53.5497° N, 9.9319° E
ALTONA
Most Famous People Born in Altona, Germany
- Notable people
- 374
- Peak decade
- 1900s
- Median birth year
- 1873
- Most distinctive
- Merchant 24.5×
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Altona Is Known For
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Politician is Altona's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (56).
Altona over-indexes on merchant — 24.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
1793 - 1864
Carl Reinecke
1824 - 1910
Axel Springer
1912 - 1985
Carlos Schwabe
1866 - 1926
Cornelius Gurlitt (composer)
1820 - 1901
Jacob Emden
1697 - 1776
Max Brauer
1887 - 1973
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
1774 - 1842
Edgar Ende
1901 - 1965
Hark Bohm
Born 1939
Emil Warburg
1846 - 1931
Louis Gurlitt
1812 - 1897
Uwe Friedrichsen
1934 - 2016
Hans-Friedrich Blunck
1888 - 1961
Carl Nebel
1805 - 1855
Gerd Heidemann
Born 1931
Louise Schroeder
1887 - 1957
Ludolf Wienbarg
1802 - 1872
Siegfried Dehn
1799 - 1858
Carl F. W. Borgward
1890 - 1963
Hans Ehrenberg
1883 - 1958
Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
1891 - 1976
Constantin Brunner
1862 - 1937
Rudolf Lehmann (artist)
1819 - 1905
Ernst Pittschau
1883 - 1951
Ludwig Burmester
1840 - 1927
Carl Theodor Sørensen
1893 - 1979
Ernst Meyer (painter)
1797 - 1861
Carl Semper
1832 - 1893
Ruth Stephan
1925 - 1975
Johannes Groenland
1824 - 1891
Eddy C. Bertin
1944 - 2018
Otto Ernst (Schriftsteller)
1862 - 1926
Willi Dehnkamp
1903 - 1985
Wera Liessem
1909 - 1991
Mendel Levin Nathanson
1780 - 1868
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker
1832 - 1900
George Jarvis (Philhellene)
1797 - 1828
Georg Semper
1837 - 1909
Georg Hainz
1630 - 1700
Beni Virtzberg
1928 - 1968
Aurel Voss
1845 - 1931
Albrecht Roscher
1836 - 1860
Diderik Hegermann
1763 - 1835
Carl Moritz Gottsche
1808 - 1892
Wilhelm Lamszus
1881 - 1965
Georg Christian Freund
1821 - 1900
Wilhelm Schur
1846 - 1901
Oswald Sickert
1828 - 1885
Wilhelm Claudius
1854 - 1942
Rudolf Beiswanger
1903 - 1984
Heinrich Ernst Kayser
1815 - 1888
Christian Sell
1831 - 1883
Heinrich Smidt
1798 - 1867
John Schehr
1896 - 1934
Richard Helms (naturalist)
1842 - 1914
Alfred Henke
1868 - 1946
Roderich von Stintzing
1825 - 1883
Robert Neddermeyer
1887 - 1965
Ernst Johannsen
1898 - 1977
Johann August Krafft (Maler)
1798 - 1829
Julius von Ehren
1864 - 1944
Gustav Fischer (éditeur)
1845 - 1910
Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff
1799 - 1851
Wilhelm Eduard Wilda
1800 - 1856
Valdemar Rudolph von Raasløff
1815 - 1883
Jacob Cats (painter)
1741 - 1799
Julia Dingwort-Nusseck
Born 1921
August Sonntag
1832 - 1860
Margret Bechler
1914 - 2002
Adolph Hansen
1851 - 1920
Max Schmidt (Ethnologe)
1874 - 1950
Bruno Schoeneberg
1906 - 1995
Martin Friedrich Arendt
1769 - 1823
Werner Krabs
1934 - 2017
Alma Wartenberg
1871 - 1928
Heinrich Handelmann
1827 - 1891
Günter Lüdke
1930 - 2011
Gisela Werler
1934 - 2003
Werner Kallmorgen
1902 - 1979
Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt
1910 - 1999
Heinz-Joachim Heydorn
1916 - 1974
Gustav L. Baden
1764 - 1840
Carl Christian Gottsche
1855 - 1909
Theude Grönland
1817 - 1876
Hugo Andresen
1844 - 1918
Ludwig August Struve
1795 - 1828
Rudolf Schäfer (Kirchenmaler)
1878 - 1961
Lotte Brand Philip
1910 - 1986
Wilhelm Heering
1876 - 1916
