Apel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Erich Apel
Erich Apel (3 October 1917 – 3 December 1965) worked during Second World War, World War Two as a rocket engineer at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Nazi Germany. After his return from the Soviet Union, where he had forcibly worked for r ...
(1917–1965), German SED politician
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Hans Apel
Hans Eberhard Apel (25 February 1932 – 6 September 2011) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). From 1972 to 1974 he was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Foreign Minister. From 1974 to 1978 he was th ...
(1932–2011), German SPD politician
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Johann August Apel
Johann August Apel (17 September 1771 – 9 August 1816) was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig.
Influence
''Die Jägerbraut'' was his version of "Der Freischütz", and it was published as the first story of the f ...
(1771–1816), German writer
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Karl-Otto Apel
Karl-Otto Apel (; 15 March 1922 – 15 May 2017) was a German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He specialized on the philosophy of language and was thus considered a communication theorist. He develope ...
(1922–2017), German philosopher
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Katrin Apel (born 1973), former biathlete
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Willi Apel
Willi Apel (10 October 1893 – 14 March 1988) was a German-American musicologist and noted author of a number of books devoted to music. Among his most important publications are the 1944 edition of '' The Harvard Dictionary of Music'' and ''Fre ...
(1893–1988), German-U.S. musicologist
{{surname, Apel
German-language surnames