List of Silesians
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Nobel laureates
- Theodor MommsenTheodor MommsenChristian 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 LenardPhilipp LenardPhilipp 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 BuchnerEduard BuchnerEduard 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 EhrlichPaul EhrlichPaul 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 HauptmannGerhart HauptmannGerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...
(1912, literature) - Fritz HaberFritz HaberFritz 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 BergiusFriedrich BergiusFriedrich 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 DomagkGerhard DomagkGerhard 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 SternOtto SternOtto 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 AlderKurt AlderKurt 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 BornMax BornMax 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 BednorzJohannes Georg BednorzJohannes 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 DehmeltHans Georg DehmeltHans 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 SeltenReinhard 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 BlobelGünter 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 AcoluthusAndreas AcoluthusAndreas 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 AdamMelchior AdamMelchior 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 AdamsonJoy AdamsonJoy 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 AlderKurt AlderKurt 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 AlzogJohann Baptist AlzogJohann 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 AnczokZygmunt AnczokZygmunt 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 AnderssenAdolf AnderssenKarl 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 ArcoGeorg von ArcoGeorg 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 ArnimHans-Jürgen von ArnimHans-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 AulockAndreas von AulockAndreas 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 BaenderPaul BaenderPaul Baender, was a German–Bolivian chess master and functionary....
, politician and chess player - Adolf Aron BaginskyAdolf Aron BaginskyAdolf 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 BaildonJohn BaildonJohn 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 BallackMichael BallackMichael 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 BaluschekHans BaluschekHans 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 BanaśJan BanasJan 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 BardonFranz BardonFranz 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 BatheWalter BatheWalter 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 BednorzHerbert BednorzHerbert Bednorz was a Polish Catholic priest, theologist, and a Coadjutor bishop and later, from 1967, bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Katowice....
- Johannes Georg BednorzJohannes Georg BednorzJohannes 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 BellmerHans BellmerHans 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 PolakBenedykt PolakBenedict of Poland was a Polish Franciscan friar, traveler and explorer....
ca.1200-ca.1280, explorer - Henryk Bereska; pl, de, translator and poet
- Max BergMax BergMax 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 BergiusFriedrich BergiusFriedrich 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 BermannGottfried BermannGottfried 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 BezručPetr BezrucPetr 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 familyBibran-ModlauFor other Bibra and Bibran entries, go to Bibra disambiguation pageBibran-Modlau was a Silesian noble family which was raised to Reichsfreiherr 1624....
- Albert BielschowskyAlbert BielschowskyAlbert Bielschowsky was a German literary historian . He is known for his writings concerning Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....
, literary historian - Max BielschowskyMax BielschowskyMax 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 BienekHorst BienekHorst 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 BlachnickiFranciszek BlachnickiFranciszek 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 BlandowskiWilliam BlandowskiWilhelm 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 BlanikLeszek BlanikLeszek 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 BlidaBarbara BlidaBarbara 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 BlochKonrad Emil BlochKonrad 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 BlockJosef BlockJosef 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 BlobelGünter 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 ZeislerFannie Bloomfield ZeislerFannie 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 BloomfieldMaurice BloomfieldMaurice 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 BochenekKrystyna BochenekKrystyna Maria Bochenek, née Neuman was a Polish politician, Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland representing Civic Platform...
, politician - Hermann BoehmHermann 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 BoenischSebastian BoenischSebastian 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 BolzLothar BolzLothar Bolz was an East German politician. From 1953 to 1965 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany ....
, politician - Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich BonhoefferDietrich 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 BornMax BornMax 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 BradelErnst-Joachim BradelErnst-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 BromWalter BromWalter 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 BrychczyLucjan BrychczyLucjan 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 BubisIgnatz BubisIgnatz 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 BuncolAndrzej BuncolAndrzej 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 BuzekAgata BuzekAgata 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 BuzekJerzy BuzekJerzy 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 PolandPolandPoland , 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 BuzekJózef BuzekJózef Buzek was a Polish lawyer, economist, statistician and politician from the region of Cieszyn Silesia....
, economist and politician
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- Ernst CassirerErnst CassirerErnst 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 CebulaEwald CebulaEdward Cebula was a Polish football player and defender...
, soccer player - Blessed CeslausCeslausBlessed 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 CholtitzDietrich von CholtitzGeneral 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 ChromikJerzy ChromikJerzy 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 CieslaClaudia CieslaClaudia 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 CieślikGerard CieslikGerard Cieślik , also known as Gienek, is a former football player of Ruch Wielkie Hajduki ....
, soccer player - Ferdinand CohnFerdinand CohnFerdinand 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 CourantRichard CourantRichard 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 KrafftheimJohannes Crato von KrafftheimJohannes 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 CzajaHerbert CzajaDr. 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 DaluegeKurt DaluegeKurt 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 DamroschFrank DamroschFrank 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 DegnerErnst DegnerErnst Degner was a German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer....
, motorcycle road racer - Hans Georg DehmeltHans Georg DehmeltHans 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 DiebitschHans Karl von DiebitschCount 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 DiepenbrockMelchior von DiepenbrockMelchior, Freiherr von Diepenbrock was a German Catholic Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Cardinal.-Life:...
, Prince-Bishop of Breslau - Leopold Wilhelm von DobschützLeopold Wilhelm von DobschützLeopold 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 DonnersmarckHenckel von DonnersmarckThe 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 DörnerHans-Jürgen DörnerHans-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 DudekJerzy DudekJerzy 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 DytkoEwald DytkoEdward 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 EhrlichPaul EhrlichPaul 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 EichendorffJoseph Freiherr von EichendorffJoseph 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 EistertBernd EistertBernd Eistert was a German chemist. Together with Fritz Arndt he discovered the Arndt-Eistert synthesis.-Life:...
, chemist - Norbert EliasNorbert EliasNorbert Elias was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.-Biography:...
1897–1990, sociologist - Józef ElsnerJózef ElsnerJózef Antoni Franciszek was a composer, music teacher and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw...
, composer, music teacher and theoretician - Emin PashaEmin PashaMehmed 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 EngelkingLeszek EngelkingLeszek Engelking - Polish poet, short-story writer, critic, essayist, scholar, and translator....
, writer, poet, translator, scholar - Berthold EnglischBerthold EnglischBerthold 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 ErschJohann Samuel ErschJohann Samuel Ersch was a German bibliographer, generally regarded as the founder of German bibliography.-Biography:...
, bibliographer
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- Nikolaus von FalkenhorstNikolaus von FalkenhorstNikolaus von Falkenhorst was a German General who planned Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940...
, general - Gottfried Bermann Fischer, publisher
- Grzegorz FitelbergGrzegorz FitelbergGrzegorz 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 FoltysJan FoltysJan Foltys , was a Czech chess International Master.-Biography:...
, chess master - Emanuel Aloys FörsterEmanuel Aloys FörsterEmanuel Aloys Förster , was a composer and music teacher, who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria.- Early life :...
, composer - Marta Fox, writer
- Rudolf FränkelRudolf FrankelRudolf 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 FrankeEgon 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 FreytagGustav FreytagGustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.-Life:Freytag was born in Kreuzburg in Silesia...
, writer - Fritz von Friedlaender-Fuld, industrialist; de
- Johnny FriedlaenderJohnny FriedlaenderJohnny 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 FriedlaenderMax Friedlaender (musicologist)Max Friedlaender was a German bass singer, music editor, and musicologist. He specialized in German Lieder.- Life :...
, musicologist - Carl FriedländerCarl FriedländerCarl Friedländer was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882...
, bacteriologist - Max FriedländerMax FriedländerMax 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 FriedländerWalter FriedländerWalter Ferdinand Friedlaender was a German art historian.Born in Glogau, he was taught art history by Heinrich Wölfflin and others...
, art historian - Anni FriesingerAnni FriesingerAnna 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 FritschWilly FritschWilly Fritsch was a German theater and film actor, the popular leading man in German silent motion-pictures.-Biography:...
, actor - Jan FurtokJan FurtokJan Furtok is a retired Polish football player.He played for a few clubs, including GKS Katowice, Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt ....
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- Hubert GadHubert GadHubert 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 GanczarskiChristian GanczarskiChristian 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 GdacjuszAdam GdacjuszAdam 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-WilliamsGunther Gebel-WilliamsGunther Gebel-Williams was an animal trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1968-1990.-Early life:...
, circus performer, animal trainer - Oscar GelbfuhsOscar GelbfuhsOscar Gelbfuhs was a Moravian-Austrian chess master.He took 11th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament ....
, chess master - Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz; pl, sculptor
- Edmund GiemsaEdmund GiemsaEdmund 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 GilgKarl GilgKarl Gilg was a German chess International Master from Czechoslovakia.Gilg played for Czechoslovakia in several Chess Olympiads....
, chess master - Krzysztof GlobiszKrzysztof GlobiszKrzysztof 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 GodullaKarl GodullaKarl 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 GoldsteinEugen GoldsteinEugen 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 GoldsteinKurt GoldsteinKurt 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 GoneraRobert GoneraRobert 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 GorgońJerzy GorgonJerzy 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 GorczyckiGrzegorz Gerwazy GorczyckiGrzegorz 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 GorzelikJerzy GorzelikJerzy 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 GottschallRudolf von GottschallRudolf Gottschall in Leipzig, since 1877: von Gottschall, was a German poet and dramatist....
, poet, dramatist, chess master - Wilhelm GóraWilhelm GóraWilhelm Antoni Góra was a Polish midfield soccer player.His career started in...
, soccer player - Halina GóreckaHalina GóreckaHalina 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 GrallertJoachim GrallertJoachim 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 GraetzHeinrich GraetzHeinrich 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 GrotowskiJerzy GrotowskiJerzy 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 GryphiusAndreas GryphiusAndreas 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 GrzimekBernhard GrzimekBernhard 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 GütschowTorsten GütschowTorsten 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
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- the House of HabsburgHabsburgThe 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 HaberFritz HaberFritz 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 HarrwitzDaniel HarrwitzDaniel 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 HauptmannGerhart HauptmannGerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...
, dramatist - Felix HausdorffFelix HausdorffFelix 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 HyacinthSaint HyacinthSaint 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 BeardedHenry I the BeardedHenry 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 PiousHenry II the PiousHenry 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 HerrmannRichard HerrmannRichard Herrmann was a German football player. He played for the clubs 1. FC Kattowitz and FSV Frankfurt ....
, soccer player - Dieter HildebrandtDieter HildebrandtDieter 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 HirschelMoses HirschelMaskil 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 HöferKarl HöferKarl 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 HolzhausenWalther von HolzhausenWalther 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 HülsenBernhard von HülsenBernhard 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 HupkaHerbert HupkaHerbert 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
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- Anton Jadasch; de, politician
- Lech JanerkaLech JanerkaLech 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 - JanoschJanoschJanosch 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 JaryMichael JaryMichael Jary was a German composer.- Early years :...
, composer - Grzegorz Jarzyna; pl, theatre director
- Otylia JędrzejczakOtylia JedrzejczakOtylia 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 JerczyńskiDariusz JerczyńskiDariusz 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 JursitzkyMoritz JursitzkyMoritz 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
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- Helmut Kajzar, playwright, theatre director
- Theodor Erdmann Kalide; de, sculptor
- bishop Maximilian KallerMaximilian KallerMaximilian 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 KaluzaTheodor KaluzaTheodor 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 KamusellaTomasz KamusellaTomasz Kamusella is a European scholar pursuing interdisciplinary research in language politics, nationalism and ethnicity.-Education:...
, linguist - Manfred KantherManfred KantherManfred 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 KarschAnna Louisa KarschAnna 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 KatzerGeorg KatzerGeorg Katzer is a German composer. He was one of the pioneers of electronic new music in the German Democratic Republic .-Biography:...
, composer - Lars KaufmannLars KaufmannLars 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 KelbassaAlfred KelbassaAlfred Kelbassa was a German football player.Kelbassa played most notably for Preußen Münster and Borussia Dortmund ....
, soccer player - Alfred KerrAlfred KerrAlfred Kerr , born Alfred Kempner, was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ....
, art critic - Leon KieresLeon KieresLeon Kieres is a Polish lawyer and politician. He was the president of a Instytut Pamięci Narodowej ....
, historian - Wojciech KilarWojciech KilarWojciech 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 KirchhoffGustav KirchhoffGustav 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 KlempererOtto KlempererOtto 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 KloseMiroslav KloseMiroslav 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 KlossowskaBaladine KlossowskaBaladine 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 KoehneBernhard Adalbert Emil KoehneBernhard 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 KohutAlexander KohutAlexander 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 KolskiJan Jakub KolskiJan 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 KonikowskiJerzy KonikowskiJerzy 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 KonwiarzRichard KonwiarzRichard 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 KoppGeorg von KoppGeorg von Kopp was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Furda and Prince-Bishop of Breslau .-Biography:...
- Wojciech KorfantyWojciech KorfantyWojciech 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 KostkaHubert KostkaHubert 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 KotrčJan KotrcJan 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 KożdońJózef KożdońJózef Kożdoń was Silesian autonomist politician.-Biography:...
, Silesian autonomist - Adolf KramerAdolf KramerAdolf 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 KropidłoJan KropidłoJan 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 PomorskiKamien PomorskiKamień 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 :...
, KuyaviaKuyaviaKujawy , 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...
, PoznańPoznanPoznań 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 GnieznoGnieznoGniezno 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 KubackiRafal KubackiRafał 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 KrajewskiMarek KrajewskiMarek 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 KreutzerRodolphe KreutzerRodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:...
(father was born in Silesia), violinist and composer - Henryk KrollHenryk KrollHenryk 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 KuczokWojciech KuczokWojciech 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 KudlichHans KudlichHans Kudlich was an Austrian political activist, Austrian legislator, writer and physician.-Early life:...
, politician - Friedrich Wilhelm KuhnertFriedrich Wilhelm KuhnertFriedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert was a German painter, author and illustrator, who specialized in animal images.-Personal life:...
, painter - Jerzy KukuczkaJerzy KukuczkaJerzy 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 KupkaTheofil KupkaTheofil Kupka was a Silesian politician.- Biography :...
, Silesian politician - Jan KustosJan KustosJan 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 KuttaMartin Wilhelm KuttaMartin 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 KutzKazimierz KutzKazimierz 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 :...
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- Fritz LabandFritz LabandFritz 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 LassalleFerdinand LassalleFerdinand 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 LammersHans LammersDr.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 LandsbergOtto LandsbergOtto 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 LandsbergerBenno LandsbergerBenno 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 LaqueurWalter LaqueurWalter 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 LataczEwald LataczEwald 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 LegieńWaldemar LegienWaldemar 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 LenardPhilipp LenardPhilipp 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 LiberdaJan LiberdaJan 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 LiechtensteinPrincely Family of LiechtensteinThe Liechtenstein dynasty, from which the principality takes its name, is the family which reigns by constitutional, hereditary right over the nation of Liechtenstein...
- Felix LiebrechtFelix LiebrechtFelix 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 LöbePaul LöbePaul 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 LohensteinDaniel Casper von LohensteinDaniel 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 LondonFritz LondonFritz 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 LowenFred LowenFritz "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 LudwigEmil LudwigEmil 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 ŁukaszewiczOlgierd ŁukaszewiczOlgierd 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 MachateGottlieb MachateGottlieb 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 MajewskiLech MajewskiLech 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 MarkowskiAndrzej MarkowskiAndrzej 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 OpavaMartin of OpavaMartin 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 GnieznoGnieznoGniezno 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 MasurKurt MasurKurt 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 MatuschkaMichael Graf von MatuschkaMichael Graf von Matuschka was a German politician who took part in the July 20 plot.- Biography :...
, politician - Martin MaxMartin MaxMartin 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 MeidnerLudwig MeidnerLudwig 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 MendeErich MendeDr. 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 MendelGregor MendelGregor 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 MenzelWolfgang MenzelWolfgang 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 MerkertMaria MerkertMaria 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 MessnerZbigniew MessnerZbigniew 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 PolandPeople's Republic of PolandThe 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 TanglefootMieszko IV TanglefootMieszko 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 MiodekJan MiodekJan Miodek , Professor of Wroclaw University, is a Polish linguist in the normative tradition....
, linguist - Fr. Leopold MoczygembaLeopold MoczygembaFr. 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 MolanderHelga MolanderHelga 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 MoltkeHelmuth James Graf von MoltkeHelmuth 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 MommsenTheodor MommsenChristian 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 MorcinekGustaw MorcinekGustaw 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 MorgensternOskar MorgensternOskar 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 MrossPaul MrossPaul Mross was a Polish–German chess master.-Biography:...
, chess master - Bogdan MusiolBogdan MusiolBogdan Musiol is an East German-German bobsledder who competed from the late 1970s to the early 1990s....
, bobsledder - Joseph MusiolJoseph MusiolJoseph 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 MuskataJan MuskataJan 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 NankerNankerNanker , 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 NeumannGustav NeumannGustav 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 NycErwin NycErwin 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
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- Teofil Ociepka; pl, naïve painter
- Jan OlbrychtJan OlbrychtJan 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 OleschReinhold OleschReinhold 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 OndruschPaul OndruschPaul 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
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- Helmuth von PannwitzHelmuth von PannwitzHelmuth 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 PannwitzRudolf PannwitzRudolf Pannwitz was a German writer and philosopher.-Works:* 1909 - Die Erziehung* 1912 - Formenkunde der Kirche* 1919 - Die deutsche Lehre...
, writer and philosopher - Eduard PantEduard PantEduard Pant was a journalist and politician of the Catholic German minority in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland in the interwar period...
, politician - Ildefons PaulerIldefons PaulerIldefons 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 PeterekTeodor PeterekTeodor Peterek , a Polish soccer player from interwar period, forward, represented Ruch Chorzów and Polish National Team...
, soccer player - the House of PiastPiast dynastyThe 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 PiecRyszard PiecRyszard 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 PiecWilhelm PiecWilhelm Piec - Polish soccer forward player.Wilhelm was one of best players of interwar Poland...
, soccer player - Antoni PiechniczekAntoni PiechniczekAntoni 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 PieczkaFranciszek PieczkaFranciszek 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 PieronekTadeusz PieronekTadeusz 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 PiniorJózef PiniorJózef 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 PipesRichard PipesRichard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...
, historian - Bartholomaeus PitiscusBartholomaeus PitiscusBartholomaeus Pitiscus was a 16th century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word Trigonometry....
, mathematician and astronomer - Marek PlawgoMarek PlawgoMarek 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 PodolskiLukas PodolskiLukas 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 PohlErnest PolErnest Pohl , aka Ernst Pol, was a Polish football player.He was born in Ruda , Poland and died in Hausach, Germany....
, soccer player - Hugo von PohlHugo von PohlHugo 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 PorathYosef 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 PoelzigHans PoelzigHans 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 PriessnitzVincenz PriessnitzVincenz 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 PringsheimAlfred PringsheimAlfred 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 PringsheimNathanael PringsheimNathanael 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 RedenFriedrich Wilhelm von RedenFriedrich 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 ReichmannEva Gabriele ReichmannEva 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 ReitschHanna ReitschHanna 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 RichthofenBolko von RichthofenBolko von Richthofen was a German archaeologist and a distant relative of the family of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron"...
, archeologist - Manfred von RichthofenManfred von RichthofenManfred 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 RiedelRyszard RiedelRyszard 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 RiemannFritz RiemannFritz 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 RittauGünther RittauGünther 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 RittnerHorst RittnerHorst 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 RobinsonAbraham RobinsonAbraham 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 RosenbachOttomar RosenbachOttomar 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 RothPhilipp Roth (cellist)Philipp Roth was a German violoncellist. He was born at Tarnowitz in Prussian Silesia....
, cellist - Walenty Roździeński; pl, industrialist and poet
- Tadeusz RóżewiczTadeusz RózewiczTadeusz 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 RüsterOtto RüsterOtto 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 RubergJohann Christian RubergJohann 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 zincZincZinc , 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 RutkiewiczWanda RutkiewiczWanda 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 RymerJózef RymerJózef 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...
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- Julius von SachsJulius von SachsJulius 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 SackurOtto SackurOtto 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 SalovValery SalovValery 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 ScheveTheodor von ScheveTheodor 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 SchmittLudwig SchmittLudwig 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 SchneiderAugust SchneiderGerhard 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 SchottländerArnold SchottländerArnold Schottländer was a German chess master.Born in Münsterberg , Silesia, he was one of the chess pupils of Adolf Anderssen....
, chess master - Peter SchumannPeter SchumannPeter 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 SchygullaHanna SchygullaHanna 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 SeidlinOskar SeidlinOskar 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 SeltenReinhard 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 SidenbergGustavus SidenbergGustavus 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 SilesiusAngelus SilesiusAngelus 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 SkrobekGerhard SkrobekGerhard 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 ŚląskaAleksandra SlaskaAleksandra 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 SmudaFranciszek SmudaFranciszek 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 SoćkoMonika SockoMonika 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 SpernerEmanuel SpernerEmanuel 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 SteinEdith SteinSaint 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 SteinhausHugo SteinhausWładysław 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 SternFritz SternFritz 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 SternOtto SternOtto 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 SteinitzErnst SteinitzErnst 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 SteuerFeliks SteuerDr. Feliks Steuer was a Silesian educationist.Born in Zülkowitz , he was educated in Leobschütz...
, Silesian educationist - Hyazinth Graf StrachwitzHyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und CamminetzHyazinth 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 ŠturmPavle Jurišic ŠturmPavle Jurišić Šturm was a Serbian general of Sorbian origin who commanded the Serbian 3rd Army in the First World War....
, Serbian general - Dariusz ŚwierczDariusz SwierczDariusz 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 SzczeponikThomas SzczeponikThomas Szczeponik was a German-Polish Catholic politician....
, Silesian politician - Sławomir Szmal, handball player
- Józef SzmidtJózef SzmidtJózef 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 SzymkowiakEdward SzymkowiakEdward 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...
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- Siegbert TarraschSiegbert TarraschSiegbert 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 TauMax TauMax 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 TaubitzAdam TaubitzAdam 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 ThieleJohannes 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 ThierseWolfgang ThierseWolfgang 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 ThomallaGeorg ThomallaGeorg 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 ThürkHarry ThürkHarry 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 TomaszewskiHenryk 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 TöpferKlaus TöpferKlaus 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 TraubeLudwig Traube (physician)Ludwig Traube was a German physician and co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.-Biography:...
, physician - Moritz TraubeMoritz TraubeMoritz Traube was a German chemist and universal private scholar....
, biochemist - Wilhelm TraubeWilhelm TraubeWilhelm 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 TroplowitzOscar TroplowitzOscar 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 TřanovskýJirí TranovskýJiří 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 TschackertPaul TschackertPaul 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
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- Alexander Ulfig; de, philosopher and sociologist
- Arnold Ulitz; de, writer
- rev. Carl Ulitzka; de, Silesian politician
- Kurt Urbanek; de, politician
- Zacharias UrsinusZacharias UrsinusZacharias 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 CatechismHeidelberg CatechismThe Heidelberg Catechism is a Protestant confessional document taking the form of a series of questions and answers, for use in teaching Reformed Christian doctrine...
