Leadership

• Baron Heinrich von Bülow (born 1791, died 1846)

  Prussian general.

  • Led troops against the French in the Napoleonic wars (see list of Generals of the Napoleonic Wars)
• Heinrich Himmler (born 1900, died 1945)

  German Nazi official. Committed suicide to escape prosecution for war crimes.

  • Leader of the SS and the Gestapo (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Science and Philosophy

• Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (born 1857, died 1894)

  German physicist.

  • Discovered that electricity, like light, travels in waves; led to the development of wireless communication (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)
• Heinrich Rohrer

  Swiss physicist who helped design the scanning tunneling microscope.

  • 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Ernst Ruska and Gerd Binnig (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Heinrich O. Wieland (born 1877, died 1957)

  German chemist known for his analysis of bile acids and his theories on oxygenation.

  • 1927 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)

The Literary World

• Heinrich Böll (born 1917, died 1985)

  German novelist.

  • 1972 Nobel Prize winner for Literature (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
• Heinrich Heine (born 1797, died 1856)

  German poet.

  • Wrote Book of Songs (see list of Writers of the Romantic Period (1785-1830))