List of personalities from Wroclaw

As a culturally and economically important city, Wroclaw was the place of work or birth of many important personalities. Here you will find a list of the Nobel Prize winners , honorary citizens , most important sons and daughters of the city according to their year of birth as well as other personalities who are associated with the city.

Nobel Prize Winner from Wroclaw

Max Born

Some Nobel Prize winners were born in Wroclaw or have worked here:

Theodor Mommsen ; Nobel Prize in Literature 1902
Philipp Lenard ; Nobel Prize in Physics 1905
Eduard Buchner ; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
Paul Ehrlich ; Nobel Prize in Medicine 1908
Gerhart Hauptmann ; Nobel Prize in Literature 1912
Fritz Haber ; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918
Friedrich Bergius ; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931
Otto Stern ; Nobel Prize in Physics 1943
Max Born ; Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Reinhard Selten ; Nobel Prize in Economics 1994
Olga Tokarczuk ; Nobel Prize in Literature 2018

Honorary citizen of the city of Wroclaw

Until 1945

Gustav Dickhuth by Oskar Rassau at the Breslau town hall , 1892

Georg Bender (1848–1924), local politician and long-time mayor of the city of Wroclaw (1912)
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898), botanist and microbiologist. Co-founder of modern bacteriology
Gustav Dickhuth (1825–1893), Second Mayor of Breslau
August von Ende (1815–1889), Prussian civil servant, 1853 district administrator, 1862 police president in Breslau, lastly chief president of the province of Hessen-Nassau and politician (1870)
Max von Forckenbeck (1821–1892), lawyer, politician and mayor of Berlin from 1878 to 1892 (1878)
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), Nazi politician, Minister for Propaganda (1938)
Heinrich Göppert (1800–1884), botanist, paleontologist, doctor and university professor
Hermann von Hatzfeldt , 3rd Prince of Hatzfeldt, 1st Duke of Trachenberg (1848–1933), Upper President of the Province of Silesia (June 15, 1903)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), writer and playwright, Nobel Prize winner (October 19, 1922)
Ferdinand Heinke (1782–1857), police chief 1824 to 1848, curator of the university from 1834 (1831)
Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), President of the Reich (September 15, 1927)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor (March 31, 1933)
Arthur Hobrecht (1824–1912), politician (National Liberal Party) (1872)
Fritz Hofmann (1866–1956), chemist and inventor of synthetic rubber, professor at the Technical University of Wroclaw (November 2, 1936)
Georg von Kopp (1837–1914), cardinal, from 1881 to 1887 Bishop of Fulda and from 1887 to 1914 Prince-Bishop of Breslau (1912)
Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), painter, draftsman and illustrator
Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800–1891), Prussian field marshal and chief of the general staff
Victor II. Amadeus von Ratibor , Prince Corvey, Prince von Hohenlohe (1847–1923), nobleman and Prussian politician
Alfred von Scholtz (1850–1934), long-time city planning officer in Breslau (November 27, 1924)
Julius Schottländer (1835–1911), philanthropist (around 1901)
David Schulz (1779–1854), Catholic theologian, professor at the Universities of Halle and Breslau (honorary citizen since October 22, 1845)
Otto Theodor von Seydewitz (1818–1898), politician, 1879–80 President of the Reichstag of the German Empire, 1879–80 Upper President of Silesia (1894)
Wilhelm von Tümpling (1809-1884), Prussian general of the cavalry (1880)
Ernst Wachler (1803–1888), district court director in Wroclaw and politician
Remus von Woyrsch (1847–1920), royal Prussian field marshal, member of the Prussian manor house
Robert Graf Zedlitz and Trützschler (1837–1914), Prussian civil servant and 1891/92 Minister of Education (1909)

Title revoked:

The following persons, who received the title of honorary citizen of Wroclaw during the period of the Third Reich , were revoked according to the statements of the city officials in the context of the Nuremberg trials , unless already expired with death:

Helmuth Brückner (1896–1951), Nazi politician, Upper President of Lower Silesia (March 31, 1933)
Hermann Göring (1893–1946), Nazi politician, Prussian Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the Air Force (October 26, 1935)

1946 to 1979

After the Second World War, the title of honorary citizen honorowy obywatel Wrocławia was awarded only a few times:

Romesh Chandra (1919–2016), Indian journalist and peace activist (honorary citizen since June 27, 1979)
Władysław Gomułka (1905–1982), PPR politician , Minister for the Western Territories (May 28, 1946)
Mirosław Hermaszewski (* 1941), spaceman (July 28, 1978)
Rodion Malinowski (1898–1967), Marshal of the Soviet Union (October 14, 1963)
Stanisław Piaskowski (1901–1963), politician of the PPS , first voivode of Wroclaw (May 28, 1946)
Stanisław Popławski (1902–1973), Soviet and Polish general (November 20, 1947)
Konstanty Rokossowski (1896–1968), Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland (April 22, 1949)

Since 1993

The title Civitate Wratislaviensi Donatus is usually awarded once a year (exceptions: 2010 and 2015):

Władysław Bartoszewski (1922–2015), historian and politician (2004)
Norman Davies (born 1939), British historian (2002)
Wojciech Dzieduszycki (1912–2008), cultural worker (1999, title filed in 2006)
Władysław Frasyniuk (* 1954), politician and former strike leader (2011)
Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz (1942–2011), graphic artist and sculptor ( posthumously 2012)
Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), theater director and theorist (1998)
Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (* 1923), cardinal, 1976-2004 Archbishop of Wroclaw (1996)
Tendzin Gyatsho (* 1935), Dalai Lama (2008)
Václav Havel (1936–2011), Czech writer and politician, 1993–2003 President of the Czech Republic (2001)
Alfred Jahn (1915–1999), geographer and polar researcher, professor at the University of Breslau (1993)
Urszula Kozioł (* 1931), poet (2009)
Kurt Masur (1927-2015), conductor (2007)
Jan Miodek (* 1946), linguist, professor at the University of Wroclaw (2014)
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański (1914-2005), journalist (2000)
John Paul II (1920-2005), Pope (1997)
Aleksandra Natalli-Świat (1959–2010), politician (posthumously 2010)
Stanisław Orzechowski (* 1939), Catholic clergyman and former opposition activist (2015)
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), poet (1994)
Władysław Stasiak (1966-2010), politician (posthumously 2010)
Jerzy Szmajdziński (1952–2010), politician (posthumously 2010)
Henryk Tomaszewski (1919–2001), pantomime and cultural worker (1995)
Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016), film director (2003)
Lech Wałęsa (* 1943), politician, 1990–1995 President of the Republic of Poland (2005)
Ludwik Wiśniewski (* 1936), Catholic monk, former opposition member (2015)
Bogdan Zdrojewski (* 1957), politician, 1990–2001 mayor of Wroclaw (2013)

City leaders

Lord Mayor

The Lord Mayors of the City of Wroclaw were:

1809–1812 Benjamin Gottlieb Müller
1812–1832 Friedrich August Carl von Kospoth
1833–1838 Gottlieb Donatus Menzel
1838–1842 Karl Gottlieb Lange
1843–1848 Julius Pinder
1851–1863 Julius Alexander Elwanger
1863–1872 Arthur Hobrecht
1872–1878 Max von Forckenbeck
1879–1891 Ferdinand Friedensburg
1891–1912 Georg Bender
1912-1919 Paul Matting
1919–1933 Otto Wagner
1933–1934 Helmut Rebitzky
1934–1945 Hans Fridrich
1944–1945 Ernst Leichtenstern (acting)

City Presidents

Since 1945, city leaders have held the title of city president (prezydent miasta) , which is customary in Poland . In the years 1950–1973 the city was run collegially by the Municipal National Council. 1975 to 1984 the offices of the voivode (district president) and city president were merged.

March 14, 1945 - June 9, 1945 Bolesław Drobner

June 13, 1945 - February 15, 1947 Aleksander Wachniewski

1947–1950 Bronisław Kupczyński

1950–1973 office abolished

1973–1975 Marian Czuliński

1975–1979 Zbigniew Nadratowski (voivode of Wroclaw and ex officio mayor )

1979–1984 Janusz Owczarek (voivode of Wroclaw and ex officio city president)

1984–1985 Stanisław Apoznański

1985–1990 Stefan Skąpski

1990-2001 Bogdan Zdrojewski

2001–2002 Stanisław Huskowski

2002–2018 Rafał Dutkiewicz

since 2018 Jacek Sutryk

sons and daughters of the town

Until the 17th century

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616–1679)

Angelus Silesius (1624–1677)

Margarethe von Münsterberg (1473–1530), Duchess of Münsterberg, Countess of Glatz and Princess of Anhalt
Ambrosius Moibanus (1494–1554), Lutheran publicist and from 1525 first Protestant pastor of the St. Elisabeth Church
Antonius Niger (1500–1555), humanist, natural scientist and physician
Andreas Aurifaber (1514–1559), medic
Johannes Aurifaber (1517–1568), theologian
Johann Crato von Krafftheim (1519–1585), doctor and scientist
Petrus Vincentius (1519–1581), rhetorician, ethicist, dialect and educator
Simon Bruns (1525–1570), Lutheran theologian and reformer
Lucas Pollio (1536–1583), Lutheran theologian
Martin Kober (1550–1609), Silesian painter of Mannerism and early Baroque
Caspar Cunrad (1571–1633), physician, historian and poet
Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583), theologian
Thomas Rehdiger (1540–1576), collector of books and paintings
Andreas Calagius (1549–1609), educator and poet
Adam von Dobschütz (1558–1624), councilor (from 1587), councilor and governor of the Principality of Breslau (1607–1624); as a Protestant he defended the Principality of Breslau against the Catholic Church in the Thirty Years' War
Jan Jessenius (1566–1621), physician, politician and philosopher
Bartholomäus von Dobschütz (1568–1637), landowner and merchant, councilor in Breslau and governor of the soft picture of Namslau
Valentin Handel (1582–1636), grandfather of Georg Friedrich Handel
Ambrosius Profe (1589–1661), organist, composer and music editor
Bernhard Link (1606–1671), Cistercian, abbot and historian
Gottfried Fibig (1612–1646), legal scholar
Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (probably 1616–1679), writer
Johann Christfried Sagittarius (1617–1689), church historian and Lutheran theologian
Johannes Scheffler, Angelus Silesius (1624–1677), poet
Paul Hofmann (1630–1704), Lutheran theologian
Paul Ammann (1634–1691), physician, botanist and university professor
Gottfried Schubart (1634–1691), physician and city physician in Hirschberg and Brieg
Daniel Speer (1636–1707), church musician, composer, teacher and writer
Heinrich Mühlpfort (1639–1681), poet
Joachim Georg Elsner (1642–1676), physician, Breslauer Stadtphysicus
Gottfried Schultz (1643–1698), physician, Breslauer Stadtphysicus
Hans Assmann von Abschatz (1646–1699), poet
Caspar Neumann (1648–1715), scientist, mathematician, Protestant hymn poet, pastor and church inspector
Hans von Assig (1650–1694), poet lawyer
Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651–1689), poet and religious leader
Johann Adam Limprecht (1651–1735), medic
Carl Oehmb (1653–1706), physician, Breslauer Stadtphysicus
Johann Acoluth (1658–1696), physician, city doctor in Breslau
Johann Jacob Eybelwieser (1667–1744), baroque painter and possibly born in Vienna
Gottlieb von Albrecht and Baumann (1671–1725), physician, city doctor in Breslau and Imperial Councilor
Christian Hölmann (1677–1744), medic and poet
Johann Kanold (1679–1729), medic
Christian Wolff (1679–1754), mathematician and philosopher of the Enlightenment
Johann Georg Kulmus (1680–1731), doctor in Danzig, father-in-law of Johann Christoph Gottsched
Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750), lutenist and composer (probably born in Grottkau )
Johann Friedrich Burg (1689–1766), Protestant theologian
Johann Adam Kulmus (1689–1745), anatomist in Danzig, brother of Johann Georg Kulmus
Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz (1689–1749), church painter and draftsman
Johann Sigismund Weiss (after 1690-1737); Lutenist and composer (brother of Silvius Leopold Weiss)
Benjamin Acoluth (1693-1759), lawyer
Johann Gottfried von Hahn (1694–1753), medical advisor and from 1745 dean of the medical and medical college in Breslau
Johann Karl Acoluth (1700–1763), physician and pharmacist

18th century

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834)

Johann Balthasar Reimann (1702–1747 / 49), cantor, organist and composer
Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), bookseller and publisher
Carl Friedrich Kaltschmied (1706–1769), physician
Balthasar Ludwig Tralles (1708–1797), physician and writer
Karl Wilhelm Sachs (1709–1763), city doctor in Breslau, member of the Leopoldina
Franz Anton Palko (1717–1766), painter and portraitist
Franz Xaver Karl Palko (1724–1767), history and portrait painter and etcher
Johann Friedrich von Hahn (1725–1786), doctor in Breslau
Daniel Gottlob Burg (1727–1795), Protestant theologian
Johann Ephraim Scheibel (1736–1809), mathematician and astronomer
Johann Jacob Ebert (1737–1805), mathematician, poet, astronomer, journalist and author
Johann Samuel Adler (1738–1799), civil servant
Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn (1739–1806), publisher
Christian Garve (1742–1798), philosopher
Ernst Ferdinand Klein (1744–1810), lawyer and representative of the Berlin Enlightenment
Carl Friedrich Lentner (1746–1776), doctor and writer
Christian Benjamin Uber (1746–1812), composer
Samuel Gottlieb Bürde (1753–1831), writer
Helene Charlotte von Friedland (1754–1803), landlady and agricultural reformer
Sofie Huber (1754 - after 1783), actress
Friedrich von Gentz (1764–1832), politician and general secretary of the Congress of Vienna
Augusta von Goldstein (1764–1837), German writer
Salomon von Haber (1764–1839), court banker
August Theodor Zanth (1764–1836), physician whose real name was Abraham Zadig
Johann Gottfried Hoffmann (1765–1847), statistician, political scientist and economist
Carl Samuel Held (1766–1845), architect and construction clerk
Joseph von Zerboni di Sposetti (1766–1831), civil servant, first President of the Province of Poznan and controversial publicist
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas (1767–1843), Professor of War Studies in Dorpat
Lucie Domeier (1767–1833) writer and translator
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834), Protestant theologian and philosopher
David Ferdinand Howaldt (1772–1850), master goldsmith
Karl Theodor Christian Gerhard (1773–1841), Protestant theologian and writer
Friedrich August Wentzel (1773–1823), writer
Johann Friedrich Knorr (1775–1847), architect
Friedrich Theodor von Merckel (1775–1846), Prussian President of the Province of Silesia
Karoline Lessing (1779–1834), romantic writer
Carl Franz van der Velde (1779–1824), writer
Karl Schall (1780–1833), theater critic
Hermann Uber (1781–1822), musician
Ferdinand Heinke (1782–1857), lawyer and Prussian civil servant
Carl Ferdinand Langhans (1782–1869), architect of the Breslau Theater
David Ferdinand Koreff (1783–1851), writer and doctor
Johann Gottfried Scheibel (1783–1843), professor of theology
August zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1784–1853), general and civil registrar in Württemberg
Leopold von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1785–1878), Prussian lawyer and conservative politician
Julie Mihes (1786–1855), painter and religious
Wilhelm von Tresckow (1788–1874), Prussian lieutenant general
Karl Ludwig Klose (1791–1863), physician and historian
Karl Ludwig von Zanth (1796–1857), architect of the Stuttgart Wilhelma
Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1797–1873), politician, president of the Prussian mansion
Ernst Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797–1885), Prussian general of the infantry
Karl von Holtei (1798–1880), writer and actor
Willibald Alexis (1798–1871), writer
August Kopisch (1799–1853), painter and writer, author of the ballad Die Heinzelmännchen zu Cologne
Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874), naturalist and draftsman
Julius Korn (1799–1837), bookseller and city councilor
Johann Anton Theiner (1799–1860), Catholic theologian

19th century

Jenny von Rahden (? –1921), horse rider, writer and singer

1801 to 1820

Adolph Menzel (1815–1905)

Albert Hayn (1801–1863), obstetrician and university professor
Alexander von Bally (1802-1853), landowner, politician and businessman
Friedrich Beckmann (1803–1866), comedian
Ferdinand Anderson (1804–1864), lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
August Borsig (1804–1854), entrepreneur
Julius Conradi (1805–1889), actor and director of a theater school
Karl August Milde (1805–1861), entrepreneur, politician, Prussian trade minister, member of the Prussian manor house
Anton Johann Gross-Hoffinger (1808–1875), writer
Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), painter
Eduard Maria Oettinger (1808–1872), journalist, writer and bibliographer
Moritz Bauschke (1809–1851), writer, publisher, bookseller and publicist
Max Theodor Hayn (1809–1888), businessman, Hamburg senator and 2nd mayor of the city
Adolf Friedrich Hesse (1809–1863), composer and organist
Gabriel Gustav Valentin (1810–1883), doctor and physiologist
Julius Lasker (1811–1876), physician and writer
Friedrich Wilhelm Ladislaus Tarnowski (1811–1847), writer
Louis Eichborn (1812–1882), banker
Hugo von Rothkirch-Panthen (1812–1868), astronomer
Friedrich von Schirnding (1812–1881), district judge and genealogist
Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 - after 1858), photographer
Albert von Rheinbaben (1813–1880), Prussian general of the cavalry
Hermann Kletke (1813–1886), poet
Rudolf von Raumer (1815–1876), linguist and Germanist
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), painter
Kurt von Haugwitz (1816–1888), landowner, politician, member of the Prussian manor house
Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck (1817–1887), diplomat
Bernhard von Kessel (1817–1882), Prussian general and adjutant general of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
Adolf Anderssen (1818–1879), chess master
Friedrich Moritz Hoffmann (1818–1882), Reich judge and judge at the Reich Higher Commercial Court
Benedikt Zuckermann (1818–1891), lecturer and librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Ernst Dohm (born Elias Levy; 1819–1883), editor, writer and translator
Carl Stern (1819–1875), Catholic theologian
Karl Friedrich Adolf Wuttke (1819–1870), Lutheran theologian
David Kalisch (1820–1872), writer

1821 to 1840

Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864)

Wilhelm Haupt (1831–1913)

Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902)

