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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Jan Ullrich, Joachim Gauck, Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, Ferdinand von Mueller, Georg Hans Madelung, Walter Kempowski, Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, Pyranja, Albrecht Kossel, Andre Greipel, Heinrich Tessenow, Karl August Nerger, Ingrid Bacher, Arthur R. von Hippel, Gustav Mie, Ramona Portwich, Hansjorg Kunze, Erika Fuchs, Marianne Hoppe, Daniel Klewer, Franz Aepinus, Jens Dowe, Udo Proksch, Andreas Tews, Wilhelm von Malachowski, Annie Krull, Britta Kamrau, Uwe Ehlers, George Karsten, Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff, Christian Martin Frahn, Paul Martens, Wilhelm Decker, Carl Brockelmann, Frank Rohde, Jennifer Zietz, Eric Baumann, Peter Borgelt, Stefanie Draws, Denise Hinrichs, Julia Machtig, Gunther Schumacher, Siegfried Brietzke, Jan Quast, Peggy Buchse, Nils Rudolph, Lars Hinneburg, Dorte Lindner, Paul Voss, Karl-Heinz Thun, Paul Borowski, Bernhard Quandt, Jorg Pose, Klaus Kroppelien, Dieter Below, Matthias Flach, Ulrich Karnatz, Sandro Stielicke, Steffen Bogs, Adolph Gopel, Nicole Zimmermann, Klaus Langhoff, Reiner Ganschow, Andrea Bolk, Tom Lehmann, Stephan Kruger. Excerpt: Jan Ullrich (born December 2, 1973 in Rostock, East Germany) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. In 1997, he was the first German to win the Tour de France. He went on to take five second places and a fourth in 2004 and third in 2005. He is considered one of the best time-trialists in the history of the sport. In 2006, Ullrich was barred from the Tour amid speculation of having doped. He retired in late February 2007. Ullrich won a gold and a silver in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He also won the 1999 Vuelta a Espana. Although not a one-day specialist, he won the HEW Cyclassics in front of a home crowd in Hamburg in 1997, and had podium finishes in the hilly classic Clasica de San Sebastian. His victorious rid...