List of Silesians
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Nobel laureates

  • Theodor Mommsen
    Theodor Mommsen
    Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...

     (1902, literature)
  • Philipp Lenard
    Philipp Lenard
    Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard , known in Hungarian as Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal, was a Hungarian - German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties...

     (1905, physics)
  • Eduard Buchner
    Eduard Buchner
    Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded with the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry thanks to his work on fermentation.-Early years:...

     (1907, chemistry)
  • Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...

     (1908, medicine)
  • Gerhart Hauptmann
    Gerhart Hauptmann
    Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...

     (1912, literature)
  • Fritz Haber
    Fritz Haber
    Fritz Haber was a German chemist, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for synthesizing ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid...

     (1918, chemistry)
  • Friedrich Bergius
    Friedrich Bergius
    Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods...

     (1931, chemistry)
  • Gerhard Domagk
    Gerhard Domagk
    Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine – the first commercially available antibiotic – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the...

     (1939, medicine)
  • Otto Stern
    Otto Stern
    Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Biography:Stern was born in Sohrau, now Żory in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia and studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia....

     (1943, physics)
  • Kurt Alder
    Kurt Alder
    Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Alder was born in the industrial area of Königshütte, Silesia , where he received his early schooling...

     (1950, chemistry)
  • Max Born
    Max Born
    Max Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...

     (1954, physics)
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963, physics)
  • Konrad Bloch (1964, medicine)
  • Johannes Georg Bednorz
    Johannes Georg Bednorz
    Johannes Georg Bednorz is a physicist at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory. He is best known for his role in the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, for which he shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Life and work:...

     (1987, physics)
  • Hans Georg Dehmelt
    Hans Georg Dehmelt
    Hans Georg Dehmelt is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989...

     (1989, physics)
  • Reinhard Selten
    Reinhard Selten
    -Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...

     (1994, economics)
  • Günter Blobel
    Günter Blobel
    -Biography:Blobel was born in Waltersdorf in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army. On their way to the West they passed through the beautiful old city of Dresden, which left deep impressions in the young boy...

     (1999, medicine)

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  • Andreas Acoluthus
    Andreas Acoluthus
    Andreas Acoluthus was a German scholar of orientalism and professor of theology at Breslau . A native of Bernstadt , Lower Silesia, he was the son of Johannes Acoluthus, pastor of St. Elisabeth and superintendent of the churches and schools of Breslau.- Early life and education :He attended the...

    , theologian and orientalist
  • Melchior Adam
    Melchior Adam
    Melchior Adam was a German literature historian.Adam was born in Grottkau, Silesia . He visited the college in Brieg Brzeg, then studied on various academies with financial support of his benefactor Joachim von Berg...

    , historian
  • bishop Stanisław Adamski
  • Joy Adamson
    Joy Adamson
    Joy Adamson was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa...

     (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) 1910-1980; naturalist and writer
  • Kurt Alder
    Kurt Alder
    Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Alder was born in the industrial area of Königshütte, Silesia , where he received his early schooling...

     1902–1958; chemist
  • Johann Baptist Alzog
    Johann Baptist Alzog
    Johann Baptist Alzog was a German theologian and Catholic church historian.He was born at Ohlau, in Silesia. He studied at Breslau and Bonn and was ordained priest at Cologne in 1834....

    , theologian and historian
  • Zygmunt Anczok
    Zygmunt Anczok
    Zygmunt Józef Anczok is a former Polish footballer who played as a left-sided defender, who was an Olympic champion for Poland in the 1972 Summer Olympics....

    , soccer player
  • Adolf Anderssen
    Adolf Anderssen
    Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s...

     1818–1879; chess grandmaster
  • Georg von Arco
    Georg von Arco
    Georg Wilhelm Alexander Hans Graf von Arco was a German physicist, radio pioneer, and one of the joint founders of the "Society for Wireless Telegraphy" which became the Telefunken company. He was an engineer and the technical director of Telefunken...

    , physicist
  • Hans-Jürgen von Arnim
    Hans-Jürgen von Arnim
    Hans-Jürgen Bernhard Theodor von Arnim was a German Generaloberst who served during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

    , general
  • Hans Erasmus Aßmann, statesman and poet
  • Andreas von Aulock
    Andreas von Aulock
    Andreas Maria Karl von Aulock was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 79th Infantry Division. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...

    , colonel
  • Hubertus von Aulock; de, general

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  • Paul Baender
    Paul Baender
    Paul Baender, was a German–Bolivian chess master and functionary....

    , politician and chess player
  • Adolf Aron Baginsky
    Adolf Aron Baginsky
    Adolf Aron Baginsky was a Jewish-German professor of diseases of children at Berlin University.Baginsky was born in Ratibor , Prussian Silesia. At the completion of his high-school education at the gymnasium of his native town , he studied medicine in Berlin and Vienna...

    , pediatrician
  • John Baildon
    John Baildon
    John Baildon was a Scottish pioneer in metallurgy in continental Europe.Baildon was born in Larbert, Stirlingshire. In 1793, he came to Prussian Silesia on the invitation of Friedrich von Reden...

    , a Scottish pioneer in metallurgy in Silesia
  • Michael Ballack
    Michael Ballack
    Michael Ballack is a German professional footballer, who is currently playing for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of his international team. Ballack has worn the number 13 shirt for every team he has played for except for Kaiserslautern...

    , soccer player
  • Hans Baluschek
    Hans Baluschek
    Hans Baluschek was a well-known German painter and writer, a member of Berlin Secession.He is known for his illustrations of the fairy tale Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon.thumb|260px|Selfportrait, 1918...

    , painter
  • Jan Banaś
    Jan Banas
    Jan Banaś , nicknamed Bubi, is a Polish footballer, who began his career as a youngster playing for AKS Mikołów before moving to play for Zryw Chorzów in 1959-62, and then for Polonia Bytom and Górnik Zabrze...

    , soccer player
  • Franz Bardon
    Franz Bardon
    Franz Bardon , born in Opava, Austrian Silesia, was both a stage magician and student and teacher of Hermetics. He was a member of the Czech hermetic society Universalia. During World War II Bardon was at one point held in a concentration camp for refusing to participate in Nazi Mysticism. Bardon...

    , occultist
  • Walter Bathe
    Walter Bathe
    Walter Bathe was a German breaststroke swimmer, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.Bathe was born in Probsthain, Silesia. He won two gold medals in 200 metre breaststroke as well as in 400 metre breaststroke.-External links:**...

    , swimmer
  • bishop Herbert Bednorz
    Herbert Bednorz
    Herbert Bednorz was a Polish Catholic priest, theologist, and a Coadjutor bishop and later, from 1967, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Katowice....

  • Johannes Georg Bednorz
    Johannes Georg Bednorz
    Johannes Georg Bednorz is a physicist at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory. He is best known for his role in the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, for which he shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Life and work:...

    , physicist
  • Hans Bellmer
    Hans Bellmer
    Hans Bellmer was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.-Biography:...

    , painter and sculptor
  • Benedykt Polak
    Benedykt Polak
    Benedict of Poland was a Polish Franciscan friar, traveler and explorer....

     ca.1200-ca.1280, explorer
  • Henryk Bereska; pl, de, translator and poet
  • Max Berg
    Max Berg
    Max Berg was a German architect and urban planner.Berg was born in Stettin in Prussian Pomerania. He attended the Technical University in Charlottenburg, where he was taught by Carl Schäfer who favoured Gothic architecture...

     1870–1947, architect
  • Friedrich Bergius
    Friedrich Bergius
    Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods...

     1884–1949, chemist
  • Gottfried Bermann
    Gottfried Bermann
    Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer was a German publisher. He owned the S. Fischer Verlag....

    , publisher
  • cardinal Adolf Bertram
  • countess Valeska von Bethusy-Huc, writer
  • Petr Bezruč
    Petr Bezruc
    Petr Bezruč was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek , a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia.Bezruč was born in Opava and died in Olomouc.- Works :Poetry...

    , poet
  • von Bibran-Modlau family
    Bibran-Modlau
    For other Bibra and Bibran entries, go to Bibra disambiguation pageBibran-Modlau was a Silesian noble family which was raised to Reichsfreiherr 1624....

  • Albert Bielschowsky
    Albert Bielschowsky
    Albert Bielschowsky was a German literary historian . He is known for his writings concerning Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....

    , literary historian
  • Max Bielschowsky
    Max Bielschowsky
    Max Bielschowsky was a German neuropathologist born in Breslau.After receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Munich in 1893, he worked with Ludwig Edinger at the Senckenberg Pathology Institute in Frankfurt-am-Main. At Senckenberg he learned histological staining techniques from...

    , neuropathologist
  • Horst Bienek
    Horst Bienek
    Horst Bienek was a German novelist.Bienek was born in Gleiwitz, Germany . He was forced to leave Gleiwitz in 1945, when the use of the German language was forbidden in Silesia. He resettled in the eastern part of Germany. For a time, he was taught by Bertolt Brecht...

    , writer
  • Stanisław Bieniasz, writer; pl
  • rev. Franciszek Blachnicki
    Franciszek Blachnicki
    Franciszek Blachnicki .Blachnicki started The Light-Life Movement as a Catholic association.In the Roman Catholic Church started the process of his beatification.-External links:*...

  • William Blandowski
    William Blandowski
    Wilhelm Blandowski born Johan Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski January 21, 1822 died December 18, 1878, a German zoologist and mining engineer, was born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia ....

    , zoologist and mining engineer
  • Leszek Blanik
    Leszek Blanik
    Leszek Blanik is a Polish gymnast, World and Olympic champion in vault. He was the first to perform a handspring double front vault in piked position which now has been named after him.-Olympics:...

    , gymnast
  • Barbara Blida
    Barbara Blida
    Barbara Blida was a Polish political figure who served in the nation's Parliament for 16 years , including a stint as a member of the cabinet, and whose controversial suicide in the midst of an investigation for corruption became front-page news in Poland as well as in a number of news outlets...

    , 1949–2007, politician
  • Konrad Emil Bloch
    Konrad Emil Bloch
    Konrad Emil Bloch ForMemRS was a German American biochemist. Bloch received Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.-Biography:Bloch was born in Neisse in the German Empire's Prussian...

    , biochemist
  • Josef Block
    Josef Block
    Josef Block was a German painter.Block was born in Bernstadt an der Weide in Prussian Silesia. He was a scholar of the Breslau Art Academy, where his lifelong friendship with German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann was established...

    , painter
  • Günter Blobel
    Günter Blobel
    -Biography:Blobel was born in Waltersdorf in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. In January 1945 his family fled from native Silesia from the advancing Red Army. On their way to the West they passed through the beautiful old city of Dresden, which left deep impressions in the young boy...

     1936- biologist
  • Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
    Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
    Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist.- Biography :Zeisler was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia. She emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 4 in 1867. The family settled in Chicago, Illinois where they later changed...

    , pianist
  • Maurice Bloomfield
    Maurice Bloomfield
    Maurice Bloomfield, Ph. D., LL.D. was an American philologist and Sanskrit scholar.-Biography:Bloomfield was born in Bielitz , in what was at that time Austrian Silesia...

    , philologist
  • Friedrich Blühmel; de
  • Krystyna Bochenek
    Krystyna Bochenek
    Krystyna Maria Bochenek, née Neuman was a Polish politician, Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland representing Civic Platform...

    , politician
  • Hermann Boehm
    Hermann Boehm (admiral)
    Hermann Boehm was a German naval officer who rose to the rank of General Admiral during the Second World War.-Military service:...

    , admiral
  • Sebastian Boenisch
    Sebastian Boenisch
    Sebastian Boenisch is a Polish-German football player who plays for the Polish National Team and for Werder Bremen at club level, mainly as a left back.-Career:...

    , soccer player
  • bishop Bernard Bogedain; pl
  • Lothar Bolz
    Lothar Bolz
    Lothar Bolz was an East German politician. From 1953 to 1965 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany ....

    , politician
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plans by members of the Abwehr to assassinate Adolf Hitler...

    , theologian
  • Max Born
    Max Born
    Max Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...

     1882–1970, physicist
  • Arka Bożek, Silesian politician; pl
  • Ernst-Joachim Bradel
    Ernst-Joachim Bradel
    Ernst-Joachim Bradel was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

    , colonel
  • Walter Brom
    Walter Brom
    Walter Henryk Brom was a Polish soccer goalkeeper. Brom, who played for Ruch Chorzów, was a reserve player of Polish team in FIFA World Cup 1938. He was the youngest goalie who has ever been listed in any World Cup finals...

    , soccer player
  • Lucjan Brychczy
    Lucjan Brychczy
    Lucjan Antoni Brychczy was a Polish football player who is most notable for winning four top-tier titles with Legia Warsaw, but was also a keen archer....

    , soccer player
  • Ignatz Bubis
    Ignatz Bubis
    Ignatz Bubis , German Jewish leader, was the influential chairman of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland from 1992 to 1999. In this capacity he led a public campaign against German anti-Semitism...

    , politician
  • Andrzej Buncol
    Andrzej Buncol
    Andrzej Bernard Buncol is a retired Polish football player.He played for clubs such as Ruch Chorzów, Legia Warszawa, FC Homburg , Bayer Leverkusen and Fortuna Düsseldorf ....

    , soccer player
  • Agata Buzek
    Agata Buzek
    Agata Bronisława Buzek is a Polish actress.Agata, the daughter of Polish politician and current President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, was born in Pyskowice in Gliwice County, Poland. At a young age she suffered from poliomyelitis and was treated in Germany...

    , actress
  • Jerzy Buzek
    Jerzy Buzek
    Jerzy Karol Buzek is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician who was the ninth post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001...

    , engineer, politician, prime minister of Poland
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

  • Józef Buzek
    Józef Buzek
    Józef Buzek was a Polish lawyer, economist, statistician and politician from the region of Cieszyn Silesia....

    , economist and politician

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  • Ernst Cassirer
    Ernst Cassirer
    Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. He was one of the major figures in the development of philosophical idealism in the first half of the 20th century...

    , philosopher
  • Ewald Cebula
    Ewald Cebula
    Edward Cebula was a Polish football player and defender...

    , soccer player
  • Blessed Ceslaus
    Ceslaus
    Blessed Ceslaus, O.P., was born in Kamień Śląski in Silesia, Poland, of the noble family of Odrowąż, and was a relative, possibly the brother, of Saint Hyacinth...

    ; (bł. Czesław Odrowąż), Dominican friar
  • Dietrich von Choltitz
    Dietrich von Choltitz
    General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz was the German military governor of Paris during the closing days of the German occupation of that city during World War II...

    , general
  • Jerzy Chromik
    Jerzy Chromik
    Jerzy Chromik was a foremost long-distance runner from Poland.-Biography:Chromik took eight national titles at long distances: 3000 m steeplechase , 5000 m , 10,000 m .He participated in three European Championships in Athletics in Bern , Stockholm , Belgrade...

    , long distance runner
  • Claudia Ciesla
    Claudia Ciesla
    Claudia Ciesla is a German model, actress, and singer of Polish descent.-Early life:Born in Wodzisław Śląski, Poland, she grew up in Buków, part of Silesia, five miles from the Czech border...

    , female model
  • Gerard Cieślik
    Gerard Cieslik
    Gerard Cieślik , also known as Gienek, is a former football player of Ruch Wielkie Hajduki ....

    , soccer player
  • Ferdinand Cohn
    Ferdinand Cohn
    Ferdinand Julius Cohn was a German biologist.Cohn was born in Breslau in the Prussian Province of Silesia. At the age of 10 he suffered hearing impairment. He received a degree in botany in 1847 at the age of nineteen at the University of Berlin. He was a teacher and researcher at University of...

     1828–1898, biologist
  • Maria Cunitia (Cunitz) 1610-1664, astronomer
  • Richard Courant
    Richard Courant
    Richard Courant was a German American mathematician.- Life :Courant was born in Lublinitz in the German Empire's Prussian Province of Silesia. During his youth, his parents had to move quite often, to Glatz, Breslau, and in 1905 to Berlin. He stayed in Breslau and entered the university there...

    , mathematician
  • Johannes Crato von Krafftheim
    Johannes Crato von Krafftheim
    Johannes Crato von Krafftheim was a German humanist and court physician to three Holy Roman emperors.- Origins and education :...

    , 1519–1585, imperial physician
  • bishop Andrzej Czaja; pl
  • Herbert Czaja
    Herbert Czaja
    Dr. Herbert Czaja was a German Christian Democratic politician and advocate for Germans expelled after World War II...

    , politician
  • Richard Czaya; de, chess master

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  • Kurt Daluege
    Kurt Daluege
    Kurt Daluege was a German Nazi SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei and ruled the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia as Deputy Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.-Early life and career:Kurt Daluege, a son of a Prussian state official,...

    , SS-general, Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
  • Frank Damrosch
    Frank Damrosch
    Frank Heino Damrosch was a German-born American music conductor and educator.-Biography:He was born on June 22, 1859 in Breslau, and came to the United States with his father, Leopold Damrosch, and brother, Walter Damrosch in 1871. He had studied music in Germany under Dionys Pruckner. He studied...

    , music conductor and educator
  • Ernst Degner
    Ernst Degner
    Ernst Degner was a German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer....

    , motorcycle road racer
  • Hans Georg Dehmelt
    Hans Georg Dehmelt
    Hans Georg Dehmelt is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989...

    , physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • count Hans Karl von Diebitsch
    Hans Karl von Diebitsch
    Count Hans Karl Friedrich Anton von Diebitsch und Narden was a German-born soldier serving as Russian Field Marshal....

     (Graf Ivan Ivanovich Dibich-Zabalkansky), Russian Field Marshal
  • cardinal Melchior von Diepenbrock
    Melchior von Diepenbrock
    Melchior, Freiherr von Diepenbrock was a German Catholic Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Cardinal.-Life:...

    , Prince-Bishop of Breslau
  • Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz
    Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz
    Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz was a Prussian "general of cavalry", the "hero of Dennewitz" and "liberator of Wittenberg", military governor of the Rhine province and of Breslau...

    , general
  • the House of Henckel von Donnersmarck
    Henckel von Donnersmarck
    The Henckel von Donnersmarcks are a Silesian noble family from the former region of Spiš in Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia. The founder of the family was Henckel de Quintoforo in the 14/15th Century...

  • Hans-Jürgen Dörner
    Hans-Jürgen Dörner
    Hans-Jürgen „Dixie“ Dörner is a former German football player and who now coaches. He distinguished himself during his career by being named East Germany's player of the year three times - the only East German player to do this besides goalkeeper Jürgen Croy.Dörner's playing career began in 1960...

    , soccer player and coach
  • Bernard Drzyzga; pl, colonel
  • Ireneusz Dudek; pl, blues vocalist
  • Jerzy Dudek
    Jerzy Dudek
    Jerzy Henryk Dudek is a retired Polish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.After beginning his career in his home country, he went on to have successful spells in Netherlands and England, winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool in 2005, appearing in 186 official games for the club over...

    , soccer player
  • Rafał Dutkiewicz, politician
  • Ewald Dytko
    Ewald Dytko
    Edward Jan Dytko was a German-born Upper Silesian soccer player, who, when his home country became Poland by Treaty of Versailles represented the no longer existing team of Dąb Katowice, also in 1935-39 he played in the Polish National Team.He was born in Zalenze and since early childhood played...

    , soccer player
  • Wojciech Dzieduszycki; pl, count
  • Johann Dzierzon, apiarist

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  • Franz Eckert, musician who composed the national anthem of Japan
  • Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich
    Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...

     1854–1915, physiologist
  • Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
    Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
    Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was a German poet and novelist of the later German romantic school.Eichendorff is regarded as one of the most important German Romantics and his works have sustained high popularity in Germany from production to the present day.-Life:Eichendorff was born at Schloß...

    , poet
  • Bernd Eistert
    Bernd Eistert
    Bernd Eistert was a German chemist. Together with Fritz Arndt he discovered the Arndt-Eistert synthesis.-Life:...

    , chemist
  • Norbert Elias
    Norbert Elias
    Norbert Elias was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.-Biography:...

     1897–1990, sociologist
  • Józef Elsner
    Józef Elsner
    Józef Antoni Franciszek was a composer, music teacher and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw...

    , composer, music teacher and theoretician
  • Emin Pasha
    Emin Pasha
    Mehmed Emin Pasha — he was born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer and baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer — was a physician, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile...

     (Edward Schnitzer), physician
  • Leszek Engelking
    Leszek Engelking
    Leszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....

    , writer, poet, translator, scholar
  • Berthold Englisch
    Berthold Englisch
    Berthold Englisch was a leading Austrian chess master.Englisch was born in Czech Silesia into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent....

    , chess master
  • Anzelm Ephorinus; pl, physician
  • Johann Samuel Ersch
    Johann Samuel Ersch
    Johann Samuel Ersch was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography.-Biography:...

    , bibliographer

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  • Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
    Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
    Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German General who planned Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940...

    , general
  • Gottfried Bermann Fischer, publisher
  • Grzegorz Fitelberg
    Grzegorz Fitelberg
    Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Młoda Polska group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz....

    , conductor, violinist and composer
  • Walenty Fojkis; pl, politician
  • Jan Foltys
    Jan Foltys
    Jan Foltys , was a Czech chess International Master.-Biography:...

    , chess master
  • Emanuel Aloys Förster
    Emanuel Aloys Förster
    Emanuel Aloys Förster , was a composer and music teacher, who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria.- Early life :...

    , composer
  • Marta Fox, writer
  • Rudolf Fränkel
    Rudolf Frankel
    Rudolf Fränkel, often anglicised as Rudolf or Rudolph Frankel was a German-Jewish architect who was among the leaders of the pre-war avant-garde movement in Berlin...

    , architect
  • Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, biochemist
  • Egon Franke
    Egon Franke (fencer)
    Egon Franke is a Polish fencer and olympic champion in foil competition.He received a gold medal in the individual foil at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He received a team silver medal in 1964 and a bronze medal in 1968....

    , fencer
  • Zacharias Frankel, historian
  • Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.-Life:Freytag was born in Kreuzburg in Silesia...

    , writer
  • Fritz von Friedlaender-Fuld, industrialist; de
  • Johnny Friedlaender
    Johnny Friedlaender
    Johnny Friedlaender was a leading 20th century artist, whose works have been exhibited in Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, Japan and the United States. He has been influential upon other notable artists, who were students in his Paris gallery...

    , painter
  • Max Friedlaender
    Max Friedlaender (musicologist)
    Max Friedlaender was a German bass singer, music editor, and musicologist. He specialized in German Lieder.- Life :...

    , musicologist
  • Carl Friedländer
    Carl Friedländer
    Carl Friedländer was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882...

    , bacteriologist
  • Max Friedländer
    Max Friedländer
    Max Friedländer may refer to:*Max Friedländer , Silesia-born Austrian journalist*Max Friedlaender , Silesia-born German bass singer and musicologist*Max Friedlaender , German lawyer...

    , journalist
  • Walter Friedländer
    Walter Friedländer
    Walter Ferdinand Friedlaender was a German art historian.Born in Glogau, he was taught art history by Heinrich Wölfflin and others...

    , art historian
  • Anni Friesinger
    Anni Friesinger
    Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan is a speed skater, too...

