List of personalities of the city of Celle

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This list of personalities of the city of Celle gathers the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city - without claim to completeness - as well as other personalities who are connected with the city of Celle.

Honorary citizen

  • Simon Hoppener († 1566), ducal clerk and later rent master, since 1547 (oldest "registered" honorary citizen of Germany)
  • Medical Councilor Ludwig Andreas Koeler (* 1773; † 1836), court medic, teacher at the Surgical Institute in Celle, director of the college of the United Poor Agencies, since 1832 (devotion to fellow human beings, 1st "official" honorary citizen of the city)
  • Ferdinand Hartzer (* 1838; † 1906), sculptor, since 1891 (high and lasting merits in the artistic field, e.g. Thaer and former Germania monument)
  • Gerhard Lucas Meyer (* 1830; † 1916), industrialist, secret councilor since 1905 (founder of the new building for the Celle children's hospital), honorary citizen of the cities of Celle and Peine
  • Wilhelm Bomann (* 1848; † 1926), manufacturer, founder of the "Vaterländisches Museum" - renamed "Bomann Museum" in 1923, since 1907 (for fundamental work on rural customs and traditions)
  • Wilhelm Denicke (* 1852; † 1924), lawyer, Lord Mayor, since 1924 (special commitment to youth and industrial urban development)
  • Harry Trüller (born December 20, 1868 - † August 13, 1934), biscuit and rusks manufacturer, mayor, senator, since 1930 (including initiator of the Celle tram)
  • Otto Telschow (* 1876; † 1945), since 1936 (dismissed July 12, 2007)
  • Wilhelm Heinichen (* 1883; † 1967), member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional church, district administrator, councilor, mayor, post mortem 1969
  • Consul General Hermann von Rautenkranz (* 1883; † 1973), since 1973 (from drilling worker to pioneer of the domestic oil industry)
  • Carla Meyer-Rasch (* 1885; † 1977), local history researcher, writer and journalist, since 1973
  • Herbert Severin (* 1931), lawyer, councilor, mayor and mayor 1986–2001, since January 25, 2002 (for outstanding and unparalleled services)
  • Lieselotte Tansey (holder of the City Medal of Honor and the Lower Saxony Order of Merit), since August 19, 2009 (for social and cultural commitment and outstanding services). (Hermann von Rautenkranz († 1973) and Lieselotte Tansey-von-Rautenkranz († 2016) were father and daughter).
  • Robert Simon (* 1946), since 2015 (successful long-term cooperation between voluntary work and public bodies)

