List of people associated with Freie Universität Berlin
This list gives an overview of people who are connected to the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin). Many eminent scientists have done research on it, recognized professors have taught there, and well-known alumni have studied at the university. Carriers of the honorary doctorate and an honorary citizen are also listed. The list does not claim to be complete.
A.
- Johannes Agnoli , political scientist (professor)
- Jens Alber , sociologist and political scientist (professor)
- Jutta Allmendinger , sociologist (professor)
- Elmar Altvater , economist, political scientist (professor)
- Jürg Amann , writer (alumnus)
- Katajun Amirpur , Islamic scholar, journalist (scientist)
- Kofi Annan , Secretary General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (Honorary Doctorate)
- Karl-Otto Apel , philosopher (honorary doctorate)
- Christian Armbrüster , lawyer (professor)
- Klaus Dieter Arndt , SPD politician (scientist)
- Katrin Askan , writer (alumna)
- Jakob Augstein , journalist and publisher (alumnus)
- Dietrich Austermann , CDU politician (alumnus)
B.
- Barbara Baerns , communication scientist (professor)
- Gregor Bachmann , lawyer (professor)
- Günther Baechler , Swiss Ambassador
- Peter Bahl , historian and archivist ( alumnus )
- Manfred Baldus , legal scholar (alumnus)
- Ernst Baltrusch , historian (professor)
- Albert Bandura , psychologist (honorary doctorate)
- Arnulf Baring , historian, political scientist (professor)
- Gerhard Bauer , literary scholar (professor)
- Arnd Bauerkämper , historian (professor)
- Celâl Bayar , Turkish President (honorary doctorate)
- Karl Christian Behrens , Business Administration (Professor)
- Ernst Benda , Federal Minister of the Interior (1968–1969), President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983) (Alumnus)
- Klaus Uwe Benneter , SPD politician, General Secretary of the SPD (2004–2005) (alumnus)
- Ralf Bendrath , political scientist
- Günter Bentele , media scientist (doctorate, habilitation, private lecturer)
- FW Bernstein , poet, graphic artist and satirist (alumnus)
- Charles Best , Medical Doctor (Honorary Doctorate)
- Jagdish Bhagwati , Indian economist (Honorary Doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on June 16, 2010)
- Peter Bieri , philosopher and writer (professor)
- Charles B. Blankart , Economist (Professor)
- Wolfgang Blaschke , museologist ( alumnus )
- Jochanan Bloch , religious scholar (professor)
- Johannes Blömer , computer scientist (scientist)
- Michael Bolle , economist (professor)
- Tanja Börzel , political scientist (professor)
- Kuno Böse , politician (alumnus)
- Rebekka Borsch , journalist and politician (alumnus)
- Pierre Bourdieu , sociologist (honorary doctorate)
- Frank Bsirske , chairman of the ver.di union (since 2001) (alumnus)
- Gabriele Brandstetter , theater scholar (professor)
- Margherita von Brentano , philosopher (professor)
- Reinhold Brinkmann , musicologist (alumnus)
- Emil Bücherl , heart surgeon, developer of the Berlin artificial heart (professor)
- Heinz Bude , sociologist (private lecturer)
- Hans Peter Bull , legal scholar, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection (1978–1983) (alumnus)
- Werner Busch , art historian (professor)
C.
- Christian Calliess , lawyer (professor)
- Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum , philologist and ancient orientalist (professor)
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso , sociologist, Brazilian President (honorary doctorate)
- Dieter Claessens , sociologist and anthropologist (professor)
- Lars Clausen , sociologist (alumnus)
- Lucius D. Clay , Military and Politician (Honorary Doctorate)
- Sebastian Conrad , historian (professor)
- Gordon A. Craig , Historian and Writer (Professor)
D.
