List of people from the former eastern territories of Germany

Numerous figures in German culture and history (some still living) were either born, resident, or spent a substantial part of their lives in the former eastern territories of Germany. A non-exhaustive list follows:^[1]

Politicians, statesmen and diplomats

18th century

Catherine the Great (1729 in Stettin – 1796 in Saint Petersburg) was Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader
Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von Schrötter (1743 in Friedland – 1815 in Berlin) a German Junker, Prussian government minister and until 1806 Reichsfreiherr of the Holy Roman Empire
Friedrich von Gentz (1764 in Breslau – 1832 in Vienna) a German diplomat and writer, friend of Fanny Elssler

19th century

Ferdinand Lassalle (1825 in Breslau – 1864 in Carouge) a German-Jewish jurist, philosopher, socialist and political activist, initiated international-style socialism in Germany
Adalbert Falk (1827 in Metschkau – 1900 in Hamm) was a German politician and lawyer
Eduard Lasker (1829 in Jarotschin – 1884 New York, United States) a German politician and jurist, inspired by the French Revolution, he became a spokesman for liberalism
Leo von Caprivi (1831 in Berlin – 1899 in Skyren) an Imperial German Army general, served as Chancellor of Germany from 1890 to 1894
Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg (1847 in Königsberg – 1921 in Liebenberg, Löwenberger Land) a diplomat and composer, close friend of Wilhelm II. He fell from power in 1907 due to the Harden–Eulenburg affair when he was accused of homosexuality.
Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau (1855 in Beisleiden - 1937 in Marienwerder) was a German Junker and conservative German National People's Party politician
Georg Michaelis (1857 in Haynau – 1936 in Bad Saarow) was Chancellor of Germany for a few months in 1917
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858 in Dolzig Palace – 1921 in Huis Doorn, Netherlands) was the last German empress and queen of Prussia by marriage to Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Walther von Lüttwitz (1859 in Bodland – 1942 in Breslau) a German general who fought in World War I, driving force behind the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920
Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky (1860 in Kreuzenort – Kuchelna 1928) was a German diplomat who served as Ambassador to Britain during the July Crisis in 1914
Arthur Zimmermann (1864 in Marggrabowa – 1940 in Berlin) was State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire from 22 November 1916/17, author of the intercepted and decoded Zimmermann Telegram
Frederick Augustus III of Saxony (1865 in Dresden – 1932 in Sibyllenort) was the last King of Saxony (1904–1918) and a member of the House of Wettin
Paul Hensel (1867 in Gehsen – 1944 in Kolberg) a German Lutheran theologian and politician, champion of the Masurians
Otto Landsberg (1869 in Rybnick – 1957 in Baam, Netherlands) a German jurist, politician and diplomat, went to Versailles to receive Treaty of Versailles
Gustav Bauer (1870 in Darkehmen – 1944 in Berlin) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and 11th Chancellor of Germany 1919 to 1920
Wilhelm Pieck (1876 in eastern Guben – 1960 in East Berlin) German Communist Party politician, first President of the German Democratic Republic in 1949
Reinhold Wulle (1882 in Falkenberg – 1950 in Gronau) a German journalist, anti-Semite and Völkisch politician

20th century

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907 in Kreisau – executed 1945) a German jurist, founder member of the Kreisau Circle
Herbert Hupka (1915-2006) raised in Ratibor was a German-Jewish journalist, politician and advocate for the Germans expelled from neighbouring countries after World War II
Hans Modrow (born 1928 in Jasenitz) a German politician, best known as the last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany
Manfred Stolpe (born 1936 in Stettin) was Federal Minister of Transport in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002/05
Egon Krenz (born 1937 in Kolberg) a former East German politician who was the last President of East Germany in 1989
Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (born 1943 in Grünberg) is businessman and member of the House of Hohenzollern

