page_title: Free City of Danzig
section_title: Notable people born in the Free City of Danzig
hierarchical_section_title: Free City of Danzig / Population / Notable people born in the Free City of Danzig
caption_attribution_description: Günter Grass. Beim Häuten der Zwiebel Buchpremiere; Lesung und Gespräch Moderation: Wolfgang Herles 4. September 2006, 20 Uhr, auf dem Blauen Sofa im Berliner Ensemble
context_page_description: The Free City of Danzig was a semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig and nearly 200 towns and villages in the surrounding areas. It was created on 15 November 1920 in accordance with the terms of Article 100 of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I.
  The Free City included the city of Danzig and other nearby towns, villages, and settlements that were primarily inhabited by Germans. As the Treaty stated, the region was to remain separated from post-World War I Germany and from the newly independent nation of the Second Polish Republic, but it was not an independent state. The Free City was under League of Nations protection and put into a binding customs union with Poland.
  Poland was given certain rights pertaining to communication, the railways and port facilities in the city. The Free City was created in order to give Poland access to a well-sized seaport. The Free City's population of 410,000 was 98% German, 1% Polish and 1% other.
context_section_description: Eddi Arent (1925 in Danzig – 2013 in Munich) was a German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. He appeared in 104 films between 1956 and 2002.
  Ike Aronowicz (1923 in Danzig – 2009 Israel) captain of the immigrant ship SS Exodus, which unsuccessfully tried to dock in British-era Palestine with Holocaust survivors on July 11, 1947
  Elisabeth Becker (1923 in Danzig – executed 1946 in Biskupia Górka) was a concentration camp guard in World War II.
  Ingrid van Bergen (born 1931 in Danzig) is a German film actress. She has appeared in 100 films since 1954. Convicted of manslaughter in 1977
  Miltiades Caridis (1923 in Danzig – 1998 in Athens) was a German-Greek conductor, his family moved to Greece in 1938.
  Zygmunt Chychła (1926 in Gdańsk - 2009 in Hamburg) was a Polish boxer. He won the Olympic gold medal for Poland at the 1952 Summer Olympics
  Anna M. Cienciala (1929 in Danzig – 2014 in Florida) was a Polish-American historian and author
  Holger Czukay (1938 in Danzig – 2017 in Weilerswist) was a German musician, co-founder of the krautrock group Can
  Horst Ehmke (1927 in Danzig – 2017 in Bonn) was a German lawyer, law professor and SPD politician, served as Federal Minister of Justice (1969)
  Jörg-Peter Ewert (born 1938 in Danzig) is a German neurophysiologist and researcher into Neuroethology
  Günter Grass (1927 in Danzig – 2015 in Lübeck) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
  Ursula Happe (born 1926 in Danzig) is a German swimmer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in 200 m breaststroke
  Klaus Kinski (1926 in Zopot – 1991 in Lagunitas, California) was a controversial German actor.
  Wanda Klaff (1922 in Danzig – executed 1946 in Biskupia Górka) was a Nazi camp overseer
  Heinz-Hermann Koelle (1925 in Danzig - 2011 in Berlin) was an aeronautical engineer, made the preliminary designs for Saturn I
  Erhard Krack (1931 in Danzig – 2000 in Berlin) was an East German politician and mayor of East Berlin from 1974 to 1990.
  Rutka Laskier (1929 in Danzig – 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp) was a Jewish teenager who chronicled the three months of her life during the Holocaust
  Hanna-Renate Laurien (1928 in Danzig – 2010 Berlin) was a German CDU politician
  Jack Mandelbaum (born 1927 in Danzig) is a Holocaust survivor
  Rupert Neudeck (1939 in Danzig – 2016) correspondent for Deutschlandfunk and founder of Cap Anamur a humanitarian organisation
  Zygmunt Pawłowicz (1927 in Danzig – 2010 in Gdańsk) ordained a Catholic priest in 1952, was the Polish Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gdańsk from 1985 until 2005
  Avi Pazner (born 1937 in Danzig) is a retired Israeli diplomat
  Richard J. Pratt (1934 in Danzig – 2009 in Victoria, Australia) was a prominent Australian businessman, chairman of Visy Industries. His family moved to Australia in 1938
  Georg Preuß (1920 in Danzig – 1991 Clenze) was a mid-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS, a convicted war criminal.
  Henry Rosovsky (born 1927 in Danzig) is an economic historian, specializing in East Asia, born of Russian Jewish parents
  Hermann Salomon (born 1938 in Danzig) is a German former javelin thrower who competed in the 1960, 1964 and the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Meir Shamgar (born 1925 in Danzig) was President of the Israeli Supreme Court 1983/1995.
  Zalman Shoval (born 1930 in Danzig) is an Israeli politician and diplomat
  Wolfgang Völz (1930 in Danzig – 2018 in Berlin) was a German actor, known for his roles in theatre plays, TV shows, feature films and taped radio shows
  Zdzisław Kuźniar (born 1931 in Gdańsk) is a Polish actor
  F. K. Waechter (1937 in Danzig – 2005 in Frankfurt) was a German cartoonist, author and playwright
caption: Günter Grass in 2006
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