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origin. It is also spelled Detlev.

People with this name

Notable people with this name include: * Detlef Bothe (born 1957), East German sprint canoeist * Detlef Bothe (born 1965), German actor * Detlef Bruckhoff (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 (born 1955), German author and journalist * Detlef Hofmann (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 (born 1967), German rower *

Detlef Kraus Detlef Kraus (30 November 1919 – 7 January 2008) was a German pianist. He was an internationally known interpreter of the music of Johannes Brahms. Born in Hamburg, Kraus gave his first concert at the age of 16, playing ''The Well-Tempered ...

(1919–2008), German pianist * Detlef Laugwitz (1932–2000), German mathematician * Detlef Lewe (1939–2008), West German sprint canoeist *

Detlef Lienau Detlef Lienau (17 February 1818 – 29 August 1887) was a German architect born in Holstein. He is credited with having introduced the French style to American building construction, notably the mansard roof and all its decorative flourishes. Trai ...

(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 Champ ...

(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 therapist. He was born on his family's estate in Groß Woitsdorf, Upper Silesia (then part of the German Empire), a ...

(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 ...

(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. Pirsig died on 9 December 2019 at the age of 74. References External links * 1945 bi ...

(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 (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgi ...

, 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 ma ...

(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 comparativ ...

(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 Eas ...

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

Detlef Schmidt Detlef Schmidt (born 24 February 1958) is a West German 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. Schmidt also finished eig ...

(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, 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 (born 1942), retired East German discus thrower *

Detlef Uhlemann Detlef Hugo Otto Uhlemann (born 24 September 1949) is a German former long-distance runner who competed for West Germany. Born in the Altenessen district of the city of Essen, he represented his country at the 1976 Summer Olympics, being a finalis ...

(born 1949), former West German distance runner *

Detlef Ultsch Detlef Ultsch (born 7 November 1955) is a former East German judoka. He was born in Sonneberg, Bezirk Suhl. He is the first German judo world champion and became a double world middleweight champion 1979 in Paris and 1983 in Moscow Moscow ...

(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 Bielefel ...

(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 Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1923) was a chemist and natural philosopher most widely known for his findings on periodic laws within the chemical elements. Life Hinrichs was born in 1836 in Lunden in the Duchy of Hol ...

(1836–1923), published findings on chemical element periodicity before Dmitri Mendeleev or Lothar Meyer {{given name German masculine given names