Military figures

Historical

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742 in Rostock – 1819 in Krieblowitz) a Prussian Army Generalfeldmarschall and co-victor over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo
Johann David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1759 in Potsdam – 1830 in Klein Öls) a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall influential in securing an alliance between Prussia and Russia during the War of the Sixth Coalition
Hermann von Boyen (1771 in Kreuzburg – 15 February 1848) a Prussian army officer and minister of war of Prussia

Army

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843 in Adlig Bielkenfeld – 1916 in Baghdad) a Prussian Field Marshal and military advisor to the Ottoman Army
Kuno von Moltke (1847 in Neustrelitz – 1923 in Breslau) adjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm II and military commander of Berlin, was a principal in the homosexual scandal known as the Harden-Eulenburg Affair
Paul von Hindenburg (1847 in Posen – 1934 in Neudeck) a German field-marshal in WWI and President of the German Reich in 1925 to 1934
Hermann von Eichhorn (1848 in Breslau – 1918 in Kiev) was a Prussian officer, later Generalfeldmarschall during WWI
Max von Gallwitz (1852 in Breslau – 1937 in Naples) a German general who served with distinction during WW1
Fritz von Below (1853 in Danzig – 1918 in Weimar) a Prussian general in the German Army during WW1.
Otto Liman von Sanders (1855 Stolp – 1929 in Munich) German general, adviser and military commander to the Ottoman Army
Erich von Falkenhayn (1861 in Burg Belchau – 1922 in Potsdam) the Chief of the German General Staff in WWI 1914 to 1916
Hans Feige (1880 in Königsberg – 1953 in Bad Schussenried) was a German General of the Infantry in the Wehrmacht in WWII
Günther von Kluge (1882 in Posen – 1944 in Metz) a German field marshal during WWII
Erich Fellgiebel (1886 in Pöpelwitz– executed 1944 in Berlin) a German Army general and a conspirator in the 20 July plot
Heinz Guderian (1888 in Kulm – 1954 in Schwangau) a German general during WWII, the innovator and proponent of the blitzkrieg
Walter Nehring (1892 in Stretzin – 1983) a German general in the Wehrmacht during WWII who commanded the Afrika Korps.
Dietrich von Saucken (1892 in Fischhausen – 1980 in Pullach) a general in the Wehrmacht during WWII
Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893 in Gross Stein – 1968 in Trostberg) a German Army officer of aristocratic descent, served in WWI and WWII
Hermann Balck (1893 in Danzig – 1982 in Asperg) a decorated officer of the German Army who served in both WWI and WWII
Dietrich von Choltitz (1894 in Gräflich Wiese – 1966 in Baden-Baden) a German General, last military governor of Paris in WWII
Walter Schilling (1895 in Chełmo – 1943 in Izium) a German general during WWII
Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1896 Krumpach – 1969 in Neuburg) a Prussian Junker, Olympic equestrian and German officer who served in both World Wars
Friedrich von Mellenthin (1904 in Breslau – 1997 in Johannesburg) a German general during WWII
Rochus Misch (1917 in Alt-Schalkowitz – 2013 in Berlin) last surviving occupant of the Führerbunker

SS

Felix Steiner (1896 in Stallupönen – 1966 in Munich) an Obergruppenführer in the Waffen-SS during WWII
Kurt Daluege (1897 in Kreuzburg – executed 1946 in Prague) Deputy Protector for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899 in Lauenburg – 1972 in Munich) in 1944 he led the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising
Werner Ostendorff (1903 in Königsberg - 1945 in Bad Aussee) was a German SS-general in WWII, served as chief of staff of the II SS Panzer Corps

