Editing Rügen (section)

== Notable people ==
Significant Rüganer:
[[File:Karl Schwarz 1865 (IZ 45-08).jpg|thumb|140px|Karl Schwarz, 1865]]
*[[Preben von Ahnen]] (1606–1675) a German-born Norwegian civil servant and landowner.
*[[Baltzar von Platen (1766–1829)|Count Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen]] (1766–1829) a Swedish naval officer and statesman.
*[[Ernst Moritz Arndt]] (1769–1860), German writer and deputy.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Arndt, Ernst Moritz |volume= 2 | pages = 627&ndash;628 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Wilhelm Malte I]] Prince of [[House of Putbus|Putbus]] (1783–1854), under his rule there was much construction work in the [[Classicism|classical]] style
*[[Arnold Ruge]] (1802–1880) a philosopher and political writer.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Ruge, Arnold |volume= 23 |page= 821 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Karl Schwarz]] (1812–1885) a Protestant theologian.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Schwarz, Karl |volume= 24 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Theodor Billroth]] (1829–1894), one of the greatest surgeons of the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Billroth, Albert Christian Theodor |volume= 3 |page= 945 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Berthold Delbrück]] (1842–1922), German linguist
*[[Anna Dabis]] (1847–1927) a sculptor who spent much of her career in Britain.
*[[Hans Delbrück]] (1848–1929), German historian and politician.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Delbrück, Hans |volume= 7 | page= 952 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Franziska Tiburtius]] (1843–1927), German doctor and campaigner for women's studies
*[[Hans Langsdorff]] (1894–1939), German naval officer and captain of the Armoured Cruiser ''[[German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee|Admiral Graf Spee]]''
*[[Meinhard Nehmer]] (born 1941), East German bobsledder, Olympic and World Champion
*[[Christian Schwochow]] (born 1978) a German film director.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275000/ Christian Schwochow, IMDb Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418141705/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275000/ |date=18 April 2022 }}.</ref>

=== Individuals associated with the island ===
[[File:Blücher (nach Gebauer).jpg|thumb|150px|Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher around 1815]]
*[[Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher]], Prince Wahlstatt (1742–1819), Prussian Field Marshal, spent his youth on the Venz estate.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von |volume= 4 |page= 90 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Caspar David Friedrich]] (1774–1840), painter, stayed several times on visits by relatives of Pomerania and was inspired mainly by the chalk cliffs
*[[Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten]] (1758–1818), theologian, pastor, professor and poet, pastor of the parish Altenkirchen at Rügen
*[[Joachim Nicolas Eggert]] (1779–1813), composer and musical director, member of the Royal Swedish Musical Academy
*[[Maximilian Kaller]] (1880–1947), Bishop of Warmia in Prussia, began his first pastorate as mission pastor of St. Boniface parish at Rügen
*[[Angela Merkel]] (born 1954), German Chancellor (CDU), represented the constituency of [[Vorpommern-Rügen – Vorpommern-Greifswald I]] between 1990 and 2021; she therefore represented the island of Rügen in the [[Bundestag]].