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Poznan (; ; Poyzn) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in west-central Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is 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 Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 with over 567,882 inhabitants (2006). Located on the Warta River
Warta River

The Warta is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately 808 kilometers it is the country's third longest river....
, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical centre and a vibrant centre of trade, industry, and education. Poznan is Poland's fifth largest city and fourth biggest industrial centre. It is also the administrative capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznan Voivodeship, Kalisz Voivodeship, Konin Voivodeship, Pila Voivodeship and Leszno Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act....
.

Poznan's cathedral is the oldest in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers: Duke Mieszko I
Mieszko I of Poland

Mieszko I was a duke of the Polans and the first historical ruler of Poland. Member of the Piast dynasty, he was son of the legendary Siemomysl, grandchild of Lestek and father to Boleslaw I of Poland, the first crowned prince of Poland, and Swietoslawa-Sygryda, a Nordic queen....
, King Boleslaus the Brave, King Mieszko II, Duke Casimir I the Restorer
Casimir I of Poland

Casimir I the Restorer , was a Duke of Poland of the Piast dynasty and the de facto monarch of the entire country. He is known as the Restorer mostly because he managed to reunite all parts of the Polish Kingdom after a period of turmoil....
, Duke Przemysl I, and King Przemysl II.

Poznan was the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference
2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place at PIF Congress Centre, Poznan International Fair , in Poznan, Poland, between December 1 and December 12, 2008....
, that took place in December 2008.






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Poznan (; ; Poyzn) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in west-central Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is 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 Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 with over 567,882 inhabitants (2006). Located on the Warta River
Warta River

The Warta is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately 808 kilometers it is the country's third longest river....
, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, making it an important historical centre and a vibrant centre of trade, industry, and education. Poznan is Poland's fifth largest city and fourth biggest industrial centre. It is also the administrative capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznan Voivodeship, Kalisz Voivodeship, Konin Voivodeship, Pila Voivodeship and Leszno Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act....
.

Poznan's cathedral is the oldest in the country, containing the tombs of the first Polish rulers: Duke Mieszko I
Mieszko I of Poland

Mieszko I was a duke of the Polans and the first historical ruler of Poland. Member of the Piast dynasty, he was son of the legendary Siemomysl, grandchild of Lestek and father to Boleslaw I of Poland, the first crowned prince of Poland, and Swietoslawa-Sygryda, a Nordic queen....
, King Boleslaus the Brave, King Mieszko II, Duke Casimir I the Restorer
Casimir I of Poland

Casimir I the Restorer , was a Duke of Poland of the Piast dynasty and the de facto monarch of the entire country. He is known as the Restorer mostly because he managed to reunite all parts of the Polish Kingdom after a period of turmoil....
, Duke Przemysl I, and King Przemysl II.

Poznan was the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference
2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2008 United Nations Climate Change Conference took place at PIF Congress Centre, Poznan International Fair , in Poznan, Poland, between December 1 and December 12, 2008....
, that took place in December 2008. The conference was a key event in the creation of a successor
Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions

Post-Kyoto negotiations refers to high level talks attempting to address global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Generally part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , these talks concern the period after the first "commitment period" of the Kyoto Protocol, which is due to expire at the end of 2012....
 to the Kyoto Protocol
Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is a Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development , informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3–14 June 1992....
.

In Poznan is The Royal-Imperial Route in Poznan
The Royal-Imperial Route in Poznan

The Royal - Imperial Route in Poznan is a tourist walk running through the most important parts of the city and presenting the history, culture and identity of Poznan....
 - a tourist walk running through the most important parts of the city and presenting the history, culture and identity of Poznan.

Etymology

The name Poznan probably comes from a personal name Poznan (from the Polish participle poznan(y)) and would mean "Poznan's town." It is also possible the name comes directly from the verb poznac which means "to get to know" or "to recognize".

The earliest surviving references to the city were by Thietmar
Thietmar

Thietmar may refer to:* Thietmar of Prague , bishop* Thietmar of Merseburg , bishop and chronicler...
 in his chronicles: episcopus Poznaniensis ("Bishop of Poznan", 970) and ab urbe Poznani ("by" or "from the city Poznan", 1005). Early spellings include Posna and Posnan, which have also historically been used in English.

Herb Poznania Stary
The official city name in full is The Capital City of Poznan . Poznan is known as Posen in German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, and was officially known as Haupt- und Residenzstadt Posen ("Capital and Residence City of Poznan") between 20 August 1910, and 28 November 1918. The city has been known in Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 as Posnania and civitas Posnaniensis. Its Yiddish
Yiddish language

Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
 name is ?????, or Poyzn.

History

Mieszko I
Mieszko I of Poland

Mieszko I was a duke of the Polans and the first historical ruler of Poland. Member of the Piast dynasty, he was son of the legendary Siemomysl, grandchild of Lestek and father to Boleslaw I of Poland, the first crowned prince of Poland, and Swietoslawa-Sygryda, a Nordic queen....
, the first known duke of the Polans, built one of his castles in Poznan. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul is the oldest Polish cathedral, founded in Poznan during the latter half of the 10th century. The city would become the capital of Greater Poland
Greater Poland

Greater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief city is Poznan. Administratively, most of the region now forms Greater Poland Voivodeship , although some parts lie in Lubusz Voivodeship, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and L?dz Voivodeship Voivodeships of Poland....
. Mieszko I's son, Boleslaus the Brave, was crowned king in 1025 and the Kingdom of Poland was formed. Greater Poland became the 'cradle of the Polish state', and both Mieszko I and Boleslaus I are buried in Poznan. Lubranski Academy
Lubranski Academy

The Lubranski Academy was a university college established 1518 in Poznan by the bishop Jan Lubranski. It was the first school with university aspirations in Poznan ....
, the second Polish university (not a "full" university, in fact, as science students had to go to Kraków
Kraków

Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
) was established in 1519.

