Greifswald (deu)

Greifswald

Greifswald ranks 1,237th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind New Westminster, Karaganda, and Iowa City, Iowa. Memorable people born in Greifswald include Caspar David Friedrich, Hans Fallada, and Toni Kroos. Memorable people who died in Greifswald include Christian Ehrenfried Weigel. Greifswald has been the birth place of many writers, and soccer players and the death place of many chemists. Greifswald is located in Germany.

Greifswald, officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpassed Stralsund for the first time, and became the largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state. It sits on the River Ryck, at its mouth into the Danish Wiek, a sub-bay of the Bay of Greifswald, which is itself a sub-bay of the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea. Read more on Wikipedia