Jean Georg Haffner

Jean Georg Haffner (1777 in Colmar in Alsace – 20 April 1830 in Danzig) was a medical doctor and the founder of the first spa located in Zoppot (Sopot).

Johann (Jean) Georg Haffner came to the Free City of Danzig in 1808 as a major of Napoleons's Grande Armée.

In Danzig he married in 1808 Regina Karoline Bruns, widow of Johann Christoph Böttcher.

In 1823 Haffner obtained the license and the exclusive right to establish and operate a spa type of seaside resort in Zoppot from the Prussian authorities.

The land along the beach, which was needed to realize the project, was handed over to him on the basis of hereditary leasehold.

Monument of Jean Georg Haffner in the Sopot North Park