Poznan was the capital of the Greater Poland area when it came under the control of Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a Germany monarchy from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost two-thirds of the area of the empire....
 in 1793 and had its administrative area renamed to South Prussia
South Prussia

South Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1793 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Partitions of Poland of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and included the regions of Greater Poland and Masovia....
. During the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806, local Polish resistance fighters rebelled, thereby assisting the efforts of Napoleon
Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte later known as Emperor Napoleon I, was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century....
 while simultaneously driving out the occupying Prussian forces. The city became part of the Duchy of Warsaw
Duchy of Warsaw

The Duchy of Warsaw was a Poland state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit....
 in 1807 and was capital of the Poznan Department
Poznan Department

Poznan Department was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815.Capital city: Poznan...
. Napoleon's defeat led to the Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815....
, where the boundaries of Europe were redrawn by the victors. Greater Poland was returned to Prussia and became the capital of the autonomous Grand Duchy of Posen. From the time of the Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of 1848

The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout the European continent....
, Poznan was the capital of the Prussian Province of Posen
Province of Posen

The Province of Posen was a province of Kingdom of Prussia from 1848-1918 and as such part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918; the whole area is now part of Poland....
. It became part of the German Empire
German Empire

The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of William I, German Emperor as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became Weimar republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of William II, German Emperor ....
 during the unification of German states
Unification of Germany

The unification of Germany took place on January 18, 1871, when Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, managed to unify a number of independent German people states into a nation-state, and thus create the German Empire, from which all of the states since that time bearing the name of Germany descend....
 in 1871.

Shortly after Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, the Great Poland Uprising
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919)

The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland region against Weimar Republic....
 (1918-1919) occurred, leading to the creation of the Second Polish Republic
Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland is the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II....
, in which Poznan became the capital of Poznan Voivodeship
Poznan Voivodeship

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. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Poland suffered under Nazi
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 occupation and the Polish population was severely repressed. In 1945, the city was declared a Festung
Festung

Festung is a generic German language word for a fortress. Whilst it is not in common usage in English it is used in a number of historical contexts involving German speakers:...
 (a fortified locale in which German forces were expected to conduct a last-ditch defense) by order of Hitler. As Poznan lay on the direct route from Warsaw to Berlin, the Red Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
 first besieged and then assaulted
Battle of Poznan (1945)

The Battle of Poznan during World War II in 1945 was a massive assault by the Soviet Union Red Army that had as its objective the elimination of the Nazi Germany garrison in the fortification city of Poznan, occupied Poland....
 the German defenses, culminating in the assault on the Cytadela (citadelle) and resulting in serious damage to the city. Since the war's end, Poznan has been the capital of the surrounding area through administrative district boundary changes in 1957, 1975, and 1999; Poznan currently administrates Greater Poland Voivodeship
Greater Poland Voivodeship

Greater Poland Voivodeship is a Voivodeships of Poland, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznan Voivodeship, Kalisz Voivodeship, Konin Voivodeship, Pila Voivodeship and Leszno Voivodeship Voivodeships, pursuant to the 1998 Local Government Reorganization Act....
, one of 16 provinces in the country.

Anti-communist protests
Poznan 1956 protests

The Poznan 1956 protests were the first of several massive protests of the Poles against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland....
 in 1956 played a significant role in liberalising the post-war communist regime
People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland or Polish People's Republic was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989 inclusively.Although the People's Republic of Poland was a sovereignty state as defined by international law, its leaders were at the very least approved by Soviet Union leaders....
.

Historical population

Detailed demographic tables: Historical population of Poznan
Historical population of Poznan

Historical population of Poznan City in Poland:...


Historical population summary:
  • 1600 : about 20,000 inhabitants
  • 1732 : 4000 inhabitants
  • 1793 : 15,000 inhabitants before
  • 1875 : 60,998 inhabitants
  • 1900 : 117,033 inhabitants
  • 1918 : 156,091 inhabitants
  • 1939 : 274,155 inhabitants
  • 1946 : 268,000 inhabitants
  • 2000 : 572,900 inhabitants
  • May 2002: 578,900 inhabitants


2020 population Forecast:
  • Poznan City 584,500 (small increase)
  • Poznan County 305,500 (significant increase)
  • Poznan Metro Area 890,000


Geography

  • City area (2002)
  • Geographical location:
  • 52°17'34N - 52°30'27N
  • 16°44'08E - 17°04'28E
  • Highest point: Mt. Morasko asl
  • Lowest point: Warta river valley: asl


Administrative division

Dzielnice Poznan
The Poznan metropolitan area, consisting of the autonomous towns of Poznan, Ostrów, Ostrówek, Srodka, Chwaliszewo, Lacina, was integrated into one city from 1793–1800. The rapidly growing city annexed the neighboring villages of Grunwald, Lazarz, Górczyn, Jezyce, Wilda, Winogrady in 1900, Piatkowo and Rataje in later years. Today, Poznan is divided into five districts, which are further divided onto several dozens of neighborhoods. The districts are:
  • Stare Miasto
    Poznan-Stare Miasto

    Poznan-Stare Miasto is local government district in central and northern parts of Poznan, Poland. It consists of the historical Old Town and the new residential areas of Winogrady and Piatkowo....
  • Nowe Miasto
    Poznan-Nowe Miasto

    Poznan-Nowe Miasto is local government district on the right bank of Warta River in the eastern parts of Poznan, Poland. It covers oldest part of town and the new residential areas of Rataje....
  • Jezyce
    Poznan-Jezyce

    Poznan-Jezyce is one of five local government districts in Poznan, Poland....
  • Grunwald
    Poznan-Grunwald

    Poznan-Grunwald is a local government district in southwestern Poznan, Poland....
  • Wilda
    Poznan-Wilda

    Poznan-Wilda is a local government district in southern Poznan, Poland. It is the smallest of the five districts....


Economy

Poznan has been an important center of trade since the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
. Starting in the 19th century, local heavy industry began to grow. Several major factories were built, including the steel mill and railway factory of Hipolit Cegielski
Hipolit Cegielski

Hipolit Cegielski was a Poland businessman and social and cultural activist. He founded H. Cegielski - Poznan S.A. in 1846....
 (see H. Cegielski - Poznan S.A.
H. Cegielski - Poznan S.A.

H. Cegielski - Poznan S.A. is a well-known Poland manufacturing company from the city of Poznan. The company is locally known as Ceglorz, and since 1923 has also used the HCP symbol....
).

