List of personalities of the city of Bielefeld

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The list of personalities in the city of Bielefeld includes people who were born in Bielefeld (including the places that have been incorporated into Bielefeld over the course of time), as well as those who have a special relationship with Bielefeld without having been born there.

Born in Bielefeld

13th to 18th centuries

19th century

1801 to 1820

1821 to 1840

1841 to 1860

1861 to 1880

1881 to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1910

1911 to 1920

1921 to 1930

1931 to 1940

1941 to 1950

1951 to 1960

1961 to 1970

1971 to 1980

1981 to 1990

1991 to 2000

Since 2001

Well-known residents of Bielefeld

  • Alessandro Pasqualini (1493–1559), architect, planned the ski jump at Sparrenburg, died in Bielefeld
  • Carl Bozi (1809–1889), entrepreneur, founder of the Vorwärts spinning mill
  • Philipp Galen (1813–1899), writer, worked as a medical officer in Bielefeld
  • Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder (1831–1910), pastor and theologian, head of the Von Bodelschwinghschen Anstalten Bethel
  • Johannes Kuhlo (1856–1941), “Trumpet General”, pastor in Bethel, head of the Nazareth deaconry
  • Hugo Riemann (1849–1919), music theorist, worked as a piano teacher and conductor in Bielefeld
  • Georg Rothgießer (1858–1943), engineer, publisher, real estate agent and technology pioneer
  • August Oetker (1862–1918), entrepreneur, developed the baking powder Backin here
  • Hans Perathoner (1872–1946), sculptor and painter, creator of the Leineweber monument
  • Johannes Warns (1874–1937), theologian, was vicar in Schildesche
  • Carl Severing (1875–1952), politician (SPD) and minister, leading figure of the SPD in Bielefeld
  • Karl Muggly (1884–1957), painter and glass painter, taught at the arts and crafts school, created numerous glass works
  • Erich Lossie (1886–1944), sculptor, lived in Bielefeld from the age of 7
  • Erna Sack (1898–1972), singer, coloratura soprano at the Stadttheater
  • Hans Bernhard Reichow (1899–1974), architect and town planner, designed Sennestadt
  • Julius Voos (1904–1944), cantor, rabbi and educator
  • Erwine Esk (1905–?), Painter and draftsman
  • Eduard Herterich (1905–1994), painter, lived in Bielefeld from early childhood
  • Herbert Volwahsen (1906–1988), sculptor, worked at the Werkkunstschule, created the Mercury Fountain
  • Heinz Marten (1908–1991), singer
  • Marie Hüsing (1909–1995), poet, writer and deaconess of the Sarepta Sisterhood
  • Karl Otto (1910–1998), stenographer and inventor of the shorthand system "Simple Stenography"
  • Werner Maihofer (1918–2009), legal scholar, Federal Minister of the Interior, taught at Bielefeld University
  • Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), historian, honorary senator of Bielefeld University
  • Hartmut von Hentig (* 1925), pedagogue and publicist, head of the laboratory school and the high school
  • Hans-Joachim Newiger (1925–2011), classical philologist
  • Willy Potthoff (1925–2006), reform pedagogue, taught from 1950 to 1965 at the Petri School in Bielefeld
  • Karl Peter Grotemeyer (1927–2007), mathematician, rector of Bielefeld University 1970–1992, honorary senator of the university
  • Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998), sociologist, taught at Bielefeld University from 1968 to 1993
  • Horst Kasner (1926–2011), a possible theologian, studied at the Bethel Church University
  • Friedrich Nowottny (* 1929), journalist, worked as a local reporter in Bielefeld
  • Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), historian, taught at Bielefeld University
  • Gerhard Rödding (* 1933), Protestant theologian and politician
  • Dieter Baacke (1934–1999), educationalist and professor at Bielefeld University
  • Heiner Bruns (1935–2019), theater director, director of the Bielefeld Theater 1975–1999
  • Fritz Pleitgen (* 1938), director of the WDR, volunteered at the Free Press Bielefeld
  • Friedhelm Waldhausen (* 1938), mathematician, taught at Bielefeld University from 1970 to 2004
  • Kurt Bahlmann (* 1940), sculptor, painter and draftsman
  • Eike von Savigny (* 1941), philosopher, taught at Bielefeld University, dean
  • Hans-Jürgen Papier (* 1943), legal scholar, taught at the university, head of the Institute for Environmental Law
  • Klaus Hurrelmann (* 1944), sociologist, dean at Bielefeld University and the School of Public Health
  • Bärbel Meurer (* 1944), sociologist
  • Gerhard Schröder (* 1944), former Federal Chancellor (SPD), graduated from high school in Bielefeld in 1966
  • Jürgen Buchmann (* 1945), writer and philologist
  • Ray Dorset (* 1946), musician, is married to a Bielefeld woman and lived in Bielefeld from 2000 to 2010
  • Helga Anders later Helga Anders-Fritz (* 1948) German-Austrian actress and voice actress, grew up in Bielefeld.
  • Thomas Middelhoff (* 1953), manager
  • Ulrich Stein (* 1954), German soccer player
  • Rainer Wend (* 1954), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag as a member of the Bielefeld constituency
  • Annelie Buntenbach (* 1955), politician
  • Christian Sackewitz (* 1955), soccer player
  • Ralf Binnewies (* 1957), painter
  • Andreas Liebold (* 1959), TV and radio presenter, member of the comedy group "Frühstyxradio"
  • Kai Diekmann (* 1964), journalist, grew up in Bielefeld
  • Gregor Zöllig (* 1965), dancer and choreographer at the (Städt.) Tanztheater Bielefeld
  • Fatmir Vata (born 1971), football player
  • Thomas Henke (* 1972), media artist
  • Mischael-Sarim Verollet (* 1981), Slampoet and author from Gibraltar
  • Casper aka Benjamin Griffey (born September 25, 1982), rapper
  • Marco Huck (* 1984), boxer, has lived in Bielefeld since 1993
  • Christian Teich (* 1984), orienteer and athlete

See also