List of Famous people born in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Karl Hermann Dietrich Lothar Erdmann was a German journalist. During the Weimar Republic he was the editor of the trade union theory organ Die Arbeit. He was a main supporter of the turning away of trade unions from social democracy at the end of the Republic. Despite his rapprochement with National Socialism, he died after maltreatment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Gerd Pfeiffer was a German jurist who served as the fourth President of the Federal Court of Justice of West Germany from 1977 to 1987.

Władysław Frasyniuk is a Polish politician, former activist of Solidarity trade union, and former chairman of the Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl political party. He served as a member of the Sejm from 1991 to 2001.

Wolfgang Foerster was a German officer and military historian. His biography of General Ludwig Beck provided important source material for William Shirer’s seminal book, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”.

Heinz Starke was a German politician. He was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. He was Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961–62. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1953 to 1980 representing the district of Hof from 1953 to 1957.

Otto Regenbogen was a German linguist and scholar.

Horst Möller is a German contemporary historian. He is Professor of Modern History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and, from 1992 to 2011, Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte.