Klemens von Metternich
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, KOGF (; 15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859) was an Austrian diplomat who was at the center of European affairs for four decades as the Austrian Empire's foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.
Stephan Reimertz
Born in Aachen, Germany, Reimertz is the grandnephew of Nikolaus Groß, resistance fighter in the 20th July plot against Hitler. His grandfather was a democratic major and politician from Westphalia. His father was a mining engineer and met his mother at RWTH Aachen; she was a pharmacist from Riga and of Baltic German ethnicity. Reimertz was baptized by auxiliary–bishop Friedrich in front or the Throne of Charlemagne at Aachen Cathedral and raised at his grandmothers in the medieval village of Niederwenigern on the Ruhr Peninsula, later attended school in Kronberg, the widow seat of the German empress, where he received an intense artistic and musical training with Sergiu Celibidache. Stephan was a boy scout in the German Scout Association Saint George, a competition swimmer and amateur boxer, an experience he described in his autobiographical novel, "Papiergewicht".