List of personalities of the city of Gelsenkirchen

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Coat of arms of the city of Gelsenkirchen

Mayor and Lord Mayor

The following personalities were mayor and mayor of the city of Gelsenkirchen :

Senior City Directors

The following personalities were senior city directors in Gelsenkirchen:

Honorary citizen

The city of Gelsenkirchen has awarded the following people honorary citizenship (chronological list according to date of award):

Although honorary citizenship is conferred for life and formally expires with the death of the recipient, it was symbolically revoked in some cases: The honorary citizenship awarded to Paul von Hindenburg (1933), Adolf Hitler (1933), Alfred Meyer during the time of National Socialism (1933) and Viktor Lutze (1936) were revoked by a city council resolution after liberation from National Socialism at the end of 1945. Only in the case of Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian , who was honored in 1936 , who survived the war and only died in 1975, this city council resolution meant a real withdrawal of the still existing honorary citizenship. The honorary citizenship conferred on Emil Kirdorf on April 3, 1917 was also symbolically revoked more than half a century after his death by a council resolution of September 8, 1989.

Daughters and sons of the city

The following personalities were born in Gelsenkirchen:

19th century

20th century

1901-1910

  • 1901, January 29, Hermann Moog , † March 24, 1974 in Haltern am See, artist
  • 1901, April 23, Walter Daust , † February 10, 1963 in Hamburg, surgeon and gynecologist in Shanghai
  • 1903, February 8, Hanns Schaefer , † January 19, 1964 in Gelsenkirchen, painter and poet
  • 1903, June 8, Wilhelm Maul , † March 1985 in Darmstadt, political functionary (NSDAP) and SA leader
  • 1903, October 3, Paul Putzig , † July 12, 1975 in Hamm, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1904, January 30, Fritz Duda , † July 13, 1991 in Berlin, painter and graphic artist
  • 1904, January 31, Gustav Ortmann , † July 4, 1979 in Kippenheim, SS-Obersturmbannführer and camp doctor in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
  • 1904, April 6, in Horst, Willy Harzheim , † (shot dead) December 27, 1937 in Western Siberia, communist, working-class writer, emigrant, victim of the Stalinist purges
  • 1905, March 8, Emil Rothardt , † February 16, 1969, football player
  • 1905, August 25, Wilhelm Ernst , † July 23, 1952 in Gelsenkirchen, chess player
  • 1905, August 27, Hugo Paul Schreiber-Uhlenbusch , † September 22, 1978 in Herrsching am Ammersee, writer
  • 1905, October 16, Ernst Kuzorra , † January 1, 1990 in Gelsenkirchen, football player
  • 1906, March 14, Ferdinand Zajons , † April 10, 1987, football player
  • 1906, June 18, Anton Stankowski , † December 11, 1998 in Esslingen am Neckar, graphic artist, photographer and painter
  • 1906, July 16, Irma Lippert , † unknown, photographer and painter
  • 1906, September 13, Heinz Bartsch , † October 11, 1944 Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • 1906, November 23, Kurt Neuwald , † February 6, 2001 in Gelsenkirchen, founding member of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
  • 1907, Hermann Blomeier , † 1982 in Konstanz, architect, master student of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Bauhaus Dessau
  • 1907, March 26th, Walter Weber , † July 18, 1944 in Kościan (Poland), inventor of high-frequency pre-magnetization in magnetic tape technology
  • 1907, September 2, Fritz Szepan , † December 14, 1974 in Gelsenkirchen, football player
  • 1907, December 24, Walter Ferber , † April 13, 1996 in Lungern, publicist
  • 1908, January 22, Hubert Berke , † November 24, 1979 in Cologne-Rodenkirchen, painter and graphic artist
  • 1909, January 27, Margarete Franke , † June 24, 2011 in Gelsenkirchen, interior designer and artist
  • 1909, March 30, Hugo-Heinz Schmick , † October 19, 1982, surgeon and National Socialist
  • 1909, June 7, Heinrich Maria Denneborg , † November 1, 1987 in Neggio near Lugano, puppeteer and children's book author (including Jan and the wild horse and the little donkey Grisella)
  • 1909, June 11, Fritz-Aurel Goergen , † November 4, 1986 in Cologny (Switzerland), industry manager
  • 1909, October 3, Ernst Kalwitzki , † February 3, 1991 in Bremen, football player
  • 1910, July 8, Luise Hoffmann , † November 27, 1935 in Horn near Vienna, pilot
  • 1910, November 11, Thea Saefkow , † March 17, 1990 in Berlin, resistance fighter
  • 1910, December 8, Heinz Hohoff , † January 30, 1943 in Stalingrad, functionary of the Hitler Youth and politician (NSDAP)

