51.8341° N, 12.2460° E
DESSAU
Most Famous People Born in Dessau, Germany
- Notable people
- 429
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1897
- Most distinctive
- Princess 61.7×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Dessau during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Dessau Is Known For
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Politician is Dessau's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (42).
Dessau over-indexes on princess — 61.7× the global rate.
Dessau under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Dessau's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Royalty
- Art & Design
- Music
- Other
Kurt Weill
1900 - 1950
Moses Mendelssohn
1729 - 1786
Max Müller
1823 - 1900
Thomas Kretschmann
Born 1962
John William Friso, Prince of Orange
1687 - 1711
Wilhelm Müller
1794 - 1827
Hans von Ohain
1911 - 1998
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1676 - 1747
Dieter Hallervorden
Born 1935
Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
1740 - 1817
Maximilian von Weichs
1881 - 1954
John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1627 - 1693
Karl Adolph von Basedow
1799 - 1854
Gernot Böhme
Born 1937
Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt
1536 - 1586
Friedrich Grützmacher
1832 - 1903
Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt
1831 - 1904
Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
1579 - 1650
Ursula Herking
1912 - 1974
Hans Bethge (poet)
1876 - 1946
Horst Bollmann
1925 - 2014
Emil Schult
Born 1946
Eduard, Duke of Anhalt
1861 - 1918
Heinrich Schwabe
1789 - 1875
Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau
1833 - 1916
Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt
1794 - 1871
Carl Paul Caspari
1814 - 1892
Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau
1824 - 1897
Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1769 - 1814
Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1700 - 1751
Herbert Tobias
1924 - 1982
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau
1837 - 1906
Ludwig Philippson
1811 - 1889
George III, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1507 - 1553
Dorothea Maria of Anhalt
1574 - 1617
John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1596 - 1660
Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau
1682 - 1750
Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt
1901 - 1947
Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt
1856 - 1918
Matilda of France
943 - 992
Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt
1573 - 1616
Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau
1602 - 1664
Georg Steindorff
1861 - 1951
John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
1504 - 1551
Gustav Lindau
1866 - 1923
Brigitte Grothum
Born 1935
Gerhard Stolze
1926 - 1979
Hannskarl Bandel
1925 - 1993
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau
1702 - 1769
Wilhelm Rust
1822 - 1892
Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau
1575 - 1653
Ferdinand Olivier
1785 - 1841
Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau
1712 - 1760
Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau
1799 - 1864
Anna Louise Föhse
1677 - 1745
Leopoldine Marie of Anhalt-Dessau
1716 - 1782
Louise of Anhalt-Dessau
1631 - 1680
Bernhard Cossmann
1822 - 1910
Werner Schildhauer
Born 1959
Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau
1837 - 1902
Daniela Schreiber
Born 1989
Friedrich von Olivier
1791 - 1859
William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau
1699 - 1737
Bernhardus Albinus
1653 - 1721
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
1930 - 2012
Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1509 - 1561
Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau
1720 - 1793
