List of people from Berlin

Berlin

The following is a list of notable people who were born in Berlin, Germany.

Statesmen

Frederick the Great

Wilhelm II, German Emperor

Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514), noblewoman and mother of Christian III (King of Denmark)
Eberhard Diepgen (born 1941), politician (CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin
Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), politician (SPD, USPD)
Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786
Frederick William (1620 – 1688), Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia from 1640 until 1688
Frederick William I (1688–1740), King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until 1740
Frederick William II (1744–1797), King of Prussia from 1786 until 1797
George V of Hanover (1819—1878), King of Hanover from 1851 until 1866
Gregor Gysi (born 1948), politician (The Left)
Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), Minister of Culture and state secretary for church affairs of GDR
Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942), politician (SPD), Prime Minister of Saarland
Hans Luther (1879–1962), Chancellor in the Weimar Republic
David McAllister (born 1971), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Niedersachsen
Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi
Hugo Preuss (1860–1925), lawyer and "father of the Weimar Constitution"
Jesko von Puttkamer (1855–1917), colonial military chief, and nine times governor of Cameroon
Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), industrialist, politician (DDP) and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), leader of the Hitlerjugend 1931-1940, Reich governor in Vienna
Paul Singer (1844–1911), SPD co-founder, whose chairman and Reichstag, producer
Willi Stoph (1914–1999), politician (SED), Chairman of the State Council
Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), politician (DVP), chancellor and foreign minister of the Weimar Republic, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Otto Wels (1873–1939), politician (SPD)
William I, German Emperor (1797–1888), German Emperor
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941), German Emperor
Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), politician (SPD), Governing Mayor of Berlin from 2001 to 2014

Entrepreneurs

Hasso Plattner

Carl Friedrich von Siemens

Ellen Allien, musician, DJane, founder of music label BPitch Control
Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art Dealer
Alexander Duncker (1813–1897), publisher and bookseller
Friedrich Karl Flick (1927—2006), industrialist and billionaire
Albert Göring (1895–1966), engineer and business manager
Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895), language teacher, book publisher, and the founder of Langenscheidt Publishing Group
Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), publisher, inventor of the Litfaßsäule
Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker
Harald Quandt (1921–1967), industrialist
Hasso Plattner (born 1944), co-founder of SAP SE software company
Emil Rathenau (1838–1915), industrialist and founder of the AEG
Wolf Jobst Siedler (1926–2013), publisher and publicist
Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941), industrialist

Military officers

Hans-Rudolf Boehmer (born 1938), Vice Admiral A.D. the German Navy, inspector of the navy (1995–1998)
Heinz Brandt (1907–1944), General Staff officer
Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), Vice Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, politicians, Chancellor as a successor Bismarck
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), naval officer and commander of the German Navy in Second World War
Günther Tamaschke (1896–1959), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant
Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), Field Marshal
Alexander von Monts (1832-1888), Prussian and German Imperial Navy officer
Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf (1762–1823), Prussian field marshal
Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William. I in Prussia, the Prussian commander army
Manfred von Richthofen
Alfred von Schlieffen (1833–1913), Field Marshal

Scientists

Alexander von Humboldt

Statue of Konrad Zuse

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886), mineralogist and geologist
Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896), physician and physiologist
Max Delbrück (1906–1981), biophysicist
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894), physician
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921–2015), Dutch astronomer
Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
Edmund Landau (1877–1938), mathematician
Bernhard Hermann Neumann
Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist
Adolf Windaus (1876–1959), chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928
Carl Gustav Witt (1866–1946), astronomer and discover of two asteroids
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer

Lawyers

Heinz Drossel (1916–2008), judge, was honored as Righteous Among the Nations
Wilhelm Heinrich von Grolman (1781–1856), lawyer, Berlin Court of Appeal president (the "righteous judge")
Jutta Limbach (1934–2016), President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany from 1994 to 2002, as the first woman in this office
Hans-Jürgen Papier (born 1943), President of the Federal Constitutional Court s 2002–2010

Theologians

Kurt Aland (1915 1994), theologian
Albrecht of Brandenburg (1490–1545), archbishop of Magdeburg and Elector of Mainz, Lord Chancellor of Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
Otto Dibelius (1880–1967), leading member of the Confessing Church, bishop of Berlin, Chairman of the Council of Evangelical Church, president of Ecumenical Council
Regina Jonas (1902–1944), first woman in history to be ordained as a rabbi

