Weizsäcker family

The family (von) Weizsäcker was and is influential over the span of several generations, hailing from Southern Germany's state of Württemberg. Among others, they produced a President of Germany, a war criminal and the physicist after whom the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula was named.

: I. Christian Ludwig Weizsäcker (1785-1831), preacher in Öhringen:: A. Hugo Weizsäcker (1820-1834):: B. Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker (1822–1899), protestant theologian and chancellor of University of Tübingen::: 1. Karl von Weizsäcker (1853–1926), 1906–1918 Ministerpräsident for King William II of Württemberg:::: a. Ernst von Weizsäcker (1882–1951), Diplomat and state secretary in Auswärtiges Amt 1938–1943, later judged to be a war criminal by U.S military occupation trial::::: i. Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007), physicist and philosopher:::::: (a). Carl Christian von Weizsäcker (* 1938), professor of political economy:::::: (b). Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (* 1939), scientist and politician::::: ii. Heinrich von Weizsäcker (1917-1939), killed in action (World War II)::::: iii. Richard von Weizsäcker (* 1920), politician (CDU) and President of Germany 1984–1994:::::: (a). Robert Karl von Weizsäcker (* 1954), professor of political economy:::::: (b). Andreas von Weizsäcker (* 1956), professor of art:::::: (c). Beatrice von Weizsäcker (* 1958), graduated jurist and freelance journalist:::::: (d). Fritz von Weizsäcker (* 1960), professor of medicine:::: b. Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957), neurologist:: C. Julius Weizsäcker (1828–1889), historian::: 1. Julius Hugo Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1861-1939), lawyer::: 2. Heinrich Weizsäcker (1862–1945), professor of art history:::: a. Karl Hermann Wilhelm Weizsäcker (1898-1918)