List of Sylt personalities

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This list contains information on Sylt personalities ; So to people who were born on Sylt , who died there, who had a significant effect on Sylt or who are or were in some other way closely connected to the island of Sylt.

politics

Memorial sheet for the death of the Sylt freedom fighter Uwe Jens Lornsen
  • The freedom fighter Uwe Jens Lornsen was born in Keitum.
  • Princess Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied , also known by her literary pseudonym Carmen Sylva, was one of the numerous noble guests on the island; Among other things, she was one of the initiators of the Westerland cemetery of the homeless .
  • The National Socialist Hermann Göring , later convicted as a war criminal, owned a summer house in Wenningstedt , where he stayed regularly.
  • The former member of the Bundestag and State Secretary Ingbert Liebing lives on Sylt.
  • The former head of the Kiel State Chancellery, State Secretary Heinz Maurus , lives in Tinnum.
  • The officer of the Waffen SS and war criminal Heinz Reinefarth was Mayor of Westerland from 1951 to 1964 .
  • The former CDU politician and multiple Federal Minister Gerhard Schröder had a house in Kampen, where he also died. He is buried in Keitum.
  • General Post Director of the German Reich and organizer of the German postal system Heinrich von Stephan was one of the first politicians to push the idea of ​​what would later become the Hindenburgdamm .
  • The rear admiral of the German Armed Forces, Klaus-Jürgen Steindorff, came from Kampen, where he lived again in retirement. He was involved in numerous honorary offices for the community.
  • The political scientist and politician of the SPD Walther Stützle was born in Westerland.
  • The physician and politician Richard Tamblé lived and worked in Westerland for many years and helped shape areas of local politics.
  • Thanks to his invention of the tax on second homes, tax law expert Hermann-Wilfried Bayer is an honorary citizen of Westerland.

Science and religion

Road sign in Sylt-Westerland
  • The teacher, local historian and most important chronicler of the island Christian Peter Hansen (1803–1879) came from Keitum.
  • The first licensed dentist in Germany, Henriette Hirschfeld-Tiburtius (1834–1911), was born on Sylt.
  • The Buddhist and writer Paul Dahlke (1865–1928) erected what is probably the largest Buddha monument in Europe in Wenningstedt and lived on the island for many years.
  • The Protestant theologian and regional bishop Heinrich Rendtorff (1888–1960) was born in Westerland.
  • The historian Jochen Bleicken (1926–2005) was born in Westerland.
  • The Sylt chronicler Harald Voigt (1928–2005) made a name for himself with numerous publications and publications about the history of Sylt.
  • The Protestant theologian Traugott Giesen (* 1940) was pastor at Sankt Severin in Keitum from 1976 until his retirement in 2005.

