List of personalities of the city of Hamm

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This list of personalities contains people who have a special relationship to the city ​​of Hamm in Westphalia. This includes the city's honorary citizens, well-known people who were born in Hamm or are closely related to Hamm.

Hammer or Hammer?

Are the residents of Hamm now called Hammer or Horgenser  ?

The answer to this question probably depends on which local patriotic faction one is leaning towards. Some talk about hammers, others about hammers.

On the official website of the city of Hamm, most of the talk is about hammers. The local media also speak uniformly of hammers.

Honorary citizen

Before 1945, the city of Hamm granted the following people honorary citizenship (list chronologically according to the award):

The city of Hamm has granted honorary citizenship to the following people since 1945 (chronological list after award):

City leaders

A separate main article is dedicated to the mayors, lord mayors and city directors:

List of mayors of Hamm

sons and daughters of the town

In Hamm, Freiherr vom Stein acted as president of the War and Domain Chamber of the County of Mark and the former Prussian minister of education Adalbert Falk as president of the higher regional court . Under the direction of Falk, the court moved into a new building at today's Theodor-Heuss-Platz. This building has been used as the town hall of Hamm for many years .

The following were born in Hamm (listing chronologically by date of birth):

1226-1800

1801-1900

1901-1925

1926-1950

  • 1926, February 21, Karl Otto Conrady , † July 1, 2020, literary scholar, editor, poet (Der Neue Conrady. The great German poetry book)
  • 1927, March 15, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , † March 28, 1995 in Hamburg, TV journalist and presenter (topics of the day)
  • 1927, July 14, Fritz Harkort , † February 3, 1972 in Göttingen, folklorist and narrative researcher
  • 1927, August 18, Marian Heitger , † April 7, 2012 in Vienna, educationalist
  • 1927, October 17, Friedrich Hirzebruch , † May 27, 2012 in Bonn, mathematician, founder and first director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn
  • 1928, November 14th, Werner Giers , † April 8th, 2016 in Graefelfing, journalist
  • 1929, September 5, Bruno Kresing , † August 23, 2020 in Salzkotten, Roman Catholic clergyman and vicar general as well as cathedral chapter in the Archdiocese of Paderborn
  • 1930, March 9, Almuth Lütkenhaus , † November 1996 in Hamilton (Ontario), visual artist
  • 1930, July 13, Günter Rinsche , † July 3, 2019, economist and politician (CDU)
  • 1930, August 16, Manfred Schulte , † September 19, 1998 in Hameln, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1931, January 10, Ilse Strambowski , actress
  • 1931, August 24, Heinz Ungureit , media journalist
  • 1932, Rolf Brand , Aikido teacher
  • 1934, May 11, Harry Garstecki , † December 7, 2017 in Bielefeld, football player
  • 1934, July 26th, Walter A. Koch , English studies specialist, linguist and university professor
  • 1935, January 14, Werner Adam , † April 9, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main, journalist and Germanist
  • 1937, March 3rd, Manfred Hemmer , politician and Member of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1937, October 3, Peter Hertel , journalist and book author
  • 1938, October 10, Friedrich Wilhelm Timpe , actor, radio play speaker and reciter
  • 1940, May 26th, Ewald Wichert , boxer
  • 1940, December 26th, Ludger Edelkötter , composer and publisher
  • 1941, October 21, Gerhard Schmitt-Thiel , moderator, author and journalist
  • 1942, December 21, Manfred Such , politician
  • 1942, December 26th Rudolf Purps , politician, member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1980 to 1998
  • 1943, February 17th, Ulrich Brocker , administrative lawyer and official, since 2008 managing director of the employers' association Gesamtmetall
  • 1943, April 19, Wilhelm Riebniger , † April 23, 2018, politician (CDU) and district administrator of the Soest district
  • 1944, June 21, Paul Sahner , † June 7, 2015 in Marquartstein, journalist and author
  • 1946, March 20, Klaus Ackermann , football player
  • 1946, December 10th, Werner Brinkmann , sole director of Stiftung Warentest between 1995 and the end of 2011
  • 1946, December 22nd, Wolfgang Kessler , historian
  • 1947, March 28, Wolfgang Lamché , sculptor
  • 1948, March 22nd, Bernard Dietz , known as "Ennatz", football player, in today's Bockum-Hövel district
  • 1948, April 20, Heinrich Bonnenberg , physicist and engineer, trust manager
  • 1949, Hans Bernhard Beus , lawyer and politician
  • 1949, Dietmar Holland , musicologist and critic, journalist, author and editor

