Flashcards: Naturalized citizens of Germany

Franz Wilhelm Seidler (2 March 1933 in Vítkov/Wigstadt, Czechoslovakia) is a German historian, author and expert on German military history.

Almir Velagić (born August 22, 1981 in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian-German weightlifter competing in the +105 kg category.

Le'ul Ras (Prince) Dr Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Amharic: አስፋ ወሰን ዓሥራተ), (born October 31, 1948, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), is a Ethiopian-German political analyst and consultant for African and Middle-Eastern Affairs and best-selling author.

Günther Herbig (born 30 November 1931) is a German conductor.

Søren Kam (2 November 1921 – 23 March 2015) was a Danish former Waffen-SS officer wanted for murder in Denmark and listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals.

Rafik Schami (Arabic: رفيق شامي‎‎) (born Suheil Fadel (سهيل فاضل) June 1946) is a German author, storyteller and critic.

Christopher "Chris" Zane Kaman (born April 28, 1982) is an American-German professional basketball player who last played for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Aydan Özoğuz () (born 31 May 1967) is a German politician.

Baron Plato Grigorievich Ustinov (Russian: Платон Григорьевич Устинов) (1840–1918) was a Russian-born German citizen and the owner of the Hôtel du Parc (Park Hotel) in Jaffa, Ottoman Empire (now Israel).

Rudolf Kippenhahn (born 24 May 1926, in Pernink, Czechoslovakia) is a German astrophysicist and science author.

Erik Zenga (born 18 January 1993) is a naturalized German footballer who currently plays for SV Sandhausen.

Alfred Schickel (18 June 1933 – 30 September 2015) was a German revisionist historian and Scientific Director of the Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt.

Heinz "Esau" Ewald (1 September 1922 – 14 March 2002) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.

Walter Womacka (22 December 1925 – 18 September 2010) was a German Socialist Realist artist.

Geza de Kaplany (born 1926) was a Hungarian-born physician who emigrated to the United States in the late 1950s.

Helga Haase (née Obschernitzki, 9 June 1934 – 16 June 1989) was a speed skater in East Germany.

Aaron Van Cleave (born March 14, 1987) is a German pair skater.

Katya Bebb Cobham (Berger) (born 1964 in Munich, West Germany) (sometimes credited as Katia Berger or Katja Berger) is a film actress.

Erhard Karkoschka (March 6, 1923 – June 26, 2009), is a German composer, scholar and conductor.

Dr. jur. Adolf Baum (28 October 1916 – 4 December 1942) was a highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II.

Alois Obschil (21 November 1919 – 23 September 2000) was a German Waffen-SS member during World War II.

Asiye Özlem Şahin (Asiye Özlem Sahin in Germany) (born on 13 August 1976, in Trabzon) is a Turkish-German professional boxer, representing Germany, fighting out of Ludwigsburg.

Johanna Welin (born 24 June 1984) is a Swedish-born German 2.

Tomasz Zdebel (born 25 May 1973) is a retired Polish-German footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Horst Paul August Ehmke (born 4 February 1927) is a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Yoan Pablo Hernández Suárez (born October 28, 1984) is a Cuban-German former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2014.

Heinz Nawratil (1937 in Suchdol nad Odrou, Czechoslovakia – 2015) is a German lawyer, legal author and human rights activist.

Wolfgang Jansen (1938–1988) was a German actor.

Karl Lieffen (17 May 1926 – 13 January 1999), born Karel František Lifka, was a German film actor.

Walter Becher (1 October 1912 – 25 August 2005) was a German Bohemian politician, representative of the All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights (GB/BHE), All German Party (German: Gesamtdeutsche Partei) (GDP) and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

Gustav Just (16 June 1921 – 23 February 2011) was First Secretary of the German Writers' Association (DSV) (German: Deutscher Schriftstellerverband) and editor-in-chief of the East German weekly Sonntag until 1957, when he was sentenced to four years imprisonment after a show trial in which he was accused of having engaged in anti-constitutional activities ("inciting to boycott") along with Walter Janka, Heinz Zöger, and Richard Wolf.

