Discover Memorial Pages

Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order

civil class of the order

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Memorial Pages

246 memorial pages

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Hubertus von Pilgrim

08/24/1931 – 01/01/2026

94 years

German artist

Pullach im Isartal

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Alfred Brendel

01/05/1931 – 06/17/2025

94 years

Austrian composer and pianist

London

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Günther Uecker

03/13/1930 – 06/10/2025

95 years

Düsseldorf

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Albrecht Schöne

07/17/1925 – 05/21/2025

99 years

Oldenburg

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Sofia Gubaidulina

10/24/1931 – 03/13/2025

93 years

Soviet and Russian composer

Appen

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Rebecca Horn

03/24/1944 – 09/06/2024

80 years

German visual artist

Bad König

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Wolfgang Rihm

03/13/1952 – 07/27/2024

72 years

German composer and teacher

Ettlingen

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Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker

09/25/1926 – 04/22/2024

97 years

Hamburg

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Richard Serra

11/02/1938 – 03/26/2024

85 years

American sculptor

Orient

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Aribert Reimann

03/04/1936 – 03/13/2024

88 years

German composer, pianist and accompanist

Berlin

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Niklaus Wirth

02/15/1934 – 01/01/2024

89 years

Swiss computer scientist

Zürich

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Robert Solow

08/23/1924 – 12/21/2023

99 years

American economist

Lexington

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Martin Walser

03/24/1927 – 07/28/2023

96 years

German writer

Überlingen

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Yuri Manin

02/16/1937 – 01/07/2023

85 years

Russian mathematician

Bonn

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger

11/11/1929 – 11/24/2022

93 years

German writer and editor

München

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Eberhard Jüngel

12/05/1934 – 09/28/2021

86 years

Tübingen

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Dani Karavan

12/07/1930 – 05/29/2021

90 years

Israeli sculptor

Tel Aviv

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Michael Stolleis

07/20/1941 – 03/18/2021

79 years

Frankfurt am Main

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Albrecht Dihle

03/28/1923 – 01/29/2020

96 years

Köln

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Manfred Eigen

05/09/1927 – 02/06/2019

91 years

German biophysical chemist

Göttingen

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Günter Blobel

05/21/1936 – 02/18/2018

81 years

German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)

New York City

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Family Tree

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Hans Georg Zachau

05/16/1930 – 12/17/2017

87 years

München

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

06/20/1930 – 04/20/2017

86 years

Polish textile artist and sculptor

Warsaw

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Karl Dietrich Bracher

03/13/1922 – 09/19/2016

94 years

Bonn

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