List of personalities from the city of Bad Salzuflen
This list of personalities from the city of Bad Salzuflen contains people who have a special relationship with the city of Bad Salzuflen in North Rhine-Westphalia . These include those made honorary citizens , as well as famous people who were born in Bad Salzuflen or have a significant connection to the city.
Honorary citizen
- Eduard Hoffmann (1832–1894), manufacturer. Awarded on June 5, 1888. It brought the Hoffmann's starch factories , founded by his father and important for the development of the city, to world fame.
- Otto von Bismarck . Awarded for his 80th birthday in 1895, jointly with the other towns in the state of Lippe .
- Reinhold Meyer (born February 13, 1833 in Bückeburg , † April 2, 1910 in Salzuflen), secret medical council . Awarded in February 1909. He was director of the municipal hospital and the children's hospital. As a doctor, he has made great contributions to the city.
- Paul von Hindenburg . Awarded on April 28, 1933 "as the patron of the new Germany".
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in what is now Bad Salzuflen:
- Johann Schröder (1600–1664), doctor and pharmacist, author of the book Artzney-Schatz
- Johann Friedrich Reinert (1769–1820), philologist and rector at the grammar school in Lemgo; born in the desert district
- Heinrich Hasse (1791–1868), medical advisor and city physician in Salzuflen and initiator of the bathing business
- Rudolph Brandes (1795–1842), co-founder of the pharmacists' association and namesake of the Rudolph Brandes grammar school in the Lohfeld school center
- Heinrich Karl Brandes (1798–1874), rector of the Lemgo grammar school, travel writer
- Friedrich Ludwig von Medem (1799–1885), archivist and historian, born in the Schötmar district
- Friedrich Begemann (1803–1829), writer and poet from Biemsen
- August Eschenburg (1823–1904), Prussian Cabinet Minister in the Principality of Lippe, born in the Schötmar district
- Friedrich Brandes (1825–1914), theologian
- Ludwig Hölzermann (1830–1870), officer, military historian and numismatist
- Max von Gevekot (1845–1916), lawyer, Lippe state minister and head of government in the Principality of Lippe
- Korl Biegemann (1854–1937), doctor and dialect poet from Lippe, born in the Retzen district (on Gut Volkhausen)
- Eduard Wolff (1855–1905), entrepreneur and community leader in Schötmar and member of the Lippe state parliament
- Leberecht Carl Heinrich Hoffmann (1863–1928), businessman and politician
- Albert Krecke (1863–1932), surgeon
- Georg Capellen (1869–1934), composer and musicologist
- Gustav Schalk (1874–1930), member of the Lippe Landtag, president of the Chamber of Agriculture, head (mayor) of Unterwüstens
- Rudolf Günther (1880–1941), architect, born in the Schötmar district
- Heinrich Schwanold (1887–1932), teacher and local history researcher
- Friedrich Frisius (1895–1970), Vice Admiral in World War II, fortress commander of Dunkirk
- August Prüßner (1895–1970), politician and member of the state parliament (NSDAP)
- Karel Niestrath (1896–1971), sculptor
- Heinrich Welslau (1918–1991), politician (SPD), Mayor of Bad Salzuflen from 1969 to 1976, born in the Werl-Aspe district
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Grunewald (1920–2001), German general
- Peter Bernholz (* 1929), economist
- Ingrid Hartmann (1930-2006), canoeist
- Muhammad Salim Abdullah (1931–2016), Muslim journalist and senior director of the Central Institute Islam-Archive-Germany
- Kurt Müller (* 1933), writer
- Horst Steinmann (* 1934), economist and professor emeritus for business administration and management
- Arnold Schönhage (* 1934), mathematician, computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, born in the Lockhausen district
- Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), photographer
- Fritz W. Kramer (* 1941), ethnologist