Arts and Culture

He made Westerland a “fashion spa”: Julius Pollacsek
The work Sunset on Sylt by the painter Wenzel Hablik (1881–1934)
A painting inspired by Sylt by the painter Ingo Kühl (* 1953)
Seebild 2014, oil on canvas 150 × 200 cm
  • As a representative of naive painting , Oluf Braren (1787–1839) portrayed both the folk life of the island and individual Sylt women on Sylt.
  • After a stay (1887) on the island, the writer Theodor Storm (1817–1888) wrote the Sylt novella, which remained unfinished after his death .
  • The writer and author Julius Pollacsek (1850 – after 1921) was the spa director in Westerland and transformed what was then a small seaside resort into a fashionable spa.
  • The landscape painter and local politician Franz Korwan (1865–1942) lived and worked on the island for a long time.
  • The composer Gustav Jenner (1865–1920) was born on Sylt and made his first musical experiences there.
  • Andreas Dirks , born in Tinnum on Sylt in 1865, † June 24, 1922 in Düsseldorf, was a landscape and marine painter from the Düsseldorf School.
  • The writer Wilhelm Lobsien (1872–1947) immortalized, among other things, the Sylt freedom fighter Pidder Lyng in his stories
  • The painter and graphic artist Hugo Kätze (1874–1956) lived and worked on the island since 1918. He died in Westerland.
  • Carl Christian Feddersen (1876–1936) was a North German landscape painter. He lived on Föhr and later on Sylt, died in Keitum.
  • The painter, draftsman and illustrator Helene Varges (1877–1946) lived in Westerland from 1919 to 1928 and died there.
  • The author Margarete Boie (1880-1946) was inspired by Sylt and wrote several novels with Sylt themes, including Der Sylter Hahn , which is about the Sylt Lorens Jens Grethen , Moiken Peter Ohm and Dammbau .
  • The painter, author and photographer Magnus Weidemann (1880–1967) lived and worked on Sylt from 1926 to 1967.
  • The painter Anita Rée (1885–1933) lived and died on the island.
  • The poets and writers Jens Emil Mungard (1885–1940) and Nann Peter Mungard (1849–1935) were born in Keitum.
  • The painter Albert Aereboe (1889–1970) lived as a freelance artist on Sylt for many years.
  • The artist Valeska Gert (1892–1978) ran the famous goat stable in Kampen .
  • The landscape painter Ernst Mollenhauer (1892–1963) had a studio in Keitum and was buried in the local cemetery.
  • The dancer Gret Palucca (1902–1993) was a long-time guest in List .
  • The costume designer Sylta Busse (1906–1989) was born in Westerland.
  • The painter Siegward Sprotte (1913-2004) lived and worked on the island since 1945.
  • Hubertus Jessel (1915-2008) from Sylt made a name for himself nationwide as an author of travel and non-fiction literature .
  • The painter Günther Petersen (1920–2014) was born in Westerland.
  • The book author Boy Lornsen (1922–1995), born in Keitum; lived and worked there; Landscapes, people and animals of the north were found in his stories. The Tinnum primary school is named after him.
  • The popular actor Uwe Dallmeier (1924–1985) lived in Kampen and was buried there.
  • The actor Heinz Schubert (Disgust Alfred) (1925–1999) found his final resting place in his adopted home Wenningstedt.
  • The crime writer Hinrich Matthiesen (1928–2009) was born in Westerland, he last lived and worked in Morsum.
  • The painter Dieter Röttger (1930–2003) lived and worked on the island since 1960. He died in Westerland.
  • The journalist and photographer Sven Simon (1941–1980) spent many years on the island and published several important books about Sylt.
  • The painter Karl-Heinz Berndt-Elbing (1934–1999) lived and worked on the island.
  • The actor Ulrich Wildgruber (1937–1999) committed suicide on November 30, 1999 on Sylt.
  • The painter Hans Nordmann (1940-2019) lived and worked on the island.
  • The songwriter Reinhard Mey (* 1942) is a permanent guest on the island. In his lyrics there are regular references to the island - for example in his song Rüm Hart .
  • The musicologist Ada Kadelbach (* 1942) lives on Sylt.
  • The painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Ingo Kühl (* 1953) has had a studio on Sylt since 2002.
  • The church musician Prof. Matthias Eisenberg (* 1956) worked for eight years in the St. Severin Church in Keitum (until 2004).
  • The photographer Hans Jessel (* 1956) became known throughout Germany for his landscape and nature photography. His photos with Sylt impressions can be found in numerous books, calendars and print media.
  • The pianist Jo Bohnsack was born in Westerland in 1960 and regularly gives concerts on Sylt.
  • The actress Anja Schüte (* 1964) lived in Westerland on Sylt.
  • The musician Dirk-Michael Kirsch (* 1965) was born in Westerland.
  • The painter Peter Klint (* 1971) was born in Westerland.

Sports

seafaring

media

  • The publisher Ferdinand Avenarius was one of the founders of the intellectual Kampen by inviting selected artists and intellectuals to his house in Uhlenkamp in Kampen.
  • Both the publisher Peter Suhrkamp and Rudolf Augstein are buried in the cemetery in Keitum.
  • The journalist Werner Höfer lived temporarily on Sylt and moderated from here, when he could not leave the island due to a storm, the international morning pint by telephone.

Others

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruhr University Bochum
  2. ↑ BVB coach Klopp on Sylt: "It's like coming home"