List of personalities from Chojnice
This list contains personalities who were born or worked in the town of Chojnice (Konitz, Conitz).
Honorary citizen
(incomplete)
- Wilhelm von Tettau (1804–1894), District Administrator of Conitz
(Completely)
- 1960 Czesław Wycech (1899–1977), President of the Polish Parliament
- 1965 Gereon Grzenia-Romanowski (1916–1983), Rear Admiral
- 1967 Wassili Fjodorowitsch Morosow (1913–1972), Soviet captain
- 1994 Józef Kowalczyk (* 1938), apostolic nuncio
- 1994 Jan Bernard Szlaga (1940–2012), Bishop of Pelplin
- 1994 Cardinal Józef Glemp (1929–2013), Primate of Poland
- 1998 Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
- 2002 | Josephus Fransiscus Collard (* 1932), Mayor of Waalwijk
- 2002 Edmund Piękny (* 1919)
- 2005 Roman Lewandowski (1932–2012), canon
- 2007 Kazimierz Ostrowski (* 1938)
- 2010 Elena Pietrowna Rudenko (* 1959)
- 2010 Georg Moenikes (* 1956), Mayor of Emsdetten
- 2010 Albert Menheere (* 1946), Mayor of Waalwijk
- 2010 Michail Konstantinowitsch Wolkow (* 1950), Ukrainian cultural director
Born in the city
1400-1772
- Martin Fuhrmann (around 1450–1503), German philologist, theologian, university professor and scholarship provider
- Gregor Breitkopf (around 1472–1529), German humanist and university professor
- Georg Daniel Coschwitz (1679–1729), German doctor, pharmacist and university lecturer
- Isaak Gottfried Gödtke (1691–1765), German administrative officer and chronicler
- Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (1710–1775), entrepreneur and Prussian patriot
- Eobald Toze (1715–1789), professor of history and lawyer
- Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf (1724–1784), German botanist, doctor and astronomer
- Johann Daniel Titius (1729–1796), German astronomer, physicist and biologist
- Gottfried Less (1736–1797), German Lutheran theologian
- Christian Gottfried Ewerbeck (1761–1837), philosopher and mathematician
1773-1918
- Friedrich Wilhelm Landmesser (1810-1891), member of the Reichstag (center)
- Otto Consentius (1813–1887), German actor
- Emil Albert Friedberg (1837–1910), German canon lawyer
- Arnold Nieberding (1838–1912), lawyer and administrative officer
- Hermann Davidson (1842–1911), ear, nose and throat specialist and biologist
- Anton von Wolszlegier (1843–1922), priest and member of the German Reichstag
- Hugo Heimann (1859–1951), German publisher, patron and politician (SPD)
- Julius Boethke (1864–1917), German architect
- Emil Hell (1864–1931), Prussian general
- Hans Lucas (1865–1939), classical philologist and high school teacher
- Hermann Haußmann (1879–1958), German civil servant, mayor of Konitz since 1915
- Hugo E. Luedecke (1883–1933), German writer, publisher of the Pommereller Neuesten Nachrichten
- Carl Furbach (1886–?), German manufacturer
- Willi Apel (1893–1988), German musicologist
- Hans Apel (1895–1989), national economist
- Adalbert Schreiber (1895 – after 1950), German politician (CDU)
- Wilhelm Kohlbach (1896–1947), German general
- Erhard Mayke (1896–1962), German speed skater
- Herbert Tucholski (1896–1984), German painter and graphic artist
- Gerhard Karl Theodor Hoffmann (1908–1996), lawyer and SS leader
- Werner-Eugen Hoffmann (1910–1998), German lieutenant general
- Gerhard Joop (1914–2007), German author
- Klaus Raddatz (1914–2002), German prehistorian
Since 1919
- Henryk Dywan (* 1933), German sculptor
- Dieter Bogatzki (1942–2000), German athlete
- Grzegorz Pisalski (* 1970), entrepreneur and politician
Worked in the city
- Hermann Hahn (painter) (1574–1628), painter, lived in Konitz from 1622 until his death
- Julius Eberhard von Massow (1750-1816), politician, was director at the district court of Konitz from 1773
- Johann Eduard von Schleinitz (1798–1869) had been the district administrator for the Konitz district since 1822
- Eduard Morwitz (1815-1893), physician, medical historian and publisher, worked as a doctor in Konitz from 1843
- Joseph Bender (1815-1893), historian, worked in Konitz as a high school teacher
- Leo Redner (1828–1898), Catholic theologian, Bishop of Kulm, was a religion teacher in Konitz
- Hermann Deiters (1833–1907), pedagogue and music researcher, had been the high school director in Konitz since 1874
- Georg Kautz (1860–1940), lawyer and administrative officer
- Konrad Finck von Finckenstein (1860–1916), politician, was district administrator in Konitz from 1894/1895
- Benzion Kellermann (1869–1923), philosopher and writer, was a religion teacher and rabbi in Konitz
- Hans Krüger (1902–1971), lawyer and politician, was chief magistrate in Konitz from 1940 to 1943.
Web links
- Honorary citizen and other personalities of Chojnice Historia Chojnic (Polish)