List of people from Bremen

This article provides a list of people from the city of Bremen. Bremen is a Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.

Early times to 1800

*Adam of Bremen (fl. 1066), author of chronicles and histories of Germany and Scandinavia.
*Johann Rode von Wale (c.1445–1511), Catholic cleric; Doctor of Canon and Civil Law; chronicler; long-serving government official (1468–1497); as John III, was Archbishopric of Bremen, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, 1497–1511
*Arnoldus Clapmarius (1574–1604), German academic, jurist, humanist, known for his writings on Public administration, statecraft
*Johannes Cocceius (1603–1669), Dutch theologian born in Bremen.
*Frans Banninck Cocq (1605–1655), Mayor of Amsterdam, central figure in Rembrandt's masterpiece ''The Night Watch''
*Johan von Friesendorff, Riksfriherre Sir Johan Fredrik von Friesendorff, 1st Baronet (1617–1669), Swedish diplomat born in Bremen
*Henry Oldenburg (1619–1677), secretary of the Royal Society
*Franz Wulfhagen (c. 1624–1670), German Baroque painter and engraver
*Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig (1638–1704), general in Norway during the Scanian War; illegitimate son of King Frederick III of Denmark and Norway
*Heinrich von Cocceji (1644–1719), professor of natural and international law at the Heidelberg University
*Joachim Neander (1650–1680), rector, pastor, hymn writer.
*Johann Baring (1697–1748), name later anglicised to John Baring, German-British merchant; founder of Barings Bank
*Hermanus Meyer (1733–1791), clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church in America
*Johann Peter Berg (1737–1800), German Protestant theologian, historian and orientalist
*Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, Wilhelm Olbers (1758–1840), physician and astronomer.
*Blasius Merrem (1761–1824), naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, mathematician, and herpetologist
*Albertus Henricus Wiese (1761–1810), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, 1805–1808
*Gerhard Ludvig Lahde (1765–1833), Prussian-born Danish printmaker and publisher
*Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1837), naturalist and botanist, discovered the intercellular space in a plant's parenchyma.
*Hermann Ernst Freund (1786–1840), German-born Danish sculptor of figures from Nordic mythology

1800 to 1850

*H. H. Winter, Hermann Heinrich Winter (1805–1884), farmer, local official, member of Wisconsin State Assembly
*Johann Georg Kohl (1808–1878), Travel literature, travel writer, historian, geographer and librarian

*Friedrich Wagenfeld (1810–1846), German philologist and author
*Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), American Civil War Union Army, Union Brigadier general (United States), Brigadier General
*Carl Johann Steinhäuser (1813–1879), German sculptor in the classical style
*Nicolaus Delius (1813–1888), German philologist and student of Shakespeare.
*Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900), German physician and ornithologist
*Wilhelm Henzen, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Henzen (1816–1887), German philologist and epigraphist
*Julie Schwabe (1818–1896), socialite, education activist and philanthropist, lived in Manchester, UK
*Carl Wilhelm von Zehender (1819–1916), ophthalmologist, pioneer of ophthalmic microsurgery
*Wilhelm Paul Corssen (1820–1875), German philologist; worked on Latin and Etruscan language, Etruscan topics.
*Frederick L. Schmersahl (1825-c.1905), German-American merchant and eleventh Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
*Adolf Bastian (1826–1905), polymath ethnography and anthropologist.
*Charles Henry Nimitz (1826–1911), in 1852 built the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg, Texas
*Amalie Murtfeldt (1828-1888), German painter
*Arnold Huchting (1828–1901), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
*Frederick Halterman (1831-1907), U.S. Congressman
*Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896), geographer, explorer, author and adventurer.
*Henry Timken (1831–1909), inventor, founded the Timken Roller Bearing Company
*Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832–1932), European and American artist of landscapes, from the Düsseldorf school of painting
*August Wilmanns (1833–1917), classical scholar and librarian

*Adolf Lüderitz, Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz (1834–1886), merchant and colonist in South West Africa.
*Johann Poppe, Johann Georg Poppe (1837–1915), prominent architect during the German Gründerzeit and interior designer of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd
*Frederick C. Winkler (1838–1921), American Civil War Union brigadier general
*John Henry Niemeyer (1839–1932), German-born painter, taught drawing at Yale University
*Heinrich Averbeck (1844–1889), physiotherapist

1850 to 1900

*Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), German psychologist, studied memory, discovered the forgetting curve and the spacing effect
*Sir Hermann Gollancz (1852–1930), British rabbi and Hebrew scholar
*Johann Heinrich Burchard (1852–1912), Hamburg lawyer, politician, senator, List of mayors of Hamburg, First Mayor of Hamburg
*August Kühne (1855–1932), German businessman, co-founder in 1890 of Kuehne + Nagel
*Heinrich Wiegand (1855-1909), German lawyer and general director of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company
*Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856–1927), German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist
*Adolph Fischer (1858–1887), an anarchist and labor union activist, tried and executed in the US after the Haymarket Riot
*Ludwig Quidde (1858–1941), pacifist politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1927
*Ludwig Hermann Plate (1862–1937), German zoologist and disciple of Ernst Haeckel
*Theodor Siebs (1862–1941), German linguist, author of ''Deutsche Bühnenaussprache'' in 1898
*Gerhard Husheer, Johann Gerhard Husheer (1864–1954), New Zealand tobacco grower, industrialist and philanthropist
*Heinrich Bulle (1867–1945), German archaeologist
*Wilhelm Vöge (1868–1952), German art historian, discovered the Reichenau Island, Reichenau School of painting, important Medieval studies, medievalist
*Karl Hampe (1869–1936), German historian of the High Middle Ages
*Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942), German painter, Düsseldorf school of painting, designer and architect
*Friedrich August Georg Bitter (1873–1927), German botanist and lichenologist
*Edward Voigt (1873–1934), emigrated 1883, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
*Ludwig Roselius (1874–1943), patron of the arts, coffee merchant and founder of KAFFEE HAG
*Edward Kleinschmidt, Edward Ernst Kleinschmidt (1876–1977), prolific inventor; one of the inventors of the teleprinter
*Karl Abraham (1877–1925), German psychoanalyst, collaborator of Sigmund Freud
*Heinrich Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (1881–1956), German physicist, discovered the Barkhausen effect in 1919
*Karl Alfred Pabst (1884–1971), painter, graphic artist and lithographer, worked and died at Bremen
*Hans Dreier (1885–1966), film art director
*Herbert von Böckmann (1886–1974), German general of the infantry
*Grover Loening, Grover Cleveland Loening (1888–1976), American aircraft manufacturer
*Henrich Focke (1890–1979), German aviation pioneer, co-founder of Focke-Wulf
*Hans Scharoun, Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun (1893–1972), German architect, designed the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall, exponent of Organic architecture, organic and expressionist architecture
*Friedrich T. Noltenius, Lieutenant Friedrich Theodor Noltenius (1894–1936), German flying ace in the First World War
*Friedrich Ebert Jr. (1894–1979), Reichstag deputy (SPD), SED politician, Lord Mayor of East Berlin (1948–1967)
*Friedrich Forster (1895–1958), pseudonym for Waldfried Burggraf, dramatist and screenwriter
*Emil Trinkler (1896–1931), Central Asian geographer and explorer
*Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978), German architect, designed the Haus der Stadtsparkasse (Bremen), Sparkasse building on Bremen's Bremer Marktplatz, market square
*Georg Kulenkampff (1898–1948), violinist

1900 to 1950

*Ada Halenza (1900–1990), writer
*Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–1990), industrial designer
*Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904–1973), German diplomat, contributed to the rescue of 7000 Danish Jews
*Hans Biebow (1902–1947), chief of Nazi administration of the Łódź Ghetto executed for war crimes
*Alexander Piorkowski (1904–1948), Nazi commandant of Dachau concentration camp
*Harald Damsleth (1906–1971), Norwegian cartoonist, illustrator, ad-man, known for his WW2 posters for Nasjonal Samling
*Harald Genzmer (1909–2007), composer of contemporary classical music
*Hanna Kunath (1909–1994), pilot
*Gerda Krüger-Nieland (1910–2000), lawyer and judge
*Bernard Adolph Schriever (1910–2005), also known as Bennie Schriever, United States Air Force general
*Heinz Linge (1913–1980), SS officer; served as a valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler
*Reinhard Hardegen (1913–2018), Member of Bremen Parliament and former U-boat commander of submarine ''German submarine U-123 (1940), U-123''
*Karl Carstens (1914–1992), German politician (CDU), former President of the Federal Republic of Germany

*Hermann Uhde (1914–1965), Wagnerian baritone, died on stage of a heart attack during a performance in Copenhagen
*Gustav Böhrnsen (1914–1998), politician, trade unionist and resistance fighter
*Karl-Heinz Höcker (1915–1998), German theoretical nuclear physicist; worked on the German nuclear weapon project
*Friedrich Thielen (1916–1993), German politician with the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU and the German Party (1961), German Party
*Herbert V. Günther, Herbert Vighnāntaka Günther (1917–2006), German Buddhist philosopher and Professor of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Saskatchewan
*Cato Bontjes van Beek (1920–1943), German member of the German resistance to Nazism, guillotined Plötzensee Prison
*Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (1921–1998), actor, quizmaster, German actor and TV host
*Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (1922–2010), German metallurgist
*Robert Last (drummer), Robert Last (1923–1986), German drummer and bandleader
*Charles Wheeler (journalist), Sir Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler CMG (1923–2008), known as Charles Wheeler, British journalist and BBC broadcaster
*Hilmar Hoffmann (1925–2018), founder of Oberhausen film festival, cultural politician in Frankfurt, director of Goethe-Institut
*Kai Warner (1926–1982), German bandleader and musician, brother of James Last and Robert Last (drummer), Robert Last
*Hans Otte (1926–2007), composer
*Hans-Joachim Bremermann (1926–1996), German-American mathematician and biophysicist, wrote Bremermann's limit
*Günter Meisner (1926–1994), German TV and film character actor
*James Last (1929–2015), composer and big band leader
*Hans-Christof von Sponeck (born 1939), German diplomat, served as a UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq
*Luise Kimme (1939–2013), German artist, sculptor and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
*Volker Spengler (1939–2020), German actor
*Hans Wilhelm (born 1945), German-American writer, children's book author, illustrator and artist
*Uwe Windhorst (born 1946), German neuroscientist, systems scientist and cyberneticist
*Christina Kubisch (born 1948), German composer, performance artist, professor and flautist

1950 to modern times

*Barbara Sukowa (born 1950), German theatre and film actress
*Juergen Nogai (born 1953), architectural photographer and filmmaker
*Jürgen Trittin (born 1954), German Green politician, Federal Minister for Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 1998–2005
*Klaus Kleinfeld (born 1957), former chief executive officer, CEO of Siemens AG
*Piet Klocke (born 1957), musician, cabaret artist, author and actor
*Gert Postel (born 1958), medical impostor
*Bernhard Siegert (born 1959), German media theorist and media historian
* Barbara Massing (1960–2017), female sea captain
*Sven Regener (born 1961), musician and writer
*Falko E. P. Wilms (born 1961), economist and social scientist
*Torsten Albig (born 1963), politician (SPD)
*Martin Blessing (born 1963), German banker, Chairman of Commerzbank AG
*Bärbel Schäfer (born 1963), television presenter and wife of Michel Friedman
*Barbara Stühlmeyer (born 1964), German musicologist, Church music in Germany, church musician, writer and scholar of Hildegard of Bingen
*Kersten Artus (born 1964), German journalist, politician; member of The Left (Germany), The Left; member of the Hamburg Parliament
*Ben Becker (born 1964), German actor, brother of Meret Becker
*Maren Niemeyer (born 1964), journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker
*Meret Becker (born 1969), German actor, sister of Ben Becker
*Esther Haase (born 1966), German photographer and film director, lives in Hamburg and London
*Claudia Garde (born 1966), German film director and screenwriter
*André Erkau (born 1968), film director and screenplay writer
*Stephan Bodzin (born 1969), German DJ, techno-producer, label owner and live artist
*Claudio Martínez Mehner (born 1970), Spanish piano soloist and pedagogue
*Julia Hasting (born 1970), German graphic designer, creative director of Phaidon Press
*Friedemann Friese (born 1970), designer of Power Grid and other German-style board game, board games
*Martin Welzel (born 1972), German organist, musicologist, and music educator; former student of Käte van Tricht (Organist at Bremen Cathedral), associate organist at Frauenkirche, Munich, Munich Cathedral 2021-2022
*Bas Böttcher (born 1974), a German slam poet and visiting lecturer at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig
*Marco Da Silva (dancer), Marco Da Silva (born 1977), Portuguese dancer and choreographer
*Sebastian Lege (born 1978), German chef and TV personality
*Nils Mönkemeyer (born 1978), German violist and academic teacher, teaches at the Musikhochschule Munich
*Jan Böhmermann (born 1981), German satirist and television presenter
*Murat Kurnaz (born 1982), Guantánamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay prisoner for four years
*Anna-Lena Schwing (born 1996), German actress

Sportspeople

*Uwe Behrens (born 1959), retired footballer
*Terrence Boyd (born 1991), footballer for the United States men's national soccer team, USA and 1. FC Kaiserslautern
*Julian Brandt (born 1996), professional soccer player for Borussia Dortmund and Germany national football team, Germany
*Birgit Dressel (1960–1987), heptathlon athlete
*Angelique Kerber (born 1988), German professional tennis player
*Louis Krages (1949–2001), Auto racing, racing driver and businessman
*Simon Lizotte (born 1992), professional disc golf player, PDGA# 8332
*Jonathan Schmude (born 1992), footballer
*Bert Trautmann (1923–2013), German Goalkeeper (association football), football goalkeeper
*Florian Wellbrock (born 1997), swimmer

See also

*List of mayors of Bremen

References

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Lists of people by city in Germany, Bremen
People from Bremen (city),
Bremen (city)-related lists