Scholars

Herbert Marcuse

Walter Benjamin

Bernd-Rainer Barth (born 1957), historian and publicist
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher
Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938), Egyptologist
Heinrich Brugsch (1827–1894), Egyptologist
Georg Ebers (1837–1898), Egyptologist
Ernst Ehrlich (1921–2007), German-Swiss Judaic scholar and historian
Joachim Fest (1926–2006), historian, journalist and author
Paul Friedlander (1882–1968), philologist and writer
Hans Gustav Güterbock (1908–2000), Hittitologist
Hans von Hentig (1887–1974), criminologist
Gerald Holton (born 1922), science historian and physicist
Gisela Kaplan (born 1944), sociologist and author
Robert Jungk (1913–1994), writer, journalist and futurist
Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), historian
Luise Kraushaar (1905–1989), historian
Bernhard von Kugler (1837–1898), historian
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), German-American philosopher, political scientist and sociologist
Erich Maschke (1900–1982), historian and professor of history
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), sociologist, philosopher

Artists

Marlene Dietrich

Ken Adam (1921–2016) set designer
Die Ärzte band members, Farin Urlaub and Bela B.
Reinhold Begas (1831–1911), sculptor
Michael Ballhaus (1935–2017)
Horst Buchholz (1933–2003)
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992)), singer and actress
Caroline Fischer, pianist
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012)
Klaus Doldinger (born 1936)
Alexander Fehling, actor
Hansjörg Felmy, actor
Julia Franck (1970), writer
Naomi Frankel (1918–2009), novelist
Peter Frankenfeld (1913–1979), comedian, radio and television personality
Götz George (1938–2016) actor
Valeska Gert (1892–1978), dancer and cabaret artist
Walter Gropius, architect
Georg Grosz (1893–1959), painter
Nina Hagen, singer
Judith Hermann (born 1970), writer
Martina Hill, actress
Harald Juhnke (1929–2005) actor, singer, comedian and entertainer
Roland Kaiser (born 1952), singer
Nastassja Kinski, actress
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Hildegard Knef (1925–2002) singer and actress
Hardy Krüger (born 1928), actor
Max Liebermann (1847–1935), painter
Paul Lincke (1866-1946)
Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), film director, producer, writer, and actor
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter) (1920–2004), photographer
Hans Poelzig (1864–1936), architect
Rammstein band members, Paul Landers, bassist Oliver Riedel, drummer and keyboardist Christian Lorenz
Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer and actress
Jürgen Prochnow, actor (born 1941)
Klaus Schulze (born 1947)
Elke Sommer, actor (born 1940)
Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), poet, translator, editor, novelist
Kurt Tucholsky, writer (1890-1935)

Sportspeople

Katarina Witt

Jérôme Boateng

Rudi Ball (1911–1975), Olympic and Hall of Fame ice hockey player
Jérôme Boateng (born 1988), footballer and 2014 FIFA World Cup winner
Guido Buchwald, footballer
Sven Felski, ice hockey coach
Gottfried Fuchs (1889–1972), German-Canadian Olympic soccer player
Thomas Häßler (born 1966), footballer and 1990 FIFA World Cup winner
Robert Huth, footballer
Gustav Jaenecke (born 1908), Olympic ice hockey player
Carsten Keller (born 1939), field hockey player and gold medalist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, father of Andreas Keller, Natascha Keller and Florian Keller
Max Kepler (born 1993), is a baseball player for the Minnesota Twins of the MLB
Henry Laskau (born 1916), track and field athlete
Pierre Littbarski
Laura Ludwig
Ingeborg Mello (born 1919), track and field athlete
Claudia Pechstein
Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), Russian-born German, Polish, and British world-top-ten tennis player
Otto Scheff (born 1886), Olympic swimmer
Gustav Scholz, boxer
Jochen Schümann
Hagen Stamm
Ulf Timmermann
Franziska van Almsick
Muhamed Bešić, professional footballer who plays for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.
Katarina Witt
Christian Ziege, footballer

Others

Nadja Auermann (born 1971), supermodel
Margot Dreschel (1908–1945), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
Horst Fischer (1912–1966), SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
Elisabeth Lupka (1902–1949), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
Rahel Varnhagen (1771–1833), salon host

References

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