List of sons and daughters of the city of Potsdam

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The following personalities were born in Potsdam (list by birthday). Whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Potsdam is irrelevant.

Before 18th century

  • 1595, Joachim Stegmann , † 1633 in Klausenburg, mathematician and Unitarian theologian

18th century

19th century

1801-1850

  • 1801, September 21, Moritz Hermann von Jacobi , † March 10, 1874 in Saint Petersburg, physicist and engineer
  • 1802, June 2, August Wilhelm Bullrich , † July 3, 1859 in Berlin, pharmacist
  • 1802, December 9, Julius Manger , † 1874, architect
  • 1803, February 15, Ludwig Persius , † July 12, 1845 in Potsdam, architect
  • 1804, March 21, Emil von Kessel , † November 8, 1870 in Potsdam, Prussian major general
  • 1804, December 10, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi , † February 18, 1851 in Berlin, mathematician
  • 1805, October 7, Gustav August Adolf Becker , † March 24, 1841, actor, singer, theater and opera director
  • 1809, January 24, Carl Ludwig Gesell , † March 7, 1867 in Potsdam, organ builder
  • 1813, December 21, Philipp Galen , † February 18, 1899 in Potsdam, writer and doctor
  • 1821, August 31, Hermann (von) Helmholtz , † September 8, 1894 in Charlottenburg, physiologist and physicist, one of the most important natural scientists of his time
  • 1821, September 13, Rudolf von Barby , † March 4, 1906 in Wiesbaden, Prussian lieutenant general
  • 1822, March 27, Albert Kropf , † December 20, 1910 in Bethel, South Africa, missionary
  • 1822, December 26, Oskar von Klaß , † July 8, 1887 in Herischdorf, Prussian major general
  • 1822, December 30, Rudolf von Neumann-Cosel , † February 8, 1888 in Hirschberg (Lower Silesia), Prussian major general
  • 1823, March 22, Emilie Friederike Auguste Miethe, known as Frédérique Émilie Auguste O'Connell , † October 21, 1885 in Paris, Franco-German painter and etcher
  • 1824, April 1, Alfred Bonaventura von Rauch , † September 25, 1900 in Berlin, Prussian general of the cavalry, adjutant general of the German Emperors
  • 1826, June 29, Maximilian Dortu , † July 31, 1849 (executed) in Freiburg im Breisgau, revolutionary from 1848/49
  • 1826, August 5, Sophie Alberti , † August 15, 1892 in Potsdam, writer
  • 1827, January 3, Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch , † March 25, 1907 in Schwerin, Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the 14th cavalry brigade
  • 1829, January 28, Gustav von Arnim , † April 20, 1909 in Berlin, General
  • 1830, March 24, August Höpfner , † March 12, 1901 in Perleberg, teacher in Perleberg and city poet of Potsdam, Perleberg and Berlin
  • 1831, September 3, Paul von Waldersee , † June 14, 1906 in Königsberg in Franconia, musicologist
  • 1831, October 18, Friedrich III. , † June 15, 1888 in Potsdam, Emperor of the German Empire and King of Prussia in 1888
  • 1832, September 1, Paul Persius , † September 19, 1902 in Berlin, politician, member of the Prussian manor house. Lawyer, Prussian civil servant, member of parliament and first president of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court
  • 1832, March 12, Louis von Blanc , † January 9, 1903 in Weimar, naval officer, most recently admiral
  • 1832, April 8, Alfred Graf von Waldersee , † March 5, 1904 in Hanover, Prussian Field Marshal General
  • 1832, October 2, Carl Ernst Heinrich Ziller , † May 30, 1866 in Potsdam, architect and builder
  • 1832, December 17, Eduard Becker , † June 30, 1913 in Elsenau am Werbellinsee, engineer, machine manufacturer
  • 1834, February 16, Ernst Haeckel , † August 9, 1919 in Jena, zoologist, philosopher
  • 1835, August 27, Reinhold Persius , † December 12, 1912 in Berlin, architect
  • 1836, January 19, Gottlieb von Haeseler , † October 25, 1919 in Harnekop, Field Marshal General, member of the Prussian mansion
  • 1839, January 6, Hermann von Stülpnagel , † March 1, 1912 in Darmstadt, Prussian lieutenant general
  • 1844, September 9, Wilhelm von Branca , † March 12, 1928 in Munich, geologist and paleontologist
  • 1845, May 11, Carl Eduard Gesell , † April 8, 1894 in Potsdam, organ builder
  • 1845, November 30, Richard William Guenther , † April 5, 1913 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, American politician
  • 1846, April 6, Gustav von Kessel , † May 28, 1918 in Berlin, Prussian general
  • 1846, December 21, Hans von Arnim , † February 3, 1922 in Baden-Baden, Prussian general
  • 1848, May 22, Hermann Schubert , † July 20, 1911 in Hamburg, mathematician
  • 1848, June 28, Hermann Ziller , † September 15, 1915 in Potsdam, architect and builder
  • 1849, July 21, Hans Dechend , † June 30, 1932 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge, Prussian officer and writer
  • 1849, September 28, Curt von Pfuel , † July 16, 1936 in Potsdam, Prussian general of the cavalry