    , speed skater
  • Willy Fritsch
    Willy Fritsch
    Willy Fritsch was a German theater and film actor, the popular leading man in German silent motion-pictures.-Biography:...

    , actor
  • Jan Furtok
    Jan Furtok
    Jan Furtok is a retired Polish football player.He played for a few clubs, including GKS Katowice, Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt ....

    , soccer player

G

  • Hubert Gad
    Hubert Gad
    Hubert Gad, also known as Hubert God was a Polish soccer player, a very skilled and aggressive forward, who for a while was the top scorer of Poland....

    , soccer player
  • Christian Ganczarski
    Christian Ganczarski
    Christian Ganczarski, born 1966 in Gliwice, Silesia, Poland, is a German citizen of Polish ancestry who converted to Islam. He is one of the individuals who has been described as the head of "al Qaeda in Europe"...

    , terrorist
  • archbishop Józef Gawlina; pl
  • Adam Gdacjusz
    Adam Gdacjusz
    Adam Gdacjusz or Gdacius or Gdak, also called Rey of Silesia was a Polish-language writer and a Lutheran pastor at the Wilna church and since 1644 was a deacon and, later, a parish priest in the Silesian town of Kreuzburg , where he was born...

    , writer
  • Gunther Gebel-Williams
    Gunther Gebel-Williams
    Gunther Gebel-Williams was an animal trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1968-1990.-Early life:...

    , circus performer, animal trainer
  • Oscar Gelbfuhs
    Oscar Gelbfuhs
    Oscar Gelbfuhs was a Moravian-Austrian chess master.He took 11th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament ....

    , chess master
  • Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz; pl, sculptor
  • Edmund Giemsa
    Edmund Giemsa
    Edmund Giemza was a Polish interwar soccer player, started career as a forward, then moved to midfield, regarded as an expert on free kicks. Born on October 16, 1912 in Upper Silesian city of Ruda Śląska, died on September 30, 1994 in Chinnor, England.Giemsa played for Ruch Chorzów as well as...

    , soccer player
  • Karl Gilg
    Karl Gilg
    Karl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....

    , chess master
  • Krzysztof Globisz
    Krzysztof Globisz
    Krzysztof Globisz is a Polish theatre and film actor. His best known role is as Piotr Balicki, the newly qualified barrister whose opinion of capital punishment undergoes a radical change in A Short Film About Killing directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski.-External links:...

    , actor
  • rev. Joseph Glowatzki; de, politician
  • Karl Godulla
    Karl Godulla
    Karl Godulla, Carolus Godulla, in Polish spelled Karol Godula was a Silesian self-made industrialist , and one of the best-known pioneers in the industrial development of Prussian Silesia.-Life:Godulla grew up in modest...

    , industrialist
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physicist
  • Eugen Goldstein
    Eugen Goldstein
    Eugen Goldstein was a German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.- Life :...

    , physicist
  • Kurt Goldstein
    Kurt Goldstein
    Kurt Goldstein was a German Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist who was a pioneer in modern neuropsychology. He created a holistic theory of the organism based on Gestalt theory which deeply influenced the development of Gestalt therapy...

    , neurologist
  • Robert Gonera
    Robert Gonera
    Robert Gonera is a Polish actor. He appeared in the television series Aby do świtu... in 1992. In 1999, he won a Polish Film Award Eagle for Best Actor for his performance as Adam Borecki in Dług. He was also a Second Unit Director or Assistant Director on Małżowina.-External links:...

    , actor
  • Jerzy Gorgoń
    Jerzy Gorgon
    Jerzy Paweł Gorgoń was a Polish football player who is remembered for his participation in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was a 6'4" tall defender who became well-known in 1967 while playing for Górnik Zabrze. He helped Zabrze to five consecutive Polish cups in 1968-72.He received 55 international...

    , soccer player
  • Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki
    Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki
    Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki was a Polish Baroque composer.-Life:Born in Rossberg near Beuthen in Silesia around 1665, little is known of his early life...

    , composer, musician
  • Jerzy Gorzelik
    Jerzy Gorzelik
    Jerzy Zdzisław Gorzelik – Silesian politician and an art historian. The president of the Silesian Autonomy Movement and an advocate for decentralization of the Polish administrative structure.- References :...

    , Silesian politician
  • Rudolf von Gottschall
    Rudolf von Gottschall
    Rudolf Gottschall in Leipzig, since 1877: von Gottschall, was a German poet and dramatist....

    , poet, dramatist, chess master
  • Wilhelm Góra
    Wilhelm Góra
    Wilhelm Antoni Góra was a Polish midfield soccer player.His career started in...

    , soccer player
  • Halina Górecka
    Halina Górecka
    Halina Górecka née Richter is a former Polish and German sprinter and a four-time olympian and an Olympic gold and bronze medal winner and a world record holder in women's 4x100 m relay...

    , athlete (sprinter)
  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, composer
  • Joachim Grallert
    Joachim Grallert
    Joachim Josef Johann Grallert was a prominent Prussian watchmaker and jeweler. He was born in Kratzbach , Kreis Landeshut, in the Province of Silesia. He moved from Lower Silesia to Gumbinnen in East Prussia, then to Transylvania...

    , watchmaker and jeweler
  • Heinrich Graetz
    Heinrich Graetz
    Heinrich Graetz was amongst the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective....

    , historian
  • Barnard Gratz, merchant
  • Michael Gratz, merchant
  • Jerzy Grotowski
    Jerzy Grotowski
    Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts....

    , theatre director
  • Friedrich Grundmann; pl, businessman, co-founder of Katowice
  • Ignatz Grünfeld; pl, architect
  • Andreas Gryphius
    Andreas Gryphius
    Andreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist.Asteroid 496 Gryphia is named in his honour.-Life and career:...

    , poet
  • Karol Grzesik; pl, politician
  • Bernhard Grzimek
    Bernhard Grzimek
    Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek was a renowned Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.-Early years:Grzimek was born in Neisse , Upper Silesia...

    , zoologist
  • Antoni Gucwiński, zoologist
  • Hanna Gucwińska, zoologist
  • cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz
  • Torsten Gütschow
    Torsten Gütschow
    Torsten Gütschow is a German former footballer who played as a striker. He is most associated with Dynamo Dresden, with whom he had two successful spells, playing top level football in East Germany and after reunification. In between these he played for three other German clubs, and spent six...

    , soccer player

H

  • the House of Habsburg
    Habsburg
    The House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...

    ; Branch of Toscania/Teschen
  • Fritz Haber
    Fritz Haber
    Fritz Haber was a German chemist, who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his development for synthesizing ammonia, important for fertilizers and explosives. Haber, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid...

    , chemist
  • Stanisław Hadyna; pl, composer
  • Daniel Harrwitz
    Daniel Harrwitz
    Daniel Harrwitz was a Jewish German chess master.Harrwitz was born in Breslau in the Prussian Province of Silesia. He established his reputation in Paris, particularly as a player of blindfold games...

    , chess master
  • Alfred Hauptmann; de, neurologist
  • Gerhart Hauptmann
    Gerhart Hauptmann
    Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...

    , dramatist
  • Felix Hausdorff
    Felix Hausdorff
    Felix Hausdorff was a Jewish German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.-Life:Hausdorff studied at the University of Leipzig,...

    , mathematician
  • Saint Hedwig of Andechs; (św. Jadwiga Śląska), Duchess of Silesia (1174–1243)
  • Saint Hyacinth
    Saint Hyacinth
    Saint Hyacinth, O.P., was educated in Paris and Bologna. A Doctor of Sacred Studies and a secular priest, he worked to reform women's monasteries in his native Poland...

    ; (św. Jacek Odrowąż), Dominican friar, called the Apostle of the North
  • Henry I the Bearded
    Henry I the Bearded
    Henry I the Bearded , of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty, was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław from 1201 and Duke of Kraków and thus High Duke of all Poland - internally divided - from 1232 until his death.-Heir of Wroclaw:...

    , Duke
  • Henry II the Pious
    Henry II the Pious
    Henry II the Pious , of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław and Duke of Kraków and thus High Duke of all Poland as well as Duke of Southern Greater Poland from 1238 until his death. During 1238–1239 he also served as a regent of two other Piast duchies: Sandomierz...

    , Duke
  • Henry III the White, Duke
  • Henry IV Probus, Duke
  • Lothar Herbst; pl, poet
  • Max Herrmann-Neisse; pl, de, writer
  • Richard Herrmann
    Richard Herrmann
    Richard Herrmann was a German football player. He played for the clubs 1. FC Kattowitz and FSV Frankfurt ....

    , soccer player
  • Dieter Hildebrandt
    Dieter Hildebrandt
    Dieter Hildebrandt is a German Kabarett artist.Born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II...

    , cabaret artist
  • Moses Hirschel
    Moses Hirschel
    Maskil Moses Hirschel was a German writer and chess author.He was a representative of Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, in Kingdom of Prussia at the end of the 18th century...

    , writer and chess master
  • Ludwik Hirszfeld, microbiologist
  • cardinal August Hlond; Primate of Poland
  • John Henry XV Count of Hochberg, 3rd Prince of Pless; pl, de, Prince
  • Karl Höfer
    Karl Höfer
    Karl Höfer was a German officer. During World War I he became known as the Held vom Kemmelberge for his actions at the Kemmelberg....

    , general
  • the House of Hohenzollern; Brandenburg branch
  • Carl von Holtei; de, writer
  • Richard Holtze; szl, politician, co-founder of Katowice
  • Walther von Holzhausen
    Walther von Holzhausen
    Walther von Holzhausen was a German chess master and problemist.Born in Troppau , then Austrian Silesia, as the son of an Austrian officer, although his family lived in Frankfurt am Main, he graduated from states military academies at Graz and Hanau...

    , chess master
  • Bernhard von Hülsen
    Bernhard von Hülsen
    Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf von Hülsen was a German general.On 26 December 1918 after World War I, Hülsen formed the Freikorps Hülsen, a paramilitary unit which participated in the suppression of the Spartacist League in Berlin. In 1921 Generalleutnant von Hülsen commanded units in the Battle of...

    , general
  • Herbert Hupka
    Herbert Hupka
    Herbert Hupka was a German journalist and politician .Hupka was born in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, to a Silesian German Catholic professor Erich Hupka and a Jewish-German Lutheran mother Sara Rosenthal. Herbert Hupka raised in Ratibor, Upper Silesia...

    , politician

J

  • Anton Jadasch; de, politician
  • Lech Janerka
    Lech Janerka
    Lech Janerka is a Polish songwriter, vocalist and bassist. In the 1980s he was leader of a notable Polish post-punk/new wave band called Klaus Mitffoch, based in Wrocław.- Discography :...

    , composer
  • Janosch
    Janosch
    Janosch is one of the best-known German artists and children's book authors. He was born in Hindenburg in Upper Silesia. He said in an interview that he is Silesian and that it is his nationality.After World War II the family fled to West Germany. In the area of Oldenburg Janosch worked in a...

    , writer
  • Michael Jary
    Michael Jary
    Michael Jary was a German composer.- Early years :...

    , composer
  • Grzegorz Jarzyna; pl, theatre director
  • Otylia Jędrzejczak
    Otylia Jedrzejczak
    Otylia Jędrzejczak is a Polish swimmer. She is the Olympic champion from Athens 2004 in the 200 metre butterfly. She finished 4th in this event in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She also swam in a third Olympiad, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In Athens 2004 she also silvered in...

    , swimmer
  • Dariusz Jerczyński
    Dariusz Jerczyński
    Dariusz Jerczyński is a Silesian politician and historical writer.-Biography:Dariusz Jerczyński has authored books about the history of Silesia, historical articles in the magazines Czas Górnośląski and Jaskółka Śląska. From 2001 to 2007, Jerczyński was a member of the Silesian Autonomy Movement...

