is an important manufacturing centre, having coal-mines, iron, wire, glass, chemical and oil works, and local Upper Silesia Brewery, etc. Notable people James Kleist (1873–1949), German-American Jesuit scholar Heinz Fiebig (1897–1964), Wehrmacht general Jerzy Gorgoń (born 1949), Polish former football player Fritz Katz (1898–1969), pioneer of adrenal transplants Wolfgang Jörchel (1907–1945), Standartenführer in the Waffen SS Władysław Turowicz (1908–1980), Polish-Pakistani military scientist Fritz Laband (1925–1982), German footballer Werner Heiduczek (1926–2019), German author Friedrich Nowottny (born 1929), German television journalist Janosch (born 1931), German author Joachim Kroll (1933–1991), German serial killer Joachim Kerzel (born 1941), German actor Jan Sawka (1946–2012), Polish-American artist, architect Krystian Zimerman (born 1956), Polish classical pianist Waldemar Sorychta (born 1967), Polish heavy metal musician and producer Sebastian Kawa (born 1972), Polish glider pilot, thirteen-time World Champion Czesław Śpiewa, (born 1979), Polish singer Wojtek Wolski (born 1986), Polish-Canadian ice-hockey player. Margarete Stokowski (born 1986), Polish-German writer Bartosz Bednorz (born 1994), Polish volleyball player Twin towns – sister cities Zabrze is twinned with: Essen, Germany Lund, Sweden Rivne, Ukraine Rotherham, England, United Kingdom Sangerhausen, Germany Seclin, France Trnava, Slovakia Zahlé, Lebanon References Bibliography External links Municipal website Zabrze Community Portal Zabrze.com.pl Encyclopædia Britannica Zabrze Jewish Community in Zabrze on Virtual Shtetl Old images of the city http://www.zabrze.aplus.pl/ Cities in Silesia Zabrze Zabrze Archaeological sites in Poland Prehistoric sites in Poland