Schmidtke
# 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
