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Weizsäcker

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[vahyts-zek-uhr] / ˈvaɪtsˌzɛk ər /

noun

  1. Carl Friedrich von 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.


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This is an incredibly scattered list, combining autonomous Marxist punks, left-liberal intellectuals, and Germany’s longtime President Richard von Weizsäcker.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025

Weizsäcker has been the chief economist of the German Ministry of Finance under Olaf Scholz, who is now the leading candidate to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2021

BST10:35 German MEP Jakob von Weizsäcker asks Draghi what would happen if Greece fails to meet its repayments to creditors this summer?

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2015

In 1985 Richard von Weizsäcker, then president, urged his compatriots to see it as the date not of their defeat but of their “liberation”.

From Economist • Apr. 30, 2015

The work of Weizsäcker as a whole is, in my opinion, the most important work on Church history we have received since Ritschl's "Entstehung der alt-katholischen Kirche."

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil