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Detlev Detlev is a German given name. It is a spelling variant of Detlef. People with this name Notable people with this name include: *Detlev Blanke (born 1941), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin *Detlev Bronk (1897–1975), ...

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Detlef Bothe Detlef Bothe (born 9 December 1957) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by popula ...

(born 1957), East German sprint canoeist *

(born 1965), German actor *

Detlef Bruckhoff Detlef Bruckhoff (born 8 April 1958) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made a total of 16 Bundesliga appearances for Tennis Borussia Berlin and Darmstadt 98 Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known ...

(born 1958), retired German footballer *

Detlef Enge Detlef Enge (born 12 April 1952 in Schwanebeck) is a former East German football player who played in the DDR-Oberliga for 1. FC Magdeburg. He won the Oberliga championship three times, the East German Cup—FDGB-Pokal—once and the Europea ...

(born 1952), former East German football player *

Detlef Gerstenberg 300px, Detlef Gerstenberg on 20 May 1984 in Karl-Marx-Stadt Detlef Gerstenberg (5 March 1957 – 24 January 1993) was a hammer thrower from East Germany, who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics for his native country. Born in Eisenhüttenstadt, ...

(1957–1993), East German hammer thrower *

Detlef Gromoll Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in Differential geometry. Biography Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist. After living and attending school in Rosdorf and gra ...

(1938–2008), German mathematician *

Detlef Grumbach Detlef Grumbach (born 1955 in Detmold) is a German author and journalist. Life After school Grumbach worked as a journalist. Topics of his works are literary critic, LGBT, Human sexuality, sexuality, AIDS and events in life of people. Grumbach wr ...

(born 1955), German author and journalist *

Detlef Hofmann Detlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five ...

(born 1963), German sprint canoeist *

Detlef Kästner Detlef Kästner (born 20 March 1958) is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeate ...

(born 1958), East German boxer * Detlef Kübeck (born 1956), retired East German sprinter *

Detlef Kirchhoff Detlef Kirchhoff (born 21 May 1967 in Halberstadt) is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won the medals at the international rowing competitions. He competed at four Olympic ...

(born 1967), German rower * Detlef Kraus (1919–2008), German pianist *

Detlef Laugwitz Detlef Laugwitz (1932–2000) was a German people, German mathematician and historian, who worked in differential geometry, history of mathematics, functional analysis, and non-standard analysis. Biography He was born on 11 May 1932 in Breslau, W ...

(1932–2000), German mathematician *

Detlef Lewe Detlef Lewe (20 June 1939, Dortmund – 1 October 2008)Detlef Lienau (1818–1887), German architect born in Denmark *

Detlef Lohse Detlef Lohse (born 15 September 1963 in Hamburg) is a German physicist and professor in the University of Twente's Department of Physics of Fluids in the Netherlands. Biography Lohse studied at the University of Kiel and University of Bonn, gr ...

(born 1963), German fluid mechanics researcher *

Detlef Michel Detlef Michel (born October 13, 1955 in Berlin), is a German track and field athlete. He represented East Germany during the 1980s and was one of the world's best in the javelin throw. His most important result came when he won the World Champi ...

(born 1955), German track and field athlete *

Detlef Nebbe Detlef Nebbe (also Detleff; 20 June 1912 – 17 April 1972) was an SS-''Hauptscharführer'' and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. Born in Husum, German Empire in June 1912, Nebbe completed ...

(1912–1972), SS-Hauptscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp *

Detleff Neumann-Neurode Friedrich Wilhelm Detleff Ehrgott Neumann-Neurode (July 12, 1879 – June 27, 1945) was a pioneering German pediatric physical therapy, physical therapist. He was born on his family's estate in Wojciechowo Wielkie, Groß Woitsdorf, Upper Silesi ...

(1879–1945), pioneering German pediatric physical therapist *

Detlef Okrent Detlef Okrent (October 26, 1909 – January 24, 1983) was a German field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was also a member of the German NSDAP and SS. He was a member of the German field hockey team, which won the ...

(1909–1983), German field hockey player *

Detlef Pirsig Detlef Pirsig (22 October 1945 – 9 December 2019) was a German football player and manager. He played in 385 matches, primarily with MSV Duisburg Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg, commonly known as simply MSV Duisburg (), is a Foot ...

(1945–2019), former German football player *

Detlef Quadfasel Detlef Rudolf Quadfasel is a professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics at Copenhagen University and Oceanography at the Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg. He is joint editor of ''Progress in Oceanography' ...

, professor of geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute *

Detlef Raugust Detlef Raugust (born 26 August 1954) is a German former footballer. He spent his entire career with 1. FC Magdeburg, and was part of their highly successful team of the 1970s. Club career He played in more than 225 East German top-flight mat ...

(born 1954), German former footballer *

Detlef Richter Detlef Richter (born 6 June 1956 in Leipzig, Saxony) is an East German bobsledder who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Richter also won fiv ...

(born 1956), East German bobsledder *

Detlef Sack Detlef Sack was born 1965. He is professor of democracy theory and government system research at Faculty of Political Science, University of Wuppertal. Academia Detlef Sack holds the Chair of Comparative Political Science, focusing on comparative ...

(born 1965), professor of Comparative Political Science at Bielefeld University *

Detlef Schößler Detlef Schößler (born 3 October 1962) is a former East German international footballer who became a coach. The defender appeared in 319 top-flight matches in East and the reunified Germany. Schößler won 18 caps for East Germany East ...

(born 1962), German former footballer, now a coach *

Detlef Schmidt Detlef Schmidt (born 24 February 1958) is a West Germany, West German Canoe racing, sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1980s. He won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1986 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montreal. ...

(born 1958), West German sprint canoeist *

Detlef Schrempf Detlef Schrempf (born January 21, 1963) is a German-American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies from 1981 to 1985, and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the ...

(born 1963), retired German NBA basketball player *

Detlef Siebert Detlef Siebert is a German television writer, director and producer, working in the United Kingdom. Biography Siebert began his career at the BBC as assistant producer of the 1997 documentary series '' The Nazis: A Warning from History''. He wro ...

, German television writer, director and producer, working in the UK *

Detlef Soost Detlef Soost (born 2 July 1970), also using the name D! (formerly ''Dee!''), most often called Detlef D! Soost, is a German television personality, dancer and choreographer who gained recognition as one of the jury members of the German talent ...

(born 1970), German dancer and choreographer *

Detlef Thorith Detlev Thorith (27 September 1942 – 18 July 2019)
was a ...

(born 1942), retired East German discus thrower * Detlef Uhlemann (born 1949), former West German distance runner * Detlef Ultsch (born 1955), former East German judoka *

Detlef Wagenknecht Detlef Wagenknecht (born 3 January 1959) is a German former middle-distance runner. Representing East Germany, he was a finalist in men's 800 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 European Athletics Championships, 1982 European Champio ...

(born 1959), East German middle-distance runner *

Detlef Weigel Detlef Weigel (born 1961 in Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Education Weigel was an undergraduate in biology and chemistry at the universities of Bielefeld ...

(born 1961), German American scientist working at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology *

Detlef Wiedeke Detlef Wiedeke (born 5 July 1950) is a German singer, songwriter, and record producer. Between 1984 and 2000, Wiedeke collaborated with Dieter Bohlen for which he sang in the Modern Talking and Blue System choruses. Since 2003, he has worked on ...

(born 1950), German singer, composer and producer * Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (1836–1923), published findings on chemical element periodicity before Dmitri Mendeleev or Lothar Meyer {{given name German masculine given names