Famous residents of Szczecin

Before 1800

Philipp Dulichius (1562–1631), German composer

Catherine the Great (1729–1796), empress of Russia

Franz Kasimir von Kleist (1736–1808), Prussian general

Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia Friedrich von Adelung (1768–1843), linguist, historian and bibliographer Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800), architect Henryka Beyer (1782–1855) painter Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Field Marshal Carl Loewe (1796–1869) composer, lived in Stettin Heinrich Philipp August Damerow (1798–1866), psychiatrist Karl Loeillot (1798–1864), painter and lithographer

1800–1850

Theodor Hildebrandt (1804–1874) painter

Carl August Dohrn (1806–1892), entomologist

Franz Theodor Kugler (1808–1858) art historian

Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach (1809–1882), mayor of Magdeburg

Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809–1877) mathematician, physicist and linguist

Robert Prutz (1816–1872) poet

Franz San Galli (1824–1908), inventor of radiator (central heating system) Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894), chemist Felicita Vestvali (1831-1880), opera singer and actress A. F. Marx (1838–1904), publisher Anton Dohrn (1840–1909) first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy Otto von Gierke (1841–1921) historian Oscar Hammerstein I (1847–1919), composer

List of people from Szczecin

1850–1900

Ernst Zitelmann (1852 -1923) jurist

Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859–1922), author

Max Berg (1870–1947) architect

Leon Jessel (1871–1942), composer

Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), officer in the Imperial German Navy

Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), writer

Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949), religious parapsychologist and philosopher Fritz Gerlich (1883–1934) journalist Rudolf Olden (1885–1940), journalist and lawyer Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892–1927) painter and poet Heinrich George (1893–1946), actor Erich Böhlke (1895–1979), conductor and componist Karl Weinbacher (1898–1946), German manager and war criminal Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898–1958) film actor

List of people from Szczecin

1900–1945

Hans Kammler (1901–1945), German general

Werner Seelenbinder (1904–1944) politician

Gustav Gerneth (1905-2019) the world's oldest living man

Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), poet

Erwin Ackerknecht (1906–1988), historian

Dita Parlo (1906–1971) film actress

Kurt Kuhnke (1910—1969), motorcyclist

Ernst Bader (1914–1999) actor and songwriter

Jürgen Dethloff (1924–2002), inventor

Helga Deen (1925–1943) Dutch prison camp diarist

Wolfhart Pannenberg (born 1928), Christian theologian

Thomas Geve (born 1929), engineer, author and Jewish Holocaust survivor

Ellen Schwiers (1930–2019), actress of stage, film, and television

Rudi Strahl (1931–2001), playwright, novelist and lyricist. Manfred Stolpe (1936–2019), former Prime Minister of Brandenburg Christian Tomuschat (born 1936), expert in international law, professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin Wolfgang Weber (born in 1939), classical cellist Knut Kiesewetter (born 1941) musician Michael Bürsch (born 1942) politician Michael Holm (born 1943) singer-songwriter

List of people from Szczecin