51.0500° N, 13.7398° E

DRESDEN

Most Famous People Born in Dresden, Germany

Notable people
3,353
Peak decade
1930s
Median birth year
1904
Most distinctive
Art Historian 5.8×

A Saxon court city whose distinctive shelves are art historians, sculptors, conductors, theologians, and painters — the trades of a baroque royal city whose Gemäldegalerie, Staatskapelle, and Frauenkirche have shared the same Altstadt for three centuries. The 18th century is unusually heavy here, the age of Augustus the Strong, and the modern bench is dominated by Gerhard Richter and a generation of artists who came of age between the Allied firebombing and the fall of the Wall.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Dresden during each.

What Dresden Is Known For

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Politician is Dresden's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (321).

Dresden over-indexes on art historian5.8× the global rate.

Dresden under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Politician321
  2. Painter242
  3. Actor214
  4. Academic134
  5. Writer117
  6. Author96
  7. Football92
  8. Sculptor87
  1. Art Historian375.8×
  2. Sculptor874.0×
  3. Conductor344.0×
  4. Academic1344.0×
  5. Author963.3×
  6. Physicist423.0×
  7. Theologian352.9×
  8. Painter2422.8×
  1. Football920.3×
  2. Singer410.6×
  3. Lawyer410.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Dresden's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 208 of 3,353 notable people

0051 ACTOR

Thomas Fritsch

Born 1944

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0089 COMPOSER

Udo Zimmermann

Born 1943

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0100 CONDUCTOR

Hartmut Haenchen

Born 1943

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0101 SCULPTOR

Imi Knoebel

Born 1940

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0115 DIVER

Ingrid Gulbin

Born 1943

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0140 FOOTBALL

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

Born 1947

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0179 SCREENWRITER

Dietmar Mues

1945 - 2011

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0183 MUSIC

Peter Rösel

Born 1945

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0217 MUSIC

Günter Sommer

Born 1943

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0232 ACTOR

Stefan Behrens

Born 1942

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0275 ACADEMIC

Gunter Henn

Born 1947

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0294 HISTORIAN

Alf Lüdtke

1943 - 2019

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0306 SPORT

Werner Otto (cyclist)

Born 1948

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0310 FOOTBALL

Werner Friese

1946 - 2016

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0332 ACADEMIC

Reinhart Heinrich

1946 - 2006

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0355 POLITICIAN

Steffen Heitmann

Born 1944

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0365 FOOTBALL

Frank Ganzera

Born 1947

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0377 ATHLETIC

Rita Kühne

Born 1947

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0403 THEOLOGIAN

Michael von Brück

Born 1949

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0414 PHYSICIST

Achim Richter

Born 1940

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0421 SINGER

Hartmut Schulze-Gerlach

Born 1948

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0423 BANK

Friedrich von Metzler

Born 1943

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0436 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Joachim Hahn

1942 - 1997

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0464 COMPOSER

Jörg Herchet

Born 1943

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0467 SOCIOLOGIST

Reinhold Oberlercher

Born 1943

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0468 ARCHITECT

Axel Schultes

Born 1943

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0470 PAINTER

Volker Stelzmann

Born 1940

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0477 BALLET

Michaël Denard

Born 1944

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0490 MATHEMATICIAN

Klaus Jänich

Born 1940

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0501 PHYSICIST

Claus Mattheck

Born 1947

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0512 PHYSICIST

Frank Steglich

Born 1941

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0513 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Antonia Grunenberg

