List of personalities from the city of Herne

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Coat of arms of the city of Herne

This list of personalities of the city of Herne includes the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city as well as other personalities who lived or are still living in Herne.

Honorary citizen

The city of Herne has granted the following people honorary citizenship:

sons and daughters of the town

Listed by year of birth

Until 1920

  • Friedrich Brockhoff (born February 19, 1845 in Crange, † 1926 in Wanne), educator and musician
  • Heinrich Koppenberg (born March 15, 1880; † September 5, 1960 in Bühl (Baden)), designer, industrialist, representative of the German armaments industry in the Third Reich
  • Heinrich Schulte-Uhlenbruch (born July 23, 1883 in Gysenberg-Sodingen (1928 in Herne), † January 14, 1946 in Recklinghausen), farmer and politician
  • Heinrich Pette (born November 23, 1887 in Eickel, † October 2, 1964 in Meran), neurologist
  • Adolf Potthoff (born February 14, 1897 - † May 19, 1969 in Niš, Yugoslavia), journalist, educator and writer
  • Bernd Poieß (born April 10, 1900, † July 11, 1988 in Limburg an der Lahn), reciter, speech and language teacher
  • Friedrich Struckmeier (born April 13, 1900; † October 20, 1944 in Munich), miner and member of the resistance group around Franz Zielasko
  • Josef Walter (born July 13, 1900 - † January 24, 1974), politician, former member of the state parliament and mayor (SPD)
  • Joachim Beckmann (born July 18, 1901 in Eickel, † January 18, 1987 in Haan), President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
  • Werner Göbel (born November 29, 1901; † March 9, 1973 in Lübeck ), Protestant theologian, consistorial president in Danzig and Lübeck
  • Ernst Schütte (born July 11, 1904 in Eickel or in Wanne, † October 24, 1972 near Antalya), Minister of Culture of the State of Hesse
  • Erich Finke (born April 13, 1905 - † May 4, 1945 in Neustadt in Holstein), internist
  • Lorenz Humburg (born November 19, 1906; † August 27, 1994 in Warburg), painter, art teacher
  • Karl Jansen (born May 28, 1908 - November 14, 1961), weightlifter
  • Else Drenseck (* December 24, 1911; † December 13, 1997 ibid), politician (SPD) and manager of the workers' welfare organization
  • Ernst Kuhr (born May 13, 1912; † September 3, 1999 in Munich) was an actor, director and voice actor
  • Robert Schmelzer (born March 7, 1914; † March 3, 1996 in Kirchhundem), journalist, editor-in-chief of Ruhr Nachrichten, Westfalenpost and Frankfurter Neue Presse, 1980–1987 publisher of Westfalenpost
  • Elisabeth Hoffmann (born November 26, 1914 in Börnig; † August 31, 1973 in Herne), painter, sculptor
  • Ernst Schröder (born January 27, 1915 in Wanne or Eickel, † July 26, 1994 in Berlin), actor and director
  • Ernest Majo (von Majowski) (born August 25, 1916; † August 22, 2002 in Schramberg), composer, conductor, musician and professor
  • Ulrich Matschoss (born May 16, 1917 in Eickel or Wanne; † July 1, 2013 in the Lüneburg Heath), actor
  • Heinz-Otto Sieburg (born December 16, 1917; † November 7, 2003 in Saarbrücken), contemporary historian and author, a. a. on the ambivalence of his hometown towards mining and the mining disaster in Courrières in 1906, partner municipality of Herne since 1954
  • Karl-Heinz Exner (born January 3, 1920 - † March 22, 1999 in Lüdinghausen), politician (CDU)
  • Arthur Grundmann (born March 23, 1920 - † August 16, 1987 in Bonn), federal politician FDP
  • Kurt Edelhagen (born June 5, 1920 - † February 8, 1982 in Cologne), orchestra leader, pianist

