List of personalities from the city of Castrop-Rauxel

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This list of personalities of the city of Castrop-Rauxel includes the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city and other personalities related to the city.

Honorary citizen

  • February 21, 1928: Franz Keweloh, dean and Catholic pastor
  • October 28, 1933: Paschasius Hermann Rettler (1915-2004), Franciscan Father and Bishop Emeritus of Bacabal (Brazil)
  • June 3, 1971: Wilhelm Kauermann (1898–1973), politician (SPD)
  • 1979: Hugo Paulikat (1918–1998), politician (SPD)
  • 1999: Hans Ettrich (1933–2014), politician (SPD), former mayor (1989–99) and former district administrator (1994–99)

sons and daughters of the town

Until 1950

  • 1805, April 8, Clara Kopp ; † January 24, 1883 in Essen, founder of the order, Sister of Charity
  • 1813, September 6, Gisbert von Vincke ; † February 5, 1892 in Freiburg im Breisgau, poet lawyer, Shakespeare researcher
  • 1844, July 21, Hedwig Kiesekamp ; † March 2, 1919 in Münster, singer and writer
  • 1878, May 9, Heinrich Haslinde ; † November 11, 1938 in Castrop-Rauxel, local poet
  • 1902, September 12, Ernst Bach ; † March 18, 1965 in Siegen, CDU politician and mayor there
  • 1908, April 11, Josef Hermann Dufhues ; † March 26, 1971 in Rheinhausen, politician (CDU), Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister and President of the State Parliament
  • 1908, August 23, Ernst Feßler ; † May 13, 1979, economist, President of the State Central Bank of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1910, February 19, Wilhelm Specht ; † July 12, 1986, entrepreneur, businessman and association official
  • 1912, January 30, Josef Ikemann ; † October 30, 1994 in Ahaus, local politician (CDU)
  • 1912, August 14, Wilhelm Silberkuhl ; † June 12, 1984 in Bad Wiessee, architect and civil engineer
  • 1912, October 24, Heinz Ballensiefen ; † unknown, historian and National Socialist functionary, employed to research the "Jewish question"
  • 1913, March 24, Wilhelm Ziegenfuß ; † May 24, 1986 in Xanten, politician (SPD), MdL NRW
  • , September 1914 18, Karl-Heinz Kramer , professional cyclist and world record-holder upright behind motorcyclists as pacemakers with 154.506 km / h, set up in 1950 on the Grenzlandring
  • 1915, January 26th, Paschasius Hermann Rettler ; † September 16, 2004 in Sorocaba (Brazil), Bishop of Bacabal (Brazil)
  • 1915, November 20, Alfred Ollesch ; † April 16, 1978 in Cologne, engineer and politician (FDP)
  • 1919, May 14, Hinrich Grauenhorst ; † May 3, 1998 in Schmallenberg-Jagdhaus, painter
  • 1924, February 25, Hannelore Tust ; † July 17, 2010, author
  • 1925, Günther Wolfram Sellung , painter, sculptor and art teacher
  • 1927, June 11, Alfred Niepieklo ; † April 2, 2014 in Castrop-Rauxel, German football champion 1956 and 1957
  • 1929, March 20, Josef Reding ; † January 10, 2020 in Dortmund, writer
  • 1929, August 4th, Friedhelm Burkardt ; † November 26, 1998 in Nairobi (Kenya), psychologist and professor for occupational and traffic psychology
  • 1930, January 2, Alfred Vestring , diplomat
  • 1931, October 31, Emil Bölling ; † February 16, 2015, building contractor, founder of the most important German truck collection, curator of the ALGA utility vehicle museum in Sittensen
  • 1932, Egon Schütz ; † 2015 in Düren, teacher and professor for general educational science, anthropology and ethics
  • 1933, July 6, Hans-Gerd Strube , elementary school director and politician (CDU), 1983–1994 Member of the Bundestag
  • 1934, April 15, Erwin Weiss ; † October 2, 2008 in Dortmund, singer
  • 1935, May 29, Wolfgang Lohmann , politician (CDU)
  • 1935, September 13th, Friedhelm Wentzke , canoeist
  • 1937, April 7, Helmut Buschhausen ; † July 1, 2014 in Vienna, art historian
  • 1937, November 1st, Klaus Starke , pharmacologist
  • 1938, February 26, Dietrich Berke ; † October 16, 2010 in Zierenberg, musicologist and publisher's editor
  • 1939, November 16, Paul Reding , painter, sculptor and writer
  • 1942, March 16, Werner Trzmiel , athlete
  • 1942, June 15, Friedhelm Ost , journalist and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1943, January 29, Werner Bonhoff ; † February 12, 2000, entrepreneur
  • 1943, April 8, Manfred Kuhmichel , politician (CDU), 1990–2012 MdL NRW
  • 1944, November 19, Klaus Fichtel , football player
  • 1945, October 19, Klaus Senger , football player
  • 1947, March 17th, Heinz Marzi , officer and association functionary
  • 1949, November 20, Johannes Beisenherz , politician (SPD), 2004–2015 mayor of Castrop-Rauxel
  • 1950, Anke Engelsmann , actress ( Berliner Ensemble )
  • 1950, April 4, Gabriele Sikora , politician (SPD), 1995–2010 Member of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1950, May 30th, Ralf Suerland , jockey and trainer in horse racing
  • 1950, June 13, Paul-Josef Raue ; † March 11, 2019 in Wolfenbüttel, journalist and non-fiction author

From 1951

Personalities related to the city

  • William Thomas Mulvany (1806–1885), Irish entrepreneur in Germany; resided at Haus Goldschmieding in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Julius Rütgers (1830–1903), entrepreneur; founded the Rütgerswerke in Castrop-Rauxel in 1849
  • Peter Klöckner (1863–1940), entrepreneur and industrialist; merged its steel holdings in 1923 to form Klöckner-Werke AG Rauxel-Berlin in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Josef Wentzler (1884–1942), architect; built the old town market in Castrop-Rauxel with uniform sandstone facades
  • Lotte Brügmann-Eberhardt (1921–2018), writer; attended the Oberlyzeum in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Hans Dieter Schwarze (1926–1994), writer, actor and television director; 1968–1973 director of the Westphalian State Theater (WLT) in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Herbert Hauck (1930–2014), theater director, dramaturge and director; 1979–1996 artistic director or general manager of the WLT in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Klaus Malettke (* 1936), historian; attended the modern school in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Dietrich Hollinderbäumer (* 1942), German-Swedish actor; 1968–1972 actor, assistant director and director at the WLT in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Manfred Flügge (* 1946), writer and translator; attended the Adalbert-Stifter-Gymnasium in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Norbert Römer (* 1947), politician (SPD) and journalist; has lived in Castrop-Rauxel since 1952
  • Norbert Skowronek (* 1947), sports official; grew up in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Friedrich Schirmer (* 1951), theater director and dramaturge; 1970 intern and dramaturge at the WLT in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Hubert Katzmarz (1952–2003), writer and publisher; grew up in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Andrea Wildner (* 1953), Austrian actress; first engagement 1973/74 at the WLT in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Franz Feckl (* 1955), cook; 1983–1985 in goldsmithing in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Lena Sabine Berg (* 1964), actress; 2005–2007 at the WLT in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Michael Friebe (* 1964), engineer and medical technology entrepreneur; founded and managed Neuromed GmbH in Castrop-Rauxel in 1993
  • Christoph Brüning (* 1967), lawyer and university lecturer in Kiel; 1987 Abitur at Adalbert-Stifter-Gymnasium in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Christian Scholze (* 1969), dramaturge and theater director; since 2005 head dramaturge of the evening theater at the WLT in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Kai Schürholt (* 1971), former member of the CDU; grew up in Castrop-Rauxel, graduated from Ernst-Barlach-Gymnasium
  • Holger Stromberg (* 1972), master chef, television chef and author; 1994 Michelin star in goldsmithing in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Micky Beisenherz (* 1977), radio and television presenter; attended the Adalbert-Stifter-Gymnasium in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Corinna Liedtke (* 1983), director, screenwriter and television editor; grew up in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Johanna Pollet (* 1986), actress; 2015-2018 permanent member of the WLT ensemble in Castrop-Rauxel
  • Lisa Kapteinat (* 1989), lawyer, politician (SPD) and MdL NRW; grew up in Castrop-Rauxel, since 2016 chairwoman of the SPD city association

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hartung K. The St. Lambertus Parish. Regensbergsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster (Westf.), 1947, pp. 70, 71
  2. ^ Official website of the city of Castrop-Rauxel
  3. ^ Official website of the city of Castrop-Rauxel