List of personalities of the city of Arnsberg

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Coat of arms of the city of Arnsberg

The list of personalities of the city of Arnsberg includes those people who were born in the area of ​​today's city of Arnsberg and are of importance in the encyclopedic sense. Furthermore, those who have worked on site or have received honorary citizenship are named.

Honorary citizen

The list is divided into the honorary citizens of the city of Neheim , the city of Neheim-Hüsten (since the merger of Neheim and Hüsten in 1941), the municipality of Oeventrop , the old city of Arnsberg until the municipal reorganization in 1974 and the entire city of Arnsberg after 1974.

City of Neheim

Noah Wolff

City of Neheim-Hüsten

  • Jul. 01, 1955 - Sister Aicharda, Community Sister
  • Jul. 01, 1955 - Heinrich Desch, entrepreneur
  • Jul. 01, 1955 - Josef Kaiser, Entrepreneur
  • Jan. 7, 1965 - Anton Cöppicus, Mayor
  • January 7, 1965 - Ernst König, long-time deputy mayor
  • May 07 , 1968 - Heinrich Luebke , Federal President

Oeventrop community

  • Sep. 20, 1956 - Georg Gierse

Old town of Arnsberg

Karl Féaux de Lacroix

Today's city of Arnsberg

sons and daughters of the town

Politics, rule and administration

Gottfried IV of Arnsberg
Wilhelm Hasenclever
  • Franz Joseph Freiherr von Arens (born June 7, 1779 in Arnsberg, † April 1, 1855) was a German lawyer and politician.
  • Engelbert Arndts (1750-1819) was a lawyer, imperial postmaster and high official in the Duchy of Westphalia
  • Friedrich Arndts (born September 22, 1753 in Arnsberg, † February 8, 1812 in Meschede) was a German lawyer in the Kurkölner and Hesse-Darmstadt services. As an author he wrote, among other things, a statistically oriented presentation of the Duchy of Westphalia.
  • Hermann Christian Arndts (born September 9, 1831 in Arnsberg, † November 19, 1888 in Deutz) was a Prussian civil servant, syndic, administrator and member of the state parliament. He was involved in setting up what is now the Geisenheim research institute
  • Johann Wilhelm Arndts (* 1710 in Arnsberg; † 1771 in Arnsberg) was an official from the Electorate of Cologne, postmaster of the Reichspost and the main founder of the Arnsberger Intelligence Journal.
  • Franz Joseph Dröge (born April 27, 1789 in Arnsberg; † February 17, 1850 in Arnsberg), German lawyer, alderman in Arnsberg and politician
  • Friedrich von Arnsberg (called Friedrich der Streitbare) (* 1075; † February 11, 1124) was regent of the County of Arnsberg-Werl from 1092 to 1124. Contemporary sources also refer to him as the Count of Westphalia
  • Gottfried II. Von Arnsberg (* 1157, † 1235) was regent of the county of Arnsberg from 1185 until his death
  • Gottfried III. von Arnsberg (* around 1214; † between 1284 and 1287) was Count von Arnsberg from 1238 until his death
  • Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg (* around 1295; † February 21, 1371) was the last count in the county of Arnsberg.
  • Heinrich von Arnsberg (* around 1128; † June 4, 1200 in Arnsberg) was regent of the county of Arnsberg from about 1154 to 1185
  • Ludwig von Arnsberg († May 2, 1313) was Count von Arnsberg and initially ruled as his father's co-regent, later alone from 1282 to 1313
  • Wilhelm von Arnsberg (* around 1277; † 1338) was lord of the County of Arnsberg and ruled from 1313 to 1338
  • Wilhelm II of Bavaria , Baron von Höllinghofen (since 1650 Wilhelm II, Prince Abbot of the Imperial Abbey of Stablo-Malmedy) (*?; † February 10, 1657) was initially Landdrost of the Duchy of Westphalia and from 1650 Prince Abbot of Stablo and Malmedy
  • Eberhard Beckermann (also Beckermandt) (* 1576 in Arnsberg, † 1641 in Kassel) was a general during the Thirty Years' War. He was initially a Baden-Durlach bailiff and then entered Swedish and Hessian military service. In 1634 he besieged Arnsberg in vain
  • Kaspar Josef von Biegeleben (1766–1842), lawyer and civil servant, politician (in the service of the Electoral Cologne state and Hesse-Darmstadt)
  • Engelbert Klingholz (* around 1805 in Arnsberg) was a Prussian administrative officer and provisional district administrator for the Bitburg district
  • Kurt Birrenbach (born July 2, 1907 in Arnsberg, † December 26, 1987 in Düsseldorf) was a German CDU politician
  • Otto Bornemann (born September 9, 1891 in Arnsberg, † December 13, 1972 in Frankfurt), politician, member of the Reichstag
  • Karl Brüggemann (born January 24, 1896 in Oeventrop; † March 11, 1977), honorary district administrator in the Arnsberg district from 1961 to 1969
  • Carl-Julius Cronenberg (born July 30, 1962), entrepreneur and politician of the FDP
  • Dieter-Julius Cronenberg (born February 8, 1930 in Neheim; † November 21, 2013), factory owner and politician of the FDP (Member of the Bundestag, former Vice President of the German Bundestag )
  • Bernhard Degener (1829–1903), former mayor of Bocholt
  • Otto Entrup (born July 20, 1930 in Hüsten; June 28, 2012 in Meschede) was a German lawyer and politician (CDU).
  • Henneke von Essen (1561–1631), Mayor of Arnsberg, was charged in a witch trial at the age of 70 , but did not confess and died in prison
  • Werner Figgen (born November 9, 1921 in Neheim-Hüsten; † April 12, 1991 in Hamm) was a German politician (SPD)
  • Andrea Fischer (* 1960), politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and publicist, former Federal Minister of Health
  • Franz von Fürstenberg (1729–1810), statesman and school reformer in the Prince Diocese of Münster , founder of the University of Münster
  • Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen (born August 15, 1818 in Herdringen; † February 1, 1902 there) was entails commissioner, politician and builder of the new Herdringen Castle
  • Johann Wilhelm von Fürstenberg (1500–1568) was the penultimate Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Livonia
  • Clemens Giese (1879–1961) was a staff veterinarian, employee in the Reich Health Office and Ministry of the Interior and one of the pioneers of German animal welfare.
  • Hans Bernd Gisevius (1904–1974), German resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
  • Carl Ludwig Anton Maria Harbert (1771–1832), Landpfennigmeister of the Duchy of Westphalia and Mayor from 1796 to 1798, pomologist and breeder of the Harberts Renette apple variety
  • Winfried Hartmann (born May 8, 1936) is a German politician (CDU) and was district administrative director of Meppen.
  • Wilhelm Hasenclever (1837–1889), co-founder of German social democracy and one of the first publishers of the newspaper Vorwärts
  • Heinz Heppelmann (born May 17, 1927 in Arnsberg-Neheim; † January 10, 2009 there) was a German administrative officer.
  • Wilhelm Hertin (born February 8, 1880 in Vosswinkel, † September 23, 1968 in Balve) was a German local politician and honorary district administrator (CDU).
  • Everhard Höynck (* 1616 in Arnsberg, † September 17, 1675 in Brilon), was the mayor of Brilon.
  • Ernst Keller (born September 11, 1900 in Neheim, † July 21, 1963 in Bonn) was a German politician of the FDP
  • Richard Klewer (born April 9, 1898 in Arnsberg; † 1973), mayor of Werl and Iserlohn, and district administrator in Iserlohn and Olpe
  • Johann Matthias von Landsberg zu Erwitte (born May 23, 1734 in Arnsberg; † September 15, 1813 in Münster) was canon in various monasteries and also held the office of court chamber president and president of the secret council in the monastery of Münster until the land was taken over by Prussia inside.
  • Josef Linhoff (born March 12, 1819 in Arnsberg, † September 27, 1893 in Münster) was a Prussian civil servant.
  • Rainer Lux (born March 3, 1951 in Vosswinkel) is a German CDU politician.
  • Karl Minnigerode (1814–1894), revolutionary, co-conspirator of Georg Büchner, preacher of the American Episcopal Church
  • Paul Moder (born October 1, 1896 in Neheim, † February 8, 1942 near Maly Kalinez / Novgorod Oblast) was a German politician (NSDAP), Freikorps and SS leader.
  • Egon Mühr (born December 15, 1933 in Neheim; † January 11, 2008 there) was a German senior district director and politician of the CDU
  • Franz Müntefering (born January 16, 1940), Chairman of the SPD and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 2005 to 2007
  • Heinrich Philipp Osterrath (1805-1880) was a Prussian civil servant and parliamentarian
  • Alex Paust (born October 19, 1945) was the city's mayor
  • Michael Rademacher (born November 17, 1952) is a German local politician of the SPD
  • Friedrich Rintelen (1836–1907), lawyer and politician, honorary citizen of Arnsberg
  • Hermann II. (Rüdenberg) († around 1246) was a nobleman from the Rüdenberger family with headquarters on the Rüdenburg near Arnsberg and nominally burgrave of Stromberg
  • Felix Rühl (born August 12, 1910 in Neheim; †?, After 1951) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer who was involved in the special command 10b of Einsatzgruppe D in the murder of Jews in the Ukraine occupied by the German Reich.
  • Erhard Schäfer (born March 26, 1937 in Vosswinkel) is a German CDU local politician.
  • Fritz Schulte (born July 28, 1890 in Hüsten, † probably May 10, 1943 in the Soviet Union) was a German politician of the KPD.
  • Gerhard Struckelmann was since 1487 Oberfreigraf of the Arnsberger Oberfreistuhl. He was also released from other free chairs, including those in Eversberg, Rüthen and Bilstein.
  • Gerd Stüttgen (born March 22, 1966 in Arnsberg) is a German politician belonging to the SPD and was a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament.
  • Heinrich Teipel (born March 22, 1885 in Arnsberg, † April 11, 1945 in Wanzleben) was a German politician (NSDAP), veterinarian and SA leader.
  • Rudolph Ulrich (* 1819 in Arnsberg, † 1905 in Düsseldorf), Prussian administrative lawyer and district administrator
  • Theodor Ferdinand Ulrich (1825-1896) was a German metallurgical expert and a politician of the Center Party
  • Wilhelm Ulrich (1817–1872) was a Prussian ministerial official and member of parliament (Center Party).
  • Friedrich Karl Hermann Georg von Viebahn (1840–1915), German major general
  • Bernhard Vogel (born March 30, 1882 in Neheim-Hüsten; † June 10, 1959 there) was a German local politician and honorary district administrator (CDU)
  • Wilhelm Wulff (born July 17, 1815 in Arnsberg; † August 14, 1892 in Münster) was Mayor of Arnsberg from 1842 to 1878.
  • Ernst von Zastrow (1858–1926), Prussian general of the infantry