- Wolfgang van den Daele , sociologist and legal scholar, member of the national ethics council (professor)
- Cosimo Dalessandro, restaurateur
- Klaus Dämmrich , Veterinarian (Professor)
- Herta Däubler-Gmelin , Federal Minister of Justice (1998–2002) (honorary professor)
- Friedrich Christian Delius , writer (alumnus)
- Alexander Demandt , historian, cultural scientist (professor)
- Fritz Dickmann , historian (professor)
- Nils Diederich , political scientist (professor)
- Eberhard Diepgen , Governing Mayor of Berlin (1984–1989, 1991–2001) (Alumnus)
- Jürgen Domes , political scientist (professor)
- Thea Dorn , writer and television presenter (alumna)
- Emil Dovifat , journalist (professor)
- Eleanor Dulles , Politician (Honorary Doctorate)
- Heiner Dunckel , Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Alumnus)
- Rudi Dutschke , student guide (alumnus)
E.
- Fritz Eberhard , journalist and resistance fighter (honorary professor)
- Umberto Eco , writer (honorary doctorate)
- Peter Ehrlich , actor and director (alumnus)
- Hans Eichel , Federal Minister of Finance (1999–2005) (Alumnus)
- Peter Eigen , lawyer and founder of Transparency International (honorary professor)
- Ernst Elitz , Director of DeutschlandRadio (Alumnus)
- Kaspar Elm , historian (graduate and professor)
- Georg Elwert , sociologist, ethnologist (professor)
- Günter Endruweit , sociologist (alumnus)
- Torsten Engel , Program Manager NDR 2 (Alumnus)
- Jürgen Engert , journalist, a. a. longstanding contrasts moderator (alumnus)
- Gudrun Ensslin , terrorist (alumna)
- Gernot Erler , SPD politician (alumnus)
- Gerhard Ertl , physicist and Nobel laureate in chemistry (professor)
- Felix Escher , historian (alumnus / scientist)
- Mario Eylert , judge at the Federal Labor Court (alumnus)
F.
- Alfred Fahr , Pharmacist (Assistant)
- Ingeborg Falck , doctor and gerontologist (professor)
- Jürgen W. Falter , political scientist (alumnus / professor)
- Kurt Faltlhauser , Bavarian Minister of Finance (1998 to 2007) (Alumnus)
- Günter Faltin , Economist (Professor)
- Paul Feyerabend , philosopher (professor)
- Ludwig von Ficker , writer and publisher (honorary doctorate)
- Andrea Fischer , Federal Minister of Health (1998–2001) (Alumna)
- Erika Fischer-Lichte , theater scholar (professor)
- Karl-Hermann Flach , FDP General Secretary (Alumnus)
- Heiner Flassbeck , economist (alumnus / doctorate)
- Ossip K. Flechtheim , political scientist and futurologist (professor)
- Friederike Fless , archaeologist (honorary professor)
- Mareile Flitsch , ethnologist and sinologist (alumna)
- Carl Föhl , Economics, Economic Cycle , Economic Policy (Professor)
- Norman Foster , architect of the new Philological Library
- Ernst Fraenkel , political scientist (professor)
- Jonathan Franzen , writer (alumnus)
- Carlos Fuentes , writer (honorary doctorate)
- Hajo Funke , political scientist (professor)
- Saskia Funck , politician (alumna)
- Reinhard Furrer , science astronaut (alumnus / professor)
G
- Helmut Gadner , pediatrician, hematologist and oncologist (scientist, habilitation)
- Peter Gaehtgens , Physiologist and President of the University Rectors' Conference (2003–2005) (Professor)
- Hansjürgen Garstka , legal scholar, data protection expert (scientist)
- Gunter Gebauer , philosopher and linguist (professor)
- Hans-Joachim Gehrke , historian (professor)
- Manfred Gentz , lawyer and manager (alumnus)
- Klaus Geppert , lawyer (professor)
- Peter Giese , geophysicist (alumnus / professor)
- Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Federal Minister of the Interior (1969–1974), Federal Foreign Minister (1974–1992) (Honorary Professor)
