Steinhoff is a
German
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surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bruno Steinhoff (born 1937), German billionaire businessman, founder of
Steinhoff International
Steinhoff International was a multinational corporation, multinational holding company that was dual listed in Germany and South Africa. It was officially delisted in October 2023. Its holdings were in the retail sector, primarily in furnitur ...
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Ernst Steinhoff
Ernst August Wilhelm Steinhoff (February 11, 1908 – December 2, 1987) was a German rocket scientist and member of the " von Braun rocket group", at the Peenemünde Army Research Center (1939–1945). Ernst Steinhoff saw National Social ...
(1908-1987), German rocket scientist
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Fritz Steinhoff
Fritz Steinhoff (23 November 1897 – 22 October 1969) was a German politician of the SPD. He was the third Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1956 to 1958.
Early life
Steinhoff was born in 1897 in a miner's famil ...
(1897-1969), German politician
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Gerda Steinhoff
Gerda Steinhoff (29 January 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
SS career
Steinhoff was born in Danzig-Langfuhr. As a teenager, she worked as house ...
(1922-1946), Nazi SS concentration camp overseer hanged for war crimes
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Hans Steinhoff
Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882 – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he produced in Nazi Germany.
Life and career
Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a sta ...
(1882-1945), German film director
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Johannes Steinhoff
Johannes "Macky" Steinhoff (15 September 1913 – 21 February 1994) was a Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II, German general, and NATO official. He was one of very few Luftwaffe pilots who survived to fly operationally through the whole ...
(1913-1994), German Luftwaffe pilot
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John Steinhoff (born 1942), classical physicist
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Karl Steinhoff
Karl Steinhoff (November 24, 1892 – July 19, 1981) was a Minister-president () of the German state () of Brandenburg, then part of East Germany, and later served as East Germany's Minister of the Interior.
Biography
Born in Herford, Stei ...
(1892-1981), Minister-President of Brandenburg
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