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