Editing Lübeck (section)

===Politics===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F057884-0009, Willy Brandt.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Willy Brandt]], 1980]]

* [[Werner Huno]] (died 1291 in Lübeck), merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
* [[Johann Wittenborg]] (1321–1363), Mayor of Lübeck, lost the [[Battle of Helsingborg (1362)|Battle of Helsingborg]]
* [[Jürgen Wullenwever]] (c.1492–1537), [[burgomaster]] of Lübeck from 1533 to 1535
* [[George Wulweber]], 16th-century Protestant who was tortured on the rack
* [[Friedrich Krüger (diplomat)|Friedrich Krüger]] (1819–1896), diplomat for the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen
* [[John Rugee]] (1827–1894), politician in [[Wisconsin]], USA
* [[Gustav Radbruch]] (1878–1949), legal scholar and politician
* [[Hermann Lüdemann]] (1880–1959), [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]] politician
* [[Otto-Heinrich Drechsler]] (1895–1945), Mayor of Lübeck 1933 to 1937, set up the [[Riga ghetto]]
* [[Haim Cohn]] (1911–2002), Israeli jurist and politician
* [[Willy Brandt]] (1913–1992), [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] politician,<ref>[http://www.brandt21forum.info/Bio_Brandt.htm Centre for Global Negotiations, Biography of Willy Brandt] retrieved 21 March 2018</ref> [[Chancellor of Germany|German chancellor]]
* [[Helga Kleiner]] (born 1935), CDU politician
* [[Björn Engholm]] (born 1939), SPD politician
* [[Robert Habeck]] (born 1969), writer and politician of the [[Alliance 90/The Greens]] 
* [[Birgitt Ory]] (born 1964), diplomat
* [[Beatrix von Storch]] (born 1971), [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]] politician, former [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]