Heinrich Landahl
1895 - 1971
Georg Friedrich Baur
1768 - 1865
Wolfgang Schott
1905 - 1989
Eduard Warrens
1820 - 1872
Oskar Speck
1907 - 1995
Oscar Nitzchke
1900 - 1991
Cornelia Harte
1914 - 1998
Ina von Grumbkow
1872 - 1942
Conrad Hinrich Donner
1774 - 1854
Georg Reimers
1860 - 1936
Heinz Lanker
1916 - 1978
Fromet Mendelssohn
1737 - 1812
Werner Stephan
1895 - 1984
Johan Bravo
1797 - 1876
Rudolf Lodders
1901 - 1978
Berthold Maack
1898 - 1981
Dominicus van der Smissen
1704 - 1760
Charlotte Paulsen
1797 - 1862
Wilhelm von Allwörden
1892 - 1955
Georg Warnecke
1883 - 1962
August Trümper
1874 - 1956
August Christian Niemann
1761 - 1832
Franz Hein (Maler)
1863 - 1927
Alfred Behrens
Born 1944
August Kirch
1879 - 1959
Irma Blohm
1909 - 1997
Marianne Ruaux
1802 - 1882
Emanuel Gurlitt
1826 - 1896
Karl Raloff
1899 - 1976
August Blunck
1858 - 1946
Heinrich Witt (Kaufmann)
1799 - 1892
Eugen Krüger
1832 - 1876
Wilhelm Drexelius
1906 - 1974
Walter Jacobsen
1895 - 1986
Ludwig Walesrode
1810 - 1889
Charly Wittong
1876 - 1943
Hans Petersen (Mediziner)
1885 - 1946
Walter Göttsch
1896 - 1918
Max Habermann
1885 - 1944
Oswald Hauser
1910 - 1987
Otto Stahmer
1879 - 1968
Lola Rogge
1908 - 1990
Johann Jacob Martin Philippi
1761 - 1850
Horst Sanmann
1927 - 2008
Friedrich Heimerdinger
1817 - 1882
Carl Wilhelm Asher
1798 - 1864
Rudolf Heinrich Klausen
1807 - 1840
Meshullam Solomon
1723 - 1794
Kai Möller
1903 - 1983
Hans Eggert Schröder
1905 - 1985
Nikolaus Heinrich Julius
1783 - 1862
Anita Felguth
1909 - 2003
Johannes de Boer
1897 - 1986
Theodor Zeise
1826 - 1890
Leonard Berlin-Bieber
1841 - 1931
Willy Thomsen
1898 - 1969
Léonard Gautier
1866 - 1955
Otto Thämer
1892 - 1975
Hans Wentzel
1913 - 1975
Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt
1905 - 1990
Hartlib Rex
1936 - 2009
Hermann Raschke (Theologe)
1887 - 1970
Georg Ernst Harzen
1790 - 1863
Adolf Arenson
1855 - 1936
Titus Taeschner
1905 - 1997
Rudolf Jäger (Architekt)
1903 - 1978
Berthold Haendcke
1862 - 1951
Walter Reimers
1913 - 2010
Heinrich Deiters (Schriftsteller)
1882 - 1971
George Hempleman
1799 - 1880
Max Bock (Politiker, 1881)
1881 - 1946
Gustav Poel
1804 - 1895
Hinrich Springer
1880 - 1949
Karl-Hermann Freiherr von Brand zu Neidstein – W
1915 - 1984
Bülent Çelebi
Born 1976
Klaus Wenk
1927 - 2006
Johann Friedrich Schütze
1758 - 1810
Hermann Biernatzki
1818 - 1895
Christian Reimers
1827 - 1889
Siegfried Möller
1896 - 1970
Conrad von Höveln
1630 - 1689
Georg Löck
1782 - 1858
Heinrich Christian Meier
1905 - 1987
Henry P. Newman
1868 - 1917
Emil Puls
1877 - 1941
O. A. Buck
1914 - 1985
Otto Kähler (Rechtsanwalt)
1875 - 1955
Wilhelm Mützelburg
1877 - 1959
Heinrich Zeise (Dichter)
1822 - 1914
Karl Fischer (Autor)
1900 - 1972
Wilhelm Heinitz
1883 - 1963
Hermann de Bruycker
1858 - 1950
Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Arendt
1777 - 1840
Karl Biernatzki
1815 - 1899
Carl Linga
1877 - 1963
Ernst Glässel
1878 - 1950
Klaus Thomsen (Gynäkologe)
1915 - 1992
Franz Soetbeer
1870 - 1943
Wilhelm Hirschfeld
1795 - 1874
Johann Gabe
1737 - 1817
Hartwig Fiege
1901 - 1997
Jacob Schwieger
1630 - 1663
Albert Peter Johann Krüger
1810 - 1883
Wilhelm Claussen (SS-Mitglied)
1915 - 1948
Karl Ferdinand Theodor Hepp
1800 - 1851
Bernhard Donner
1808 - 1865
Oskar Fuchs
1866 - 1927
Johann Michael Schmidt
Born 1934
Etta Gräfin von Waldersee