- Jürgen Gerhards , sociologist (professor)
- Robert Gernhardt , writer, poet, essayist, draftsman and painter (alumnus)
- Martin Gimm , University Professor (Alumnus)
- Richard Goldschmidt , zoologist and geneticist (honorary doctorate)
- Helmut Gollwitzer , theologian, writer, peace activist (professor)
- Günter Grass , writer, Nobel Prize winner (honorary doctorate)
- Michael Grätzel , chemist (alumnus)
- Ulrich Gregor , film historian (scientist)
- Dieter Grimm , legal scholar, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court (1987–1999) (student)
- Walter Gropius , architect and the founder of the Bauhaus (honorary doctorate)
- Karl Peter Grotemeyer , mathematician (professor)
- Peter Grottian , political scientist (professor)
- Manfred Günther School psychologist and social work scientist (alumnus)
- Erich Gutenberg , economist (honorary doctorate from the department of economics, awarded on February 23, 1957)
H
- Herwig Haase , economist, politician (alumnus, private lecturer)
- Hermann Haarmann , Professor of Historical Journalism (Professor)
- Karl-Otto Habermehl , virologist (professor)
- Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer , business economist (professor)
- Klaus Hänsch , President of the European Parliament (1994–1997) (alumnus, doctorate, research assistant)
- Peter-Michael Hahn , historian (professor)
- Theodor Hänsch , pioneer of laser spectroscopy, Nobel Prize in Physics (honorary doctorate)
- Ursula Hansen , economist (honorary doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on July 13, 2001)
- Helga Haftendorn , political scientist, Max Planck Prize winner (professor)
- Wolfgang Fritz Haug , philosopher (professor)
- Volker Hauff , Federal Minister for Research and Technology (1978–1980), Federal Minister of Transport (1980–1982) (Alumnus)
- Wilhelm Hankel , economist (professor)
- Elke Heidenreich , literary critic (alumna)
- Ernst Heinitz , lawyer (professor)
- Klaus Heinrich , religious scholar (professor)
- Michael Heinrich , political scientist and sociologist (scientist)
- Markus Heintzen , lawyer (professor)
- Stefan Heinz , political scientist and historian (alumnus and scientist)
- Wolfgang Helfrich , physicist (professor)
- Willi Hennig , evolutionary biologist (honorary doctorate)
- Andreas Hensel , veterinarian, professor, President of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (honorary professor)
- Roman Herzog , legal scholar, President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1987–1994), Federal President (1994–1999) (Professor)
- Otto H. Hess , publisher and FU co-founder (honorary citizenship)
- Joachim Jens Hesse , political scientist (professor)
- Roland Hetzer , cardiac surgeon (professor)
- Theodor Heuss , political scientist, politician, journalist, Federal President (1949–1959) (honorary doctorate)
- Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit , Japanologist (professor)
- Ernst E. Hirsch , legal scholar, rector (professor)
- Albert O. Hirschman , sociologist and economist (honorary doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on December 3, 1988)
- Paul Hindemith , composer (honorary doctorate)
- Fritz Hinderer , astronomer and astrophysicist (professor)
- Eckart von Hirschhausen , doctor and cabaret artist (alumnus)
- Klaus Holzkamp , psychologist (professor)
- Peter Hommelhoff , legal scholar (alumnus)
- Leonhard Horowski , historian and author ( alumnus )
- Frank L. Howley , former commander of the American sector in Berlin (honorary doctorate)
- Walter Huder , Germanist, Slavist, art historian, philosopher, essayist (alumnus)
