List of personalities from the city of Castrop-Rauxel
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
- 1951, February 21, Gerda Kieninger , † January 22, 2020, politician (SPD), 1995–2017 Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1951, April 27th, Laurentius Schlieker , abbot of the Benedictine monastery Gerleve
- 1951, July 21, Eva Steininger-Bludau , politician (SPD), 2010–2017 Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1951, October 8, Jutta Haug , politician (SPD), 1994–2014 MEP
- 1952, Hans-Jürgen Kubiak , non-fiction author
- 1952, March 3, Uschi Karnat , actress and porn actress
- 1952, August 30, Hans-Werner Ehrenberg , teacher and politician (FDP)
- 1953, Manfred Mai , political scientist
- 1953, April 5, Monika Barz , women and lesbian activist
- 1954, March 13, Jens Funk , ophthalmologist in Zurich
- 1955, Elfi Pracht-Jörns , historian and author
- 1955, Ulrich Syberg , Federal Chairman of the ADFC
- 1955, January 14th, Jürgen Konrad , lawyer
- 1955, April 5, Udo Helmbrecht , former President of the BSI and Managing Director of ENISA
- 1955, April 22nd, Marita Pabst-Weinschenk , speech scientist, pedagogue and author
- 1955, May 1st, Ursula Reitemeyer-Witt , educationalist, philosopher and professor in Münster
- 1956, Axel Vornam , theater director
- 1957, September 23, Mathias Schipper , soccer player
- 1957, December 2nd, Johannes Müller-Steinmann , physician, author and entrepreneur
- 1958, June 11, Ulrike Bolenz , German-Belgian painter and photoplastic artist
- 1958, July 6th, Hans-Peter Villis , Manager
- 1959, February 4th, Christian Schreier , soccer player and coach
- 1959, April 7, Engelbert Winter , ancient historian
- 1959, October 14th, Claudia Fährenkemper , photographer and teacher
- 1959, November 26th, Inge Blask , politician (SPD), since 2012 MdL NRW
- 1960, Siegfried G. Richter , coptologist
- 1960, Christine Wand-Wittkowski , literary scholar
- 1961, February 5, Thorsten Hoffmann , politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- 1961, March 22nd, Peter Müller , journalist, author and entrepreneur
- 1961, November 4th, Thomas Siewert , football player
- 1961, November 17, Wolfram Wuttke ; † March 1, 2015 in Lünen, football player
- 1962, January 8, Rainer Blasczyk , transfusion specialist
- 1962, February 27th, Thomas Richter , soccer player, manager and trainer
- 1962, March 7th, Toni Schreier , soccer player
- 1964, June 6th, Babette Winter , chemist and politician (SPD)
- 1964, September 12, Dieter Hecking , soccer player and coach
- 1968, March 8, Alexander Lüdeke , author and translator
- 1968, October 4th, Sabine Poschmann , politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
- 1975, Michael Ostrzyga , composer and conductor
- 1977, August 15, André Münch , cook
- 1978, July 9, Michael Melka , football player
- 1982, April 30th, Marcel Sieberg , racing cyclist
- 1978, December 4th, Taner Sahintürk , actor
- 1983, February 8th, Nadine Westerhoff , soccer referee
- 1985, February 25, Christian Mamerow , racing car driver
- 1985, August 7th, Kevin Ratajczak, singer of the band Eskimo Callboy
- 1986, September 14th, Barış Özbek , football player
- 1987, December 6th, Sebastian Biesler, singer of the band Eskimo Callboy
- 1987, June 29th, Marc-André Kruska , football player
- 1987, November 22nd, Michael Esser , soccer player
- 1988, January 3rd, Christopher Nöthe , soccer player
- 1989, April 29, MIKI , b. Michél Puljic, rapper
- 1990, May 24th, Christina Petersen , actress
- 1991, February 13, Felix Schümann , ice hockey player
- 1992, September 1st, Ufuk Özbek , Turkish soccer player
- 1994, November 30th, Semih Guler , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1996, July 16, Rana Tokmak , rhythmic gymnast
- 1998, January 9th, Chris Führich , soccer player
- 1998, July 17th, Gökhan Gül , German-Turkish soccer player
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
- ^ Hartung K. The St. Lambertus Parish. Regensbergsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster (Westf.), 1947, pp. 70, 71
- ^ Official website of the city of Castrop-Rauxel
- ^ Official website of the city of Castrop-Rauxel