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- Andrzej Waligórski; pl, actor and poet
- Henryk Waniek; pl, painter and writer
- Walter WarzechaWalter WarzechaWalter 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 WarzychaKrzysztof WarzychaKrzysztof "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 WaxmanFranz WaxmanFranz 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 WeigertKarl WeigertKarl 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 WeinitschkeErich WeinitschkeErich 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 WeissEdmund WeissEdmund 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 WeißlerFriedrich WeißlerFriedrich Weißler was a German lawyer. He belonged to the Christian resistance against National Socialism.- Biography :...
, lawyer - rev. Augustin Weltzel; pl, historian
- Henry WenceslausHenry Wenceslaus, Duke of Oels-BernstadtHenry 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 WilimowskiErnest WilimowskiErnst 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 WinklerWalter WinklerWalter Winkler is a former Polish football player.He played 23 times for Poland.-References:*...
, soccer player - WiteloWiteloWitelo 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 WittichPaul WittichPaul 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 WodarzGerard WodarzGerard 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 WohlfarthErich Peter WohlfarthErich 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 WolffBalduin WolffBalduin 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 WostalJerzy WostalJerzy 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 WylenzekTomasz WylenzekTomasz Wylenzek is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s....
, canoer - Klaus WyrtkiKlaus WyrtkiKlaus 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
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- Adam ZagajewskiAdam ZagajewskiAdam 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 ZenkerHans ZenkerHans 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 ZiętekJerzy ZietekJerzy 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 ZimermanKrystian ZimermanKrystian Zimerman is a Polish classical pianist who is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists.-Biography:...
, pianist - archbishop Damian ZimońDamian ZimonDamian 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 ZuckermannBenedict ZuckermannBenedict 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 ZweigArnold ZweigArnold 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 ZweigStefanie ZweigStefanie 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-BiałaBielsko-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...
- BohumínBohumínBohumín 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....
- BrzegBrzegBrzeg is a town in southwestern Poland with 38,496 inhabitants , situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the left bank of the Oder...
- BruntálBruntálBruntál 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...
- BytomBytomBytom 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...
- CieszynCieszynCieszyn 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....
- ChorzówChorzówChorzów 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-MístekFrýdek-MístekFrýdek-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...
- GliwiceGliwiceGliwice 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
- GörlitzGörlitzGörlitz 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 GóraJelenia 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...
- JeseníkJeseníkJeseník , Frývaldov until 1948 is a city and a district in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.- Districts :* Bukovice * Dětřichov * Jeseník * Lázně Jeseník - History :...
- KatowiceKatowiceKatowice 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...
- KarvináKarvináKarviná 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
- KluczborkKluczborkKluczbork 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...
- KrnovKrnovKrnov 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....
- LegnicaLegnicaLegnica 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...
- LubinLubinLubin 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,...
- OpavaOpavaOpava 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....
- OpoleOpoleOpole 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...
- OstravaOstravaOstrava 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
- NysaNysa, PolandNysa 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...
- PszczynaPszczynaPszczyna 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...
- RacibórzRacibórzRacibórz is a town in southern Poland with 60,218 inhabitants situated in the Silesian Voivodeship , previously in Katowice Voivodeship...
- Ruda ŚląskaRuda SlaskaRuda 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 ....
- RybnikRybnikRybnik 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 GóryTarnowskie GóryTarnowskie 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....
- TychyTychyTychy 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
- ZabrzeZabrzeZabrze 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 GóraZielona GóraZielona 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 ....
- ŻagańZaganZagan may refer to:*Zagan - a demon in the Ars Goetia*Żagań - a town in west Poland...
Literature
- Norman DaviesNorman DaviesProfessor 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 MoorhouseRoger MoorhouseRoger 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 CityMicrocosm: Portrait of a Central European CityMicrocosm: 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.