List of Famous people born in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Paul Dahlke
Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke was a German stage and film actor.
Alfons Pawelczyk
Alfons Pawelczyk is a German politician. As a representative of the Social Democratic Party, he was Hamburg Senator of the Interior and second mayor in Hamburg.
Hans-Joachim Preil
Hans-Joachim Preil was an East German comedian.
Ulli Wegner
Ulli Wegner is a German Boxing Coach and a former Amateur boxer.
Katharina Brauren
Katharina Brauren was a German actress. She appeared in more than 85 films and television shows between 1937 and 1997.
Peter van Eyck
Peter van Eyck was a German-born film actor. He was perhaps best known for his roles in the 1960s features The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Shalako and The Bridge at Remagen.
Werner von Blomberg
Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg was a German General Staff officer and the first Minister of War of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. After serving at the Western Front in World War I, he was appointed chief of the German Troop Office in the Weimar Republic. Following the Nazis' rise to power, he was named Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces. In this capacity, Blomberg played a central role in Germany's military build-up during the years leading to World War II. However, on 20 January 1938, he was ultimately forced to resign after his rivals, Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, presented Hitler with evidence that his wife posed in the past for pornographic photos.
Wolfgang Schnur
Wolfgang Schnur was an East German civil rights lawyer. He was closely involved with the Association of Evangelical Churches and worked on many of the cases in which the BEK's leading figures were involved. He also became well networked, on more than one level, with the country's political establishment.
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist family and an officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, his parents were active in the German resistance against Adolf Hitler. Kleist was designated to kill Hitler in a suicide attack and was the last surviving member of the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
Antje Huber
Antje Huber was a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health from 1976 to 1982. She served as a member of the Bundestag for the SPD between 1969 and 1987.