Mateusz Morawiecki, politician, Prime minister of Poland Alexander Moszkowski, satirist, writer and philosopher Moritz Moszkowski, composer, pianist, and teacher Ruth Neudeck, German SS death camps supervisor and war criminal Rafał Omelko, athlete Margaret Pospiech, writer, filmmaker Sepp Piontek, football manager Piotr Ponikowski, cardiologist Michael Oser Rabin, mathematician and computer scientist Manfred von Richthofen, fighter pilot Tadeusz Różewicz, poet and dramatist Wanda Rutkiewicz, mountaineer Auguste Schmidt, educationist and feminist Marlene Schmidt, Miss Germany 1961, Miss Universe 1961 Eva Siewert, journalist and lesbian activist Angelus Silesius (Johann Scheffler), convert from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism, mystic and religious poet Max Simon, Waffen-SS officer Agnes Sorma, actress Daniel Speer, author, composer Eva Stachniak, writer Edith Stein, philosopher and Roman Catholic martyr Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineer Fritz Stern, historian Julius Stern, composer William Stern, psychologist August Tholuck, theologian Olga Tokarczuk, writer, Nobel laureate in Literature Jan Tomaszewski, footballer Dagmara Wozniak (born 1988), Polish-American U.S. Olympic sabre fencer Ludwig von Zanth (1796–1857), architect International relations Diplomatic missions There are 3 general consulates in Wrocław – Germany, Hungary and Ukraine, and 23 honorary consulates – Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Chile, Denmark, Georgia, Estonia, France, Finland, Spain, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Italy. Twin towns – sister cities Wrocław is twinned with: Batumi, Georgia (2019) Breda, Netherlands (1991) Charlotte, United States (1991) Dresden, Germany (1991) Guadalajara, Mexico (1995) Hradec Králové, Czech Republic (2003) Kaunas, Lithuania (2003) Lille, France (2013) Lviv, Ukraine (2002) Oxford, United Kingdom (2018) Ramat Gan, Israel (1997) Reykjavík, Iceland (2017) Vienne, France (1990) Wiesbaden, Germany (1987) See also 14th High School in Wrocław 2003 Wrocław football riot Jan (bishop of Wrocław) Province of Silesia (historic, 1815–1919) Wrocław Global Forum Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City Breslau, Ontario – former village (settled 1806, postal village 1857) and now community named after Wroclaw Notes References Bibliography Till van Rahden, Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860–1925 (2008. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press Gregor Thum, Uprooted. How Breslau Became Wrocław During the Century of Expulsions (2011. Princeton: Princeton University Press Gregor Thum, Obce miasto: Wrocław 1945 i potem, Wrocław: Via Nova, 2006 External links Municipal website Tourist Information Centre website MPK Wrocław (transport company website) Christmas market Wrocław in tripadvisor Cities and towns in Lower Silesian Voivodeship Cities in Silesia City counties of Poland Populated places established in the 10th