1921 to 1940

  • Edith Lechtape (born November 20, 1921 - † August 14, 2001 in Strasbourg), actress and photo artist
  • Friedhelm Erwe (born July 23, 1922), mathematician and university professor
  • Jupp Gesing (* 1922; † 1998), glass painter and artist
  • Karl Heinz Brandt (born March 25, 1922 - † September 25, 2014 in Bremen), archaeologist, state archaeologist of Bremen and son of Karl Brandt (founder of the Emschertal Museum)
  • Hans-Eugen Schulze (born April 10, 1922 in Eickel; † September 18, 2013 in Karlsruhe), a former judge at the Federal Court of Justice. D.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (born October 29, 1922 in Wanne or Eickel, † November 13, 2011 in Berlin), historian
  • Johann Adamik (born July 16, 1925 in Sodingen; † March 24, 2005 in Herne-Sodingen), football player
  • Hieronymus Dittrich (born December 2, 1925 - August 1, 2013 in Paderborn), theologian and cathedral chapter in Paderborn
  • Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel (born July 25, 1926 - † June 7, 2016 in Tübingen), one of the best-known representatives of feminist theology
  • Herbert Sczepan (born January 2, 1927, † November 15, 2004 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe), Baptist pastor and evangelist
  • Klaus Knizia (born June 18, 1927; † April 7, 2012 in Herdecke), former CEO of VEW and honorary professor
  • Fritz Pawelzik (born December 2, 1927, † January 29, 2015 in Mülheim an der Ruhr); German missionary of the YMCA, development worker and chief of the Ashanti
  • Günter Dworak (born November 25, 1928 in Wanne-Eickel; † May 12, 2000 in Herne-Wanne), painter and graphic artist
  • Eugen Kohlenbach (born August 15, 1930 - January 17, 2016), Lower Saxony politician (CDU)
  • Norbert Schlottmann (born December 16, 1930 - January 11, 2004), administrative officer and politician (CDU)
  • Harald Hartung (born October 29, 1932), writer and literary scholar
  • Helmut Benthaus (born June 5, 1935), soccer player and coach
  • Siegfried Müller (born September 5, 1935), social democrat and trade unionist
  • Karl Borutta (born December 8, 1935 in Wanne-Eickel, † April 29, 2002 in Munich), former football defender
  • Kuno Gonschior (* 1935 in Wanne-Eickel; † March 16, 2010 in Bochum), artist
  • Karl Hugo Pruys (born March 8, 1938), journalist, communication scientist and writer
  • Roswitha Drecker (born October 16, 1939), politician (CDU), former member of the state parliament

1941 to 1960

  • Wolfgang Schlotmann (born April 10, 1941; † March 3, 2011), former government building director, politician and member of the state parliament
  • Heinrich JF Reinhardt (born August 26, 1942), university professor for canon law
  • Heinz Lothar Grob (born May 19, 1943 in Wanne-Eickel), business IT specialist
  • Gerd Pieper (born August 28, 1943 in Wanne-Eickel), entrepreneur
  • Heinz-Günter Prager (born December 19, 1944), sculptor
  • Heinz-Wolfgang Domröse (born September 18, 1946), politician (SPD)
  • Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946), professor of geobotany and ecology
  • Herbert Zielinski (born March 8, 1947), medieval historian
  • Norbert Römer (born March 16, 1947), politician (SPD) and journalist
  • Frank Sichau (born December 18, 1947 in Wanne-Eickel), Protestant pastor and politician (SPD)
  • Nikolaus Thon (* 1948), Russian Orthodox graduate theologian
  • Jürgen Marcus (born June 6, 1948 - † May 17, 2018 in Munich), pop singer (A song goes out into the world)
  • Dieter Hattrup (born August 17, 1948), professor of dogmatics and the history of dogmas
  • Friedrich Gerhard Klimmek (born March 3, 1949 in Wanne-Eickel), crime novelist and lawyer
  • Claus Leggewie (born March 27, 1950 in Wanne-Eickel), political scientist
  • Udo Schröder (born December 12, 1950), former wrestler
  • Herbert Reichelt (December 22, 1951; † July 23, 2019), author
  • Axel Kasseböhmer (* 1952; † September 9, 2017), artist
  • Gabriele Gorcitza (born January 23, 1952), politician and former member of the state parliament (SPD)
  • Wolfgang Quickels (born June 26, 1952 in Wanne-Eickel; † October 8, 2014), photographer and journalist
  • Rolf Kickuth (born November 20, 1952), science journalist and publisher
  • Iris Anna Otto (born May 24, 1953), writer
  • Willi Thomczyk (born October 14, 1953 in Wanne-Eickel), actor, playwright, theater director
  • Jürgen Gottschlich (* 1954), journalist and author
  • Ludger Lohmann (* 1954), organist and professor
  • Werner Brandt (born January 3, 1954), manager
  • Wolfgang Berke (born January 26, 1954 in Wanne-Eickel), journalist and book author
  • Udo Kühne (born July 7, 1955), Middle Latin philologist and university professor
  • Bärbel Beuermann (born September 16, 1955), politician and member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (Die Linke)
  • Jürgen Grislawski (born October 29, 1955 in Wanne-Eickel), painter and sculptor
  • Gudrun Heute-Bluhm (born March 17, 1957), politician, former Lord Mayor of Lörrach
  • Joachim Król (born June 17, 1957), actor living in Cologne
  • Ingrid Fischbach (born June 25, 1957 in Wanne-Eickel), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Health
  • Anne Steinmeier (born September 17, 1957), theologian, pastor, pastoral psychologist and university professor
  • Peter Nottmeier (born July 22, 1958 in Wanne-Eickel), actor ( Switch reloaded )
  • Rudi Cerne (born September 26, 1958 in Wanne-Eickel), figure skater and presenter
  • Eckard Koltermann (born November 14, 1958 in Wanne-Eickel), jazz musician and composer
  • Susanne Hüttmann-Stoll (born April 28, 1959), judge at the Federal Social Court
  • Hartmut Kasper (born August 29, 1959 in Wanne-Eickel), writer, also under the pseudonym Wim Vandemaan
  • Claudia Losch (born January 10, 1960 in Wanne-Eickel), athlete and Olympic champion
  • Gudrun Gersmann (born March 25, 1960), historian; from 2007 to 2012 director of the German Historical Institute in Paris
  • Silvia Droste (born May 21, 1960), jazz singer
  • Michael Kulla (born December 27, 1960), Vice President of the MAD Office

