Editing Flensburg (section)

==== Political and public service ====
* [[Hans Nansen]] (1598–1667), Danish statesman<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Nansen,_Hans |volume= 19 |last= Bain |first= Robert Nisbet |author-link= Robert Nisbet Bain| pages = 163&ndash;164 |short= 1}}</ref> and tradesman, travelled to the [[White Sea]], northern Russia and Iceland
* [[Johan Lorensen]] (ca.1640–1702), [[Governor-General]] of [[The Danish West Indies]]
* [[Christian V]] (1646–1699), king of Denmark and Norway<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Christian V. |volume= 6 | pages = 277&ndash;278 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark]] (1647–1717), daughter of [[King Frederick III of Denmark]]
* [[Frederik Krag]] (1655–1728), Danish nobleman, senior civil servant and [[Governor-General of Norway]]
* [[Johannes Moller]] (1661–1725), Danish [[pietist]] and headmaster
* [[Georg Waitz]] (1813–1886), German historian,<ref>{{Cite AmCyc |wstitle=Waitz,_Georg |short=x}}</ref> politician, and disciple of [[Leopold von Ranke]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Waitz, Georg |volume= 28 | page = 247 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Marie Kruse]] (1842–1923), Danish schoolteacher specializing in educating girls
* [[Friedrich von Scholtz]] (1851–1927), general, served in the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|East]] and the [[Macedonian front|Balkans]] during [[the First World War|WWI]]
* [[Nicholas Asmussen]] (1871–1941), Flensburg-born Ontario building contractor and political figure
* [[Peter Voss]] (1897–1976), SS-Oberscharführer, commander of the crematoria and gas chambers at [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]]
* [[Hans von Luck]] (1911–1997), army colonel and author of the book ''Panzer Commander''
* [[Kay Nehm]] (born 1941), German lawyer, [[Public Prosecutor General (Germany)|Attorney General of Germany]]
* [[Wolfgang Börnsen]] (born 1942), CDU politician, member of the Bundestag
* [[Jürgen Storbeck]] (born 1946), director of [[Europol]]
* [[Bärbel Höhn]] (born 1952), German politician, member of the [[Bundestag]] 
* Klaus Tscheuschner (born 1956), Lord Mayor of Flensburg
* [[Simon Faber]] (born 1968), German politician, Lord Mayor of Flensburg