- Source: Schmidtke
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:
1. Schleswig-Holstein (1:2,312)
2. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1:3,037)
3. Brandenburg (1:3,186)
4. Hamburg (1:3,940)
5. Saxony-Anhalt (1:4,903)
6. Lower Saxony (1:4,946)
7. Bremen (1:5,030)
8. 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