Born 1944

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0544 OPFER

Jutta Fleck

Born 1946

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0550 WRITER

Ingomar von Kieseritzky

1944 - 2019

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0557 SOLDIER

Werner Weinhold

Born 1949

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0565 GEOGRAPHER

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

Born 1942

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0570 MILITAR

Peter Göring

1940 - 1962

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0579 WRITER

Dietlof Reiche

Born 1941

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0596 PHOTOGRAPHER

Christian Borchert

1942 - 2000

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0613 WRITER

Landolf Scherzer

Born 1941

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0643 SURGEON

Hans Pässler

1940 - 2018

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0648 MINERALOGIST

Friedrich Seifert

Born 1941

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0655 WRITER

Angelika Mechtel

1943 - 2000

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0677 FOOTBALL

Jürgen Friedrich

Born 1943

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0683 VIROLOGIST

Reinhard Kurth

1942 - 2014

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0688 ACTOR

Hansjürgen Hürrig

Born 1944

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0699 ACTOR

Helga Sommerfeld

1941 - 1991

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0706 WRITER

Frank Böckelmann

Born 1941

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0726 FILM

Claus Dobberke

Born 1940

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0751 HANDBALL

Eva Paskuy

Born 1948

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0798 AUTHOR

Thomas Rosenlöcher

Born 1947

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0800 PHILOSOPHER

Arno Münster

Born 1942

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0805 COMPOSER

Wilfried Krätzschmar

Born 1944

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0843 COXSWAIN

Johannes Thomas

Born 1949

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0853 PHYSICIST

Dirk Dubbers

Born 1943

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0859 WRITER

Friederun Köhnen

Born 1942

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0864 ACTOR

Erich Schleyer

Born 1940

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0880 SPORT

Yury Dmitriyev

Born 1946

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0897 ATHLETIC

Wolfgang Müller (athlete)

Born 1943

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0956 PHYSICIAN

Michael Frotscher

1947 - 2017

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0970 PAINTER

Ekkeland Götze

Born 1948

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0974 PLAYER

Gabriele Geißler

1944 - 2006

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0979 ROWER

Manfred Gelpke

Born 1940

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0982 ATHLETIC

Michael Zerbes

Born 1944

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1003 EDUCATION

Donata Elschenbroich

Born 1944

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1010 HISTORIAN

Johannes Burkhardt

Born 1943

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1024 WRITER

Gunter Böhnke

Born 1943

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1027 FOOTBALL

Manfred Kallenbach

1942 - 2010

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1034 EDUCATION

Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg

Born 1942

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1035 ACTOR

Astrid Jacob

Born 1945

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1058 ART HISTORIAN

Michael Bockemühl

1943 - 2009

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1066 ACTOR

Klaus Pönitz

1940 - 2005

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1070 PRIEST

Eduardo Arens

Born 1943

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1086 COXSWAIN

Dieter Semetzky

Born 1949

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1133 DESIGNER

Uwe Loesch

Born 1943

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1143 WRITER

Henner Löffler

Born 1943

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1150 ACTOR

Carl-Hermann Risse

Born 1942

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1151 FILM

Jörg Herrmann

Born 1941

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1163 SURGEON

Wolf-Dietrich Arnold

Born 1940

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1172 MUSIC

Dieter Rexroth

Born 1941

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1182 PIANIST

André Marchand (Pianist)

Born 1945

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1185 FILM

Thomas Jacob (Regisseur)

