Klaus Wennemann
Klaus Wennemann (born December 18, 1940, Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany; died 2000), was a German actor.
Klaus Wennemann’s zodiac sign was Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was Metal Dragon, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Sagittarius, Chinese zodiac was 
Metal Dragon, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Klaus
Klaus Wennemann’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Storyteller
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Klaus in the U.S.?
#2245
US rank in 2025
~1,471
Americans share it since 1953
2022
its peak year
US records hold Klaus from 1953 onward, though not for 1940 — fewer than five that year, which the SSA does not publish. 2022 was its busiest.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Klaus’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
5
Expression · versatility
6
Soul Urge · being needed
8
Personality · capable, in charge
The name opens on K (2) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Klaus’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 1 · 6 · 7
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Thursday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Turquoise, Yellow Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🤍 Narcissus · 🌸 Peony · 🤍 White Magnolia
Frost white · Rose-gold · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 2, trigram Kun 坤, West group. Best direction Northeast, worst East.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1940, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Klaus apart
Cause of death is recorded as lung cancer; the grave is at Münster.
Wikipedia's editors put Klaus Wennemann under People from Recklinghausen (district), Male actors from North Rhine-Westphalia and Deaths from lung cancer.
Steven Spielberg (1946) and Brad Pitt (1963) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Cause of death
- lung cancer
- Buried at
- Münster
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Wikipedia editions
- 12
What the chart says
Klaus, according to the stars
Core essence
Klaus is the friend who says "let's just go" and means today. The core of Klaus is faith that the world is bigger and better than the room they are in, and a restlessness to go and check. They are honest to the point of it being a sport, funny by accident, and impossible to keep small. Freedom is not a preference, it is oxygen.
The vibe
Underneath, Klaus needs to be adored a little, and there is nothing wrong with that. The Moon in Leo feels things dramatically and generously and wants them noticed. What Klaus needs to feel safe is to be chosen out loud: the compliment said in front of people, the text that says you were thinking of them. They repay it tenfold.
How Klaus wants to be loved
Klaus wants to be loved completely or not at all. Venus in Scorpio is intense, private and all in, and wants the same depth back: no games, no half measures. Trust is the whole thing. Be honest with Klaus even when it costs you, and they will be the most devoted person you have ever met.
How Klaus creates
How Klaus makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Klaus creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Klaus is larger than life, a Dragon year, and their gut reaction is to go big. Confident, lucky, a natural at the centre of things, and warm-hearted underneath the spectacle. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Klaus is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means Klaus runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.
Computed from Klaus's birth date. Working below.
Where Klaus sits
Six lines
Klaus’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Klaus Wennemann
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Oer-Erkenschwick on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Oer-Erkenschwick that night
Computed for 51.64°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Schedar stood nearest the zenith over Oer-Erkenschwick at 9 p.m. that evening, 82.5° above the horizon in Cassiopeia.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 101 catalog stars above the horizon.
At 51.6°N there are stars that never set at all. Vega, Capella and Deneb stay up year round.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Oer-Erkenschwick at all: they sit past the −38.4° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at waning gibbous, 83% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 32° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany
The death is recorded at Bad Aibling, District of Rosenheim in 2000.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Klaus Wennemann: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Klaus's chart is
Chart pattern score
15 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
No Air planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →The quick version
Sagittarius Sun
Sagittarius SunRestless in a good way.
Klaus Wennemann's Sun was in Sagittarius for the whole of December 18, 1940, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Sagittarius means →Metal Dragon
Metal DragonAmbition with charisma attached.
Klaus Wennemann was born on December 18, 1940, which falls in a Metal Dragon year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Dragon means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Klaus Wennemann's birth date, December 18, 1940, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Klaus’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Klaus Wennemann's date-only chart is Venus sextile Neptune, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, sit together in Taurus, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Fixed signs, making Fixed the strongest modality in this chart.
- Klaus Wennemann combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Storyteller.
Klaus’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Leo depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextileNeptune0.0° to 1.3° orb
Klaus’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunsquareNeptune0.8° to 1.8° orb
Klaus’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableJupitersquarePluto2.0° orb
Klaus’s growth grinds against their depths.
stableJupiterconjunctionSaturn2.4° orb
stableVenusoppositionUranus3.5° to 4.8° orb
stableMarsoppositionUranus4.2° to 4.9° orb
stableSaturnsquarePluto4.4° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.7° to 4.8° orb
possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.0° to 9.2° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareJupiterorb from 0.0° to 10.7° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareSaturnorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonconjunctionPlutoorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air0 of 10
- Water2 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal0 of 10
- Fixed7 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign, with no planets in Air signs.
Klaus’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Leo 0°30′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresSagittarius 1°36′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 10°22′ (moves 0.57° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaPisces 25°06′ (moves 0.16° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 21°09′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea square Sun 1.2°
- Hygiea trine Venus 1.9°
- Eros square Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.2°
- Ceres trine Pluto 2.3°
- Hygiea opposition Neptune 2.6°
- Chiron sextile Neptune 2.8°
- Eros sextile Mercury 2.8°
Klaus’s dominant planets
1. ♃ Jupiter7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus; 2 major aspects
3. ♇ Pluto4 pts
disposes Venus, Mars; 2 major aspects
Configurations in Klaus’s chart
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite — the common case.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.7°
- Uranus quintile Pluto 1.0°
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 1.2°
- Mercury biquintile Saturn 1.2°
More people like Klaus
Other actors
- Buffy Sainte-Marie1941
- James Cromwell1940
- Nick Nolte1941
- James Caan1940
- Scott Glenn1941
- James Gammon1940
Born in Germany
- Bert SakmannGerman biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize)
- Reinhold WürthGerman businessman
- Theodor W. HänschGerman physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
- Harald zur HausenGerman virologist and professor emeritus
- Dagmar DolbyAmerican billionaire heiress, philanthropist
- Bert HölldoblerGerman biologist
More charts like Klaus’s
Fellow Sagittarius suns
- Colleen HooverAmerican author
- Abigail JohnsonAmerican businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire
- David RudishaKenyan middle distance runner
Born in Dragon years
- Truitt Battinsoccer player
- Sedona PrinceAmerican basketball player (born 2000)
- Odessa A'zionAmerican actress and voice actress
Also born on December 18
- Steven Spielberg1946
- Brad Pitt1963
- Christina Aguilera1980
- Sia1975
- Katie Holmes1978
- DMX1970
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- James RainwaterAmerican physicist
- John E. WalkerBritish biochemist (1941-)
- Bernardo HoussayArgentine physician
Other Sagittarius Dragon charts
- José Manuel LópezArgentine association football player (born 2000)
- Zeki AmdouniSwiss association football player (born 2000)
- Kayvon ThibodeauxAmerican football player (born 2000)
- Demario DouglasAmerican football player (born 2000)
Other Evergreen Storytellers
- Mikhail GutseriyevRussian businessman
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al ThaniQatari politician; prime minister and foreign minister
- Daryl KatzCanadian businessman and founder of Katz Group
- Vera Michalskibook publisher
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Nadia MuradYazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
- Lee HartwellAmerican biologist
- Jon FosseNorwegian writer, playwright, and translator (born 1959)
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Klaus’s cards
Computed from December 18, 1940. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StorytellerWestern zodiac
SagittariusChinese zodiac
Dragon 辰Life Path
8 · Achiever♃ Ruled by Jupiter
Tin Sn
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
庚
yang Metal
辰
Dragon
Earth
roots & early life
Month
戊
yang Earth
子
Rat
Water
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Klaus’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q73899 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
The same Klaus Wennemann at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Klaus Wennemann.
Quick answers about Klaus Wennemann’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Klaus Wennemann?
- Klaus Wennemann was a Sagittarius: born December 18, 1940, which puts the Sun in Sagittarius for the whole of that day.
- What was Klaus Wennemann's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Dragon, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the December 18, 1940 birth.
- What was Klaus Wennemann's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What was Klaus Wennemann's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 0°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Klaus Wennemann's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 21°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Klaus Wennemann's dominant planet?
- Jupiter, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Sagittarius; disposes Sun, Mercury; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Pluto third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