Today Poznan is one of the major centers of trade with Germany. Many Western European companies started their Polish branches in Poznan, or in the nearby localities of Tarnowo Podgórne
Tarnowo Podgórne

Tarnowo Podg?rne is an urbanized village in Poznan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Tarnowo Podg?rne....
 and Swarzedz
Swarzedz

Swarzedz [] is a town in central Poland of 29,766 inhabitants and a mixed urban-rural commune of 40,166 inhabitants . It is situated in the Poznan metropolitan area, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship , having previously been in Poznan Voivodeship ....
. It is the site of annual Poznan International Fair
Poznan International Fair

The Poznan International Fair is an international trade fair held in Poznan, Poland. It is the oldest trade fair in Poland, with the first one taking place in 1921....
. Most foreign investors are German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 and Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 companies (see "Major corporations" above), with a few others. Investors are mostly from the food processing, furniture, automotive and transport & logistics industries. Foreign companies are primarily attracted by low labour costs, but also by the relatively good road and railway network, good vocational skills of workers and relatively liberal employment laws. As compared with Germany, there are far fewer restrictions, e.g. on shop opening hours.

For a list of major Poznan-based corporations see Major corporations in Poznan
Major corporations in Poznan

This is a list of major corporations based in Poznan and the city's vicinity.*Allegro , Poznan*Jeronimo Martins Dystrybucja sp. z o.o , Poznan...


Culture

The annual Malta Theater festival is probably the most characteristic cultural event of the city. There are also Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition

The international Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition is a competition for violinists up to age 30 that takes place every five years in Poznan, Poland, in honor of the virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski....
 (held every 5 years), and Classical Music Festival (annual).

Education


Poznan is home to a few state-owned universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 and a number of smaller, mostly private-run colleges and institutions of higher education. Adam Mickiewicz University (abbreviated UAM) is one of the most influential and biggest universities in Poland
List of universities in Poland

This is a list of state run universities in Poland. In total, there are approximately 500 Universities and schools for higher education in Poland. Brackets give the Polish language name followed by a standard abbreviation for the university's name ....
:
  • Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan
  • Academy of Music in Poznan
  • Adam Mickiewicz University
    Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

    Adam Mickiewicz University is one of the major Poland universities, opened on May 7, 1919 in Poznan. It is named after the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz....
  • Poznan University of Economics
    Poznan University of Economics

    The Poznan University of Economics is one of the most prestigious economy universities in Poland.The Poznan University of Economics is a major academic institution in the western part of the country attracting students from many parts of Poland....
  • Poznan University of Medical Sciences
    Poznan University of Medical Sciences

    Poznan University of Medical Sciences is a prominent Education in Poland medical university....
  • Poznan University of Technology
    Poznan University of Technology

    Poznan University of Technology, PUT is a university located in Poznan, Poland. Poznan University of Technology is known as one of the best technical universities in Poland....
  • Poznan University School of Physical Education
  • University of Life Sciences in Poznan
    University of Life Sciences in Poznan

    The University of Life Sciences in Poznan is a higher-education institution in Poznan, Poland. It officially gained university status on 11 April 2008....


Scientific and regional organizations

  • Poznan Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences
    Poznan Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences

    The Poznan Society of Friends of Learning is a learned society in Poznan, Poland, established in 1857, of scholars and scientists in all branches of learning....
  • Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
  • Western Institute
    Western Institute

    The Western Institute in Poznan is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie , history, economy and politics of Germany, and the Polish-German relations in history and today....


Sports

  • AZS AWF Poznan
    AZS AWF Poznan

    AZS AWF Poznan is a Poland women's volleyball team based in Poznan and playing in the Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League...
     - women's volleyball
    Volleyball in Poland

    Volleyball is a popular team sport in Poland.* Polish Volleyball League * Polish Seria B Men's Volleyball League* Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League...
     team playing in Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League
    Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League

    Polish Women's-Volleyball League is the highest level of women volleyball games played in Poland....
    : 8th place in 2003/2004 season.
  • AZS Poznan
    AZS Poznan

    AZS Poznan is a Poland women's basketball team based in Poznan and playing in the Sharp Torell Basket Liga....
     - women's basketball
    Basketball in Poland

    Basketball in Poland.Please see* Dominet Bank Ekstraliga ? Polish Men Basketball League * PLKK ? Polish Women Basketball League* Polish Cup in men basketball...
     team playing in Torell Basket Liga: 2nd place in 2003/2004 season (formerly also called Danter AZS Poznan and Stary Browar AZS Poznan)


  • KKS Lech Poznan
    Lech Poznan

    Lech Poznan , is a Polish football club based in Poznan, Poland. The club is named after Lech, Czech and Rus, the legendary founder of Poland....
     - men's football
    Football in Poland

    Association football, is the most popular Sports in Poland in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally....
     team (Polish Champion: 1983, 1984, 1990, 1992, 1993 ; Polish Cup
    Polish Cup

    The Polish Cup in football is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title....
     winner 1982, 1984, 1988, 2004 ; Polish SuperCup
    Polish SuperCup

    The Polish Super Cup in football is an annually held match between the Champion of the The cup winner resigned . The 2nd placed team in the Polish First league, GKS Belchat?w, replaced the cup winner....
     winner 1990, 1992, 2004)
  • UKS Stoper Poznan
    UKS Stoper Poznan

    Stoper Poznan Poznan is a youth football club based in Poznan, Poland. The club currently plays at low youth league of WZPN of Polish football....
     - men's football
    Football in Poland

    Association football, is the most popular Sports in Poland in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally....
     team
  • KS AZS AWF Poznan - men's field hockey
    Field hockey

    Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
     team
  • KS Energetyk - rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics

    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which single competitors or pairs, trios or even more manipulate one or two apparatus: rope , hoop , ball , clubs and ribbon ....
     club
  • KS Pocztowiec Poznan
    Pocztowiec Poznan

    KS Pocztowiec Poznan is a field hockey team based in Poznan, Poland.External links* men's field hockey
    Field hockey

    Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
     team
  • KTKFiT Blekitny Express Lech Poznan - men's field hockey
    Field hockey

    Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
     team
  • Lake Malta
    Lake Malta

    Lake Malta is an artificial lake in Poznan, Poland. It was formed in 1952 as a result of the damming of the Cybina River. It is about 2.2 km long, which makes the lake the biggest man-made lake of the city....
     in Poznan will host the World Rowing Championships
    World Rowing Championships

    The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by International Rowing Federation . It is a week long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic Games years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar....
     in 2009 and has previously hosted some regattas in the Rowing World Cup
    Rowing World Cup