    , Silesian politician and historical writer
  • Jens Jeremies, soccer player
  • Moritz Jursitzky
    Moritz Jursitzky
    Moritz Jursitzky was an Austrian/Silesian writer.Born as a son of a weaver master craftsman, Moritz Jursitzky worked as well as a weaver for a long time....

    , writer

K

  • Helmut Kajzar, playwright, theatre director
  • Theodor Erdmann Kalide; de, sculptor
  • bishop Maximilian Kaller
    Maximilian Kaller
    Maximilian Kaller was Roman Catholic Bishop of Ermland in East Prussia from 1930–1947, however, de facto expelled since mid-August 1945 he served as special bishop for the homeland-expellees until his death.-Early life:...

  • Theodor Kaluza
    Theodor Kaluza
    Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in five-dimensional space...

    , mathematician and physicist
  • Tomasz Kamusella
    Tomasz Kamusella
    Tomasz Kamusella is a European scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism and ethnicity.-Education:...

    , linguist
  • Manfred Kanther
    Manfred Kanther
    Manfred Kanther is a German conservative politician and was Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1993 to 1998. He has been a member of the CDU .- Life and education :...

    , politician
  • Anna Louisa Karsch
    Anna Louisa Karsch
    Anna Louisa Karsch was a German autodidact and poet from the Silesia region, known to her contemporaries as “Die Karschin”.-Life:...

    , poet
  • Adolf Kaschny; pl, Silesian politician
  • Georg Katzer
    Georg Katzer
    Georg Katzer is a German composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic .-Biography:...

    , composer
  • Lars Kaufmann
    Lars Kaufmann
    Lars Kaufmann is a German team handball player. He is World champion from 2007 with the German national team. He participated on the German team that finished 4th at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship....

    , handball player
  • Alfred Kelbassa
    Alfred Kelbassa
    Alfred Kelbassa was a German football player.Kelbassa played most notably for Preußen Münster and Borussia Dortmund ....

    , soccer player
  • Alfred Kerr
    Alfred Kerr
    Alfred Kerr , born Alfred Kempner, was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ....

    , art critic
  • Leon Kieres
    Leon Kieres
    Leon Kieres is a Polish lawyer and politician. He was the president of a Instytut Pamięci Narodowej ....

    , historian
  • Wojciech Kilar
    Wojciech Kilar
    Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...

    , composer
  • Gustav Kirchhoff
    Gustav Kirchhoff
    Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects...

    , physicist
  • Eckart Klein; de, social scientist
  • Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century.-Biography:Otto Klemperer was born in Breslau, Silesia Province, then in Germany...

    , conductor and composer
  • Miroslav Klose
    Miroslav Klose
    Miroslav Josef Klose is a German footballer who plays as a striker for Lazio in the Serie A. Since bursting onto the international stage at the 2002 World Cup, he has become well known for his knack of scoring headers, front-flip goal celebrations, and decisive short passing.Klose holds German...

    , soccer player
  • Baladine Klossowska
    Baladine Klossowska
    Baladine Klossowska or Kłossowska was a twentieth-century European painter. She was the mother of the artist Balthus and the writer Pierre Klossowski, and the last lover of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.She was born Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro in Breslau, Prussia...

    , painter
  • Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
    Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
    Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne was a German botanist and dendrologist who was born near the town of Striegau, which today is known as Strzegom, Poland....

    , botanist
  • Alexander Kohut
    Alexander Kohut
    Alexander Kohut was a rabbi and orientalist. He belonged to a family of rabbis, the most noted among them being Rabbi Israel Palota, his great-grandfather, Rabbi Amram , and Rabbi Chayyim Kitssee,...

    , orientalist
  • Jan Jakub Kolski
    Jan Jakub Kolski
    Jan Jakub Kolski is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer.-Early life and career:Kolski comes from a family closely connected to cinema. His father, Roman Kolski, and his sister, Ewa Pakulska were film editors. His brother, Włodzimierz Kolski, is a production manager. His paternal...

    , film director and writer
  • cardinal Bolesław Kominek
  • Jerzy Konikowski
    Jerzy Konikowski
    Jerzy Konikowski a Polish–German chess master, problemist and author.He was a Polish national team trainer in 1978–1981 . In 1981, he emigrated to West Germany. Since 1982, he work at the Dortmund University of Technology as a chemist...

    , chess master
  • Richard Konwiarz
    Richard Konwiarz
    Richard Konwiarz was a German architect.He was born in Tschempin and died in Hanover.In 1932 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his design of the "Schlesierkampfbahn" in the Sport Park of Breslau.In the years 1952 to 1954 he constructed in cooperation with Heinz...

    ; architect
  • cardinal Georg von Kopp
    Georg von Kopp
    Georg von Kopp was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Furda and Prince-Bishop of Breslau .-Biography:...

  • Wojciech Korfanty
    Wojciech Korfanty
    Wojciech Korfanty , born Adalbert Korfanty, was a Polish nationalist activist, journalist and politician, serving as member of the German parliaments Reichstag and Prussian Landtag, and later on, in the Polish Sejm...

    , politician
  • Hubert Kostka
    Hubert Kostka
    Hubert Jerzy Kostka is a retired Polish soccer goalkeeper, who represented both Górnik Zabrze, and the Polish National Team. Kostka participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where Poland won gold medal...

    , soccer player
  • Jan Kotrč
    Jan Kotrc
    Jan Kotrč was a Czech chess master.Born in Bielsko , he was an editor of chess magazines Šach-Mat , České listy šachové in Prague, and Arbeiter Schachzeitung in the 1920s-1930s in Vienna.He shared 2nd with Karel Traxler, behind Jan Kvicala, at Prague 1891...

    , chess master
  • Józef Kożdoń
    Józef Kożdoń
    Józef Kożdoń was Silesian autonomist politician.-Biography:...

    , Silesian autonomist
  • Adolf Kramer
    Adolf Kramer
    Adolf Kramer was a Silesian German chess master.He played in DSB Congress. He tied for 10-12th at Munich 1900 , took 8th at Breslau 1912 , shared 2nd at Hamburg 1921 , tied for 4-6th at Bad Oeynhausen 1922 , and took 5th at Duisburg 1929 .Kramer also participated several times in...

    , chess master
  • Paul Krause; de (December 27, 1905, † October 19, 1950), politician
  • Jan Kropidło
    Jan Kropidło
    Jan Kropidło , was Duke of Strzelce 1382–96, Duke of Opole from 1396 , Bishop of Poznań 1382–84, Bishop of Włocławek 1384–89, nominate Archbishop of Gniezno 1389–94, Bishop of Kamień 1394–98, Bishop of Chełmno 1398–1402, and again Bishop of Włocławek 1402 until his death.He was the eldest son of...

    , Duke of Opole, bishop of Chełmno, Kamień Pomorski
    Kamien Pomorski
    Kamień Pomorski is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of northwestern Poland. The capital of Kamień County, the town had 9,129 inhabitants as of June 30, 2008.- History :...

    , Kuyavia
    Kuyavia
    Kujawy , is a historical and ethnographic region in the north-central Poland, situated in the basin of the middle Vistula and upper Noteć Rivers, with its capital in Włocławek.-Etymology:The origin of the name Kujawy was seen differently in history...

    , Poznań
    Poznan
    Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

    , archbishop of Gniezno
    Gniezno
    Gniezno is a city in central-western Poland, some 50 km east of Poznań, inhabited by about 70,000 people. One of the Piasts' chief cities, it was mentioned by 10th century A.D. sources as the capital of Piast Poland however the first capital of Piast realm was most likely Giecz built around...

    , Primate of Poland
  • Rafał Kubacki
    Rafal Kubacki
    Rafał Kubacki is a Polish judoka.He is known from his role as Ursus in Quo Vadis directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz....

    , judo fighter and politician
  • Marek Krajewski
    Marek Krajewski
    Marek Krajewski is an award-winning Polish crime writer and linguist.He is best known for his series of five Chandleresque novels set in pre-war Wrocław with the policeman Eberhard Mock as the protagonist...

    , classical philologist and crime-story writer
  • Rodolphe Kreutzer
    Rodolphe Kreutzer
    Rodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:...

     (father was born in Silesia), violinist and composer
  • Henryk Kroll
    Henryk Kroll
    Henryk Kroll was a Polish politician, and the former leader of German minority in Poland. He was initially elected to Sejm in 1991. In the Polish parliamentary elections of September 25, 2005, he achieved 7852 votes in 21 Opole district, from "Mniejszość Niemiecka" list...

    , politician
  • bishop Teodor Kubina; pl
  • Wojciech Kuczok
    Wojciech Kuczok
    Wojciech Kuczok - Polish novelist, poet, and screenwriter.His novel Gnój won the prestigious Nike Award in 2004. The book was filmed as Pręgi, with his script, and the movie won the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, also in 2004.The author is strongly connected with his home region of...

    , writer
  • Hans Kudlich
    Hans Kudlich
    Hans Kudlich was an Austrian political activist, Austrian legislator, writer and physician.-Early life:...

    , politician
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert
    Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert
    Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert was a German painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in animal images.-Personal life:...

    , painter
  • Jerzy Kukuczka
    Jerzy Kukuczka
    Jerzy Kukuczka , born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On 18 September 1987, he became the second man, after Reinhold Messner, to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world....

    ; alpine and high-altitude climber
  • Theofil Kupka
    Theofil Kupka
    Theofil Kupka was a Silesian politician.- Biography :...

    , Silesian politician
  • Jan Kustos
    Jan Kustos
    Jan Kustos was a Silesian politician, philosophy magister, press editor, founder and chairman of the Union of Upper Silesians Defence from 1925-1932, spokesman rights national minority for Silesians in Poland, member of town council in Katowice in the period 1926-1927, founder of the Trade Union...

    , Silesian politician
  • Martin Wilhelm Kutta
    Martin Wilhelm Kutta
    Martin Wilhelm Kutta was a German mathematician.Kutta was born in Pitschen, Upper Silesia . He attended the University of Breslau from 1885 to 1890, and continued his studies in Munich until 1894, where he became the assistant of Walther Franz Anton von Dyck. From 1898, he spent a year at the...

    , mathematician
  • Kazimierz Kutz
    Kazimierz Kutz
    Kazimierz Julian Kutz is a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.- Biography :...

    , film director and politician

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  • Fritz Laband
    Fritz Laband
    Fritz Laband was a German footballer.He was born in Hindenburg.He was part of the West German team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned four caps for West Germany...

    , soccer player
  • Piotr Lachmann, poet, writer, theatre artist
  • Ferdinand Lassalle
    Ferdinand Lassalle
    Ferdinand Lassalle was a German-Jewish jurist and socialist political activist.-Early life:Ferdinand Lassalle was born on 11 April 1825 in Breslau , Silesia to a prosperous Jewish family descending from Upper Silesian Loslau...

    , politician
  • Maciej Łagiewski; pl, historian
  • Hans Lammers
    Hans Lammers
    Dr.jur. Hans Heinrich Lammers was a German jurist and prominent Nazi politician. From 1933 until 1945 he served as head of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler....

    , politician
  • Georg Landsberg de, mathematician
  • Otto Landsberg
    Otto Landsberg
    Otto Landsberg was a German jurist and politician.-Life:Landsberg was born in 1869 in Rybnik in the Province of Silesia. After passing the Abitur in 1887 in Ostrowo, he moved to Berlin to study law. In 1895, having passed the First and Second State Examination , he opened a lawyer's office in...

     de, politician
  • Benno Landsberger
    Benno Landsberger
    Benno Landsberger was one of the most important German Assyriologists.- Early life and education :...

