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MAGDEBURG

Most Famous People Born in Magdeburg, Germany

Notable people

1,379

Peak decade

1930s

Median birth year

1902

Most distinctive

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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.