50.3593° N, 7.5971° E
KOBLENZ
Most Famous People Born in Koblenz, Germany
- Notable people
- 611
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1911
- Most distinctive
- Education 8.9×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Koblenz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Koblenz Is Known For
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Politician is Koblenz's biggest profession — 15% of all notables (90).
Koblenz over-indexes on education — 8.9× the global rate.
Koblenz under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Koblenz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Writing
- Science
- Art & Design
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Other
Jürgen Heimbach
Born 1961
Anton Diezler
1811 - 1845
Franz Koppe
1931 - 2012
Peter von Koblenz
1440 - 1501
Ferdinand Mathieu
1819 - 1878
Herbert Jösch
Born 1962
Kurt Reding
Born 1944
Hansruedi Müller
Born 1940
Dietrich Berges
Born 1957
Bernhard Günther (Politiker)
1906 - 1981
Fritz Baedeker
1844 - 1925
Philipp Gretscher
1859 - 1937
Katja Rabe
Born 1978
Peter Rittig
1789 - 1840
Thomas Mohrs
Born 1961
Frank Neubacher
Born 1965
Markus Caspers
Born 1960
Andreas Biebricher
Born 1968
Heinrich Haehling von Lanzenauer
1861 - 1925
Jakob Hölscher
1798 - 1862
Édouard Vandal
1813 - 1889
Heinrich Henkel (Dramatiker)
1937 - 2017
Horst Langes
Born 1928
Nina Sontag
1811 - 1879
Martin Uhrmacher
Born 1971
Ferdinand Nebel
1782 - 1860
August Nebe (Theologe)
1826 - 1895
Wolfgang Elz
Born 1956
Florian Klöckner
1868 - 1947
Heinz-Werner Lenz
Born 1957
Hermann Heerdt
1900 - 1959
Hierotheus Confluentinus
1682 - 1766
Carolin Sophie Göbel
Born 1989
Hermann Schmalzried
Born 1932
Jakob Beckenkamp
1855 - 1931
Friedrich Kehrmann
1864 - 1929
Karl Herrmann (Maler)
1813 - 1881
Max von Fischel
1850 - 1929
Peter Gayer
1793 - 1836
Andreas Noga
Born 1968
August von Amelunxen
1828 - 1900
Thomas Giesen
Born 1946
Christian Kassung
Born 1968
Hanns Sprung
1884 - 1948
Winfried Kaballo
Born 1952
Michael P. Manns
Born 1951
Karl Carius
1902 - 1980
Josef Schnorbach
1893 - 1973
Otto Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe
1835 - 1890
Dieter Muscheid
1943 - 2015
Josef Mayer (Jurist)
1887 - 1961
Klaus Bongartz
Born 1949
Hanny Franke
1890 - 1973
Manfred Kollig
Born 1956
Benedikt Oster
Born 1988
Patrick Doetsch
Born 1979
Werner Hickel
Born 1967
Karl Heinrich Lottner
1825 - 1897
Claus von Platen
1891 - 1964
Jörg Zeller
Born 1971
Franz Salditt
Born 1939
Werner von Tippelskirch
1891 - 1980
Adolf Buehl
1860 - 1948
Uwe Hüser
Born 1958
Hermann Tiebert
1895 - 1978
Ingeborg Thomé
1925 - 2017
Grete Borgmann
1911 - 2001
Elke Oertgen-Twiehaus
1936 - 2012
Ulrich Cartarius
1940 - 2008
Theodor von Baudissin
1874 - 1950
Horst Bourmer
1920 - 2001
Albert Maria Fuchs
1876 - 1944
Klaus Biedermann
Born 1950
Karl Josef Ignatz Mosler
1788 - 1860
Ernst von Sommerfeld
1850 - 1917
Rudolf Krüger (Architekt)
1898 - 1980
Reinhard Kallenbach
Born 1963
Axel Wagner
Born 1969
Hans Bellinghausen
1887 - 1958
Sven Hoffmann (Künstler)
Born 1965
Josef Pabst
1879 - 1950
Erhard Bouillon
Born 1925
Werner Danz
1923 - 1999
Ernst Link
1873 - 1952
Hans Merkt (Tierarzt)
1923 - 2001
Karl Wollf
1876 - 1952
Karl Böchel
