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POTSDAM

Most Famous People Born in Potsdam, Germany

Notable people
899
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1911
Most distinctive
Leutnant 39.1×

The Prussian royal seat, and the numbers still march in uniform: the Leutnant bench runs at nearly forty times the German baseline, Generalmajor at thirty, and Prince at fourteen — Sanssouci and the Hohenzollern parade ground written into the demographic record. The postwar pivot is quieter but visible in the Academic and Diplomat lines, the research institutes and the Einstein Tower physics that replaced the crown.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Potsdam during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 78 notable births.

What Potsdam Is Known For

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Actor is Potsdam's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (95).

Potsdam over-indexes on leutnant39.1× the global rate.

Potsdam under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Actor95
  2. Politician68
  3. Writer35
  4. Painter30
  5. Officer29
  6. Academic21
  7. Football18
  8. Architect16
  1. Leutnant1339.1×
  2. Generalmajor1630.8×
  3. Prince1114.3×
  4. Soldier95.6×
  5. Officer294.9×
  6. Rower92.7×
  7. Diplomat132.5×
  8. Botanist92.5×
  1. Football180.2×
  2. Politician680.6×
  3. Singer120.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

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  • Film & TV
  • Politics & Law
  • Science
  • Writing
  • Sports
  • Military
  • Other
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Showing 55 of 899 notable people

0037 ACTOR

Nicole Heesters

Born 1937

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0073 SCREENWRITER

Heinz Kahlau

1931 - 2012

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0111 MATHEMATICIAN

Wolfgang Rautenberg

1936 - 2011

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0116 PHOTOGRAPHER

Hilla Becher

1934 - 2015

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0166 PHILOSOPHER

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann

Born 1934

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0210 MATHEMATICIAN

Helmut Koch

Born 1932

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0223 SCREENWRITER

Heiner Rank

1931 - 2014

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0234 POLITICIAN

Detlef Kühn

Born 1936

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0300 COSTUME DESIGNER

Christiane Dorst

Born 1939

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0339 FOOTBALL

Klaus Selignow

1932 - 2015

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0389 LAWYER

Uwe Lehmann-Brauns

Born 1938

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0391 WRITER

Manfred Wolter

1938 - 1999

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0396 GYMNAST

Ingrid Föst

Born 1934

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0400 POET

Christoph Derschau

1938 - 1995

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0403 ACADEMIC

Volker Emmerich

Born 1938

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0410 SWIMMER

Ekkehard Miersch

Born 1936

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0414 ART HISTORIAN

Peter Grossmann

Born 1933

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0418 LAWYER

Rüdiger von Voss

Born 1939

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0431 PAEDIATRICIAN

Burkhard Schneeweiß

Born 1931

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0463 POLITICIAN

Klaus Klingner

Born 1935

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0491 PHYSICIST

Karl von Meyenn

Born 1937

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0495 GERMANIST

Christian Gellinek

Born 1930

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0496 FILM

Wolfgang Braumann

1938 - 2017

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0500 ARTIST

Chris Reinecke

Born 1936

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0501 MUSIC

Peter Dannenberg

1930 - 2015

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0502 PHARMACOLOGIST

Georg-Friedrich Kahl

1936 - 2019

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0506 HISTORIAN

Ludolf von Mackensen

Born 1938

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0523 TEACHER

Kurt Roeske

Born 1933

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0550 ARCHIVIST

Roland Thimme

1931 - 2014

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0554 ACADEMIC

Jürgen Tippe

1935 - 2009

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0555 ARCHITECT

Nikolaus Kuhnert

Born 1939

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0575 HISTORIAN

Sigrid Wegner-Korfes

1933 - 2004

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0590 ACADEMIC

Claus Wilcke (Altorientalist)

Born 1938

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0596 CINEMA

Günter Heimann

Born 1933

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0605 MUSIC

Siegfried Schulte (Komponist)

Born 1935

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0612 ACADEMIC

Klaus Pohle (Jurist)

Born 1937

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0621 FILM

Brigitte Krex

Born 1938

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0624 PHYSICIST

Hanns-Christof Spatz

1936 - 2017

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0633 MODERATOR

Christian Günther (Moderator)

1938 - 2001

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0634 ACTOR

Wolfgang Jaster

1938 - 2013

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0642 ACADEMIC

Harald Bogs

Born 1938

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0658 SINGER

Walter Donati

Born 1938

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0673 BIOLOGIST

Joachim Knaack

1933 - 2012

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0680 DIPLOMAT

Leopold Bill von Bredow

Born 1933

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0730 WRITER

Günter Lanitzki

Born 1930

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0755 ACADEMIC

Hans-Günther Kaufmann (Gartenbauwissenschaftler)

Born 1935

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0774 OFFICER

Klaus von Heimendahl (General, 1933)

1933 - 2013

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0782 ARCHITECT

Dietrich Garski

Born 1931

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0787 PRESENTER

Monika Meynert

Born 1938

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0822 RUNNER

Siegfried Rothe

Born 1938

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0823 MINISTERIUM

Herbert Pätzel

Born 1933

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0840 MISSING

Siegfried Rauhut

Born 1938

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0846 PAINTER

Hartmut Usadel

1933 - 2018

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0855 POLITICIAN

Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer

Born 1936

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0887 POLITICIAN

Peter Boroffka

1932 - 1999

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