Notable inmates

Walter Wolf (27 February 1907 in Gotha – 2 April 1977 in Potsdam) was a German politician and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Wolf was the culture minister of Thuringia from 1945 until 1947.

John Walther Christensen (September 23, 1918 – December 1, 1965) was a Danish amateur footballer who played as a midfielder.

Walther Immanuel Funk (18 August 1890 – 31 May 1960) was a German economist, Nazi official and convicted war criminal who served as Reichsminister for the Economy from 1938 to 1945 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939 to 1945.

Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch (4 October 1881 – 18 October 1948) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) and Commander-in-Chief (Oberbefehlshaber) of the German Army during the first two years of World War II.

Walther Wüst (7 May 1901 – 21 March 1993) was a German Indologist who served as Rector of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) from 1941 to 1945.

Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz".

Wanda Jakubowska (10 November 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director.

Wanda Janicka (née Nowakowska, alias "Zofia") (16 June 1923 – 7 September 2023) was a Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw uprising. .

Wanda Wiktoria Półtawska (pronounced [ˈvanda vikˈtɔrʲa puwˈtafska]; né Wojtasik [vɔjˈtaɕik], 2 November 1921 – 24 October 2023) was a Polish physician, author, Holocaust survivor and pro-life activist.

Wanda Traczyk-Stawska ps.

Wang Bingzhang (Chinese: 王炳章; pinyin: Wáng Bǐngzhāng; born December 30, 1947) is a Chinese human rights activist and founder of two Chinese pro-democracy movements.

Wang Guangmei (Chinese: 王光美; pinyin: Wáng Guāngměi; Wade–Giles: Wang Kuang-mei; 26 September 1921 – 13 October 2006) was a Chinese politician, philanthropist and the wife of Liu Shaoqi, who served as the spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968.

Wang Li (Chinese: 王力; August 11, 1922 – October 21, 1996), born Wang Guangbin (Chinese: 王光賓) was a Chinese Communist propagandist and prominent member of the Cultural Revolution Group, in charge of overseeing the Cultural Revolution movement of Mao Zedong.

Włodzimierz Dąbrowski (11 August 1892 in Cieszyn – 1942 in Auschwitz) was a Polish lawyer and political activist in Silesia. Dąbrowski participated in the Silesian Uprisings.