1851-1900

  • 1852, January 7, Heinrich Köhler , † October 6, 1920 in Potsdam, writer
  • 1852, February 29, Erich Sello , † December 9, 1912 in Berlin, lawyer and defense attorney
  • 1852, December 11, Adelheid Stier , † April 8, 1942, poet and narrator
  • 1853, March 8, Eduard Bertz , † December 10, 1931 in Potsdam, writer, philosopher, librarian and translator
  • 1855, June 7, Albert von Ruville , † June 5, 1934 in Halle (Saale), officer and historian
  • 1856, June 18, Gustav von Arnim , † October 6, 1932 in Berlin, Lieutenant General,
  • 1857, September 15, Hugo Erich von Boehmer , † July 11, 1939 in Berlin-Lichterfelde, engineer, patent attorney and genealogist
  • 1858, November 6, Richard Jaehne , † October 29, 1905 in Jena, politician
  • 1859, January 7, Anatol Graf von Bredow , † March 22, 1941 in Seefeld, General
  • 1859, January 27, Wilhelm II , † June 4, 1941 in Doorn / Netherlands, Emperor of the German Empire and King of Prussia 1888–1918
  • 1859, October 16, Otto Krauske , † August 8, 1930 in Königsberg (Prussia), historian
  • 1860, June 4, Friedrich Schmidt-Ott , † April 28, 1956 in Berlin, lawyer, politician, Prussian Minister of Culture
  • 1861, April 18, Unico von der Groeben , † July 2, 1924 in Berlin, diplomat, member of the Prussian manor house
  • 1862, August 14, Heinrich von Prussia , † April 20, 1929 in Hemmelmark, Prussian Prince, Grand Admiral
  • 1866, March 14, Maximilian Rogge , † September 6, 1940 in Berlin, Vice Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, State Secretary and Head of the Reichsmarinamt in Scheidemann's cabinet, most recently representative of the Skoda Works in Berlin
  • 1867, December 25, August Riebe , † May 6, 1936 in Dresden, engineer and entrepreneur
  • 1868, June 6, Hans von Jacobs , † February 13, 1915 in Metz, lawyer and diplomat
  • 1868, September 10, Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch , † August 11, 1899 in Wilhelmshöhe Palace, military governor and tutor of the sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Empress Auguste Viktoria, Prime Lieutenant à la suite of the 1st Guards Regiment on foot
  • 1869, August 21, Friedrich von Falkenhausen , † March 27, 1946 in Potsdam, administrative lawyer, writer and translator
  • 1869, Carl Friedrich Kappstein , † 1933 in Berlin, animal and still life painter and graphic artist
  • 1870, February 5, Paul Heiland , † September 21, 1933 in Potsdam, art collector and art historian
  • 1872, May 8, Friedrich Ludwig , † October 3, 1930 in Göttingen, music historian and rector of the University of Göttingen
  • 1872, November 4, Max Wilhelm August Heldt , † December 27, 1933 in Dresden, Prime Minister of Saxony 1924–29
  • 1873, April 22, Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing , † January 12, 1956 in Oberaudorf am Inn, Egyptologist
  • 1876, June 29, Alexander Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien , † December 25, 1944 in Bad Godesberg, legal scholar and politician (DVP), member of the Reichstag
  • 1878, June 20, Willy Vorkastner , † November 19, 1931 in Halle adS, forensic doctor
  • 1882, January 23, Martin Steinke , † August 29, 1966 in Igersheim, Buddhist and writer
  • 1882, May 6, Wilhelm von Prussia , † July 20, 1951 in Hechingen, Prussian and German Crown Prince
  • 1883, April 20, Kurt Krause , † November 19, 1963 in Berlin, botanist and university professor
