List of personalities of the city of Eschweiler
This list contains personalities from the city of Eschweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia. For the mayors of Eschweiler see the list of mayors of Eschweiler .
Fictional personalities
In addition to living people, there are fictional ones in Eschweiler
- Juffern and
- Killewittchen .
Honorary citizen
- 1922 August Thyssen
- 1951 Hugo Merckens
- Franz Reuleaux
sons and daughters of the town
- Theo Altmeyer (1931–2007), tenor
- Herbert Bardenheuer (1949–2007), painter, draftsman and photographer
- Peter Bardenheuer (1888–1979), engineer and iron researcher
- Achim Besgen (* 1924), Catholic priest
- Heinrich Boere (1921–2013), German-Dutch war criminal
- Hans Günter Bömeke (* 1942), former District Administrator of Aachen
- Götz Briefs (1889–1974), political economist and social philosopher
- Johannes Bündgens (* 1956), Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen
- Markus Daun (* 1980), soccer player
- Christine Englerth (née Wältgens; 1767–1838), founder of the Eschweiler Mining Association (EBV); her husband Carl Englerth and her son Friedrich Englerth
- Achim Eschbach (* 1948), semiotic; Professor of Communication Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Josef Eschbach (1916–1992), writer
- Andreas Gielchen (* 1964), soccer player
- Paul Greven (* 1934), painter and sculptor
- Walter Heckmann (1942–2009), chairman of the AWO Mittelrhein district
- Isaak Herstatt (1697–1761), co-founder of the Herstatt Bank
- Matthias Gerhard von Hoesch (1698–1784), statesman and diplomat in Cologne, imperial and Bavarian services and mining entrepreneur in the Warstein area
- Johann Ferdinand Jansen (1758–1834), painter and local poet born in Weisweiler
- Wolfgang Joußen (* 1956), sociologist and regional planner, 1985–94 research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at RWTH Aachen University , 1993–95 Assistant Professor at the EIIC European Institute for International Communication ( Maastricht / Emerson College Boston), since 1988 office for social science analyzes and planning in Langerwehe- Heistern
- Stefan Kämmerling (* 1976), politician (SPD)
- Susanne Kasperczyk (* 1985), soccer player
- Willi Kauhsen (* 1939), car racing driver and racing team owner
- Claus Killing-Günkel (* 1963), Esperantologist
- Sascha Klein (* 1985), water diver
- Kevin Kratz (* 1987), soccer player
- Franz-Josef Lersch-Mense (* 1952), State Secretary and Head of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia since July 2010
- Ernst Joseph Lexis (1808–1884), doctor, member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province, 1859/60 provisional First Mayor of Eschweiler
- Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914), economist, national economist and statistician
- Kerstin Linnartz (* 1976), presenter and actress
- Franz Wilhelm Lürken (1886–1944), Lord Mayor of Bonn
- Ulrich Nersinger (* 1957) Member of the Pontificia Accademia Cultorum in the Vatican , writer, Vaticanist
- Rudolf Neubrand , first lieutenant , is the only bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross from Eschweiler; he fell on October 12, 1941 and in his honor the Eschweiler City Council decided on November 2, 1941 to rename Hompeschstrasse to Rudolf-Neubrand-Strasse; the renaming in Hompeschstrasse took place after the Second World War
- Hugo Merckens (1871–1955), entrepreneur and local politician
- Michael Pfeiffer (1925–2018), soccer player, national player and coach
- Dagmar Preising (* 1956), art historian and curator
- Franz Reuleaux (1829–1905), "father of kinematics"
- Wilhelm Rinkens (1879–1933), composer and music director
- Michaela Schaffrath (* 1970), porn actress (Gina Wild) and actress
- Wilhelm Scheller (born January 3, 1873 in Eschweiler), Junkers aircraft veteran, joined Junkers in 1902, head of the research institute Prof. Junkers in Aachen , brother-in-law of Luerken, April 4, 1917 Lecture on oil motors in inland navigation in the Aachen district association of the VDI , 1918 after Dessau moved
- Margrethe Schmeer (* 1950), local politician (CDU) and mayor of the city of Aachen
- Peter Schoenen (1952–2014), teacher, writer and non-fiction author; grew up in Killewittchen
- Brigitte Scholtes (* 1958), radio journalist
- Roswitha Schreiner (* 1965), actress (including Liebling Kreuzberg, Tatort )
- Martin Schulz (* 1955), SPD politician, former SPD candidate for chancellor, former chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party of Europe (SPE) in the European Parliament