Born 1943

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1211 AUTHOR

Ingo Zimmermann

Born 1940

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1218 ACTOR

Ingrid Capelle

Born 1940

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1233 AUTHOR

Bernd Nitzschke

Born 1944

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1253 ACTOR

Dagmar Hessenland

Born 1941

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1264 AUTHOR

Bernd Rump

Born 1947

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1268 MEDIEVALIST

Achatz von Müller

Born 1943

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1276 ACADEMIC

Rainer Winkel

Born 1943

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1286 ARTIST

Klaus Böttger

1942 - 1992

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1308 AUTHOR

Peter Gehrisch

Born 1942

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1312 PHYSICIST

Ingolf Volker Hertel

Born 1941

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1316 ECONOMIST

Michel Domsch

Born 1941

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1324 PSYCHOLOGIST

Frank Rösler

Born 1945

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1327 LUTENIST

Monika Rost

Born 1943

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1333 HISTORIAN

Bruno Thoß

Born 1945

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1352 AUTHOR

Wolf-Dietmar Unterweger

Born 1944

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1362 MUSIC

Bernd Aust

Born 1945

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1387 POLITICIAN

Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig

Born 1941

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1405 ACADEMIC

Thomas Weigend

Born 1949

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1416 RACEWALKER

Alexander Bílek

1941 - 2017

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1424 PHYSICIST

Peter Paufler

Born 1940

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1427 DIPLOMAT

Klaus Neubert

Born 1942

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1436 CHEMIST

Gerhard Kreysa

Born 1945

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1437 MINISTERIUM

Michael Bräuer

Born 1943

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1463 PFARRER

Harald Bretschneider

Born 1942

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1477 ACADEMIC

Thomas Hillenkamp

Born 1943

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1490 CHEMIST

Volker Schurig (Chemiker)

Born 1940

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1491 ARTIST

Eva-Maria Schön

Born 1948

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1507 CHEMIST

Arndt Simon

Born 1940

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1510 GERMANIST

Rüdiger Bernhardt

Born 1940

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1515 HISTORIAN

Matthias Springer

Born 1942

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1516 PHYSICIST

Berndt Feuerbacher

Born 1940

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1525 ATHLETIC

Rainer Schubert

1941 - 2014

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1571 MATHEMATICIAN

Wilfried Grecksch

Born 1948

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1592 PHYSICIST

Günther Rüdiger

Born 1944

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1619 AUTHOR

Norbert Weiß

Born 1949

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1627 ART HISTORIAN

Herwig Guratzsch

Born 1944

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1656 ECONOMIST

Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Born 1941

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1670 CANOE

Eduard Augustin

Born 1942

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1675 AUTHOR

Volker Helas

Born 1942

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1689 PSYCHIATRIST

Werner Felber

Born 1944

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1690 PRIEST

Peter Krug

Born 1943

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1708 BIOCHEMIST

Frieder W. Scheller

Born 1942

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1720 WRITER

Hanns-Peter Baron Thyssen-Bornemissza von Kaszon �

Born 1941

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1729 SOCIOLOGIST

Hartmann Tyrell

Born 1943

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1733 COMPOSER

Wilfried Jentzsch

Born 1941

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1752 PAINTER

Veit Hofmann

Born 1944

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1761 ACADEMIC

Christoph Meinel (Historiker)

Born 1949

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1764 JOURNALIST

Thomas Friedrich (Publizist)

1948 - 2011

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1823 RESTORER

Gert Oswald

1944 - 1996

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1832 WRITER

Rolf Bergmann (Schriftsteller)

1942 - 2015

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1859 ACADEMIC

Dieter Cherubim

Born 1941

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1880 ACTOR

Helga Werner

Born 1946

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1885 CONDUCTOR

Christian Kluttig

Born 1943

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1897 PARSON

Bernd Albani

Born 1944

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1906 MUSIC

Christian Collum

Born 1943

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1965 ACADEMIC

Horst Kopp

Born 1943

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1969 ACADEMIC

Götz Trenkler

Born 1943

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2040 ARCHIVIST

Ingrid Grohmann

1942 - 2009

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2058 ACTOR

Arndt-Michael Schade

Born 1943

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2063 SCULPTOR

Heidemarie Dreßel

Born 1943

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2064 MUSIC

Bernd Apitz

Born 1947

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2094 PHOTOGRAPHER

Klaus Götze

Born 1940

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2095 HISTORIAN

Jochen Gaile

Born 1943

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2124 LITERARY

Jürgen Engler (Kulturwissenschaftler)

Born 1945

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2128 POLITICIAN

Erdmann Linde

Born 1943

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2141 MUSIC

Andreas Göpfert

Born 1947

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2156 JOURNALIST

Angelica Blechschmidt

1940 - 2018

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2167 TOCHTER

Barbara von Metzler

1941 - 2003

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2195 ACADEMIC

Helga Roth

Born 1943

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2202 MUSIC

Christian Funke

Born 1949

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2211 POLITICIAN

Michael Nier

Born 1943

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2221 EDUCATION

Stephan Noth

1943 - 2014

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2222 PUBLISHER

Matthias Koch (Verleger)

