List of personalities of the city of Chełmno

This list contains personalities who were born in the city of Chełmno or Culm or who worked in it.

Honorary citizen

• 1856 Wojciech Łożyński (1808–1884), educator
• 1888–1920 7 people

• 1924 Marcin Jagodziński
• 1924 Józef Haller , general
• 1926 Walenty Fiałek (1852–1932), publisher
• (1927/39) Zygmunt Rogala , priest
• (1927/39) Ignacy Mościcki

• 2012 Zofia Zych (1928–2012), doctor
• 2012 Jan Kujaczyński (* 1925), priest
• 2012 Jerzy Kałdowski (1931–2015), historian
• 2012 Stefan Rafiński (* 1929), historian

Born in the city

1700-1919

• Eduard Küntzel (1793–1860), Prussian major general
• Wojciech Łożyński (1808–1884), teacher in Poznan and Culm
• Roderich von Erckert (1821–1900), ethnographer and cartographer
• Hermann Paul Gerhard (1827–1881), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
• Oscar Binseel (1839–1905), lawyer and magazine editor
• Adolf Wach (1843–1926), legal scholar
• Julius Bachmann (1844–1924), lawyer, mayor of Bromberg and member of the Prussian manor house
• Antoni Grabowski (1857–1921), chemist and Esperanto activist
• Friedrich Fülleborn (1866–1933), tropical medicine and natural scientist
• Hermann Löns (1866–1914), journalist and writer
• Salomon Samuel (1867–1942), rabbi of the Essen synagogue community
• Antoni Piotrowicz (1869–1923), painter
• Ernst Bischoff-Culm (1870–1917), painter
• Erich von Tschischwitz (1870–1958), General
• Franz Schultz (1877–1950), German studies specialist and university professor in Strasbourg, Freiburg, Cologne and Frankfurt / M.
• Anselm Ruest (d. I. Ernst Samuel, 1878–1943), Jewish publicist, philologist, philosopher
• Georg Salzberger (1882–1975), rabbi of the Westend Synagogue in Frankfurt / M.
• Otto Moll (1882–1968), neophilologist, botanist and zoologist
• Walter Eschenbach (1883–1936), cathedral organist in Königsberg i. Pr.
• Eugen Stabe (1885–1968), racing cyclist
• Friedrich-Carl Cranz (1886–1941), Lieutenant General in World War II
• Heinz Guderian (1888–1954), general in World War II
• Maksymilian Raszeja (1889–1939), theologian and professor at the Pelplin seminary
• Ernst Wilhelm Lotz (1890–1914), Expressionist poet
• Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), politician, party leader of the SPD
• Walter Schilling (1895–1943), Lieutenant General in World War II
• Franciszek Raszeja (1896–1942), doctor and university professor
• Julius-Karl von Engelbrechten (1900–1971), writer
• Leon Raszeja (1901–1939), lawyer

Since 1920

• Brygida Kürbis (1921–2001), medieval historian
• Joachim Grubich (* 1935), organist and music teacher
• Brunon Bendig (1938-2006), boxer
• Ingvild Goetz (* 1941), art collector and curator
• Michael Otto (* 1943), entrepreneur, former CEO of the Otto Group
• Gottfried Gabriel (* 1943), philosopher and professor
• Jakub Zabłocki (1984-2015), football player
• Katarzyna Bryda (* 1990), volleyball player

Worked in the city

• Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (≈1664 / 1667–1734), composer, priest and educator, worked as an educator in Kulm for two years
• Johann von Buddenbrock (1707–1781), the Kulmer Kadettenanstalt was established under his leadership
• Józef Gółkowski (1787–1871), Polish publisher, editor of Polish newspapers, founded amateur theater
• Ignacy Danielewski (1829–1907), Polish publisher and publicist
• Ludwik Rydygier (1850–1920), surgeon
• Paul Goesch (1885–1940), painter and architect, government architect in Kulm from 1915 to 1917

Web links

• Honored People Chełmno.com (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary Citizen and Deserved Personalities Chełmno (Polish)