Air Force

Walther Wever (1887 in Wilhelmsort – 1936 in Dresden) a pre-WWII Luftwaffe Commander, proponent of strategic bombing
Kurt Student (1890 in Birkholz – 1978 in Lemgo) a German Fallschirmjäger general in the Luftwaffe during WWII
Manfred von Richthofen (1892 in Breslau – 1918 near Vaux-sur-Somme), also known as the Red Baron, was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during WWI, considered the ace-of-aces with 80 air combat victories.
Kurt Wintgens (1894 Neustadt in Oberschlesien – 1916 in Villers-Carbonnel) was a German WWI fighter ace
Max Näther (1899 Lauenbrunn – 1919 in Kolmar in Posen) a German WWI ace fighter pilot, probably the youngest
Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1903 in Krotoschin – 1945 in Straubing) an aviator who served as a test pilot in the Luftwaffe in WWII
Rudolf Schoenert (1911 in Glogau – 1985 in Manitoba) night fighter flying ace in the German Luftwaffe during WWII
Hanna Reitsch (1912 in Hirschberge – 1979 in Frankfurt a/M) Germany's most famous female aviator and test pilot
Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889 in Kolberg - 1968 in Frankfurt am Main) a German air forces general who signed the unconditional surrender in 1945
Günther Radusch (1912 in Schwetz – 1988 in Nordstrand) a German pilot in the German Luftwaffe during WWII
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke (1913 in Schrimm – 1944 in Schöppenstedt) a German Luftwaffe pilot during WWII and fighter ace
Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916 in Konradswaldau – 1982 in Rosenheim) a German ground-attack pilot during WWII and prominent neo-Nazi activist in Latin America
Helmut Lent (1918 Pyrehne – 1944 in Paderborn) a German night-fighter ace in WWII.
Joachim Müncheberg (1918 in Friedrichsdorf – 1943 in Tunisia) a German Luftwaffe military aviator during WWII and fighter ace
Gerhard Barkhorn (1919 in Königsberg – 1983 in Frechen) the second most successful fighter ace
Walter Krupinski (1920 in Domnau – 2000 in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid) a Bundeswehr general and a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe in WWII
Paul Zorner (1920 in Roben – 2014 in Homburg) a German night fighter pilot, who fought in the Luftwaffe in WW II
Wolfgang Martini (1891 in Lissa - 1963 in Düsseldorf), Luftwaffe officer, promoted the use of radar in the German Air Force

Espionage

Renate von Natzmer (1898 in Borkow – beheaded 1935 in Berlin) German noblewoman who worked for Polish intelligence
Max Otto Koischwitz (1902 – 1944) a naturalized American of German origin who broadcast Nazi propaganda during WWII
Wolfgang Vogel (1925 in Wilhelmsthal – 2008 in Schliersee) East German lawyer, brokered spy exchanges during the Cold War

Scientists and mathematicians

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651 in Kieslingswalde – 1708 in Dresden) a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden (1752 in Hamelin - 1815 in Schloss Buchwald), mining engineer and government official who contributed to the industrialisation of Silesia
Karl Godulla (1781 in Makoschau - 1848 in Breslau) industrialist, the "King of Zinc", industrialised Silesia
Heinrich Göppert (1800 in Sprottau – 1884 in Breslau) a German botanist, paleontologist and paleobotanist
Ferdinand Schichau (1814 in Elbing – 1896 in Elbing) a German mechanical engineer and businessman
Hermann Brehmer (1826 in Strehlen – 1889 in Görbersdorf) a German physician who established the first German sanatorium for the systematic open-air treatment of tuberculosis in Görbersdorf
Ferdinand Cohn (1828 in Breslau – 1898) a German biologist, one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833 in Bad Carlsruhe in O.S – 1905 in Berlin) better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.
Paul Ehrlich (1854 in Strehlen – 1915 in Bad Homburg) a German Jewish physician and scientist who worked on hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860 in Lauenburg in Pommern – 1940 in Berlin) was a German technician and inventor of the Nipkow disk
David Hilbert (1862 in Wehlau – 1943 in Göttingen) was a German mathematician, developed invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry
Hugo Münsterberg (1863 in Danzig – 1916 USA) a German-American psychologist, pioneer in applied psychology
Johannes Thienemann (1863 – 1938 in Rossitten) a German ornithologist who in 1901 established the Rossitten Bird Observatory, the world's first, on the Curonian Spit
Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915 in Breslau) a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, identified "presenile dementia", later called Alzheimer's disease
Walther Nernst (1864 in Briesen – 1941 in Zibelle) a German chemist, worked on thermodynamics, won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emil Krebs (1867 in Freiburg in Schlesien – 1930 in Berlin) a German polyglot and sinologist
Fritz Haber (1868 in Breslau – 1934 in Basel) a German chemist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process
Georg von Arco (1869 in Großgorschütz – 1940 in Berlin) a German physicist, radio pioneer and joint founder of Telefunken
Max Born (1882 in Breslau – 1970 in Göttingen) a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics
Edward Sapir (1884 in Lauenburg – 1939 USA) a Prussian-American anthropologist-linguist, important figure in linguistics
Gerhard Domagk (1895 in Lagow – 1964 in Burgberg) a German pathologist and bacteriologist, discovered the first commercially available antibiotic (Prontosil) and received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 in Kattowitz – 1972 USA) a German-born American theoretical physicist, won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus
Wernher von Braun (1912 in Wirsitz – 1977 USA) a German, later American, aerospace engineer and space architect, invented the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany and the Saturn V for the United States
Günter Blobel (born 1936 in Waltersdorf) a Silesian German biologist and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology
Klaus Clusius (1903 in Breslau - 1963 in Zürich), physical chemist who worked on Germany's abortive nuclear weapon project