religion

Franz Stock
  • Agnes von Arnsberg (also Agnes zu Meschede) (≈1236–1306) was the last abbess of the women's monastery in Meschede. She was also the abbess of Oedingen Abbey.
  • Berta von Arnsberg († 1292), daughter of Gottfried II. Von Arnsberg, was abbess of the women's monastery in Essen from 1243 until her death.
  • Gottfried von Arnsberg (≈1285–1363) was Bishop of Osnabrück until 1349 and then Archbishop of Bremen.
  • Johannes von Arnsberg († 1319) was the first provost of this institution after the Meschede women's monastery was converted into a canon monastery.
  • Konrad von Arnsberg († 1433) was auxiliary bishop in Cologne.
  • Manfred Balkenohl (* 1936), theologian
  • Werner Bardenhewer (1929–2019), Catholic priest
  • Norbert Bicker († 1715) was abbot of the Premonstratensian Monastery of Wedinghausen from 1688 to 1715.
  • Volker Drehsen (1949–2013), theologian
  • Franz Anton von Dücker (1700–1752) was a priest and canon in Cologne.
  • Wilhelm Freseken († 1401) was provost of the Meschede monastery, provost in Soest, cathedral provost in Münster and canon in St. Aposteln in Cologne.
  • Anna von Fürstenberg († 1626) was abbess of the Premonstratensian monastery in Oelinghausen from 1621.
  • Ferdinand Joseph von Fürstenberg (1739–1800), Canon in Hildesheim, Paderborn, Münster and Halberstadt
  • Heinrich Giese (1863–1937) was councilor in Vienna and confessor of Emperor Franz Joseph I, reformer of the teacher training system in Austria, founder of homes for girls and children, vice-president of the “Austrian Caritas Association”, president of the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Vienna.
  • Karl Hesse (* 1936) is retired Archbishop of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.
  • Wilhelm Sabri Hoffmann (* 1953), chairman of the Christian-Islamic Society
  • Franz Karl von Landsberg zu Erwitte (1735–1779), canon in Münster, Paderborn and Osnabrück
  • Eduard Stakemeier (1904–1970) was professor of fundamental theology , comparative religious studies and denominational studies , director of the Johann Adam Möller Institute in Paderborn, consultor in the Secretariat for Christian Unity, peritus at the Second Vatican Council and papal house prelate .
  • Abbé Franz Stock (1904–1948), pastor of the German-speaking Catholic community in Paris since 1934, pastor for French prisoners during the German occupation (escorting those sentenced to death), 1945 leader of a prisoners-of-war seminar in Chartres, former advocate of Franco-German reconciliation

Literature, art and culture

Science, education and technology

Carl Ludwig Arndts

Business, unions and associations

  • Fritz Busch (born April 2, 1884 in Arnsberg, † December 22, 1958 in Arnsberg) was a German railway manager. He was general director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn after 1945.
  • Willy Hesse (born February 19, 1942 in Arnsberg) is a German entrepreneur and president of the South Westphalia Chamber of Crafts (until 2007 Arnsberg Chamber of Crafts).
  • Ludwig Jörder (born July 22, 1946 in Arnsberg) is a German business lawyer, long-time head of the Westfalenhallen Dortmund and chairman of the WDR board of directors.
  • Franz Anton Lentze (born March 24, 1777 in Arnsberg; † August 7, 1849 in Endorf) was a German early industrial entrepreneur.
  • Franz Pieler (born May 11, 1835 in Arnsberg, † October 25, 1910 in Ruda) was a mining specialist and general manager.
  • Friedrich von Schenck (born January 16, 1851 in Arnsberg, † April 20, 1912 in Kassel) was a German entrepreneur and lobbyist.

