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Born July 31, 1526 • Freiberg • Saxony
Died February 12, 1586 (aged 59) • Dresden • Saxony
House / Dynasty Wettin dynasty
John
elector of Saxony
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau
German statesman
Hans Luther
Hans Luther
German statesman
Georg Spalatin
Bavarian humanist
Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht
German financier
John Frederick the Magnanimous, portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder; in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
John Frederick
elector of Saxony
Walther Funk
Walther Funk
German economist
Franz von Sickingen
Franz von Sickingen
German knight
Rudolph von Delbrück
German statesman
Ludwig Bamberger, engraving by A. Neumann, c. 1890.
Ludwig Bamberger
German economist
Nikolaus von Amsdorf, lithograph, 1820, after a 16th-century engraving.
Nikolaus von Amsdorf
German theologian
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
British economist
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor