Alois Irlmaier (1894–1959) was a Bavarian dowser and clairvoyant from Freilassing, renowned for locating water and missing people. He is best known for prophecies of a future war in Europe and an invasion from the East; in 1947 he was acquitted in a trial for "illegal fortune-telling."

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a German Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer and visionary, declared a Doctor of the Church. She recorded her prophetic and apocalyptic visions in "Scivias" and advised popes and rulers of her age.