1902 - 1978
Julius Bruhns
1860 - 1927
Alfred Petersen (Theologe)
1909 - 2004
John Dähmcke
1887 - 1980
Kurt Londenberg
1914 - 1995
Max Weiss (Maler)
1884 - 1994
Hans Piper (Physiologe)
1877 - 1915
Max Semper
1870 - 1954
Edgar Wedekind
1870 - 1938
Margarete Tondeur
1865 - 1919
Johann Peter Eberhard
1727 - 1779
Alexander Baur
1857 - 1909
Otto Friedrich Kruse
1801 - 1880
Bella Martens
1891 - 1959
Gustav Garbe
1865 - 1935
Wilhelm Schodde
1883 - 1951
Richard Frankenberg (Historiker)
1902 - 1988
Ida Salden
Born 1878
Antti Karppinen
1923 - 2015
Johannes Bockendahl
1826 - 1902
Julius Reincke
1842 - 1906
Hermann Mutz
1845 - 1913
Kurt Barnekow
1910 - 1998
Otto L. Schmidt-Leda
1852 - 1907
Christian-Johannes Landau
1897 - 1952
Pius Warburg
1816 - 1900
Oskar Kehr-Steiner
1904 - 1990
Fritz Meyer (Politiker, 1881)
1881 - 1953
Wilhelm Dörwald
1859 - 1917
Stephan Stolze
1931 - 1984
Walter Koch (Maler, 1875)
1875 - 1915
Otto Voss (Neurochirurg)
1902 - 1968
Horand Schacht
1908 - 1972
René du Mesnil de Rochemont
1901 - 1984
John Henry Weber
1779 - 1859
Ferdinand Vieth
1869 - 1946
Kurt Siemers (Kaufmann)
1873 - 1944
Emil Heymann
1878 - 1936
Ulrich Weiss (Richter)
1901 - 1989
Gysbert van der Smissen (Unternehmer, 1717) – Wi
1717 - 1793
Gerhard von Breitenbach
1886 - 1974
Oswin Grolig
1894 - 1944
Georg Friedrich Schumacher
1771 - 1852
Harald Bredow
1878 - 1934
Ferdinand Teuffer
1800 - 1840
Anne-Marie Vogler
1892 - 1983
Johann Friedrich Eduard Wohlien
1843 - 1871
Minna Bahnson
1866 - 1947
Lely Kempin
1878 - 1971
Friedrich Sparmann
1890 - 1969
Conrad Hinrich Donner (Bankier, 1844)
1844 - 1911
Ernst Dreyer
1816 - 1899
Ruth P. Goldschmidt-Lehmann
1930 - 2002
Walter Voltmer
1884 - 1972
Erhard Adolf Matthiessen
1763 - 1831
Georg Raloff
1902 - 1965
Walter Bülck
1891 - 1952
Georg von Alten (Generalmajor, 1875)
1875 - 1950
Bruno Stamer
1900 - 1988
Wilhelm Voß (Blindenlehrer)
1882 - 1952
August Heinrich Ferdinand Gutfeld
1778 - 1808
Heinrich Roscher (Politiker, 1838)
1838 - 1929
Marianne Baumann
1759 - 1834
Wilhelm Petersen (Politiker)
1889 - 1968
Jürgen Marlow
Born 1922
Harald Stender
1924 - 2011
Wilhelm Kümpel (Maler)
1843 - 1880
Adolf Kreutzfeldt
1884 - 1970
Johann Conrad Rudolph Wohlien
1808 - 1866
Anton Carl Dusch
1760 - 1829
Carl Günther (Sänger, 1885)
1885 - 1958
Karl Benedict von Schirach
1790 - 1864
Otto Semper
1830 - 1907
Frieda Radel
1869 - 1958
Emma Poel
1811 - 1891
Hinrich Dultz
1735 - 1825
Christoph Anton Balzer
1818 - 1871
Lorenz Rudolph Wohlien
1789 - 1834
Christian Heinrich Hanson
1790 - 1863
Henning Brütt
1888 - 1979
Heinrich Wichelmann
1893 - 1974
Wilhelm Bröckelmann (Schauspieler, 1797)
1797 - 1854
Otto Schuldt
1877 - 1948
Margareta Hunck-Jastram
1913 - 1998
Carl Harz
1860 - 1943
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Marburg
1803 - 1867
Benno Cohen (Rabbiner)
1895 - 1944
Anton Spetzler (Politiker)
1869 - 1934
Friedrich von Aspern
1811 - 1890
Peter Meyer (Lehrer)
1888 - 1967
Jakob Hollander
1844 - 1880
Johannes Rickers
1893 - 1965
Paul Kaestner
1876 - 1936
Hans Wolff (Politiker)
1902 - 1943
Johann Baptist Scherer
1869 - 1920
Richard Spethmann
1891 - 1960
Moritz Warburg
1810 - 1886
Lebrecht Heinrich Samuel Jehne
1747 - 1794
Johann Carl Julius Herzbruch
1779 - 1866
Joachim Lorenz Evers
1758 - 1807
Heinrich Ranafier
1846 - 1930
Charles Taylor du Plat
1823 - 1900