LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.hamburg.de/

Population:
1,800,000

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Hamburg

ORCHESTRA

Orchestra	Founded
Hamburger Symphoniker	1957
NDR Symphony Orchestra	1945
Philharmoniker Hamburg	1828
Hamburg State Opera	1678

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Bauer Media Group	1875
Steinway & Sons	1853

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sig Arno	Actor	27-Dec-1895	17-Aug-1975	The Palm Beach Story
Peter Behrens	Architect	14-Apr-1868	27-Feb-1940	Invented corporate identity
John Brahm	Film Director	17-Aug-1893	12-Oct-1982	The Lodger
Johannes Brahms	Composer	7-May-1833	3-Apr-1897	Ein deutsches Requiem
Gerhard Casper	Educator	25-Dec-1937		President of Stanford University, 1992-2000
Otto Diels	Chemist	23-Jan-1876	7-Mar-1954	Diels-Alder Reaction
Johann Franz Encke	Astronomer	23-Sep-1791	26-Aug-1865	Investigated comets and asteroids
James Franck	Physicist	26-Aug-1882	21-May-1964	Franck-Hertz experiment
Michael S. Greve	Activist	c. 1958		Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights
Helmut Griem	Actor	6-Apr-1932	19-Nov-2004	Cabaret
Friedrich von Hagedorn	Poet	23-Apr-1708	28-Oct-1754	German Anacreontic poet
Gustav Hertz	Physicist	22-Jul-1887	30-Oct-1975	Franck-Hertz experiment
Heinrich Hertz	Physicist	22-Feb-1857	1-Jan-1894	Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
Holger H. Herwig	Historian	25-Sep-1941		Germany's Vision of Empire in Venezuela
Gerhard Herzberg	Physicist	25-Dec-1904	3-Mar-1999	Molecular spectroscopy
Oliver Hirschbiegel	Film Director	29-Dec-1957		Downfall
Luc Holste	Scholar	27-Sep-1596	2-Feb-1661	German humanist and librarian
J. Hans D. Jensen	Physicist	25-Jun-1907	11-Feb-1973	Shell nuclear model
Sascha Konietzko	Electronic Musician	21-Jun-1961		KMFDM
Dagmar Krause	Singer	4-Jun-1950		Slapp Happy, Henry Cow
Karl Lagerfeld	Fashion Designer	10-Sep-1938		Chanel, Lagerfeld
Susanne Lothar	Actor	15-Nov-1960	25-Jul-2012	The Reader
Johann Mattheson	Composer	28-Sep-1681	17-Apr-1764	German baroque composer, theorist
Felix Mendelssohn	Composer	3-Feb-1809	4-Nov-1847	Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sue Mengers	Talent Agent	2-Sep-1932	15-Oct-2011	Represented Streisand, McQueen
Angela Merkel	Head of State	17-Jul-1954		Chancellor of Germany
Brigitte Mira	Actor	20-Apr-1910	8-Mar-2005	Fassbinder actress
Lisel Mueller	Poet	8-Feb-1924		The Need to Hold Still
Steven Muller	Educator	22-Nov-1927	19-Jan-2013	President of Johns Hopkins, 1972-90
Johann Christian Poggendorff	Physicist	29-Dec-1796	24-Jan-1877	Annalen der Physik und Chemie
Sig Ruman	Actor	11-Oct-1884	14-Feb-1967	Stalag 17
Matthias Jakob Schleiden	Botanist	5-Apr-1804	23-Jun-1881	Principles of Scientific Botany
Helmut Schmidt	Head of State	23-Dec-1918	10-Nov-2015	Chancellor of Germany, 1974-82
Douglas Sirk	Film Director	26-Apr-1897	14-Jan-1987	Written on the Wind
Jürgen Vogel	Actor	29-Apr-1968		Life Is All You Get
Carl von Ossietzky	Activist	3-Oct-1889	4-May-1938	German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Paul M. Warburg	Business	10-Aug-1868	24-Jan-1932	The Federal Reserve System

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Karl Doenitz	Military	16-Sep-1891	2-Dec-1980	U-Boat admiral
Fritz Fischer	Historian	5-Mar-1908	1-Dec-1999	Blamed Germany for World War I
Frederick VIII	Royalty	3-Jun-1843	14-May-1912	King of Denmark, 1906-12
Friedrich von Hagedorn	Poet	23-Apr-1708	28-Oct-1754	German Anacreontic poet
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock	Poet	2-Jul-1724	14-Mar-1803	Messias
Siegfried Lenz	Novelist	17-Mar-1926	7-Oct-2014	Deutschstunde
Johann Mattheson	Composer	28-Sep-1681	17-Apr-1764	German baroque composer, theorist
Max Ophüls	Film Director	6-May-1902	25-Mar-1957	Letter from an Unknown Woman
Helmut Schmidt	Head of State	23-Dec-1918	10-Nov-2015	Chancellor of Germany, 1974-82
Stuart Sutcliffe	Musician	23-Jun-1940	10-Apr-1962	Briefly a Beatle
Georg Philipp Telemann	Composer	14-Mar-1681	25-Jun-1767	German Baroque composer
Walther von Brauchitsch	Military	4-Oct-1881	18-Oct-1948	Nazi general, failed to capture Moscow
Aby Warburg	Scholar	13-Jun-1866	26-Oct-1929	Founder of the Warburg Institute

Copyright ©2025