     (1890–1968), linguist
  • Franz Landsberger de, art historian
  • Julius Landsberger de, orientalist and rabbi
  • Horst Lange; de, writer
  • Walter Laqueur
    Walter Laqueur
    Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator. He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938, Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, became victims of the Holocaust...

    , historian
  • Ewald Latacz
    Ewald Latacz
    Ewald Latacz was Silesian politician, doctor of law, lawyer in Racibórz since 1913 and Wodzisław Śląski, chairman of Workers Council in Wodzisław Śląski and co-founder secret Upper Silesian Committee in 1918, civil law notary since 1919, co-founder and leader Union of Upper Silesians in the period...

    , Silesian politician
  • Waldemar Legień
    Waldemar Legien
    Waldemar Legień is a retired Polish judoka. He is the manager of Racing Club de France in Paris.He won two Olympic gold medals in different weight classes, in 1988 and 1992.For his sport achievements, he received:...

    , judoist
  • Philipp Lenard
    Philipp Lenard
    Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard , known in Hungarian as Lénárd Fülöp Eduárd Antal, was a Hungarian - German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties...

    , physicist
  • Jan Liberda
    Jan Liberda
    Jan Konrad Liberda is a retired Polish football forward. Liberda played mostly for one team, Polonia Bytom, where he remained since 1949, until in 1969. He ended his career in 1971 at AZ. He twice was the topscorer of the Ekstraklasa, in 1959 with 21 goals, and in 1962 with 16 goals. Also, in...

    , soccer player
  • the House of Lichnowsky
  • the House of Liechtenstein
    Princely Family of Liechtenstein
    The Liechtenstein dynasty, from which the principality takes its name, is the family which reigns by constitutional, hereditary right over the nation of Liechtenstein...

  • Felix Liebrecht
    Felix Liebrecht
    Felix Liebrecht was a German folklorist.Liebrecht was born in Namslau, Prussian Silesia. He studied philology at the universities of Breslau, Munich, and Berlin, and in 1849 became professor of the German language at the Athénée Royal at Liège, Belgium. He resigned his chair and retired into...

    , folklorist
  • Paul Löbe
    Paul Löbe
    Paul Löbe was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany .-Life and career:...

    , politician
  • Friedrich von Logau, epigrammatist
  • Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
    Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
    Daniel Caspar , also spelled Daniel Casper, and referred to from 1670 as Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein, was a Baroque Silesian playwright, lawyer, diplomat, poet, and chief representative of the Second Silesian School.-Family:The Casper and/or Caspar family came from the Brieg principality, first...

    , diplomat and writer
  • Stanisław Ligoń; pl, writer and painter
  • Józef Lompa; pl, poet
  • rev. Józef Londzin; pl, politician
  • Fritz London
    Fritz London
    Fritz Wolfgang London was a German theoretical physicist. His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry.With his brother Heinz, he made a significant...

    , physicist
  • Fred Lowen
    Fred Lowen
    Fritz "Fred" Karl Heinz Lowen is a designer, member of the Order of Australia, and an inductee in the Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame.-Biography:...

    , designer
  • Włodzimierz Lubański, soccer player
  • Emil Ludwig
    Emil Ludwig
    Emil Ludwig was a German author, known for his biographies.-Biography:Emil Ludwig was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novella, but also worked as a journalist...

    , writer
  • Hans Lukaschek; de, Silesian politician
  • Bobby E. Lüthge; de, screenwriter
  • Mariusz Łukasiewicz; pl, businessman
  • Olgierd Łukaszewicz
    Olgierd Łukaszewicz
    Olgierd Łukaszewicz is a Polish film actor. He has appeared in over 60 films since his 1969 graduation from the Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts in Kraków...

    , actor
  • Ondra Łysohorsky, poet

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  • Gottlieb Machate
    Gottlieb Machate
    Gottlieb Machate was a German chess master.He participated several times in Silesian Chess Congresses. In 1926 roku he took 2nd, behind Fritz Sämisch , in Bad Altheide , and won the Silesian Champion title...

    , chess master
  • Wacław Maciejowski, historian
  • Lech Majewski
    Lech Majewski
    Lech Majewski is a Polish film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.Born in Katowice, Poland, Majewski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the 1970s, he then studied at the National Film School in Łódź, notably as a student of Wojciech Has, who taught Majewski directing...

    , film and theatre director
  • Franz Graf von Magnis; id A missionary man and Indonesian public figure.
  • Adam Małysz, ski jumper
  • Andrzej Markowski
    Andrzej Markowski
    Andrzej Markowski was a Polish composer and conductor. He was the director of the Wroclaw Philharmonic from 1965 to 1968 and founded the festival Wratislavia Cantans.- Selected Film music :* Colonel Wolodyjowski...

    ; pl, linguist
  • Martin of Opava
    Martin of Opava
    Martin of Opava, also known as Martin of Poland, was a 13th century chronicler.Known in Latin as Frater Martinus Ordinis Praedicatorum , he is believed to have been born, at an unknown date, in the Silesian town of Opava , thus sometimes called Martinus Oppaviensis, or also Martinus Polonus...

    , historian, archbishop of Gniezno
    Gniezno
    Gniezno is a city in central-western Poland, some 50 km east of Poznań, inhabited by about 70,000 people. One of the Piasts' chief cities, it was mentioned by 10th century A.D. sources as the capital of Piast Poland however the first capital of Piast realm was most likely Giecz built around...

    , Primate of Poland
  • Kurt Masur
    Kurt Masur
    Kurt Masur is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.- Biography :Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. Masur has been married three times...

    , conductor
  • Michael Graf von Matuschka
    Michael Graf von Matuschka
    Michael Graf von Matuschka was a German politician who took part in the July 20 plot.- Biography :...

    , politician
  • Martin Max
    Martin Max
    Martin Max is a retired Polish-born German footballer, who played as a striker.One of the oldest winners of the Bundesliga's top scorer crown, at the age of 32 and 34, he represented four teams in his country of adoption.-Club career:...

    , soccer player
  • Ludwig Meidner
    Ludwig Meidner
    Ludwig Meidner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker born in Bernstadt, Silesia. He was apprenticed to a stonemason, but the apprenticeship was not completed. He studied at the Royal School of Art in Breslau and, from 1906-07 at the Julien and Cormon Academies in Paris where he met...

    , painter
  • cardinal Joachim Meisner
  • Erich Mende
    Erich Mende
    Dr. Erich Mende was a German politician of the FDP and CDU. He was the leader of FDP 1960 - 1968.-Early life:Mende was born in Gross-Strehlitz, Upper Silesia,...

    , German politician of the FDP and CDU
  • Gregor Mendel
    Gregor Mendel
    Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...

    , biologist
  • Adolph Menzel, painter
  • Wolfgang Menzel
    Wolfgang Menzel
    Wolfgang Menzel , German poet, critic and literary historian, was born at Waldenburg in Silesia.He studied at Breslau, Jena and Bonn, and after living for some time in Aarau and Heidelberg finally settled in Stuttgart, where, from 1830 to 1838, he had a seat in the Württemberg Diet.His first work,...

    , poet
  • Blessed Maria Merkert
    Maria Merkert
    Maria Merkert was the co-Foundress and first Superior General of the Congregation of St Elizabeth. Her father died when she was an infant and her mother died in 1842. Along with her sister she devoted herself to the poor. She was declared venerable in 2004...

  • Zbigniew Messner
    Zbigniew Messner
    Zbigniew Messner was a Communist economist and politician in Poland. In 1972, he became Professor of Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice...

    , economist, politician, prime minister of People's Republic of Poland
    People's Republic of Poland
    The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...

  • Ewa Michnik, conductor
  • Mieszko I Tanglefoot
    Mieszko IV Tanglefoot
    Mieszko IV Tanglefoot was a Duke of Silesia from 1163 to 1173 , Duke of Racibórz from 1173, Duke of Opole from 1202 and from 9 June 1210 until his death, Duke of Kraków and High Duke of Poland....

    , Duke of Upper Silesia
  • Jan Miodek
    Jan Miodek
    Jan Miodek , Professor of Wroclaw University, is a Polish linguist in the normative tradition....

    , linguist
  • Fr. Leopold Moczygemba
    Leopold Moczygemba
    Fr. Leopold Moczygemba, OFM Conv - founder of the first Polish-American parish in Panna Maria and Bandera, Texas.Born October 18, 1824 in Płużnica Wielka Upper Silesia....

    , founder of the first Silesian-American parish in Panna Maria, Texas.
  • Helga Molander
    Helga Molander
    Helga Molander, born as Ruth Werner on 19 March 1896 in Königshütte, Silesia, Germany , died in 1986, was a German actress and mother of Hans Eysenck.-Life:...

    , actress
  • Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
    Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
    Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II and subsequently became a founding member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group, whose members...

    , jurist and politician
  • Theodor Mommsen
    Theodor Mommsen
    Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...

    , historian and writer
  • Gustaw Morcinek
    Gustaw Morcinek
    Gustaw Morcinek was a Polish writer, educator and later member of Sejm from 1952 to 1957. He is considered one of the most important writers from Silesia....

    , writer
  • Oskar Morgenstern
    Oskar Morgenstern
    Oskar Morgenstern was a German-born Austrian-School economist. He, along with John von Neumann, helped found the mathematical field of game theory ....

    , economist
  • Ludwig Moshamer; de, architect
  • Czesław Mozil, singer
  • Paul Mross
    Paul Mross
    Paul Mross was a Polish–German chess master.-Biography:...

    , chess master
  • Bogdan Musiol
    Bogdan Musiol
    Bogdan Musiol is an East German-German bobsledder who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s....

    , bobsledder
  • Joseph Musiol
    Joseph Musiol
    Joseph Musiol was a Silesian politician. He served as secretary of the Catholic Trade Union, as a member of the town council in Bytom, and as leader of a local group in Bytom...

    , politician
  • bishop Jan Muskata
    Jan Muskata
    Jan Muskata was bishop of Kraków from 1294 to 1309.Muskata was born in Wrocław, Silesia. He was the son of a German spice trader. The name Muskata is derived from Latin, for nutmeg....


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  • bishop Nanker
    Nanker
    Nanker , born Jan Kołda, was a Polish noble of Oksza coat of arms, bishop of Kraków and bishop of Wrocław ....

  • Benjamin Neukirch; de, poet
  • Albert Neisser, physician
  • Gustav Neumann
    Gustav Neumann
    Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann was a German chess master.Neumann was born in Gleiwitz in the Prussian Province of Silesia. In matches he lost to Louis Paulsen at Leipzig 1864, and defeated Celso Golmayo Zúpide , and Simon Winawer at Paris 1867...

    , chess master
  • archbishop Alfons Nossol
  • Erwin Nyc
    Erwin Nyc
    Erwin Peter Nytz or Edward Piotr Nyc was an interwar Polish soccer midfield player of Upper Silesian origin. Born Erwin Nytz his Silesian homeland became Poland after Treaty of Versailles and he changed his last name to its Polonized version in 1934...

    , soccer player

O

  • Teofil Ociepka; pl, naïve painter
  • Jan Olbrycht
    Jan Olbrycht
    Jan Olbrycht is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party and...

    , politician
  • Reinhold Olesch
    Reinhold Olesch
    Reinhold Olesch was a linguist, Slavic studies Professor of University of Vienna. He researched the Slavonic dialects of Upper Silesia, which he recognized as his mother language...

    , linguist
  • Paul Ondrusch
    Paul Ondrusch
    Paul Ondrusch was a German sculptor who created religious works of art. Ondrusch was an active artist in Silesian towns and villages at the time when they belonged to the German Empire and later when they were part of Weimar Republic and the Third Reich since 1919 and 1933 respectively...

