page_title: Kwidzyn
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Kwidzyn / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Julian Schmidt (1818–1886), deutscher Literaturhistoriker
context_page_description: Kwidzyn is a town in northern Poland on the Liwa River, with 38,553 inhabitants. It has been a part of the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously in the Elbląg Voivodeship. It is the capital of Kwidzyn County.
context_section_description: Dorothea of Montau (1347–1394), hermitess and visionary of 14th century Germany, canonized in 1976.
  Paul Speratus (1484–1551 in Marienwerder), Catholic priest who became a Protestant preacher, reformer and hymn-writer
  Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (1786–1865), Prussian Staatsminister and Regierungspräsident of Marienwerder in 1825
  Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald (1792–1848), Prussian general and politician
  Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793–1866 in Marienwerder), amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets
  Rudolf von Auerswald (1795–1866), Prime Minister of Prussia
  Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff (1809–1879), German botanist
  Hermann von Dechend (1814–1890), first President of the Reichsbank
  Heinrich Julian Schmidt (1818–1886), German journalist and historian of literature 
  Rudolf Heidenhain (1834–1897), German physiologist
  Gustav Cohn (1840–1919), German economist, particularly re. public finance
  Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau (1855-1937 in Marienwerder), German Junker and conservative politician.
  Kurt Rosenfeld (1877–1943), lawyer and politician
  Józef Krasnowolski (1879–1939), Polish painter
  Fritz Goerdeler (1886–1945), German jurist and resistance fighter; mayor 1920-33
  Joachim Witthöft (1887–1966), general
  Kurt-Jürgen Freiherr von Lützow (1892–1961), general
  Ida Siekmann (1902–1961) nurse, first victim of Berlin Wall
  Ernst Schiffner (1903–1980), German actor and director
  Ernst Tillich (1910–1985), German theologian
  Bernard Friese (1927–2010), co-founder of Gilbern cars
  Hardy Rodenstock (born 1941), music publisher and manager; dealer in old and rare wine
  Wiesław Hartman (born 1950), Polish show jumping equestrian, silver medallist in the 1980 Summer Olympics
  Wojciech Belon (1952–1985), Polish poet, songwriter and folksinger
  Izabela Tomaszewska (1955–2010), Polish government official and archeologist
  Tomasz Piotr Nowak (born 1956), Polish politician
  Jacek Borcuch (born 1970), Polish actor and film director
  Marek Szulen (born 1975), Polish composer of electronic music, lives in the Netherlands
  Maciej Silski (born 1976), Polish singer
caption: Julian Schmidt
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