Sibylle Christine of Anhalt-Dessau
1603 - 1686
Princess Maria Leopoldine of Anhalt-Dessau
1746 - 1769
Gerhard Nebel
1903 - 1974
Georg Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby
1695 - 1739
Princess Casimire of Anhalt-Dessau
1749 - 1778
Franz Woepcke
1826 - 1864
Georg Kopprasch
1800 - 1850
Karl von Kosertiz
1830 - 1890
Walther Spielmeyer
1879 - 1935
Karl I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
1534 - 1561
Danny Fuchs
Born 1976
Bernhard VII, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
1540 - 1570
Friedrich Graf von Waldersee
1795 - 1864
Hugo Darnaut
1851 - 1937
Hans von Raumer
1870 - 1965
Otto Strützel
1855 - 1930
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Born 1959
Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau
1715 - 1780
Wilhelm Krause
1803 - 1864
Princess Antoinette of Anhalt
1885 - 1963
Agnès-Madeleine d'Anhalt-Dessau
1590 - 1626
Annette Schlünz
Born 1964
Princess Alexandra of Anhalt
1868 - 1958
Auguste of Anhalt-Dessau
1793 - 1854
Karl Elze
1821 - 1889
Franz Wegner
Born 1940
Hugo Bürkner
1818 - 1897
Willi Meinck
1914 - 1993
Carsten Niemitz
Born 1945
Friedrich Preisigke
1856 - 1924
Adolf von Heydeck
1787 - 1856
Günter Dreibrodt
Born 1951
Eduard Arnhold
1849 - 1925
George Aribert of Anhalt-Dessau
1606 - 1643
Julius Schubring
1839 - 1914
Leopold Grützmacher
1835 - 1900
Prince Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau
1705 - 1781
Hans Triebel
Born 1936
Anna Sophie of Anhalt
1584 - 1652
Hubert Kiesewetter
Born 1939
Ameli Koloska
Born 1944
Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1545–1574)
1545 - 1574
Adolf Bleichert
1845 - 1901
Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt
1855 - 1886
Carl Gollmick
1796 - 1866
Luise von Anhalt-Dessau
1709 - 1732
Sophie Elisabeth of Anhalt-Dessau
1589 - 1622
Heinz Schubert
1908 - 1945
Johann Admoni
1906 - 1979
Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau (1798–1858)
1798 - 1858
Maria von der Osten-Sacken
1901 - 1985
Jean-Georges d'Anhalt-Dessau
1748 - 1811
Sandra Naujoks
Born 1981
Hagen Koch
Born 1940
Peter Lebrecht Schmidt
1933 - 2019
Werner Welzel
1923 - 2001
Eduard Bernsdorf
1825 - 1901
Dieter Bock
1939 - 2010
Fritz Bergen
1857 - 1941
Prince George Bernhard of Anhalt-Dessau
1796 - 1865
Fritz Lange (surgeon)
1864 - 1952
Carsten Rump
Born 1981
Gustav Adolf Schweitzer
1847 - 1914
Franz Heinrich von Waldersee
1791 - 1873
Joachim-Ernest d'Anhalt-Dessau
1592 - 1615
Patrick Siefkes
Born 1990
Henrietta Catherine Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau
1744 - 1799
Dirk Hannemann
Born 1970
Hermann Schubert (sculpteur)
1831 - 1917
Christoph Siefkes
Born 1991
Walter Geisler (Geograph)
1891 - 1945
Henrik Herse
1895 - 1953
Benjamin Telem
1928 - 2008
Joost Siedhoff
Born 1926
Marie-Éléonore d'Anhalt-Dessau
1671 - 1756
Helmut Straßburger
1930 - 2010
Steffi Lemke
Born 1968
Wolfgang Klank
1930 - 1998
Verena Stolcke
Born 1938
Klara May
1864 - 1944
Christa Gottschalk
1927 - 2018
Albert-Frédéric d'Anhalt-Dessau
1750 - 1811
Ludwig Theodor Elze
1823 - 1900
Georg Arnhold
1859 - 1926
Franz von Waldersee
1763 - 1823
Karl Georg von Raumer (Archivar)
1753 - 1833
Ludwig Markus
1798 - 1843
Andreas Ernst Gottfried Polysius
1827 - 1886
Karl Gatermann the Younger
1909 - 1992
Gerd Kroske
Born 1958
Georg Irmer
1853 - 1931
Holger Hövelmann
Born 1967
Julius Tausch
1827 - 1895
Tom Müller
Born 1997
Horst Gnas
Born 1941
Jacob Herzfeld
1762 - 1826
Peter Voigt (Regisseur)
1933 - 2015
August von Rode
1751 - 1837
Rosemarie Künzler-Behncke
Born 1926
Kurt Meister
1901 - 1961
Sigrid Faltin
Born 1956
Gabriele Perthes
Born 1948
Beatrice Kaps-Zurmahr
Born 1977
Katja Frenzel-Röhl
Born 1974
Heinz Sachsenberg
1922 - 1951
Anna Elisabeth von Anhalt-Dessau
1598 - 1660
Wilhelm Karl Rust
1787 - 1855
Bernard d'Anhalt
1571 - 1596
Georg Seidel
