Wojciech Korfanty

Wojciech Korfanty

male, deceased (1939)
Polish state, Polish uprisings, Silesian Uprisings, Second Polish Republic, discrimination, journalist…UpperSilesia, from Silesia, The Upper Silesian
Wojciech Korfanty (20 April 1873 - 17 August 1939) was a Polish nationalist activist, journalist and politician, serving as member of the German...
Otto Stern

Otto Stern

male, deceased (1969)
physicist, 1888-1969, Jewish, eth zurich, German native of Silesia, habilitation…Lower Silesia, from Silesia, UpperSilesia
Otto Stern was a German physicist and Nobel laureate. Stern was born in Sohrau (Żory) in the German Empire's Kingdom of Prussia (now in Poland) a...
Kurt Alder

Kurt Alder

male, deceased (1958)
German native of Silesia, University of Kiel, Chemist, World War I, lunar, leverkusen…UpperSilesia, from Silesia, German natives of Silesia
Kurt Alder was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Otto Paul Hermann Diels in 1950. Alder was born in the industrial...
Hans Lammers

Hans Lammers

male, deceased (1962)
Nuremberg tribunal, German Nazi politician, Iron Cross, convicted in the Nuremberg Trials, Obersalzberg, Wrocław…German native of Silesia, UpperSilesia
Hans Heinrich Lammers was a prominent Nazi and head of the Reich Chancellery. Born in Lublinitz in Upper Silesia, the son of a veterinarian,...

John Brown

male
second world war, In Durance Vile, British Free Corps, John Henry Owen Brown, Distinguished Conduct Medal, UpperSilesia
John Henry Owen Brown was a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Royal Artillery in the British army, who served in France at the beginning of the...
Herbert Hupka

Herbert Hupka

male, deceased (2006)
Diyatalawa, World War II, revanchist, Bund der Vertriebenen, Ostpolitik, expelled…German native of Silesia, silesia, UpperSilesia
Herbert Hupka (August 15, 1915 - August 24, 2006) was a German journalist and politician (CDU, formerly SPD). Hupka was born in Diyatalawa, Sri...
Franz Waxman

Franz Waxman

male, deceased (1967)
German American, Jewish person, German native of Silesia, buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Carmen Fantasie, Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery…from Silesia, UpperSilesia
Franz Waxman (December 24 1906 - February 24 1967) was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura "Carmen Fantasie" for violin and...
Gerhard Wagner

Gerhard Wagner

male, deceased (1939)
Holocaust perpetrator, Sturmabteilung, World War I, Nazi Germany, nsdap, silesia…UpperSilesia
Gerhard Wagner (born 18 August 1888 in Neu-Heiduk, Upper Silesia, now in Poland; died 25 March 1939 in Munich) was the first Reich Doctors' Leader...
Stefanie Zweig

Stefanie Zweig

female, 77 years old
Jewish, novelist, World War II, judaism, kraal, German…silesia, UpperSilesia
Stefanie Zweig (born 1932, Leobschütz (Głubczyce), Upper Silesia) is a German Jewish writer. She is not to be confused with the Austrian writer St...
Fritz Bracht

Fritz Bracht

male, deceased (1945)
Nazi leader, German, prisoner of war, British, nsdap, gardener…silesia, UpperSilesia, Lower Silesia
Fritz Bracht (born 18 January 1899 in Heiden, part of Lage near Detmold; died 9 May 1945 in Bad Kudowa, nowadays Kudowa Zdrój, Poland, suicide) w...