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 merchant24.5× the global rate.

  1. Politician56
  2. Painter40
  3. Writer22
  4. Actor20
  5. Architect10
  6. Academic10
  7. Author9
  8. Lawyer9
  1. Merchant824.5×
  2. Bank58.2×
  3. Painter404.1×
  4. Botanist53.3×
  5. Architect103.0×
  6. Author92.8×
  7. Academic102.6×
  8. Missing52.0×

Profession Mix Over Time

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0072 ETHNOLOGIST

Max Schmidt (Ethnologe)

1874 - 1950

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0076 POLITICIAN

Alma Wartenberg

1871 - 1928

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0088 PAINTER

Rudolf Schäfer (Kirchenmaler)

1878 - 1961

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0090 WRITER

Wilhelm Heering

1876 - 1916

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0098 AUTHOR

Ina von Grumbkow

1872 - 1942

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0111 PAINTER

August Trümper

1874 - 1956

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0115 POLITICIAN

August Kirch

1879 - 1959

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0126 MUSIC

Charly Wittong

1876 - 1943

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0131 LAWYER

Otto Stahmer

1879 - 1968

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0175 PHOTOGRAPHER

Emil Puls

1877 - 1941

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0177 HISTORIAN

Otto Kähler (Rechtsanwalt)

1875 - 1955

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0178 POLITICIAN

Wilhelm Mützelburg

1877 - 1959

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0185 ENTREPRENEUR

Carl Linga

1877 - 1963

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0186 REEDER

Ernst Glässel

1878 - 1950

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0188 PHYSICIAN

Franz Soetbeer

1870 - 1943

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0205 PHYSIOLOGIST

Hans Piper (Physiologe)

1877 - 1915

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0206 PALAEONTOLOGIST

Max Semper

1870 - 1954

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0207 CHEMIST

Edgar Wedekind

1870 - 1938

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0216 OPERA

Ida Salden

Born 1878

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0229 ARTIST

Walter Koch (Maler, 1875)

1875 - 1915

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0235 BANK

Kurt Siemers (Kaufmann)

1873 - 1944

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0236 SURGEON

Emil Heymann

1878 - 1936

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0242 ACTOR

Harald Bredow

1878 - 1934

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0247 WRITER

Lely Kempin

1878 - 1971

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0256 GENERALMAJOR

Georg von Alten (Generalmajor, 1875)

1875 - 1950

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0281 POLITICIAN

Otto Schuldt

1877 - 1948

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0291 LAWYER

Paul Kaestner

1876 - 1936

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0322 POLITICIAN

Martha Kimmerling

1873 - 1956

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0324 MISSING

Conrad Hinrich Donner (Gutsbesitzer)

1876 - 1937

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0331 ARCHITECT

Rudolf Schröder (Architekt)

1874 - 1929

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0339 OFFICER

Heinrich von Bünau (General, 1873)

1873 - 1943

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0367 MANAGER

Ernst Marwede

1873 - 1919

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