Neol Edmunds

Green Party MP, Stephanie Aeffner, dead suddenly aged 48. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/stephanie-aeffner-gruene-trauern-um-bundestagsabgeordnete-fuer-pforzheim-a-56be8106-1d5d-480d-8520-7dc4e831d6eb

Douglas Hurd.

Hans Reichelt, former DDR politician, dead a couple of months short of his 100th birthday. https://www.t-online.de/region/berlin/id_100574080/berlin-frueherer-ddr-minister-hans-reichelt-ist-tot.html

Hans Dieter Beck, of the eponymous publishing house, died on 3rd January aged 92. https://presse.beck.de/pressemitteilungen/der-verlag-chbeck-trauert-um-seinen-verleger-dr-hans-dieter-beck/

Feels like an interregnum list. Potential for a lot of old-age deaths of nonagenerians, but can't help think restricting 90+ to 10/20 might spice up the list up.

Hopefully it'll target Heil readers, Reform voters and Tesla owners.

French Author Pascal Lainé, potentially best known as Prix Goncourt winner for La Dentellière in 1974, dead aged 82. https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/12/31/pascal-laine-prix-goncourt-1974-pour-la-dentelliere-est-mort-a-l-age-de-82-ans_6475854_3382.html

Sorry for any excitement I may have caused by having the temerity to believe Wikipedia's 1 January date.

Jocelyn Wildenstein, Swiss Socialite - known as "The Bride of Wildenstein" due to excessive plastic surgery dead at 84.

@gcreptile I amended my line-up to replace Jimmy Carter with Jack Nicklaus from my Subs list.

Fritzl, although I reckon he'll be long buried before they announce it.

Former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Helmut Schlesinger, dead at 100 https://www.bundesbank.de/en/press/press-releases/bundesbank-bids-farewell-to-helmut-schlesinger--948628

I saw him out and about in the 6th district of Vienna in his prime (around 20 years ago!), and wouldn't have bet my last Sparbuch on him making it to the end of 2024.

Hermes Phettberg has died https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000249981/hermes-phettberg-verstorben-im-himmel-erwarten-ihn-die-jeansboys

Hitler's Godson, Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont - dead QO? https://www.wlz-online.de/waldeck/bad-arolsen/das-waldecker-land-trauert-um-wittekind-fuerst-zu-waldeck-und-pyrmont-93471001.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittekind,_Prince_of_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont