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 (1886–1943), head of the Rhenish Republic
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Klaus Matthes (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
Michael Matthes (born 26 February 1966, Stuttgart) is a French organist.
Education
Matthes received his first organ lessons privately from Marie-Claire Alain. In 1985, after three years of studies at the Paris Conservatory with Odile Pierre, h ...
, French organist
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Paul Matthes (1879–1948), German footballer
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Roland Matthes
Roland Matthes (, ; 17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) was a German swimmer and the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European champ ...
(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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Sven Matthes (born 1969), German sprinter
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Ulrich Matthes
Ulrich Matthes (born 9 May 1959) is a German actor, possibly best-known for having played Joseph Goebbels in the 2004 film '' Downfall''.
Life and work
Matthes was born in West Berlin and educated at the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Klost ...
(born 1959), German actor
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