    The Rowing World Cup is an international rowing competition organized by International Rowing Federation . It first began in 1997 and comprises three regattas held throughout early summer....
    . It also hosted the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (sprint canoe
    Canoe racing

    This article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation ....
    ) in 1990
    1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

    The 1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Poznan, Poland on Lake Malta.The men's competition consisted of eight Canoe and nine kayak events....
     and 2001
    2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

    The 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Poznan, Poland at Lake Malta. The Poland city had hosted the event previously in 1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships....
    , and will do so again in 2010
    2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

    The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships will be held August 19 to August 22, 2010 in Poznan, Poland on Lake Malta. This is the third time that the Poland city will host the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, having done so previously in 1990 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships....
    .
  • MKS Dabrówka - rhythmic gymnastics club, synchronized swimming
    Synchronized swimming

    Synchronised swimming is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and gymnastics, consisting of swimmers performing a synchronised routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music....
  • Polonia Poznan
    Polonia Poznan

    Polonia Poznan is a football club based in Poznan, Poland. Currently, the club competes in the 5th level of Polish football....
     - men's football
    Football in Poland

    Association football, is the most popular Sports in Poland in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally....
     team
  • PSZ Poznan
    PSZ Poznan

    Poznanskie Stowarzyszenie Zuzlowe is a Poland Motorcycle speedway team based in Poznan who currently race in Team Speedway Polish Championship ....
     - motorcycle speedway
    Motorcycle speedway

    Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise laps of an oval circuit....
     team
  • SSW Malta Poznan - roller skating
    Roller skating

    Roller skating is the traveling on smooth terrain with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation....
     club
  • TPS Winogrady Poznan
    TPS Winogrady Poznan

    TPS Winogrady Poznan is a football club based in Poznan, Poland. The club currently plays at the 5th level of Polish football....
     - men's football
    Football in Poland

    Association football, is the most popular Sports in Poland in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally....
     team
  • UKS Szóstka - synchronized swimming, football
  • UKS Wanda - synchronized swimming
  • U-19 EURO CHAMP.
    2006 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship

    The European Under-19 Football Championship 2006 Final Tournament was held in Poland between 19 July and 29 July 2006. The top 3 teams in each group qualified for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup....
     in VI 2006 - [man's Football European Cup 19 year] - Open and Final.
  • Warta Poznan
    Warta Poznan

    Warta Poznan, Wikibooks:Polish/Polish pronunciation , is a football club based in Poznan, Poland. Founded in 1912, the club are two-time winners of the Polish Championship in Football, in 1929 and 1947, but currently reside in the Polish First League....
     - men's football
    Football in Poland

    Association football, is the most popular Sports in Poland in Poland. Over 400,000 Poles play football regularly, with millions more playing occasionally....
     team (Polish Champion: 1929, 1947), (2nd league in season 2007/2008).
  • WKS Grunwald Poznan
    Grunwald Poznan

    Grunwald Poznan is a sports club based in Poznan, Poland, with several sections:* field hockey * shooting * Wrestling * Team handball * Orienteering ...
     - sports club with sections in field hockey
    Field hockey

    Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score Goal by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal....
    , shooting
    Shooting

    Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as Bow s or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting....
    , wrestling
    Wrestling

    Wrestling is part of the martial arts. A wrestling match consists of physical engagement between two people in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over, or control of, the opponent....
    , handball
    Team handball

    Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team with the most goals after two periods of 30 minutes wins....
     and tennis
    Tennis

    Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
    .


Politics


Municipal politics


Since the end of the communist era
People's Republic of Poland

The People's Republic of Poland or Polish People's Republic was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989 inclusively.Although the People's Republic of Poland was a sovereignty state as defined by international law, its leaders were at the very least approved by Soviet Union leaders....
 in 1989, Poznan municipality and metro area have invested heavily in infrastructure, especially public transportation and improved administration. This has resulted in a massive investment from foreign companies in Poznan itself, as well as in communities west and south of Poznan (namely, Kórnik
Kórnik

K?rnik [] is a town of less than 6,807 inhabitants in Greater Poland. Located approximately 35 kilometres to the south-east of Poznan, it is one of major tourist attractions of Greater Poland Voivodeship....
 and Tarnowo Podgórne
Tarnowo Podgórne

Tarnowo Podg?rne is an urbanized village in Poznan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Tarnowo Podg?rne....
). Worth noticing is the positive attitude of public administration towards investments, and less annoying "red tape
Red tape

"Red tape" is a derisive term for excessive regulation or rigid conformity to formal rules that is considered redundant or Bureaucracy and hinders or prevents action or decision-making....
" than elsewhere in Poland.

City investment into transportation was mostly in the public transport area. While the number of cars since 1989 has at least doubled, the policy of improving public transport gave good effects. Limiting car access to the city center, building new tram
Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
 lines (inc. Poznanski Szybki Tramwaj
Poznanski Szybki Tramwaj

Legend:* Dark blue - existing light rail and tram lines* Red - train lines|}Poznanski Szybki Tramwaj is a 6.1 km-long stretch of grade-separated tram line in Poznan, Poland....
) and investing in new rolling stock (such as modern Combino
Combino

The Combino is a low floor tram produced by Siemens AG Transportation Systems . The first prototype was produced in 1996 at the Duewag works in D?sseldorf; the trams are currently made in Krefeld-Uerdingen....
 trams by Siemens
Siemens AG

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
 and Solaris
Solaris Bus & Coach

Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. is a bus, coach and trolleybus manufacturer based in Bolechowo and Sroda Wielkopolska, near Poznan, Poland.It is a family-owned business, with Krzysztof Olszewski as chairman and his wife Solange as deputy chairman responsible for contacts with clients....
 low-floor buses) actually increased the level of ridership. This is a notable success, even considering the fact that Polish society only possesses about half of the "old EU"'s purchasing power, hence not everybody can afford to own a car.

Future investments into transportation include the construction of a "third ring road" around the city, and the completion of A2 (E30) highway towards Berlin. In the public transport area (and non-car transportation), further investment must be made into the development bicycle paths (and the linking of presently existing ones), and an attempt is presently made of developing Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe is a city in the south west of Germany, in the States of Germany Baden-W?rttemberg, located near the France-German border.Founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, the surrounding town became the seat of two of the highest courts in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany whose decisions have the force of a law, and the...
-style light rail
Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail transit public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than Passenger_rail_terminology#Heavy_rail and rapid transit systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than street-running tram systems....
 system for commuters. All that is made more complicated (and more expensive) by the heavy neglect of transportation throughout communist era.

