List of personalities from the city of Bydgoszcz
The list of personalities of the city Bydgoszcz (dt. Bromberg ) includes members appointed by the city of honorary citizens personalities, the sons and daughters of the town as well as the costs associated with the city of personalities.
Honorary citizen
The city of Bydgoszcz has granted honorary citizenship to the following persons (chronological list by year of award):
Marshal Rydz-Śmigły
John Paul II
Irena Szewińska
- 1918: Lewin Louis Aronsohn
- 1926: Władysław Piórek
- 1930: Jan Biziel
- 1937: Edward Rydz-Śmigły
- 1993: Tadeusz Nowakowski
- 1993: Andrzej Szwalbe
- 1997: Teresa Ciepły
- 1998: John Paul II
- 1999: Primo Nebiolo
- 2003: Jerzy Hoffman
- 2005: Irena Szewińska
- 2006: Zdzisław Lipiński
- 2007: Rajmund Kuczma
- 2009: Krzysztof Penderecki
- 2010: Henryk Muszyński
sons and daughters of the town
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To 1900
- Ferdinand von Grabowski (1787–1861), Lieutenant General
- Johann Nietz (around 1800 - 1873/1874), architect and construction officer
- Robert Rothe (1803-1893), politician
- Friedrich Techow (1807–1880), grammar school director and member of the Reichstag
- Hermann Killisch-Horn (1821–1886), lawyer, journalist and entrepreneur, founder of the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung
- Alexander Schimmelfennig (1824–1865), military and revolutionary
- Karl Hempel (1827–1899), landowner and member of the German Reichstag
- Emil Boethke (1828–1896), architect and military builder
- Marie von Roskowska (1828–1889), German writer
- Georg von Schleinitz (1834–1910), German vice admiral
- Paul von Collas (1841–1910), military governor of Mainz
- Hermann Bayer (1843–1920), German officer
- Karl Bonstedt (1844–1888), German politician, Mayor of Iserlohn
- Max von Boehn (1850–1921), German officer
- Adolf Trendelenburg (1844–1941), classical archaeologist and classical philologist
- Adolf Rosenberg (1850–1906), German art historian
- Hermann Weigand (1854–1926), German architect and local politician in Berlin
- Paul Graef (1855–1925), German architect and building researcher
- Bruno Borchardt (1859–1939), German politician and writer
- Hugo Hergesell (1859–1938), German meteorologist
- Carl von Wichmann (1860–1922), German officer
- Louis Jacobsohn-Lask (1863–1940), German neurologist and neuroanatomist
- Walter Leistikow (1865–1908), German painter
- Julian Borchardt (1868–1932), politician and journalist
- Friedrich von Erckert (1869–1908), officer in the protection force
- Julius Gehl (1869–1939), German trade unionist and politician
- Curt Cronau (1870–?), German administrative lawyer
- Eugen Rosenfeld (1870–1953), German painter
- Paul Stössel (1871–?), German politician
- Leopold Ellerbeck (1872–1945), German civil engineer
- Adam Frasunkiewicz (1873–1923), politician (Bremen Soviet Republic)
- Anna Nemitz (1873–1962), politician
- Franz Geppert (1874–1952), historian and high school teacher
- Klara Hofer (1875–1955), German writer
- Eugen Gildemeister (1878–1945), German bacteriologist and President of the Robert Koch Institute
- Franz Kempner (1879–1945), German civil servant and resistance fighter
- Artur Pankratz (1879–1975), politician
- Erich Gierach (1881–1943), National Socialist Germanist and pioneer
- Franz Lüdtke (1882–1945), German national politician
- Ernst Brunk (1883–1942), German industrialist and politician
- Olga Essig (1884–1965), German professional educator
- Erwin von Sigel (1884–1967), German athlete
- Paul Wieczorek (1885–1918), commander of the People's Navy Division
- Kurt von dem Borne (1885–1946), admiral
- Paul Adolf Hauptmann (1887–1958), German painter
- Walther Schulz (1887–1982), German prehistorian
- Erich Rottig (1888–?), German stonemason
- Eberhard von Mackensen (1889–1969), General
- Karl Oltersdorf (1889–1973), German resistance fighter and union official
- Erich Buchholz (1891–1972), German painter, architect and graphic artist
- George Adamski (1891-1965), American science fiction writer and ufologist
- Franz Höhne (1892–1980), painter
- Bruno Trawinski (1893–1977), politician
- Kurt Krüger (1894 – after 1944), politician, mayor of Neuruppin
- Herbert Buchholz (1895–1971), German electrical engineer
- Karl Drewke (1895–1960), politician
- Willi Finger-Hain (1895–1970), writer
- Genja Jonas (1895–1938), photographer
- Lilly zu Rantzau (1895–1988), German writer
- Hans Joachim von Busse (1896–1946), District Administrator in Pomerania
- Hans Hartmann (Admiral) (1897–1976), naval officer, ship commander, most recently rear admiral in World War II
- Hermann Maaß (1897–1944), resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- Kurt Tank (1898–1983), aircraft designer
- Walter Bogs (1899–1991), legal scholar and federal judge
1901 to 1950
- Erwin Hartung (1901–1986), German singer
- Alfred E. Johann (1901–1996), writer
- Wolfgang Schmieder (1901–1990), German musicologist
- Kurt Marohn (1902–1980), German architect
- Marta Baranowska (1903–2009), Polish social worker, resistance fighter against National Socialism and prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- Gerhard Kehnscherper (1903–1988), German Protestant theologian and writer
- Arno Pardun (1903–1943), paramilitary activist and composer
- Hans von Ploetz (1904–1993), Hessian politician
- Alfred-Ingemar Berndt (1905–1945), journalist and writer as well as a close associate of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
- Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), mathematician (deciphered the ENIGMA code)
- Hansjochem Autrum (1907–2003), zoologist, head of the Air Force's medical services during World War II
- Walter Lehweß-Litzmann (1907–1986), commodore of a combat squadron and knight's cross holder
- Karl-Heinz Rux (1907–1945), German lawyer and SS-Obersturmbannführer with the Gestapo
- Gwidon Damazyn (1908–1972), Polish electrical engineer, resistance fighter against National Socialism, prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and member of the Polish military section of the IMO
- Joachim Fernau (1909–1988), writer
- Herwart Miessner (1911–2002), German politician
- Jerzy Braun (1911–1968), rower, medalist at the 1932 Olympic Games
- Wolfgang Reinholz (* 1911), German lawyer and SS leader
- Gerhard Hardel (1912–1984), German writer
- Christa Schroeder (1913–1988), German politician
- Hanns Anselm Perten (1917–1985), German actor
- Hilde Zadek (1917–2019), German-Austrian opera, operetta, lied and concert singer
- Leonhard Gleske (1921–2019), German economist
- Danuta Kleisinger (1924-2017; née Czlapinska), "Righteous Among the Nations"
- Richard Ogorkiewicz (1926–2019), Polish-British engineer specializing in armored vehicles
- Teodor Kocerka (1927–1999), Polish rower
- Edmund Piszcz (* 1929), retired Archbishop of Warmia
- Lothar Dombrowski (1930–2001), journalist and moderator
- Kazimierz Karabasz (1930-2018), documentary filmmaker
- Horst-Erhardt Knoll (1931–2016), German politician
- Zbigniew Gostomski (1932–2017), painter, actor and photographer
- Leonard Pietraszak (born 1936), actor
- Włodzimierz Szymański (1936–2015), jazz musician
- Dieter Bromund (* 1938), German writer
- Włodzimierz Jastrzębski (* 1939), historian
- Jan Wróblewski (* 1940), Polish pilot and world glider champion
- Matthias Klemm (* 1941), German painter and graphic artist
- Ekkehard Schulz (* 1941), manager
- Hanns-Jörn Weber (* 1941), German stage and television actor
- Manfred Coppik (1943–2016), German politician and lawyer
- Giselher Hickel (* 1943), German Protestant theologian and publicist
- Katrin Seybold (1943–2012), German documentary filmmaker
- Jacek Bednarek (1944–1990), jazz musician and composer
- Jürgen Bordanowicz (* 1944), artist
- Ewa Sowińska (* 1944), doctor
- Albert Stefan Kotowski (* 1949), German-Polish historian
- Piotr Moss (* 1949), composer
- Andrzej Chłopecki (1950–2012), musicologist and critic
- Jan Kulczyk (1950–2015), entrepreneur
From 1951
- Jan Bielecki (* 1951), politician
- Mieczysław Cieniuch (* 1951), Commander in Chief of the Polish Armed Forces
- Grażyna Szapołowska (born 1953), actress
- Wojciech Mojzesowicz (* 1954), politician
- Czesław Panek (1954–2016), ice hockey player
- Marian Sypniewski (* 1955), fencer
- Zbigniew Boniek (* 1956), football player and coach
- Stefan Majewski (* 1956), soccer player and coach
- Janusz Turowski (* 1961), soccer player and coach
- Tomasz Gwinciński (* 1963), guitarist, percussionist and composer
- Radosław Sikorski (* 1963), politician
- Kosma Złotowski (* 1964), politician
- Joanna Rajkowska (* 1968), artist
- Marcin Jahr (* 1969), jazz drummer
- Tomasz Gollob (* 1971), track athlete
- Monika Walerowicz (* 1971), opera singer
- Paulina Schulz (* 1973), German writer and translator
- Maciej Wydrzyński (* 1974), politician, member of the Sejm
- Marta Helmin (* 1976), German musical actress
- Heiko Szonn (* 1976), German racing cyclist
- Robert Wulnikowski (* 1977), soccer goalkeeper
- Vivian Schmitt (* 1978), German porn actress
- Sylwester Szmyd (* 1978), racing cyclist
- Paweł Bartosz Olszewski (* 1979), member of the Sejm
- Pierre Caesar (* 1980), artist twin
- Pablo Caesar (* 1980), artist twin
- Łukasz Krupa (* 1981), politician
- Paweł Ochal (* 1981), marathon runner
- Wojciech Łobodziński (* 1982), football player
- Łukasz Michalski (* 1988), pole vaulter
- Iga Baumgart (* 1989), sprinter
- Paweł Wojciechowski (* 1989), pole vaulter
- Adam Majchrowicz (* 1991), tennis player
- Jacek Góralski (* 1992), football player
People connected to the city
- Heinrich Theodor Rötscher (1802–1871), dramaturge, teacher, critic and aesthetician, was professor at the royal grammar school from 1830 to 1845
- Albert Schulz (pseudonym San-Marte ; 1802-1893), lawyer, poet, literary scholar and Germanist, was from 1837 to 1843 Domain Department Council in Bromberg
- Heinrich Kannenberg (1887–1966), German agricultural scientist, was Professor and Director of the Institute for Peatland Culture and Forage Production at the Reich Research Institute from 1941 to 1944
- Dagobert Friedlaender (1826–1904), banker and city councilor, became a member of the Prussian mansion when the city was presented
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorowi Obywatele Bydgoszczy (Polish)