List of personalities of the city of Kołobrzeg

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The list of personalities of the city Kołobrzeg leads to persons in the city of Kolobrzeg (Kolberg) were born or who temporarily worked there.

Kolberg city arms

People born in the city

By 1700

Konrad Tiburtius Rango (1639–1700), German Lutheran theologian and naturalist

1701 to 1800

Christian Friedrich von Blanckenburg (1744–1796), German literary scholar and writer

1801 to 1850

Hermann Freihold Plüddemann (1809–1868), German history painter and illustrator

1851 to 1900

Hans Gaede (1852–1916), Prussian infantry general
  • Paul von Basse (1851-1919), German administrative officer and landowner,
  • Hans Gaede (1852-1916), German general
  • Gustav Fock (1854–1910), German antiquarian bookseller and publisher
  • Martin Plüddemann (1854-1897), German ballad and song composer and music teacher
  • Otto Theodore Gustav Lingner (1856–1930), German nude, genre and portrait painter
  • Ernst Maass (1856–1929), German classical philologist
  • Max Wallies (1856–1925), German classical philologist, senior teacher at the Sophiengymnasium in Berlin
  • Richard Poelchen (1857–1947), German surgeon in Zeitz
  • Georg Bodenstein (1860–1941), German administrative lawyer and ministerial official
  • Max Girschner (1861–1927), German doctor, worked as a colonial doctor and civil servant in Ponape
  • Max Behrend (1862–1927), German theater actor, artistic director and playwright
  • Walther Schultze (1862–1939), German historian and librarian
  • Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), German doctor and sex researcher
  • Hans Benzmann (1869–1926), German poet
  • Elsa Reger (1870–1951), wife and estate administrator of the artist Max Reger
  • Ernst Lucht (1871–1934), German architect, head of the University Building Office in Greifswald
  • Ernst Janke (1873–1943), German politician, mayor and district administrator
  • Alfred Uckeley (1874–1955), German Protestant theologian
  • Paul Müller (1875–1925), German sailor, journalist and union official
  • Paul Oestreich (1878–1959), German reform pedagogue
  • Walter Witting (1879–1947), German officer, lieutenant general in the Air Force in World War II
  • Günther Schwantes (1881–1942), German officer, lieutenant general in World War II
  • Ernst Behrend (1882–1938), German lawyer, President of the Senate at the Reich Insurance Office
  • Konrad Zander (1883–1947), German naval and air force officer, most recently General der Flieger
  • Ernst Issberner-Haldane (1886–1966), German-Australian palm reader, yoga teacher and occultist
  • Ulrich Burmann (1887–1970), German lawyer and politician (SPD)
  • Tassilo Hoffmann (1887–1951), German numismatist, chairman of the Numismatic Society in Berlin
  • Robert Petschow (1888–1945), German balloonist, photographer and sports official
  • Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889–1968), German Air Force General
  • Heinrich Graf Luckner (1891–1970), German painter and graphic artist
  • Willi Schultz (1892–1972), German school teacher and collector of Pomeranian folk songs and folk dances
  • Günther Angern (1893–1943), German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
  • Lucian Zabel (1893–1936), German commercial artist
  • Walter Schulz (1897–1934), German SA leader and victim of the Röhm putsch

1901 to 1945

Erika Countess von Brockdorff (1911–1943), German resistance fighter

From 1946

Personalities who worked in the city

17th and 18th centuries

Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751–1817) lived from 1791 to 1807 as prelate of the cathedral monastery in Kolberg
  • Johann Ludwig d'Arrest (1709 – after 1771), German lawyer, was mayor and municipal district administrator in Kolberg from 1757 to 1771
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), United States General in the War of Independence, was captured by Russia as a Prussian officer during the siege of 1761
  • Ludwig Moritz von Lucadou (1741–1812), Prussian major general, commandant of the Kolberg Fortress from 1803 to 1807
  • Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751–1817), Prussian diplomat, orientalist and writer, lived from 1791 to 1807 as prelate of the cathedral chapter in Kolberg
  • Friedrich Otto Wichmann (1763 – after 1791), theologian and schoolboy, was rector of the Lyceum in Kolberg from 1785 to 1787
  • Hans von Held (1764–1842), author of the influential text About the sea bath near Colberg and the best and cheapest way to use it with benefit (1803)
  • Otto August Heinrich Dahlke (1767 – after 1806), German lawyer, was Lord Mayor of Kolberg from 1806
  • Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz (1768–1837) Prussian major general, commandant of the Kolberg Fortress from 1807 to 1808
  • Karl Wilhelm Ernst von Waldenfels (1772–1807), Prussian officer, killed in defense of Kolberg
  • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852), also called gymnastics father Jahn , lived from 1820 to 1825 as an exile in Kolberg
  • Adolf von Lützow (1782–1834), Prussian officer, received the order Pour le Mérite for the defense of Kolberg
  • Heinrich von Holleben (1784–1864), bearer of the peace message in 1807, honorary citizen of Kolberg in 1857
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Roth (1787–1862), Prussian major general, made outstanding contributions to the defense of Kolberg in 1807 as a young officer and published on it

19th to 21st century

  • Nestor Girschner (1821–1885), German high school teacher and local historian, prorector of the Kolberg high school
  • Hermann Hirschfeld (1825–1885), father of Magnus Hirschfeld , who was born in Kolberg , was a medical advisor and spa doctor. He was instrumental in making the city a seaside resort. He also made a contribution to the establishment of a sewer system in Kolberg.
  • Joachim Kummert (1834–1914), German politician, was mayor of Kolberg from 1878 to 1907
  • Hermann Ziemer (1845–1908), German philologist, high school professor in Kolberg
  • Wilhelm Grisard (before 1877 – after 1937), organ builder and owner of a piano house
  • Paul Hinz (1899–1988), cathedral preacher in Kolberg from 1930 to 1945, member of the resistance in the Third Reich. Saved valuable cathedral treasures in 1945 (including the famous Schlieffenkrone and the baptismal font),
  • Albrecht Wegener (1905–1973), Lord Mayor of Kolberg from 1935 to 1941
  • Sebastian Machowski (* 1972), German basketball coach, coached Kotwica Kołobrzeg from 2006-2009 and won the Polish Cup with the team

Honorary citizen

- the year in the end is the year of the award -

  • Heinrich von Holleben (1784–1864), Prussian general, bearer of the message on the peace of Tylża (1807), which ended the French siege; 1857
  • Paul Heyse , German writer (Drama Colberg ); 1890
  • Hermann Haken , Lord Mayor of Szczecin
  • Zygmunt Maj (born June 12, 1920 in Radom ; † February 1, 1994 in Kolberg), physician, pediatrician, active in Kolberg from 1970; a street was also named after him; 1990
  • Ignacy Jeż , Bishop of Köslin and Kolberg (1972–1992); 2004
  • John Paul II , 2005
  • Józef Słomski (2009)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An illustrated information board on the spa promenade, seen and photographed in May 2018
  2. ↑ Honorowi obywatele Kołobrzegu (German: Kolbergs honorary citizen ). Retrieved November 15, 2019 (Polish).