Philosophers and theologians

George of Polentz (1478 - 1550 in Burg Balga) was the first Lutheran bishop
Immanuel Kant (1724 in Königsberg – 1804 in Königsberg) a German philosopher and a central figure in the Enlightenment and modern philosophy
Johann Georg Hamann (1730 in Königsberg – 1788 in Münster) a German philosopher, theologian and philologist
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 in Mohrungen – 1803 in Weimar) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 in Danzig – 1860 in Frankfurt) a German philosopher, an atheistic metaphysical and ethical pessimist
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768 Breslau – 1834 in Berlin) a German theologian, philosopher and biblical scholar known for developing field of hermeneutics
Karl Gützlaff (1803 at Pyritz – 1851 in Hong Kong) a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East
Paul Hensel (1860 in Groß-Barthen near Königsberg – 1930 in Erlangen) a German philosopher and professor at the University of Heidelberg
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 in Breslau– in 1945 Flossenbürg) was a German Confessing Church pastor, theologian, spy and anti-Nazi dissident
Paul Tillich (1886 in Starzeddel - 1965 in Chicago), German-American philosopher and theologian

Historians and archaeologists

Heinrich Graetz (1817 in Xions – 1891 in Munich) an historian, wrote a history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
Gottfried Bernhardy (1800 in Landsberg an der Warthe – 1875) German philologist and literary historian
Ferdinand von Roemer (1818 – 1891) geologist, he formed a mineralogy collection in the Museum at Breslau
Arthur Milchhöfer (1852 in Schirwindt – 1903) was a German archaeologist
Otto Jaekel (1863 in Neusalz – 1929 in Beijing) was a German paleontologist and geologist.
Fritz Gause (1893 – 1973) German historian, archivist and curator wrote a three-volume history of Königsberg
Bolko von Richthofen (1899 in Mertschütz – 1983) German archaeologist
Theodor Schieder (1908 – 1984) German historian, moved to Königsberg in 1934 at the age of 26
Walter Bruno Henning (1908 in Ragnit – 1967 USA) a German scholar of Middle Iranian languages and literature