Born 1943

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2234 ECOLOGIST

Klaus Vetter (Mediziner)

Born 1946

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2242 POLITICIAN

Rainer Jork

1940 - 2020

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2243 POLITICIAN

Beate Blechinger

Born 1947

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2262 PSYCHOLOGIST

Gunnar Gerisch

Born 1943

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2281 AUTHOR

Klaus Müller (Autor)

Born 1941

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2283 SCULPTOR

Detlef Reinemer

Born 1944

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2296 PHOTOGRAPHER

Ulrich Windoffer

Born 1942

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2341 SPORT

Andrea Elle

Born 1940

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2342 ACADEMIC

Christian Pöppelreiter

Born 1941

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2344 WRITER

Dietmar Sehn

Born 1944

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2383 ACTOR

Jürgen Polzin

Born 1949

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2471 ACTOR

Élisabeth Ercy

Born 1944

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2525 POLITICIAN

Dietmar Wildführ

Born 1942

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2533 SCULPTOR

Christian Uhlig (Bildhauer)

Born 1944

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2549 PHYSICIST

Christian Blochwitz

Born 1943

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2558 JOURNALIST

Volker Weise

1943 - 2017

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2564 POLITICIAN

Jochen Glaeser

Born 1943

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2605 POLITICIAN

Hans-Peter Seitz

Born 1942

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2615 SCULPTOR

Gabriele Reinemer

Born 1948

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2638 PHOTOGRAPHER

Michael Weimer

Born 1946

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2641 SCULPTOR

Kristine Wischniowski

Born 1944

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2657 AUTHOR

Heide Marie Voigt

Born 1942

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2662 POLITICIAN

Dietmar Laue

Born 1940

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2675 PAINTER

Ulf Göpfert

Born 1943

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2685 JUDGE

Klaus Hardraht

Born 1941

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2751 ACADEMIC

Hero Schall

Born 1942

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2794 BADMINTON

Claus Cassens

Born 1945

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2813 ACADEMIC

Hans-Jürgen Hahn

Born 1942

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2823 GEWERKSCHAFT

Werner Peplowski

Born 1944

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2874 FOOTBALL

Horst Rau

1949 - 2020

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2899 SCHWIMMER

Helga Voigt

1940 - 1956

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2905 WRITER

Nicolaus Einhorn

Born 1940

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2934 HISTORIAN

Jürgen Brand (Jurist, 1941)

Born 1941

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2958 ARTIST

Thomas Kaminsky (artist)

Born 1945

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2967 DIVER

Gabriele Schöpe

Born 1944

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2976 COMPOSER

Wilfried Peetz

Born 1945

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2977 POLITICIAN

Klaus Mättig

Born 1949

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3009 POLITICIAN

Peter Adler (Politiker)

1940 - 2010

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3072 RESTAURATEUR

Fritz Skarbovskis

1944 - 2016

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3076 BUSINESS

Guntram Uhlig

Born 1944

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3091 EDUCATION

Volker Beyrich

Born 1940

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3117 POLITICIAN

Hans Heinz Lehner

Born 1940

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3119 TRUPPEN

Johannes Lange (Maueropfer)

1940 - 1969

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3145 POLITICIAN

Michael Fuchs (Politiker, September 1949)

Born 1949

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3150 BUSINESS

Lutz Modes

Born 1944

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3230 POLITICIAN

Sabine Stachwitz

Born 1943

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3232 POLITICIAN

Gisela Clauß

Born 1949

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3239 ACADEMIC

Rainer Feig

Born 1941

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3247 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Ilte

Born 1949

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3282 MISSING

Wolfgang Schumann (Flüchtling)

1949 - 1977

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3303 DIPLOMAT

Reinhart Kraus

Born 1941

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3308 POLITICIAN

Ursula Birghan

Born 1942

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3343 MISSING

Rolf Fülleborn

1943 - 1963

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