Editing German Student Corps (section)

==Notable members==
{{Main|List of German student corps members}}

Following is a select list of members of German students corps

===Politics===
*[[Sir William Beale, 1st Baronet]], M.P. Ayrshire, [[Corps Rhenania Heidelberg]]
*[[Otto von Bismarck]], Chancellor of [[Prussia]], later of the [[German Empire]], "architect" of Germany's unification, [[Corps Hannovera Göttingen]]
*[[Bruno Claußen]], German lawyer, civil servant and business executive, [[State Secretary]] in the Prussian Ministry of Economics and Labor, Corps Franconia [[Tübingen]]
*[[Max von Forckenbeck]], German politician, founder of the [[German Progress Party]] and [[National Liberal Party (Germany)|National Liberal Party]], mayor of [[Berlin]] and President of the Reichstag, Corps Teutonia [[Giessen]]
*[[Erich Gritzbach]], Chief of the staff office of the Prussian State Ministry, Berliner Burschenschaft Gothia
*[[Ulrich von Hassell]], German ambassador in [[Belgrade]] and [[Rome]], resistance fighter in Nazi Germany, executed by the Nazis after the failed [[July 20 Plot]], Corps Suevia Tübingen
*[[Friedrich Hecker]], German revolutionary, Corps Rhenania Heidelberg
*[[Johannes Krohn]], German lawyer and civil servant, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Labor, Leipziger Burschenschaft Germania 
*[[Friedrich Landfried]], German lawyer and civil servant, State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Finance and the Reich Ministry of Economics, Corps Rhenania [[Straßburg]] and Corps Vandalia [[Heidelberg]]
*[[Wilhelm Liebknecht]], co-founder of the German [[Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands|social-democratic party]], chief editor of the "''Vorwärts''"-Paper, Corps Hasso-Nassovia [[Marburg]], Corps Rhenania [[Gießen]]
*[[Karl Marx]], socialist author and theoretician, proponent of [[communism]], Corps Palatia [[Bonn]]
*[[Kurt Melcher]], German lawyer and politician, Police President of [[Essen]] and [[Berlin]], Corps Suevia Tübingen
*[[Hans Pfundtner]], German lawyer and civil servant, the senior State Secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry, [[Corps Masovia Königsberg zu Potsdam]]
*[[Wilhelm II of Germany]], last German [[Kaiser]], [[Corps Borussia Bonn]]

===Sciences===
*[[Alois Alzheimer]], neurologist, Corps Franconia [[Würzburg]]
*[[Emil von Behring]], physician, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate, Corps Suevo-Borussia [[Hamburg]]
*[[Karl Ferdinand Braun]], physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate, inventor of the  [[cathode-ray tube]] Corps Teutonia [[Marburg]]
*[[Alfred Brehm]], naturalist and author (zoological encyclopedia ''Brehms Tierleben''), Corps Saxonia [[Jena]]
*[[Vincenz Czerny]] (1842-1916), surgeon, [[Corps Austria]] [[Frankfurt]].
*[[Paul Güssfeldt]], geologist, mountaineer and explorer, Corps Vandalia [[Heidelberg]].
*[[Justus von Liebig]], chemist, founder of organic and agricultural chemistry, Corps Rhenania [[Erlangen]].
*[[Joseph von Lindwurm]], physician and dermatologist, Corps Bavaria [[Würzburg]].
*[[Alfred Pribram]] (1841-1912), internist, Corps Austria.
*[[Philipp Franz von Siebold]], physician, emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in [[Japan]], Corps Moenania [[Würzburg]]
*[[Eckard Wimmer]], virologist, synthesized a virus chemically, Corps Teutonia-Hercynia Göttingen.

===Economy and engineering===
* [[Gottlieb Daimler]], engineer, Corps Stauffia [[Stuttgart]]
* [[Rudolph Hering]], American engineer, [[Corps Altsachsen Dresden|Corps Altsachsen]]
* [[Alfred Herrhausen]], CEO of the [[Deutsche Bank]], murdered by [[Red Army Faction]]-terrorists in 1989, Corps Hansea [[Cologne|Köln]]
* [[Ludwig Mond]], chemist and industrialist, Corps Rhenania Heidelberg
* [[Wilhelm von Opel]], engineer, Corps Franconia [[Darmstadt]]
* [[Hanns-Martin Schleyer]], board member of [[Daimler-Benz]], formerly leading member of the National Socialist Student Association, later head of the employer's confederation and of West Germany's federal industry confederation, murdered by Red Army Faction terrorists in 1977, Corps Suevia [[Heidelberg]]
* [[Max Wirth]], journalist and economist, Corps Rhenania Heidelberg

===Fine arts and culture===
*[[Heinrich Heine]], German poet and journalist, Corps Guestphalia [[Göttingen]]
*[[Georg Heym]], poet, most important exponent of early [[expressionism]], Corps Rhenania [[Würzburg]]
*[[Egon Erwin Kisch]], Czech-German author und journalist, corps student in [[Prague|Prag]]
*[[Robert Schumann]], composer and pianist, Corps Saxo-Borussia [[Heidelberg]]
*[[Ludwig Thoma]], author, publisher and editor, Corps Suevia [[Munich]]
*[[Richard Wagner]], composer, Corps Saxonia Leipzig