1911-1920

  • 1911, February 1, Michael Murach in the Schalke district, † August 16, 1941, amateur boxer
  • 1911, February 28, Friedrich Karl Dörner , † March 10, 1992, classical archaeologist and epigraphist
  • 1911, July 29, Eduard Claudius , † December 13, 1976, writer
  • 1913, March 18, Werner Mölders , † November 22, 1941, fighter pilot in World War II
  • 1913, April 24, Martha Schlinkert , † June 30, 1979, children's book author
  • , 9 July 1913, Wilhelm Wolfgang Bröll , † 28 February 1989 Gummersbach, writers
  • 1914, January 9, Adolf Urban , † May 23, 1943 with Staraya Russa, football player
  • 1914, March 12, Walter Hoffmann , † July 22, 1996 in Münster, politician, director of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association
  • 1914, May 1, Rudolf Gellesch , † August 20, 1990 in Kassel, football player
  • 1914, June 10, Hans Klodt , † November 7, 1996 in Gelsenkirchen, football player
  • 1917, January 9, Gerhard Teriet , † November 4, 1995 in Arnsberg, politician (CDU), Mayor of Arnsberg (1975–1984)
  • 1917, March 24, Helmut Pielasch , † April 28, 1986 in Berlin, President of the Blinden- u. Visually impaired association
  • 1918, Johannes Sobotta , † 2007, Ministerialrat a. D., professor in São Leopoldo , author
  • 1919, December 14, Heinz Hinz , † March 22, 1988, football player

1921-1930

  • 1921, January 22, Hans Gertzen , † September 7, 1998 in Gelsenkirchen, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1921, May 15, Willi Dargaschewski , † May 22, 2005 in Gelsenkirchen, football player
  • 1921, December 8, Bernhard Füller , † June 28, 1943 with Choten, football player
  • 1921, Winfried Dornschneider , † June 9, 1997 in Möhnesee, Roman Catholic priest and author, most recently provost in Soest
  • 1922, January 27, Alfred Krause , Federal Chairman of the German Association of Civil Servants (DBB) from 1959 to 1987, holder of the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star
  • 1922, May 19, Herbert Burdenski , † September 15, 2001 in Gelsenkirchen, soccer player and coach
  • 1922, July 17, Günter Volmer , † July 30, 2010, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1922, August 16, Gottfried Falk , † October 20, 1991 in Karlsruhe, theoretical physicist and physics didactician
  • 1922, August 26, Richard Limpert , † March 16, 1991 in Essen, writer
  • 1924, January 3, Hermann Hoffmann , † February 16, 2012 in Dortmund, internist and university professor
  • 1925, January 15, Heinz Urban , † June 15, 1977, politician (SPD), MdL
  • 1926, Günter Tollmann , † August 22, 1990 in Hanover, painter, sculptor and object artist
  • 1926, March 7, Josef Ernst , † February 11, 2012 in Paderborn, Catholic theologian
  • 1926, March 28, Ottmar Kling , † October 31, 2005 in Aalen, physical chemist, pioneer in the field of idea management
  • 1926, June 8, Helmut Silberberg , † June 26, 2015 in Sag Harbor, New York, best friend of the writer Anne Frank
  • 1926, July 16, Heinrich Kwiatkowski , † May 23, 2008 in Dortmund, football player
  • 1926, August 21, Ben-Zion Orgad , † April 28, 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israeli composer
  • 1926, September 26, Günter Kronberg , † September 18, 1977 in Frankfurt am Main, jazz saxophonist
  • 1926, October 26, Bernhard Klodt , † May 23, 1996 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, football player
  • 1927, October 29, Heinz Renneberg , † October 25, 1999 in Gelsenkirchen, rower, 1960 Olympic champion in Rome in two with helmsman
  • 1928, March 3, Egbert Reinhard , † April 8, 2004, politician (SPD), MdL
  • 1928, June 3, Ilse Kibgis , † December 17, 2015, writer
  • 1928, July 3, Ursula Heindrichs , Germanist, pedagogue and fairy tale researcher
  • 1928, November 27, Hermann Franz , † October 8, 2016, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG
  • 1929, April 8, Rolf Füllgränke , † November 23, 2008 in Arnsberg, politician (CDU), district administrator of the former Arnsberg district (1973–1974) and later of the Hochsauerland district (1975–1991)
  • 1929, July 21, Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller , musicologist
  • 1930, February 13, Kurt Rossa , † April 1, 1998 with Winnerath, author, chief city director of Cologne

1931-1940

1941-1950

1951-1960

1961-1970

1971-1980

1981-1990

1991-2000

Personalities who work or have worked on site

d. H. People who live or have lived in Gelsenkirchen and at the same time have their place of work there without being born there: