List of Famous people born in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Elisabeth Becker

First Name Elisabeth
Born on July 20, 1923
Died on July 4, 1946 (aged 22)

Elisabeth Becker was a concentration camp guard in World War II.

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Gerda Steinhoff

First Name Gerda
Born on January 29, 1922
Died on July 4, 1946 (aged 24)

Gerda Steinhoff, born in Danzig-Langfuhr, was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland.

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

First Name Daniel
Last Name Fahrenheit
Born on May 24, 1686
Died on September 16, 1736 (aged 50)

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), then a predominantly German-speaking city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He later moved to the Dutch Republic at age 15, where he spent the rest of his life (1701–1736) and was one of the notable figures in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

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Trude Guermonprez

First Name Trude
Born on January 1, 1910
Died on January 1, 1976 (aged 66)

Trude Guermonprez (9 November 1910–8 May 1976, born Gertrud Jalowetz, was a German born American textile artist and designer known for her tapestry landscapes. Her Bauhaus-influenced disciplined abstraction for hand woven textiles greatly contributed to the American craft and fiber art movements of the 1950s, 60s and even into the 70s, particularly during her tenure at the California College of Arts and Crafts.

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Klaus Ampler

First Name Klaus
Last Name Ampler
Born on November 15, 1940
Died on May 6, 2016 (aged 75)

Klaus Ampler was a German cyclist. His sporting career began with SC DHfK Leipzig. He competed for East Germany in the team time trial at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He won the peace race in 1963. Ampler died at a nursing home in Leipzig on 6 May 2016 at the age of 75. He was the father of Uwe Ampler, who became a professional cyclist and was coached by his father in the 1980s.

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Ingmar Zeisberg

First Name Ingmar
Born on February 17, 1933 (age 93)

Ingmar Zeisberg is a German actress. She appeared in more than thirty films since 1954.

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Rosemarie Springer

First Name Rosemarie
Born on July 5, 1920
Died on April 2, 2019 (aged 98)

Rosemarie Springer was a German equestrian. Born in Danzig, she was the daughter of Werner Lorenz, who would later become an SS member and head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in Nazi Germany. She first rode a horse at the age of two, sitting on her father's lap, and took up equestrianism at a young age. Her career was interrupted by World War II, however, and she served as a nurse during the conflict. She did not resume riding until 1950 but, soon after, her talents were spotted at a Berlin horse show. Among other international appearances, she participated in the individual dressage event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where she finished seventh in a field of seventeen competitors. She retired from active competition in the late 1970s, having been the German national champion in women's dressage seven times.

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Jörg Berger

First Name Jörg
Last Name Berger
Born on October 13, 1944
Died on June 23, 2010 (aged 65)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Jörg Berger was a German football manager and player, who last managed Arminia Bielefeld.

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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

First Name Erich
Last Name Bach-Zelewski
Born on March 1, 1899
Died on March 8, 1972 (aged 73)

Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he was in charge of the Nazi security warfare against those designated by the regime as ideological enemies and any other persons deemed to present danger to the Nazi rule or Wehrmacht's rear security in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe. It mostly involved atrocities against the civilian population. In 1944 he led the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. At the end of 1941 the forces under von dem Bach numbered 14,953 Germans, mostly officers and unteroffiziere, and 238,105 local “volunteers”

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Dariusz Michalczewski

First Name Dariusz
Born on May 5, 1968 (age 57)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Dariusz Tomasz Michalczewski is a Polish-German former professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light-heavyweight titles between 1994 and 2003, and the WBO junior-heavyweight title from 1994 to 1995. BoxRec currently ranks him No.63 in its ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.

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