Friedrich Wilhelm von Falkenhausen (1821–1889), Prussian lieutenant general
Max Wirth (1822–1900), political economist
Rudolf Gottschall (1823–1909), playwright, epic poet, narrator, literary historian and critic
Ottilie Heinke (1823–1888), composer and piano teacher
Albert Emil Brachvogel (1824–1878), writer
Ulrike Laar (1824–1881), genre and portrait painter
Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf (1824–1868), physician
Julius Milde (1824–1871), botanist
Gustav von Saurma-Jeltsch (1824–1885), landowner and member of the Reichstag (center)
Ferdinand Lassalle (1825–1864), socialist leader
Max Waldau (1825–1855), writer
Albrecht Weber (1825–1901), Indologist
Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel (1826–1905), botanist
Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (1827–1890), politician
August von Heyden (1827–1897), painter and poet
Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898), botanist, microbiologist and one of the founders of bacteriology
Anna Grobecker (1829–1908), operetta singer
Hugo Krüger (actually Hugo Freiherr von Gillern , 1829–1871), opera singer
Rudolf von Winterfeldt (1829-1894), general of the infantry
Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck (1830–1916), industrialist
Wilhelm Krauss (1830–1866), painter
Lina Morgenstern (1830–1909), writer and women's rights activist
Wilhelm Haupt (1831–1913), Baptist pastor and evangelist of the Free Church
Arthur von Saurma-Jeltsch (1831–1878), Prussian manor owner and member of the Reichstag
Jenny Asch (1832–1907), painter, philanthropist and Froebel educator
Robert Eitner (1832–1905), musicologist
Erdmann von Pückler (1832–1888), politician and member of the Prussian manor house
Julius Sachs (1832–1897), botanist and founder of experimental plant physiology
Alfred Stenzel (1832–1906), naval officer, rear admiral of the Imperial German Navy
Friedrich von Strantz (1832–1909), Prussian lieutenant general
Antonie Brehmer-Gaffron (1833–1908), writer
Heinrich Fiedler (1833–1899), geologist, mineralogist and educator
Hermann von Schkopp (1833–1898), general of the infantry
Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902), academic teacher, writer, women's rights activist and co-founder of the General German Women's Association
Ludwig von Wäcker-Gotter (1833–1908), envoy to Mexico and Belgrade
Hermann Witte (1833–1876), lawyer, legal scholar and university professor
Ludwig Adolf Cohn (1834–1871), historian
Karel Purkyně (1834–1868), painter and art critic
Wilhelm Zülzer (1834–1893), physiologist at the Berlin Charité
Friedrich von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1835–1897), politician, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian mansion
Hedwig Haberkern (1837–1901/02), children's book author and teacher
Paul von Reibnitz (1838–1900), naval officer, rear admiral of the Imperial German Navy
William Wolf (1838–1913), musicologist
Karl von Funck (1839–1925), Prussian officer and commandant of Spandau
Richard Sadebeck (1839–1905), teacher and botanist

1841 to 1860

Adolf Ernst (1846–1927)

Martin Hartmann (1851-1918)

Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch (1856–1908)

Blanca von Hagen (1842–1885), portrait and genre painter
Hugo Hayn (1843–1923), bibliographer
Otto Tischler (1843–1891), prehistoric
Adolf Kiepert (1845–1911), publisher
Jaromír Čelakovský (1846–1914), legal historian and archivist
Adolf Ernst (1846–1927), actor, director and theater director
Ludwig Kiepert (1846–1934), mathematician and university professor
Berthold Geiger (1847–1919), German lawyer and politician
Leopold Auerbach (1847–1925), lawyer and historian
Richard Jacob (1847–1899), bank manager, newspaper editor and travel writer
Friedrich Klocke (1847–1884), mineralogist and crystallographer
Constantin Liebich (1847–1928), journalist and writer
Paul von Ploetz (1847–1930), infantry general and member of the Prussian mansion
Marie Schröder-Hanfstängl (1847–1917), singing teacher, opera and stage singer
Paul von Ploetz (1847–1930), infantry general and member of the Prussian mansion
Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918), Field Marshal General
Kurd Laßwitz (1848–1910), founder of German science fiction literature
Rudolf Sendig (1848–1928), hotelier, city councilor
Waldemar Dyhrenfurth (1849–1899), public prosecutor, creator of Bonifazius Kiesewetter
Richard Pischel (1849–1908), Indologist and founder of modern Prakrit research
Georg von Caro (1849–1913), entrepreneur
Carl Caro (1850–1884), poet and stage poet
Arthur von der Groeben (1850–1930), Prussian general
George Henschel (1850–1934), German-British singer, singing teacher, composer and conductor
Max Kalbeck (1850–1921), music writer and music critic
Selma Nicklass-Kempner (1850–1928), opera singer and singing teacher
Martin Hartmann (1851–1918), Arabist, Islamic scholar and university professor
Paul Jaeschke (1851–1901), governor of Kiautschou
Oskar von Kirchner (1851–1925), botanist, phytomedicist and university professor
Johannes von Saurma (1851–1916), landowner, politician and member of the Prussian mansion
Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath (1852–1908), landlord, poet and novelist
Hermann Soyaux (1852–1928), botanist and explorer
Johannes Wilda (1852–1942), journalist and writer
Oscar Langendorff (1853–1908), physician
Hans von Wrochem (1853–1914), Lieutenant General
Georg Froböß (1854–1917), councilor
Franz Tülff von Tschepe and Weidenbach (1854–1934), former commander of the VIII Army Corps
Oktavia Brehmer, married Däubler (1855–1905), mother of the writer Theodor Däubler
Hugo von Pohl (1855–1916), naval officer, admiral of the Imperial German Navy
Ernst von Wolzüge (1855–1934), writer
Hedwig Arendt (1856–1917), stage actress
Felix Auerbach (1856–1933), physicist
Felix von Ende (1856–1929), genre and landscape painter
Georg Müller-Breslau (1856–1911), painter
Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch (1856–1908), sculptor
Carl Georg Winter (1856–1912), archivist and historian
Emanuel Wurm (1857–1920), former politician (SPD, USPD), member of the Reichstag and editor-in-chief of "Neue Zeit"
Bogumil Zepler (1858–1918), composer
Frank Damrosch (1859–1937), conductor
Max Semrau (1859–1928), art historian
Gertrud Staats (1859–1938), painter
Valentin von Ballestrem (1860–1920), coal and steel industrialist and politician (center)
Claire Bernhardt (1860–1909), writer
Eugen Schiffer (1860–1954), politician
Paul Barsch (1860–1931), storyteller, poet and leading member of the Wroclaw School of Poetry

1861 to 1870

Agnes Sorma (1862-1927)

Hans Baluschek (1870-1935)

Georg von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1861–1936), Africa explorer and lieutenant colonel

Heinrich Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1861–1923), politician and district administrator of Ohlau

Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), German-American conductor and composer

Harry Puder (1862–1933), officer and commander of the protection force for Cameroon

Clara Sachs (1862–1921), painter and lithographer

Agnes Sorma (1862–1927), actress

Siegbert Tarrasch (1862–1934), chess grandmaster

Josef Block (1863–1943), painter

Georg Heimann (1864–1926), banker

Alfred Schultze (1864–1946), legal scholar and legal historian

Anna Bernard (1865–1938), native writer

Otto Ferdinand Probst (1865–1923), painter and etcher

Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein (1866–1965), actress

Otto Zimmer (1866–1940), politician (SPD) and member of the Saxon state parliament

Conrad Buchwald (1867–1931), art historian

Marie Oberdieck (1867–1954), writer

Georg Friedrich Preuss (1867–1914), historian

Alfred Kerr (1867–1948), writer and theater critic

Arthur Schloßmann (1867–1932), committed pediatrician in the Weimar Republic

Georg Gottstein (1868–1936), surgeon in Breslau

Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist

Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician

Wilhelm Kimbel (1868–1965), cabinet maker

Jaroslaw Marcinowski (1868–1935), doctor and psychoanalyst

Max Bielschowsky (1869-1940), neuropathologist

Clara Mannes (1869–1948), pianist and music teacher

Heinrich von Oppen (1869–1925), politician, manor owner and administrative officer

Karl Max Tilke (1869–1942), costume researcher

Hans Baluschek (1870–1935), painter and writer

Walter Gebhardt (1870–1918), doctor and anatomist

Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), chemist and women's rights activist

Richard Kiehnel (1870–1944), Art Nouveau architect in the USA from 1893 and founder of the Kiehnel & Elliot architectural office in Pittsburg, later Miami

1871 to 1880

Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (1874–1942)

Tilli Heuser (1880–1901)