Sports

Personalities who work or have worked on site

Politics, rule and administration

Max King
Friedrich Merz
Johann Friedrich Joseph Sommer
Clemens August von Weichs
  • Alfred Georg von Bake (born March 8, 1854 in Belgershain, administrative district of Leipzig; † April 12, 1934 in Freiburg im Breisgau), von Bake from 1907, was a Prussian civil servant.
  • Moritz von Bardeleben (born November 17, 1814 in Zerbst; † January 8, 1890 in Berlin) was the district president in Arnsberg and later chief president of the Prussian Rhine province.
  • Ernst von Bayern , (born December 17, 1554 in Munich, † February 17, 1612 in Arnsberg, Westphalia) was Archbishop of Cologne from 1583 to 1612.
  • Ferdinand of Bavaria (born October 6, 1577 in Munich; † September 13, 1650 in Arnsberg, Westphalia) was elector and archbishop of Cologne from 1612 to 1650.
  • Friedrich von Bernuth (born February 10, 1757 in Kleve; † October 8, 1832 in Düsseldorf) was a high-ranking official in French and Prussian services.
  • Karl Bick (born October 29, 1896 in Winkel, † October 17, 1949 in Arnsberg) was a trade unionist and communist politician.
  • Hubert Biernat (born June 11, 1907 in Heeren; † October 30, 1967 in Unna) was a German politician (SPD). From 1950 to 1956 he was district president in Arnsberg and from 1956 to 1958 Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Carl von Bodelschwingh (born December 16, 1800 in Hamm; † May 10, 1873 in Berlin) was district administrator of the Hamm district for seven years, regional president in Arnsberg for two years, Prussian finance minister for eleven years, as well as a member of the state and Reichstag as well as chairman of the Protestant Order of St. John from Westphalia.
  • Ernst von Bodelschwingh (born November 26, 1794 at Gut Haus Velmede near Unna, † May 18, 1854 in Medebach) was the district president in Arnsberg and later the Prussian state minister
  • Franz Freiherr von Coels von der Brügghen (born January 27, 1858 in Aachen, † October 8, 1945 in Bückeburg) was a Prussian civil servant.
  • Günter Cronau (born March 16, 1931 in Siegen; † September 2012 in Arnsberg) was the first city director of the new city of Arnsberg
  • Gottfried von Cuyk († around 1154) was Burgrave of Utrecht and since 1132 Count of Werl-Arnsberg
  • Johannes Franz August von Devivere (born November 3, 1798 in Lippstadt, † June 28, 1878 in Meschede) was a German local politician and district administrator.
  • Helmut Diegel (born March 30, 1956 in Hagen) is a German politician (CDU). He is the district president in Arnsberg
  • Anton Dinslage (* 1853; † 1922) was a lawyer and politician of the Center Party
  • Renate Drewke (born March 6, 1952 in Ennepetal) is a German politician (SPD). She was the district president in Arnsberg.
  • Hermann Dücker (* 1591; † March 4, 1670) was head waiter from the Electorate of Cologne-Westphalia, Landpfennigmeister and Drost of the Menden office.
  • Lothar Eickhoff (born September 1, 1895 in Stettin, † September 19, 1970 in Lacco Ameno / Italy) [1] was a German administrative lawyer and since 1931 a member of the NSDAP.
  • Joseph Freusberg (born September 23, 1842 in Olpe; † July 30, 1917 in Berlin) was a Prussian civil servant. Among other things, he was district administrator for the districts of Olpe and Arnsberg, and later in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, responsible for matters relating to the Catholic Church
  • Fritz Fries , (born March 3, 1887 in Siegen, † May 25, 1967 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was an entrepreneur, social democratic politician, member of the Prussian state parliament and district president in Arnsberg.
  • Karl von Flemming (* December 18, 1783 in Crossen; † February 18, 1866 there) was the owner of the manor (Crossen Castle) and an official in the Saxon and Prussian services.
  • Rolf Füllgränke (born April 8, 1929 in Gelsenkirchen; † November 23, 2008 in Arnsberg) was a German CDU politician. He was first honorary district administrator of the former Arnsberg district and later of the Hochsauerland district
