List of personalities from the city of Hemer

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Coat of arms of the city of Hemer

This list contains personalities from the city of Hemer who deserve special mention for their services.

Dear citizens

Honorary citizen

Ruth and Friedrich Grohe were made honorary citizens on December 10, 1974 at the last council meeting of the city of Hemer before the municipal reorganization . The couple made the Grohe company into a leading company in the bathroom fittings sector. In gratitude for their honorary citizenship, the Grohe couple donated the Christopherus Fountain for Hademareplatz in the city center to the city. The fountain has now moved to Grohe-Platz below the town hall. A street in the city center was also named after Friedrich Grohe.

On January 30, 1936, on the occasion of Hemer's town elevation, Adolf Hitler became an honorary citizen. In 1995 the city ​​council dealt with the issue. He did not revoke honorary citizenship, but distanced himself from the decision at that time and took the position that honorary citizenship had expired with death. After a new discussion about honorary citizenship arose in the course of the 75th anniversary of the city of Hemer, the council unanimously approved a motion by the SPD parliamentary group on March 29, 2011 to revoke Hitler's title of honorary citizen.

Until 1975, every municipality in the Hemer district had the right to appoint its own honorary citizens. For example, as a long-time member of the municipal and official assembly in 1953, Friedrich Ludwig received the honorary citizenship in Ihmert. The Protestant pastor Karl Thom was also granted honorary citizenship of the Ihmert congregation on February 28, 1961, primarily for his services to cultural work.

Letters of honor

Since the local reorganization, honorary citizenship has not been awarded. Instead, since 1988, deserving citizens have been awarded so-called "letters of honor". So far have been awarded:

  • 1988: Otto Braun, bookseller in Hemer
  • 1988: Hugo Sülberg
  • 1988: Ursula Eckert
  • 1988: Heinz Eckert, honorary director of the Hemer Adult Education Center
  • 1988: Dr. Hugo Banniza, pharmacist and local researcher, a street in Hemer is named after him
  • 1989: Karl Wiemann
  • 1989: Heinrich Humbeil
  • 1990: Irmgard Althaus
  • 1990: Johannes Ecker
  • 1991: Alfred Meyer, long-time headmaster of the Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium , local researcher and honorary chairman of the Hemer Citizens' Association and Local History Association
  • 1993: Nikolai Gubarev, Soviet prisoner of war in the main camp VI A , then campaigned for reconciliation with the people in Hemer, in Hemer a street on the former barracks is named after him
  • 1994: Albrecht Koch
  • 2000: Emil Nensel, local researcher (including board member of the Association for Contemporary History), peace activist and employee of action 365
  • 2001: Hans-Hermann Stopsack, local history researcher and author, was the chairman of the Society for Contemporary History and was responsible for the redesign of a Stalag memorial room
  • 2001: Klaus Hennecke, Hemeraner retailer, chairman and manager of the handball club HTV Sundwig-Westig
  • 2004: Dieter Voss, former city director who, together with Hans Meyer and Hermann-Josef Geismann, campaigned for Hemer's independence
  • 2005: Hermann-Josef Geismann , former mayor of the office of Hemer , long-time member of the state parliament and chairman of the Hemer Citizens' Association and Homeland Association
  • 2006: Karl-Friedrich Stenner-Borghoff, Colonel of the BSV Deilinghofen and chairman of the Deilinghofen cultural and homeland association
  • 2009: Maurice Declerq, long-time mayor of the twin town of Steenwerck , awarded at the Hemer State Horticultural Show 2010

The city also awards “badges of honor” to deserving citizens. Among other things, the emergency services during hurricane Kyrill and a number of volunteers received badges of honor.