1951-1975

From 1976

People who are connected to Hamm

The following are closely related to Hamm (listing chronologically by date of birth):

1226-1700

1701-1800

1801-1900

  • 1801, June 19, Josef Cosack , entrepreneur and industrial pioneer. Was among other things founder and from 1865 sole owner of Eisenwerke Cosack & Co.
  • 1804, April 23, Ferdinand Anderson , lawyer and member of the National Assembly. Was higher regional court assessor in Hamm.
  • 1808, October 15, Ernst Kapp , educator, geographer and philosopher. Was a high school teacher in Hamm.
  • 1824, April 22nd, Gustav Natorp , functionary in the Ruhr mining industry. Passed his Abitur in Hamm, where his uncle was President of the Higher Regional Court.
  • 1827, August 10, Adalbert Falk , Prussian Minister of Education. President of the Hamm Higher Regional Court.
  • 1830, April 12, Ernst von Bodelschwingh , District Administrator of the Hamm district.
  • 1837, October 27, Friedrich August Alexander Eversmann , Prussian technologist, mining clerk and publicist. Was war and tax council with the war and domain chamber in Hamm .
  • 1839, November 6th, Julius Lenhartz , architect and building contractor. Built the Hamm synagogue from 1868.
  • 1857, December 26th, Alfred Bozi , lawyer, spiritual father of the rehabilitation of offenders. Was employed at the Hamm Higher Regional Court.
  • 1879, April 22nd, Otto Krafft , civil engineer. managed the Ahse relocation and created the ring systems.
  • 1866, February 8, Friedrich Christian Georg Kapp , educator. Senior teacher at Hammer Gymnasium.
  • 1866, August 5th, Stephan von Spee , lawyer and district administrator. Worked at the higher regional court in Hamm.
  • 1872, November 28, Arnold Freymuth , lawyer. Was senior judge in Hamm.
  • 1875, February 16, Nikolaus Osterroth , social democratic member of the National Assembly from 1919. Was chairman of the workers 'and soldiers' council in Hamm.
  • 1877, February 7, Julius Curtius , lawyer. Worked in Hamm.
  • 1877, November 23, Franz Bracht , lawyer. Worked for the Hamm Higher Regional Court.
  • 1881, August 29, Alfred Fischer , architect. Constructed the pit for the Sachsen colliery and other buildings on the colliery site.
  • 1882, May 13th, Leopold Fleischhacker , sculptor of the Jewish faith, created the Nagelgrafen and other works of art, some of which are still present in Hamm today.
  • 1883, January 1st, Ernst Hermsen , lawyer. Senate President of the Hamm Special Court.
  • 1886, January 16, Theodor Suhnel , architect. Constructed a settlement for the Westphalian wire industry .
  • 1886, April 2, Bruno Karl August Jung , lawyer and politician. Did his legal clerkship in Hamm.
  • 1886, February 11, Ferdinand Poggel , politician. Trade unionist and later Lord Mayor of Hamm.
  • 1889, June 3, Wilhelm Weber , pastor of the St. Pankratius parish of Bockum-Hövel from 1939 to 1963, was imprisoned in Münster and in the Dachau concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 for “public behavior”.
  • 1892, May 14th, Ernst Wilhelm Baader , doctor and occupational physician
  • 1892, September 3, Adolf von Hatzfeld , writer. Grew up in Hamm.
  • 1894, October 15, Albert Albin Funk , politician. Was chairman of the works council at the Heinrich-Robert colliery in Hamm until 1930 .
  • 1894, Hans Ballhausen , educator, rector and editor. Was rector in Hamm.
  • 1898, August 28, Wilhelm Deist , district administrator and KAB secretary. Lived and worked in Bockum-Hövel.
  • 1898, October 31, Max Reimann , politician. Works in Hamm trade union work and was later imprisoned here.
  • 1898, November 29th, Andreas Schillack , local politician and member of the group around Franz Zielasko
  • 1900, May 28th, Harry Haffner , lawyer and National Socialist. Was representative of the Attorney General in Hamm.

1901-1950

  • 1901, February 19, Eugen Wolff , musician and director of a dance orchestra
  • 1903, October 3, Paul Putzig , politician; Council member of the community of Heessen
  • 1904, March 1, Paul Rintelen , agricultural economist; attended the grammar school in Hamm
  • 1907, August 3rd, Irmgart Wessel-Zumloh , painter and graphic artist. Their first major exhibition took place in the Gustav Lübcke Museum.
  • 1907, October 16, Bernhard Ketzlick , youth chaplain and vicar in Hamm, adversary of the National Socialists; Arrested by the Gestapo in Hamm and sent to the Dachau concentration camp
  • 1908, June 19, Alfred Gleisner , politician; Official director of the Pelkum office in the Hamm district
  • 1908, June 26th, Fritz Kaßmann , lawyer and politician; at various Hammer courts and for the industrial construction company
  • 1908, December 26th, Walter Steffens , gymnast and Olympic champion; Sports teacher at Hamm high school.
  • 1909, January 20, Heinrich Voss , politician; headed the Protestant children's home Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stift in Hamm.
  • 1912, February 10. Dietrich Reinicke , lawyer; Judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1913, August 21, Werner Speckmann , chess composer and lawyer; Judge in civil matters at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1914, April 29, Hans Kaiser , informal artist; bequeathed his artistic legacy to the Gustav Lübcke Museum
  • 1918, December 30th, Herbert Weltrich , lawyer; Higher regional judge at the higher regional court Hamm
  • 1920, March 15, Friedrich Wilhelm Jerrentrup ; u. a. Lawyer and notary as well as local researcher in Hamm.
  • 1920, August 9, Hans Brox , civil law scholar; active at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm
  • 1923, November 13th, Ilse Schidlof , Jewish emigrant from Austria, lived in Hamm from 1958 to 2008
  • 1923, June 20, Johannes Wessels , professor of criminal law; worked in various functions at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1924, August 28, Erich Lütkenhaus, artist and art teacher in Hamm, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1926, May 9th, Jo Micovich , writer, poet, radio play writer and puppeteer. Several of her pieces were premiered in Hamm.
  • 1928, September 2, Peter Gabriel , author of children's books; Rector of the valley school, a primary school in Hamm
  • 1931, July 19, Heinz Assmann , Bergmann; Councilor and union leader
  • 1933, Alfred Penkert , pedagogue, regional historian and non-fiction author
  • 1935, January 12, Horst Luthin , lawyer; Presiding judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1935, March 12, Manfred Werp , lawyer; Judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1938, January 19, Hartwig Henze , lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice; Presiding judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1938, December 15, Peter Schwerdtner , lawyer; Judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1939, December 5th, Uwe Hüffer , lawyer; Judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1940, July 17th, Otmar Alt , painter, graphic artist, designer and sculptor; created several works of art in Hamm (ship Ekke Neppeken, facade of the city library, Otmar Alt columns, fountain on the forecourt of St. Paul's Church); Founder of the Otmar Alt Foundation
  • 1940, October 13, Dirk Ippen , newspaper publisher; Owner and editor of the Westphalian Gazette
  • 1944, January 23, Gerd Nobbe , judge at the Federal Court of Justice; Judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1944, May 18, Rolf Schönstedt , church musician, professor and university rector; active in church music positions in Hamm and founder of the international Max Reger Festival in Hamm.
  • 1946, September 22nd, Dieter Wiefelspütz , politician; belongs to the executive committee of the SPD subdistrict Hamm
  • 1946, October 28, Franz Josef Düwell , judge at the Federal Labor Court; Presiding judge at the Hamm Regional Labor Court
  • 1947, Joshard Daus , choir director and conductor; City music director for 20 years and also head of the music school
  • 1947, September 29, Jörg van Essen , politician; was senior public prosecutor at the general public prosecutor's office in Hamm He is chairman of the FDP district association Westphalia-South and is also a member of the FDP federal executive committee. He is also a member of the Bundestag.
  • 1948, Helmut Ranze , national boxing trainer and functionary; learned boxing at the boxing ring in Hamm
  • 1948, February 15, Laurenz Meyer , politician; belonged to the council of the city of Hamm
  • 1949, July 13, Rolf Kniffka , judge at the Federal Court of Justice; Judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court
  • 1950, September 20, Detlev Peukert , historian, head of the research center on the history of National Socialism ; grew up in Herringen , then an independent community and today's district of Hamm

From 1951