  • Kaspar von Fürstenberg (born November 11, 1545 Castle Waterlappe near Ense, † March 5, 1618 in Arnsberg), Landdrost of the Duchy of Westphalia
  • Richard Grünschläger (born September 17, 1929 in Witten) is a German social democratic politician and was the district president in Arnsberg.
  • Rudolf Gunst (born November 16, 1883 at Gut Hembsen near Brakel; † October 2, 1965 in Graefelfing) was, among other things, the mayor of Hüsten and an activist of the Catholic peace movement.
  • Heinrich Haslinde (born May 21, 1881 in Berlin, † November 26, 1958 in Marquartstein) was a German politician (center).
  • Heinrich Wilhelm von Holtzbrinck (born January 3, 1809 in Altena, † June 24, 1877 in Oedenthal, municipality of Lüdenscheid-Land) was a Prussian civil servant, most recently district president and politician. For a short time he was also the Prussian Minister of Commerce.
  • Jonny Heide (born June 20, 1897 in Itzehoe; † May 3, 1974 in Arnsberg) was a German SPD politician
  • Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz (born February 23, 1799 in Groß Behnitz near Nauen; † February 15, 1883 on his estate Kunersdorf near Wriezen) was a Prussian minister, scientist and lawyer
  • Klaus Kaiser (born March 6, 1957 in Bremen (Ense)) is a German CDU politician. Since June 2, 2000 he has been a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and spokesman for school policy for the CDU parliamentary group. He is also chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Arnsberg City Council
  • Georg Wilhelm Keßler (born March 24, 1782 Herpf near Meiningen, † May 18, 1846 in Berlin) was Royal Prussian Real Privy Councilor, then District President of Arnsberg and writer
  • Heinrich Klasmeyer (born December 2, 1887 in Gütersloh; † March 26, 1963 in Neheim-Hüsten) was a German trade unionist for the Christian metalworkers' association and mayor and city director of Neheim-Hüsten
  • Max König (born May 3, 1868 in Halle / Saale; † January 31, 1941), German social democratic politician, member of the Weimar National Assembly, member of the Reichstag, President of the Arnsberg administrative district 1919–1933
  • Johannes Kühling (born April 12, 1890 in Küntrop; † March 2, 1965 ibid) was a German local politician and honorary district administrator (CDU).
  • Wolfram Kuschke (born April 9, 1950 in Menden) is a German politician of the SPD. From 1998 to 2002 he was the district president of the Arnsberg district and from 2002 to 2005 he was Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in various departments.
  • Anna von Kleve († after 1377/1378, before May 1, 1392) from the house of the Counts of Kleve was Countess of Arnsberg by marriage.
  • Daniel Dietrich von Landsberg zu Erwitte (1618–1683), Landdrost in the Duchy of Westphalia, owner of the Landsberger Hof and buried in Wedinghausen Monastery
  • Felix von Lilien (born May 21, 1804 in Werl, † October 13, 1886 in Arnsberg) was a Prussian civil servant and politician
  • Max Löcke (1850-1936) was Mayor of Arnsberg from 1879 to 1919. During his term of office numerous measures to modernize the city fall.
  • Alfons Löseke (born April 26, 1932 in Holsen) is a German politician and former member of the state parliament (CDU).
  • Friedrich Merz (born November 11, 1955 in Brilon and lives in Arnsberg), politician of the CDU , Member of the Bundestag and former parliamentary group leader in the German Bundestag of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
  • Ludwig Minnigerode (* 1773 in Alsfeld; † 1839) was a German lawyer and judge and civil servant from Hesse-Darmstadt.
  • Johannes Olm (born September 29, 1895 in Mönchengladbach; † September 2, 1953 in Arnsberg) was Mayor of Arnsberg from 1949 to 1953.
  • Gertrud von Plettenberg († October 26, 1608 in Arnsberg) was the administrator of some of the castles of the Cologne electors in the Duchy of Westphalia and was the mistress of Ernst of Bavaria