Musicians

Classical

Georg Riedel (1676 - in Königsberg - 1738 in Königsberg) was a German composer and cantor. He has been referred to as the "East Prussian Bach"
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687 in Grottkau – 1750 in Dresden) a German composer and lutenist.
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 in Königsberg – 1814 in Giebichenstein near Halle) a German composer, writer and music critic.
Franz von Oppersdorff (1778 in Oberglogau - 1818) a Silesian nobleman and a great lover of music, who commissioned Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies
Johann Sedlatzek (1789 in Oberglogau – 1866 in Vienna) a Silesian flautist born into a family of tailors
Carl Loewe (1796 in Löbejün – 1869 in Kiel) a German composer, tenor singer and conductor, worked in Stettin for 46 years
Otto Nicolai (1810 in Königsberg – 1849 in Berlin) a German composer, conductor and founder of the Vienna Philharmonic
Johann Gottfried Piefke (1817 in Schwerin an der Warthe – 1884 in Frankfurt an der Oder) a German conductor, Kapellmeister and composer of military music
Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski (1822 in Groß-Leesen – 1896 in Sondershausen) a German violinist, conductor and musicologist
Philipp Scharwenka (1847 in Samter – 1917 in Bad Nauheim) a German composer and teacher of music
Sir George Henschel (1850 in Breslau – 1934 in Aviemore) a German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor and composer
Xaver Scharwenka (1850 in Samter – 1924 in Berlin) a German pianist, composer and teacher of Bohemian-Polish descent
Franz Eckert (1852 in Neurode - 1916 in Keijo, Japanese Korea), arranged the melody of Kimigayo, the Japanese national anthem
Moritz Moszkowski (1854 in Breslau – 1925 in Paris) a German-Jewish composer, pianist and teacher
Richard Wetz (1875 in Gleiwitz – 1935 in Erfurt) a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies
Otto Klemperer (1885 in Breslau – 1973 in Zurich) a German-born conductor and composer, widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE (1915 in Jarotschin – 2006 in Schruns) a German soprano, amongst the foremost singers of lieder and was renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta; one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th Century
Kurt Masur (1927 in Brieg – 2015 USA) a German conductor, Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus, and music director of the New York Philharmonic

Modern

Kurt Demmler (1943–2009), songwriter; accused of sexual abuse he hanged himself in his jail cell.
John Kay (born 1944 in Tilsit is a German-Canadian rock singer, songwriter and guitarist known as the frontman of Steppenwolf
Edgar Froese (1944 in Tilsit – 2015 in Vienna) a German artist and electronic music pioneer, founded the electronic music group Tangerine Dream
Alexandra (1942 in Heydekrug - 1969), singer
Oskar Gottlieb Blarr (born 1934 in Sandlack), organist and composer

Poets, writers and dramatists

Poets

Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (1597 in Bunzlau – 1639 in Danzig) a German poet, seen as the greatest of the nation in his lifetime
Friedrich von Logau (1605 in Brockut – 1655 in Liegnitz) a German poet and epigrammatist of the Baroque era.
Andreas Gryphius (1616 in Glogau – 1664 in Glogau) a German lyric poet and dramatist
Angelus Silesius (c.1624 in Breslau – 1677 in Breslau) a German Catholic priest, physician, mystic and religious poet.
Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715 in Groß-Poplow – 1759 in Frankfurt (Oder)) a German poet and cavalry officer
Max von Schenkendorf (1783 in Tilsit – 1817 in Koblenz) a German poet educated at Königsberg and writer of patriotic songs.
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 in Ratibor – 1857 in Neiße) a Prussian poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic

Writers

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776 in Königsberg – 1822 in Berlin) a Prussian Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist
Bogumil Goltz (1801–1870) a German humorist and satirist, schooled in Marienwerder and Königsberg, lived in Gollub
Gustav Freytag (1816 in Kreuzburg – 1895 in Wiesbaden) a German novelist and playwright.
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 in Ober Salzbrunn – 1946 in Agnetendorf) a German dramatist and novelist. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Alfred Döblin (1878 in Stettin – 1957 in Emmendingen) a German novelist, essayist, and doctor
Arnold Zweig (1887 in Glogau – 1968 in East Berlin) a German writer and anti-war and antifascist activist
Marion Dönhoff (1909 in Schloss Friedrichstein – 2002) a German journalist who worked for over 55 years for the Hamburg-based, weekly newspaper Die Zeit, as an editor and later publisher.
Siegfried Lenz (1926 in Lyck – 2014 in Hamburg) a German writer of novels, short stories and essays
Günter Grass (1927 in Danzig – 2015 in Lübeck) a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999
Janosch, (born 1931 in Hindenburg) is one of the best-known German children's book authors and illustrators

