It was a small event, not even two dozen visitors: Fritz von Weizsäcker held a lecture in a Berlin clinic when he was stabbed by a man with a knife. The case sparked horror and grief - also because Weizsäcker comes from a prominent family.
Fritz von Weizsäcker, born 1960 in Essen, leaves his wife and three children together. He was a renowned physician: From 1979 to 1987 he studied human medicine in Bonn and Heidelberg, after which he went to the USA for a practical year.
After working in Freiburg, Boston and Zurich, he was chief physician at the Department of Internal Medicine I at the Schlosspark-Klinik in Berlin since 2005. There he held a lecture on the topic "fatty liver" on Tuesday evening (more about the deed can be found here).
The father
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Richard von Weizsäcker (2013 in Leipzig).
Fritz von Weizsäcker was the son of Richard von Weizsäcker, who was Federal President from 1984 to 1994. Previously, the CDU politician since 1981 ruled as Governing Mayor West Berlin.
Weizsäcker received worldwide attention with his historic speech on the 40th anniversary of the German capitulation in the Second World War, with which he turned in 1985 against a widespread oblivion of history in the Bonn republic. The fact that he probably represented less of a concern than Kohl's left opposition, as shown in his re-election in 1989: SPD and Greens were so taken by the conservative head of state that they did not even set up a counter-candidate.
Richard von Weizsäcker died in January 2015, he was 94 years old.
The mother
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Marianne von Weizsäcker next to her husband (2010 in Berlin)
Richard von Weizsäcker married Marianne von Kretschmann in 1953. The woman born in Essen had attended high school in Hamburg after graduating from high school and completed a commercial apprenticeship there. After the wedding she got between 1954 and 1960 four children, whom she dedicated most of her time, according to the Federal President.
Until 1962 the family lived in Essen and Düsseldorf, later moved to Ingelheim and in 1967 to Bonn. Marianne von Weizsäcker volunteered in her Bonn parish, from 1981 she took over as the wife of the Governing Mayor of Berlin representative and charitable tasks.
After the election of her husband as Federal President, she was involved among other things for addicted people, in 1989 she called the "Foundation integration aid for formerly drug addicts - Marianne von Weizsäcker Fund" to life. Marianne von Weizsäcker is 87 years old today.
The siblings
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Beatrice von Weizsäcker (l.) 2015 at the state ceremony for her father
Fritz von Weizsäcker was the youngest of the four children. His brother Andreas died in 2008, the oldest brother Robert Klaus, 64, and his sister Beatrice still live there. The 61-year-old expressed her youngest brother a few hours after the death, on Instagram she posted a short text: "Watch out for my brother ..."
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The other relatives
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Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (2011 in Stuttgart)
From the family of Weizsäcker come from well-known politicians and public figures: One of the cousins Fritz von Weizsäckers is Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, who sat for the SPD until 2005 in the Bundestag. "I thought it was wonderful," said the 80-year-old environmental scientist about his deceased cousin. "I loved him unusually." He recently met him at a family party and had a nice chat with him.
One of the brothers Richard von Weizsäcker was the researcher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. The physicist, born in 1912, was a respected fundamental researcher and developed a formula for the energy substance of the atomic nuclei. Between 1939 and 1942 he was also involved in the work on a German atomic bomb, which - as he later remarked - was only realized through "divine grace".
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1997 in Tutzing)
In 1957 he joined as one of the "Göttingen Eighteen" atomic researchers for the end of nuclear weapons production and became a religiously active pugilist. The physicist, philosopher and activist overflowing with honors and honors was regarded by some scientists as the last German polymath. He died in 2007 at the age of 94 years.