1961 to 1980

From 1981

They also lived or live in Herne

  • Leo Gräff (born October 12, 1836 in Trier; † August 4, 1889 in Herne), engineer, entrepreneur and from 1875 director of Hibernia AG in Herne
  • Johannes Decker (born February 12, 1876 in Benolpe ; † September 22, 1955), teacher since 1914, most recently school rector in Herne, author of the Herne homeland book for school and home in 1927
  • Leo Reiners (born December 24, 1898 in Viersen, † August 24, 1958 in Herne), editor and local history researcher
  • Fred Endrikat (born June 7, 1890 in Nakel an der Netze, † 1942 in Munich), poet
  • Edmund Weber (born September 21, 1897 in Gebesee, Thuringia; † June 11, 1970 in Wanne-Eickel), politician (SPD) and long-time mayor of Wanne-Eickel
  • Willi Henkelmann (born February 25, 1899 in Münster; † July 2, 1928), European champion in motorcycle racing (175 cm³)
  • Erich Meyer (born March 15, 1900 in Stettin, † May 9, 1968 in Wanne-Eickel), politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag
  • Ludwig Steil (born October 29, 1900 in Remscheid; † January 17, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp), Protestant theologian, resistance fighter
  • Heinz Rühmann (born March 7, 1902 in Essen, † October 3, 1994 in Aufkirchen), spent part of his youth in Wanne
  • Fritz Panhorst (born October 25, 1915 in Berlin; † May 2, 1971), politician (CDU), mayor of Wanne-Eickel and member of the state parliament
  • Ulrich Berger (born October 24, 1921 in Dortmund; † January 21, 2003 in Berlin), politician (CDU) and trade union official (DBB); Member of the constituency of Herne in the German Bundestag and member of the state parliament
  • Jürgen von Manger (born March 6, 1923 in Koblenz; † March 15, 1994 in Herne), actor, cabaret artist and comedian, known as the stage character "Adolf Tegtmeier"
  • Heinz Westphal (born June 4, 1924 in Berlin; † October 30, 1998 in Bonn), SPD politician, member of the Herne constituency in the German Bundestag, Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs and Bundestag Vice-President
  • Tana Schanzara (born December 19, 1925 in Kiel, † December 19, 2008 in Bochum), actress at the Schauspielhaus Bochum
  • Hans Tilkowski (born July 12, 1935 in Dortmund-Husen; † January 5, 2020), goalkeeper at the 1966 World Cup; see Wembley Gate
  • Harald Rohr (born February 20, 1940 in Breslau, † January 12, 2016 in Niederndodeleben), pastor, human rights and one world activist; Founder of the Third World Information Center in Herne
  • Volker W. Degener (born June 12, 1941 in Berlin), writer, author of children's books and detective novels, several times chairman of the Association of German Writers in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Franz Müntefering (born January 16, 1940 in Neheim, today Arnsberg), politician (SPD)
  • Gerd Bollmann (born September 28, 1947 in Wanne-Eickel; † September 16, 2017 in Herne), politician (SPD)
  • Jan Zweyer (born December 12, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main), crime writer
  • Peter Liedtke (born May 6, 1959 in Gelsenkirchen), photo artist, curator, gallery owner, author, blogger and head of the Ruhr area pixel project
  • Dirk Schlichting (born May 9, 1965 in Düsseldorf), artist; lives in Herne
  • Wotan Wilke Möhring (born May 23, 1967 in Detmold), actor; spent his youth in Herne
  • Sebastian Bartoschek (born August 20, 1979 in Recklinghausen), journalist, psychologist, science slammer, podcaster and author
  • Alexej Dmitriev (born December 24, 1985 in Minsk), ice hockey player

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Herner Council recognizes honorary citizenship in a symbolic act. WAZ, October 15, 2013, accessed August 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949, p. 89.
  3. ↑ wanne-eickel.info: Willi Henkelmann: the forgotten European champion
  4. ↑ Result list Nürburgring 1927 - European 175 cm³ Championship ( Memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )