List of people from Berlin

The following is a list of notable people who were born in, or spent substantial time in, Berlin, a city (and state) in the European country of Germany. == Politicians and statesmen == Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein (1714–1800), Prussian statesman and politician Friedrich Ancillon (1767–1837), Prussian historian and statesman Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868), statesman and politician Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag Berthold von Bernstorff (1842–1917), politician and owner of Schiermonnikoog Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514), noblewoman and mother of Christian III (King of Denmark) Rudy Boschwitz (born 1930), U.S. senator from Minnesota and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, born to a Jewish family in Berlin Rainer Brüderle (born 1945), politician (FDP) Sawsan Chebli (born 1978), politician (SPD) 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 to 1786 Frederick William (1620–1688), elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia 1640–1688 Frederick William I (1688–1740), king in Prussia and elector of Brandenburg 1713–1740 Frederick William II (1744–1797), king of Prussia 1786–1797 Stefan Gelbhaar (born 1976), politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach (1795–1877), judge, politician and journalist George V of Hanover (1819–1878), king of Hanover 1851–1866 Gregor Gysi (born 1948), politician (The Left) Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), Minister of Culture and state secretary for church affairs of GDR Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885), brother of future German emperor William I Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942), politician (SPD), prime minister of Saarland Hans Luther (1879–1962), chancellor in the Weimar Republic Otto von Manteuffel (1844–1913), Chairman of German Conservative Party David McAllister (born 1971), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Niedersachsen Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi Petra Pau (born 1963), politician (The Left) 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 Heinrich Schoene (1889–1945), SA general and Generalkommissar in Ukraine Rupert Scholz (born 1937), politician (CDU) Käte Selbmann (1906–1962), teacher and politician (KPD/SED/DFD) 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 Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), politician (SPD), governing mayor of Berlin 2001–2014 == Businesspeople == Ellen Allien, musician, DJ, founder of music label BPitch Control Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art dealer Ernst Dümmler (1830–1902), bookseller and historian Alexander Duncker (1813–1897), publisher and bookseller Friedrich Karl Flick (1927–2006), industrialist and billionaire Albert Göring (1895–1966), engineer and business manager Klaus and Eva Herlitz (born 1947 and 1952, respectively), business people and the initiators of the Buddy Bears Günter Herlitz (1913–2010), business people Bernhard Koehler (1849–1927), industrialist and art collector Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895), language teacher, book publisher, and the founder of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), publisher, inventor of the Litfaßsäule Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929), industrialist and chemist 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 Arnold von Siemens (1853–1918), entrepreneur and industrialist Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941), industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens (1855–1919), industrialist Georg Solmssen (1869–1957), banker Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener (1782–1861), banker and patron of the arts == Military personnel == === Military officers === Hans-Rudolf Boehmer (born 1938), vice admiral A.D. the German Navy, inspector of the navy (1995–1998) Karl von Bülow (1846–1921), Prussian field marshal Heinz Brandt (1907–1944), General Staff officer Adolf von Brauchitsch (1876–1935), German major general Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German field marshal Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), vice admiral of the Imperial German Navy, politicians, Chancellor as a successor Bismarck Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), grand admiral and commander of the German Navy in WWII Maximilian von Edelsheim (1897–1994), general Max von Fabeck (1854–1916), Prussian general Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein (1839–1917), Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix (1699–1765), Prussian general Georg Freiherr von Gayl (1850–1927), Prussian general Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach (1790–1861), Prussian general Karl von Grolman (1777–1843), Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow (1678–1739), Prussian field marshal Wilhelm von Hahnke (1833–1912), Prussian field marshal Henning von Holtzendorff (1853–1919), German admiral Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein (1725–1800), Prussian field marshal Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886–1966), German general Christian Nicolaus von Linger (1669–1755), Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782–1834), Prussian lieutenant general Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), German field marshal Alexander von Monts (1832–1888), Prussian and German Imperial Navy officer Elhard von Morozowicz (1893–1934), Der Stahlhelm official and SA General Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf (1762–1823), Prussian field marshal Jürgen Oesten (1913–2010), German Korvettenkapitän in the Kriegsmarine Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899–1966), German general Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape (1813–1895), Prussian field marshal Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730–1813), Prussian general Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873), Prussian admiral Albert of Prussia (1837–1906), Prussian general field marshal Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1873), Prussian field marshal Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William.

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List of people from Berlin

The following is a list of notable people who were born in, or spent substantial time in, Berlin, a city (and state) in the European country of Germany. == Politicians and statesmen == Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein (1714–1800), Prussian statesman and politician Friedrich Ancillon (1767–1837), Prussian historian and statesman Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1803–1868), statesman and politician Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag Berthold von Bernstorff (1842–1917), politician and owner of Schiermonnikoog Anna of Brandenburg (1487–1514), noblewoman and mother of Christian III (King of Denmark) Rudy Boschwitz (born 1930), U.S. senator from Minnesota and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, born to a Jewish family in Berlin Rainer Brüderle (born 1945), politician (FDP) Sawsan Chebli (born 1978), politician (SPD) 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 to 1786 Frederick William (1620–1688), elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia 1640–1688 Frederick William I (1688–1740), king in Prussia and elector of Brandenburg 1713–1740 Frederick William II (1744–1797), king of Prussia 1786–1797 Stefan Gelbhaar (born 1976), politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach (1795–1877), judge, politician and journalist George V of Hanover (1819–1878), king of Hanover 1851–1866 Gregor Gysi (born 1948), politician (The Left) Klaus Gysi (1912–1999), Minister of Culture and state secretary for church affairs of GDR Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885), brother of future German emperor William I Reinhard Klimmt (born 1942), politician (SPD), prime minister of Saarland Hans Luther (1879–1962), chancellor in the Weimar Republic Otto von Manteuffel (1844–1913), Chairman of German Conservative Party David McAllister (born 1971), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Niedersachsen Erich Mielke (1907–2000), head of the Stasi Petra Pau (born 1963), politician (The Left) 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 Heinrich Schoene (1889–1945), SA general and Generalkommissar in Ukraine Rupert Scholz (born 1937), politician (CDU) Käte Selbmann (1906–1962), teacher and politician (KPD/SED/DFD) 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 Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758), Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), politician (SPD), governing mayor of Berlin 2001–2014 == Businesspeople == Ellen Allien, musician, DJ, founder of music label BPitch Control Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), art dealer Ernst Dümmler (1830–1902), bookseller and historian Alexander Duncker (1813–1897), publisher and bookseller Friedrich Karl Flick (1927–2006), industrialist and billionaire Albert Göring (1895–1966), engineer and business manager Klaus and Eva Herlitz (born 1947 and 1952, respectively), business people and the initiators of the Buddy Bears Günter Herlitz (1913–2010), business people Bernhard Koehler (1849–1927), industrialist and art collector Gustav Langenscheidt (1832–1895), language teacher, book publisher, and the founder of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group Ernst Litfaß (1816–1874), publisher, inventor of the Litfaßsäule Joseph Mendelssohn (1770–1848), banker Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929), industrialist and chemist 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 Arnold von Siemens (1853–1918), entrepreneur and industrialist Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941), industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens (1855–1919), industrialist Georg Solmssen (1869–1957), banker Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener (1782–1861), banker and patron of the arts == Military personnel == === Military officers === Hans-Rudolf Boehmer (born 1938), vice admiral A.D. the German Navy, inspector of the navy (1995–1998) Karl von Bülow (1846–1921), Prussian field marshal Heinz Brandt (1907–1944), General Staff officer Adolf von Brauchitsch (1876–1935), German major general Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German field marshal Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899), vice admiral of the Imperial German Navy, politicians, Chancellor as a successor Bismarck Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), grand admiral and commander of the German Navy in WWII Maximilian von Edelsheim (1897–1994), general Max von Fabeck (1854–1916), Prussian general Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein (1839–1917), Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm Quirin von Forcade de Biaix (1699–1765), Prussian general Georg Freiherr von Gayl (1850–1927), Prussian general Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach (1790–1861), Prussian general Karl von Grolman (1777–1843), Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow (1678–1739), Prussian field marshal Wilhelm von Hahnke (1833–1912), Prussian field marshal Henning von Holtzendorff (1853–1919), German admiral Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein (1725–1800), Prussian field marshal Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886–1966), German general Christian Nicolaus von Linger (1669–1755), Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782–1834), Prussian lieutenant general Erich von Manstein (1887–1973), German field marshal Alexander von Monts (1832–1888), Prussian and German Imperial Navy officer Elhard von Morozowicz (1893–1934), Der Stahlhelm official and SA General Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf (1762–1823), Prussian field marshal Jürgen Oesten (1913–2010), German Korvettenkapitän in the Kriegsmarine Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1899–1966), German general Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape (1813–1895), Prussian field marshal Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia (1730–1813), Prussian general Adalbert of Prussia (1811–1873), Prussian admiral Albert of Prussia (1837–1906), Prussian general field marshal Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1873), Prussian field marshal Henry of Prussia (1726–1802), 13 child king Frederick William.

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