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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Karl Carstens
1914 - 1992
Heinz Linge
1913 - 1980
Reinhard Hardegen
1913 - 2018
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
1911 - 1986
Hermann Uhde
1914 - 1965
Felix Hartlaub
1913 - 1945
Friedrich Thielen
1916 - 1993
Jan Balet
1913 - 2009
Marga Petersen
1919 - 2002
Otto Kurth
1912 - 1996
Herbert V. Günther
1917 - 2006
Meta Elste-Neumann
1919 - 2010
Otto Bachof
1914 - 2006
Carl Seemann
1910 - 1983
Herbert Schwarzwälder
1919 - 2011
Annemarie Mevissen
1914 - 2006
Rudolf Jacobs (Widerstandskämpfer)
1914 - 1944
Karl-Heinz Höcker
1915 - 1998
Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann
1915 - 2006
Erwin von Helmersen
1914 - 1949
Liselotte von Reinken
1911 - 2005
Friedrich Meyer (Musiker)
1915 - 1993
Inge Birkmann
1915 - 2004
Helmut Hesse (Pfarrer)
1916 - 1943
Christian Modersohn
1916 - 2009
Gerda Krüger-Nieland
1910 - 2000
Lenelotte von Bothmer
1915 - 1997
Selma Grieme
1910 - 1999
Heinz Warnken
1912 - 1943
Gerhard Müller-Menckens
1917 - 2007
Karin Stilke
1914 - 2013
Richard Boljahn
1912 - 1992
Hans Puvogel
1911 - 1999
Charlotte Asendorf
1919 - 2007
Hans Freese
1918 - 1941
Ulrich Hausmann
1917 - 1996
Günter Busch (Kunsthistoriker)
1917 - 2009
Annemarie Cordes
1918 - 1998
Hermann Wolters
1910 - 1974
Hans Maaß (Maler)
1914 - 2000
Heinrich Timm
1910 - 1974
Gustav Böhrnsen
1914 - 1998
Horst Schröder (Jurist)
1913 - 1973
Jan Thilo Haux
1919 - 2001
Herbert Abel
1911 - 1994
Volker Gwinner
1912 - 2004
Frank Lynder
1916 - 1984
Julius H. W. Kraft
1917 - 2008
Wilhelm Franz
1913 - 1971
Ernst Wrede
1914 - 2008
Wilma Landwehr
1913 - 1981
Hans Meier (Widerstandskämpfer)
1914 - 2000
Ludwig Helmken
1911 - 1996
Kurt Claußen-Finks
1913 - 1985
Matthias du Vinage
1918 - 1987
Hans Möller (Maler)
1914 - 2001
Will Haunschild
1911 - 1999
Otto Carlsson (Richter)
1919 - 2005
Hermann Meyer (Politiker, 1916)
1916 - 1999
Jürgen Bertelsmann
1913 - 1942
Eduard Hesse
1912 - 2011
Rolf Franke
1919 - 1997
Hannelore Spies
1918 - 1986
Hans Eilers
1917 - 2009
Albert Klusmann
1914 - 1986
Jutta Hübinger
1912 - 1991
Gertrud Harms
1916 - 1976
Gertrud Maaß
1919 - 2004
Richard Schrader
1911 - 1985
Karl Weßling
1911 - 1968
Hans Büntemeyer
1914 - 1945
Adolf Könsen
1916 - 2000
Victor Tacik
1912 - 1975
Adolf Pöffel
1914 - 1961
Hans-Hermann Sieling
1917 - 1991
Helmut Block
1915 - 1944
Hans-Heinrich Baden
1915 - 1944
Bernhard Emde
1917 - 1996
Fritz Geerken
1912 - 1991
Hans Meyer (Politiker, 1913)
1913 - 1978
Friedrich Hohrmann
1912 - 1987
Karl-Heinz Götze (Politiker)
1917 - 1976
Heinz Meyer (Politiker, 1911)
1911 - 1986
Ella Müller
1912 - 1975
Heinz Hinners
1912 - 1990
Heinz-Georg Rehberg
1910 - 1992
Wilhelm Filzen
1915 - 1984
Albert Müller (Politiker, 1915)
1915 - 1991
Helmut Weikart
1917 - 1993
Karl Pfeifer (Politiker)
1911 - 2003
Johann Dickhut
1912 - 1993
Walter Drews
1917 - 2005