plk123: Gdansk definitely wasn't ever solely german either.
Well, if a population of 98 percent German and a history as a town of the german Hanseatic League since 1358 doesn't convince you the long number of german VIP's stemming from this german town won't probably either!
List of people from Danzig
For people born after 1945, see List of people from Gdañsk
* Tiedemann Giese, 1480 , bishop * Johannes Dantiscus, 1485, poet, church canon and bishop * Bernhard von Reesen, 1490, business man painted by Albrecht Dürer * Albrecht Giese, 1524, councilman and diplomat * Caspar Schütz (ca. 1540 Eisleben - 1594 Danzig), Prussian Historian * Anton van Obberghen, 1543, architect * Anton Möller, 1563, painter * Bartholomäus Keckermann c. 1571 - 1608, writer and Calvinist theologist * Sigmund Kerschenstein, born 1603, Calvinist, married to musician Constantia Zierenberg * Constantia Czirenberg/Zierenberg, born 1605, daughter of Danzig mayor, married to Sigmund Kerschenstein in 1628 * Reinhold Curicke, 1610-1667, jurist, historian * Johannes Hevelius, 1611, astronomer * Georg Daniel Schultz, 1615, painter * Bogus³aw Radziwi³³, 1620, Prince of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Reichsfürst of the HRE, governor of Ducal Prussia * Andreas Schlüter, 1660, architect and sculptor * Jacob Theodor Klein, 1685, jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat * Gottfried Lengnich, 1689-1774, jurist, historian * Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736, physicist and engineer * Michael Christoph Hanow (1695 Zamborst, Pomerania - 1773 Danzig), mathematician, since 1717 Rector of the Gymnasium Danzig, meteorologist, historian, scientist * Daniel Gralath, 1708, physicist and Bürgermeister (mayor) of Danzig * Louise Adelgunde Gottsched, 1713, writer * Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726, artist painter * Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, 1734, prince * Micha³ Jerzy Poniatowski, 1736, primate of Poland * Johann Wilhelm Archenholz, 1741, historian and publicist * Avraham Danzig, 1748, rabbi * Georg Forster, 1754, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary * Jacob Kabrun Jr. 1759-1814 books and art collector, philanthropist * Johanna Schopenhauer, 1766, author and mother of Arthur Schopenhauer * Johannes Daniel Falk, 1768, poet and educator * Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788, philosopher * Otto von Below, 1823 * Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf 1832, general, writer * Fritz von Below, 1853-1918 * Max Halbe, 1865, writer * Max Adalbert 1874-1933, actor * Alfred Stock, 1876-1946, chemist * Carl Schuricht, 1880-1967, conductor * Gerhard Rose, 1896-1992, expert on tropical medicine * Ernst Rudolf Adolf Kuster, 1903 * Gerhard Krüger, 1908-1994 * Henryk Hubertus Jab³oñski, 1915-1989, composer * Mathias Goeritz, 1915-1990 artist * Brunon Zwarra, b. 1919, writer * Alexander Salkind, 1921-1997, film producer * Heinz-Hermann Koelle, b. 1922, German-American aeronautical and rocket engineer. * Miltiades Caridis, b. 1923 * Eddi Arent, b. 1925, actor and comedian * Jack Mandelbaum, b. 1926, subject of Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps * Günter Grass, b. 1927, writer and philosopher * Henry Rosovsky, b. 1927, economist * Herlind Kasner née Jent(z)sch, b. 1928 (possibly in Elbing[1]), mother of German Chancellor Angela Merkel * Vera Klement, b. 1929, painter * Zalman Shoval, b. 1930, diplomat and politician * Wolfgang Völz, b. 1930, actor and voice actor ( * Holger Czukay, b. 1938, musician
Nothing polish about Danzig for many centuries.
And the same is for many other now polish towns...a visitor can see it with their own eyes...the whole architecture is germanic.
But then...your denial is getting ridiculous as even polish travel agencies advertise with the german heritage of polish towns, offering guided tours... ;)
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/Concern-over-relaxation-of-German-herit age/74806.php
But then...if 600 years of german history isn't enough for a town to become fully german in your eyes, then 60 years of being polish is nothing...easily reversable...isn't it?
David_18: Well Peugeot and Citroen is enough ;)
No it isn't! It definitely has to be Mercs or Beamers...everything "Made in Germany" actually;) "Made in France" has not the same ring to it for Poles it seems (besides stockings and parfums that is).
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