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Ilse Steppat was born on 30 November 1917 in Barmen, Germany. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and The Blue Swords (1949). She was married to Max Nosseck. She died on 21 December 1969 in West Berlin, West Germany.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Gus Wicke was born on 7 May 1885 in Barmen [now Wuppertal], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for The 'Hyp-Nut-Tist' (1935), Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936) and Betty Boop and Grampy (1935). He died on 7 May 1947 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Harald Wolff was born on 11 January 1909 in Barmen [now Wuppertal], Germany. He was an actor, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Night Affair (1958) and State of Siege (1972). He died in June 1977.- He was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx.
In 1845 he published "The Condition of the Working Class in England", based on personal observations and research in Manchester.
In 1848 he co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write "Das Kapital".
After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value," which he later published as the 'fourth volume' of "Das Kapital".
He has also made important contributions to family economics. - Rolf Weih was born on 8 February 1906 in Barmen [now Wuppertal], Germany. He was an actor, known for Rauschende Melodien (1955), Hallo - Sie haben Ihre Frau vergessen (1949) and Wir machen Musik (1942). He was married to Ira Kraut. He died on 16 August 1969 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
- Liselotte Schaak was born on 27 October 1908 in Barmen, Germany. She is an actress, known for Alraune (1929), Kaiserliebchen (1931) and Scheidungsreise (1938).
- Renate Mannhardt was born on 20 November 1920 in Barmen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Fear (1954), Die große Schuld (1953) and The Lost Man (1951). She died in July 2013 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Director
Werner Baecker was born on 17 October 1917 in Barmen, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for New York, New York (1967), Besuch bei... (1963) and Treffpunkt New York (1961). He died on 30 December 1993 in Feldafing, Bavaria, Germany.- Kilian Koll was born on 22 October 1898 in Barmen, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. He was a writer, known for Furlough on Parole (1938) and Urlaub auf Ehrenwort (1955). He died in May 1945 in Berlin, Germany.
- Udo Sopp was born on 5 December 1934 in Barmen, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Heino Heiden was born on 6 October 1923 in Barmen, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Taler der Tante Sidonie (1935) and Die chinesische Nachtigall (1964). He was married to Inga. He died on 23 June 2013 in Bad Schwartau, Germany.- Alfred Breiderhoff was born on 18 April 1881 in Barmen, Wuppertal, Bergisches Land, Germany. He was an actor, known for Passionels Tagebuch (1916), Der Fund im Neubau - 1. Teil: Der Fingernagel (1915) and Die Rache der Toten (1916). He died on 10 August 1916 in Berlin, Germany.
- Kurt Middendorf was born on 18 September 1886 in Barmen, Germany. He is known for Abschiedswalzer (1934), Der Bankspion (1921) and Lilli (1919).
- He left high school in 1948 with a secondary school leaving certificate. After completing an apprenticeship as a publishing bookseller in Wuppertal from 1949 to 1951, he attended the bookseller school in Cologne. During this time, Rau was already politically active and worked as a journalist for the magazine "Jugend in Wuppertal". From 1952 to 1954 he worked as a publishing bookseller in his training company in Wuppertal. From 1953 he became an editor and representative at the "Luther- und Eckart-Verlag" in Witten. Meanwhile, in December 1952, Rau joined the "All-German People's Party" (GVP) of the later Federal President Gustav Heinemann in protest against the rearmament of Germany. Shortly afterwards he became district and local chairman of Wuppertal. In 1954 he became managing director of the "Jugenddienst-Verlag" in Wuppertal. He held this office until 1967, and from 1962 he was a board member and from 1965 director of the publishing house. In 1957 the GVP dissolved and Johannes Rau became a member of the social democratic SPD, which he chaired in Wuppertal from 1958 to 1962.