    , sculptor
  • Martin Opitz, poet
  • Władysław Opolczyk, Duke of Opole

P

  • Helmuth von Pannwitz
    Helmuth von Pannwitz
    Helmuth von Pannwitz was a German general who distinguished himself as a cavalry officer during the First and the Second World Wars. Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht and Supreme Ataman of the XV...

    , general and ataman
  • Rudolf Pannwitz
    Rudolf Pannwitz
    Rudolf Pannwitz was a German writer and philosopher.-Works:* 1909 - Die Erziehung* 1912 - Formenkunde der Kirche* 1919 - Die deutsche Lehre...

    , writer and philosopher
  • Eduard Pant
    Eduard Pant
    Eduard Pant was a journalist and politician of the Catholic German minority in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland in the interwar period...

    , politician
  • Ildefons Pauler
    Ildefons Pauler
    Ildefons Pauler was the 63rd Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1970 to 1988.He was born in Opava, Austrian Silesia and died in Vienna....

    , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1970-1988)
  • rev. Paul Peikert; pl
  • Teodor Peterek
    Teodor Peterek
    Teodor Peterek , a Polish soccer player from interwar period, forward, represented Ruch Chorzów and Polish National Team...

    , soccer player
  • the House of Piast
    Piast dynasty
    The Piast dynasty was the first historical ruling dynasty of Poland. It began with the semi-legendary Piast Kołodziej . The first historical ruler was Duke Mieszko I . The Piasts' royal rule in Poland ended in 1370 with the death of king Casimir the Great...

  • Ryszard Piec
    Ryszard Piec
    Ryszard Leon Piec - Polish soccer player, born Richard Leon Pietz on August 17, 1913 in Schwientochlowitz , Germany,died on January 24, 1979 in his hometown....

    , soccer player
  • Wilhelm Piec
    Wilhelm Piec
    Wilhelm Piec - Polish soccer forward player.Wilhelm was one of best players of interwar Poland...

    , soccer player
  • Antoni Piechniczek
    Antoni Piechniczek
    Antoni Piechniczek is a retired Polish football player and a football manager. Since 2007 he is a Polish senator.- Player career :...

    , soccer player and coach
  • Franciszek Pieczka
    Franciszek Pieczka
    Franciszek Pieczka is a Polish film and stage actor. A graduate of the Theatrical Academy in Warsaw, he first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra...

    , actor
  • bishop Tadeusz Pieronek
    Tadeusz Pieronek
    Tadeusz Pieronek is a Polish Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop-emeritus, Catholic academic and professor of theology and civil law. Pieronek is a leading member of the Stefan Batory Foundation .-Biography:...

  • Józef Pinior
    Józef Pinior
    Józef Pinior is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS & OP with the Socjaldemokracja Polska, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development....

    , politician
  • Ferdinand Piontek; de, vicar
  • Hans Piontek; de, Silesian politician
  • Heinz Piontek; de, poet and writer
  • Klaus Piontek; de, actor
  • Leonard Piontek, soccer player
  • Sepp Piontek, soccer player and coach
  • Richard Pipes
    Richard Pipes
    Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...

    , historian
  • Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
    Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
    Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was a 16th century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word Trigonometry....

    , mathematician and astronomer
  • Marek Plawgo
    Marek Plawgo
    Marek Plawgo is a Polish athlete. He mainly competes in the 400 meters hurdles, but he also starts in the 400 meters and the 4x400 meters relay....

    , athlete
  • the House of Pless
  • Lukas Podolski
    Lukas Podolski
    Lukas Josef Podolski ; born Łukasz Podolski ) on 4 June 1985 in Gliwice, Poland) is a German footballer who plays as a striker/winger for 1. FC Köln and for the German national team. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1995 where he broke into the first team in 2003 and made 81 appearances for the club before...

    , soccer player
  • Ernest Pohl
    Ernest Pol
    Ernest Pohl , aka Ernst Pol, was a Polish football player.He was born in Ruda , Poland and died in Hausach, Germany....

    , soccer player
  • Hugo von Pohl
    Hugo von Pohl
    Hugo von Pohl was a German admiral who during the First World War commanded the German High Seas Fleet from 1915 until shortly before his death from illness in 1916....

    , admiral
  • Yosef Porath
    Yosef Porath
    -Biography:Yosef Porath was born Heinz Josef Foerder in Germany. He took the name Yosef Porath in Israel. In 1933, he lost his job after the Nazis assumed power in Germany, and moved to Riga. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine...

    , chess master
  • Hans Poelzig
    Hans Poelzig
    Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.-Life:Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to the countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman...

    , architect
  • Vincenz Priessnitz
    Vincenz Priessnitz
    Vincenz Priessnitz, also written Prießnitz was a peasant farmer in Gräfenberg, Austrian Silesia, who is generally considered the founder of modern hydrotherapy, which is used in alternative and orthodox medicine...

    , hydrotherapist
  • Alfred Pringsheim
    Alfred Pringsheim
    Alfred Israel Pringsheim was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia and died in Zürich, Switzerland.- Family and academic career :...

    , mathematician
  • Ernst Pringsheim, Sr.
    Ernst Pringsheim, Sr.
    Ernst Pringsheim, Sr., Ernst Pringsheim sen. was a German physicist.-Literary works:* Ueber das Radiometer. Berlin: Lange, 1882. Berlin, Universität, Dissertation, 1882....

    , physicist
  • Ernst Pringsheim, Jr.
    Ernst Pringsheim, Jr.
    Ernst Pringsheim, Jr., Ernst Georg Pringsheim jun., or Ernst Georg Pringsheim was a German Natural scientist and plant physiologist .He taught as a professor for biochemistry and botany, in the University of Berlin, University of Prague, and Cambridge...

    , biochemist and botanist
  • Nathanael Pringsheim
    Nathanael Pringsheim
    Nathanael Pringsheim was a German botanist.-Biography:Nathanael Pringsheim was born at Landsberg, Prussian Silesia, and studied at the universities of Breslau, Leipzig, and Berlin successively...

    , botanist
  • Rudolf Pringsheim de, railway magnate
  • the House of Promnitz; de
  • Alfons Proske; de, Silesian politician
  • Igor Przegrodzki; pl, actor

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  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden
    Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden
    Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden was a German pioneer in mining and metallurgy. He was born in Hamelin in the Electorate of Hanover and died in Michelsdorf in Prussian Silesia.- Life :...

    , engineer
  • Jan Reginek; pl, politician
  • rev. Tomasz Reginek; pl, politician
  • Eva Gabriele Reichmann
    Eva Gabriele Reichmann
    Eva Gabriele Reichmann was an eminent German historian and sociologist. From 1945 on she became famous for her research on anti-Semitism. Reichmann was Jewish.-Life:...

    , historian and sociologist
  • Johannes Reinelt, known as Philo vom Walde, de, poet
  • Hanna Reitsch
    Hanna Reitsch
    Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II...

    , aviator
  • Erwin Respondek; de, politician
  • Bolko von Richthofen
    Bolko von Richthofen
    Bolko von Richthofen was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron"...

    , archeologist
  • Manfred von Richthofen
    Manfred von Richthofen
    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen , also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I...

    , fighter pilot
  • Ryszard Riedel
    Ryszard Riedel
    Ryszard Henryk Riedel – was the original lead singer of blues-rock band Dżem . He is often regarded as one of the most popular and well known vocalist of Polish music along with occasional collaborator Czesław Niemen...

    , blues/rock vocalist
  • Fritz Riemann
    Fritz Riemann
    Fritz Riemann was a German chess master.Born in Silesia , he was a chess pupil of Adolf Anderssen in Breslau. In 1876, he won a match against Arnold Schottländer there.In 1879, he took 5th in Leipzig , and took 2nd in Wesselburen...

    , chess master
  • Günther Rittau
    Günther Rittau
    Günther Rittau was a German camera operator and film director.After study of science in Berlin, Rittau started his career in 1919 at the documentary-film department of Decla, later at Universum Film AG. He learned the job of camera operator "on the side". From 1924, he was active as a feature...

    , camera operator and film director
  • Horst Rittner
    Horst Rittner
    Horst Robert Rittner is a German chess player, most famous for being the sixth ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1968 and 1971....

    , chess master
  • Abraham Robinson
    Abraham Robinson
    Abraham Robinson was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were incorporated into mathematics....

    , mathematician
  • Ottomar Rosenbach
    Ottomar Rosenbach
    Ottomar Ernst Felix Rosenbach was a German physician.Krappitz was a Silesian city where his father, Samuel Rosenbach, practised medicine. He received his education at the universities of Berlin and Breslau . His studies were interrupted by the Franco-Prussian war, in which he took an active part...

    , physician
  • Philipp Roth
    Philipp Roth (cellist)
    Philipp Roth was a German violoncellist. He was born at Tarnowitz in Prussian Silesia....

    , cellist
  • Walenty Roździeński; pl, industrialist and poet
  • Tadeusz Różewicz
    Tadeusz Rózewicz
    Tadeusz Różewicz is a Polish poet and writer.Różewicz belongs to the first generation born and educated after Poland regained its independence in 1918. His youthful poems were published in 1938...

    , poet
  • Otto Rüster
    Otto Rüster
    Otto Rüster was a German chess master.He represented Germany in 2nd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Budapest 1926. He played several times in Silesian Chess Congress, and won at Breslau 1925...

    , chess master
  • Johann Christian Ruberg
    Johann Christian Ruberg
    Johann Christian Ruberg was a German inventor and a pioneer in metallurgy.About 1798, Ruberg devised the first large-scale method for the production of zinc...

     - pioneer in the metallurgy of zinc
    Zinc
    Zinc , or spelter , is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc is, in some respects, chemically similar to magnesium, because its ion is of similar size and its only common oxidation state is +2...

  • Wanda Rutkiewicz
    Wanda Rutkiewicz
    Wanda Rutkiewicz was a Polish mountain climber. She was the first woman to successfully summit K2.-Early life:Rutkiewicz was born in Plungė, Lithuania...

    , mountain climber
  • Józef Rymer
    Józef Rymer
    Józef Rymer was a Polish and Silesian activist and politician.Born in Zabełków on February 2, 1882. Before the First World War he was an activist in the Zjednoczenie Zawodowe Polskie , a Polish labor union organization in Imperial Germany...

    , politician

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  • Julius von Sachs
    Julius von Sachs
    Julius von Sachs was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, becoming acquainted with the Breslau physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně. In 1851 he began studying at Charles University in Prague...

    , botanist
  • Otto Sackur
    Otto Sackur
    Otto Sackur was a German physical chemist.He is known for the development of the Sackur-Tetrode equation which he developed independently of Hugo Tetrode...

    , chemist
  • Valery Salov
    Valery Salov
    Valery Salov is a Russian chess grandmaster.Salov was awarded the International Master title in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1986. He was the World under-17 Champion in 1980 and European Junior Champion in 1983-84...

    , chess grandmaster
  • the House of Schaffgotsch
  • cardinal Leo Scheffczyk, theologian
  • Theodor von Scheve
    Theodor von Scheve
    Theodor von Scheve was a German chess master and writer.Scheve was born in Cosel in the Prussian Province of Silesia....

    , chess master
  • Joshua M. Schlesinger
  • Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Ludwig Schmitt
    Ludwig Schmitt
    Ludwig Schmitt was a German chess master.Schmitt was born in Augsburg and later lived in Breslau, Prussian Silesia. He won the Silesian Chess Congress in 1927, 1933 and 1934, took 6th in 1930 , and 5th place in 1939 in these events...

    , chess master
  • August Schneider
    August Schneider
    Gerhard August Schneider was a Norwegian artist and collector of folk tales. -Biography:August Gerhard Schneider was born in Flekkefjord in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway....

    ; de, politician
  • August Scholtis; de, pl, writer
  • Arnold Schottländer
    Arnold Schottländer
    Arnold Schottländer was a German chess master.Born in Münsterberg , Silesia, he was one of the chess pupils of Adolf Anderssen....

