director Agnieszka Krukówna (born 1971), actress Marek Kubisz (born 1974), Polish footballer Olgierd Łukaszewicz (born 1946), Polish actor Janusz Michallik (born 1966), former American national team soccer player, currently a commentator for ESPN Walter Mixa (born 1941), Bishop of Augsburg and military Bishop of the Bundeswehr Helga Molander (1896–1986), German actress, and mother of Hans Eysenck Paul Mross or Paweł Mróz (1910–1991), Polish and German chess player Leonard Piątek (1913–1967), Polish soccer star of the interbellum period Antoni Piechniczek (born 1942), Polish soccer coach (lead twice the national team at World Cup) Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar (1874–1952), Polish poet and entrepreneur Ryszard Riedel (1956–1994), blues rock vocalist Günther Rittau (1893–1971), German cameraman and film director Oskar Seidlin (1911–1984), American scholar Tino Schwierzina (1927–2003), last mayor of East Berlin Hanna Schygulla (born 1943), German actress and chanson singer Stephan Stompor (1931–1995), musicologist Adam Taubitz (born 1967), German jazz and classic musician Franz Waxman (1906–1967), American composer Friedrich Weißler (1891–1937), lawyer Gerard Wodarz (1913–1982), Polish soccer star of the interbellum period Associated with Chorzów Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden (1752–1815), German pioneer in mining John Baildon (1772–1846), Scottish pioneer in metallurgy Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), German artist Anton Froehlich (1860–1931), Upper Silesian wholesale merchant, mill owner 'First Königshütte Steam Mill', chairman of the supervisory board of Śląski Bank Ludowy Królewsk Huta, G.-Śl Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), Polish chemist and then President of Poland Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (1888–1974), eminent Polish economist and politician Joe Wickham (1890–1968), Irish sportsperson Ernest Wilimowski (1916–1997), Silesian soccer star Jerzy Buzek (born 1940), Prime minister of Poland, former President of the European Parliament Twin towns – sister cities Chorzów is twinned with: Creil, France Iserlohn, Germany Ózd, Hungary Termoli, Italy Ternopil, Ukraine Zlín, Czech Republic References Further reading J. Janas, Historia Kopalni Król w Chorzowie 1871–1945, Katowice 1962 A. Stasiak, Miasto Królewska Huta. Zarys rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego i przestrzennego w latach 1869–1914, Warszawa 1962 J. Surowiński, 75 lat Zakładów Koksochemicznych Hajduki 1888–1963, Warszawa 1963 L. Pakuła, Chorzów, [in:] Encyklopedia Historii Gospodarczej Polski do 1945, Warszawa 1981 Chorzów, [in:] J.Bochiński, J.Zawadzki, Polska. Nowy podział terytorialny, przewodnik encyklopedyczny, Warszawa 1999 External links Gallery of historical and contemporary photos Chorzow-Silesia web forum Jewish Community in Chorzów on Virtual Shtetl Chorzów City Forum "ChorzowART" Chorzów City official site Cities in Silesia City counties of Poland Cities and towns in Silesian Voivodeship Silesian Voivodeship (1920–1939) Cities with powiat rights Nazi war crimes in