Ogólnokształcące im. Bolesława Chrobrego 21 other secondary schools Politics Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency Members of 2001–2005 Parliament (Sejm) elected from Bytom/Gliwice/Zabrze constituency Jan Chojnacki, SLD-UP Stanisław Dulias, Samoobrona Andrzej Gałażewski, PO Ewa Janik, SLD-UP Józef Kubica, SLD-UP Wacław Martyniuk, SLD-UP Wiesław Okoński, SLD-UP Wojciech Szarama, PiS Krystyna Szumilas, PO Marek Widuch, SLD-UP Notable people Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (), Polish composer and musician Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen (1838–1915), German composer Siegfried Karfunkelstein (1848–1870), Prussian soldier Ernst Gaupp (1865–1916), German anatomist Ludwig Halberstädter (1876–1949), radiologist Adolf Kober (1879–1958), rabbi and historian Maximilian Kaller (1880–1947), bishop of Warmia Kate Steinitz (1889–1975), German-American artist and art historian Hartwig von Ludwiger (1895–1947), German general Max Tau (1897–1976), Jewish-German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher Henry J. Leir (1900–1998), American industrialist, financier, and philanthropist Friedrich Domin (1902–1961), German film actor Herbert Büchs (1913–1996), German General Józef Kachel (1913–1983), head of the pre-war Polish Scouting Association in Germany Hans-Joachim Pancherz (1914–2008), German aviator and test pilot Horst Winter (1914–2001), German-Austrian jazz musician Leo Scheffczyk (1920–2005), German theologian and cardinal Bent Melchior(1929-2021) Chief Rabbi of Denmark and humanitarian. Haim Yavin (born 1932), Israeli news anchor Wolfgang Reichmann (1932–1991), German actor Reinhard Opitz (1934–1986), German political scientist Józef Szmidt (born 1935), Polish triple jumper Jan Liberda (1936–2020), Polish footballer Wiesław Ochman (born 1937), Polish opera singer Jan Banaś (born 1943), Polish footballer Walter Winkler (1943–2014), Polish footballer Zygmunt Anczok (born 1946), Polish footballer Jerzy Konikowski (born 1947), chess player Leszek Engelking (born 1955), Polish poet, writer, translator and scholar Waldemar Legień (born 1963), Polish judoka, Olympic champion from Seoul and Barcelona Susanna Piontek (born 1963), writer Michał Probierz (born 1972), Polish football manager and former football player Marcin Suchański (born 1977), Polish footballer Marzena Godecki (born 1978), Australian actress Dorota Kobiela (born 1978), Polish filmmaker Paul Freier (born 1979), German footballer Jakub Pszoniak (born 1980), Polish writer Marek Suker (born 1982), Polish footballer Gosia Andrzejewicz (born 1984), Polish pop singer Martyna Majok (born 1985), Polish-American playwright Weronika Murek (born 1989), Polish writer Kamil Drozd (born 1997), Polish musician Twin towns – sister cities Bytom is twinned with: Butte, United States Drohobych, Ukraine Ormož, Slovenia Recklinghausen, Germany Vsetín, Czech Republic Zhytomyr, Ukraine Gallery References External links Municipality of Bytom Old postcards from Bytom Jewish Community in Bytom on Virtual Shtetl Customs House of Bytom Pictures and history of Bytom Kino Gloria Foundation Cities in Silesia Bytom Bytom Holocaust locations in Poland