List of people from the former eastern territories of Germany
Numerous figures in German culture and history (some still living) were either born or resident in the former eastern territories of Germany. An inexhaustive list is as follows:[1]
Politicians, statesmen and diplomats
18th C.
- 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 C.
- 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 USA) 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) a German general, served as Chancellor of Germany from 1890 to 1894
- Philip, Prince of Eulenburg (1847 in Konigsberg – 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 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, NL) 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 WWI, 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, NL) 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 Guben – 1960 in East Berlin) German 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 C.
- 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 the WWII
- Hans Modrow (born 1928 in Jasenitz) a German politician, best known as the last communist premier 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 leader of East Germany in 1989
Military figures
Historical
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742 in Rostock – 1819 in Krieblowitz) a Prussian 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
- 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) 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 Konigsberg – 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
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
AirForce
- 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 paratroop 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 aviatrix who served as a test pilot in the Luftwaffe in WWII
- Rudolf Schoenert (1911 in Glogau – 1985 in Canada) 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
- 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 Konigsberg – 1983 in Frechen) the second most successful fighter ace
- Walter Krupinski (1920 in Domnau – 2000 in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid) a German general in the Bundeswehr 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
Scientists and mathematicians
- Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651 in Kieslingswalde – 1708 in Dresden) a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher
- 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
- 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
Philosophers and theologians
- George of Polentz (1478 - 1550 in Burg Balga) was the first Lutheran bishop
- Immanuel Kant (1724 in Konigsberg – 1804 in Konigsberg) a German philosopher and a central figure in modern philosophy
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730 in Konigsberg – 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
- Karl Gützlaff (1803 at Pyritz – 1851 in Hong Kong) a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East
- Paul Hensel (1860 in Groß-Barthen near Konigsberg – 1930 in Erlangen) a German philosopher and professor at Heidelberg
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 in Breslau– in 1945 Flossenbürg) was a German pastor, theologian, spy and anti-Nazi dissident
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 Konigsberg
- Bolko von Richthofen (1899 in Mertschütz – 1983) German archaeologist
- Theodor Schieder (1908 – 1984) German historian, moved to Konigsberg in 1934 at the age of 26
Musicians
classic
- Georg Riedel (1676 - in Konigsberg - 1738 in Konigsberg) 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 Konigsberg – 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 Konigsberg – 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
- 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
- Franz Eckert (1852 in Neurode - 1916 in Keijo, Japanese Korea), arranged the melody of Kimigayo, the Japanese national anthem
modern
- 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
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 Konigsberg 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 Konigsberg – 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 Konigsberg, 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 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 Lubeck) 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 Konigsberg – 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 Konigsberg – 1945 in Moritzburg) a German artist, who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture.
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 Konigsberg – 1964 in Stuttgart) designed the Kunsthalle Konigsberg (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 Lubeck - 1971 in East Berlin) lived in Königsberg and designed many public and private buildings there
Actors and actresses
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898 in Stettin – 1958 in New York) was a German film actor.
- Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 1930 in Tilsit) is a German film actor, painter and author, lives in Los Angeles
- Marianne Hold (1933 in Johannisburg – 1994 in Lugano) was a German movie actress, popular in the 1950s and 1960s
- Veruschka von Lehndorff (born 1939 in Konigsberg) a German model, actress, and artist, popular in the 1960s
- Matthias Habich (born 1940 in Danzig) is a German actor, lives in Paris
- Volker Lechtenbrink (born 1944 in Cranz) is a German television actor and singer.
- Ulli Lommel (born 1944 in Zielenzig) is a German actor and director, collaborates with Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Miscellaneous
- Sophie Ursinus (1760 in Glatz – 1836 in Glatz) pardoned serial killer
- Karl Godulla ((1781 in Makoschau - 1848 in Breslau) industrialist, the "King of Zinc", industrialised Silesia
- 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
- Robert Wiene (1873 in Breslau – 1938 in Paris) a film director of the German silent cinema, particularly of expressionist films
- Edward Sapir (1884 in Lauenburg – 1939 USA) a Prussian-American anthropologist-linguist, important figure in linguistics
- Renate von Natzmer (1898 in Borkow – beheaded 1935 in Berlin) German noblewoman who worked for Polish intelligence
- Sir Ludwig Guttmann CBE FRS (1899 in Tost – 1980 in Aylesbury) founder of the Paralympic Games
- Max Otto Koischwitz (1902 – 1944) a naturalized American of German origin who broadcast Nazi propaganda during WWII
- Walter Bruno Henning (1908 in Ragnit – 1967 USA) a German scholar of Middle Iranian languages and literature
- Paul Mross (1910 in Bismarckhütte – 1991 in Düsseldorf) was a Polish–German chess master
- Herta Heuwer (1913 in Konigsberg – 1999 in Berlin) inventor of the currywurst
- Rochus Misch (1917 in Alt-Schalkowitz – 2013 in Berlin) last surviving occupant of the Führerbunker
- Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919 in Cranz – 2001 in St Gallen) aviator and founder of the world's first sex shop, Beate Uhse AG
- Wolfgang Vogel (1925 in Wilhelmsthal – 2008 in Schliersee) East German lawyer, brokered spy exchanges during the Cold War
- Hardy Rodenstock (born 1941 in Marienwerder) publisher, wine connoisseur and suspected wine fraudster
- Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia (born 1943 in Grünberg) is businessman and member of the House of Hohenzollern
See also
- List of people from Breslau
- List of people born in the Free City of Danzig
- List of people from Königsberg
- List of people from Stettin
- ^ Davies, N. (2005) God's Playground. A History of Poland. Volume II: 1795 to the present. Oxford: Oxford University Press.