page_title: Świnoujście
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Świnoujście / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Baroness Von Freytag -- Loringhoven
context_page_description: Świnoujście is a city and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. It is situated mainly on the islands of Usedom and Wolin, but also occupies smaller islands, of which the largest is Karsibór island, once part of Usedom, now separated by the Piast Canal dug in the late 19th century to facilitate ship access to Szczecin.
  Świnoujście directly borders the German seaside resort of Ahlbeck on Usedom, both are freely connected by a street and by 12 km of beach promenade.
  Since 1999, Świnoujście has been a city with the administrative rights of a county, within West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It was previously part of Szczecin Voivodeship. The city lies in the geographic region of Pomerania and had a population of 41,516 in 2012. Świnoujście is one of the most important areas of the Szczecin metropolitan region. The Świnoujście LNG terminal opened in 2015 is located in the city.
  Despite its relatively small population, Świnoujście is Poland's ninth-largest city by area.
context_section_description: Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940) a German physician, biologist and eugenicist, coined the term racial hygiene
  Georg Kropp (1865-1943) a German journalist and polymath. He co-founded Germany's first mutual building society
  Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) a German avant-garde Dadaist artist and poet
  Christel Peters (1916–2009) a German actress
  Jürgen Harder (1918–1945) a German Luftwaffe fighter ace
  Hans-Werner Grosse (born 1922) a German record-breaking glider pilot & Luftwaffe pilot
  Gisela Stein (1935–2009) a German actress
  Hans Jürgen Todt (born 1937) a German modern pentathlete, competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics
  Konrad Kwiet (born 1941) a historian and scholar of the Holocaust
  Jerzy Hausner (born 1949) a Polish politician, economist and member of the 4th Sejm
  Andrzej Smolik (born 1970) a Polish musician, composer, music producer and multi-instrumentalist
  Anna Harkowska (born 1980) a Polish cyclist, competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a swimmer, and as a cyclist at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where she won three silver medals.
  Michał Ruciak (born 1983) a Polish volleyball player, national volleyball team member
caption: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
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