List of personalities of the city of Flensburg

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Coat of arms of the city of Flensburg

The list of personalities of the city of Flensburg includes the personalities made honorary citizens by the city, the sons and daughters of the city and the personalities associated with the city.

Separate groups of people

Honorary citizen

Hugo Eckener , born in Flensburg in 1868 , designer of airships such as the LZ 129 “Hindenburg” and candidate for the post of Reich President, was made an honorary citizen in 1924.

The city of Flensburg has granted the following people honorary citizenship (chronologically according to the date of the award):

Bismarck relief of the Südermarktbrunnen , which no longer exists today
  • 1851: Friedrich Ferdinand Tillisch , Minister for the Duchy of Schleswig
  • 1857: Christian Rönnekamp, ​​businessman and shipowner
  • 1867: Edwin von Manteuffel , governor of the Prussian king
  • 1872: Karl von Wrangel , General, the "Drummer of Kolding "; in addition, there has been a monument of him in the city ​​park since 1903
  • 1895: Otto Fürst von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
  • 1911: Friedrich Wilhelm Selck, Councilor of Commerce
  • 1917: Heinrich Schuldt, city councilor and ship owner
  • 1924: Hugo Eckener , aviation pioneer
  • 1930: Hermann Bendix Todsen , Lord Mayor under whom the city expanded considerably through incorporations, especially Mürwik
  • 1937: Wilhelm Frick , German Interior Minister and National Socialist. On January 24, 1994, the Flensburg City Council distanced itself from this decision.
  • 1937: Friedrich Andersen , theologian and National Socialist local politician. On January 24, 1994, the Flensburg City Council distanced itself from this decision.
  • 2015: Renate Delfs , popular actress

Personalities born in Flensburg

Christian V (1646–1699), King of Denmark and Norway between 1670 and 1699
Georg Waitz (1813–1886), historian and 1848/1849 member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
The Rovsing symbol was named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927) .

Until 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1920

The " Petuh -Tante" Gerty Molzen (1906–1990) worked as an actress, cabaret artist, singer, author and copywriter.

1921 to 1940

Hans Hansen (1926–2007) was President of the German Sports Confederation from 1986 to 1994 .
Dieter Thomas Heck , born in Flensburg in 1937, hosted the ZDF hit parade for 15 years .

1941 to 1960

Jurist Jürgen Storbeck (* 1946) was the first director to set up the European police authority Europol .
The Green politician Bärbel Höhn (* 1952) was NRW Environment Minister from 1995 to 2005 .
The actor Peter Heinrich Brix (* 1955) is known from the TV series Großstadtrevier and Neues aus Büttenwarder .

1961 to 1980

The eventing rider Peter Thomsen (* 1961) won a gold medal at the Olympic Games in team riding in 2008 and 2012.

From 1981

Kim Frank (* 1982) sang in the indie pop band Echt, which was successful around the turn of the millennium .

Personalities who worked in Flensburg

Born until 1800

Born 1801 to 1900

The expressionist Emil Nolde (1867–1956) trained as a carver and draftsman at the arts and crafts school.

