page_title: Wismar
section_title: Notable people from Wismar
hierarchical_section_title: Wismar / Notable people from Wismar
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Marita Koch ADN-ZB Kluge 2.6.84 Erfurt: 35. DDR-Meisterschaften in der Leichtathletik- Im 400-m-Lauf der Frauen wurde Marita Koch mit 48,85 s DDR-Meisterin. Information added by Wikimedia users.English: Marita Koch at the 1984 East German Championships in Athletics in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany. She was the winner in the 400-meter race for women.
context_page_description: Wismar is a port and Hanseatic city in Northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is located about 45 kilometres east of Lübeck and 30 kilometres north of Schwerin, and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Its natural harbour, located in the Bay of Wismar, is protected by a promontory. The population was 42,219 in 2013. It is the capital of the district of Nordwestmecklenburg.
  Located in the historical region of Mecklenburg, Wismar was founded in the 13th century. Throughout its history, the city has been part of various German states as well as the Swedish Empire. It became part of the German Empire in 1871, though Sweden officially renounced its claims to the city only much later, in 1903. A unique representative of the Hanseatic League city type, with its Brick Gothic constructions and many patrician gable houses, Wismar has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 2002, together with the historical old town of Stralsund.
context_section_description: Klaus Störtebeker (c. 1360–1401), privateer
  Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557–1631), queen of Denmark
  Bernhard Latomus (1560–1613), historian
  Daniel Georg Morhof (1639–1691), historian
  Joachim Gerstenbüttel (c. 1650–1721), composer
  Johan Henrik Scheffel (1690–1781), Swedish painter
  Johan Carl Wilcke (1732–1796), physicist.
  Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860), historian, statesman
  Heinrich Keil (1822–1894), philologist
  Theodor Martens (1822–1884), architectural and landscape painter
  Friedrich Bernhard Christian Maassen (1823–1900), law professor
  Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), mathematician, logician and philosopher
  Marie Musaeus Higgins (1855–1926), founder of Musaeus College, Colombo
  Franz Ziehl (1857–1926), a bacteriologist
  Gustav Neckel (1878–1940), Germanist and Skandinavist
  Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald (1885–1934), Reichswehr and SS officer
  Harald Weinrich (born 1927), German classical scholar; scholar of Romance philology and philosopher; emeritus professor of the Collège de France, where he held the chair of Romance literature from 1992 to 1998
  Heino Kleiminger (1939–2015), football player
  Gunter Pleuger (born 1941), diplomat and politician
  Klaus Grünberg (born 1941), actor
  Peter Sykora (born 1946), soccer player of the GDR
  Joachim Streich (born 1951), football player and coach
  Marita Koch (born 1957), track and field athlete of the GDR and Olympic champion
  Roswitha Eberl (born 1958), canoeist
  Kerstin Brandt (born 1961), high jumper
  Andreas Zachhuber (born 1962), football player and coach
  Kathrin Haacker (born 1967), Olympic champion in rowing
  Fiete Sykora (born 1982), football player
  Robert Tesche (born 1987), football player
caption: Marita Koch 1984
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