  • 1883, July 7, Eitel Friedrich von Prussia , † December 8, 1942 in the Villa Ingenheim in Potsdam, second son of King Wilhelm II of Prussia
  • 1884, July 25th, Ludowika Jakobsson b. Eilers, † November 1, 1968 in Helsinki, Olympic champion 1920 and three-time world champion in figure skating (with her husband Walter Jakobsson ) for Finland
  • 1885, June 19, Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow , † June 21, 1936 in Berlin, diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1936
  • 1886, March 2, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg , † January 27, 1974 in Irschenhausen, general of the tank troops and military attaché
  • 1886, November 2, Bruno Topff , † November 9, 1920 in Sønderborg, military tailor, chairman of the Sønderborg soldiers' council, alleged president of Alsen
  • 1887, January 29, August Wilhelm von Prussia , † March 25, 1949 in Stuttgart, fourth son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II from the house of Hohenzollern and an SA leader with the rank of Obergruppenführer
  • 1888, July 27, Oskar von Prussia , † January 27, 1958 in Munich, master master and major general
  • 1890, August 15, Willy Lorenz , † July 15, 1971 in Erfurt, racing cyclist
  • 1892 January 22, Conrad Veidt , † April 3, 1943 in Hollywood, California, actor
  • 1892, September 13, Viktoria Luise von Prussia , † December 11, 1980 in Hanover, Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and last representative of the monarchy
  • 1893, November 18, Elisabeth von Schleicher , † June 30, 1934 in Neubabelsberg, wife of the German Chancellor and General Kurt von Schleicher and victims of National Socialism
  • 1893, December 9, Artur Günther , † February 9, 1972 in Berlin, film architect
  • 1894, February 8, Carl Hartmann , † June 24, 1943, football player
  • 1894, August 13, Paul Blobel , † June 7, 1951 in Landsberg am Lech (executed), SS-Standartenführer
  • 1895, July 23, Erich Krause , † January 22, 1932, chemist and university professor
  • 1896, March 27, Walter Herrmann ; † February 25, 1972 in Göttingen, criminologist, social worker and reformer in welfare education and in prison
  • 1896, June 18, Alfred Ehrentreich ; † April 11, 1998 in Korbach, reform pedagogue and author
  • 1896, July 18, Franz Eccard von Bentivegni , † April 4, 1958 in Wiesbaden, officer, last lieutenant general in World War II
  • 1896, 23 August, Hubert von Meyerinck , † 13 May 1971 in Hamburg, actor
  • 1896, October 19, Friedrich Bonte , † April 10, 1940 near Narvik (Norway), was a naval officer (most recently from 1940 with the rank of commodore) in the German navy during the Second World War
  • 1897, January 14, Hasso von Manteuffel , † September 24, 1978 in Reith, General of the Panzer Force and politician
  • 1897, October 14, Hans-Karl Koch , † July 1, 1934 in Berlin-Lichterfelde, politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
  • 1897, November 17, Ernst Sasse , † June 20, 1945 in Brandenburg / Havel, resistance fighter
  • 1898, April 19, Ernst-August Roth , † September 26, 1975 in Ahrensburg, General
  • 1898, July 16, Babette Gross , † February 8, 1990 in Berlin, publicist
  • 1898, November 10, Martin Jahn , † July 6, 1981 in Darmstadt, painter, draftsman and art teacher
  • 1899, December 11, Alexander Prince zu Dohna-Schlobitten , † October 29, 1997 in Basel, landowner, officer and author