Arthur Czellitzer (1871–1943), ophthalmologist and genealogist
Alexander Engels (1871–1933), actor
Margarete Friedenthal (1871–1957), politician and actor in the bourgeois women's movement
Theodor Müller (1871–1932), politician (SPD)
Adolf Ritter (1871–1924), craftsman and politician (SPD)
Ernst Wachler (1871–1945), “ethnic-religious” writer, publicist, dramaturge and founder of the Harz mountain theater
August Weberbauer (1871–1948), biologist and pioneer in researching the flora of Peru
Fritz Beblo (1872–1947), architect and construction clerk
Marie Cohn (1872–1938), writer and screenwriter
Max Fleischmann (1872–1943), international law expert and university professor
Viktoria Modl (1872–1942) director
Elisabeth Schmook (1872–1940), painter
Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (1873–1942), botanist
Otfrid Foerster (1873-1941), neuroscientist
Friedbert Lademann (1873–1944), major general
Max Moszkowski (1873–1939), physician and explorer
Matthias von Oppen (1873–1924), lawyer
Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher
Fritz von Eulenburg (1874–1937), manor owner and politician, member of the Prussian manor house
Anna von Gierke (1874–1943), social pedagogue and politician
Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (1874–1942), actor and director
Max Kiehnel (1874–1945), builder and architect of Art Nouveau
Ernst Küster (1874–1953), botanist
Fritz Mehrlein (1874–1945), Senator in Lübeck
Fritz Oliven (1874–1956), lawyer and writer
Eugene Spiro (1874–1972), painter
Herbert Oskar Meyer (1875–1941), legal scholar and rector of the University of Göttingen
Walther Ludwig (1876–1946), mathematician, rector of the Dresden University of Technology
Alexander Olbricht (1876–1942), painter, graphic artist, art professor in Weimar
Max von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1876–1956), former major general
Hans Soltmann (1876–1955), graphic artist, lecturer at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig
Walter Römhild (1876–1944), Prussian district administrator
Ernst Wendel (1876–1938), conductor and general music director in Bremen
Otto Zänker (1876–1960), Protestant theologian, Bishop of Breslau, 1937 signatory of the “Declaration of the 96 Protestant Church leaders against Alfred Rosenberg” because of his writing “ Protestant Rome Pilgrims ”.
Johannes Ziekursch (1876–1945), historian
Else Alken (1877–1943), politician, women's rights activist and victim of the Holocaust
Klara Behrend (1877 - after 1921), writer
Georg Goldstein (1877–1943), director of the German Society for Merchant Recreational Homes
Else Krafft (1877–1947), journalist, poet and writer
Carl Mannich (1877–1947), chemist
Arnold Oskar Meyer (1877–1944), historian and university professor
Käthe Münzer (1877–1959), painter and caricaturist
Franz Max Albert Kramer (1878–1967), psychiatrist, neurologist and university professor
Richard Pfeiffer (1878–1962), painter
Gertrud Berry (1879 - after 1926), actress
Martin Kirschner (1879–1942), surgeon and university professor
Joachim von Oppen (1879–1948), manor owner and agricultural functionary
Josef Sobainsky (1879–1956), artist
Hildegard von Gierke (1880–1966), social worker
Tilli Heuser (1880–1901), actress
Walter Todt (1880–1945), colonial clerk and lawyer

1881 to 1890

Hedwig Kohn (1887–1964)

Ernst Hofmann (1890–1945)

Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), writer
Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), mathematician
Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944), General in the Resistance (July 20, 1944)
Rudolph Wolken (1881– ??), German-American wrestler
Max Born (1882–1970), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Friedrich Epstein (1882–1943), chemist, victim of the Holocaust
Heinrich Pick (1882–1947), politician, mayor of Szczecin
Oswald Wiersich (1882–1945), politician and resistance fighter of June 20, 1944
Käthe Kruse (1883–1968), doll maker and entrepreneur
Elfriede Reichelt (1883–1953), art photographer
Max Sachs (1883–1935), Member of the Bundestag, journalist, editor and SPD politician
Alfred Zappe (1883–1973), architect and heraldist
Hermann Becker (1884–1972), aircraft technician and painter
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), chemist and Nobel Prize winner
Ernst von Heydebrand and der Lasa (1884–1963), judges
Artur Koenig (1884–1945?), Politician and member of the Reichstag
Max Kronberg (1884 - after 1938), writer
Hans Reisiger (1884–1968), writer and translator
Thea Sandten (1884–1943), silent film actress and victim of the Holocaust
Friedrich Zacher (1884–1961), biologist
Konrat Ziegler (1884–1974), classical philologist and Righteous Among the Nations (2001)
Bertha Badt-Strauss (1885–1970), publicist and journalist
Reinhold Jahnow (1885–1914), fighter pilot
Fritz Karsen (1885–1951), reform pedagogue
Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), conductor and composer
Walter Eberhard Loch (1885–1979), painter, graphic artist and writer
Hans Lukaschek (1885–1960), politician (center, CDU)
Eberhard Buchwald (1886–1975), theoretical physicist, rector of the TH Danzig
Günter Dyhrenfurth (1886–1975), mountaineer and Himalayan researcher
Erich Fellgiebel (1886–1944), former General of the Intelligence Force in World War II
Martin Gusinde (1886–1969), as a priest, anthropologist, teacher and university professor
Caroline von Heydebrand (1886–1938), anthroposophical educator
Resi Langer (1886–1971), cabaret artist, actress and reciter
Alfred Thon (1886–1952), painter, draftsman and art teacher
Hedwig Kohn (1887–1964), physicist (was one of the only three women in Germany with a habilitation in physics before the Second World War)
Max Krusemark (1887–?), Architect in Münster / Westf.
Lotte Pritzel (1887–1952), doll artist, costume designer and draftsman
Georg Quabbe (1887–1950), lawyer and writer
Herbert Straehler (1887–1979), naval officer
Willy Cohn (1888–1941), historian and educator
Waldemar von Grumbkow (1888–1959), lawyer and writer
Ernst Kühl (1888–1972), Colonel in the Air Force and highly decorated fighter pilot
Werner von Pigage (1888–1958), painter
Paul Thomas (1888–?), Racing cyclist
Arnold Ulitz (1888–1971), writer
Ulrich Altmann (1889–1950), theologian
Hans Biberstein (1889–1965), dermatologist, university professor in New York after emigrating
Walter von Boltenstern (1889–1952), former lieutenant general in World War II
Christian Gotthard Hirsch (1889–1977), artist
Walther Jaensch (1889–1950), anthropologist and sports medicine specialist
Siegfried Marck (1889–1957), philosopher and intellectual pioneer of social democracy
Walter Meckauer (1889–1966), writer
Herbert Rolf Schlegel (1889–1972), painter
Grete Schmedes (1889–1985), graphic artist and illustrator
Frieda Hauke (1890–1972), politician and member of the Weimar National Assembly
Ernst Hofmann (1890–1945), actor
Richard Kobrak (1890–1944), social politician
Josef Lenzel (1890–1942), Roman Catholic priest and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, martyr
Wilhelm Pfannenstiel (1890–1982), hygienist, university professor and SS standard leader
Richard Riess (1890–1931), German writer and translator
Fritz Woike (1890–1962), Protestant worker poet

1891 to 1900

Manfred von Richthofen - The Red Baron (1892-1918)

Henry Koch (1891–1977), naval officer and civil servant
Hellmut Neumann (1891–1979), lawyer and Lord Mayor (DDP / SED) of Mühlhausen
Lothar Neumann (1891–1963), post construction officer and architect of the post office in Breslau
Fritz Hermann Schwob (1891–1956), politician (center, CDU in the Soviet occupation zone), member of the Brandenburg state parliament and labor minister in the state of Brandenburg
Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher, Catholic saint and one of the patron saints of Europe
Hans Behrendt (1892–1959), Lieutenant General
Hettie Dyhrenfurth (1892–1972), mountaineer
Manfred von Richthofen (1892–1918), most successful German fighter pilot in World War I; Bearer of the Pour le Mérite
Ora Doelk (1893–1984), dancer and choreographer
Herbert Ernst (1893 - after 1954), motorcycle racer and entrepreneur
Ruth Hoffmann (1893–1974), writer
Herbert Jilski (1893–1979), Police General
Georg Conrad Kißling (1893–1944), brewery owner and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
Dagobert Lubinski (1893–1943), journalist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
Wilhelm Mardus (1893–1960), member of the SPD and briefly district mayor of the Berlin district of Friedrichshain
Erna Scheffler (1893–1983), lawyer and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
Ernst Friedrich (1894–1967), anarchist pacifist
Guido Hoheisel (1894–1968), mathematician
Lothar von Richthofen (1894–1922), younger brother of Manfred and also a fighter pilot; Bearer of the Pour le Mérite
Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski (1894–1964), mathematician
Käthe Stern (1894–1973), teacher
Felix Aber (1895–1964), rabbi
Herbert Barthel (1895–1945), politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
Paula von Reznicek (1895–1976), tennis player, journalist and writer
Bernhard Schottländer (1895–1920), USPD politician and journalist
Walther Steller (1895–1971), Germanist and folklorist
Fritz Sternberg (1895–1963), Marxist economist
Helmut Berve (1896–1979), ancient historian and university professor
Marianus Czerny (1896–1985), experimental physicist
Lily Ehrenfried (1896–1994), doctor, physiotherapist and founder of holistic gymnastics
Georg Pniower (1896–1960), landscape architect
Herbert Balzer (1897–1945), politician (KPD) and Nazi victim
Herbert AE Böhme (1897–1984), actor
Ernst Eckstein (1897–1933), politician (SPD) and Nazi victim
Norbert Elias (1897–1990), sociology
Friedrich Wilhelm Hauck (1897–1979), general of the artillery and military historian, bearer of the Knight's Cross
Katharina Heinroth (1897–1989), zoologist, behavioral researcher and director of the Berlin Zoo (Germany's first female zoo director)
Walther Jansen (1897–1959), Federal Bailiff of the German Scout Association
Karl Franz Klinke (1897–1972), physician and university professor
Ernst Kloss (1897 - after 1944), art historian
Erich Loewenhardt (1897–1918), fighter pilot in World War I and holder of the Pour le Mérite
Georg Zivier (1897–1974), journalist and writer
Ellen Epstein (1898–1942), pianist and victim of the Holocaust
Erich Tschimpke (1898–1970), SS-Oberführer in the Reichsführer SS command staff
Johannes Ilmari Auerbach (1899–1950), sculptor, painter and writer
Fritz Blaschke (1899–1968), soccer player and coach
Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957), chemist and physicist
Werner de Boor (1899–1976), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
Ernst Feja (1899–1927), track cyclist
Ilse Langner (1899–1987), writer
Max Simon (1899–1961), SS group leader and war criminal
Gottfried Weber (1899–1958), General
Anna Caspari (1900–1941), art dealer
Hermann Diesener (1900–1978), sculptor
Hans Ebner (1900–1977), civil engineer
Herbert Hennies (1900–1979), actor, radio play speaker, writer and songwriter
Elinor Hubert (1900–1973), doctor and politician (SPD)
Fritz London (1900–1954), physicist
Hilde Marchwitza (1900–1961), translator and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Franz Marszalek (1900–1975), conductor and composer
Ernst Scheyer (1900–1985), German-American art historian
Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach (1900–1997), music teacher, harpsichordist, musicologist and author
Annemarie Wolff-Richter (1900–1945), individual psychologist and resistance fighter