- Reinhard Steege (* 1943), lawyer and former judge at the Federal Social Court; born in the Schötmar district
- Manfred Brüning (* 1944), author and clergyman
- Ulla Klomp (* 1945), writer and artist
- Wolfgang-Ekkehard Scharlipp (* 1947), Turkologist, Tibetologist and Indologist
- Jürgen von der Lippe (* 1948), TV presenter and comedian
- Kurt Dröge (* 1951), folklorist
- Hans-Ulrich Wittchen (* 1951), clinical psychologist and psychotherapist
- Klaus Leroff (* 1953), politician (CDU)
- Andreas Lukoschik (* 1953), television presenter, actor and author
- Leonie Baumann (* 1954), qualified pedagogue, curator and journalist
- Ute Frevert (* 1954), historian, born in the Schötmar district
- Birgit Meineke (* 1956), Germanist and name researcher, born in the Schötmar district
- Klaus Kelle (* 1959), journalist, publicist and media entrepreneur
- Peter Klein (* 1959), athlete, born in the Schötmar district
- Bettina Herlitzius (* 1960), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Barbara Ostmeier (* 1961), politician (CDU)
- Jörg Sasse (* 1962), photographer
- Bernadette La Hengst (* 1967), musician (The bride hits the eye)
Other personalities
The following personalities are associated with the city:
- Heinrich Salomon Hoffmann (1794–1852), founder of the "Hoffmann's starch factory"
- Johann Heinrich von Lengerke (1825–1906), politician, President of the Lippe Landtag and member of the German Reichstag .
- Nikolaus Dürkopp (1842–1918), entrepreneur and mechanic
- Christian Hoppenstock (1859–1936), politician (SPD), member of the Lippe state parliament and the city council in Salzuflen
- Karl Heldmann (1872–1914), Mayor of Salzuflen
- Joseph Plaut (1879–1966), reciter and local poet from Lippe
- Gustav Wolff (1881–1965), teacher / headmaster at the school on Kirchplatz and ornithology
- Artur Schweriner (1882–1941), teacher of the Jewish community (1903–1906), writer and journalist
- Kurt Meyer-Rotermund (1884–1977), writer, poet and essayist
- Walter Baade (1893–1960), astronomer and astrophysicist, chose Bad Salzuflen as his retirement home and was buried there. In 2005 the observatory in the Lohfeld school center was named after him.
- Emil Schulz-Sorau (1901–1989), painter and graphic artist
- Richard Sprick (1901–1968), draftsman, portrait and landscape painter
- Heinz Krekeler (1906–2003), physical chemist, was the FRG's first ambassador to the USA and German representative in the Euratom Commission.
- Hans Rübenstrunk (1926–1976), city director initially in Schötmar, later in Bad Salzuflen
- Hans Leo Kornberg (1928–2019), British-American biochemist, lived in Bad Salzuflen until he emigrated in 1939
- Helmut Martin Rieger (* 1943), politician (SPD), member of the European Parliament
- Gerhard Schröder (* 1944), politician (SPD), former Federal Chancellor, grew up (1945 to 1956) in the Wülfer-Bexten district.
- Michael Diekmann (* 1954), former CEO of Allianz SE , member of the supervisory boards of BASF, Linde AG and Siemens, grew up in Bad Salzuflen
- Uwe Voehl (* 1959), writer
- Bernd Begemann (* 1962), musician, co-founder of the Hamburg School (pop music) , grew up in Bad Salzuflen
- Michael Larsen (* 1965), singer, presenter, composer and lyricist
- Thomas Helmer (* 1965), soccer player, European champion 1996, grew up in Bad Salzuflen
- Jochen Distelmeyer (* 1967), musician, former head of the Blumfeld band
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Meyer for Bad Salzuflen City Archives (ed.): Traces of Jewish Life - City Tours in Bad Salzuflen and Schötmar; Volume 7 of the "Contributions to the History of the City of Bad Salzuflen" . 1st edition. Publishing house of the Heimat- und Beautification Association Bad Salzuflen e. V., Bad Salzuflen 2010, ISBN 978-3-941726-11-6 .
- ^ Lippische Landeszeitung: Gerhard Schröder is guest of honor in Bexten . Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
- ↑ LZ: the only boy in the midst of knitting girls . Retrieved October 9, 2018 .