52.1311° N, 11.6394° E
MAGDEBURG
Most Famous People Born in Magdeburg, Germany
- Notable people
- 1,379
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1902
- Most distinctive
- Generalmajor 26.4×
A Prussian garrison town turned East German industrial city, and both halves show up in the bench. Magdeburg's distinctive professions are Generalmajoren, handball players, canoeists, teachers, entrepreneurs, authors, academics, and theologians — the trades of an officer class, a GDR sport school, and a rebuilt postwar university. Otto von Guericke was born here (he of the Magdeburg hemispheres), Telemann was kapellmeister here, and the 10th-century bench reaches back to Otto I, who used the city as his imperial base.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Magdeburg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Magdeburg Is Known For
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Politician is Magdeburg's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (194).
Magdeburg over-indexes on generalmajor — 26.4× the global rate.
Magdeburg under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Magdeburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Georg Kaiser
1878 - 1945
Felix Jacoby
1876 - 1959
Max Bodenstein
1871 - 1942
Heinrich Albert
1874 - 1960
Paul Mebes
1872 - 1938
Georg Fritze
1874 - 1939
Paul Beckers
1878 - 1965
Paul F. Linke
1876 - 1955
Arthur Ungnad
1879 - 1947
Paul Herre
1876 - 1962
Alfred von Vollard-Bockelberg
1874 - 1945
Friedrich Andreae
1879 - 1939
Rudolf Schrader
1875 - 1981
Karl Kegel
1876 - 1959
Adolf Huber (Musiker)
1872 - 1946
Wilhelm Rabe
1876 - 1958
Max Paul Riedel
1870 - 1941
Hermann Fischer (Bankier)
1873 - 1940
Berthold Daun
1872 - 1934
Wilhelm Hermann Henneberg
1871 - 1936
Peter Danckwortt
1876 - 1962
Gyula Grosz
1878 - 1959
Ludwig Mirre
1878 - 1954
Josef Heinrich Grebing
1879 - 1940
Cläre Greverus Mjøen
1874 - 1963
Constantin Frick
1877 - 1949
Rose Austerlitz
1876 - 1939
Paul Rohde
1878 - 1941
Wilhelm von Lympius
1870 - 1934
Hans Liebig (Politiker)
1878 - 1968
Martha Grosse
1877 - 1946
Walter Klose (Architekt)
1879 - 1973
Theodor Steinkopff
1870 - 1955
Otto Gerloff
1876 - 1956
Friedrich Carl Untucht
1870 - 1939
Gottlob Moritz Nathusius
1876 - 1936
Helmuth Listemann
1872 - 1924
Hans Danckwortt
1875 - 1959
Georg Nirrnheim
1877 - 1935
Alfred Krühne
Born 1870
Reinhold Reppin
1879 - 1945
Max Ethe
1873 - 1956
David Lochte
1871 - 1935