    , chess master
  • Peter Schumann
    Peter Schumann
    Peter Schumann is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually...

    , artist, puppeteer, theatre director
  • Caspar Schwenckfeld, theologian and writer
  • Hanna Schygulla
    Hanna Schygulla
    Hanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema.-Life and career:Schygulla was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia,...

    , actress
  • Karl Sczodrok; pl, writer
  • Joseph Sedlnitzky (Sedlnicky, Sedlnicki)
  • Paul Segieth; de, painter
  • Oskar Seidlin
    Oskar Seidlin
    Oskar Seidlin ; German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories. He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff.Born Oskar Koplowitz...

    , writer
  • Reinhard Selten
    Reinhard Selten
    -Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...

    , economist
  • Gustavus Sidenberg
    Gustavus Sidenberg
    Gustavus Sidenberg was a Jewish-American manufacturer and financier best known for building New York City's Hotel Theresa, which has become a New York City landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.-Life:...

    , financier
  • Arthur Silbergleit (1881–1943), poet
  • Heinrich Silbergleit (1858–1930), statistician
  • Angelus Silesius
    Angelus Silesius
    Angelus Silesius was a German Catholic mystic and poet.-Life:Silesius was born in Breslau , Silesia as son of Polish noble and German mother...

    , poet
  • Edward Simoni; de, pan flute musician
  • Gerhard Skrobek
    Gerhard Skrobek
    Gerhard Skrobek is best known as the premier artisan of Hummel figurines since the Second World War. Skrobek was born in Leobschütz, in Upper Silesia and studied art in Berlin. Skrobek worked for the Goebel company in Rödental, Germany between 1951 and 2002 and designed many of the figurines...

    , sculptor
  • archbishop Wiktor Skworc; pl
  • Aleksandra Śląska
    Aleksandra Slaska
    Aleksandra Śląska was a Polish film actress. She appeared in 18 films between 1948 and 1983. Born in Katowice, Upper Silesia, she left for Warsaw after World War II...

    , actress
  • Tadeusz Sławek, writer, literary historian, scholar
  • Henryk Sławik, diplomat
  • Franciszek Smuda
    Franciszek Smuda
    Franciszek Smuda is a Polish football manager and former player. Who played in Poland, the United States, and Germany. In 1983 he turned to coaching, becoming the manager of Widzew Łódź, Wisła Kraków, Legia Warsaw and Lech Poznań, among others. He has won three Polish league titles...

    , soccer player and coach
  • Monika Soćko
    Monika Socko
    Monika Soćko is a Polish chess player. She won the Polish women's chess championship four times . She is married to Polish GM Bartosz Soćko....

    , chess grandmaster
  • Emil Sojka, chess master
  • Emanuel Sperner
    Emanuel Sperner
    Emanuel Sperner was a German mathematician, best known for two theorems. He was born in Waltdorf , and died in Sulzburg-Laufen, Germany. He was a student at Hamburg University where his advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke...

    , mathematician
  • Edith Stein
    Edith Stein
    Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, sometimes also known as Saint Edith Stein , was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church...

    , philosopher, Roman Catholic saint
  • Hugo Steinhaus
    Hugo Steinhaus
    Władysław Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the University of Lwów, where he helped establish what later became known as the Lwów School of Mathematics...

    , mathematician
  • Fritz Stern
    Fritz Stern
    Fritz Richard Stern is a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography. He is a University Professor Emeritus and a former provost at New York's Columbia University...

    , historian
  • Otto Stern
    Otto Stern
    Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.-Biography:Stern was born in Sohrau, now Żory in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia and studied at Breslau, now Wrocław in Lower Silesia....

    , physicist
  • Ernst Steinitz
    Ernst Steinitz
    Ernst Steinitz was a German mathematician.- Biography :Steinitz was born in Laurahütte , Silesia, Germany , the son of Sigismund Steinitz, a Jewish coal merchant, and his wife Auguste Cohen; he had two brothers. He studied at the University of Breslau and the University of Berlin, receiving his Ph.D...

    , mathematician
  • Feliks Steuer
    Feliks Steuer
    Dr. Feliks Steuer was a Silesian educationist.Born in Zülkowitz , he was educated in Leobschütz...

    , Silesian educationist
  • Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz
    Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz
    Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz was a German Army officer. Strachwitz saw action in World War I, but rose to fame for his command of armored forces in World War II.-Early life:...

    , general
  • Moritz von Strachwitz, writer
  • Pavle Jurišić Šturm
    Pavle Jurišic Šturm
    Pavle Jurišić Šturm was a Serbian general of Sorbian origin who commanded the Serbian 3rd Army in the First World War....

    , Serbian general
  • Dariusz Świercz
    Dariusz Swiercz
    Dariusz Świercz is a Polish chess grandmaster. He is a chess prodigy, being one of the youngest grandmasters in history and the youngest Polish grandmaster of all time, achieving the title at the age of 14 years and seven months...

    , chess grandmaster
  • rev. Józef Szafranek; pl, politician
  • Thomas Szczeponik
    Thomas Szczeponik
    Thomas Szczeponik was a German-Polish Catholic politician....

    , Silesian politician
  • Sławomir Szmal, handball player
  • Józef Szmidt
    Józef Szmidt
    Józef Szmidt is a former Polish athlete. Having German roots, he is often referred to by the Germanized name Jozef Schmidt....

    , athlete
  • Zygfryd Szołtysik, soccer player
  • Edward Szymkowiak
    Edward Szymkowiak
    Edward Józef Szymkowiak was a Polish footballer - one of the best Polish goalkeepers in history.He played for such a clubs like Ruch Chorzów and Legia Warszawa, but most of his career he spent in Polonia Bytom. He is one of the legend of that club. The stadium of Polonia Bytom is called by his name...

    , soccer player

T

  • Siegbert Tarrasch
    Siegbert Tarrasch
    Siegbert Tarrasch was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century....

    , chess grandmaster
  • Max Tau
    Max Tau
    Max Tau was a German-Norwegian writer, editor, and publisher noted for his contribution to promoting literary exchange between Germany and Norway, especially in the context of reconciliation after World War II.-Biography:...

    , writer
  • Adam Taubitz
    Adam Taubitz
    Adam Taubitz is a German jazz and classic musician, violinist, trumpeter, guitarist bandleader, and composer. From 1997 he was Principal 2nd Violinist in the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado...

    , musician
  • Johannes Thiele
    Johannes Thiele (chemist)
    Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele was a German chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds...

    , chemist
  • Wolfgang Thierse
    Wolfgang Thierse
    Wolfgang Thierse is a German politician .- Early years in the GDR :Thierse was born in Breslau . He is a Roman Catholic and grew up in East Germany. After his A-levels he first worked as a typesetter in Weimar...

    , politician
  • Georg Thomalla
    Georg Thomalla
    Georg Thomalla was a German actor.He appeared in a number of German films from 1939 to 1992.However, Thomalla was mostly known in Germany as a voice-over artist, dubbing particularly comedians, such as Peter Sellers as Inspector Closeau in the Pink Panther movies, and he also was the standard...

    , actor
  • Harry Thürk
    Harry Thürk
    Harry Thürk was a German writer.- Life :After attending trade school in Upper Silesia, Thürk began to work for the German train system . After being drafted in 1944 and participating in World War II, he returned home at the end of the war. However, he was forced to flee from Poland to Weimar...

    , writer
  • Henryk Tomaszewski
    Henryk Tomaszewski (mime)
    Henryk Tomaszewski aka Heinrich Karl Koenig was a mime artist and theatre director, born in Poznań, Poland. He settled in Cracow in 1945 to study theatre after the end of World War II during which he studied at Iwo Gall's Theatre Studio from 1945 to 1947 and ballet under Feliks Parnell...

    , mime
  • Klaus Töpfer
    Klaus Töpfer
    Klaus Töpfer is a German politician and environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme ....

    , politician
  • Ludwig Traube
    Ludwig Traube (physician)
    Ludwig Traube was a German physician and co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.-Biography:...

    , physician
  • Moritz Traube
    Moritz Traube
    Moritz Traube was a German chemist and universal private scholar....

    , biochemist
  • Wilhelm Traube
    Wilhelm Traube
    Wilhelm Traube was a German chemist.- Biography :Traube was born at Ratibor in Prussian Silesia, a son of the famous private scholar Moritz Traube....

    , chemist
  • Oscar Troplowitz
    Oscar Troplowitz
    Oscar Troplowitz was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur who purchased Beiersdorf AG, which was then a laboratory and chemist's shop in Hamburg from Paul Carl Beiersdorf in 1890...

    , pharmacist, inventor of Nivea
  • Jiří Třanovský
    Jirí Tranovský
    Jiří Třanovský , was a hymnwriter from the Cieszyn Silesia. He was sometimes called the father of Slovak hymnody and the "Luther of the Slavs." His name is sometimes anglicized to George.Třanovský was born in Teschen, and studied at Guben and Kolberg...

    , pastor and hymnwriter, the "Luther of the Slavs"
  • Paul Tschackert
    Paul Tschackert
    Paul Tschackert was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who was a native of Freystadt, Silesia. He is largely remembered for studies involving the history of the Protestant Reformation....

    , theologian and historian

U

  • Alexander Ulfig; de, philosopher and sociologist
  • Arnold Ulitz; de, writer
  • rev. Carl Ulitzka; de, Silesian politician
  • Kurt Urbanek; de, politician
  • Zacharias Ursinus
    Zacharias Ursinus
    Zacharias Ursinus was a sixteenth century German Reformed theologian, born Zacharias Baer in Breslau . He became the leading theologian of the Reformed Protestant movement of the Palatinate, serving both at the University of Heidelberg and the College of Wisdom...

    , theologian and author of the Heidelberg Catechism
    Heidelberg Catechism
    The Heidelberg Catechism is a Protestant confessional document taking the form of a series of questions and answers, for use in teaching Reformed Christian doctrine...


W

  • Andrzej Waligórski; pl, actor and poet
  • Henryk Waniek; pl, painter and writer
  • Walter Warzecha
    Walter Warzecha
    Walter Wilhelm Julius Warzecha was a German naval commander and high-ranking officer of the Kriegsmarine. Serving in the rank of General Admiral he succeeded General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as the last Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine after the end of World War II.-Biography:Walter...

    , admiral
  • Krzysztof Warzycha
    Krzysztof Warzycha
    Krzysztof "Kristof" Warzycha is a former Polish professional footballer. For the majority of his career he played for Greek club Panathinaikos FC.- KS Ruch Chorzów :...

    , soccer player
  • Franz Waxman
    Franz Waxman
    Franz Waxman was a German-American composer, known for his bravura Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera Carmen, and for his musical scores for films....

    , composer
  • Karl Weigert
    Karl Weigert
    Karl Weigert, Carl Weigert was a German Jewish pathologist.He received his education at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Breslau, graduating in 1868...

    , pathologist
  • Erich Weinitschke
    Erich Weinitschke
    Erich Weinitschke was a German chess master.He took 10th at Bad Elster 1938 , took 4th at Bad Warmbrunn 1939 and won a play-off match against Heuaecker for the Silesian Champion title , tied for 13-14th at Bad Oeynhausen 1941 .-References:...

    , chess master
  • Edmund Weiss
    Edmund Weiss
    Edmund Weiß was an Austrian astronomer.He was born in Frývaldov, Austrian Silesia, now Jeseník, Czech Silesia. In 1869 he became a professor at the University of Vienna. He was named the director of the Vienna observatory in 1878...

    , astronomer
  • Friedrich Weißler
    Friedrich Weißler
    Friedrich Weißler was a German lawyer. He belonged to the Christian resistance against National Socialism.- Biography :...