- Jörg Huffschmid , political economist, memorandum group, Attac advisory board (alumnus)
- Gerhard Huisken , mathematician (professor)
- Inga Humpe , musician (alumna)
J
- Eva Jaeggi , psychologist (professor)
- Baber Johansen , Islamic scholar (professor)
- Hans Jonas , philosopher (honorary doctorate)
- Ernst Jacobsthal , mathematician (honorary citizen)
- Martin Jänicke , political scientist (professor)
K
- Dietmar Kamper , cultural sociologist and writer (professor)
- Sven Felix Kellerhoff , historian, journalist and book author ( alumnus )
- Hans Kelsen , legal scholar (honorary doctorate)
- John F. Kennedy , US President (Honorary Doctorate)
- Ōe Kenzaburō , writer, Nobel laureate in literature (professor)
- Imre Kertész , writer, Nobel Prize winner (honorary doctorate)
- Alfred Kieser , economist (professor)
- Klaus Peter Kisker , Economics (Professor)
- Karl Christoph Klauer , social and cognitive psychologist (scientist)
- Rupert Klein , mechanical engineer (professor)
- Hagen Kleinert , physicist (professor)
- Paul Alfred Kleinert , writer (alumnus)
- Heinz Kluth , sociologist (professor)
- Christine Knaevelsrud , psychologist, (professor)
- Jürgen Kocka , historian (professor)
- Daniel Koerfer , historian (honorary professor)
- Wolfgang Köhler , Gestalt psychologist (honorary citizen)
- Martin Kohli , sociologist (professor)
- Ekkehard König , English and linguist (professor)
- Jürgen Körner , university professor (social pedagogy)
- Albrecht Koschorke , literary scholar (private lecturer)
- Erich Kosiol , Business Administration (Professor)
- Jaroslav Koutecký , physicist (professor)
- Rolf Kreibich , futurologist (former FU President)
- Heike Krieger , lawyer (professor)
- Uta Kron , archaeologist (alumna / private lecturer)
- Sabine Kropp , political scientist (professor)
- Horst Krüger , writer (alumnus)
- Paul Krugman , economist and writer (Honorary Doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on December 4, 1998)
- Hans Kudszus , aphorist (honorary doctorate)
- Hartmut Kühne , archaeologist (alumnus / professor)
- Renate Künast , former Green Federal Minister for Consumer Protection (Alumna)
- Philip Kunig , lawyer (professor)
- Kum 'a Ndumbe III. Politics Professor (Alumnus)
L.
- Max von Laue , physicist, Nobel Prize winner (honorary citizen, honorary doctorate)
- Hanna-Renate Laurien , CDU politician (alumna)
- Andreas Lebert , journalist (lecturer)
- Detlef Leenen , lawyer (professor)
- Ursula Lehmkuhl , historian, professor of North American history
- Thomas Lengauer , computer scientist (alumnus)
- Hans-Joachim Lenz , business IT specialist (professor)
- Dieter Lenzen , educational scientist (professor)
- Wolf Lepenies , sociologist and writer (professor)
- Ralph-Johannes Lilie , historian (professor)
- Jutta Limbach , President of the Federal Constitutional Court (1994–2002), President of the Goethe Institute (since 2002) (Professor)
- Michael Linden , specialist in neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapeutic medicine, as well as psychological psychotherapist (professor)
- Theodor Litt , educator and philosopher (honorary citizen)
- Paul Löbe , politician (honorary citizen)
- Peter Lösche , political scientist / party researcher (private lecturer)
- Gerhard Löwenthal , journalist and television presenter (alumnus)
- Richard Löwenthal , political scientist, publicist (professor)
- Karl Lohmann , economist (alumnus)
- Günther von Lojewski , journalist and SFB director (1989–1997) (honorary professor)
- Bernd Lucke , economist and founder of the AfD and LKR (alumnus)
- Ute Luig , ethnologist (professor)
- Heinrich Lummer , CDU politician, AStA chairman from 1961 (alumnus)
M.
