1. Immanuel Kant (1724)

German Philosopher

Philosopher known for his views on the Copernican Revolution, which are documented in his 1790 book The Critique of Judgement.

2. Adolf Jensen (1837)

German Composer

German pianist and music teacher who composed 160 songs and wrote several pieces for piano. His seven-piece work, "Erotikon," Op. 44, was comprised of scenes from Greek legends. Some of...

3. Käthe Kollwitz (1867)

German Artist

German painter and sculptor whose work depicted an intense account of the human condition and the tragedy of war.

4. Agnes Miegel (1879)

German Writer Poet Journalist

German poet, author, playwright, journalist, and recipient of the Herder, Kleist, and Goethe literary prizes. Her works include Ostland: Gedichte; Gesammelte Gedichte; and Wie ich zu meiner Heimat stehe.

5. Bruno Taut (1880)

German Architect

Expressionist architect who became known for the Glass Pavilion at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition of 1914. He had an Utopian vision for the future, as revealed in his 1917 sketches...

6. Max Taut (1884)

German Architect

Co-founder of the architecture school at the Berlin University of the Arts; co-founded Berlin firm Taut & Hoffman.

7. Elisabeth Furse (1910)

Civil Rights Leader

Heroine of World War II who helped people escape from Nazi-occupied France.

8. Leah Goldberg (1911)

Israeli Poet

Hebrew-language poet, dramatist, children's author, translator, and recipient of the 1970 Israel Prize for Literature. A member of the Yakhdav literary group, she is known for such works as Al...

9. Leah Rabin (1928)

Wife Of Prime Minister Of Israel

Wife of the assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. She died of lung cancer five years later and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Israelis to ever...

10. Charlott Daudert (1913)

Actress

11. Herta Heuwer (1913)

German Cook

Herta Charlotte Heuwer invented the take-out dish that would become the world-renowned currywurst on September 4 1949. The day before what would have been her 90th birthday a plaque was...

12. Gerda Munsinger (1929)

East German Woman Involved In Ca

Gerda Munsinger was an East German prostitute and alleged Soviet spy. She emigrated to Canada in 1955.

13. Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939)

German Actor

Vera Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort or Veruschka von Lehndorff is a German model actress and artist who was popular during the 1960s. Known professionally as Veruschka she is a daughter of...

14. Philipp Hirschfeld (1840)

German Chess Player

Philipp Hirschfeld was a German chess player and theoretician. Hirschfeld came from an affluent background. He learned the game as a child in Königsberg and by the time he went...

15. Heinz Lehmann (1911)

Psychiatrist

Heinz Edgar Lehmann OC FRSC was a German born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s. Born in Berlin Germany he...

16. Theodor Lichtenhein (Unknow)

American Chess Player

Theodor Lichtenhein was an American chess master. Born at Königsberg in East Prussia he learned chess at the age of 12 and six years afterwards he was president of the...

17. Prince Albert Of Prussia (1809)

Prussian Colonel-general

Prince Frederick Henry Albert of Prussia was the fifth son and youngest child of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His parents had fled to East...

18. Anneli Granget (1935)

German Actress

Anneli Granget was a German stage and television actress.

19. Hans Georg Anscheidt (1935)

German Motorcycle Racer

Hans-Georg Anscheidt is a retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion. He won three consecutive FIM 50 cc world championships from 1966 to 1968 as a member of the...

20. Erwin Oberländer (1937)

Historian

Erwin Oberländer is a German historian and expert on Eastern European history.

21. Adolf Arndt (1904)

German Politician

Karl Otto Adolf Arndt was a German politician and a member of the SPD. He was born in Königsberg and died in Kassel.

22. Heinrich August Winkler (1938)

German Historian

Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian. After attending a Gymnasium in Ulm he studied history political science philosophy and public law at Münster Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1970 he...

23. Bernard J. Gehrmann (1880)

American Politician

Bernard John Gehrmann was a U. S.

24. Catherine of Brandenburg (1602)

Princess Of Transylvania (1629-1

Catherine of Brandenburg was ruler of Transylvania between 1629 and 1630. She was the daughter of John Sigismund Elector of Brandenburg and Anne of Prussia. On March 2 1626 she...

25. Wilhelm von Gayl (1879)

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Moritz Egon Freiherr von Gayl was a German jurist and politician of the German National People's Party.

26. Max Maurenbrecher (1874)

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27. Waldemar Magunia (1902)

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Magunia - died February 16 1974 in Oldenburg in Holstein) was the leader of the Sturmabteilung in East Prussia and Commissioner General in Kiev.

28. Karl-Hermann Flach (1929)

German Journalist And Politician

Karl-Hermann Flach was a German journalist of the Frankfurter Rundschau and a politician of the liberal Free Democrats. Flach became a member of the liberal LDP and worked in 1948/1949...

29. August Zu Eulenburg (1838)

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30. Botho Heinrich Zu Eulenburg (1804)

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31. Gustav Wilhelm Wedel (1641)

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32. Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665)

German General

Erhard Ernst von Röder was a Prussian Field Marshal General Minister of War and Minister of Finance.

33. Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther (1772)

Prussian Politician

Heinrich August Alexander Wilhelm von Werther was a Prussian diplomat and Foreign Minister from 1837 to 1841.

34. George Phillips (canon lawyer) (1804)

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George Phillips was a German canon lawyer.

35. Ludwig Friedländer (1824)

German Philologist

Ludwig Henrich Friedlaender was a German philologist. He studied at the universities of his hometown Königsberg Leipzig and Berlin from 1841 to 1845. In 1847 he became privat-docent of classical...

36. Franz Schlegelberger (1876)

German Judge And Politician

Louis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice and served a while as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant...

37. Frederick I of Prussia (1657)

Duke Of Prussia

I of the Hohenzollern dynasty was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia in personal union. The latter function he upgraded to royalty becoming the first King in Prussia....

38. Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg (1815)

German Diplomat

Count Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg was a Prussian diplomat and politician. He led the Eulenburg Expedition and secured the Prusso-Japanese Treaty of 24 January 1861 which was similar to other...

39. Eduard von Simson (1810)

German Politician

Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson was a German jurist and distinguished liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire who served as President of the Frankfurt Parliament as...

40. Johann Jacoby (1805)

Prussian Politician

Johann Jacoby was a Left-wing Prussian Jewish politician.

41. Christa Williams (1926)

German Singer

Christa Williams was a German pop singer most popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Williams was chosen to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the...

42. Alexander Kotzebue (Unknow)

German Artist

Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Franz von Kotzebue was a German-Russian Romantic painter of historical scenes and battle scenes.

43. Tamara Ehlert (1921)

German Writer

Tamara Ehlert aka Tamara Traumann was a German writer and lyricist. Trained in theatre and dance during the Second World War she worked as a telephone and radio operator. She...

44. Zacharias Werner (1768)

German Poet Dramatist And Priest

Ludwig Zacharias Werner was a German poet dramatist and preacher. As a dramatist he is known mainly for inaugurating the era of the so-called “tragedies of fate. ”

45. Peter Crüger (1580)

German Astronomer And Mathematic

Peter Crüger or Peter Krüger was a mathematician astronomer polymath and teacher of Johannes Hevelius.

46. Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700)

German Author And Critic

Johann Christoph Gottsched was a German philosopher author and critic. For about thirty years he exercised an almost undisputed literary dictatorship in Germany. But by his later years his name...

47. Martin Knutzen (1713)

German Philosopher

Martin Knutzen was a German philosopher a disciple of Alexander Baumgarten and teacher of Immanuel Kant to whom he introduced the physics of Newton. Knutzen studied philosophy mathematics and physics...

48. David Hilbert (1862)

German Mathematician

David Hilbert was a German mathematician. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a...

49. Eberhard Arnold (1883)

German Philosopher And Theologia

Eberhard Arnold was a Christian German writer philosopher and theologian. He was the founder of the Bruderhof in 1920. Arnold was born in Königsberg East Prussia Germany the third child...

50. Paul Hensel (1860)

German Philosopher

Paul Hugo Hensel was a German philosopher son of the landowner and entrepreneur Sebastian Hensel brother of the mathematician Kurt Hensel grandson of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn and the painter...