1945 - 1990
Friederike Julie Lisiewska
1772 - 1856
Dorit Zinn
Born 1940
Angelika Tübke
Born 1935
Lothar Schneider (wrestler)
1939 - 2019
Berndt Wilde
Born 1946
Guido Lambrecht
Born 1968
Jean François de Guise
Born 1970
Andreas Grote
1929 - 2015
Hans Stein
Born 1935
Jochen Brennecke
1913 - 1997
Carl Vogel (Leibarzt)
1798 - 1864
Fritz Haring
1907 - 1990
Franz Mikorey (Bildhauer)
1907 - 1986
Georg Heinrich Christian Lippold
1767 - 1841
Henriette Johanne Marie Müller
1841 - 1916
Hans Georg Schachtschabel
1914 - 1993
Hanne-Nüte Kämmerer
1903 - 1981
Tom Sommerlatte (Manager)
Born 1938
Adolf Trowitz
1893 - 1978
Günther Stein (Autor)
1922 - 1982
Martin Behrmann
1930 - 2014
Burghild Wieczorek
Born 1943
Heinrich von Gleichen-Rußwurm
1882 - 1959
Gerhard Erber
Born 1934
Heinrich Olivier
1783 - 1848
Georg Hornemann
Born 1940
Heinz Gartmann
1917 - 1960
Julius Schubring (Theologe)
1806 - 1889
Leopold Ahrendts
1825 - 1870
Curt Miehe
1903 - 1965
Klaus Tuchelt
1931 - 2001
Gustav Rösler (Komponist)
1819 - 1882
Christian Scheffler (Orgelbauer)
Born 1954
Christoph Reuter (Pianist)
Born 1977
Anne Dessau
Born 1934
Claudia Look-Hirnschal
1962 - 2018
Max Lange (Orthopäde)
1899 - 1975
Volkmar Schneider (Mediziner)
Born 1940
Manfred Jendryschik
Born 1943
Otto Sens
1898 - 1970
Siegmund Schütz
1906 - 1998
Peter Massing
Born 1946
Wolfgang Luppe
1931 - 2014
Karl Horst Schmidt
1929 - 2012
Thomas Wagner (Unternehmer)
1978 - 2016
Georg Hacker (Maler)
1863 - 1945
Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger
Born 1933
Eckhard Mieder
Born 1953
Helga Gesche
Born 1942
Walter Ohle
1904 - 1971
Tobias Kehrer
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Susanne Evers
Born 1970
Klaus Lange (Jurist)
1939 - 2020
Christian Martin Schmidt
Born 1942
Carl Triebel
1823 - 1885
Lothar Waldmüller
Born 1936
Heinz-Uwe Küenle
Born 1948
August Fuchs
1818 - 1847
Jürgen Kolbe
1940 - 2008
Henrike Müller
Born 1975
Volkmar Billeb
Born 1939
Bruno Menzel
1932 - 1996
Detlef Rothe
Born 1954
Else Bongers
1907 - 1994
Wilhelm Schröter
1849 - 1904
Roman Clemens
1910 - 1992
Andreas Mrosek
Born 1958
Charles-Louis de Beausobre
1690 - 1753
Johannes Schildhauer
1918 - 1995
Albert Lezius
1903 - 1953
Günter Boas
1920 - 1993
Michael Lingner
1950 - 2020
Wilhelm von Rath
1585 - 1641
Nicole Megow
Born 1976
Hannskarl Salger
1929 - 2010
Friedrich von Kalitsch
1858 - 1938
Karl Hüllweck
1905 - 1994
Kurt Liebmann
1897 - 1981
Karl Albrecht Friedrich von Raumer
1729 - 1806
Fritz Hesse (Politiker, 1881)
1881 - 1973
Thomas Bauer-Friedrich
Born 1976
Walther Zimmermann (Apotheker)
1890 - 1945
Franz Bauer (Pädagoge)
1910 - 1986
Jana Gegner
Born 1985
Ernst-Joachim Waschke
Born 1949
Johann Leopold Ludwig Schoch
1728 - 1793
Johann Heinrich von Brunn
1908 - 1983
Erika Tophoven
Born 1931
Cornelia Tomerius
Born 1974
Ludwig Bischoff
1794 - 1867
Heinz Rusch
1908 - 1965
Thomas Wieske
Born 1958
Richard Meißner
1868 - 1938
Heinz Rosenthal
1906 - 1973
Gerty Schiede
1921 - 2007
Franz August Schubert
1806 - 1893
Franz Olberg
1767 - 1840
Gerhard Haida
1937 - 2014
Ilona Freyer
1943 - 1984
Johann Georg von Raumer
1671 - 1747
Kurt von Koseritz
1838 - 1916
Heinrich Beck (Maler)
1788 - 1875
Manfred Engelbert
Born 1942
Daniella Erdmann
Born 1970
Franz Brückner
1896 - 1982
Christian Stein
1809 - 1887
Eugen von Raumer
1756 - 1823
Lisa Rühl
Born 1989
Evamaria Schmidt
1926 - 2014
Walter Bubbe
1890 - 1970
Adolar Gottlieb Julius Herre
1895 - 1979
Jörg Faßmann
Born 1966
Dirk Siefkes
1938 - 2016
Erich Körting
Born 1902
Ludwig von Basedow
1774 - 1835
Phöbus Moses Philippson
1807 - 1870
Cornelia Lüddemann
Born 1968
Wilhelm von Anhalt-Dessau
1807 - 1864
Matthias Kanter
Born 1968
Christian Grote
Born 1931
Klaus Rittland
1864 - 1920
Franz Diener (Sänger)
1849 - 1879
Siegfried Methfessel
1922 - 2012
Christoph Werner (Intendant)
Born 1964