    , lawyer
  • rev. Augustin Weltzel; pl, historian
  • Henry Wenceslaus
    Henry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-Bernstadt
    Henry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-Bernstadt was Duke of Bernstadt from 1617 until his death...

    , Duke of Oels-Bernstadt, Governor of Silesia (1629-1639)
  • Carl Wernicke, neurologist
  • archbishop Stefan Wesoły; pl
  • Ernest Wilimowski
    Ernest Wilimowski
    Ernst Willimowski was a football player who played for both the Polish and German national teams....

    , soccer player
  • Wincenty of Kielcza, poet
  • Franz von Winckler; de, businessman
  • Walter Winkler
    Walter Winkler
    Walter Winkler is a former Polish football player.He played 23 times for Poland.-References:*...

    , soccer player
  • Witelo
    Witelo
    Witelo was a friar, theologian and scientist: a physicist, natural philosopher, mathematician. He is an important figure in the history of philosophy in Poland...

     ca.1230-ca.1300, physicist
  • Paul Wittich
    Paul Wittich
    Paul Wittich was a German mathematician and astronomer whose Capellan geoheliocentric model, in which the inner planets Mercury and Venus orbit the sun but the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Earth, may have directly inspired Tycho Brahe's more radically heliocentric...

    , mathematician and astronomer
  • Piotr Włostowic, palatine
  • Gerard Wodarz
    Gerard Wodarz
    Gerard Wodarz was one of the best soccer players of interwar Poland. He was a multiple champion of the country and also played 28 games on the Polish national football team, scoring 9 goals.He was born in 1913 in Wielkie Hajduki Gerard Wodarz (August 10, 1913 – November 8, 1982) was one of...

    , soccer player
  • Erich Peter Wohlfarth
    Erich Peter Wohlfarth
    Erich Peter Wohlfarth was a theoretical physicist. He is known for his work in magnetism, in particular the Stoner–Wohlfarth model he developed together with his teacher E.C. Stoner....

    , physicist
  • Rafał Wojaczek, poet
  • Balduin Wolff
    Balduin Wolff
    Balduin Wolff was a German painter of the Romantic period, and a chess player.Born in Schmiedeberg im Riesengebirge , Silesia , he graduated from a gymnasium of Hirschberg, and studied at Berlin University of the Arts and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Hermann) Balduin Wolff (15 July 1819 – 21...

    , drawer and painter
  • Konstanty Wolny; pl, politician
  • Jerzy Wostal
    Jerzy Wostal
    Jerzy Adolf Wostal was a Polish soccer player, one of best forwards of interwar Poland. He was born in 1914 in Königshütte .In the late 1930s Wostal played for AKS Chorzów. The best year in his career was 1937...

    , soccer player
  • Tomasz Wylenzek
    Tomasz Wylenzek
    Tomasz Wylenzek is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s....

    , canoer
  • Klaus Wyrtki
    Klaus Wyrtki
    Klaus Wyrtki is an American physical oceanographer.Born on February 7, 1925 in Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Poland, he attended the University of Marburg in Germany, in 1945-1948, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1950...

    , geophysicist

Z

  • Adam Zagajewski
    Adam Zagajewski
    Adam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11 September attacks...

    , poet
  • Vilém Závada; cs, poet
  • Hans Zenker
    Hans Zenker
    Hans Zenker was a German admiral.-Biography:Born in Bielitz , he entered the Kaiserliche Marine on April 13, 1889. After serving as captain of several torpedo boats, he commannded in turn the light cruisers Lübeck in 1911 and Cöln in 1912-13...

    , admiral
  • Alfons Zgrzebniok; pl, military officer and politician
  • Jerzy Ziętek
    Jerzy Zietek
    Jerzy Ziętek was a Polish politician and general. A Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, during the Second World War he joined the Polish armed forces in the U.S.S.R and later became an important politician representing Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland.- Biography :Jerzy Ziętek was...

    , politician
  • Krystian Zimerman
    Krystian Zimerman
    Krystian Zimerman is a Polish classical pianist who is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists.-Biography:...

    , pianist
  • archbishop Damian Zimoń
    Damian Zimon
    Damian Zimoń is metropolitan archbishop emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice.In 1992 the rank of bishop of Katowice was upgraded to that of an archbishop, as the diocese became an archdiocese, and Zimoń became the first Archbishop of Katowice.-References:* on catholic-hierarchy.org...

  • Benedict Zuckermann
    Benedict Zuckermann
    Benedict Zuckermann was a Jewish scientist in the Diaspora. A native of Germany, he was an Ashkenazic Jew.- Life :Zuckermann was born in Breslau , in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of Silesia...

    , scientist
  • Arnold Zweig
    Arnold Zweig
    Arnold Zweig was a German writer and anti-war activist.He is best known for his World War I tetralogy.-Life and work:Zweig was born in Glogau, Silesia son of a Jewish saddler...

    , writer
  • Stefanie Zweig
    Stefanie Zweig
    Stefanie Zweig Stefanie Zweig Stefanie Zweig (born 19 September 1932, Leobschütz (now Głubczyce, Upper Silesia) is a German Jewish writer.- Background :Zweig is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa, 1998), based on her early life in Kenya, which was...

    , writer

The major Silesian cities

  • Bielsko-Biała
    Bielsko-Biała
    -Economy and Industry:Nowadays Bielsko-Biała is one of the best-developed parts of Poland. It was ranked 2nd best city for business in that country by Forbes. About 5% of people are unemployed . Bielsko-Biała is famous for its textile, machine-building, and especially automotive industry...

  • Bohumín
    Bohumín
    Bohumín is a town in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic on the border with Poland. The confluence of the Oder and Olza Rivers is situated just north of the town. The town lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia....

  • Brzeg
    Brzeg
    Brzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 38,496 inhabitants , situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder...

  • Bruntál
    Bruntál
    Bruntál is a town located near the western boundary of Moravian-Silesian Region, in Czech Silesia. A suitable position in the middle of the Jeseníky Mountains provides an ample number of touristic opportunities to the town...

  • Bytom
    Bytom
    Bytom is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The central-western district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Bytom is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Bytomka river .The city belongs to the Silesian Voivodeship since...

  • Cieszyn
    Cieszyn
    Cieszyn is a border-town and the seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It has 36,109 inhabitants . Cieszyn lies on the Olza River, a tributary of the Oder river, opposite Český Těšín....

  • Chorzów
    Chorzów
    Chorzów is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million...

  • Frýdek-Místek
    Frýdek-Místek
    Frýdek-Místek is a city in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It is the administrative center of Frýdek-Místek District. It comprises two formerly independent towns, Frýdek and Místek, divided by the Ostravice River...

  • Gliwice
    Gliwice
    Gliwice is a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Gliwice is the west district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union – a metropolis with a population of 2 million...

  • Głogów
  • Görlitz
    Görlitz
    Görlitz is a town in Germany. It is the easternmost town in the country, located on the Lusatian Neisse River in the Bundesland of Saxony. It is opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec, which was a part of Görlitz until 1945. Historically, Görlitz was in the region of Upper Lusatia...

  • Jelenia Góra
    Jelenia Góra
    ----Jelenia Góra is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The name of the city means "deer mountain" in Polish, Czech and German. It is close to the Krkonoše mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba can be found...

  • Jeseník
    Jeseník
    Jeseník , Frývaldov until 1948 is a city and a district in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.- Districts :* Bukovice * Dětřichov * Jeseník * Lázně Jeseník - History :...

  • Katowice
    Katowice
    Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

  • Karviná
    Karviná
    Karviná is a city in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, on the Olza River. It is administrative center of Karviná District. Karviná lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia and is one of the most important coal mining centers in the Czech Republic. Together with neighboring...

  • Kłodzko
  • Kluczbork
    Kluczbork
    Kluczbork is a town in southwestern Poland with 26,670 inhabitants , situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Kluczbork County and an important railroad junction. In Kluczbork the major rail line from Katowice splits into two directions - westwards to Wroclaw and northwards to Poznań...

  • Krnov
    Krnov
    Krnov is an Upper Silesian city in the northeastern Czech Republic, in the Moravian-Silesian Region, the District of Bruntál, on the Opava River, near the Polish border....


  • Legnica
    Legnica
    Legnica is a town in south-western Poland, in Silesia, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the plain of Legnica, riverside: Kaczawa and Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county...

  • Lubin
    Lubin
    Lubin is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland. From 1975–1998 it belonged to the former Legnica Voivodeship. Lubin is the administrative seat of Lubin County, and also of the rural district called Gmina Lubin, although it is not part of the territory of the latter,...

  • Opava
    Opava
    Opava is a city in the northern Czech Republic on the river Opava, located to the north-west of Ostrava. The historical capital of Czech Silesia, Opava is now in the Moravian-Silesian Region and has a population of 59,843 as of January 1, 2005....

  • Opole
    Opole
    Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

  • Ostrava
    Ostrava
    Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...

  • Mysłowice
  • Nysa
    Nysa, Poland
    Nysa is a town in southwestern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river with 47,545 inhabitants , situated in the Opole Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nysa County. It comprises the urban portion of the surrounding Gmina Nysa, a mixed urban-rural commune with a total population of 60,123 inhabitants...

  • Pszczyna
    Pszczyna
    Pszczyna is a town in southern Poland with 26,827 inhabitants within the immediate gmina rising to 50,121 inhabitants in the powiat, which includes the town of Pszczyna, itself, Brzeźce , Czarków , Ćwiklice , Jankowice , Łąka , Piasek , Poręba , Rudołtowice , Studzionka , Studzienice , Wisła...

  • Racibórz
    Racibórz
    Racibórz is a town in southern Poland with 60,218 inhabitants situated in the Silesian Voivodeship , previously in Katowice Voivodeship...

  • Ruda Śląska
    Ruda Slaska
    Ruda Śląska is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. It is a district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Kłodnica river ....

  • Rybnik
    Rybnik
    Rybnik is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship. Rybnik is located close to the border with the Czech Republic and just outside the southern border of the largest urban area in Poland, the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union...

  • Tarnowskie Góry
    Tarnowskie Góry
    Tarnowskie Góry is a town in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - metropolis with the population of 2 millions. Located in the Silesian Highlands....

  • Tychy
    Tychy
    Tychy is a city in Silesia, Poland, approximately south of Katowice. Situated on the southern edge of the Upper Silesian industrial district, the city borders Katowice to the north, Mikołów to the west, Bieruń to the east and Kobiór to the south...

  • Wałbrzych
  • Wrocław
  • Zabrze
    Zabrze
    Zabrze is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union is a metropolis with a population of around 2 million...

  • Zielona Góra
    Zielona Góra
    Zielona Góra is a city in Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, with 117,557 inhabitants within the city limits and 294,000 inhabitants within the metropolitan area, including three neighbouring counties ....

  • Żagań
    Zagan
    Zagan may refer to:*Zagan - a demon in the Ars Goetia*Żagań - a town in west Poland...



Literature

  • Norman Davies
    Norman Davies
    Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...

     and Roger Moorhouse
    Roger Moorhouse
    Roger Moorhouse is a British historian and author. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and attended Berkhamsted School. Inspired to return to education by the East European Revolutions of 1989, Moorhouse enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the...

    : Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City
    Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City
    Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City is a book by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse about the history of Wrocław.-Content:The book opens with a description of the siege and fall of German Breslau at the very end of the Second World War. Attacking Red Army reduces many streets of the city...

    , London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. ISBN 0-224-06243-3
  • Marek Czapliński, Elżbieta Kaszuba, Gabriela Wąs, Rościsław Żerelik: Historia Śląska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2002. ISBN 83-229-2213-2
  • Hugo Weczerka: Handbuch der historischen Stätten: Schlesien. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-520-31602-1.
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