20th century

1901-1925

  • 1901, September 9, Erwin Köhler , † February 21, 1951 in Butyrka prison, deputy mayor, victim of Stalinism
  • 1901, October 21, Margarete Buber-Neumann b. Thuringia, † November 6, 1989 in Frankfurt am Main, writer (As a prisoner with Hitler and Stalin; From Potsdam to Moscow)
  • 1902, July 24, Hans Helmuth Chemin-Petit , † April 12, 1981 in Berlin, composer and conductor
  • 1902, September 11, Gerhart Drabsch , † April 1945 near Luckenwalde, writer
  • 1903, February 13, Countess Isabelle von Loë , † January 10, 2009 in Kevelaer, noblewoman
  • 1904, September 29, Egon Eiermann , † July 19, 1970 in Baden-Baden, architect
  • 1907, February 6, Hans-Albrecht Herzner , † September 3, 1942 in Hohenlychen, Abwehr officer (intelligence service) and central figure in the national-conservative resistance against Adolf Hitler
  • 1907, February 23, Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal , † October 13, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, officer and resistance fighter in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944
  • 1907, August 5th, Fritz Heese , † June 1959, doctor at the Charité, manufacturer of the cardiovascular drug Kristinat
  • 1907, August 16, Werner Eplinius , † September 12, 1957 in Munich, screenwriter
  • 1907, November 9, Louis Ferdinand von Prussia , † September 25, 1994 in Bremen, heir to the German and Prussian throne since 1933 and head of the House of Hohenzollern from 1951 until his death
  • 1908, January 17, Bogislaw von Bonin , † August 13, 1980 in Lehrte, army officer and publicist
  • 1908, May 27, Günter Johl , † November 25, 1965 in Berlin, painter and graphic artist
  • 1909, May 11, Ehrenfried von Holleben , † October 28, 1988 in Bayreuth, diplomat
  • 1909, August 9, Adam von Trott zu Solz , † August 26, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, lawyer, diplomat and resistance fighter
  • 1911, February 20, Elsa Ullmann , † January 24, 2010 in Munich, pharmacist
  • 1916, July 8, Wolfgang Schweitzer , † February 25, 2009 in Eckardtsheim, Protestant theologian, university lecturer, social ethicist and peace activist
  • 1916, November 8, Peter Weiss , † May 10, 1982 in Stockholm, writer, graphic artist and painter
  • 1919, January 12, Hans Richter , † October 5, 2008 in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse), actor
  • 1921, January 21, Petermax Müller , † March 29, 2002 in Hanover, racing car driver and dealer
  • 1921, March 22, Ilse Kleberger , † January 2, 2012 in Berlin, author of travel literature, biographies and literature for children and young people
  • 1921, April 21, Ernst Röhrig , † April 22, 2020, forest scientist at the University of Göttingen
  • 1922, January 30, Wilhelm Karl Prince of Prussia , † April 9, 2007 in Holzminden, Lord Master of the Order of St. John
  • 1922, February 15, Waldemar Ch. Hecker , † May 27, 2008, doctor, university professor in Munich
  • 1922, May 31, Bernhard Hassenstein , † April 16, 2016 in Freiburg im Breisgau, behavioral biologist and co-founder of biological cybernetics
  • 1923, January 27, Georg-Sigismund von Oppen , † February 22, 2008 in Gualeguaychú, Argentina, officer and resistance fighter
  • 1923, April 28, Marika Geldmacher-von Mallinckrodt , † December 23, 2016 in Erlangen, chemist and physician
  • 1924, May 3, Paul Simsa , † March 8, 2013, motor journalist
  • 1924, October 3, Carl-Christoph Schweitzer , † July 4, 2017 in Bonn, political scientist and politician (SPD)
  • 1925, February 9, Burkhard Heim , † January 14, 2001 in Northeim, explosives technician, physicist and scholar

