- Frederick II, the Great
The Prussian King Frederick the Great, born January 24, 1712, King of Prussia May 31, 1740, Freemason since 1738,
died August 17, 1786, founder of the first Old Prussian Grand Lodge of the Three Globes. He carried out extensive reforms in the legal and educational systems, in the army and in agriculture. He was an important patron of science and art and practiced tolerance.
A quote from him reads: “…, for here every man must be blessed after his own fashion.” (1740)
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Armstrong, Louis Daniel (Sachmo) – jazz trumpeter and singer
- Atatürk, Kemal – Father of modern Turkey
- Berlin, Irving – composer
- Blücher, Gebhard L. von – Prussian field marshal
- Bolivar, Simon – freedom fighter
- Brehm, Alfred – naturalist
- Chamisso, Adelbert von – German poet
- Chaplin, Charlie – actor, screenwriter and producer
- Churchill, Winston – English politician
- Claudius, Matthias – German poet
- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb – German poet
- Fleming, Sir Alexander – discovered penicillin
- Ford, Henry – the car manufacturer
- Franklin, Benjamin – americ. politician
- Gneisenau, August Graf von – Prussian field marshal Prussian field marshal
- Garibaldi, Guiseppe – Italian freedom fighter and politician
- Haydn, Joseph – composer
- Herder, J. G. – German poet
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph – French politician (Declaration of Human Rights)
- Lessing, G. E. – German poet
- Liszt, Franz – composer and pianist
- Lortzing, Albert – composer
- Luckner, Count von – naval officer
- Scharnhorst G. D. von – Prussian general General
- Simmel, J. M. – bestselling author
- Stein, Freiherr Friedrich Karl von und zum – German statesman and reformer
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- Tucholsky, Kurt – author, satirist
- Washington, George – the first president of the USA