- Horst Mahler , lawyer, RAF member (alumnus)
- Christoph Marcinkowski , historian and Islamic scholar (alumnus)
- Hartmut Maurer , lawyer (professor)
- Herbert Marcuse , sociologist (professor)
- Will McBride , photographer and painter (alumnus)
- Wolfgang Meckelein , geographer and politician (alumnus / professor)
- Friedrich Meinecke , historian (professor)
- Lise Meitner , nuclear physicist (honorary doctorate)
- Erling von Mende , sinologist (professor)
- Randolf Menzel , zoologist and neurobiologist (professor)
- Volker Mertens , Germanist (Professor)
- Klaus Meschkat , sociologist (professor)
- Siegfried Mielke , political scientist and historian (professor)
- Peter Mohr , Neuroeconomics (Junior Professor)
- Walter Momper , Governing Mayor (1989–1991) (Alumnus)
- Dietz-Rüdiger Moser , folklorist, literary historian and musicologist (scientist)
- Günter Morsch , historian (professor)
- Erwin Wilhelm Müller , physicist (professor)
- Herta Müller , writer and Nobel laureate in literature (professor)
- Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen , psychopharmacologist (professor)
N
- Sten Nadolny , writer (alumnus)
- Lara Naszinsky , actress (alumna)
- Susan Neiman , philosopher (alumna)
- Ingo Nentwig , sinologist and ethnologist (alumnus)
- Gero Neugebauer , political scientist, party researcher
- Arnhelm Neusüss , political scientist, sociologist (professor)
- Gerhard Neukum , planetologist and geospatial scientist, space missions for the exploration of Mars and Saturn (professor)
- Oskar Niedermayer , political scientist (professor)
- Kurt Noack , botanist (professor)
- Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , pollster, developed the theory of the spiral of silence (scientist)
- Ernst Nolte , historian (professor)
- Paul Nolte , historian and publicist (professor)
- Cees Nooteboom , writer (honorary doctorate)
O
- Benno Ohnesorg , student
- Onno Oncken , geologist (professor)
- Claus Offe , political scientist (alumnus)
- Lerke Osterloh , tax law scholar (professor)
- Hermann Oxfort , Mayor of Berlin (Alumnus)
P
- Björn Pätzoldt , political scientist and publisher (professor)
- Orhan Pamuk , writer and Nobel laureate in literature (honorary doctorate)
- Hans-Jürgen Papier , President of the Federal Constitutional Court (2002–2010) (Alumnus)
- Hermann Parzinger , prehistorian, President of the DAI (honorary professor)
- Andreas Paulsen , Economics (Professor)
- Rudolf Pechel , journalist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime (honorary doctorate)
- Ernst Pepping , composer (honorary doctorate)
- Christian Pestalozza , lawyer (professor)
- Leander Petzoldt , ethnologist (alumnus)
- Georg Pfeffer , ethnologist (professor)
- Gertrud Pickhan , historian (professor)
- Johannes Pinsk , theologian (honorary professor)
- Klemens Pleyer , Law (Professor)
- Thomas Pregel , writer and lecturer (alumnus)
- Matthias Prinz , lawyer and media lawyer (honorary professor)
- Harry Pross , journalist and author (professor)
- Uwe Puschner , historian (professor)
R.
- Werner Rammert , sociologist (professor)
- Walter Rasch , Berlin Senator for Schools (1975–1981) (Alumnus)
- Jan-Carl Raspe , RAF terrorist (alumnus)
- Jens Rehn , journalist and writer (alumnus)
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki , publicist and literary critic (honorary doctorate)
- Jakob Reinert , Director of the Institute for Plant Physiology and Microbiology (1961–1979) (Professor)
- Helmut Remschmidt , neurologist, child and adolescent psychiatrist (professor)
- Edzard Reuter , Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG (1987–1995) (Alumnus)
- Ernst Reuter , Governing Mayor of Berlin (1948–1953) (Honorary doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on January 1, 1949)
- Günter Rexrodt , Federal Minister of Economics (1993–1998) (Alumnus)
- Eberhard Riedel , biochemist (professor)
- Wolfgang Rihm , musicologist and composer (honorary doctorate)
- Gerhard Ringel , mathematician (professor, honorary doctorate)
- Stefan Rinke , historian (professor)
- Thomas Risse , political scientist (professor)
- Gerhard A. Ritter , historian (alumnus / professor)
- Holger Rogall , university professor (alumnus)
- Raúl Rojas , computer scientist (professor)
- Harald Rosenthal , marine biologist and fisheries scientist (alumnus)
- Lea Rosh , journalist and publicist (alumna)
- Klaus Roth , political scientist (professor)
- Gerd Rudolf , university professor (psychosomatics)
- Bernd Rüthers , lawyer (professor)
- Salman Rushdie , Writer (Honorary Doctorate)
- Ernst Ruska , inventor of the electron microscope, Nobel laureate in physics (professor)
- Stephan Ruß-Mohl , professor of media studies and founder of the European Journalism Observatory
S.