Born 1901 to 1950

Rötger Feldmann (* 1950) alias Brösel, creator of the comic figure Werner , worked as a lithographer in Flensburg.
  • Werner Heyde alias Fritz Sawade (1902–1964), chief appraiser of the T4 euthanasia campaign
  • Leon Jensen (1904–?), Mayor of the City of Flensburg
  • Ivo Braak (1906–1991), author, radio play speaker, reciter and educator, who was appointed professor at the Flensburg University of Education in 1948.
  • Hans Joachim Beyer (1908–1971), historian, National Socialist folk researcher and SS-Hauptsturmführer, who taught at the Flensburg University of Education in the 1950s
  • Waldemar Krause (1908–1992), SS officer and former head of the Flensburg District Criminal Police Office
  • Elsa Oehmigen (1908–1995), the last female organ grinder, a Flensburg original
  • Alfred Kranzfelder (1908–1944), corvette captain, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944, officer candidate for the crew in 1927 at the Mürwik naval school
  • Heinz Adler (1912–1990), politician, Lord Mayor of the City of Flensburg from 1963 to 1977
  • Klaus Kahlenberg (1912–2006), journalist, known as radio spokesman for the last Wehrmacht report on the Reichsender Flensburg
  • Gerd Sannemüller (1914–2008), composer, pianist and musicologist, former lecturer at the Flensburg University of Education.
  • Beate Uhse (1919–2001), pilot and entrepreneur who founded the first sex shop in the world in 1962 with the Institute for Marriage Hygiene at Angelburger Strasse 58 and subsequently founded Beate Uhse AG . She received the Federal Cross of Merit and was allowed to immortalize herself in the Golden Book of the city of Flensburg in 1999 on her 80th birthday . However, she never received honorary citizenship.
  • Wilhelm Ludwig Christiansen (1920-2011), city leaders and politicians of books on and petuh published
  • Erwin Lingk (1920–1979), politician (SPD)
  • Hans-Joachim Marx (1923–2010), composer and conductor
  • Horst Joachim Frank (1928–2005), Germanist and university professor at the Flensburg University of Education for didactics of German teaching
  • Karl Sablotzke (1932–1985), opera singer at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater
  • Dietrich Oldenburg (* 1933), lawyer and writer
  • Wolfgang Stribrny (1935–2011), historian, full professor of history at the University of Flensburg from his appointment in 1974 to his retirement in 1997
  • Peter Nicolaisen (1936–2013), English scholar, literary scholar and professor at the English Department of the University of Flensburg, founded in 1994, where he taught until his retirement
  • Peter Wulf (* 1938), historian, professor of history at the University of Flensburg from 1990 to 2002
  • Haide Klüglein (* 1939), swimmer of the Flensburg swimming club
  • Hansheinrich Meier-Peter (* 1939), Director of the Institute for Ship Operations Research at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences
  • Dieter Pust (* 1939), author and city historian
  • Jörg Haasters (* 1940), orthopedist who became an adjunct professor at the University of Flensburg
  • Karla Etschenberg (* 1941), educator and professor for didactics of biology, who moved to the University of Flensburg in 2000, where she retired in 2005.
  • Helmut Reinicke (1941–2018), sociologist and philosopher
  • Uwe Appold (* 1942), qualified designer, sculptor and painter
  • Margrit Siebert (* 1944), table tennis player of the TTC Ramsharde , German cup winner 1974
  • Hauke ​​Brunkhorst (* 1945), educationalist and sociologist, who has been teaching sociology as a professor at the University of Flensburg since 1996.
  • Matthias Janz (* 1947), director of the Flensburg Bach Choir
  • H. Dieter Neumann (* 1949), novelist, whose crime novels about sailing in Flensburg and the Flensburg Fjord act
  • Rötger Feldmann (* 1950) alias Brösel, German comic artist ( Werner )
  • Bea Lundt (* 1950), historian who has been professor of medieval history and history didactics at the University of Flensburg since 1998.
  • Klaus Rave (* 1950), honorary professor at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences since 2013
  • Nasrin Siege (* 1950), children's book author, grew up in Flensburg and Hamburg

Born from 1951

  • Gerhard Paul (* 1951), historian of social and visual history , has been teaching at the University of Flensburg since 1994
  • Robert Bohn (* 1952), historian, who has been director of the facility and professor for middle and modern history at the European University of Flensburg since 2001.
  • Monika Kneip (* 1952), table tennis player of the TTC Ramsharde , German cup winner 1974
  • Adelbert von Deyen (1953–2018), musician, composer, painter and graphic artist
  • Elin Fredsted (* 1953), a linguist who since 2000 at the European University Flensburg teaches and petuh published
  • Werner Fröhlich (* 1953), economist, social and human resource scientist, who was appointed professor for general business administration at the University of Flensburg in 1994
  • Gerd Grözinger (* 1953), economist and sociologist, moved to the International Institute for Management at the University of Flensburg, where he completed his habilitation in economics in 1999.
  • Olav Hohmeyer (* 1953), economist and professor for energy and resource management at the University of Flensburg
  • Bernd Scherers (* 1953), church musician and university professor, who was appointed professor for music didactics at the University of Flensburg in 1994.
  • Heiner Dunckel (* 1954), professor of work and organizational psychology at the University of Flensburg since 1996, member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament since 2017
  • Michael Ruck (* 1954), political scientist and contemporary historian, who became professor and director at the Institute for History and Its Didactics at the University of Flensburg in 2001.
  • Kirsten Krüger (* 1955), table tennis player of the TTC Ramsharde , German cup winner 1974
  • Uwe Danker (* 1956), historian who became a university professor and director at the Institute for History and its Didactics at the University of Flensburg in 1994.
  • Beatrix Niemeyer-Jensen (* 1957), Professor of Adult Education and Continuing Education at the European University of Flensburg
  • Wenzel Matiaske (* 1958), Professor of General Business Administration at the University of Flensburg from 2000 to 2008
  • Gert Postel (* 1958), impostor “Dr. Dr. Bartholdy "
  • Jürgen Schwier (* 1959), sports scientist
  • Stephan Panther (* 1961), economist and university professor with professorship for international and institutional economics with a regional focus on Spain / Latin America at the University of Flensburg since 2003
  • Matthias Bauer (* 1962), Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Flensburg since 2007
  • Jörn-Axel Meyer (* 1962), university professor and industrial engineer, who held the first university chair for business administration for small and medium-sized companies in Germany at the University of Flensburg from 1997 to 2002.
  • Daniel Jurgeleit (* 1963), football coach at SC Weiche Flensburg 08
  • Charlotte Gaitanides (* 1965), lawyer and former professor at the European University of Flensburg
  • Kim Schmidt (* 1965), comic artist
  • Ansgar Hüning (* 1966), singer (baritone)
  • Johannes Woyke (* 1968), Professor of Biblical Theology and Religious Education at the European University of Flensburg
  • Andrea Paluch (* 1970), lecturer at the European University of Flensburg
  • Lars Christiansen (* 1972), Danish handball player
  • Peter Nikolaus Heikenwälder (* 1972), painter and graphic artist with a teaching position for painting at the European University of Flensburg 2007/2008
  • Krešimir Matijević (* 1975), Professor of Ancient History and History Didactics at the European University of Flensburg
  • Wladimir Klitschko (* 1976), Ukrainian boxer who his boxing career in his adopted home of Germany at the box Bundesliga in autumn 1995 BC Sparta Flensburg began
  • Astrid Schwabe (* 1977), junior professor for public history and historical learning in subject teaching at the European University of Flensburg
  • Christian Stolz (* 1977), geographer, geomorphologist, geoarchaeologist and university professor
  • Laura Morgenthaler García (* 1979), literary scholar, professor of Spanish linguistics
  • Mama Baer (* 1981), visual artist
  • Torge Paetow (* 1995), soccer player; since 2017 central defender at SC Weiche Flensburg 08

Web links

Commons : Personalities of the City of Flensburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.flensburg-online.de/fotos/1-29.html
  2. ↑ a b Broder Schwensen: "In grateful joy". Flensburg was granted honorary citizenship during the Nazi era. In: Stadtarchiv Flensburg in cooperation with the IZRG Schleswig and the BU Flensburg (ed.): Between consensus and criticism - facets of cultural life 1933–1945 (= Flensburg contributions to contemporary history 4). City archive Flensburg 1999, ISBN 3-931913-03-1 , pp. 37–57, here p. 37f.
  3. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : The first honorary citizen of Flensburg , March 16, 2015, accessed on March 19, 2015
  4. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon . Flensburg 2009. Chapter sex shop
  5. ↑ Beate Uhse - an honorary citizen who is not ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated: February 15, 2015, accessed on: February 15, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foerdeschnack.de
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung : Sonnenblumen und Aktien , from: August 4, 2001; accessed on February 15, 2015
  7. ↑ Björn Jensen: Klitschko's success began near Flensburg. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . November 12, 2014, accessed July 7, 2016 .