Reformers like authors Stefan Heym and Christa Wolf and attorney Gregor Gysi, lawyer of dissidents like Robert Havemann and Rudolf Bahro, soon began to re-invent a party infamous for its rigid Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and police-state methods.

Rudolf Wolf studied the historical record in an attempt to establish a database on past cyclic variations.

Rudolf Wolf compiled and studied these and other observations, reconstructing the cycle back to 1745, eventually pushing these reconstructions to the earliest observations of sunspots by Galileo and contemporaries in the early seventeenth century.

Wolf Rüdiger Hess ( Heß in German ; 18 November 1937 – 24 October 2001 ) was the son of Rudolf Hess.

This paper at first attracted little attention, but Rudolf Wolf who was at that time the director of Bern observatory, was impressed so he began regular observations of sunspots.

* Rudolf Wolf ( in Zurich ) devises a way of quantifying sunspot activity, the Wolf number.

* Wolf, italienisches Liederbuch, Goethe-und Keller-Lieder, E. A., Tom Krause, Irwin Gage, Rudolf Jansen, GLOBE.

* Wolf, spanisches Liederbuch, E. A., Rudolf Jansen ( Piano ), Hyperion.

The idea of computing sunspot numbers was originated by Rudolf Wolf in 1848 in Zurich, Switzerland and, thus, the procedure he initiated bears his name ( or place ).

* Wolf Rudolf von Ende-der Überhäufte

Johann Rudolf Wolf ( 7 July 1816 – 6 December 1893 ) was a Swiss astronomer and mathematician best known for his research on sunspots.

* HAO " Rudolf Wolf ( 1816 – 1893 "

* HAO " Rudolf Wolf ( 1816 – 1893 )" with portrait

* MacTutor " Johann Rudolf Wolf "

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Lachmann, who was the translator of the first volume of PE Müller's Sagabibliothek des skandinavischen Altertums ( 1816 ), is a figure of considerable importance in the history of German philology ( see Rudolf von Raumer, Geschichte der germanischen Philologie, 1870 ).

* Prince Rudolf Maria Franz Placidus ( Vienna, 5 October 1816 – Vicenza, 19 June 1848 ), unmarried and without issue

Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von Gneist ( 13 August 1816 – 22 July 1895 ), German jurist and politician, was born at Berlin, the son of a judge attached to the Kammergericht ( court of appeal ) in that city.

* Johann Rudolf Kutschker ( 1750 – 1816 ) – Cardinal, Archbishop of Vienna

His father Johann Rudolf von Buol ( d. 1834 ) from 1816 until 1823 chaired the Austrian delegation to the Bundesversammlung of the German Confederation.

* 1811 – First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

* 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria ( d. 1889 )

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

** 10 March 1803 – 26 April 1803 Johann Rudolf Dolder ( b. 1753 – d. 1807 )

* 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.

The Bronze Star Medal was designed by Rudolf Freund ( 1878 – 1960 ) of jewelry firm Bailey, Banks & Biddle.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

* 1890 – Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer ( d. 1955 )

He then studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg, particularly with Albert von Kölliker, Franz Leydig, Rudolf Virchow ( with whom he later worked briefly as assistant ), and with anatomist-physiologist Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801 – 1858 ).

In 1877, Rudolf Virchow ( 1821 – 1902 ), once an inspiration to Haeckel at Würzburg, proclaimed that Haeckel ’ s embryo drawings represent mere hypotheses.

* 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

* 1857 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist ( d. 1894 )

Important figures in the first years were – among others – Petra Kelly, Lukas Beckmann, Rudolf Bahro, Joseph Beuys, Antje Vollmer, Rudi Dutschke, Undine von Blottnitz, Joschka Fischer, Herbert Gruhl and Baldur Springmann.

Bultmonn said, “ As from now on there are only believers and unbelievers, so there are also now only saved and lost, those who have life and those who are in death ” – Rudolf Bultmann, The Gospel of John, p. 155

Rudolf Diels, first Commander of the Gestapo ; 1933 – 1934

" Frauen und Brakteaten-eine Skizze " in Mythological Women ', edited by Rudolf Simek and Wilhelm Heizmann, pp. 33 – 80.

Heinrich Abeken ( August 19, 1809, Osnabrück – August 8, 1872 ), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken.

* 1822 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist ( d. 1888 )

* 1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian athlete ( d. 1932 )

* 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.

* 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver ( d. 1959 )