1884 - 1946
Alfred Breitenbach
Born 1972
Axel Britz
Born 1969
Franz Adams der Jüngere
1828 - 1891
Karl Friedrich von Liel
1799 - 1863
Ute Krautkremer
Born 1958
Ernst Schaumburg
1880 - 1947
Heinrich Jaeger (Landrat)
1816 - 1888
Ferdinand Hey’l
1830 - 1897
Bartholomäus Klinge
1533 - 1610
Jupp Flohr
1904 - 1958
Gustav Zick
1809 - 1886
Julius Ferdinand Wollf
1871 - 1942
Friedrich Ferdinand von der Leyen
1709 - 1760
Johann Hartung (Bildhauer)
1821 - 1861
Heike Weinbach
Born 1960
Tanja Gabriele Baudson
Born 1976
Dennis Laubenthal
Born 1981
Marie Pyko
Born 1993
Leopold von Eltester
1822 - 1879
Johannes Karl Schuth
1852 - 1904
Arnold Schlönbach
1817 - 1866
Alfred Etscheit
1879 - 1944
Udo Beitzel
Born 1940
Heinz Korbach
1921 - 2004
Albert Maring
1883 - 1943
Salentin von Cohausen
1782 - 1864
Anna Schoen-René
1864 - 1942
Gerhard Solle
1911 - 1981
Augustina Schumacher
1887 - 1945
Bernhard Sepp
1853 - 1920
Michael Rünz
Born 1986
Joe Juhnke
1925 - 2016
Heinrich Eisenbarth
1884 - 1950
Karsten Drath
Born 1969
Josef Heckenbach
1887 - 1914
Dag Baehr
Born 1965
Franz Carl Hasslacher
1805 - 1881
Adolf Bingel (Internist, 1879)
1879 - 1953
Thomas Metz (Denkmalpfleger)
Born 1955
Elke Diepenbeck
Born 1961
Walter von Vincke
1854 - 1920
Gerd Lichtenhahn
1910 - 1964
Johannes Magirus (Jesuit)
1559 - 1609
Carl Caelius
1908 - 1984
Johann Heinrich Milz
1763 - 1833
Hubert Flohr
1869 - 1940
Karl Baedeker junior
1837 - 1911
Rainer B. Zotz
Born 1956
Ernst Baedeker
1833 - 1861
Hermann Broermann (Maler)
1908 - 1995
Hans Gerke (Heimatforscher)
1915 - 1998
Johannes Richter (Architekt)
1841 - 1889
Werner Kroener
Born 1944
Margot Kreuter-Tränkel
1929 - 2003
Theresa Bauml
Born 1997
Peter von Unruh
Born 1960
Maximilian Raitz von Frentz
1885 - 1967
Michael Hörter
Born 1958
Joachim Bergmann (Jurist)
1906 - 1974
Horst Romeyk
Born 1940
Johann Josef Mazza
1752 - 1828
Heinz Kassung
1935 - 2013
Jury Clormann
Born 1947
Johann Lange (Maler)
1823 - 1908
Erich Franke (Politiker)
1908 - 1986
Wilhelm Gries
1894 - 1971
Michael Antenbrink
Born 1955
Hans von Watter
1903 - 1945
Wilhelm Gommelshausen
1815 - 1901
Ursula Mogg
Born 1953
Paul Koppe
1928 - 2003
Peter Franz Oster
1772 - 1841
Hiob von Hontheim
1813 - 1883
Hermann Seul
1827 - 1902
Adam Günther
1862 - 1940
Verena Jahnke
Born 1980
Michael Hammes
Born 1974
Heinrich Hartung II.
1816 - 1893
Josef Cornelius (Dichter)
1849 - 1943
Rainer Wirz
Born 1957
Karl-Heinz Scherhag
1936 - 2015
Karl von Delius
1840 - 1907
Georg Ackermann
1918 - 2007
Edmund Kloeppel
1871 - 1926
Paul Kratz (Bildhauer)
1884 - 1958
Franz Schaaf
1919 - 1991
Matthias Zágon Hohl-Stein
Born 1952
Engelbert Leber
1876 - 1920
Jean Louis Kehrmann
1865 - 1891
Katharina Braun (Malerin)
1894 - 1989
Paul Cormann
1868 - 1952
Alexander Grebel
1807 - 1870
Wilhelm Peter Heinrich Virneisel
1902 - 1995
Jules Ruinart de Brimont
1836 - 1898
Friedrich Loenartz
1887 - 1929
Carl Beyer (Archivar)
1848 - 1900
Guillaume Bernays
1848 - 1882
Peter Josef Ignaz von Hontheim
1739 - 1807
Karl Mensing
1876 - 1953
Klaus Doberschütz
1932 - 2019
Victoria Behr
Born 1979
Ernst von Holleben (Jurist)
1815 - 1908
Karin von Dassel
1928 - 2013
Adolf Göggel
1880 - 1959
Heinrich Emmendörfer
1896 - 1986
Loni Franz
1905 - 1987
