List of Norderneyer personalities

The list of Norderney personalities lists people born on Norderney . The list also contains the people who are important for Norderney and the city's history; So people who either worked on site, whose person is closely related to the city or whose name is known nationwide.

Honorary citizen

• Remmer Harms (born May 15, 1936 on Norderney; † April 1, 2006), Norderneyer Mayor from 1984 to 2001 and from 2001 honorary mayor and sole honorary citizen of the island of Norderney

Born on Norderney

The following personalities were born on Norderney. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Norderney is irrelevant.

• Poppe Folkerts (born April 9, 1875, † December 31, 1949 there), painter, designed the Norderneyer coat of arms from 1928
• Wilhelm Krieger (born June 2, 1877, † September 14, 1945 in Herrsching am Ammersee), sculptor
• Albert Erich Brinckmann (born September 4, 1881, † August 10, 1958 in Cologne), art historian, wrote standard works on the history of the Baroque and urban planning
• Edmund Fabry (born February 20, 1892 - † November 14, 1939 in Wiesbaden), architect, painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• Johann Fischer (born March 1, 1895 - † February 21, 1983 in Norden), politician ( SPD )
• Siegfried Kunstreich (born February 4, 1908; † March 18, 1998 in Leer), artist and art teacher
• Willi Lührs (born May 4, 1913 - October 21, 1974 in Hanover), politician (SPD), Mayor of Norderney and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament .
• Cassen Eils (born July 4, 1923 † 6 January 2010 Cuxhaven), shipping companies until 2006 CEO of the oldest Helgoland - Reederei Cassen Cassen Eils-Tours & Frisia Touristik GmbH
• Walter Nuhn (* 1928), non-fiction author
• Reimar Campen (born June 27, 1928 - † May 12, 2012), politician ( The Greens )
• Heiko Folkerts (born February 13, 1930, son of Poppe Folkerts ; † November 7, 2007 in Bernried am Starnberger See), architect , university professor and painter
• Ute Raab (* 1936), artist
• Hans-Rüdiger Etzold (* 1940), specialist journalist and non-fiction author, among others for So's ist done
• Elvira Drobinski-Weiß (born June 26, 1951), politician (SPD)
• Hans-Georg Eils (born December 13, 1957), brewer and honorary president of the German Brewers Association (DBB)
• Katharina Lerch (born October 12, 1962), author, Wicca priest and shaman
• Bernd Flessner (born May 30, 1969), fifteen-time German champion in windsurfing
• Yunus Cumartpay (born May 15, 1979), actor and screenwriter

Other personalities

The following people were not born on Norderney, but worked there:

• Carl Gerhard Reins (born April 18, 1804 in Stickhausen ; † October 3, 1872 in Norderney), author, pastor in Norderney from 1845 to 1865
• Carl Mühry (born May 4, 1806 in Hanover; † March 9, 1840 there), was a spa doctor on Norderney from 1832 until his death in 1840.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Kohl (born October 16, 1811 in Bremen , † September 18, 1864 in Norderney), painter
• Ernst Christian Carl Kruse (born February 28, 1837 in Esens , † February 22, 1900 in Berlin ), doctor and politician, moved to Norderney in 1882 and was appointed royal spa doctor and in 1885 medical doctor
• Hanna Mecke (born March 28, 1857 in Lingen ; † May 11, 1926 in Norderney), kindergarten teacher and Froebel teacher.
• Onno Behrends (* 1862 in Norden ; † October 31, 1920 ibid), tea manufacturer, opened his first shop on Norderney in 1886

• Julian Klein von Diepold (born January 25, 1868 in Dortmund , † November 20, 1947 in Norderney), painter
• Jann Janssen Berghaus (born August 19, 1870 in Schirum ; † February 18, 1954 in Aurich ), politician, mayor of Norderney in 1918, later district president
• Josef Ernst (born March 30, 1882 in Osterfeld / Aurich; † August 19, 1959 in Norderney), politician and businessman, was mayor of Norderney from 1948 to 1952 and a member of the local council until his death
• Karen Blixen (born April 17, 1885 in Rungstedlund near Copenhagen ; † September 7, 1962 there), known as Tania Blixen , Danish writer, wrote The Flood of Norderney
• Richard Seewald (born May 4, 1889 in Arnswalde / Neumark, † October 29, 1976 in Munich ), painter and writer, painted a choir mural in the Stella Maris church on Norderney
• Vollrath Hoeck (* 1890 in Hamburg , † 1968 in Soest ), painter
• Hans Trimborn (born August 2, 1891 in Plittersdorf ; † October 10, 1979 in Norden ), painter and musician, lived from 1919 to 1939 as a freelance artist on Norderney
• Heinrich Smeins (* 1911 in Emden ), dialect author, teacher, rector and historian, lives on Norderney
• Erwin Hartenberger (* 1919), painter who finds his motifs on Norderney and the East Frisian coast
• Wolfgang Menger (born July 19, 1919 in Berlin; † September 11, 2006 in Norderney), doctor in the field of marine medicine, climatic therapy, and a specialist in spa and recreation. In 1978 he founded the island boarding school in Norderney
• Ernst-Georg Hüper (born May 20, 1926 in Empelde ; † January 24, 1993), politician, including managing director of the Nordseeklinik Norderney
• Jürgen Johannesdotter (born October 6, 1943 in Bramsche ), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, a. a. 2001 to 2009 regional bishop of Schaumburg-Lippe, has lived on Norderney since 2009
• Dorothea Wolf (born September 10, 1951 in Oldenburg ), politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), member of the Norderney City Council from 1983 to 1989.
• Ole West (born May 22, 1953 in Wedel ), painter and book author, lived on Norderney from 1984 to 2008 and founded the Norderney painting school in 1985
• Engin Fırat (born June 11, 1970), soccer teacher, grew up on the island
• Ole rahmel (born 19 November 1989), handball

See also

• List of mayors of the city of Norderney

References and individual references

1. ↑ "Flessi" showed everyone . In: Norderneyer morning . No. 165 , July 27, 2010, p. 1 ( norderneyer-morgen.de [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
2. ^ Vollrath Hoeck - Back to Norderney . Friends of the Museum Nordseeheilbad Norderney eV. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
3. ↑ A Chronicle of the Island of Norderney - 2006 . Hans-Helmut Barty. Retrieved January 13, 2016.