20th century

Elizabeth Czerczuk (year of birth unknown), Polish-French actress, dancer, director and theater director
Zofia Owińska (year of birth unknown), music journalist and pianist

1901 to 1910

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906–1945)

Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), lawyer and resistance fighter

Hermann Pabel (1901–1945), composer, bandmaster and choir conductor

Wilhelm Tarras (1901-1970), jockey

Hans Urner (1901–1986), Protestant theologian, church historian, hymnologist and peace activist

Günther Anders (1902–1992) (actually Günther Stern ), philosopher and essayist

Friedel Apelt (1902–2001), politician (KPD / SED), trade union functionary and resistance fighter

Karl Bruchmann (1902–1967), historian, director of the Federal Archives

Herta Gotthelf (1902–1963), politician and editor

Emmi Handke (1902–1994), politician and general secretary of the Ravensbrück International Camp Committee

Dietrich Lang-Hinrichsen (1902–1975), legal scholar, university professor and judge at the Federal Court of Justice

Hugo Leipziger-Pearce (1902–1998), architect and university professor

Oskar Pusch (1902–1992), tax officer, genealogist and author

Werner Sander (1902–1972), chasan and choir director, founder of the Leipzig Synagogue Choir and member of the Association of Persecuted Persons of the Nazi Regime (VVN)

Klaus Clusius (1903–1963), chemist

Joachim Konrad (1903–1979), Protestant theologian

Heinz Malitzky (1903–1995), federal judge at the Federal Fiscal Court

Fredo Marvelli , bourgeois Friedrich Jäckel (1903–1971), magician

Werner May (1903–1975), teacher, pastor and writer

Katharina Staritz (1903–1953), Protestant theologian and one of the first female pastors

Alfons Teuber (1903–1971), actor and writer

Hans Venatier (1903–1959), writer and high school teacher

Kurt Jäckel (1904–1937), Romanist

Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn (1904–1994), German-British physicist and university professor

Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), composer

Max Radler (1904–1971), painter

Erwin M. Wuttke (1904 - after 1960), writer

John Gutmann (1905–1998), American photographer

Karl Ludwig Skutsch (1905–1958), art historian and writer

Erna Wagner-Hehmke (1905–1992), photographer

Boleslaw Barlog (1906–1999), theater director

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Protestant theologian and resistance fighter

Edmund von Borck (1906–1944), composer

Johannes Grüger (1906–1992), illustrator

Kurt Janetzky (1906–1994), horn player

Gerhard Kramer (1906 – after 1958), diplomat and local politician

Hans Schaefer (1906–1961), ancient historian and university professor

Maria-Pia Geppert (1907–1997), biostatistician

Theda Heineken (1907–1993), reform pedagogue and women's rights activist

Ernst Jokl (1907–1997), German-American pioneer in sports medicine

Reinhard Kapp (1907–1995), lawyer, tax advisor and founder

Erna Kilkowski (1907–1985), politician (CDU)

Erich Meyer-Heisig (1907–1964), art and cultural historian

Steffi Ronau (1907–1995), actress

Desider Stern (1907–2000), Jewish documentary, collector and bibliographer

Kurt Wiesner (1907–1967), theologian

Arno Assmann (1908–1979), actor, director and theater manager

Anno von Gebhardt (1908–1978), businessman and politician

Manon Hahn (1908–1993), costume designer and film set designer

Helmut Kruse (1908–1999), business lawyer and archaeologist

Charlotte Witthauer (1908–1980), actress and voice actress

Heinz Engelmann (1909–1989), animation filmmaker, caricaturist and commercial artist

Ilse von Kamptz (1909–2000), bookseller, antiquarian and gallery owner

Gerhard Kubetschek (1909–1976), entrepreneur and founder of Kuba-Imperial

Joachim Küttner (1909–2011), German-American physicist

Jacques Rossi (1909-2004), Polish-French political activist and writer, victim of Stalinism and Gulag - lexicographer

Margarete Slezak (1909–1953), opera and concert singer

Walter Sprick (1909–1989), physicist and computer pioneer

Joachim Wrana (1909–1986), engineer, former rector of the Bergakademie Freiberg

Georg Mende (1910–1983), Marxist philosopher

Claire Frühling-Gerlach (1910–1994), concert singer, pianist and music professor

Gerhart Hein (1910–1998), painter

Günter Herzog (1910–1942), jazz and entertainment musician

Rodolfo Holzmann (1910–1992), Peruvian composer and musicologist

Wolfgang Müller-Osten (1910–1995), surgeon and professional politician

Walter Thiel (1910–1943), engineer and rocket pioneer

Fritz Wenzel (1910 - after 1964), politician and President of the German Peace Society

1911 to 1920

Dietrich Gerhardt (1911–2011), Slavist and university professor
Marianne Manasse (1911–1984), art historian, painter, anti-racism activist and teacher
Karl Schiller (1911–1994), scientist and politician (SPD)
Eva Siao (1911–2001), Chinese photographer and journalist
Horst Ademeit (1912–1944), fighter pilot
Erhard Bauschke (1912–1945), musician and director of a dance orchestra
Fritz Langner (1912–1998), football player and coach
Maria Lobe (1912–2001), resistance fighter against National Socialism and military doctor
Gerhard Möbus (1912–1965), educator, psychologist and political scientist
Lothar Fendler (1913 - after 1951), SS-Sturmbannführer
Pierre Gassmann (1913 / 14–2004), founder of Picto and probably the most famous photo lab technician in the world
Markus von Gosen (1913–2004), graphic artist, draftsman and painter
Johann Christoph Hampe (1913–1990), theologian, journalist and writer
Fritz Hoffmann (1913–2007), Roman Catholic clergyman, fundamental theologian, philosopher and university professor
Jadwiga Żylińska (1913–2009), Polish writer
Eberhard Cyran (1914–1998), writer
Walter Jokisch (1914–1984), actor and theater director
Lisa Krause (1914–1965), politician (SED), Lord Mayor of Dessau, State Secretary of the GDR
Hans Pischner (1914–2016), musician
Joseph Walk (1914–2005), German-Israeli educator and historian
Charlotte Wasser (1914–2001), publicist and literary propagandist
Heinrich Albertz (1915–1993), Protestant theologian, SPD politician, Governing Mayor of (West) Berlin
Elisabeth Ettlinger (1915–2012), archaeologist
Klaus-Andreas Moering (1915–1945), expressionist painter
Johanna Blecha (1916–2000), politician and mayor
Hans W. Cohn (1916–2004), poet and psychotherapist (emigrated to Great Britain in the late 1930s)
Hans-Peter Schmitz (1916–1995), flautist and university professor
Eugen Gollomb (1917–1988), long-time chairman of the Israelite religious community in Leipzig
Renate Haußleiter-Malluche (1917–1994), politician
Heinz Hofmann (* 1917), musician and conductor
Peter Pauly (* 1917), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman in Namibia
Norman Dyhrenfurth (1918–2017), American mountaineer, expedition leader, cameraman and director
Ruth Lommel (1918–2012), actress
Hildegard Maria Rauchfuß (1918–2000), writer
Kurt Redel (1918–2013), conductor
Gustav Adolf Baumm (1920–1955), graphic artist, motorcycle designer and racing driver
Senta Baldamus (1920–2001), sculptor
Heinz Bello (1920–1944), Catholic martyr of the Nazi era
Sibylle Boden-Gerstner (1920–2016), costume designer, painter and fashion journalist
Werner Grunert (1920–2020), politician (SPD)
Rudi Mirke (1920–1951), racing cyclist
Ruth Neudeck (1920–1948), SS guard in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp
Reinhard G. Pauly (1920–2019), German-American musicologist and violinist
Renate Riemeck (1920–2003), historian and peace activist
Gerhard Röthler (1920–1999), Holocaust survivor
Hans-Arno Simon (1920–1989), composer, singer, pianist and producer
Klaus Trostorff (1920–2015), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, teacher, qualified lawyer, local politician and former director of the Buchenwald National Memorial and Memorial

1921 to 1930

Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999)

Reinhard Selten
(1930–2016)

