Matthes is a
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surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Agneta Matthes
Agneta Wilhelmina Johanna van Marken-Matthes (4 October 1847 – 5 October 1909) was a Dutch entrepreneur. She and her husband were involved in the manufacture of yeast throughout their lives, and were engaged in the co-operative movement, ta ...
(1847–1909), Dutch entrepreneur
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Heinrich Matthes
Heinrich Arthur Matthes (11 January 1902 – 16 December 1978) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as a deputy commandant of Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Matthe ...
(born 1902), German SS-Scharführer
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Josef Friedrich Matthes
Josef Friedrich Matthes (10 February 1886 – 9 October 1943) was head of the short lived Rhenish Republic.
Biography
He was born on 10 February 1886 in Würzburg. He moved to Switzerland in 1909 and worked as an editor in Baden. By 1918, he was ...
(1886–1943), head of the Rhenish Republic
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Klaus Matthes
Klaus Matthes (January 20, 1931 – March 9, 1998) was a German mathematician, known as the founder of the theory of marked and infinitely divisible point processes. From 1981 to 1991 he was the director of the GDR Academy of Sciences' Institute ...
(1931–1998), German mathematician
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Lothar Matthes
Lothar Matthes (born 23 July 1947) is a German former diver who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munic ...
(born 1947), German diver
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Marion Charles Matthes
Marion Charles Matthes (January 29, 1906 – November 30, 1980) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Education and career
Born in De Soto, Missouri, Matthes attended Benton College of La ...
(1906–1980), United States federal judge
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Michael Matthes, French organist
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Paul Matthes
Paul Matthes (6 March 1879 – 1948) was a German international footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American fo ...
(1879–1948), German footballer
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Roland Matthes (1950–2019), German backstroke swimmer
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Ruthie Matthes
Ruthie Matthes (born November 11, 1965) is an American professional bicycle racer who won the World Cross-Country Mountain Bike Championship in 1991. She is also a road cyclist, having twice finished in 2nd place in the Women's Challenge bicycle ...
(born 1965), American bicycle racer
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(born 1969), German sprinter
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Ulrich Matthes (born 1959), German actor
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