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SZCZECIN

Most Famous People Born in Szczecin, Poland

Notable people
1,002
Peak decade
1930s
Median birth year
1906
Most distinctive
Soldier 6.2×

Prussian Stettin for nearly its entire recorded bench — a Pomeranian naval and garrison city whose officer class and Lutheran scholars overwhelmingly outnumber the postwar Polish Szczecin that inherited the empty buildings. The outsized Soldier and Officer counts come straight from the Wehrmacht and Imperial Navy cohort, while the thick Author, Theologian, and Academic clusters trace the German-speaking Gymnasium culture that disappeared in 1945.

Through the Decades

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

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1930s with 104 notable births.

What Szczecin Is Known For

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Politician is Szczecin's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (123).

Szczecin over-indexes on soldier6.2× the global rate.

Szczecin under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Politician123
  2. Writer51
  3. Actor45
  4. Painter45
  5. Football38
  6. Lawyer36
  7. Author34
  8. Historian32
  1. Soldier116.2×
  2. Art Historian105.3×
  3. Author343.9×
  4. Officer263.9×
  5. Theologian143.9×
  6. Rower123.3×
  7. Judge153.2×
  8. Academic323.1×
  1. Football380.3×

Profession Mix Over Time

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

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All1,002
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Showing 84 of 1,002 notable people

0007 THEOLOGIAN

Wolfhart Pannenberg

1928 - 2014

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0031 WRITER

Helga Deen

1925 - 1943

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0039 POLITICIAN

Günter Mittag

1926 - 1994

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0055 POLITICIAN

Manfred Ewald

1926 - 2002

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0093 POLITICIAN

Antje Huber

1924 - 2015

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0096 ENGINEER

Thomas Geve

Born 1929

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0109 COMPOSER

Heinz von Cramer

1924 - 2009

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0112 ACTOR

Arnim Dahl

1922 - 1998

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0149 ART HISTORIAN

Udo Kultermann

1927 - 2013

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0164 WRITER

Horst Stern

1922 - 2019

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0227 INVENTOR

Jürgen Dethloff

1924 - 2002

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0231 PHARMACOLOGIST

Hansjürgen Matthies

1925 - 2008

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0256 SCREENWRITER

Benno Meyer-Wehlack

1928 - 2014

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0282 AUTHOR

Gerd Lüpke

1920 - 2002

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0316 POLITICIAN

Gerhard Konow

1929 - 1997

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0318 MANAGER

Hans von der Goltz

1926 - 2018

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0334 JOURNALIST

Eberhard Fensch

1929 - 2017

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0339 ARCHITECT

Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz

Born 1929

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0348 AUTHOR

Margret Rettich

1926 - 2013

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0349 SCULPTOR

Stefan Schwerdtfeger

1928 - 2018

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0353 CHEMIST

Marianne Baudler

1921 - 2003

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0363 JOURNALIST

Dorothee von Dadelsen

1920 - 2016

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0366 GRAFIKER

Hans Schroeder

1928 - 2014

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0369 WRITER

Gerhard Dallmann

Born 1926

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0370 PAINTER

Ernst Schroeder (Maler)

1928 - 1989

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0378 BUSINESS

Karsten Klingbeil

1925 - 2016

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0384 ACADEMIC

Peter Heidrich

1929 - 2007

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0386 ACTOR

Rudolf Rolfs

1920 - 2004

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0397 POLITICIAN

Kurt Schulz (Politiker)

1922 - 2017

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0404 MATHEMATICIAN

Heinz König (Mathematiker)

Born 1929

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0405 POLITICIAN

Hans-Günter Hoppe

1922 - 2000

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0408 ACADEMIC

Hans-Eberhard Zahn

1928 - 2013

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0410 PAINTER

Harald Hakenbeck

Born 1926

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0431 PHYSICIST

Klaus Gottstein

1924 - 2020

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0444 PAINTER

Herbert Siebner

1925 - 2003

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0460 WRITER

Günter Radtke (Schriftsteller, 1927)

1927 - 1987

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0468 JOURNALIST

Lutz Lehmann (Journalist)

1927 - 2019

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0473 SCREENWRITER

Hans Maeter

1923 - 2012

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0474 FILM

Brigitte Kirsche

1923 - 2017

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0478 MILITAR

Ernst-Dieter Bernhard

1924 - 2017

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0483 POLITICIAN

Heinz Dabelow

1922 - 2011

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0486 RADIOLOGIST

Wolfgang Dihlmann

1928 - 2013

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0495 POLITICIAN

Ernst Ring

1921 - 1984

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0522 TEACHER

Gerhard Derbitz

1924 - 2004

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0526 INTERNIST

Ulrich Gottstein

Born 1926

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0529 COMPOSER

Heinz Lau (Komponist)

1925 - 1975

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0545 PAINTER

Mechthild Hempel

1925 - 2012

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0546 AUTHOR

Anne-Marie Fabian

1920 - 1993

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0567 ACADEMIC

Hellmut Ippen

1925 - 1998

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0576 PAINTER

Günter Albert Schulz

1921 - 2004

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0577 WRITER

Richard Straube

1927 - 2018

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0586 COMPOSER

Hans-Joachim Geisthardt

1925 - 2007

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0588 WRITER

Kurt Küther

1929 - 2012

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0606 ACADEMIC

Johannes Bökmann

1926 - 1998

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0627 EDUCATION

Horst Wolffgramm

1926 - 2020

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0629 EDUCATION

Dietlef Niklaus

1928 - 2016

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0650 ENTOMOLOGIST

Günter Preuß (Biologe)

1924 - 2011

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0653 ORGANIST

Kurt-Joachim Friedel

1921 - 2013

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0657 ART HISTORIAN

Nikolaus Zaske

1926 - 2014

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0689 JOURNALIST

Hans Brandt (Journalist)

1928 - 2018

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0704 PSYCHIATRIST

Dietrich Habeck

1925 - 2007

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0714 POLITICIAN

Otto Graeber

Born 1926

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0723 ACTOR

Werner Dahms

1920 - 1999

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0724 AGRONOMIST

Günter Schröder (Agrarwissenschaftler)

Born 1929

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0741 CHEMIST

Jochen Block

1929 - 1995

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0782 ACADEMIC

Gerd Staegemann

1927 - 1995

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0784 POLITICIAN

Bruno Schmidt (Politiker)

1924 - 2003

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0799 WRITER

Christa Springe

Born 1926

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0835 POLITICIAN

Siegmund Jaroch

1926 - 2016

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0839 MILITAR

Karl-Heinz Drews

Born 1929

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0845 PAINTER

Jürgen Runge (Maler)

1929 - 1992

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0848 OFFICER

Fritz Bliesener

1920 - 1942

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0858 MINISTERIUM

Peter Koch (MfS-Mitarbeiter)

1929 - 1990

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0865 ENGINEER

Hanno Goffin (Ingenieur)

1926 - 2011

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0889 MITARBEITER

Wolfgang Waterstraat

1920 - 1952

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0897 POLITICIAN

Anni Neumann

Born 1926

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0906 MINISTERIUM

Werner Korth

1929 - 1998

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0907 POLITICIAN

Hans-Georg Marquardt

1927 - 2013

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0928 MANAGER

Ernst-Georg Pantel

1922 - 2003

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0934 POLITICIAN

Oskar Schulz (Politiker)

1920 - 2014

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0939 POLITICIAN

Rudi Bahr

1920 - 1999

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0942 PAINTER

Eckhard Heyden

1925 - 2010

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0956 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Heyden

Born 1920

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0992 POLITICIAN

Walter Groß (Politiker, 1928)

1928 - 2011

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