List of personalities of the city of Bremerhaven

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This list contains the honorary citizens of the city, personalities born in Bremerhaven as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Bremerhaven without being born there. The second and third sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

In each entry, only the person article should be linked to the person entered.


Honorary citizen

The city of Bremerhaven and its predecessor communities have granted honorary citizenship to 20 people since 1885 .

Personalities born in Bremerhaven

To 1900

1901 to 1950

From 1951

People connected to the city

To 1900

  • Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen (1800–1865), project manager at port construction in Bremerhaven, Dutch hydraulic engineer and Bremen building officer
  • Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), trainee in port construction in Bremerhaven, architect
  • Leopold von Vangerow (1831–1881), publisher and local politician, during his time as chairman of the local council, Bremerhaven's first local constitution was drawn up in 1879
  • Wilhelm Anton Riedemann (1832–1920), businessman in Lehe, Geestemünde from 1863 (today Bremerhaven), Bremen and Hamburg and pioneer of the petroleum trade and tanker shipping
  • Friedrich Busse (1835–1898), today Bremerhaven, shipowner and founder of German deep-sea fishing
  • Hermann Gebhard (1843–1906), lawyer and from 1880 to 1890 city director of Bremerhaven
  • Walter zur Nieden (1869–1937), administrative officer and district administrator for the districts of Geestemünde and Wesermünde
  • Johann Schütte (1873-1940), engineer, professor of shipbuilding and design engineer, from 1897 at the North German Lloyd (NDL) in Bremerhaven, planned and managed the towing research institute of the NDL
  • Leopold Ziegenbein (1874–1950), commodore of North German Lloyd and winner of the Blue Ribbon
  • August Stampe (1878–1965), workers leader, trade union secretary, Bremen Senator (SPD), he gave the main speech in 1919 on the market square in front of 20,000 citizens
  • Theodor Ludwig Karl Krieghoff (1879–1946), composer, musician, military musician of the sailors artillery
  • Helmut Yström (1881–1963), politician (CDU) and senator in Bremen, from 1945 to 1948 police chief in Bremerhaven
  • Hans Scharoun (1893–1972), grew up in Bremerhaven, architect and one of the most important representatives of organic architecture
  • Heinrich Soltziem (1895–1967), called Hein Mück from Bremerhaven , ship carpenter and sung city original
  • Karl Salomon (1896–1977), KPD functionary, deputy minister and state secretary in the GDR, lived at Deichstrasse 69 in Bremerhaven
  • Julius Lorenzen (1897–1965), politician (NSDAP) and Lord Mayor of Bremerhaven (1933–1939)

From 1900

  • Karl Georg Saebisch (1903–1984), German-speaking theater, film and television actor, from 1945 to 1951 director of the Bremerhaven City Theater, honorary member of the Bremerhaven City Theater
  • Karl Geffken (1908–2005), senior director of studies at the Pestalozzischule (today Lloyd-Gymnasium) in Bremerhaven
  • Werner Braune (1909–1951), head of the state police station in Wesermünde after 1940, convicted SS war criminal
  • Ferdinand Dux (1920–2009), actor, from 1967 to 1974 at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven
  • Eric Vaessen (1922–2009), actor and voice actor, from 1952 to 1961 at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven
  • Horst von Hassel (1928–2020), educator, politician (SPD), department head for education and culture in the magistrate, member of parliament, education senator
  • Gert Schlechtriem (1929–1998), folklorist and museum director
  • Manfred Ebel (* 1932), German politician (CDU)
  • Stephan Remmler (* 1946), grew up in Bremerhaven, singer, composer and music producer
  • Willi Reimann (* 1949), former soccer player of TuS Bremerhaven 93, soccer coach
  • Dieter Petram (* 1951), shipbuilding entrepreneur
  • Uwe Lissau (* 1952), President of the Bremerhaven District Court since 1991
  • Felix Magath (* 1953), former coach of FC Bremerhaven, football coach
  • Herta Müller (* 1953), writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009, 1989 scholarship in Bremerhaven
  • Ulrich Nussbaum (* 1957), 2003–2007 Senator for Finance in Bremen, 2007–2009 Vice President of the Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 2009–2014 Senator for Finance in Berlin
  • Thomas Jürgewitz (* 1959), politician (AfD)
  • Thomas Popiesch (* 1965) former ice hockey player, coach of the Fischtown Pinguins since 2016
  • Christoph Maria Herbst (* 1966), actor, 1992–1996 at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven
  • Olaf Satzer (* 1970), grew up and active in Bremerhaven, drummer, music teacher and novelist
  • Peter Lehmann (* 1982), politician, former member of the Bremen citizenship, former chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Bremerhaven
  • Birte Baumgardt (* 1984), grew up in Bremerhaven, voice actress
  • Tim Müller-Zitzke (* 1994), film producer and photographer, has been studying digital media production at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences since 2013