Katharina Nocun (born 1986 as Katarzyna Nocuń) is a Polish-German politician who has, since May 2013, been the policy coordinator of the Pirate Party of Germany.

Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1975) is a retired Canadian-born German ice hockey goaltender who last played for ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.

Boubacar Barry (born 15 April 1996) is a Guinea-born German footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Karlsruher SC in the 2.

Kirsten Heiberg (25 April 1907 – 2 March 1976) was a Norwegian actress and singer who had a major film career in Germany between 1938 and 1954.

Erhard Nippa (7 February 1922 – 27 June 2003) was a highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II and an Oberst in the Bundeswehr.

Juvhel Fred Tsoumou (born 27 December 1990) is a footballer who plays as a striker and is currently a free agent.

Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Romanian (until 2014) and German (since 2014) chess grandmaster.

Ekin Deligöz (born 21 April 1971 in Tokat, Turkey) is a Turkish-German politician, member of Alliance '90/The Greens.

Alexander "Sascha" Dimitrenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Димитренко; born 5 July 1982) is a German professional boxer who held the European heavyweight title from 2010 to 2011.

Munkhbayar Dorjsuren (born Dorjsürengiin Mönkhbayar, Mongolian: Доржсүрэнгийн Мөнхбаяр; born July 9, 1969) is a Mongolian-German sport shooter.

Faton Toski (born 17 February 1987) is an Albanian footballer who plays for Albanian club Laçi.

María Sólrún Sigurðardóttir, (August 1, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) also credited as Maria Solrun is a German film director.

John Miles Ecker (born October 12, 1948) is a German-American former basketball player and coach.

Nelli Nailevna Zhiganshina (Russian: Нелли Наильевна Жиганшина; born 31 March 1987) is a Russian-born German ice dancer.

Wolfgang Otto Völz (born 16 August 1930 in Danzig, now Gdańsk, Poland) is a German actor.

Matthias Steiner (born 25 August 1982 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist.

Jörg-Peter Ewert (born 1938 in the Free City of Danzig) is a German neurophysiologist and researcher in the field of Neuroethology.

Dr. Fritz Wittmann (born 21 March 1933) is a German politician (CSU) and lawyer.

Harry Riebauer (4 July 1921 – 8 November 1999) was a German film and television actor.

Denis Pozder (born 11 December 1989) is a German footballer who plays for KFC Uerdingen 05.

Ruben Blommaert (born 5 March 1992) is a German pair skater.

Franz Liebisch (5 February 1921 – 11 February 1945) was an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Franz Riedel (2 December 1921 – 17 May 2001) was an Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Georg Preuß (24 April 1920 – 3 February 1991) was a officer in the Waffen-SS during World War II.

Oskar "Ossi" Romm (18 December 1919 – 1 May 1993) was a German Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.

Oskar Schäfer (16 January 1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Waffen-SS officer during World War II, who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Otto Edler von Ballasko (29 April 1919 – 5 February 2005) was a German Luftwaffe bomber pilot during World War II.

Oleg Valerievich Znarok (Russian: Олег Валерьевич Знарок, born 2 January 1963) is a current coach and a former Soviet ice hockey player, who would go on to represent Latvia internationally after the collapse of the USSR.

Wolfgang Jeschke (19 November 1936 – 10 June 2015) was a German sci-fi author and editor at Heyne Verlag.

Heinz-Hermann Koelle (born 22 July 1925 Danzig, died 20 February 2011 in Berlin, Germany, 85 years old) was an aeronautical engineer who made the preliminary designs on the rocket that would emerge as the Saturn I.

Julius Mader, alias Thomas Bergner, (born October 7, 1928 in the village of Radejčín, now part of Řehlovice (Groß Tschochau) in the Czech Republic, died May 17, 2000 in Berlin) was a German jurist, political scientist, journalist and writer.

Alfred Biolek (Alfred Franz Maria Biolek) (born 10 July 1934) is a well-known German entertainer and television producer.

Hanns Cibulka (born 20 September 1920, in Jägerndorf, Upper Silesia, Czecho-Slovak Republic – d. 20 June 2004, in Gotha, Germany) was a German Bohemian poet and diarist.

Rainer Nossek (5 May 1920 – 30 April 1945) was a highly decorated Oberleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Max Sick (28 June 1882–10 May 1961) was a German strongman and gymnast who performed as 'Maxick'.

Karl Wanka (1 June 1914 – 3 May 1980) was a highly decorated Major of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Adolf Scherbaum (23 August 1909 – 2 August 2000) was a trumpet player who specialised in the piccolo trumpet.

Ingrid van Bergen (born 15 June 1931) is a German film actress.

Herta Huber (January, 1926 in Schönbach, today Luby (Cheb District), Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic) is a German writer and poet.

Wilhelm Czorny (4 December 1924 – 22 April 1987) was a highly decorated Unteroffizier in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Heinrich "Gaudi" Krafft (13 August 1914 – 14 December 1942) was a German Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.

Aliona Savchenko (Ukrainian: Альона Валентинівна Савченко: Aliona Valentynivna Savchenko; German Romanization: Aljona Sawtschenko; born 19 January 1984) is a Ukrainian-born German pair skater.

Andrea Petkovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреа Петковић pronounced [pêtkoʋit͡ɕ]; born 9 September 1987) is a German tennis player.

Özcan Mutlu (born on January 10, 1968) in Kelkit, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, is a Turkish-German Green Party politician.

Ifet-Džamal Taljević (born 12 June 1980 in Novi Pazar) is a German football player of Bosniak descent.

Jason Ryan Holland (born April 30, 1976) is a retired Canadian-German professional ice hockey defenceman.

Stefano Caruso (born 19 April 1987) is an ice dancer with dual German and Italian citizenship.

Gebhardt Georg Arendt (5 May 1925 – 28 May 2013) was a German actor, cabaret artist and comedian.

August Meyszner (3 August 1886 – 24 January 1947) was an Austrian Gendarmerie officer and right-wing politician who held the post of Higher SS and Police Leader in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from January 1942 to March 1944, during World War II.

Rolf Thiele (7 March 1918 – 9 October 1994) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter.

Rupert Neudeck ([ˈʀʊpɛʁt ˈnɔɪ̯dɛk]; 14 May 1939 – 31 May 2016) was known for his humanitarian work, especially with refugees.

Mithal Jamal Hussein Ahmad al-Alusi (Arabic مثال جمال حسين احمد الآلوسي born 23 May 1953) is an Iraqi politician and the leader of the Iraqi Ummah Party.

Paul van Kempen (16 May 1893 – 8 December 1955) was a Dutch conductor.

Susianna "Susi" Levonovna Kentikian (Armenian: Սյուզի Կենտիկյան; born Syuzanna Kentikyan on 11 September 1987) is a German-Armenian professional boxer who resides in Germany.

Alfred Montag (15 June 1918 – 18 November 1990) was a highly decorated Hauptmann of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was one of 882 recipients who were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Derk Elsko Bruins (20 March 1923 – 5 February 1986) was an Oberscharführer in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Steffen "egbert" Jaeckel (16 October 1919 – 17 July 1943) was a highly decorated Hauptmann in the Luftwaffe during World War II with close personal ties to Hitler, and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Egon Franz (19 August 1921 – July 1945) was a Unterscharführer in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Heinz Edelmann (20 June 1934 – 21 July 2009) was a German illustrator and designer.

Gerhard Karl Mitter (30 August 1935 – 1 August 1969) was a German Formula One and sportscar driver.