Christian Feit (1921–2017), diplomat
Walter Laqueur (1921–2018), German-Jewish-American publicist and historian
Thomas von Randow (1921–2009), mathematician, science editor and book author
Wilmut Borell (1922–1997), actor
Yehezkel Braun (1922–2014), Israeli composer
Walter Conrad (1922–2006), writer, storyteller and specialist book author
Karl-Dietrich Gundermann (1922–1995), chemist and university professor
Macky Kasper (1922–1968), jazz and entertainment musician
Heinz Winfried Sabais (1922–1981), writer, poet and politician
Barbara Suchner (1922–2010), poet, writer and philologist
Friedrich Cramer (1923–2003), chemist, genetic researcher and university professor
Lieselotte Kantner (* 1923), industrial designer
Herbert Klein (1923–2001), swimmer, European champion and world record holder
Hans Konrad König (1923–2016), EU civil servant, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, art collector and patron
Wolfgang Neuss (1923–1989), cabaret artist and actor
Horst Pohl (1923–2013), politician (SED), Lord Mayor of Gera
Elizabeth B. Snyder (* 1923), visual artist and singer
Günter Szewierski (1923–2005), football player
Leni Alexander (1924–2005), composer and radio play author
Renate Lasker-Harpprecht (* 1924), Franco-German author and journalist
Elisabeth Loewe (1924–1996), post-expressionist painter
Ingeborg Wellmann (1924–2015), actress
Henrik Birnbaum (1925–2002), Slavist and historian
Roy Etzel (1925–2015), trumpeter and band leader
Eva-Johanna Hajak (* 1925), writer
Franz Heiduk (* 1925), biographer, lexicographer and editor
Bernhard Heisig (1925–2011), painter
Heinz Klinke (1925–2010), politician, member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (* 1925), Holocaust survivor, member of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra
Martin Löwenberg (1925–2018), resistance fighter against National Socialism, persecuted by the Nazi regime and survivor of the Holocaust
Herbert Otto (1925–2003), writer
Klaus Friedrich Roth (1925–2015), mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal
Ilse Seibold (* 1925), micropalaeontologist and geological science historian
Hubert Suschka (1925–1986), actor
Peter Thomas (1925–2020), film composer, conductor and arranger
Italo Alighiero Chiusano (born June 10, 1926 - † February 15, 1995 in Frascati), Italian Germanist and writer
John Gunther Dean , b. Ready for service (1926–2019), US diplomat
Maria Frisé , b. von Loesch (* 1926), journalist and writer
Erhard Gorys (1926–2004), author and art historian
Joachim Lehnhoff (* 1926), journalist and writer
Dagmar Nick (* 1926), poet and writer
Georg Rosbigalle (1926–2012), football player
Utta Roy-Seifert (* 1926), literary translator and founder of the IG Translators
Fritz Stern (1926–2016), German-American historian
Fedor Strahl (1926–2009), entrepreneur and conservationist
Martin Wiehle (* 1926), historian
Ignatz Bubis (1927–1999), chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Hans Daiber (1927–2013), journalist and author
Norbert Fischer (1927–2006), lawyer and banker
Maria Grabis (1927–2015), Roman Catholic nun, “mother of the garbage people” in Cairo
Kurt Kleinert (1927–2016), Secretary of the GDR Council of Ministers
Eberhard Krug (* 1927), actor and radio play speaker
Klaus Kühn (* 1927), scientist, researcher of connective tissue proteins
Marianne Kühn-Berger (1927–2016), fashion journalist, designer and painter
Brigitte Stoll (1927–2020), politician
Sigurd Fitzek (* 1928), actor
Günter Görlich (1928–2010), writer
Johannes Grossmann (1928–2014), actor
Peter Hacks (1928–2003), writer
Wolfgang Büsch (1929–2012), lawyer and politician (SPD)
Karl Heinrich Ehrenforth (1929–2017), music teacher and former prior of the Ansverus community
Hubertus Carl Frey (1929–2003), graphic designer and art director
Gisela Heller (* 1929), editor and writer
Peter Herzog (1929–2004), actor
Thomas Jaeger (1929–1980), civil engineer
Reinhard Leue (1929–2012), Protestant theologian and publicist
Albrecht Magen (1929–2006), company director and local politician
Christa-Maria Ohles (1929–2000), writer
Werner Rackwitz (1929–2014), opera director and cultural politician
Winfried Schrammek (1929–2017), organist and musicologist
Reinhard Glemnitz (* 1930), actor and voice actor
Annemone Haase (* 1930), actress
Kurt Pätzold (1930–2016), Marxist historian
Reinhard Pfalz (1930–2014), physician, director of the ENT clinic at the Ulm University Hospital
Horst Rittner (* 1930), correspondence chess world champion
Reinhard Selten (1930–2016), economist and Nobel Prize winner

1931 to 1940

Peter Lustig (1937-2016)

Horst Friedrich (1931–2015), chronology critic and non-fiction author

Thuri Lorenz (1931–2017), classical archaeologist

Michael O. Rabin (* 1931), Israeli computer scientist and logician, Turing Prize winner

Helmut Skowronek (1931–2019), psychologist and rector of Bielefeld University

Dorothea Walda (1931–2016), actress

Reinhard Dietrich (1932–2015), sculptor

Manfred Gottschalk (1932–1982), Catholic bishop of Oudtshoorn

Johann-Friedrich Konrad (1932–2015), Protestant theologian and university professor

Christa Collector (* 1932), sculptor

Eckhard Wolf (1932–2018), judge at the Federal Court of Justice

Konrad Cramer (1933–2013), philosopher and university professor

Christian Herfarth (1933–2014), surgeon and university professor

Harald-Dietrich Kühne (1933–2011), economist, university professor and politician

Joachim Lukas (* 1933), architect

Joachim Meisner (1933–2017), theologian, cardinal and archbishop of Cologne

Margaret Raspé (* 1933), performance artist, photographer and filmmaker

Horst-Dieter Schiele (* 1933), editor-in-chief and publishing director

Dietrich Alexander (1934–1999), philosopher

Helmut Altner (* 1934), biologist, university politician

Kunibert Becker (1934–2001), politician, mayor of Werl

Erhard Hexelschneider (1934–2018), Slavist

Wolfgang Langer (1934–2020), Roman Catholic theologian

Fritz Mierau (1934–2018), Slavist, literary scholar, translator, essayist and editor

Horst Miesler (* 1934), painter

Hannes Scholz (1934–2017), soccer coach and official

Gerold von Braunmühl (1935–1986), diplomat murdered by the RAF, Political Director in the Foreign Office

Erika Drees (1935–2009), doctor, civil rights activist, environmental and peace activist

Dietmar Hallmann (* 1935), violist (Gewandhaus Quartet)

Joachim Hruschka (1935–2017), legal scholar

Siegfried Kühn (* 1935), director and screenwriter

Ulrich Nembach (* 1935), Protestant theologian

Peter Przybylski (1935–2019), lawyer and publicist

Eva Rühmkorf (1935–2013), psychologist and politician (SPD)

Werner-Christoph Schmauch (* 1935), German-American Protestant theologian, pastor, publicist and peace activist

Pit Schubert (* 1935), non-fiction author and mountaineer

Hubert Witt (1935–2016), writer and editor

Klaus Dieter Wolff (1935–2007), administrative lawyer

Lothar Buchmann (* 1936), football coach

Hans-Jürgen Eberhardt (1936–2017), radiologist and radiation therapist

Peter Fulde (* 1936), theoretical physicist

Werner Kasig (1936-2020), geologist

Christine Koschel (* 1936), writer and translator

Wolfgang Krause (1936–2020), engineer and politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag

Klaus Kutzer (* 1936), lawyer, judge at the German Federal Court of Justice from 1982 to 2001

Klaus Manchen (* 1936), film and theater actor

Gisela Gebauer-Nehring (* 1937), politician

Hans Hilmar Goebel (* 1937), neuropathologist

Wolfram Hoepfner (* 1937), classical archaeologist, building researcher and university professor

Christian Hünemörder (1937–2012), science historian

Hans-Ulrich Klose (* 1937), politician (SPD), First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Wolfgang Körner (1937–2019), writer

Peter Lustig (1937–2016), television actor and author of books for young people

Dorothea Prühl (* 1937), artist, jewelry designer, art professor

Dietmar Sauermann (1937–2011), folklorist

Christian Starck (* 1937), constitutional lawyer

Heinz Dieter Stodolkowitz (* 1937), lawyer, judge at the German Federal Court of Justice from 1988 to 2002

Monika Taubitz (* 1937), poet and writer

Renate Tost (* 1937), calligrapher, type artist and specialist author

Norbert Conrads (* 1938), historian and Germanist

Wolfgang Dittrich (* 1938), librarian, director of the Lower Saxony State Library and chairman of the Association of German Librarians

Renate Fölsch (* 1938), trade unionist, politician and president of the Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin

Andreas Franzke (* 1938), art historian, rector of the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe

Karl-Georg Hirsch (* 1938), graphic artist and wood engraver as well as university professor

Hans-Winfried Jüngling (1938–2018), Jesuit and biblical scholar

Joachim Starck (* 1938), lawyer, judge at the German Federal Court of Justice from 1990 to 2003

Renate Apitz (1939–2008), writer

Walter Hayn (1939–1964), killed on the Berlin Wall

Katinka Hoffmann (* 1939), actress and theater operator

Peter Paul Hoffmann (* 1939), automobile racing driver

Reiner Kaczynski (1939–2015), Catholic clergyman and liturgical scholar

Dieter Lindner (* 1939), soccer player and official

Jutta Lowag (1939–2014), economist as well as administrative director and deputy director of Bayerischer Rundfunk

Horst Mehrländer (* 1939), politician (FDP), State Secretary in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics

Peter Pragal (* 1939), journalist

Hans-Wolf Reinhardt (* 1939), civil engineer

Frank Selten (* 1939), language teacher and jazz musician

Michael Bautz (1940–2017), clergyman, vicar general of the Dresden-Meissen diocese

Reinhard Bernhof (* 1940), poet and writer

Joachim Giesel (* 1940), photographer

Lothar Herbst (1940–2000), poet and opponent of the communist dictatorship

Siegbert Kardach (* 1940), internist and writer doctor in Erfurt

Eike Lehmann (1940–2019), marine engineer and university professor

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann (* 1940), President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Rudi Pawelka (* 1940), Senior Police Director a. D., former federal chairman of the Silesian Landsmannschaft and former councilor of the city of Leverkusen