- Curt Sachs , music theorist (honorary doctorate)
- Franz Jürgen Säcker , lawyer (professor)
- Gaston Salvatore , writer (alumnus)
- Klaus Sames , gerontologist, anatomist and university professor
- Annette Schavan , politician, (honorary professor)
- Jochen Schimmang , writer (alumnus)
- Otto Schily , Federal Minister of the Interior (1998-2005) (Alumnus)
- Hans-Jürgen Schings , Germanist (Professor)
- Bernd Schiphorst , Manager (Alumnus)
- Bernhard Schlink , writer and lawyer (alumnus)
- Günther Schmid , political scientist and economist (professor)
- Wilhelm Schmid , philosopher (alumnus)
- Manfred G. Schmidt , political scientist (professor)
- Martin Schmidt , Graecist and politician (alumnus, AStA chairman)
- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann , philosopher, professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin
- Claudia Schmölders , cultural scientist, writer and translator (alumna / scientist)
- Jürgen Schmude , Federal Minister of Education (1978–1981), Federal Minister of Justice (1981–1982) (Alumnus)
- Erich Schneider , economic theorist (honorary doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on February 23, 1957)
- Wolfgang Schönpflug , psychologist (professor)
- Rupert Scholz , legal scholar, Federal Minister of Defense (1988–1989) (alumnus / professor)
- Ottmar Schreiner , SPD politician (alumnus)
- Miranda Schreurs , political scientist (professor)
- Michaele Schreyer , EU Commissioner for Budget (1999-2004) (scientist)
- Georg Schreyögg , economist (professor)
- Louise Schroeder , politician, Mayor of Berlin (1947–1948) (professor)
- Klaus Schroeder , political scientist and contemporary historian (professor)
- Klaus Schütz , Governing Mayor (1967–1977) (Alumnus)
- Eberhart Schult , economist, tax advisor (professor)
- Kordula Schulz-Asche , politician (Greens) (Alumna)
- Martin Schwab , lawyer (professor)
- Alexander Schwan , political scientist
- Gesine Schwan , political scientist and SPD presidential candidate (2004) (professor)
- Rainer Schwarz , Manager (Alumnus)
- Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt , historian, journalist (alumna)
- Nils Seethaler , cultural anthropologist, (alumnus)
- Klaus Segbers , political scientist (professor)
- Claus Seibel , TV journalist (alumnus)
- Stephan Seidlmayer , Egyptologist (Professor)
- Reinhard Selten , economist, mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (Professor)
- Rolf Sethe , lawyer (professor)
- Wolf Jobst Siedler , Writer and Publicist (Alumnus)
- Vassilios Skouris , President of the European Court of Justice (since 2003) (Alumnus)
- Rudolf Smend , constitutional and canon lawyer (honorary doctorate from the Department of Economics, awarded on January 15, 1962)
- Edward Snowden , whistleblower (since 2014) (honorary member)
- Helge Sodan , lawyer (professor)
- Michael Sommer , DGB Chairman (since 2002) (Alumnus)
- Kurt Sontheimer , political scientist (professor)
- Peter Sprengel , literary scholar (professor)
- Ditmar Staffelt , SPD politician (alumnus)
- Jochen Staadt , political scientist
- Otto Stammer , sociologist (professor)
- Peter Steinbach , historian (professor)
- Gisela (" Ginka ") stone wax , writer (alumna)
- Carola Stern , publicist (alumna)
- Rudolf Stichweh , sociologist (alumnus)
- Dietrich Stobbe , Governing Mayor (1977–1981) (Alumnus)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen , composer (honorary doctorate)