  • Ludwig von Renvers (born December 17, 1855 in Aachen, † April 17, 1936 in Arnsberg) was a Prussian civil servant.
  • Alfred von Rosen (born April 30, 1825 in Segeberg (Holstein), † September 19, 1912 in Schleswig) was a Danish and later Prussian civil servant.
  • Ludwig Runte (* 1896 in Niedermarsberg, † 1958 in Rheydt) was a German National Socialist politician. During the time of National Socialism he was first district administrator in the Meschede district, then district president in Arnsberg and finally he was a high-ranking official in the Reich Ministry for the occupied eastern territories.
  • Ernst Schlensker (born July 10, 1908 in Wattenscheid; † February 22, 1978) was a German trade unionist, social democratic politician and district president in Arnsberg.
  • Heinrich von Schultheiß (* 1580 in Scharmede near Salzkotten , † 1646 in Arnsberg), at the time of the witch hunted notorious witch judge in Westphalia . He lived on the Old Market in the Zur Krim house .
  • Friedrich Ernst von Schwerin (born June 4, 1863 in Kattowitz, † August 16, 1936 in Berlin) was a Prussian civil servant.
  • Wilhelm Seissenschmidt (born May 24, 1802 in Belecke; † June 5, 1871 in Arnsberg) was mayor of Arnsberg, member of the Prussian House of Representatives and author of historical articles.
  • Birgit Sippel (* 1960 in Bochum) is a German social democratic politician and has been a member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections
  • Johann Friedrich Joseph Sommer (* 1793 in Kirchhundem , † November 13, 1856 in Arnsberg), lawyer, academic, political and church-political author and editor, politician between early liberalism and ultramontane positions, a. a. Member of the Prussian National Assembly in Berlin in 1848
  • Friedrich von Spankeren (born April 23, 1804 in Eupen; † March 21, 1886 in Bonn) was a Prussian civil servant and politician.
  • Georg Maximilian Franz von Steinmann (born October 7, 1830 in Baumgarten; † June 4, 1901 in Lübeck) was a Prussian civil servant, district president in Arnsberg and, most recently, chief president of the province of Schleswig-Holstein.
  • Max von Stockhausen (born February 11, 1890 in Koblenz; † January 31, 1971 at Gut Stockhausen near Meschede) was a German lawyer and government official. He achieved political importance as personal advisor to the Reich Chancellor (1923–1928) and as District President in Arnsberg
  • Christoph Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (* 1888; † 1968), major general , died here
  • Johannes Stoll (born November 16, 1769 in Rotenburg an der Fulda; † September 30, 1848 in Arnsberg) was a German physician and medical officer.
  • Franz Anton Thüsing (born April 23, 1782 at Gut Brenschede (near Sundern); † May 18, 1832 ibid.) Was landowner, civil servant and first district administrator in the Arnsberg district.
  • Ferdinand Tillmann (born June 27, 1932 in Dörnholthausen) is a German entrepreneur and politician (CDU).
  • Hans-Josef Vogel (born April 27, 1956 in Werl) is a German CDU politician and mayor of Arnsberg.
  • Clemens August von Weichs (* 1736; † 1815) was the last Landdrost in the Duchy of Westphalia and, under the rule of Hesse-Darmstadt, president of the government council in Arnsberg.
  • Konrad II von Werl-Arnsberg (* around 1040; † 1092 fallen in Friesland) was Count von Werl-Arnsberg, Vogt of the Paderborn diocese and builder of Arnsberg Castle.
  • Joachim Westermann (* 1948; † 2018), SPD politician, Member of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1980 to 1990, State Secretary of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1990 to 1999, President of the Volksmusikerbund NRW from 1990 to 2016.
  • Wilhelm Julius Reinhold Winzer (born December 30, 1834 in Minden; † March 12, 1919 ibid) was a Prussian civil servant, most recently the district president in Arnsberg
  • Philip-Ludwig Wolfart (born July 18, 1775 in Hanau, † March 6, 1855 in Potsdam) was a Prussian civil servant.
  • Fritz Ziegler (born January 1, 1933 Gelsenkirchen) was district president in Arnsberg and chairman of the board of the VEW.

