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Detlev Detlev is a German given name. It is a spelling variant of Detlef. People with this name Notable people with this name include: * Detlev Blanke (1941–2016), interlinguistics lecturer at Humboldt University of Berlin * Detlev Bronk (1897–19 ...

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Notable people with this name include: * Detlef Bothe (canoeist) (born 1957), East German sprint canoeist *

Detlef Bothe (actor) Detlef Bothe (born 24 July 1965) is a German actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. Since the early 1990s, he has appeared in numerous film and television productions, both German and international. In 2015, he appeared in the ''Jame ...

(born 1965), German actor * Detlef Bruckhoff (born 1958), retired German footballer *

Detlef Enge Detlef Enge (born 12 April 1952) is an East Germany, East German former association football, 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— ...

(born 1952), former East German football player *

Detlef Franke Detlef Franke (24 November 1952 – 2 September 2007) was a German Egyptologist specialist of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Biography Detlef Franke received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1983 with his thesis "''Altägyptische Ve ...

(1952–2007), German Egyptologist * Detlef Gerstenberg (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 grad ...

(1938–2008), German mathematician *

Detlef Grumbach Detlef Grumbach (born 1955 in Detmold) is a German author and journalist. Life After school Grumbach worked as a journalist. Topics of his works are literary critic, LGBT, sexuality, AIDS and events in life of people. Grumbach wrote as journalist ...

(born 1955), German author and journalist * Detlef Hofmann (born 1963), German sprint canoeist * Detlef Kästner (born 1958), East German boxer *

Detlef Kübeck Detlef Kübeck (born 22 February 1956 in Schwerin, Bezirk Schwerin) is a retired German sprinter who Represented East Germany in the 200 metres. At the 1982 European Championships he won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay with teammat ...

(born 1956), retired East German sprinter *

Detlef Kirchhoff Detlef Kirchhoff (born 21 May 1967 in Halberstadt) is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won the medals at the international rowing competitions. He competed at four Olympic ...

(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 Detlef Laugwitz (1932–2000) was a German mathematician and historian, who worked in differential geometry, history of mathematics, functional analysis, and non-standard analysis. Biography He was born on 11 May 1932 in Breslau, Germany. Starti ...

(1932–2000), German mathematician *

Detlef Lewe Detlef Lewe (20 June 1939, Dortmund – 1 October 2008)Detlef Lienau Detlef Lienau (17 February 1818 – 29 August 1887) was a German architect born in Holstein. He is credited with having introduced the Rococo, French style to American building construction, notably the mansard roof and all its decorative flourish ...

(1818–1887), German architect born in Denmark * Detlef Lohse (born 1963), German fluid mechanics researcher * Detlef Michel (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 complete ...

(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), an ...

(1879–1945), pioneering German pediatric physical therapist *

Detlef Okrent Detlef Okrent (26 October 1909 in Rostock – 24 January 1983 in Leverkusen) 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 hoc ...

(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 Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg, commonly known as simply MSV Duisburg (), is a Foo ...

(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 Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Han ...

, 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 matc ...

(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 five ...

(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 Ea ...

(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 eigh ...

(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 Detlef Siebert is a German television writer, director and producer, working in the United Kingdom. Biography Siebert began his career at the BBC as assistant producer of the 1997 documentary series '' The Nazis: A Warning from History''. He wr ...

, 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 Choreography, choreographer who gained recognition as one of the jury members of the ...

(born 1970), German dancer and choreographer *

Detlef Thorith Detlev Thorith (27 September 1942 – 18 July 2019)
was a ...

(1942–2019), 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 an East Germany, East German former judoka. Ultsch was born in Sonneberg, Bezirk Suhl. Ultsch is the first Germany, German judo World Judo Championships, world champion and became a double world middlewe ...

(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. Born in the Duchy of Holstein, which at that time was under th ...

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