List of personalities of the city of Aachen

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Coat of arms of the city of Aachen

The following list contains people who were born in Aachen as well as those who temporarily lived and worked there, listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Aachen

13th to 17th centuries

18th century

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

From 1981

People related to Aachen

8th to 18th centuries

19th century

  • Carl Schmid (* around 1805; † after 1850), portrait painter
  • Friedrich Joseph Ark (1807–1878), Aachen city architect
  • Arnold Theodor Wilhelm Albert Simons (1813–1863), architect, railway director of the Royal Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn and brother-in-law of Karl Marx
  • Hermann Ariovist von Fürth (1815–1888), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
  • Hermann Hirsch (1815–1900), police director and district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Georg Hasenclever (1817–1904), district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Barthold Suermondt (1818–1887), first great donor of today's Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen
  • Carl Rhoen (1822–1899), surveyor, building contractor and publicist
  • Jacob Wothly (1823–1873) photography pioneer and inventor
  • Friedrich Heinzerling (1824–1906), master bridge builder, professor of building sciences and rector of RWTH Aachen University
  • Ludwig von Weise (1828–1915), Lord Mayor from 1875 to 1883
  • Wilhelm Leopold Janssen (1830–1900), politician
  • Heinrich Milz (1830–1909), high school professor, philologist and principal
  • Georg Stahlhuth (1830–1913), organ builder
  • Heinrich Böckeler (1836–1899), Roman Catholic priest, founder and first director of the St. Gregorius House church music school in Aachen
  • Alfons Bellesheim (1839–1912), church historian and provost at Aachen Cathedral
  • Franz Ewerbeck (1839–1889), architect and professor at the Royal Rhenish-Westphalian Polytechnic School in Aachen
  • Julian von Hartmann (1842–1916), District President from 1892 to 1907
  • Karl Henrici (1842–1927), architect, urban planner and university professor
  • Otto Intze (1843–1904), civil engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen
  • Moritz Honigmann (1844–1918), chemist, inventor and entrepreneur
  • Josef Stübben (1845–1936), master builder and town planner, Aachen town builder
  • Wilhelm Borchers (1856–1925), metallurgist and rector of RWTH Aachen University
  • Karl von Pastor (1857–1919), district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Otto von Pelser-Berensberg (1857–1935), German-Dutch mining entrepreneur, Honorary Consul of the Netherlands and Consul General of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Aachen
  • Karl Krauss (1859–1906), sculptor of historicism and university professor.
  • August von Brandis (1859–1947), impressionist painter and dean of RWTH Aachen University
  • Wilhelm Farwick (1863–1941), Lord Mayor of Aachen and member of the constituent national assembly in Weimar
  • Carl Sieben (1864–1927), civil engineer, architect and university professor
  • Franz Rudolf Bornewasser (1866–1951), Roman Catholic bishop, director of the St. Gregorius House church music school in Aachen
  • Karl Josef Gollrad (1866–1940), painter, teacher at the Aachen School of Applied Arts and the Aachen City School of Painting and Drawing
  • Nanny Lambrecht (1868–1942), writer
  • Adolf Wallichs (1869–1959), university professor for machine tools and industrial engineering and rector of RWTH Aachen University
  • Hans Anetsberger (1870–1942), professor at the Aachen School of Applied Arts
  • Arnold Königs (1871–1960), architect and building contractor
  • Gustav Schimpff (1871–1919), railway civil engineer and university professor at RWTH Aachen University
  • Hermann Krahforst (1872–1943), painter
  • Hermann Pütz (1878–1928), administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Albert Huyskens (1879–1956), director of the city archive and the city library, professor of German and Rhenish history at RWTH Aachen University
  • Nikolaus Jansen (1880–1965), Roman Catholic prelate, politician (center), Aachen cathedral capitular and Nazi opponent
  • Helene Weber (1881–1962), politician (center, later CDU), head of the Aachen Social Women's School
  • Jürgen Freiherr von Funck (1882–1963), administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Josef Ponten (1883–1940), writer
  • Alfred Buntru (1887–1974), professor of hydraulic engineering and deputy lecturer leader
  • Johann Ernst (1888–1969), trade unionist and politician (center, later CDU), state minister and district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Quirin Jansen (1888–1953), Lord Mayor of Aachen (1933–1944) and NSDAP functionary
  • Maria Lipp (1892–1966), chemist, first doctoral candidate, professor and full professor at RWTH Aachen
  • Hans Westhoff (1893–1961), administrative officer and, in 1944, district administrator of the Aachen district
  • Mathias Wilms (1893–1978), social democratic politician and trade unionist, member of the appointee state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Wienand Ungermann (1895–1969), first district administrator in the Aachen district after the Second World War
  • Ilse Essers (1898–1994), engineer and writer
  • Hans Globke (1898–1973), lawyer and author of the Nuremberg Laws; Deputy Police President in Aachen
  • Hermann Heerdt (1900–1959), Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district

20th century

See also