From 1958 he was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament for the SPD and from 1962 to 1970 he was a member of the board of the SPD state parliamentary group. He also chaired the SPD parliamentary group from 1967 to 1970. From 1966 to 1974 he was a member of the executive committee of the German Evangelical Church Congress and from 1968 to 1999 a member of the SPD party executive at the federal level. In 1969, Johannes Rau was elected mayor of the city of Wuppertal. However, he only held this position for a year. In 1970 he became Minister for Science and Research in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Rau made headlines when, on October 10, 1972, he dismissed the performance artist and professor of fine arts Joseph Beuys from the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from his position with immediate effect. The trigger was that Beuys occupied the secretariat of the Düsseldorf Art Academy in order to make it possible for anyone who wanted to study art at the academy. In 1978, Rau was elected Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1982 he married Christina Delius, a granddaughter of former Federal President Gustav Heinemann.
This relationship resulted in three children, Anna Christina (1983), Philipp Immanuel (1985) and Laura Helene (1986). From 1982 to 1983 and 1994 to 1995, Johannes Rau was President of the Federal Council in his office as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. On September 15, 1985, he was nominated by the SPD for the first time as candidate for chancellor for the 1987 federal election. However, he firmly rejected a possible coalition with the Greens. Johannes Rau was defeated by the incumbent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Due to a cancerous tumor, Rau had his left kidney removed in July 1992. After his recovery in November of the same year, he was able to return to work. On September 13, 1993, he was nominated for the office of Federal President for the first time by the SPD party executive. However, in the election for Federal President by the Federal Assembly on May 23, 1994, he was defeated by the Union's Christian Democrat Roman Herzog. For the fifth time in a row, Rau was elected Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia in July 1995, and in 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty at the Ruhr University in Bochum.
In March 1998 he announced his political withdrawal from the North Rhine-Westphalian offices. In May he resigned as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and state chairman of the SPD. On November 2nd of the same year, Johannes Rau was nominated by the SPD party executive committee for the second time as the party's candidate for the office of Federal President. On May 23, 1999, Johannes Rau was elected the 8th Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly in the Reichstag building in Berlin. He was sworn into office on July 1, 1999 in Bonn. During his term in office, which was not accompanied by scandals or outstanding appeals, he made a name for himself as a compassionate head of state. Johannes Rau was very well received thanks to his clear stance and his commitment to the immigration law. In September 2003, Rau announced that he would no longer run for the office of Federal President in the next election on May 23, 2004. On March 23, 2004, Johannes Rau broke off his trip to Africa to visit German soldiers in Djibouti. According to an intelligence report, this was preceded by a planned assassination attempt on a high-ranking European representative.
In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Dortmund. On April 23, 2004, Rau returned from his last state visit to Hungary as Federal President. Johannes Rau made a total of 76 trips abroad as head of state. Johannes Rau's term as Federal President ended on July 1, 2004. His successor in this office was Horst Köhler. On June 22, 2005, Rau was awarded the "Kulturgroschen" by the German Cultural Council. This was followed in September of the same year by the Gustav Adolf Prize for reconciliation and understanding between ethnic groups regardless of their religion or denomination. In the same month, the former Federal President was awarded the Karl Barth Prize from the Union of Evangelical Churches for his social commitment.
The politician had to undergo two serious operations after leaving the office of Federal President. He was no longer able to attend a reception given by Federal President Horst Köhler for his birthday on January 16th in Berlin. - After his father's death in 1877, he grew up in poor conditions in his grandfather's house. From 1895 to 1902 he studied medicine in Marburg, Jena and Göttingen. Sauerbruch's sister and his mother continued the craft business after his grandfather's death and enabled him to receive training. In 1901 he was admitted as a general practitioner. In 1902 he received his doctorate in medicine. Sauerbruch worked in Berlin, Erfurt and Kassel until 1903. From 1903 to 1905 he worked as a volunteer doctor at the Surgical University Clinic in Breslau. Even before his habilitation in medicine in 1905, he presented the pressure difference method he had developed on June 6, 1904 at the 33rd "Congress of the German Society for Surgery" and thus provided the basis for surgery in the chest cavity. Until then, the opening of the thorax caused the lungs to collapse, so that the patient's life was in acute danger due to inadequate breathing.
