Dahme (also: Dahme/Mark) is a town in the

Teltow-Fläming Teltow-Fläming () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise) Dahme-Spreewald, Elbe-Elster, the districts Wittenberg (district), Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, the d ...

district of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated on the Dahme River, 30 km southeast of

Luckenwalde Luckenwalde (; Upper and dsb, Łukowc) is the capital of the Teltow-Fläming district in the German state of Brandenburg. It is situated on the Nuthe river north of the Fläming Heath, at the eastern rim of the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, abou ...

, and 38 km west of

Lübbenau Lübbenau (, dsb, Lubnjow ; officially Lübbenau/Spreewald, Lower Sorbian, L.S. Lubnjow/Błota (meaning ''Lübbenau/Spree Forest'')) is a town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Upper Spree Forest-Lusatia District of Brandenburg, Germany. It is locate ...

History

From 1815 to 1947, Dahme was part of the

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

Province of Brandenburg The Province of Brandenburg (german: Provinz Brandenburg) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg ...

. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the

Bezirk Cottbus Cottbus was a district () of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The administrative seat and main town was Cottbus. History The district was established, along with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, ''de facto'' replacing the East German ...

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Stadt Dahme-Mark.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state. Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule.) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Stadt Dahme-Mark.pdf, Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Notable people

Karsten Greve Karsten Greve (born 15 September 1946 in Dahme, Brandenburg, Germany) is a German art dealer, publisher and owner of Galerie Karsten Greve in Cologne, St Moritz, Paris and formerly Milan, specialized in the international postwar avant-garde, conte ...

(born 1946), an internationally renowned art dealer. *

Johannes Groenland Johannes Groenland (also spelled Grönland and called "Jean Groenland," 1824–1891) was a German botanist, horticulturist, and microscopist. Early life He was born on 8 April 1824 in Altona, a borough of Hamburg that was part of the Duchy of ...

(1824–1891), botanist and microscopist who worked for

Vilmorin Vilmorin is a French seed producer. The company has a long history in France, where it was family-controlled for almost two centuries, and today exists as a publicly traded company owned principally by agro-industrial cooperative Groupe Limagrai ...

and was a professor of natural science in Dahme. *

Hermann Hellriegel Hermann Hellriegel (October 21, 1831 – September 24, 1895) was a German agricultural chemist who discovered that leguminous plants assimilate the free nitrogen of the atmosphere. Biography He was born at Mausitz (now part of Zwenkau), in t ...

(1831–1895), first head of the agricultural test station in Dahme from 1857 to 1873 * Max Jacob (1849–1921), architect *

Roswitha Krause Roswitha Krause (born 3 November 1949) is a retired German freestyle swimmer and team handball player. She is the first woman to win Summer Olympic medals in two different sports. Krause won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico ...

(born 1949), swimmer and handball player *

Günther Marks Günther Marks (28 November 1897 – 4 March 1978) was a German church musician, organist and composer. He was born in Gollnow, Pomerania, and died in Dahme, Brandenburg Dahme (also: Dahme/Mark) is a town in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brande ...

(1897–1978), church musician and composer; lecturer for organ play and church music at the evangelical seminar in Dahme *

Otto Unverdorben Otto Unverdorben (13 October 1806 – 28 November 1873) was a German chemist and merchant who was born in Dahme/Marke. After completing his schooling in Dresden, he studied chemistry at Halle, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1826 at the age of 20, Unver ...

(1806–1873), discoverer of the

Aniline Aniline is an organic compound with the formula C6 H5 NH2. Consisting of a phenyl group attached to an amino group, aniline is the simplest aromatic amine In organic chemistry, an aromatic amine is an organic compound consisting of an aroma ...

* Birgit Vanderbeke (1956–2021), writer

References

Localities in Teltow-Fläming {{Brandenburg-geo-stub