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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Otto Bachof
1914 - 2006
Albert Hermann Post
1839 - 1895
Gerda Krüger-Nieland
1910 - 2000
Ferdinand Beneke
1774 - 1848
Wilhelm Kiesselbach (Jurist)
1867 - 1960
Simon Hermann Nonnen
1777 - 1847
Ottmar Breidling
Born 1947
Alfred Hagens
1856 - 1934
Rudolph Quidde
1861 - 1942
André Botur
Born 1964
Johannes Bollmann
1873 - 1944
Heinrich Lampe (Politiker, 1746)
1746 - 1817
Cornelia Holsten
Born 1970
Theodor Lürman
1861 - 1932
Otto Carlsson (Richter)
1919 - 2005
Christian Hermann Schöne
1763 - 1822
Heinrich Gröning
1774 - 1839
Diedrich Lahusen
1852 - 1927
Albert von Spreckelsen
1873 - 1951
Praxedis Möhring
Born 1959
Jeremias Theodor Boisselier
1826 - 1912
Johann Michael Duntze
1779 - 1845
Gerhard Heinrich Kirchhoff
1854 - 1929
Heinrich Meyer (Politiker, 1871)
1871 - 1917