The Weizsäcker family (), some with the

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von (), originated in the former

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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

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after whom the

Bethe–Weizsäcker formula In nuclear physics, the semi-empirical mass formula (SEMF; sometimes also called the Weizsäcker formula, Bethe–Weizsäcker formula, or Bethe–Weizsäcker mass formula to distinguish it from the Bethe–Weizsäcker process) is used to approxima ...

was named. : I. Christian Ludwig Weizsäcker (1785–1831),

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to the Prince of Hohenlohe-Öhringen :: A. Hugo Weizsäcker (1820–1834) :: B. Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker (1822–1899), Protestant

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and Chancellor of

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::: 1.

Karl von Weizsäcker Karl Hugo Freiherr von Weizsäcker (25 February 1853 – 2 February 1926) was a German politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg, and a member of the prominent Weizsäcker family. Early life He was born Karl Hugo Weiz ...

(1853–1926), 1906–1918 Ministerpräsident to

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William II of Württemberg William II (; 25 February 1848 – 2 October 1921) was the last King of Württemberg. He ruled from 6 October 1891 until the dissolution of the kingdom on 30 November 1918. He was the last German ruler to abdicate in the wake of the November Rev ...

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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

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as Secretary of State for

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and

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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 Nazi Germany during the Second World War, un ...

(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 from 2011 – 2019. Family A membe ...

(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) (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 (

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) ::::: iiii.

Richard von Weizsäcker Richard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker (; 15 April 1920 – 31 January 2015) was a German politician ( CDU), who served as President of Germany from 1984 to 1994. Born into the aristocratic Weizsäcker family, who were part of the German nobili ...

(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). (1956–2008),

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

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

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:: C. Julius Weizsäcker (1828–1889), historian ::: 1. Julius Hugo Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1861–1939), lawyer ::: 2. (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