# Pasewalk

Pasewalk (German: ) is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. Located on the Uecker river, it is the capital of the former Uecker-Randow district, and the seat of the Uecker-Randow-Tal Amt, of which it is not part.

## History

Pasewalk became a town during the 12th century and was soon a member of the Hanseatic League. In 1359 it passed to the Duke of Pomerania. Frequently ravaged during the wars which devastated the district, it was plundered several times by Imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War. In 1657 it was burned down by the Poles and in 1713 by the Russians. In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 it was given to Sweden, but in 1676 it was conquered by Brandenburg. In 1720, in the Peace of Stockholm, it was finally assigned to Brandenburg-Prussia. It was part to the Prussian Province of Pomerania from 1720 until 1945.
The town is famous for having been surrendered to the French without a fight during the War of the Fourth Coalition, despite them being far less numerous than the defenders of the city. On the day World War I ended, Adolf Hitler, the future dictator of Nazi Germany, was being treated here after being wounded by a gas attack. During the Battle of Berlin, part of World War II, Pasewalk was captured by troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front of the Red Army on 28 April 1945. From 1945 to 1952, Pasewalk was part of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Neubrandenburg of East Germany and since 1990 again of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

## Mayors of Pasewalk

* 1905–1917 Wilhelm Prüter
* 1917–1937 Dr. Willy Peppler (1880–1957)
* 1937–1942 Malsfey
* 1942 Klingbeil
* 1942–? Hans-Heinrich Wentzlaff-Eggebert (born 1894, died ?)
* 1945–? Hermann Bülow
* 1945–1949 Erich Pretzer (1882–1968)
* 1950–1961 Helene Medrow (1902–1976)
* 1961–1974 Eberhard Schmidt (1924–2010)
* around 1982 Börner
* 1986–1990 Bärbel Steinmüller (born 1948)
* 1990–1994 Heinz-Georg Eckleben (born 1945), independent
* 1994–2002 Wilfried Sieber (born 1941), CDU
* 2002–2014 Rainer Dambach (1952–2013), independent
* November 2013–May 2014 Gudrun Baganz, temporary
* May 2014 – May 2022 Sandra Nachtweih (born 1975), independent
* since May 2022 Danny Rodewald (born 1979), independent

### Population over time

| Year | Inhabitants |
| 1618 | ca. 2.000 |
| 1648 | ca. 250 |
| 1740 | 2.401 |
| 1812 | 3.888 |
| 1848 | ca. 6.500 |
| 1852 | 6.586 |
| 1880 | 9.469 |
| 1885 | 9.514 |
| 1895 | 9.788 |
| Year | Inhabitants |
| 1900 | 10.299 |
| 1919 | 11.041 |
| 1925 | 11.768 |
| 1933 | 12.582 |
| 1939 | 12.568 |
| 1955 | 12.597 |
| 1980 | 15.366 |
| 1985 | 15.881 |
| 1990 | 15.516 |
| 1995 | 13.932 |
| Year | Inhabitants |
| 2010 | 11.319 |
| 2015 | 10.535 |

## Born in Pasewalk

* Wilhelm von Tümpling (1809–1884), Prussian General of the Infantry
* Georg von Kameke (1817–1893), Prussian General of the Infantry and War Minister
* Erich Paulun (1862–1909), former naval surgeon, founded the Tongji Hospital in Wuhan
* Oskar Picht (1871–1945), German teacher and inventor of the first braille typewriter
* Erich Hamann (born 1944), German footballer (265 games) and player of the GDR national football team
* Rainer Knaak (born 1953), German chess Grandmaster
* Sabine Zimmermann (born 1960), German politician
* Chris Gueffroy (1968–1989), penultimate death victim on the Berlin Wall

## Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as oceanic (Cfb).
Climate data for Pasewalk :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.1 (34.0) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.9 (44.4) | 12.6 (54.7) | 18 (64) | 21.5 (70.7) | 22.8 (73.0) | 22.6 (72.7) | 18.6 (65.5) | 12.8 (55.0) | 6.9 (44.4) | 3 (37) | 12.4 (54.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.3 (29.7) | −0.6 (30.9) | 3.4 (38.1) | 8.2 (46.8) | 13 (55) | 16.6 (61.9) | 18.2 (64.8) | 17.8 (64.0) | 14.3 (57.7) | 9.6 (49.3) | 4.5 (40.1) | 0.9 (33.6) | 8.7 (47.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.6 (25.5) | −3.3 (26.1) | 0 (32) | 3.8 (38.8) | 8 (46) | 11.7 (53.1) | 13.6 (56.5) | 13.1 (55.6) | 10.1 (50.2) | 6.5 (43.7) | 2.1 (35.8) | −1.2 (29.8) | 5.1 (41.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 38 (1.5) | 29 (1.1) | 33 (1.3) | 38 (1.5) | 51 (2.0) | 60 (2.4) | 63 (2.5) | 57 (2.2) | 48 (1.9) | 41 (1.6) | 45 (1.8) | 44 (1.7) | 547 (21.5) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org (altitude: 16m) ||||||||||||||

## International relations

Pasewalk is twinned with:
* Belgium: Halen
* Germany: Norden
* Poland: Police