Josef "Sepp" Piontek (* 1940), soccer player and soccer coach

Klaus W. Ruprecht (* 1940), ophthalmologist and former director of the eye clinic at the Saarland University Clinic in Homburg / Saar

Peter Schönfelder (* 1940), botanist and university professor (University of Regensburg)

Hannelore Telloke (1940–2019), stage actress

Karl-Ludwig Voss (1940–2018), Lutheran theologian and dean

Edwin Werner (* 1940), musicologist, Handel researcher

1941 to 1950

Wolfgang Thierse (* 1943)

Andrzej Ziemiański (* 1960)

Karl-Heinz Baum (* 1941), author and journalist
Peter Franke (* 1941), actor
Dietmar Franzke (* 1941), politician (SPD)
Hans Dietrich Hartel (* 1941), writer
Rüdiger Kirschstein (* 1941), actor and artist
Gisela Kosubek (* 1941), translator
Hagen Tschoeltsch (* 1941), politician (FDP)
Lena Vandrey (1941–2018), German-French painter, sculptor and author
Joachim Wanke (* 1941), Catholic bishop of Erfurt
Alfred Gomolka (1942-2020), politician (CDU)
Randolf Kronberg (1942–2007), actor, dubbing and radio play speaker
Dietrich Kurz (* 1942), sports educator and university professor
Birgit Pausch (* 1942), actress and author
Ina Rösing (1942–2018), cultural anthropologist, ethnologist, psychologist, sociologist and thanatologist
Sieglinde Seele (* 1942), monument researcher
Christiane Thalgott (* 1942), architect, urban planner and construction officer
Ilse Tschörtner (* 1942), translator
Jürgen Wölbing (1942–2009), draftsman and graphic artist
Michael Altmann (1943–2016), actor
Volker Baehr (1943–1981), urban planner and local politician
Peter Gatter (1943–1997), journalist, television editor
Ilona Grandke (* 1943), actress, singer and voice actress
Gregor Henckel-Donnersmarck (* 1943), abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz
Brigitte Lückert (1943–2020), educator and politician
Horst Möller (* 1943), historian and professor of modern and contemporary history
Winfried Petzold (1943–2011), politician (NPD)
Maria-Barbara von Stritzky (* 1943), Roman Catholic theologian
Wolfgang Thierse (* 1943), cultural scientist, politician (SPD), President and Vice-President of the German Bundestag
Sabine Tschierschky (* 1943), painter, graphic artist and university lecturer
Thomas Wachweger (1943–2015), artist
Werner Waldhoff (1943–1997), writer and translator
Achim Exner (* 1944), politician (SPD), former Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden
Klaus Hennig (* 1944), judoka
Wolfgang Hermann (* 1944), politician (FDP), Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament
Karl-Heinz Hiersemann (1944–1998), politician (SPD), Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament
Helmut Huttary (1944–2016), soccer coach and player
Nikolaus Klehr (1944–2016), dermatologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Rösing (* 1944), anthropologist
Tatja Seibt (* 1944), actress
Klaus Weiß (1944–2000), handball goalkeeper
Thekla Carola Wied (* 1944), actress
Michael Zeller (* 1944), writer
Seweryn Blumsztajn (* 1946), journalist
Gabriel Chmura (* 1946), Israeli-Polish conductor and multiple general music director
Zofia Kulik (* 1947), artist
Leszek Żabiński (1947–2019), economist, rector of the Katowice University of Economics
Jan Tomaszewski (* 1948), soccer goalkeeper
Jerzy Lewi (1949–1972), chess master
Stanisław Bereś (* 1950), literary critic, historian and poet
Jan Harasimowicz (* 1950), art historian, philosopher and theologian

1951 to 1970

Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (* 1957)

Rafał Augustyn (* 1951), composer, music and literary critic
Tomasz Giaro (* 1951), legal scholar
Urszula Małgorzata Benka (* 1953), poet, storyteller and translator
Teresa Orlowski (* 1953), erotic actress and producer
Władysław Frasyniuk (* 1954), politician
Andrzej Sekuła (* 1954), cameraman and director
Tomasz Gutkowski (* 1955), mining engineer, board member of the Federation of Poles in Germany - ZPwN - Rodlo (2000–2006), journalist and author
Maciej Łagiewski (* 1955), historian
Leszek Swornowski (* 1955), fencer
Jan Jakub Kolski (* 1956), film director and writer
Wojciech Konikiewicz (* 1956), Polish composer, jazz and improvisation musician
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (* 1957), politician and member of the European Parliament
Konstanty Radziwiłł (* 1958), politician and doctor, Minister of Health
Andrzej Lis (* 1959), fencer
Adam Poprawa (* 1959), literary historian, literary critic, music critic, poet and prose writer
Ewa Wolak (* 1960), politician, member of the Sejm
Andrzej Ziemiański (* 1960), science fiction writer
Witold Pahl (* 1961), politician
Piotr Siemion (* 1961), writer and lawyer
Robert Felisiak (* 1962), Polish, from 1989 German fencer, Olympic champion
Robert Iwaszkiewicz (* 1962), politician
Darek Oleszkiewicz (* 1963), jazz bassist and university professor
Kuba Stankiewicz (* 1963), jazz musician
Valery Salov (* 1964), Russian chess grandmaster
Piotr Wojtasik (* 1964), jazz musician
Zbigniew Łowżył (* 1965), composer, drummer, pianist and music teacher
Dorota Czerner (* 1966), Polish writer
Andrzej Majewski (* 1966), aphorist and art photographer
Marek Krajewski (* 1966), writer
Rafał Kubacki (* 1967), judoka
Olaf Lubaszenko (* 1968), director and actor
Maria Makowska (* 1969), soccer player, record Polish national player

1971 to 2000

Krystian Kiełb (* 1971), composer, music theorist and music teacher

Kinga Preis (* 1971), actress

Joanna Wiśniewska (* 1972), discus thrower

Tomasz Bobel (* 1974), football player

Joanna Jakimiuk (* 1975), sword fencer
Michał Witkowski (* 1975), author
Filip Zawada (* 1975), poet, musician and photographer
Monika Anna Wojtyllo (* 1977), director, actress and author
Artur Majewski (* 1978), jazz musician
Patrycja German (* 1979), performance artist
Natalia Avelon (* 1980), German-Polish singer and actress
Anna Fojudzka (* 1980), chess player
Ania Fucz (* 1981), German Thai boxer
Marcin Jędrusiński (* 1981), sprinter
Dagmara Kraus (* 1981), German poet and translator
Łukasz Bodnar (* 1982), racing cyclist
Katarzyna Karasińska (* 1982), ski racer
Krzysztof Ostrowski (* 1982), football player
Filip Adamski (* 1983), German rower
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk (* 1984), politician, social activist and women's rights activist
Nadia Szagdaj (* 1984), musician, writer and visual artist
Jagoda Szelc (* 1984), director and screenwriter
Julia Szychowiak (* 1986), poet
Przemysław Czajkowski (* 1988), track and field athlete
Marta Leśniak (* 1988), tennis player
Rafał Omelko (* 1989), track and field athlete
Dagmara Wozniak (* 1988), American fencer
Joanna Linkiewicz (* 1990), track and field athlete
Robert Sobera (* 1991), pole vaulter
Agata Forkasiewicz (* 1994), sprinter
Szymon Walków (* 1995), tennis player

Personalities associated with Wroclaw

Numerous important personalities were not born in Wroclaw, but spent a large part of their lives in this city or were of great importance to Wroclaw. Some personalities are listed in alphabetical order below:

Waldemar Dyhrenfurth

Henry IV the Pious as a minstrel

Ludwik Hirszfeld

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

Julius Kemna

Henryk Zieliński

Andreas Acoluthus (1654–1704), orientalist and linguist
Jerzy Samuel Bandtke , Polish historian and bibliographer; grew up in Breslau and worked there from 1798 to 1811
Christian Behrens (1852–1905), sculptor; worked from 1886 until his death as head of the master workshop for sculpture at the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw
Adolf Cardinal Bertram (1859–1945), Archbishop
Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772–1840), composer, conductor and theater tenant
Valeska Countess Bethusy-Huc (1849–1926), writer, politician's wife
Johann Gottlieb Blümner (1763–1837), Rendant at the Higher Regional Court
Albert Bothe (1875–1963), painter, graphic artist, book designer, active as a lecturer at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Breslau from 1909 to 1924

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer, pianist and conductor; received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in March 1878

Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching (1783–1829), well-known archivist and professor of antiquity, worked in Breslau from 1811

Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950), mathematician

Johann Philipp von Carrach (1730 – after 1781), legal scholar, administrative officer and Privy Councilor in Breslau

Ceslaus von Breslau (1184–1242), missionary, saint and since 1963 patron saint of Breslau

Therese Dahn (1845–1929), wife of Felix Dahn, writer, honorary senator of the University of Breslau

Ludwig Devrient (1784–1832), actor; worked in Breslau from 1809 to 1815

Waldemar Dyhrenfurth (1849–1899), public prosecutor, bizarre social critic, creator of Bonifazius Kiesewetter

Joseph Ebers (1845–1923), diocesan master builder in Breslau from 1883 to 1921

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857) attended the Royal Catholic Matthias Gymnasium in Breslau from 1801 to 1805.

