In 1323, he acquired the Altmark from Brandenburg as an inheritance of his wife's; but he sold it in 1343, when he failed to establish control there.
Albert Ferdinand Adolf Karl Friedrich von Bonin (November 11, 1803, Heeren, Altmark; April 16, 1872, Berlin) was a Corps commander of the Prussian Army at the Battle of Trautenau in 1866, and a colleague of Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz.
Calvörde formed a key strongpoint in this regard because it lay at the southern end of the formerly impassable marshy forests of the Drömling at a point that used to be the key crossing of the Ohre river that on the road from Brunswick to the southern Altmark.
Edith Hahn took on the identity of Christa Denner, went to Munich and survived the war in Germany working there as a forced labourer of the Plantage Mertens asparagus farm in Osterburg and the Bestehorn company in Aschersleben until she was able to marry a German and settle in Brandenburg an der Havel.
They were separated in April 1941, when Hahn was sent to an asparagus plantation in Osterburg, Germany and then to the Bestehorn box factory in Aschersleben.
Born in Wittenberge on the river Elbe, Friedrich Schorlemmer grew up in the small town of Werben in the region of Altmark, just south of it.
In Japan, Doggerbank took aboard many of the survivors of the auxiliary cruiser Thor and the German tanker Uckermark, the former Altmark, which had been destroyed in an accident in Yokohama on 30 November 1942.
Jürgen Kurths (born March 11, 1953 in Arendsee/Altmark) is a German physicist and mathematician.