religion

Abbot Franz Josef Fischer
  • Richard von Arnsberg († 1190 in Wedinghausen) was a Premonstratensian, religious author and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church
  • Caspar Berens (born April 24, 1836 in Kruberg; † May 16, 1912 in Rumbeck) was a Catholic clergyman, writer and poet of the Kolping Song
  • Kaspar Friedrich Brieden (born June 24, 1844 in Olpe; † June 12, 1908 in Arnsberg) was a Catholic clergyman and provost in Magdeburg and Arnsberg
  • Julius August Gottfried Disselhoff (pseudonym: Julius von Soest), (* October 24, 1827 in Soest , † July 14, 1896 in Simmern / Hunsrück ), Protestant pastor, traveler and writer, important organizer of deaconess work on an international level, attended the grammar school Laurentianum
  • Franz Joseph Fischer (* 1740 in Calle; † 1806 in Rumbeck) was the last abbot of the Premonstratensian Monastery of Wedinghausen
  • Ottilia von Fürstenberg (born February 21, 1549 at Waterlappe Castle near Ense; † March 7, 1621) was the prioress of the Oelinghausen monastery and abbess of the free-world noble convent of Heerse
  • Ferdinand Hasenclever (born March 2, 1769 in Remscheid, † May 30, 1831 in Arnsberg) was a Protestant pastor and consistorial councilor in the church and school department of the government in Arnsberg. He particularly distinguished himself as an educational reformer.
  • Adrian Höynck (born October 20, 1701 in Bilstein, † January 26, 1749) in Arnsberg, was abbot in the Premonstratensian Monastery of Wedinghausen
  • Friedrich Georg Pape (born July 3, 1763 in Bracht, today Fehrenbracht, municipality of Finnentrop, † May 11, 1816 in Trier) was initially a conventual in Wedinghausen Monastery and was later one of the German Jacobins of the Mainz Republic
  • Gottfried Reichmann (sometimes also called Richmann or Reickmann) († 1643) was abbot of the Premonstratensian monastery in Wedinghausen near Arnsberg from 1613 to 1643.
  • Michael Reinhartz (1613–1688) was abbot of the Premonstratensian Monastery of Wedinghausen from 1663 to 1688
  • Peter Schallenberg (* 1963), Roman Catholic theologian, grew up in Arnsberg
  • Godefridus Sittartz (1650–1718), superior of the Jesuit mission in Arnsberg

