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Weizsäcker

American  
[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

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 Neil Buchanan

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