The Weizsäcker family (), some with the nobiliary particle von (), originated in the former

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg (german: Königreich Württemberg ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existe ...

and has had prominent and influential members over several generations. Its members include a Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg, a

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, a leading diplomat, a prominent environmental scientist, and the

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

after whom the Bethe–Weizsäcker formula was named. : I. Christian Ludwig Weizsäcker (1785–1831),

domestic chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...

to the Prince of

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:: A. Hugo Weizsäcker (1820–1834) :: B.

Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker (11 December 1822 – 13 August 1899) was a German Protestant theologian. Life and work Weizsäcker was born in Öhringen near Heilbronn in Württemberg, the son of Sophie (Rößle) and Christian Ludwig Friedrich Weizsäc ...

(1822–1899), Protestant

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and Chancellor of Tübingen University ::: 1. Karl von Weizsäcker (1853–1926), 1906–1918

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King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...

William II of Württemberg , spouse = , issue = Pauline, Princess of WiedPrince Ulrich , house = Württemberg , father = Prince Frederick of Württemberg , mother = Princess Catherine of Württemberg , birth_date = , birth_place = St ...

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Ernst von Weizsäcker Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (25 May 1882 – 4 August 1951) was a German naval officer, diplomat and politician. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1943, and as its Ambassador to ...

(1882–1951), diplomat who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to the

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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (; 28 June 1912 – 28 April 2007) was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under ...

(1912–2007), physicist and philosopher :::::: (a). Carl Christian von Weizsäcker (born 1938),

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of political economy :::::: (b).

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 25 June 1939) is a German scientist and politician ( SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag and served as co-president of the Club of Rome jointly with Anders Wijkman 2011 – 2019. Family A member of ...

(born 1939), scientist and politician ::::::: (1). Jakob von Weizsäcker (born 1970), economist and politician :::::: (c) Elisabeth Raiser (née von Weizsäcker, born 1940), historian and protestant lay leader :::::: (d) Heinrich Wolfgang von Weizsäcker (born 1947),

of mathematics ::::::: (1). Georg von Weizsäcker (born 1973),

of economics ::::: ii. Adelheid von Weizsäcker (1916–2004), m. Botho-Ernst Graf zu Eulenburg-Wicken (1903–1944) ::::: iii. Heinrich von Weizsäcker (1917–1939), German Army Lieutenant, killed in action (

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

) ::::: iiii. Richard von Weizsäcker (1920–2015), statesman and

1984–1994, m. Marianne von Weizsäcker, née von Kretschmann (born 1932) :::::: (a). Robert Klaus von Weizsäcker (born 1954), professor of political economy, former president of the German Chess Federation :::::: (b). Andreas von Weizsäcker (1956–2008),

of art :::::: (c). Beatrice von Weizsäcker (born 1958), journalist and author :::::: (d). Fritz von Weizsäcker (1960–2019),

of medicine, Stabbed and killed during a class in Berlin. :::: b. Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957),

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...

:: C. Julius Weizsäcker (1828–1889), historian ::: 1. Julius Hugo Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1861–1939), lawyer ::: 2. Heinrich Weizsäcker (1862–1945), professor of art history :::: a. Karl Hermann Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1898–1918)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Weizsacker Family German noble families Political families of Germany