Literature, art and culture

  • August Friedrich Georg Disselhoff (born November 25, 1829 in Soest, † March 9, 1903 in Allstedt ), Protestant pastor and writer, author of the lyrics to Now ade, you my dear homeland , attended the Laurentianum grammar school
  • Petrus von Kolshusen († 1552 in Arnsberg) was a picture carver. He is considered to be the most important carving artist in the 16th century in the Sauerland.
  • Dietmar Ostwald (* 1953 in Thuringia) is a German writer.
  • Engelbert Seibertz (born April 20, 1813 in Brilon , † October 2, 1905 in Arnsberg), portrait and history painter
  • Hanne Schleich (born April 29, 1916 as Hanne Grüttner in Cologne, † October 14, 2000 in Arnsberg) was a German writer
  • Heinz Waterboer (born December 6, 1907 in Breckerfeld, † November 8, 1990 in Arnsberg) was a painter and writer.
  • Udo Wollmeiner (* 1935 in Bigge ) is a freelance artist.
  • Johann J. Claßen or Clahsen; Hans Claßen (born April 28, 1953 in Oberschledorn / Sauerland) is a German poet, literary magazine and anthology editor.

Science, education and technology

  • Heinrich Knoche (born January 19, 1831 in Bad Fredeburg, † October 22, 1911 in Herdringen) was the headmaster of the elementary school in Herdringen, Arnsberg, from 1852 to 1892. He was the author of the six million copies of the arithmetic book for elementary schools.
  • Franz Ignatz Pieler (* 1797 in Soest; † September 16, 1883 in Dortmund) was a Westphalian regional historian
  • Friedrich Adolf Sauer , (* 1756 in Barge (Iserlohn district), † February 14, 1839 in Arnsberg) was a cleric, educator and school reformer
  • Johann Suibert Seibertz (born November 27, 1788 in Brilon , † November 17, 1871 in Arnsberg), historian,
  • Johannes Stoll (born November 16, 1769 in Rotenburg an der Fulda; † September 30, 1848 in Arnsberg) was a German physician and medical officer.

Business, unions and associations

Josef Cosack

Sports

  • Heiner Thade (born September 15, 1942 in Lüdinghausen) is a former modern pentathlete from Germany. He lives in the Arnsberg district of Neheim

Social and other

  • Csilla von Boeselager (born May 17, 1941 in Budapest, † February 23, 1994 in Arnsberg), founding chairwoman of the Hungarian Malteser Caritas Service. V. (UMCD), during the turnaround in Eastern Europe, organization of aid deliveries and care for refugees from the GDR in Hungary
  • Ernst Ehmsen (born December 15, 1833 in Rendsburg, † March 19, 1893 in Göttingen), one of the founders of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV)
  • Karl Föster (* 1915 in Bad Fredeburg, † May 5, 2010 in Arnsberg), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

Individual evidence

  1. Compilation on neheims-netz.de
  2. Internet portal Westphalian history
  3. Speech by Mayor Vogel on the award of honorary citizenship (PDF; 30 kB)