- Ba-Muaka Simakala (* 1997) German- Congolese soccer player
- Karl-Heinz Smuda (* 1961), ghostwriter, editor and publisher in Berlin and Norfolk / Virginia (USA)
- Ralf Souquet (* 1968), pool player
- Martin Stevens (1929-2015), politician
- Bernhard Stürtz (1845–1928), fossil and mineral dealer in Bonn, paleontologist and manager
- August Thyssen (1842–1926), founded the ironworks Thyssen-Foussol & Co in Duisburg in 1867 and later other steelworks. The company went 1997 in ThyssenKrupp AG on
- Joseph Thyssen (1844–1915), industrialist and the younger brother of August Thyssen
- Thomas Virnich (* 1957), sculptor and painter
- Christina Wassen (* 1999), water diver
- Elena Wassen (* 2000), water diver
- Hubert Werden (1908–2005), painter and art teacher
- Gerda Zuleger-Mertens (* 20th century), painter, installation and object artist
Eschweiler originals
Josef Schmitz or Jupp Schmitz alias Sportwettenjupp (born July 19, 1931 in Eschweiler; † September 3, 1997 in Eschweiler) was a reporter, photographer, local painter and Eschweiler original. On his 65th birthday, the Eschweiler newspaper wrote about him that he belonged to Eschweiler like Tünnes and Schäl to Cologne and the leaning tower to Pisa. He was a sports photographer at the Tivoli in Aachen and at riding tournaments, later a local reporter for both the Bote an der Inde and the Eschweiler Nachrichten and, last but not least, a carnivalist, co-founder of the Eschweiler ice hockey club Grizzlies and an active handball player . For a number of years he ran the pub at Bei Etagejupp on Dürener Strasse in the old town of Eschweiler.
He painted and drew numerous pictures, many on the walls of houses and rooms in private apartments, restaurants and pubs in Eschweiler. His preferred motifs were buildings and landscapes from Dürwiß, Alt-Eschweiler, Hastenrath and the parish of Lohn. He has thus impressively captured the dredged home . Thirteen of his works, some of which were found with great effort, were published in a 2006 home calendar.
As an Eschweiler original - over two meters tall and with a shoe size 52 - he cycled through the city every day with a camera around his neck. He got his nickname floor jupp from the chairman of his carnival club Rote Funken when the chairman said that there were three Jupp Schmitz in the club and that he was now called floor jupp to better differentiate himself , as he could reach the first floor with an outstretched hand.
Personalities who worked on site (alphabetically)
- József Ács (* 1948), composer, conductor; Head of the Franz Liszt Society Eschweiler
- Andreas Bereczky (* 1953), graduate engineer and media manager, lives in Eschweiler
- Erich Berschkeit (1926–2002), mayor, member of the Bundestag 1980–1987
- Matthias Deckers (1802–1875) was the dean and founder of the St. Antonius Hospital and a rectorate school
- Ewald Dittmar (1832–1890), engineer and VDI chairman
- Nadeem Elyas (* 1945) headed the Central Council of Muslims in Germany in Eschweiler from 1994 to 2006
- Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987) owned a printing company in Eschweiler from 1918 to 1926
- Alexander Göttmann (Russian: Гетман) (* 1957) artist, painter and sculptor for metal sculptures
- Johann Heinrich Graeser (1774–1857) was an engineer and the first director of the EBV
- Heinrich Grüber (1891–1975) graduated from high school in Eschweiler
- Rudolf Henke (* 1954), internist and senior physician at the St. Antonius Hospital, chairman of the Marburger Bund trade union since 2007 , member of the Bundestag since 2009.
- Karl Maria Hettlage (1902–1995) went to school in Eschweiler
- Matthias Joseph Johnen (1817–1906), pastor of Röhe, dean and honorary canon of Cologne
- Anna Klöcker (1895–1977), worked politically in Eschweiler
- Frank Mertens (since 1995 in the national team of disabled people) participated in the People with Disabilities 2006 FIFA World Cup in part
- Carl Richard Petersen (1828–1884), engineer and VDI chairman
- The Preyer family of painters
- Gustav Preyer (1801–1839)
- Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803-1889)
- Louise Preyer (1805-1834)
- Franz Surges (1958–2015), composer and church musician
- Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), father of August Thyssen, wire factory director and banker
- Helen Weidenhaupt (* 1954), member of the SPD parliamentary group