Constituency

Members of Sejm
Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Poland parliament.Before the 20th century, the term "Sejm" referred to the entire three-Chambers of parliament Polish parliament, comprising the lower house , the upper house and the monarch....
 elected in 2005 from Poznan constituency:
  • Arkady Radoslaw Fiedler, PO
  • Waldy Dzikowski
    Waldy Dzikowski

    Waldy Dzikowski is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 54959 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
    , PO
  • Maria Paslo-Wisniewska
    Maria Paslo-Wisniewska

    Maria Paslo-Wisniewska is a Poland politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7062 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
    , PO
  • Dariusz Lipinski
    Dariusz Lipinski

    Dariusz Lipinski is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 4482 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
    , PO
  • Michal Stuligrosz
    Michal Stuligrosz

    Michal Stuligrosz is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12659 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Platforma Obywatelska list....
    ,PO
  • Tomasz Górski
    Tomasz Górski

    Tomasz G?rski is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 8664 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc list....
    , PiS
  • Jan Filip Libicki
    Jan Filip Libicki

    Jan Filip Libicki is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 17503 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Law and Justice list....
    , PiS
  • Malgorzata Stryjska
    Malgorzata Stryjska

    Malgorzata Stryjska is a Poland politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 12791 votes in 39 Poznan district, running as a candidate on the Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc list....
    , PiS
  • Jacek Tomczak
    Jacek Tomczak

    Jacek Tomczak is a Poland politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 17991 votes in 39 Poznan district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc list....
    , PiS
  • Krystyna Lybacka
    Krystyna Lybacka

    Krystyna Lybacka is a Polish mathematician and politician. Lybacka is a member of the Sejm, elected from the 39 Poznan district, getting 18637 votes, candidating from Democratic Left Alliance list....
    , SLD


Members of European Parliament
European Parliament

The European Parliament is the only direct election parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union , it forms the bicameral Institutions of the European Union#Legislature of the Institutions of the European Union and has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world....
 elected from Poznan constituency:
  • Filip Kaczmarek
    Filip Kaczmarek

    Filip Andrzej Kaczmarek is a Politics of Poland politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Platforma Obywatelska, part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development....
    , PO
  • Jan Kulakowski
    Jan Kulakowski

    Jan Jerzy Kulakowski is a Politics of Poland politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodshipwith the Unia Wolnosci,...
    , Unia Wolnosci
  • Marcin Libicki
    Marcin Libicki

    File:Marcin Libicki.jpgMarcin Libicki is a Poland politician, formwer member of the Polish parliament , elected for the Poznan constituency. He is one of the leaders of the Law and Justice party....
    , PiS
  • Jan Masiel
    Jan Masiel

    Jan Tadeusz Masiel is a Politics of Poland politician andMember of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodshipwith the Self-Defense of the Polish Republic,...
    , Samoobrona
  • Marek Siwiec
    Marek Siwiec

    Marek Maciej Siwiec is a Politics of Poland politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Party of European Socialists and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs....
    , SLD
  • Witold Tomczak
    Witold Tomczak

    Witold Tomczak is a right-wing Politics of Poland politician, currently a member of the European Parliament.Before his political career, Tomczak worked as a physician He graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice in 1987 and specialized in general medicine....
    , LPR


Notable residents

Combino Poznan Rb2
  • Anna Anderson
    Anna Anderson

    Anastasia Manahan, usually known as Anna Anderson , was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last autocratic ruler of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna ....
     (c. 1900 - 1984), pretender of Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
  • Lothar von Arnauld de la Peričre (1886 - 1941), German U-boat commander
  • Isidor Ascheim
    Isidor Ascheim

    Isidor Ascheim was a Germans-born Israelis painter and printmaker born in Poznan , Prussia in 1891.Ascheim was raised in an Orthodox Judaism family and served during World War I....
     (1891-1968), painter and printmaker
  • Stanislaw Baranczak
    Stanislaw Baranczak

    Stanislaw Baranczak is a poet, literary critic, scholar, editor and lecturer....
     (born 1946), poet
  • Herbert Baum
    Herbert Baum

    Herbert Baum was a Jewish member of the Widerstand against National Socialism.Baum was born in Poznan, Province of Posen; his family moved to Berlin when he was young....
     (1912 – 1942) resistance fighter
  • Zygmunt Bauman
    Zygmunt Bauman

    Zygmunt Bauman is a Poland sociology who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Polish United Workers' Party....
     (born 1925), sociologist
  • Bernhard Baumeister (1828-1917), actor
  • Józef Brzezinski, biologist
  • Brigitte Burmeister (died 1940), novelist
  • Heinrich Caro
    Heinrich Caro

    Heinrich Caro , was a Germany Chemist.He started his study of chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin and later chemistry and dyeing in Berlin at the Royal Trades Institute....
     (1834-1910), chemist
  • Hipolit Cegielski
    Hipolit Cegielski

    Hipolit Cegielski was a Poland businessman and social and cultural activist. He founded H. Cegielski - Poznan S.A. in 1846....
     (1815-1868), businessman
  • Dezydery Chlapowski
    Dezydery Chlapowski

    Baron Dezydery Chlapowski was a Poland general, business and political activist. His Coat of Arms was Dryja Coat of Arms. Now the Barons Chlapowskis uses a Napoleonic version of the original coat of arms....
     (1788-1848), general
  • August Cieszkowski (1814-1894), philosopher
  • Antoni Czubinski
    Antoni Czubinski

    Antoni Czubinski was a Polish historian and director of the Western Institute in Poznan from 1978 to 1990.He was Polish United Workers' Party aparatchik, and in his works represented Marxism-Leninism in Polish historical thought....
     (1928-2003), historian
  • Leopold Damrosch
    Leopold Damrosch

    Leopold Damrosch was a German American orchestral Conducting....
     (1832 – 1885), conductor
  • Ludwig Dessoir
    Ludwig Dessoir

