Notable figures born there include Hjalmar Schacht, a liberal economist who introduced a wide variety of schemes in Germany before and during The Third Reich in order to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on that country, and was a key player in Nazi Germany's economic steps towards re-armament.

Until 1 January 2007, Tinglev was also a municipality (Danish: kommune) in the former South Jutland County.

This created a municipality with an area of 951 square kilometres (367 sq mi) and a total population of 60,151 (2005).

The adventure role-playing game Gerda: A Flame in Winter, developed by Copenhagen-based games studio PortaPlay[3] and published in 2022 by Don't Nod, is set entirely in Tinglev and the surrounding countryside.

The game's story was inspired by the life of director Hans Von Knut Skovfoged's half-German, half-Danish grandmother who contributed to the Resistance against the Nazis.