Max Filke (1855–1911), church musician and composer; worked as cathedral music director from 1891

Georg von Giesche (1653–1716), born near Breslau; Linen dealer and merchant in Wroclaw (Ring No. 20), founder of Silesian mining

Georg August von Görner (1645–1715), lawyer in the council and chancellery of Emperor Leopold I for Upper and Lower Silesia

Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak (1920–2018), Polish post-war modernist architect

Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999), director; in Breslau from 1965

Christoph Hackner (1663–1741), builder and architect; active here from 1695 to 1741

Friedrich Gustav Hagemann (1760 – ≈1830), actor and dramaturge; lived and died in Breslau

Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen (1780–1856), Germanist

Wenzel Hancke (1770-1848), surgeon; his widow donated the Wenzel Hancke Hospital in 1877

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862–1946), writer and Nobel Prize winner; attended the Realschule am Zwingerplatz and later the arts and crafts school

Henry III. von Schlesien-Breslau , duke, lender of city charter to Breslau in 1261; born 1227/30

Henry IV the Pious , Duke of Breslau, minstrel (Heinrich von Pressela); born around 1270 near Jauer

Johann Hermann (1574–1605), medic

Johann Timotheus Hermes (1738–1821), poet and novelist; from 1771 in Breslau

Johann Heß (1490–1547), Lutheran theologian and reformer; worked from 1523 as the first Protestant pastor in Breslau

Georg Paul Heyduck (1898–1962), studied in Wroclaw from 1913, until 1945 freelance painter in the city

Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), Polish physician has the AB0 system of blood groups helped to develop

Carl Julius Adolph Hugo Hoffmann (1801–1843), German-Silesian church musician and composer; studied in Wroclaw

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798–1874), creator of the song of the Germans, was from 1823 curator at the university library and professor for German language and literature in Breslau 1830–42

Julius Ferdinand Räbiger (1811–1891), theologian, professor in Breslau and city councilor for 25 years

Max Kayser (1853–1888), Social Democratic member of the Reichstag

Paul Keller (1873–1932), writer and publicist

Julius Kemna (1837–1898), machine manufacturer

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887), physicist; from 1850 to 1854 professor in Breslau

Paul Kleinert (1839–1920), Protestant theologian; studied in Wroclaw

David Tobias Knoll (1736–1818), composer

Franz Adrian Köcher (1786–1846), mathematician, taught at the Magdalenengymnasium, Reformed Gymnasium, at the division school and at the university

Bolesław Kominek (1903–1974), author of the famous pastoral letter of the Polish bishops

Georg Cardinal von Kopp (1837–1914), from 1887 to 1914 Prince-Bishop of Breslau

Johann Gottlieb Korn , founder of the famous Korn publishing house

Gottlob Kranz (1660–1733), historian and pedagogue, librarian and rector of the local Elisabet-Gymnasium

Rudolf Kühn (1886–1950), architect, city planning officer in Breslau

Johann Gottlieb Kunisch (1789-1852) was a German high school teacher at the Collegium Fridericianum in Breslau, author and editor.

Alexis Langer (1825–1904), architect of historicism

Paul Lehmann (1883–1961) was a member of the SPD from 1929 to 1933 in the Provincial Landtag of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), was General Tauentzien's secretary after 1760

Heinrich Lichner (1829–1898), composer

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1683), important Baroque poet, syndic and diplomat in Breslau

Carl Johann Lüdecke (1826–1894), architect and director of the art school in Breslau

Friedrich von Lüdinghausen Wolff (1643–1708), founder of the University of Leopoldina and its first chancellor

Ludwig Gottfried Madihn (1748–1834), university professor and university rector of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau

Kurt Masur (1927–2015), conductor; Student at the regional music school in Wroclaw from 1942 to 1944, honorary citizen of the city of Wroclaw

Johann von Mikulicz (1850–1905), surgeon and founder of gastroscopy

Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), historian; published the work Roman History during his professorship in Wroclaw , for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902

Johann Theodor Mosewius (1788–1858) opera singer; Music director of the University of Wroclaw, Bach researcher

Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925), composer and pianist

Otto Mueller (1874–1930), painter, member of the artist group “Die Brücke”; Professor at the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw

Hermann Neufert (1858–1935), educator, studied in Breslau, which was also his first main place of work

Paul Pfotenhauer (1842–1897), archivist in the Wroclaw State Archives and historian, author of numerous works on the history of Wroclaw and Silesia as well as personalities from Wroclaw

Richard Plüddemann (1846–1910), architect, City Planning Officer of Wroclaw 1885–1909, city elder of Wroclaw

Hans Poelzig (1869–1936), architect; temporarily director of the royal arts and crafts school in Wroclaw

Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869) Czech physician, politician and man of letters; 1832–53 professor of physiology and pathology at the University of Breslau

Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), Polish poet and playwright

Ernst Sandberg (1849–1917), Privy Medical Council

Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951), surgeon, developed thoracic surgery at the Wroclaw University Clinic

Karl Friedrich Ludwig Schäffer (1746–1817), lawyer, pianist and composer, was a notary and judicial commissioner in Breslau, where he organized concerts and performed publicly

Hans Scharoun (1893–1972), architect, professor (1925–32) at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw

Jakob Schickfuß (1574–1637), imperial chamber tax office and councilor in Breslau, died in Breslau.

Christoph Schlegel (1613–1678), deacon at St. Elisabeth's Church, professor at the gym. St. Elisabeth and Probst Kreuzkirche in Breslau

Walter Schmidt (* 1930), German historian, professor in Berlin, expert on Silesia, 1942–1945 Private teaching institution Dr. Gudenatz / Lobmeier in Breslau

Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (1767–1831) became cathedral music director in 1805 and, during his tenure, led church music at Breslau Cathedral to a remarkable bloom. He wrote an adaptation of the famous Christmas pastorella Transeamus usque Bethlehem .

Johannes Schneider (1824–1876), Catholic priest at the Sand Church and St. Matthias, founder of the charitable congregation of the Sisters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception

Franz Paul Scholz (1772–1837), German clergyman, scientist and explorer

Valentin Siebrecht (1907–1996), President of the State Labor Office in Southern Bavaria; Matriculation examination at St. Matthias-Gymnasium (1927)

Henrich Steffens (1773–1845), philosopher; was professor in Breslau from 1811 to 1831

Oskar Telke (1848–1917), Privy Medical Council

Josef Tief (1904–1971), architect and builder; worked in Breslau from 1930 to 1945

Henryk Tomaszewski (1919–2001), Polish actor and pantomime; Founder of the pantomime theater in Wroclaw

Eugen von Vaerst (1792–1855), Prussian officer and writer; Employee of the Neue Breslauer Zeitung, theater director in Breslau

Heinrich Veith († 1877), lawyer and mining lawyer; worked between 1860 and 1874, among other things, as a city judge and at the Oberbergamt Breslau

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), composer; 1804–06 Kapellmeister in Breslau

Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), neurologist and psychiatrist; worked as a professor in Breslau

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Karl Witte (1800–1883), lawyer and Romanist

Rafał Wojaczek (1945–1971), Polish poet

Henryk Zieliński (1920–1981), Polish historian and professor at the University of Wrocław

Bodo Zimmermann (1902–1945), artist

Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann (1831–1911), architect in Breslau and Hamburg

Individual evidence

↑ Karlheinz Spielmann: Honorary Citizens and Honors in Past and Present, a documentation on German and Central European history. Volume I, self-published, Dortmund 1967, p. 132
↑ ^a ^b ^c Maciej Łagiewski: Honorowi Obywatele Wrocławia w latach 1870-1992. In: Dzieje Wrocławia w datach. Wrocław 1992, ISBN 83-86221-00-3
↑ Zasłużeni dla Wrocławia - sprawdź nagrodzonych. Retrieved January 9, 2020 (Polish).
↑ Nadburmistrzowie i inni urzędnicy Magistratu Wrocławia 1808-1933. (PDF; 2.1 MB). Rada Miejska Wrocławia, 2007, ISBN 978-83-60885-28-4 . For officials from 1933 to 1945 see: Wroc ~ awski Samorząd na początku XX w. ( Memento of October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 30, 2015.
↑ Wiesław Geras: Książęta, burmistrzowie, prezydenci…. In: Dzieje Wrocławia w datach. Wrocław 1992, ISBN 83-86221-00-3 .
↑ Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Ed.): Ecumenical Yearbook 1936–1937 . Max Niehans, Zurich 1939, pp. 240–247.

[1] Karlheinz Spielmann: Honorary Citizens and Honors in Past and Present, a documentation on German and Central European history. Volume I, self-published, Dortmund 1967, p. 132

[Lagiewski-2] Maciej Łagiewski: Honorowi Obywatele Wrocławia w latach 1870-1992. In: Dzieje Wrocławia w datach. Wrocław 1992, ISBN 83-86221-00-3

[3] Zasłużeni dla Wrocławia - sprawdź nagrodzonych. Retrieved January 9, 2020 (Polish).

[4] Nadburmistrzowie i inni urzędnicy Magistratu Wrocławia 1808-1933. (PDF; 2.1 MB). Rada Miejska Wrocławia, 2007, ISBN 978-83-60885-28-4 . For officials from 1933 to 1945 see: Wroc ~ awski Samorząd na początku XX w. ( Memento of October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 30, 2015.

[Geras-5] Wiesław Geras: Książęta, burmistrzowie, prezydenci…. In: Dzieje Wrocławia w datach. Wrocław 1992, ISBN 83-86221-00-3 .

[6] Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Ed.): Ecumenical Yearbook 1936–1937 . Max Niehans, Zurich 1939, pp. 240–247.