Editing Parchim (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke.jpg|left|thumb|140px|Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke]]
* [[Johann Jakob Engel]] (1741–1802), author.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Engel, Johann Jakob |volume = 9 |page=405 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Helmuth von Moltke the Elder]] (1800-1891), Prussian general field marshal, honorary citizen.<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle= Moltke, Helmuth Carl Bernhard, Count von |volume= 18 |last= Wilkinson |first= Spenser |author-link= Spenser Wilkinson |pages=877-881 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Rudolf Tarnow]] (1867-1933), low German writer
* [[Elise Blumann]] (1897-1990), German-Australian expressionist painter
*[[Friedrich Hildebrandt]] (1898–1948), German SS Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter, executed for war crimes
* [[Ernst Goldenbaum]] (1898-1990), politician, chairman of the [[Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany|DBD]] and Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR, 1949-1990
* [[Éric Weil]] (1904-1977), self described as a post-[[Hegel]]ian [[Kant]]ian philosopher, studied violence 
* [[Heinrich Alexander Stoll]] (1910-1977), author of adventure and historical novels. 
* [[Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling]] (1934-2021), Lutheran clergyman and politician, chairman of the [[German Social Union (East Germany)|DSU]], Minister for Economic Cooperation, 1990
* [[HA Schult]] (born 1939), object and action artist
* [[Jana Gerisch]] (born 1978), volleyball player
* [[Stefanie Weichelt]] (born 1983), football player
* [[:de:Laura Larsson|Laura Larsson, (DE Wiki)]] (born 1989), podcast and radio host