Famous residents of Szczecin Before 1800 Philipp Dulichius (1562–1631), German composer Catherine the Great (1729–1796), empress of Russia Franz Kasimir von Kleist (1736–1808), Prussian general Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), the second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia Friedrich von Adelung (1768–1843), linguist, historian and bibliographer Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800), architect Henryka Beyer (1782–1855) painter Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877), Prussian Field Marshal Carl Loewe (1796–1869) composer, lived in Stettin Heinrich Philipp August Damerow (1798–1866), psychiatrist Karl Loeillot (1798–1864), painter and lithographer 1800–1850 Theodor Hildebrandt (1804–1874) painter Carl August Dohrn (1806–1892), entomologist Franz Theodor Kugler (1808–1858) art historian Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach (1809–1882), mayor of Magdeburg Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809–1877) mathematician, physicist and linguist Robert Prutz (1816–1872) poet Franz San Galli (1824–1908), inventor of radiator (central heating system) Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894), chemist Felicita Vestvali (1831-1880), opera singer and actress A. F. Marx (1838–1904), publisher Anton Dohrn (1840–1909) first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy Otto von Gierke (1841–1921) historian Oscar Hammerstein I (1847–1919), composer 1850–1900 Ernst Zitelmann (1852 -1923) jurist Carl Ludwig Schleich (1859–1922), author Max Berg (1870–1947) architect Leon Jessel (1871–1942), composer Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), officer in the Imperial German Navy Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), writer Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich (1880–1949), religious parapsychologist and philosopher Fritz Gerlich (1883–1934) journalist Rudolf Olden (1885–1940), journalist and lawyer Johannes Theodor Baargeld (1892–1927) painter and poet Heinrich George (1893–1946), actor Erich Böhlke (1895–1979), conductor and componist Karl Weinbacher (1898–1946), German manager and war criminal Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898–1958) film actor 1900–1945 Hans Kammler (1901–1945), German general Werner Seelenbinder (1904–1944) politician Gustav Gerneth (1905-2019) the world's oldest living man Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), poet Erwin Ackerknecht (1906–1988), historian Dita Parlo (1906–1971) film actress Kurt Kuhnke (1910—1969), motorcyclist Ernst Bader (1914–1999) actor and songwriter Jürgen Dethloff (1924–2002), inventor Helga Deen (1925–1943) Dutch prison camp diarist Wolfhart Pannenberg (born 1928), Christian theologian Thomas Geve (born 1929), engineer, author and Jewish Holocaust survivor Ellen Schwiers (1930–2019), actress of stage, film, and television Rudi Strahl (1931–2001), playwright, novelist and lyricist. Manfred Stolpe (1936–2019), former Prime Minister of Brandenburg Christian Tomuschat (born 1936), expert in international law, professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin Wolfgang Weber (born in 1939), classical cellist Knut Kiesewetter (born 1941) musician Michael Bürsch (born 1942) politician Michael Holm (born 1943) singer-songwriter After 1945 Chava Alberstein (born 1947), Israeli female singer and composer of songs Piotr Andrejew (born 1947), Polish screenwriter and film director,