City Councilor

The elected city ​​councilors lead the city ​​council assembly in Bremerhaven .

  • 1948–1951: Karl Curdt (1885–1959, SPD)
  • 1951–1955: Carl Stelljes (1885–1963, FDP)
  • 1955–1959: Karl Eggers (1919–2004, SPD)
  • 1959–1971: Willi Kuhn (1900–1980, SPD)
  • 1971–1975: Max Bernhardt (1905–1985, SPD)
  • 1975–1977: Günter Lemke (1931–2015, SPD)
  • 1977–1983: Mathilde Lehmann (1917–2007, SPD)
  • 1983–1995: Alfons Tallert (1916–2006, SPD)
  • 1995–1999: Hans Joachim Petersen (1936–2000, CDU)
  • 1999-2015: Artur Beneken (* 1939, SPD)
  • 2015–2019: Brigitte Lückert (* 1943, SPD)
  • since 2019: Torsten von Haaren (* 1964, SPD)

Medal of Merit

The City of Bremerhaven has been awarding the Medal of Merit since 1979 . Are carriers

  • 1979: August Dierks (1899–1983), pioneer for the German Maritime Museum
  • 1982: Kurt Ditzen (1891–1982), newspaper publisher of the Nordsee-Zeitung
  • 1982: Rudolf Dahmen (1917–1989), editor-in-chief of the Nordsee-Zeitung
  • 1989: Heinz-Günter Thees (1911–2004), architect, as “Buernhusvadder” and chairman of the Leh farmhouse association , he succeeded in building the marshland in Speckenbütteler Park
  • 1999: Wolfgang van Betteray (1947–2017), businessman and lawyer, was able to get a significant number of jobs in Bremerhaven's shipbuilding industry
  • 2000: Joachim Ditzen-Blanke (* 1925), editor of the Nordsee-Zeitung
  • 2011: Gerlinde Berk (* 1940), clerk, member of the city council (SPD), member of the Bremen citizenship, commitment to the university location Bremerhaven, chairwoman of the support association of the Bremerhaven city theater
  • 2016: Detlev Ellmers (* 1938), prehistorian and art historian, 1971–2002 managing director of the German Maritime Museum

Footnotes

1Born in Lehe , merged with Geestemünde to form Wesermünde in 1924 , renamed Bremerhaven in 1947
2Born in Geestemünde , merged with Lehe zu Wesermünde in 1924 , renamed Bremerhaven in 1947
3Born in Wesermünde , renamed Bremerhaven in 1947
4thBorn in Wulsdorf , incorporated in Geestemünde in 1920 , now part of Bremerhaven

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Geffken : A North German Century. Work and life of the Bremerhaven headmaster Karl Geffken from Geversdorf an der Oste . 2nd Edition. VAR-Verlag, 2008, DNB 137225113 .  
  2. ↑ A man for character roles . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . October 27, 2009.
  3. ↑ He gave the western voice to John Wayne. In: Website of the Wesermarsch newspaper . March 6, 2009, archived from the original on April 3, 2011 ; accessed on June 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang van Betteray's obituary notice. In: Internet site of the mourning portal Rheinische Post . October 14, 2017, accessed June 13, 2019 .