics )
- Franziska Völckner ( Marketing ; youngest habil. Business administration professor in Germany)
- Thomas von Danwitz ( Law )
- Michael Walter (criminologist)
- Axel A. Weber ( Economics )
- Andreas Wesch ( Romance Studies )
- Carl Christian von Weizsäcker ( Economics )
- Alfred Ludwig Wieruszowski (1857–1945), lawyer and Senate President at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, honorary professor at the university from 1920 to 1933
- Martin R. Zirnbauer ( physics )
- Johannes Zittartz ( physics )
- Michael Zeuske ( History )
Well-known graduates
- Marcus Altfeld , Medicine Professor (Harvard)
- Manuel Andrack (* 1965), editor, moderator and author
- Manfred Baldus (* 1935), canon lawyer and judge
- Gerhart Baum (* 1932), lawyer and former Federal Minister of the Interior (FDP)
- Mark Benecke (* 1970), criminal biologist and author
- Fritz Berg (1901–1979), the first president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) after the Second World War
- Ole Bischof (* 1979), Olympic champion in judo
- Kurt Bock (* 1958), German manager and CEO of BASF SE
- Wolfgang Bosbach (* 1952), German politician (CDU)
- Ursula Brohl-Sowa (* 1955), lawyer and police chief in Bonn
- Klaus vom Bruch (* 1952), artist
- Herbert Britz (1917–2011), 1st chairman of the Marburg Federation and Cologne local politician (CDU)
- Hans-Ulrich Everts (1937–2017), Professor of Theoretical Physics
- Peter Grünberg (1939–2018), Nobel Prize in Physics (2007)
- Wolfgang Grupp (* 1942), German entrepreneur (Trigema)
- Harry Güthert (1912–1989), pathologist, rector of the Medical Academy in Erfurt
- Jenny Gusyk (1897–1944), first student and first foreigner at the university, named after the JG prize for equality
- Marion von Haaren (* 1957), television journalist
- Britta Heidemann (* 1982), Olympic fencing champion
- Ursula Heise , literary scholar
- Alfred Herrhausen (1930–1989), former CEO of Deutsche Bank
- Jan Hofer (* 1952), television journalist
- Roland Kaehlbrandt (* 1953), German foundation manager and non-fiction author, Chairman of the Board of the Polytechnic Society Foundation
- Karl Kaiser (* 1934), professor (including Harvard), political advisor to Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt
- Andreas Kaplan (* 1977), professor, rector
- Wolfgang Kirsch (* 1955), German manager, CEO of DZ Bank
- Uwe Klimmeck (* around 1969/70), film editor and cameraman
- Klaus Laepple (* 1939), tourism official
- Hera Lind (* 1957), writer
- Judith Esser Mittag (1921–2020), doctor and co-developer of the ob
- Andreas Mosbacher (* 1967), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Hans-Friedrich Müller (* 1964), lawyer and university professor
- Karolos Papoulias (* 1929), Greek President
- Gunter Pleuger (* 1941), diplomat, former permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York
- Richard David Precht (* 1964), philosopher, writer and publicist
- Thomas Rabe (* 1965), CEO of Bertelsmann AG
- Michael Radtke (* 1946), journalist, writer and screenwriter
- Haimo Schack (* 1952), lawyer and university professor
- Enrique Schmidt (1949–1984), Nicaraguan politician
- Ronaldo Schmitz (* 1938), manager and banker, former board member at BASF and Deutsche Bank , former president of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR)
- Fritz Schramma (* 1947), former Lord Mayor of Cologne
- Hans Sennholz (1922–2007), German economist and US university professor, important representative of the Austrian School of Economics
- Marietta Slomka (* 1969), television journalist
- Claus Spahn (* 1940), WDR television editor
- Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003), theologian
- Hans Toussaint (1902–1977), politician
- Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), German economist
- Ulrich Walter (* 1954), astronaut and professor of space technology
- Norbert Walter-Borjans (* 1952), German SPD politician , former state finance minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Klaus Weinand (* 1940), national basketball player and 1972 Olympic Summer Games participant
- Anne Will (* 1966), television journalist
- Günter Wojaczek (1932–1997), classical philologist and didactic specialist in ancient languages, did his doctorate here in 1969 under Reinhold Merkelbach , Hellfried Dahlmann and Berthold Rubin
- Mesut Yılmaz (* 1947), Turkish Prime Minister a. D.