Heinrich Schellen (Jurist)
1877 - 1939
Christoph Stollenwerk
Born 1935
Veronika te Reh
Born 1947
Cläre Schmitt
1915 - 2008
Carsten Schoor
Born 1989
Maria Detzel
1892 - 1965
Georg Schroeter (Musiker)
Born 1964
Franz Spohn
1776 - 1806
Nikolaus Eiden
1901 - 1956
Ernst Dronke (Jurist)
1865 - 1933
Heribert Heinrich
Born 1951
Carl Damm (Politiker, 1927)
1927 - 1993
Johan Conrad Preumayr
1775 - 1819
Willi Max Scheid
1889 - 1932
Anne Hirschmann
Born 1935
Johannes VII. Kaspar Pflüger
1620 - 1688
Josef Kleinmeyer
1874 - 1936
Werner Eckerskorn
1919 - 2014
Johann Heinrich Brühl
1760 - 1831
Anna Maria Lasinsky
1782 - 1839
Karl Holstein (Industrieller)
1908 - 1983
Alfons Mais
Born 1962
Heinrich von Fransecky
1842 - 1917
Hermann Mosler (Politiker)
1838 - 1891
Dennis Ronert
Born 1992
Günter Pauli
1929 - 2010
Erwin Reusch
1889 - 1936
Josef Perscheid
1878 - 1942
Maurus Kalkum
1836 - 1893
Deutscher Hermann
1852 - 1927
Josef Mendling
1920 - 2000
Johann Hugo Joseph von Coll
1735 - 1784
Josef Kohns
1900 - 1988
Benita Brückner
Born 1971
Johann Peter Joseph Werner
1798 - 1869
Anton Weber (Politiker, 1890)
1890 - 1969
Klaus-Berto von Doemming
1915 - 1993
Willi Diel
1928 - 2015
Wilhelm Hillesheim
1889 - 1976
Hugo Dahmer
1918 - 2006
Wilhelm Freund (musiker)
1892 - 1964
Paul Haletzki
1911 - 2000
Friedrich von Runkel
1833 - 1914
Fredy Schäfer
1933 - 2017
Matthias von Randow
Born 1959
Wilhelm Linz
1850 - 1925
Jakob Trum
1904 - 1987
Dagmar Larisika-Ulmke
1943 - 1998
Ursula Hoffmann
Born 1970
Hugo von Kayser
1873 - 1949
Willi Hartung (Politiker)
1910 - 1986
Hermann Funken
Born 1891
Carl von Mering
1874 - 1944
Philipp Lichtenberg
1908 - 1993
Eduard Honrath
1837 - 1893
Ernst Peters
1869 - 1960
Hermann Müller (Politiker, 1902)
1902 - 1994
Gustav Springorum
1862 - 1927
Karl-Heinz Steigerwald
Born 1920
Ernst Frenzel (Politiker, 1904)
1904 - 1978
Lutz Köpke
Born 1954
Ludwig Scherhag
Born 1953
Manfred Dott
Born 1940
Gerd-Joachim von Fallois
Born 1961
Franz-Gerd Kraemer
Born 1943
Berthold Otto Havenstein
1867 - 1945
Jakob Jost
1904 - 1960
Helmut Tromm
Born 1943
Werner Mutschke
Born 1956
Godehard-Friedrich de Hohenzollern
1939 - 2001
Anna Carla Winkes
Born 1990
Egon Endres (Jurist)
1902 - 1983
Stephan Hawich
1753 - 1827
Leopold Becker
1904 - 1977
Augustus F. Finkelnburg
1830 - 1889
Johann Matthias von Coll
1692 - 1752
Bernardo Nebel
1775 - 1847
Heinz-Wolfram Mascher
1927 - 1993
Alina Schröder
Born 1985
Clemens Joseph Adams
1831 - 1876
Stefan Christmann
Born 1983
Heinrich Haupt (Diplomat)
Born 1954
Martin Leimbach
Born 1957
Emil Waldorf
1856 - 1918
Dieter Scheiff
Born 1952
Ulrich Ott (General)
Born 1963
Guido von Frobel
1848 - 1913
Meinrad Müller
Born 1961
Olivier Elzer
Born 1979
Katika
Born 1977
Rolf Stiefel
Born 1920
Mirco Borniger
Born 1984
Robert von Wahlert
1817 - 1891
Josh Kochhann
Born 1975
Kurt Schmitz
1929 - 2003
Hermann Bauer
1917 - 1943
Wilhelm Geiß
1911 - 1986
Hans Reifferscheid
Born 1902
Otto Soltmann
1913 - 1978
Karl Eduard Schneweis
1925 - 2014
Florian Siekmann
Born 1995
Wilhelm Tewes
1878 - 1957
Egon van Erckelens
1885 - 1964
Hans Heinrich von Holstein
1888 - 1978
Gerd Bauer (Politiker, 1957)
Born 1957
Conrad Delius (Landrat)
1881 - 1945
Johann Jakob von Metzen
1851 - 1915