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

The following Hemerans received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (details with year of award, list incomplete):

  • unknown: Gerd Hesse for voluntary work in associations and local politics, cross of merit on ribbon
  • unknown: Helmut Nockemann for his work with the voluntary fire brigade in Hemer and in the Märkischer Kreis, merit cross on ribbon
  • 1960s: Wilhelm Lenze, Otto Hoch, both with the Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1963: Josef Kleffner , for his commitment in local politics, Grand Cross of Merit
  • 1975: Friedhelm Treude for his commitment as a local researcher
  • 1977: Heinrich Kroll, headmaster of the Protestant Diesterweg elementary school in Westig, for his services to the care of East German cultural assets in the classroom, cross of merit on ribbon
  • 1981: Hermann-Josef Geismann for his involvement in local politics and in the community and homeland association, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1982: Johanna Schäfer for her commitment to the sick, medal of merit
  • 1983: Albert Schreiber for his involvement in local politics, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1990: Fredi Camminadi for his work as honorary mayor and in the district council, expression unknown
  • 1991: Hans Jarzombek for the maintenance of the Silesian customs, form unknown
  • 1991: Johannes Giebels for his work as an environmentalist, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1999: Doris Ebbing for her involvement in local politics as council member and deputy mayor, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2005: Hans Meyer for his work as honorary mayor and in associations, cross of merit on ribbon
  • 2007: Heinrich Lütke for his social commitment in developing countries, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2007: Michael Esken for his commitment to young people and in local politics, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2008: Alfred Meyer for his work as a local researcher and chairman of the Citizens' Association and Local History Association, Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2012: Jörg Franz for his work as managing director of the Federal Association of German Forest Youth , Cross of Merit on Ribbon
  • 2015: Hans-Hermann Stopsack for his commitment in the field of historical research and homeland care, Cross of Merit on ribbon

mayor

Acting full-time mayor Hemers has been Michael Heilmann (formerly UWG, since April 2018 non-party) since February 14, 2016 . He is the successor to Michael Esken ( CDU ), who has been in office since 2003 and was confirmed in his office in the 2009 local elections with around 76 percent of the vote.

Since the city charter was granted in 1936, Hemer has had 15 different mayors, with Josef Kleffner and Hans Meyer (both CDU) each coming into office a second time after an interruption. Hans Meyer is also the mayor with the longest term of office, he was in office from 1969 to 1987 - only interrupted by the municipal reorganization in January 1975, when Werner Beckmann ( FDP ) took over the mayor's duties for three weeks as a result of the municipal reorganization . With Hermann Arendt , Fredi Camminadi (both SPD) and Hans Meyer, three former officials bear the title of former mayor . Between 1946 and 1994 it was not the mayor but a city director who was the head of the city administration. Of the four Hemeraner city directors at this time, Dieter Voss had the longest term of office; he held this position between 1966 and 1990.

Until the municipal reorganization in 1975, each municipality in the Hemer office had its own honorary mayor. In addition, there was the post of mayor , while the city directors were also employed as administrative directors. The mayor with the longest term after World War II was Gustav Teves (CDU), who served for eight years between 1948 and 1956. The last official mayor was Hermann-Josef Geismann (CDU).

sons and daughters of the town

Willibrord Benzler
Aloys Steppuhn
Bust of Friedrich Leopold Woestes
Film director , for example of the popular success Good Bye, Lenin! ; put his Abitur at the Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium from
long-time bishop of Metz ; his beatification was initiated; a street in Hemer is named after him
CDU politician, former district administrator of the district of Mayen-Koblenz
Ice hockey players, for example with the Iserlohn Roosters
former ice hockey player, for example at EC Deilinghofen
former ice hockey player, for example the Iserlohn Roosters , now ice hockey referee
Judge at the Federal Court of Justice
Actress, nominated for the German Film Award for her role in the film version Herr Lehmann
Psychologist and professor at the University of Mannheim
Mathematician at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
Waste management company, founder and long-time president of the Association of Private Urban Cleaning Companies
Sculptor and painter , worked full-time as a teacher at a high school in Bonn
Football referee, who is the main referee in the 2nd division and as an assistant in the Bundesliga , whistles for the SG Hemer
TV presenter at KiKA
former member of the state parliament and mayor of Hemer, awarded the letter of honor from the city of Hemer
Basketball player, was u. a. Active at Brandt Hagen and Phoenix Hagen in the 1st Bundesliga and from the 2010/11 season coach of the Iserlohn Kangaroos
Handball player, u. a. at HSG Ahlen-Hamm
Storyteller with a focus on Sauerland sagas and cave explorers
Ice hockey player and official at the Iserlohn Roosters ( DEL ) and multiple national player, for example at the 2003 World Cup
Psychologist, professor at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen
Contemporary and cultural historian , professor at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen
Jazz musician (double bass and others), guest lecturer at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and blogger for the jazz magazine Jazzthing
Jazz musician (double bass), composed not only many jazz pieces but also film and theater music
Composer and conductor , among other things member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Psychiatrist and art historian , pioneer in the analysis of images of mentally ill people, in Hemer the municipal secondary school, the LWL clinic for psychiatry and a street are named after him
Building researcher , professor for building history and architecture
Banker , factory owners , ship owners and entrepreneurs of the slave trade was active
Professor of Business Administration at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
CDU politician and Hessian finance minister , member of the state board of the CDU Hesse
former ice hockey player at EC Deilinghofen and real estate agent
SPD politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Bundestag , mayor of Hohenlimburg
Handball player
Kammersänger ( bass player ), ensemble member of the Cologne Opera , singer at the Bayreuth Festival
Activist of the peace movement , founder of the network peace cooperative
CDU politician, former district administrator of the Märkisches Kreis , former president of the Sauerland mountain association
Mill builder and paper mold manufacturer , builder of the Sundwiger Mühle and the Ebbergkirche
SPD politician, former State Secretary in various ministries in North Rhine-Westphalia, President of the Volksmusikerbund NRW
Theologian , teacher and linguist , introduced the high school in Hemer, in Hemer the municipal high school, a primary school and a street are named after him

Personalities who work on site

Carmen Voicu-Jagodzinsky
the most famous clergyman in town, grew up partly in Apricke
Writer and teacher at the Woeste grammar school
Thoracic surgeon, built together with Hans Meyer , the Hemer Lung Clinic on
SPD politician and member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2012, residing in Hemer
Former diplomat , including German ambassador to Poland, India, Japan and Switzerland, passed his Abitur at Woeste-Gymnasium
Writer, lived in Hemer for several years from 1948
Historian and theologian, grew up in Hemer
Guitarist and honorary professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold , graduated from the Woeste-Gymnasium
Lawyer and Wehrmacht officer
Actor, known from the TV series Lindenstrasse ; grew up in Hemer
Journalist and winner of the Theodor Wolff Prize, graduated from the Friedrich-Leopold-Woeste-Gymnasium in Hemer
Federal chairman of the Jusos , founded a Juso group in Hemer
Chess player, lives in Hemer and is active for the Hemeraner chess club
Pop singer, lives and works in Hemer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small home chronicle. In: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer eV (Hrsg.): The key. Leaves of home for town and office Hemer. Issue 2/1962.
  2. ↑ Small home chronicle. In: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer eV (Hrsg.): The key. Leaves of home for town and office Hemer. Issue 1/1961
  3. ↑ Hans-Hermann Stopsack: Lifelong learning in: Michael Kaub (Ed.): The city network. Balve, Hemer, Iserlohn and Menden. 1st edition. 2009. ISBN 978-3-86037-397-2
  4. ↑ Meeting template of the City Council of Hemer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 28 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sira.kdvz.de  
  5. ↑ IKZ Hemer: “ Badges of honor awarded to three committed citizens ”, published on December 15, 2009, accessed on December 16, 2009
  6. ↑ Small home chronicle in: The key. Leaves home for the city of Hemer. Edition 4/2010, published in December 2010
  7. ↑ Small home chronicle in: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer eV (Ed.): The key. Leaves of home for town and office Hemer. Issue 2/1963
  8. ↑ Meeting draft of the City Council of Hemer, meeting of June 30, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sira.kdvz.de  
  9. ↑ Westig Evangelical Primary School and its legal successors. in: Robert Gräve u. a .: The primer. Volume 7: Hemeraner school history (s). Part I: The elementary and elementary schools. P. 173
  10. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / press releases / Federal President awards the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on the occasion of the Environment Week. In: www.bundespraesident.de. Retrieved May 31, 2015 .
  11. ↑ www.bundespraesident.de: The Federal President / Announcement of the awards / Announcement of the awards from July 1, 2012. In: www.bundespraesident.de. Retrieved May 31, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Hans-Hermann Stopsack receives the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany - Hemer. (No longer available online.) In: www.hemer.de. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; accessed on May 31, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hemer.de