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 1890s Clear ×
Hans Scharoun
1893 - 1972
Friedrich Ebert Jr.
1894 - 1979
Adolf Ziegler
1892 - 1959
Henrich Focke
1890 - 1979
Georg Kulenkampff
1898 - 1948
Karl Dannemann
1896 - 1945
Heinrich Behmann
1891 - 1970
Joseph Kastein
1890 - 1946
Arthur Pieck
1899 - 1970
George Salter
1897 - 1967
Friedo Lampe
1899 - 1945
Hilda Heinemann
1896 - 1979
Julius Schulte-Frohlinde
1894 - 1968
Georg Wulf
1895 - 1927
Marc Roland
1894 - 1975
Fritz Fullriede
1895 - 1969
Carl Kuhlmann
1899 - 1962
Gustav Becking
1894 - 1945
Elly Winter
1898 - 1987
Wilhelm Haas
1896 - 1981
Emil Trinkler
1896 - 1931
Eberhard Gildemeister
1897 - 1978
Hans Hirschfeld
1899 - 1961
Lisel Oppel
1897 - 1960
Friedrich T. Noltenius
1894 - 1936
Adolf Ehlers
1898 - 1978
Herbert Bellmer
1895 - 1950
Hermine Berthold
1896 - 1990
Wilhelm Wortmann
1897 - 1995
Dietz Edzard
1893 - 1963
Hans Saebens
1895 - 1969
Gerhard Jacobi
1891 - 1971
Gertrud Staewen
1894 - 1987
Robert Koepke
1893 - 1968
Kurt Edzard
1890 - 1972
Friedrich Forster
1895 - 1958
Hermann Beenken
1896 - 1952
Karl Lerbs
1893 - 1946
Gustav Adolph von Halem
1899 - 1999
Willy Scharnow
1897 - 1985
Helmuth Westhoff
1891 - 1977
Richard Handwerk
Born 1894
Wilhelm Eildermann
1897 - 1988
Georg Meyer (aviator)
1893 - 1926
Hans Heyse
1891 - 1976
Carl August Clodius
1897 - 1952
Otto Nebelthau
1894 - 1943
Hermann Gildemeister
1891 - 1984
Heinz Dietrich Kenter
1896 - 1984
Johann Thies
1898 - 1968
Hermann Tiemann
1899 - 1981
Christian Fette
1895 - 1971
Ernst Licht
1892 - 1965
Friedrich Lindemann (Schriftsteller)
1898 - 1950
Friedrich Prüser
1892 - 1974
Hermann Meinert
1894 - 1987
Hermann Wenhold
1891 - 1976
Richard Wätjen
1891 - 1966
Otto Dettmers
1892 - 1986
Wilhelm Knapp
1898 - 1984
Christian Bummerstedt
1891 - 1932
Gustav Wilhelm Harmssen
1890 - 1970
Anny von Stosch
1895 - 1994
Hans Alfken
1899 - 1994
Else Wiegandt
1894 - 1985
Theodor Laue
1893 - 1953
Cornelius Edzard
1898 - 1962
Alfred Ries
1897 - 1967
Alfred Balcke
1894 - 1972
Elisabeth Pungs
1896 - 1945
Friedrich Kühlken
1898 - 1973
Stephan von Gröning (Offizier)
1898 - 1982
Heinrich Flügel (Jurist)
1891 - 1940
Hans Erling
1894 - 1950
Erich Unshelm
1890 - 1965
Henry de Buys Roessingh
1899 - 1954
Heinz Meyer (Politiker, 1897)
1897 - 1959
Otto Pratje
1890 - 1952
Ignatz Rosenak
1897 - 1957
Karl Ebert (Politiker, 1899)
1899 - 1975
Johanne Lampe
1897 - 1996
Ludwig Hillmann
1892 - 1977
Johann Kaum
1895 - 1963
Hermann Senftleben
1890 - 1975
Ernst Wunram
1894 - 1975
Hermann Meinken
1896 - 1976
Ernst Burmester
1893 - 1965
Friedrich Walburg
1890 - 1967
Philipp Behrens
1892 - 1948
Kurt Lauber
1893 - 1971
Wilhelm Tannenberg
1895 - 1983
Friedrich Carl Marwede
1895 - 1969
Wilhelm Krüger (Politiker, 1896)
1896 - 1970
Hermann Helms (Reeder, 1898)
1898 - 1983
Carl Stockhinger
1894 - 1951
Helene Sommer
1893 - 1988
Johann Kühn (NS-Opfer)
1897 - 1945
August Tölken
1892 - 1975
Johannes Ihler
1899 - 1976
Ludwig Klatte
1893 - 1969
Georg Buckendahl
1899 - 1958
Herbert Schnüll
1898 - 1943
Heinrich Stein (Politiker)
1896 - 1978