sons and daughters of the town

Albrecht Thaer monument

To 1900

1901 to 1950

From 1951

People who have worked or are working in Celle

  • Urbanus Rhegius , actually Urban Rieger (1489–1541), reformer
  • Johann Arndt (1555–1621), post-Reformation theologian
  • Michael Walther the Elder (1593–1662), Lutheran theologian
  • Georg Wilhelm, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1624–1705), ruled from 1665 until his death in Celle Castle as the last “Heidherzog” of the Guelphs
  • Francesco Maria Capellini, known as Stechinelli (1640–1694), since 1665 in Celle as entrepreneur and court banker of Duke Georg Wilhelm. Lived in the Stechinelli house on Great Plan 14 and let the Stechinelli Chapel in Wietze - Wieckenberg built
  • Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice , first President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle
  • Baron Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1694–1771), Councilor of Appeals and Vice President in Celle, Extraordinary Minister of King George II of Great Britain
  • Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann (1744–1800), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and educator, founder of the Wichmann educational institution
  • Caroline Mathilde (1751–1775), Queen of Denmark and Norway in exile
  • Johann Anton Leisewitz (1752–1806), writer and lawyer; Son of a cellar wine merchant
  • Basilius von Ramdohr (1757–1822), Councilor at the Higher Appeal Court in Celle, Director of the Cellische Justizkanzlei
  • Wilhelm Albrecht Andreas von Ramdohr (1800–1882), Hanoverian lieutenant general
  • August von Mackensen (1849–1945), Prussian Field Marshal General
  • Hermann Löns (1866–1914), editor and heath poet, lived in Celle from 1903–1912
  • Harry Trüller (1868–1934), biscuit and rusks manufacturer, mayor and senator
  • Leo von Jena (1876–1957), military and SS general
  • Bruno Hempel (1876–1937), politician (SPD)
  • Otto Haesler (1880–1962), architect; Along with Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, he is considered to be an important representative of New Building outside the Bauhaus
  • Heinrich Hüner (1881–1945), local poet and director of the Freie VolksBühne
  • Hilmer Freiherr von Bülow (1883–1966), officer, most recently lieutenant general in the Air Force in World War II and military writer
  • Hellmut Röhnert (1888–1945), industrialist during the National Socialist era
  • Hans Klein (1891–1944), officer, most recently major general in World War II: from 1936 to 1939 he was in command of the Celle Aviation School and at the same time commandant of the air base there
  • Gertrud Wehl-Rosenfeld (1891–1976), pianist and piano teacher
  • Hans Bohnenkamp (1893–1977), educator, university professor and university director; was the founder and first director of the newly founded Pedagogical Academy in Celle in 1946, professor of pedagogy and philosophy
  • Rudolf Lochner (1895–1978), from 1946 to 1951 Professor of Education at the Pedagogical Academy in Celle
  • Joseph Otto Plassmann (1895–1964), Germanist and leading member of the National Socialist Research Foundation for German Ahnenerbe
  • Karl Daunicht (1898–1945), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victim of National Socialism
  • Günter Schwartzkopff (1898–1940), officer in the Wehrmacht air force; was a teacher at the pilot school in Celle until March 1935, and was appointed commander on April 1, 1935
  • Siegfried Westphal (1902–1982), officer
  • Ernst Zierke (1905–1972), SS-Unterscharführer, involved in "Aktion T4" and "Aktion Reinhardt"
  • Armin Hörmann (1907–1979), politician (SPD)
  • Hannes Razum (1907–1994), director of the Schlosstheater Celle from 1956 to 1972
  • Kurt Rose (1908–1999), teacher and author
  • Horst Niemack (1909–1992), officer in the Wehrmacht Army in World War II and later Brigadier General of the Reserve in the Bundeswehr
  • Helmuth Hörstmann (1909–1993), doctor and mayor of the city of Celle
  • Heinrich Schmidt (1912–2000), SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp doctor in concentration camps
  • Fritz Darges (1913–2009), SS-Obersturmbannführer and personal adjutant to Adolf Hitler
  • Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1913–1989), officer and mayor of the city of Glücksburg; joined the Jäger Battalion of the Black Reichswehr in Celle from August 1933
  • Fritz Graßhoff (1913–1997), draftsman, painter, writer and songwriter; lived in Celle from 1946 to 1967
  • Erich Topp (1914–2005), submarine commander in the Navy and later Rear Admiral in the German Navy; went to school in Celle
  • Heinrich Albertz (1915–1993), Protestant theologian, pastor in Celle after the Second World War, head of the city's refugee office; Governing Mayor of (West) Berlin (1966–1967)
  • Ernst Srock (1916–1998), educator and politician (GB / BHE)
  • Tom Reichelt (1920–2004), painter
  • Hans-Hubertus Bühmann (1921–2014), forest manager and state politician in Lower Saxony (CDU); was a member of the board of the Landkrankenkasse Celle, as well as a member of the district council of Celle and district administrator of the district of Celle
  • Ursula Flick (1924–2006), politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Osnabrück and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
  • Ulrich von Witten (1926–2015), administrative lawyer and municipal civil servant; most recently senior city director in Celle
  • Günter Skrodzki (1935–2012), graphic artist and expressionist; worked in Celle from 1959 to 1967
  • Harald Range (1948-2018), lawyer; from 2001 to 2011 Attorney General at the Attorney General's Office in Celle
  • Brigitte Streich (* 1954), archivist and historian; Head of the City Archives from 1994 to 2001

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Harald Müller (text), Ulrich Loeper (pictures): Biographical-bibliographical lexicon of Celler musicians. Composers, singers, instrumental musicians, music educators, musicologists, instrument makers, bell founders, music publishers, music dealers and music therapists (= Celle contributions to regional and cultural history. Series of publications by the City Archives and the Bomann Museum Celle. Vol. 31). Edited by the city of Celle. Celle 2003, ISBN 3-925902-50-3 .