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.
In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states:Schmidtke surname distribution Schleswig-Holstein (1:2,312) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:3,037) Brandenburg (1:3,186) Hamburg (1:3,940) Saxony-Anhalt (1:4,903) Lower Saxony (1:4,946) Bremen (1:5,030) North Rhine-Westphalia (1:5,253)
People Alfred Schmidtke (1870s–?) German New Testament researcher Claudia Schmidtke (born 1966), German cardiologist and politician Fredy Schmidtke (1961–2017), German track cyclist Heinz Schmidtke (1925–2013), German ergonomist Ned Schmidtke (born 1942), American film and television actor Rosemarie Schmidtke, German rower Sabine Schmidtke, Islamic scholar from Germany
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