53.0769° N, 8.8090° E
BREMEN
Most Famous People Born in Bremen, Germany
- Notable people
- 1,896
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1912
- Most distinctive
- Merchant 21.7×
A Hanseatic free city whose most distinctive profession, at more than twenty times the global rate, is merchant — the officers of a self-governing trading republic that ran its own Senate until the 19th century. Bremen's other distinctive shelves are theologians, entrepreneurs, judges, and academic authors, and the 1800s are unusually heavy here. The modern half is held down by James Last, Angelique Kerber, and a Werder Bremen footballing tradition that the city's industrial families bankrolled.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bremen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bremen Is Known For
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Politician is Bremen's biggest profession — 21% of all notables (405).
Bremen over-indexes on merchant — 21.7× the global rate.
Bremen under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Bremen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Heinrich Barkhausen
1881 - 1956
Hans Dreier
1885 - 1966
Ernst Rowohlt
1887 - 1960
Carl Ahues
1883 - 1968
Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub
1884 - 1963
Carl Julius Bernhard Börner
1880 - 1953
Conrad Albrecht
1880 - 1969
Grover Loening
1888 - 1976
Herbert von Böckmann
1886 - 1974
August Haake
1889 - 1915
Friedrich Hustedt
1886 - 1968
Johann Knief
1880 - 1919
Max Nemetz
1886 - 1971
Eduard Scotland
1885 - 1945
Emil Waldmann
1880 - 1945
Hermann August Korff
1882 - 1963
Agnes Sander-Plump
1888 - 1980
Otto Schoff
1884 - 1938
Dora Bromberger
1881 - 1942
Richard Duckwitz
1886 - 1972
Franz Fromme (Schriftsteller, 1880)
1880 - 1961
Ernst Gorsemann
1886 - 1960
Thomas Otto Achelis
1887 - 1967
Wilhelm Tecklenborg
1882 - 1948
Carl Weidemeyer
1882 - 1976
Louis Ruyter Radcliffe Grote
1886 - 1960
Hans Lehmkuhl
1883 - 1969
Wilhelm Schüßler (Historiker)
1888 - 1965
Fritz von Waldthausen
1887 - 1957
August Hagedorn
1888 - 1969
Johann Rickmers
1881 - 1923
August Kaufhold (Maler)
1884 - 1955
Karl Stoevesandt
1882 - 1977
Gustav-Adolf Schreiber
1889 - 1958
Heinz Baden
1887 - 1954
Willy Wiegand
1884 - 1961
Fritz Tecklenborg
1888 - 1964
Julius Focke
1882 - 1937
Albert Bote
1889 - 1961
Edmund Schaefer
1880 - 1959
Hermann Mester
1888 - 1973
Heinrich Böschen
1887 - 1945
Julius Wätjen
1883 - 1963
Ludwig Plate (Ingenieur)
1883 - 1967
Rudolf Häpke
1884 - 1930
Emanuel Backhaus
1884 - 1958
Johann Häfker
1885 - 1948
Wilhelm Finke
1884 - 1950
Carl Völckers (Jurist)
1886 - 1970
Johannes Lahusen
1884 - 1918
Julie Katz-Aereboe
1888 - 1927
Dietrich Schomburg
1884 - 1971
Elisabeth Segelken
1888 - 1965
Bernhard Noltenius
1882 - 1955
Erna Rieckmann
Born 1887
Walther Kulenkampff
1883 - 1929
Carl Steding
1881 - 1941
Julius Finke
1880 - 1947
Carl Rotermund
1889 - 1976
Carl Krahn
1881 - 1956
Emil Schwartze
1888 - 1950
Willi Hundt
1884 - 1966
Gustav Wilmanns
1881 - 1965
Bernhard Ecks
1884 - 1961
Wilhelm Deisen
1887 - 1962
Hermann Osterloh
1886 - 1961
Guste Schepp
1886 - 1967
Diedrich Engelken
1882 - 1957
Cecilie Brickenstein
1886 - 1979
Elly Ley
1888 - 1982
Burchard Fritsch
1883 - 1950
Friedrich Klenke
1882 - 1959
Rosa Katz (NS-Opfer)
1880 - 1940
Karl Köster (Politiker)
1888 - 1965
Hugo Gebert
1888 - 1944
Johann Ludewig (Politiker)
1882 - 1962
Christian Früchtenicht
1889 - 1971
Erik Hildebrandt
1886 - 1933
Dierk Töbelmann
1888 - 1959
Johann Glade
1887 - 1945
Henrik Stunz
1885 - 1966