    Ludwig Dessoir, original name Leopold Dessauer was a Germany actor born in Poznan, the son of a Jewish tradesman. He made his first appearance on the stage there in 1824 in a small part....
    , (1810 - 1874), actor
  • Franciszek Dobrowolski
    Franciszek Dobrowolski

    Franciszek Dobrowolski was a Poland theatre director, editor of Dziennik Poznanski ....
     (1830-1896), theater director
  • Tytus Dzialynski
    Tytus Dzialynski

    Tytus Adam Dzialynski was a Poland political activist and protector of arts.He was a publisher of historical sources important for the Polish history, founder of K?rnik Library , co-founder of Poznan Industrial Society , the Poznan Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences and the president of the latter since 1858....
     (1796-1861), political activist
  • Malgorzata Dydek
    Margo Dydek

    Malgorzata Dydek , known as Margo Dydek in the United States, is a Polish international professional basketball player. At least 7'2" tall, she is famous for being the Human height active professional female basketball player in the world....
     (born 1974), basketball player
  • Akiva Eiger (1761-1837), Rabbi
    Rabbi

    Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
     of Poznan (1815-1837)
  • Jean Paul Ertel (1865-1933), composer
  • Ewaryst Estkowski
    Ewaryst Estkowski

    Ewaryst Estkowski was a Poland teacher, education activist, and editor of Szkola Polska magazine....
     (1820-1856), teacher
  • Fredrak Fraske (1872-1973), the last surviving United States veteran of the Indian Wars
    Indian Wars

    Indian Wars is the name generally used in the United States to describe a series of conflicts between the colonial or federal government and the indigenous peoples of North America....
  • Jean Gebser
    Jean Gebser

    Jean Gebser was a Child prodigy, a student of the transformations of human consciousness, a linguistics, and a poetry....
     (1905-1973), human consciousness scientist
  • Eduard Gerhard (1795 - 1867), archaeologist
  • Friedrich Goltz
    Friedrich Goltz

    Friedrich Leopold Goltz was a Germany physiologist and nephew of the writer Bogumil Goltz.Goltz held various university positions in K?nigsberg, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Strasbourg, Germany....
     (1834 - 1902), physiologist
  • Konstanty Gorski
    Konstanty Gorski

    Konstanty Antoni Gorski was a Poland composer, viola, organist, and music teacher. Gorski was born in Lida. He died in Poznan....
     (1859-1924), composer and violinist
  • Paul von Hindenburg
    Paul von Hindenburg

    Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a German Generalfeldmarschall and statesman....
     (1847-1934), Field Marshal and President of the Weimar Republic
    Weimar Republic

    The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
  • Maksymilian Jackowski
    Maksymilian Jackowski

    Maksymilian Jackowski was a Poland activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society , patron of the agricultural circles....
     (1815-1905), activist
  • John Jonston
    John Jonston

    John Jonston was a Polish scholar and practicing medical doctor, descended from Scottish nobility, and closely connected to the Polish magnate Leszczynski's family....
     (1603-1675), naturalist and physician
  • Stefan Jurga (born 1946), professor and rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
    Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

    Adam Mickiewicz University is one of the major Poland universities, opened on May 7, 1919 in Poznan. It is named after the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz....
     (1996-2002)
  • Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (born 1954), composer
  • Richard Kandt (1867-1918), doctor and explorer
  • Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz (1895-1963), historian
  • Marek Karpinski
    Marek Karpinski

    Marek Karpinski is a computer scientist and mathematician known for his research in the theory of Algorithm and their applications, Combinatorial optimization, Computational complexity, and mathematical foundations....
    , computer scientist
  • Günther von Kluge
    Günther von Kluge

    G?nther ?Hans? von Kluge was a Germany military leader. He was born in Poznan into a Prussian military family. Von Kluge rose to the rank of field marshal in the Wehrmacht....
     (1882-1944), Field Marshal
  • Krzysztof Komeda
    Krzysztof Komeda

    Krzysztof Komeda was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. He wrote the scores for Roman Polanski?s films Rosemary?s Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Knife in the Water and Cul-de-sac....
     (1931-1969), jazz musician
  • Leo Königsberger
    Leo Königsberger

    Leo K?nigsberger was a Germany mathematician, and history of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject....
     (1837-1921), mathematician
  • Antoni Kraszewski
    Antoni Kraszewski

    * Antoni Kraszewski was a Poland politician and Member of Parliament....
     (1797-1870), politician
  • Max Kretzer (1854-1941), writer
  • Antoni Krzyzanowski, 19th century architect
  • Gerard Labuda
    Gerard Labuda

    Gerard Labuda Labuda from 1950 was a professor at Poznan University; rector 1962-1965; from 1951 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ; president 1989-1994; from 1964 of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; vice-president 1984-1986; and from 1959 to 1961 director of the Western Institute in Poznan....
     (born 1916), historian
  • Arthur Liebehenschel
    Arthur Liebehenschel

    Arthur Liebehenschel was a commandant of the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II.Liebehenschel was born in Posen and studied economics and public administration....
     (1901 - 1948), commandant of Auschwitz and Majdanek
    Majdanek

    Majdanek was a German Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland. The camp operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22, 1944, when it was captured nearly intact by the advancing Soviet Red Army....
  • Paul Leonhardt
    Paul Leonhardt

    Paul Saladin Leonhardt was a Germans chess master.He was born in Poznan, Province of Posen, Poland , and died of a heart attack in K?nigsberg during a game of chess....
     (1877-1934), chess master
  • Karol Libelt
    Karol Libelt

    Karol Libelt was a Poland philosophy, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberalism, nationalism politician, president of PTPN....
     (1807-1875), philosopher
  • Wlodzimierz Lecki (born 1937), politician and writer
  • Andrzej Maleszka (born 1955), theatre and movie director
  • Karol Marcinkowski
    Karol Marcinkowski

    Karol Marcinkowski was a Polish physician, social activist in the Greater Poland region , supporter of the basic education programmes, organizer of the Scientific Help Society and the Poznan Bazar - the Polish mall in Poznan that included a hotel, meeting rooms, crafts and shops....
     (1800-1848), physician and social activist
  • Wladyslaw Markiewicz
    Wladyslaw Markiewicz