Painters and visual artists

Michael Willmann (1630 in Königsberg – 1706 in Leubus) a German painter and Baroque artist, "the Silesian Rembrandt"
Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808 in Breslau - 1880 in Karlsruhe) a German historical and landscape painter
Adolph Menzel (1815 in Breslau – 1905 in Berlin) a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.
Lovis Corinth (1858 in Tapiau – 17 July 1925 in Zandvoort) a German artist and writer, he realized a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism.
Käthe Kollwitz (1867 in Königsberg – 1945 in Moritzburg) a German artist, who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture.
Alfred Partikel (1888 in Goldap - date of death unknown) a German artist

Architects

Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699 in Kuckädel – 1753 in Berlin) designed Berlin's Sanssouci Palace
Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732 in Landeshut – 1808 in Grüneiche) designer of the Brandenburg Gate
Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782 in Breslau – 1869 in Berlin) built among others the Breslau Opera
Max Berg (1870 in Stettin – 1947 in Baden-Baden) was designer of the Centennial Hall in Breslau
Friedrich Lahrs (1880 in Königsberg – 1964 in Stuttgart) designed the Kunsthalle Königsberg (completed 1913) in Tragheim
Richard Konwiarz (1883 in Karlshausen – 1960 in Hanover) designed the Silesian Arena, now the Olympic Stadium in Wrocław
Erich Mendelsohn (1887 in Allenstein) – 1953 in San Francisco) was a Jewish German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s
Hanns Hopp (1890 in Lübeck - 1971 in East Berlin) lived in Königsberg and designed many public and private buildings there
Bruno Taut (1880 in Königsberg - 1938 in İstanbul)

Film, TV, and theatre

Robert Wiene (1873 in Breslau – 1938 in Paris) a film director of the German silent cinema of expressionist films ^[2]
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898 in Stettin – 1958 in New York) was a German film actor ^[3]
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930 in Tilsit) is a German film actor, painter and author, lives in Los Angeles^[4]
Marianne Hold (1933 in Johannisburg – 1994 in Lugano) was a German movie actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s ^[5]
Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939 in Königsberg) a German model, actress, and artist, popular in the 1960s ^[6]
Matthias Habich (born 1940 in Danzig) is a German actor, lives in Paris ^[7]
Volker Lechtenbrink (1944 in Cranz - 1921 in Hamburg) German television actor and singer ^[8]
Ludwig Manfred Lommel (1891 in Jauer - 1962 in Bad Nauheim) actor
Ruth Lommel (1918 in Breslau - 2012 in Mönchengladbach) actress
Ulli Lommel (1944 in Zielenzig - 2017 in Stuttgart) a German actor and director, collaborated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder^[9]
Agnes Sorma (born 1862 in Breslau - 1927 in Arizona), stage actress

Miscellaneous

Sophie Ursinus (1760 in Glatz – 1836 in Glatz) serial killer
Karl Denke (1860 in Münsterberg – 1924 in Münsterberg) a notorious cannibalistic serial killer in Silesia
Emanuel Lasker (1868 in Berlinchen – 1941 USA) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher
Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt (1893 in Königsberg – 1982 in Lübeck) a German internist, art historian, and cultural historian.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS (1899 in Tost – 1980 in Aylesbury) founder of the Paralympic Games
Paul Mross (1910 in Bismarckhütte – 1991 in Düsseldorf) was a Polish–German chess master
Herta Heuwer (1913 in Königsberg – 1999 in Berlin) inventor of the currywurst
Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919 in Cranz – 2001 in St Gallen) aviator and founder of the world's first sex shop, Beate Uhse AG
Hardy Rodenstock (1941 in Marienwerder - 2018 Oberaudorf) publisher, wine connoisseur and suspected wine fraudster
Manfred Schaefer (1943 in Pillau), footballer
Lorenz Schwietz (1850 in Groß Döbern - 1925 in Breslau) executioner; most of his executions were carried out in Prussian cities east of the Oder

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