List of scientists, technicians, inventors and researchers in the GDR

This is a list of the scientists, technicians, inventors and researchers of the GDR , that is to say of people who between 1945 and 1990 worked in these professions or categories in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR, or who worked there in part.

Scientists and technicians

• Werner Albring (1914–2007), engineer
• Manfred von Ardenne (1907–1997), physicist and doctor
• Heinz Barwich (1911–1966), nuclear physicist
• Lothar Budach (1935–2007), mathematician and computer scientist
• Peter-Klaus Budig (1928–2012), engineer and politician
• Bruno H. Bürgel (1875–1948), astronomer
• Heinrich Dathe (1910–1991), zoologist, long-time director of the Berlin Zoo
• Ludwig Eberlein (* 1931), engineer
• Hans-Heinz Emons (* 1930), chemist
• Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988), physicist and spy
• Ernst-Joachim Gießmann (1919–2004), physicist and politician
• Werner Gilde (1920–1991), international expert in welding technology and longstanding director of the Central Institute for Welding Technology (ZIS) Halle
• Werner Hartmann (1912–1988), physicist and founder of microelectronics
• Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist
• Klaus Hennig (* 1936), physicist
• Hermann Henselmann (1905–1995), architect
• Dieter B. Herrmann (* 1939), astronomer, physicist and television presenter
• Gustav Hertz (1887–1975), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Cuno Hoffmeister (1892–1968), astronomer
• Ulrich Hofmann (* 1931), physicist
• Wilhelm Kämmerer (1905–1994), engineer and computer pioneer
• Heinz Kautzleben (* 1934), geophysicist and cosmos scientist
• Ott-Heinrich Keller (1906–1990), mathematician
• Lothar Kolditz (* 1929), chemist
• Karl Lanius (1927-2010), physicist
• Eberhard Ladwig (1923–2006), botanist
• Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann (1921–1998), mathematician and pioneer of the small computer
• Artur Lösche (1921–1995), physicist
• Fritz Lützenberg (1901–1974), agricultural scientist (poultry and fur farming)
• Klaus Matthes (1931–1998), mathematician
• Heinrich Mauersberger (1909–1982), engineer and inventor in the textile industry
• Hermann Meusel (1909–1997), botanist and plant geographer
• Kurt Mothes (1900–1983), botanist
• Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912–2004), doctor and biochemist
• Tom Rapoport (* 1947), biochemist
• Alfred Recknagel (1910–1994), physicist
• Jens Reich (* 1939), molecular biologist, doctor and essayist
• Alfred Rieche (1902–2001), chemist
• Robert Rompe (1905-1993), physicist
• Joachim Sauer (* 1949), physical chemist
• Martin Scheffler (1919–2013), mechanical engineer
• Werner Scheler (1923–2018), pharmacologist and politician
• Siegfried Schiller (* 1933), physicist and research organizer
• Günther Schilling (1930–2018), agricultural chemist
• Ernst Schmutzer (* 1930), theoretical physicist
• Hans Singer (chemist) (1921–1979), chemist
• Karl Smeykal (1900–1980), chemist, national prize winner
• Max Steenbeck (1904–1981), nuclear physicist and plasma physicist
• Günter Tembrock (1918–2011), zoologist and behavioral scientist
• Hans-Jürgen Treder (1928–2006), physicist
• Klaus Ulbricht (* 1938), chemist
• Wolfgang Voelkner (* 1933), engineer
• Horst Völz (* 1930), physicist and information scientist
• Diedrich Wattenberg (1909–1996), astronomer
• Erna Weber (1897–1988), mathematician and statistician
• Cornelius Weiss (* 1933), chemist and politician
• Hans Wendler (1905–1989), designer of steam locomotives, especially pulverized coal firing for lignite
• Lutz Zülicke (* 1936), theoretical chemist

Economist

• Eva Altmann (1903–1991), economist, founding rector of the Berlin School of Economics
• Friedrich Behrens (1909–1980), economist
• Arne Benary (1929–1971), economist
• Gunther Kohlmey (1913–1999), economist
• Helmut Koziolek (1927–1997), economist
• Jürgen Kuczynski (1904–1997), historian and economist
• Thomas Kuczynski (* 1944), statistician and economist
• Alfred Lemmnitz (1905–1994), economist and politician
• Christa Luft (* 1938), economist and politician
• Hans Mottek (1910–1993), economic historian
• Fred Oelßner (1903–1977), economist and politician
• Waltraud Falk (1930–2015), economist

Mediciners

• Horst Bibergeil (1925–2013), diabetologist
• Heinrich Bredt (1906–1989), doctor
• Charles Coutelle (* 1939), human geneticist
• Fritz Gietzelt (1903–1968), radiologist
• Friedrich Jung (1915-1997), pharmacologist
• Gerhardt Katsch (1887–1961), diabetologist
• Horst Klinkmann (* 1935), internist
• Gerhard Klumbies (1919–2015), internist and psychotherapist
• Theodor Matthes (1909-2006), oncologist
• Moritz Mebel (* 1923), urologist
• Gerhard Mohnike (1918–1966), diabetologist
• Otto Gerhard Prokop (1921–2009), anatomist and forensic doctor
• Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017), neonatologist
• Samuel Mitja Rapoport (1912-2004), biochemist
• Karl-Ludwig Schober (1912–1999), cardiac surgeon
• Karl-Wolfgang Zschiesche (1933–1996), pathologist

Cultural, literary and social scientist

• Manfred Bierwisch (* 1930), linguist
• Detlev Blanke (1941–2016), Esperantologist
• Brigitte Burmeister (* 1940), literary scholar
• Hans-Otto Dill (* 1935), Romanist
• Theodor Frings (1886–1968), Germanist
• Alfred Kantorowicz (1899–1979), literary scholar
• Victor Klemperer (1881–1960), literary scholar
• Werner Krauss (1900–1976), Romanist
• Ronald Lötzsch (1931–2018), linguist
• Günter Mayer (1930–2010), cultural and musicologist
• Hans Mayer (1907–2001), literary scholar
• Werner Mittenzwei (1927–2014) theater and literary scholar, Brecht researcher
• Ernst Niekisch (1889–1967), sociologist and politician
• Gertrud Pätsch (1910–1994), linguist, ethnologist, cartelologist
• Wolfgang Steinitz (1905–1967), linguist, ethnologist and folk song collector
• Dieter Strützel (1935–1999), cultural scientist and sociologist
• Eberhard Röhner (* 1929), cultural and literary scholar, university lecturer at the PHS

Historians and archaeologists

• Helmut Bock (1928–2013), modern historian
• Stefan Doernberg (1924–2010), historian and diplomat
• Ernst Engelberg (1909–2010), modern historian and first president of the German Society of Historians
• Paul Grimm (1907–1993), medieval archaeologist
• Rigobert Günther (1928–2000), ancient historian
• Joachim Herrmann (1932–2010), prehistoric
• Ernst Hoffmann (1912–2003), Marxist philosopher and historian
• Liselot Huchthausen (1927–2020), classical philologist
• Johannes Irmscher (1920–2000), ancient historian and Graecist
• Fritz Jürß (* 1932), classical philologist
• Horst Klengel (1933–2019), ancient orientalist
• Charlotte Knabe (1907–1991), archivist and historian
• Werner Krenkel (1926–2015), classical philologist
• Achim Leube (* 1936), prehistoric
• Walter Markov (1909–1993), historian and resistance fighter
• Gotthard Neumann (1902–1972), prehistoric
• Ernst Günther Schmidt (1929–1999), classical philologist
• Helmuth Stoecker (1920–1994), historian
• Wilhelm Unverzagt (1892–1971), prehistoric
• Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901–1979), ancient historian
• Martin Robbe (* 1932), orientalist

Other

• Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosopher
• Ludwig Deiters (1921–2018), architect
• Georg Klaus (1912–1974), philosopher
• Gerhart Neuner (1929–2008), educator
• Karl Polak (1905–1963), constitutional lawyer
• Otto Reinhold (1925–2016), social scientist
• Rolf Reissig (* 1940), social scientist