    Wladyslaw Markiewicz is a Polish sociologist; professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan since 1966, and Warsaw University since 1972, director of the Western Institute in Poznan in years 1966-1973, member of Polish Academy of Sciences since 1972....
     (born 1920), sociologist
  • Teofil Matecki (1810-1886), philosopher
  • Heinrich Mendelssohn
    Heinrich Mendelssohn

    Heinrich Mendelssohn was a Berlin building tycoon.Mendelssohn was born in Poznan, Poland in 1881. In cooperation with Albert Heilmann, Mendelssohn constructed the Europahaus in Berlin, which today houses the :de:Bundesministerium f?r wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung....
     (1881-1959), building tycoon
  • Karl-Friedrich Merten
    Karl-Friedrich Merten

    Captain Karl-Friedrich Merten was a Germany U-boat commander during World War II.Born in Poznan, he joined the Reichsmarine in 1926. After training he spent many years on surface ships....
     (1905 - 1993), U-boat commander
  • Maciej Mielzynski (1799-1870), politician
  • Julius Moses (1868-1942), politician
  • Malgorzata Musierowicz
    Malgorzata Musierowicz

    Malgorzata Musierowicz is a popular Poland writer, author of many stories and novels for children and teenagers, but read with pleasure by adults too....
     (born 1945), novelist
  • Andrzej Niegolewski
    Andrzej Niegolewski

    Andrzej Niegolewski was a Poland colonel during the Napoleonic Wars, member of parliament and a shareholder of the Poznan Bazar....
     (1787-1857), colonel
  • Wladyslaw Niegolewski
    Wladyslaw Niegolewski

    Wladyslaw Niegolewski was a Poland liberal politician and member of parliament, insurgent in Greater Poland Uprising 1846, Greater Poland Uprising 1848 and January Uprising 1863, cofounder of Central Economic Society in 1861 and People's Libraries Society in 1880....
     (1814-1880), politician
  • Gustav Oelsner (1879-1956), architect
  • Wladyslaw Oleszczynski
    Wladyslaw Oleszczynski

    Wladyslaw Oleszczynski was a Poland sculptor who created a monument of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan....
     (1809-1866), sculptor
  • Lilli Palmer
    Lilli Palmer

    Lilli Palmer, born Lillie Marie Peiser, was a Golden Globe nominated Germany actress....
     (1914-1986), actress
  • Janusz Palubicki
    Janusz Palubicki

    Janusz Palubicki is a Polish politician and activist.Born in 1948 in Walbrzych, he studied history of art in University of Poznan. From 1981 he was the member of Solidarity, in 1982 he became the leader of Wielkopolska part of the movement....
     (born 1948), politician
  • Kazimierz Piwarski
    Kazimierz Piwarski

    Kazimierz Piwarski was a Poland historian, professor of Jagiellonian University in Krak?w since 1946 and Poznan University in years 1953-1955, member of Polish Academy of Skills since 1945, and member of Polish Academy of Sciences since 1958....
    , (1903-1968), historian
  • Gustaw Potworowski
    Gustaw Potworowski

    Gustaw Potworowski , count, was a Poland activist, founder of the Kasyno in Gostyn, activist of the Polish League . Born into an old Calvinism Nobility family, was one of the leading persons of the Polish national movement in the Prussian Province of Posen....
     (1800-1860), activist
  • Tomasz Przybecki (born 1981), articled clerk
  • Edward Raczynski
    Edward Raczynski (1786-1845)

    Count Edward Raczynski was a Poland conservative politician, protector of arts, founder of the Raczynski Library in Poznan.He married Konstancja Potocka in 1817....
     (1786-1845), politician
  • Cyryl Ratajski
    Cyryl Ratajski

    Cyryl Ratajski was a Polish politician and lawyer.He was the president of Poznan in the years 1922-1924, 1925-1934 and in September 1939. In the years 1924-1925 he was the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration of the Republic of Poland....
     (1875-1942), mayor of Poznan
  • Antoni Radziwill
    Antoni Radziwill

    Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwill was a Polish-Lithuanian and Kingdom of Prussia szlachta, magnate, musician and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieswiez and Olyka , with time he also became a Reichsf?rst of the Holy Roman Empire....
     (1775-1833), aristocrat
  • Marian Rejewski
    Marian Rejewski

    Marian Adam Rejewski was a Poland mathematician and cryptography who in 1932 solved the plugboard-equipped Enigma machine, the main cipher device used by Germany....
     (1905-1980), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
  • Richard Rothe
    Richard Rothe

    Richard Rothe was a German Lutheran theology....
     ( 1799 - 1867), Lutheran theologian.
  • Jerzy Rózycki
    Jerzy Rózycki

    Jerzy Witold R?zycki was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma machine ciphers....
     (1927-1932), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
  • Michal Sczaniecki
    Michal Sczaniecki

    Michal Sczaniecki was a Polish historian of state and law, especially of Poland and France; professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan from 1951 to 1965, and director of the Western Institute in Poznan from 1961 to 1964, later professor at Warsaw University....
     (1910-1977), historian
  • Józef Strus (1510-1568), scientist and mayor of Poznan
  • Sir Pawel Edmund Strzelecki
    Pawel Edmund Strzelecki

    Count Pawel Edmund Strzelecki also known as Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki Order of the Bath Order of St. Michael and St. George Royal Geographic Society Royal Society , was a Poland szlachta, explorer and geologist....
     (July 20, 1797 - October 6, 1873), Polish explorer and geologist
  • Stefan Stuligrosz (born 1920), choral conductor
  • Rafal Szukala
    Rafal Szukala

    Rafal Marek Szukala is a former butterfly swimmer from Poland, who won the silver medal in the Men's 100m Butterfly at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain....
     (born 1971), butterfly swimmer
  • Roman Szymanski
    Roman Szymanski

    Roman Szymanski was a Polish political activist, publicist, editor of Oredownik magazine....
     (1840-1908), political activist
  • Miroslaw Szymkowiak
    Miroslaw Szymkowiak

    Miroslaw Szymkowiak is a retired Poland footballer, who played last for Turkey club Trabzonspor. Szymkowiak is also a former member of the Poland national football team....
     (born 1976) football player
  • Jerzy Topolski
    Jerzy Topolski