1926-1950

  • 1926, March 1, Ernst-Ulrich von Kameke , † April 9, 2019 in Großenaspe, church musician, organist and composer
  • 1927, January 20, Wolfgang Kasack , † January 10, 2003 in Much, Slavist and university professor
  • 1927, May 31, Gerhard Wagenitz , † January 30, 2017 in Rüdesheim, botanist
  • 1927, December 10th, Klaus Hafner , chemist and university professor
  • 1928, February 15, Dieter Lattmann , † April 17, 2018 in Munich, writer and politician (SPD)
  • 1928, August 29, Klaus Bölling , † November 2, 2014 in Berlin, Head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government and Government Spokesman (1974–80 and 1982), Head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic in the GDR (1981–82)
  • 1928, December 14, Carlferdinand Zech , † September 16, 1999 in Halle (Saale), musicologist, composer and choir director
  • 1929, February 18, Günther Schramm , stage and television actor, voice actor, television presenter and singer
  • 1930, May 21, Peter Dannenberg , † March 9, 2015 in Kronshagen, music critic and artistic director
  • 1932, October 5th, Helmut Koch , mathematician and university professor
  • 1933, Joachim Schubotz , † January 19, 2018 in Hanover, artist
  • 1933, January 2, Leopold Bill von Bredow , lawyer and diplomat
  • 1933, January 3, Kurt Roeske , classical philologist and author
  • 1934, September 2, Hilla Becher , † October 10, 2015 in Düsseldorf, photographer
  • 1934, October 8, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann , philosopher
  • 1935, July 14, Jürgen Tippe , † August 8, 2009, University Rector and President
  • 1935, December 14, Klaus Klingner , politician (SPD), Justice Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (1988–96)
  • 1936, Chris Reinecke , artist
  • 1936, March 21st, Rolf Rave , architect, urban planner and university professor
  • 1936, August 29, Joachim Palm , † November 15, 2005 in Altdorf, painter and graphic artist, professor in Augsburg
  • 1936, October 21, Georg-Friedrich Kahl , † February 1, 2019 in Kleve, doctor, pharmacologist and toxicologist
  • 1936, November 16, Detlef Kühn , publicist, radio director and genealogist
  • 1936, November 17, Hanns-Christof Spatz , † August 10, 2017, biophysicist
  • 1937, February 14, Nicole Heesters , actress
  • 1938, January 7, Wolfgang Braumann , † April 8, 2017, cameraman and painter
  • 1938, February 13, Christoph Derschau , † November 7, 1995 in Hamburg, poet
  • 1938, February 18, Manfred Wolter , † October 14, 1999 in Woltersdorf, author and screenwriter
  • 1938, February 28, Volker Emmerich , lawyer and legal scholar
  • 1938, March 19, Christian Günther , † April 21, 2001 in Bremen, moderator, speaker and actor
  • 1938, June 2, Ludolf von Mackensen , technology historian and museum director
  • 1938, December 23, Siegfried Rauhut , enduro athlete
  • 1939, Sabine Franek-Koch , visual artist and university lecturer
  • 1940, July 3, Burkhart Kroeber , translator and author
  • 1941, May 13, Gundula Diel , athlete
  • 1942, September 14th, Manfred Butzmann , graphic artist
  • 1942, November 24th, Ute Brade , ceramicist
  • 1943, January 14th, Manfred Wolke , Olympic champion in boxing and boxing trainer
  • 1943, June 19, Sieglinde Dick , † March 10, 2003 in Münchehofe, first female jockey in the GDR
  • 1943, August 26, Klaus Katzur , † September 4, 2016 in Riesa, swimming athlete and silver medal winner (Olympic Games 1972)
  • 1943, November 25, Ekkehard Stein , composer (Sun of Jamaica)
  • 1944, March 16, Christian Kirchner , † January 17, 2014 in Berlin, law and economics and university professor
  • 1944, November 18, Wolfgang Joop , fashion designer
  • 1944, November 24th, Sibylle Tönnies , † March 25th 2017, lawyer, sociologist and publicist
  • 1945, January 23, Gerd Eggers , † April 20, 2018 in Potsdam, writer and songwriter
  • 1946, September 5, Jörg Zillies , industrial pharmacist, management consultant, local politician (CDU), sports moderator and functionary
  • 1946, October 29, Oliver Bendt alias Jürgen Knoch, actor, gymnast, singer (Amarillo, Mein Lied für Maria)
  • 1947, March 15th, Christiane Lanzke , † 2005 in Rostock, diver and actress
  • 1948, June 10th, Jürgen Heinrich , youth functionary (FDJ) and general director of the travel agency Jugendtourist
  • 1949, April 4th, Klaus-Dieter Klebsch , actor and voice actor
  • 1950, April 22nd, Detlev Herbert Krüger , virologist and university professor
  • 1950, October 23, Lothar Doering , handball player and coach

1951-1975

1976-2000

21st century