The D-A-CH-DeathList 2025 (page 25)

[Book 3,670]

German CSU-politician Oscar Schneider has died on 29th of December at the age of 97. From 1982 to 1989 he was the Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Building during the Helmut Kohl government. But it is more important to mention that he was on our D-A-CH list of 2022.

https://www.antenne.de/nachrichten/bayern/frueherer-bundesbauminister-oscar-schneider-gestorben

[Neol Edmunds 94]

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/

[TomTomTelekom 3,762]

German chess Grandmaster Robert Hübner, who was one of the top players in the world in the mid-1970s, died at 76 years:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/robert-huebner-has-passed-away

[Filenos 25]

Rainer Calmund, the former managing director of Bayer Leverkusen, suffered a collapse a few weeks ago, which turned out to be "cardiac arrhythmia with atrial fibrillation". According to the doctors, he says, he only narrowly escaped death (https://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/stars/id_100566198/reiner-calmund-gesundheitssorgen-nach-tv-kollaps-bei-henssler.html). He seems to be okay for now, but might also be a candidate for the next few years.

 

For international context: Mr. Calmund was the German number one example of a morbidly obese celebrity for a long time,  though he has lost a lot of weight following a stomach reduction a few years ago.