German activists

Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; German: [ˈziːmɛns]; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist.

Johann Phillipp Becker was born in Germany in 1809.

Johannes Lepsius (15 December 1858, Potsdam, Germany – 3 February 1926, Meran, Italy) was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

Heinrich Popow (born 14 July 1983) is a German sprinter.

Kurt Schlosser (18 October 1900 – 16 August 1944 in Dresden) was German cabinet-maker, climber, and an active Communist.

Jenny Caroline "Jennychen" Marx Longuet (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx.

Richard Schirrmann (15 May 1874 – 14 December 1961) was a German teacher and founder of the first youth hostel.

Christian (5 March 1943 – 30 June 2014) was a Protestant Pastor and one of the leading figures and organisers of the 1989 Monday demonstrations in East Germany which finally led to the German reunification and the end of the GDR in 1990.

Marie Juchacz (née Marie Gohlke; born Landsberg an der Warthe, 15 March 1879; died Düsseldorf, 28 January 1956) was a German social reformer.

Oskar Becker (18 June 1839 in Odessa - 16 July 1868 in Alexandria) was a German political fanatic, known for his attempted assassination of William I of Prussia.

Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (born 26 November 1952, Bonn, West Germany) is a German literary scholar and political activist.

Auguste Schmidt, full name, Friederike Wilhelmine Auguste Schmidt, (3 August 1833, Breslau, then Germany now Poland – 10 June 1902, Leipzig, Germany) was a pioneering German feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist.

After taking a doctorate in ancient philosophy at the University of Göttingen in 1873, Lange taught at a preparatory school before taking up journalism in the 1880s.

Lothar Kreyssig (October 30, 1898 – July 6, 1986) was a German judge during the Weimar and Nazi era.

Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – c. 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and activist.

Fritz Teufel (June 17, 1943 – July 6, 2010) was a prominent figure in the West German political left of the 1960s.

Hartmut Gründler (11 January 1930 – 21 November 1977) was a German teacher from Tübingen, engaged in environmental protection, who burned himself out of protest against the misinformation in the atomic policy of the German Federal Government at that time, which were documented by him, but officially never taken back, and the denial of the relevant dialogue with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

Rebecca Sommer is a German artist, journalist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and a human rights, nature rights and climate justice activist.

Johann Hinrich Wichern (21 April 1808 Hamburg - 7 April 1881 Hamburg) was a founder of the Home Mission (also translated as Inner Mission; German: Innere Mission) movement in Germany.

Max Hirsch (30 December 1832 Halberstadt - 26 June 1905 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) was a German political economist and politician.

Johann Georg Büsch (January 3, 1728 at Alten-Weding in Hanover – August 5, 1800 in Hamburg) was a German mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce.

Helga Sophia Goetze (12 March 1922 – 29 January 2008) was a German artist, writer and free love activist.

Elisabeth Röhl; née Elisabeth Gohlke (born Landsberg an der Warthe 22 August 1888: died Düsseldorf 21 September 1930) was a German politician who unusually (at the time) was also a woman.

Peter Kosler or Kozler (16 February 1824 – 16 April 1879) was a Carniolan lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist, and manufacturer.

Romani Rose (born 1946 at Heidelberg, Germany) is a Romany activist who lost 13 relatives in the Holocaust of the Nazi purges against the Romani people and Jews and head of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma.

Jenny Hirsch (25 November 1829 in Zerbst – 10 March 1902 in Berlin) was a German author and reformer.

Gabriele Kuby (born 1944 in Konstanz, Germany) is a German writer and sociologist.

Dieter Kunzelmann (born 1939) is a German left-wing activist.

Günter Nooke (born January 21, 1959) is a German CDU politician and a former civil rights activist.

Lutz Bachmann (born 26 January 1973) is the founder of the PEGIDA movement.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg (né Berg; born 1978), previously known under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, is a German technology activist.

Elise Averdieck (26 February 1808 – 4 November 1907) was a German social activist, a deaconess, and writer.

May Ayim (3 May 1960 in Hamburg – 9 August 1996 in Berlin) is the pen name of May Opitz (born Sylvia Andler); she was an Afro-German poet, educator, and activist.

Clementine Sophie Krämer (1873 – November 4, 1942) was a German writer of poetry, novellas and short stories.

Angela Meder is a German primatologist, conservationist, and specialist on gorillas.

Inge Aicher-Scholl (11 August 1917 – 4 September 1998), born in present-day Crailsheim, Germany was the daughter of Robert Scholl, mayor of Forchtenberg, and elder sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who studied at the University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Nazi Germany.

Raphael Fellmer (born 1983) lived from 2010 until 2015 in a money strike, which started with a moneyless journey from The Netherlands to Mexico.

Gustav Adolf Lenk (October 15, 1903 - 1987) was a German political activist.

Jürgen Elsässer (born 20 January 1957 in Pforzheim) is a German journalist and political activist.

Stephanie Freifrau von und zu Guttenberg (born 24 November 1976 in Munich), née Stephanie Gräfin von Bismarck-Schönhausen, is a German activist against child abuse, and the President of the German section of Innocence in Danger, a human rights NGO working to protect the rights of children on the Internet and working to restrict the spread of child pornography, and a co-author of a book about these topics.

Gustav Adolf Wislicenus (20 November 1803 in Battaune, Prussian Saxony - 14 October 1875 in Fluntern, part of Zurich) was a German theologian, one of the leaders of the Free Congregations.

Richard Ungewitter (December 18, 1869, Artern, Province of Saxony – December 17, 1958, Stuttgart) was a German pioneer of the nudist movement and one of its first organizers.

Rudolf "Rudi" Opitz (1908 - 1939) was a German lithographer, Nazi Party opponent and victim.

Christina Haverkamp (* 6 September 1958 in Nordhorn, Germany) is a German-based human rights activist with special focus on the Yanomami people living in Venezuela and Brazil.

Dolkun Isa is an Uyghur democracy activist from the region of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the occupation of China, also known as East Turkestan.

Eduard Fuchs (31 January 1870, Göppingen – 26 January 1940, Paris) was a German Marxist scholar of culture and history, writer, art collector, and political activist.

Hajo Meyer (12 August 1924 – 23 August 2014) was a Jewish German-Dutch physicist and an anti-Zionist political activist.