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Weizsäcker

[ vahyts-zek-uhr ]

noun

  1. Carl Frie·drich von [kah, r, l , free, -d, r, i, kh, f, uh, n], 1912–2007, German physicist and cosmologist.


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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

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

Along the way, thanks to the author’s knack for the capsule biography, we gain fascinating insights into less obvious figures, among them Hugh Dowding, an eccentric and canny architect of Britain’s air defense network; Ernst von Weizsäcker, a senior German diplomat torn between his opposition to a general war and his support for German expansion; and Dorothy Thompson, the ferociously anti-Nazi American columnist and radio broadcaster.

In May, Gregor S told the court he had "never regretted my deed", reportedly stating that he hated President Weizsäcker because he had sat on the board of a company which supplied chemicals in Agent Orange, used by US forces as a defoliant during the Vietnam War.

From BBC

A German man has been convicted of murdering Dr Fritz von Weizsäcker, the son of Germany's former president.

From BBC

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