Schmidtke is a
German surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 78.5% of all known bearers of the surname ''Schmidtke'' were residents of
Germany, 11.7% of the
United States, 2.5% of
Canada, 1.9% of
Poland, 1.5% of
Brazil and 1.2% of
Australia
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.
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states:
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* 1. Schleswig-Holstein (1:2,312)
* 2. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:3,037)
* 3. Brandenburg (1:3,186)
* 4. Hamburg (1:3,940)
* 5. Saxony-Anhalt (1:4,903)
* 6. Lower Saxony (1:4,946)
* 7. Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
(1:5,030)
* 8. North Rhine-Westphalia (1:5,253)
People
* Alfred Schmidtke (1870s–?) German New Testament researcher
* Claudia Schmidtke
Claudia Schmidtke (born 29 March 1966) is a German cardiologist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Schleswig-Holstein from 2017 to 2021.
Political career
Schmidt ...
(born 1966), German cardiologist and politician
* Fredy Schmidtke (1961–2017), German track cyclist
* Heinz Schmidtke
Heinz Schmidtke (6 August 1925 – 11 December 2013) was a German ergonomist. Between 1970 and 1972, he was rector of the Technical University of Munich.
Life
Schmidtke studied psychology and physics at the Technical University of Braunsch ...
(1925–2013), German ergonomist
* Ned Schmidtke (born 1942), American film and television actor
* Rosemarie Schmidtke, German rower
* Sabine Schmidtke, Islamic scholar from Germany
References
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German-language surnames