- Christoph Stölzl , historian, politician and Berlin Senator for Science (2000–2001) (honorary professor)
- Manfred Stolpe , Prime Minister of Brandenburg (1990–2002) and Federal Minister of Transport (2002–2005) (visiting student)
- Johano Strasser , political scientist, writer; Secretary General (1995–2002) and President (since 2002) of the German PEN (private lecturer)
- Hans-Christian Ströbele , politician (B90 / Greens) (alumnus)
- Thomas Strothotte , computer scientist (professor)
- Günter Struve , ARD program director (since 1992) (alumnus)
- Holm Sundhaussen , Southeast Europe historian
- Herbert Sukopp , botanist and ecologist (scientist)
- Péter Szondi , literary scholar (professor)
T
- Horst Teltschik , politician and manager (alumnus)
- Hermann-Josef Tenhagen (* 1963), business journalist and editor-in-chief (alumnus)
- Fritz Teufel , activist of the student movement (student)
- Jürgen Theobaldy , writer (alumnus)
- Michael Theunissen , philosopher (professor)
- Heinz Tiedemann , biochemist and developmental biologist (professor)
- Klaus Töpfer , Federal Environment Minister (1987–1994), Federal Building Minister (1994–1998), Director of the United Nations Environment Program (since 1998) (honorary doctorate)
- Jürgen Trabant , linguist, semiotic (professor)
- Hans-Ulrich Treichel , writer (alumnus)
- Ernst Tugendhat , philosopher (professor)
U
- Farin Urlaub , musician (dropout)
V
- Benedikt Vallendar , journalist ( alumnus )
- Fritz Vilmar , political scientist and sociologist (professor)
- Horst Völz , physicist, information scientist (scientist)
W.
- Klaus Wagenbach , publisher, literary scholar (honorary professor)
- Gerhard Wagenitz , botanist (professor)
- Katharina Wagner , Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Bayreuth Festival (alumna)
- Martin Warnke , art historian (professor)
- Rudolf Wassermann , lawyer (student)
- Dieter Wedel , director (alumnus)
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler , historian (professor)
- Lorenz Weinrich , historian (professor)
- Wilhelm Weischedel , philosopher (professor)
- Dirk Werner , mathematician (professor)
- Gernot Wersig , information scientist (professor)
- Uwe Wesel , lawyer (professor)
- Wolfgang Wetzel , economist (honorary doctorate)
- Jan Weyrauch , journalist, program manager HR 'You FM' (alumnus)
- Anne Will , journalist and presenter (alumna)
- Dietmar Willoweit , lawyer (professor)
- Heinrich August Winkler , historian (professor)
- Michael Wolffsohn , historian and political scientist (alumnus)
- Klaus Wowereit , Governing Mayor (2001–2014) (Alumnus)
- Christoph Wulf , anthropologist and educationalist ( professor )
Z
- Wolfgang Zapf , sociologist (professor)
- Volker Zastrow , journalist (alumnus)
- Axel Zerdick , media scientist (professor)
- Klaus Zernack , historian
- Berthold Zilly , literary scholar (honorary professor)
- Klaus Zimmermann , Romance Studies (Professor)
- Klaus F. Zimmermann , economist (honorary professor)
- Hartmut Zinser , religious scholar (professor)
See also
- List of ancient orientalists at the Free University of Berlin
- List of Rectors of the Free University of Berlin
Web links
- Alumni office of the FU Berlin
- WIR - magazine for alumni of the FU Berlin
- List of honorary citizens, honorary doctors, rectors and presidents of the FU Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ The “Galileo” is 30 - and fears about its future. June 8, 2020, accessed July 6, 2020 .