51.3158° N, 9.4980° E
KASSEL
Most Famous People Born in Kassel, Germany
- Notable people
- 1,196
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1904
- Most distinctive
- Aristocrat 7.0×
Kassel reads like a former princely seat that never quite stopped being one. The thick Aristocrat bench is the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and their sprawling extended family, the Art Historian depth is documenta and the museum culture it seeded after 1955, and the disproportionate Architect count belongs to the slow rebuilding of a city almost completely flattened in 1943.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Kassel during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Kassel Is Known For
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Politician is Kassel's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (131).
Kassel over-indexes on aristocrat — 7.0× the global rate.
Kassel under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Kassel's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Art & Design
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Other
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Philipp Scheidemann
1865 - 1939
Adolf Wild von Hohenborn
1860 - 1925
Richard Schorr
1867 - 1951
Carl Kaiserling
1869 - 1942
Andreas Dippel
1866 - 1932
Otto Rubensohn
1867 - 1964
Florens Christian Rang
1864 - 1924
Friedrich Boedicker
1866 - 1944
Karl von Starck
1867 - 1937
Maximilian Emil Hehl
1861 - 1916
Heinrich Giebel
1865 - 1951
Johannes Werthauer
1866 - 1938
Constantin Rembe
1868 - 1958
Otto Gleim
1866 - 1929
Adolf Kürle
1865 - 1912
Philipp Losch
1869 - 1953
Johann Georg Sprengel
1863 - 1947
Otto Pfister (naturalist)
1868 - 1952
Johann Lewalter
1862 - 1935
Theodor Schröder (Politiker, 1860)
1860 - 1951
Gustav Eskuche
1865 - 1917
Albert Wolf (Schauspieler)
1862 - 1938
Adolf Fennel
1860 - 1953
Gustav Schmidt-Cassel
1867 - 1954
Hermann Metz
1865 - 1945
August Schmid (Verwaltungsjurist)
1869 - 1949
Heinrich Berger (Ingenieur)
1860 - 1927
Gustav Köhler (Landrat)
1864 - 1947