In 1905, Sauerbruch was appointed senior surgical physician at the Greifswald University Hospital. From 1907 to 1908 he became head of the polyclinic in Marburg. Sauerbruch primarily researched the possibilities and limitations of organ transplantation. Sauerbruch married on January 3, 1908. Five children were born from this marriage. In 1910, Sauerbruch received a professorship at the Zurich University Hospital and was appointed director of the surgical clinic and polyclinic of the Zurich Cantonal Hospital. He also founded a private clinic, which was managed by his wife. During this time, Sauerbruch succeeded in optimizing the surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Sauerbruch volunteered for military service. He joined this as an advisory surgeon to the XV. Army Corps.
The following year he submitted a request for leave of absence through the University of Zurich, which the German government approved. He then devoted himself to the development of the "Sauerbruch Hand" for war disabled people. It allowed hand movements using muscle strands. From this research he published the first part of his publication "The arbitrarily movable artificial hand" in 1916. In 1918 he was appointed professor at the University of Munich. Here Sauerbruch developed the tipping plastic that is named after him: After removing a thigh bone that has been destroyed by cancer, for example, the healthy lower leg bone is transplanted into the hip joint socket. The lower leg is replaced with a prosthesis. In 1920 and 1925 he published the two-volume work "Surgery of the Chest Organs" and the second part of "The Arbitrarily Movable Artificial Hand".
In 1923 he met Erna Hanfstaengl, with whom he later had a temporary romantic relationship. From 1928 Sauerbruch became professor of surgery at the Berlin Charité and head of the Surgical University Clinic. The doctor, who was Max Liebermann's neighbor in Berlin, was portrayed by Liebermann in the story "The Surgeon". In 1931, Sauerbruch was the first to remove a bulge in the heart wall after a heart attack. After 1933, Sauerbruch rejected National Socialist values, but in 1934 he was appointed State Councilor by Hermann Göring. In addition, he was awarded the NSDAP National Prize in 1937. From 1938 Sauerbruch became editor of the specialist magazine "Neue Deutsche Chirurgie". From 1941 he took part in the so-called "Wednesday Society" and protested against the NSDAP's euthanasia programs.
After the end of the Second World War, he took part in the reconstruction of Berlin's health care system. After the re-establishment of the "Chirurgical Society in Berlin" he was re-elected chairman. Despite age-related impairments in his surgical safety and mental resilience, Sauerbruch continued to operate until old age. On December 3, 1949, he submitted his application for retirement. In 1950 he gave in to the requests of West Berlin private clinics and worked as a surgeon again. In 1951 Sauerbruch published his autobiography entitled "That was my life".
Ferdinand Sauerbruch died on June 2, 1951 in Berlin. - Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart was born on 18 March 1930 in Wuppertal-Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was married to George Sherman Rothbart. She died on 31 January 2023 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Robert Wolfgang Schnell was born on 8 March 1916 in Barmen, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Achtung Zoll! (1980), Rom ist in der kleinsten Hütte (1982) and Auf den Spuren der Anarchisten (1972). He died on 1 August 1986 in West Berlin, West Germany.
- Elisabeth Minetti was born on 20 July 1917 in Barmen, Rhine Province, Prussia [now Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia], Germany. She was married to Bernhard Minetti. She died on 2 September 2003 in Blankenheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Gerhard Kienbaum was born on 12 October 1919 in Barmen, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 24 February 1998 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Writer
- Director
Rudolf Herzog was born on 6 December 1869 in Barmen, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Der Abenteurer (1926), Hanseaten (1925) and Die Wiskottens (1926). He was married to Emma Elisabeth Lux and Minna Seiler. He died on 3 February 1943 in Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Wilhelm Pilgram was born on 1 January 1889 in Barmen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Bernadette Soubirous (1961), Der Idiot (1968) and Ein Engel namens Schmitt (1954). He died on 1 November 1971.