    Jerzy Topolski was a Polish historian. Professor of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, he wrote over 30 books and hundreds of articles. He specialized in modern history of Poland and Europe, history of historiography and theory and methodology of history....
     (1928-1998), historian
  • Lech Trzeciakowski
    Lech Trzeciakowski

    Lech Trzeciakowski is a Polish historian who served as director of the Western Institute in Poznan from 1974 to 1978....
     (born 1931), historian
  • Jan Weglarz
    Jan Weglarz

    Jan Weglarz is a Poland computer scientist.He studied at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan, where he graduated mathematics in 1969, and later on Poznan University of Technology, when he received title from automatics in 1971....
     (born 1947), computer scientist
  • Piotr Wisniewski (born 1955), Statistician
  • Zygmunt Wojciechowski
    Zygmunt Wojciechowski

    Zygmunt Wojciechowski was a Polish historian of state and law.He was a professor of Poznan University from 1929, member of Polish Academy of Skills from 1945, and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1952....
    , (1900-1955), historian and founder of the Western Institute
    Western Institute

    The Western Institute in Poznan is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie , history, economy and politics of Germany, and the Polish-German relations in history and today....
  • Leon Wegner
    Leon Wegner

    Leon Wegner was a Poland economist and historian, co-founder of Poznan Society of Friends of Arts and Sciences....
     (1824-1873), economist
  • Anna Wolff-Poweska
    Anna Wolff-Poweska

    Anna Wolff-Poweska is a Poland historian and political scientist specialising in Polish-Germany relations. She was director of the Western Institute in Poznan from 1990 to 2004....
    , historian
  • Henryk Zygalski
    Henryk Zygalski

    Henryk Zygalski was a Poland mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma machine before and during World War II....
     (1906-1978), cryptoanalist, Enigma codemachine codebreaker
  • Ryszard "Peja" Andrzejewski
    Peja (musician)

    Ryszard "Peja" Andrzejewski is a Poland rap musician, songwriter and record producer. He is one of Poland's most popular rappers, best known as the frontman of the Polish rap group Slums Attack....
     (born 1976), Polands most successful rap musician


Twin towns

Poznan is twinned
Town twinning

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 with:
Assen
Assen

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 in Netherlands
Netherlands

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 (since 1992) Brasov
Brasov

Brasov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brasov County, with a population of 284,596, according to the 2002 census, is the 7th largest Romanian city, after Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi, Craiova and Galati....
 in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 (since 2003) Brno
Brno

Brno is the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1243, although the area had been settled since the 5th century. Today Brno has 403,304 inhabitants and is the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Ombudsman....
 in Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
 (since 1966) Hannover in Germany
Germany

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 (since 1979) Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä

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 in Finland
Finland

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 (since 1979)		 Kharkiv
Kharkiv

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 in Ukraine
Ukraine

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 (since 1998) Nablus
Nablus

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 in West Bank
West Bank

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 (since 1997) Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire

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 in United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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 (since 1994) Pozuelo de Alarcón
Pozuelo de Alarcón

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 in Spain
Spain

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 (since 1992)		 Rennes
Rennes

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 in France
France

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 (since 1998) Shenzhen
Shenzhen

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 in China
People's Republic of China

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 (since 1993) Toledo
Toledo, Ohio

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 in Ohio
Ohio

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, United States
United States

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 (since 1991) Gyor
Gyor

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 in Hungary
Hungary

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 (since 2008)


Sister cities

Poznan has 2 sister cities
Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
, as designated by Sister Cities International
Sister Cities International

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:

  • Bay City
    Bay City

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    , Michigan
    Michigan

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     in United States
    United States

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Footnotes


Bibliography

  • collective work, Poznan. Dzieje, ludzie kultura, Poznan 1953
  • Robert Alvis, Religion and the Rise of Nationalism: A Profile of an East-Central European City, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2005
  • K. Malinowski (red.), Dziesiec wieków Poznania, t.1, Dzieje spoleczno-gospodarcze, Poznan 1956
  • collective work, Poznan, Poznan 1958
  • collective work, Poznan. Zarys historii, Poznan 1963
  • Cz. Luczak, Zycie spoleczno-gospodarcze w Poznaniu 1815-1918, Poznan 1965
  • J. Topolski (red.), Poznan. Zarys dziejów, Poznan 1973
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  • Jerzy Topolski (red.), Dzieje Poznania,Wydawnictwo PWN, Warszawa - Poznan 1988
  • Alfred Kaniecki, Dzieje miasta woda pisane, Wydawnictwo Aquarius, Poznan 1993
  • Witold Maisel (red.), Przywileje miasta Poznania XIII-XVIII wieku. Privilegia civitatis Posnaniensis saeculorum XIII-XVIII. Wladze Miasta Poznania, Poznanskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciól Nauk, Wydawnictwa Zródlowe Komisji Historycznej, Tom XXIV, Wydawnictwo PTPN, Poznan 1994
  • Wojciech Stankowski, Wielkopolska, Wydawnictwo WSiP, Warszawa 1999
  • Gotthold Rhode : Geschichte der Stadt Posen


See also

  • Bambrzy
    Bambrzy

    Bambrzy are the Poles of German people origin, the descendants of Germans who moved from the area of Bamberg to villages surrounding Poznan, Poland....
  • History of Poland
    History of Poland

    Settled agricultural people have lived in the area that is now Poland for the last 7500 years, the Slavic peoples people have been in this territory for over 1500 years, and the History of Poland as a state spans well over a millennium....
  • Major corporations in Poznan
    Major corporations in Poznan

    This is a list of major corporations based in Poznan and the city's vicinity.*Allegro , Poznan*Jeronimo Martins Dystrybucja sp. z o.o , Poznan...
  • Poznan Department
    Poznan Department

    Poznan Department was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland Duchy of Warsaw in years 1806-1815.Capital city: Poznan...
    , a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Warsaw
    Duchy of Warsaw

    The Duchy of Warsaw was a Poland state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit....
     from 1806 to 1815.
  • Royal coronations in Poznan cathedral
    Royal coronations in Poland

    This is a list of Monarchy coronations in Poland.* "K" indicates a king or queen regnant; "Q" indicates a queen consort....
  • The Royal-Imperial Route in Poznan
    The Royal-Imperial Route in Poznan

    The Royal - Imperial Route in Poznan is a tourist walk running through the most important parts of the city and presenting the history, culture and identity of Poznan....


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