List of personalities of the city of Cologne

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Coat of arms of the city of Cologne

The list initially contains personalities who were born in Cologne . They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth.

This is followed by a list of personalities who are in some way connected with Cologne but were born elsewhere.

List of personalities born in Cologne (chronological)

Until 1800

19th century

1801 to 1820

  • 1801, November 19, Karl Geyr von Schweppenburg , † February 19, 1875 in Berlin, Prussian lieutenant general
  • 1802, December 27, Johann Heinrich Pallenberg , † April 5, 1884 in Cologne, furniture manufacturer and art patron
  • 1803, Franz Everhard Bourel , also Eberhard Bourel, † March 13, 1871 in Cologne, genre and portrait painter
  • 1803, March 14th, Friedrich Wilhelm Graeff , † March 8th 1885 in Wiesbaden, district court president and politician, acting mayor of Cologne
  • 1805, May 24th, Jacob Venedey , † February 8th, 1871 in Oberweiler, politician and writer
  • 1806, February 18, Eduard Heis , † June 30, 1877 in Münster, mathematician, astronomer and university professor
  • 1806, April 28, Hubert Dormagen , † June 1, 1886 in Cologne, doctor, art collector and founder
  • 1806, September 28, Theodor Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg , † July 3, 1882, mayor of the city of Aachen and member of the Prussian manor house
  • 1807, October 30, Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach , † May 20, 1876 in Aachen, botanist and entomologist
  • 1807, November 10th, Robert Blum , † November 9th 1848 executed in Vienna-Brigittenau, politician of the March Revolution
  • 1808, May 27, Joseph Ignaz Düntzer , † September 30, 1848 in Cologne, surgeon and obstetrician
  • 1809, October 17, Hermann Hendrichs , † November 1, 1871, actor
  • 1810, April 1, Franz Raveaux , † September 13, 1851 in Laeken, revolutionary and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • 1810, October 25, Johann Jakob Merlo , † October 27, 1890 in Cologne, local researcher, collector and poet
  • 1811, July 21, Joseph DuMont , † March 3, 1861 in Cologne, publisher
  • 1812, November 7th, Ferdinand Wolff , † March 8th 1905 in London, German journalist, editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung 1848/49
  • 1813, June 30, Eberhard von Mylius , † June 6, 1861 in Aachen, lawyer, politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • 1814, March 15, Wolter Josef Bürgers , † December 26, 1892 in Cologne, Kommerzienrat, landowner and district administrator
  • 1815, May 13, Ignatz Bürgers , † May 9, 1882 in Cologne, lawyer and parliamentarian
  • 1817, April, Otto Mengelberg , † May 28, 1890 in Düsseldorf, history and portrait painter and lithographer
  • 1819, January 7, Johan Heinrich Neuman , † April 14, 1898 in The Hague, Dutch portrait and miniature painter and lithographer
  • 1819, April 9, Vincenz Statz , † August 21, 1898 there, architect of the neo-Gothic
  • 1819, June 20, Jacques Offenbach , † October 4, 1880 in Paris, composer (opera Hoffmann's stories , operettas, including Orpheus in the Underworld )
  • 1820, November 10, Johann Wilhelm Greven , † February 3, 1893 in Brussels, publisher and bookseller
  • around 1820, Wilhelm Hoffmann , † around 1890 in Cologne, architect

1821 to 1840

  • 1821, September 3, Ernst Heinrich Anton Pasqué , † March 20, 1892 in Alsbach an der Bergstrasse, opera singer (baritone), opera director, theater director, writer and librettist
  • 1824, August 31, Joseph Roesberg , † July 23, 1871 in Cologne, dialect poet and composer
  • 1825, June 24, Jean Joseph Jansen , executed October 20, 1849 in the fortress of Rastatt, geometer and revolutionary 1848/49
  • 1827, June 2, Bertha Augusti , † December 12, 1886 in Koblenz, writer
  • 1828, June 9, Felix von Groote , † November 22, 1889 in Ahrweiler, administrative lawyer and district administrator of the Ahrweiler district
  • 1828, June 10, Ludwig von Weise , † April 17, 1915 in Aachen, alderman in Cologne and Lord Mayor in Aachen
  • 1829, September 27, Peter Fuchs , † July 31, 1898 in Cologne, sculptor and cathedral sculptor at Cologne Cathedral
  • 1830, January 1, Anton Werres , † April 27, 1900 in Cologne, sculptor
  • 1830, February 23, Charles P. Clever , † July 8, 1874 in Tome, New Mexico, American politician of Prussian origin
  • 1831, May 9, Jakob Pallenberg , † March 25, 1900 in Cairo, furniture manufacturer and art patron
  • 1831, August 3, Eduard von Oppenheim , † January 15, 1909 in Cologne, banker and stud owner
  • 1833, June 24th, Otto Andreae , in today's OT Mülheim (at that time not yet incorporated), † February 12th 1910 in Cologne, textile manufacturer and art patron
  • 1833, September 12, Peter Paul Faust , † October 1, 1912 in Cologne, teacher, author and dialect poet
  • 1834, March 1, Charlotte Wolter , † June 14, 1897 in Vienna, actress
  • 1834, March 5, August Becker , † February 5, 1877, theater actor, director, dramaturge and artistic director
  • 1834, May 20, Clemens Busch , † November 25, 1895, Prussian diplomat
  • 1834, July 26th, Hugo Carl Forst , † January 12th 1887 in Koblenz, administrative officer and district administrator
  • 1834, November 13, Albert von Oppenheim , † June 23, 1912 in Hamburg, banker and art patron
  • 1834, December 30th, Franz Carl Guilleaume , called the Younger , † December 1st, 1887 in Cologne, entrepreneur and founder of the Carlswerk
  • 1835, June 28, Hubert Göbbels , † September 9, 1874 in Constantinople, architect
  • 1836, February 1, Tilman Pesch , † October 18, 1899 in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Catholic theologian and philosopher
  • 1836, July 11th, Heinrich Böckeler , † February 24th 1899 in Aachen, Catholic priest and church musician as well as founder and first director of the "Gregoriushaus", the forerunner institution of the Catholic University for Church Music St. Gregorius in Aachen
  • 1837, October 18, Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg , † February 16, 1919 in Utrecht, sculptor
  • 1837, December 14th, Peter Joseph Roeckerath , † October 9th, 1905 in Cologne, religion teacher, building contractor and member of the Reichstag
  • 1838, January 6, Max Bruch , † October 2, 1920 in Berlin-Friedenau, composer (violin concerts, choral works and songs, opera Die Loreley ) and conductor
  • 1838, February 9, Ernst Birck , † March 30, 1881 in Endenich, 1868 to 1876 district administrator of the Bergheim district
  • 1838, December 18, Franz Julius Albertus Clouth , † September 7, 1910 in Cologne, entrepreneur and a pioneer in rubber processing
  • 1840, February 22nd in today's OT Deutz (at that time not yet incorporated), August Bebel , † March 18, 1913 in Passugg / Graubünden, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, co-founder of the SPD
  • 1840, July 10th, Johann Maria Carl Farina , † August 21st, 1896 in Cologne, collector and donor, in appreciation of his foundations, the city of Cologne tends his burial place on Melaten for all time.
  • 1840, December 6th, Johann Merzenich , † March 8th 1913 in Berlin, architect, construction clerk and professor at the Technical University in Charlottenburg

1841 to 1860

  • 1842, April 9, Ferdinand Custodis , † 1911 in Cologne, sculptor especially of historicism
  • 1842, June 4, 1842, Ferdinand Luthmer , † January 23, 1921 in Frankfurt am Main, architect, conservator and specialist journalist for burger research
  • 1842, August 18, Otto Hartmann , † October 17, 1927 in Cologne, manufacturer and animal rights activist
  • 1843, June 3, George Marx , † 1927 in Königsberg, banker in East Prussia
  • 1844, September 14, Hermann Joseph Klein , † July 1, 1914 in Cologne, astronomer and meteorologist
  • 1844, October 23, Wilhelm Leibl , † December 4, 1900 in Würzburg, painter
  • 1844, October 31, Georg Schumacher , † July 16, 1917 in Cologne, politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
  • 1845, July 30, Wilhelm Koch , † December 10, 1891 in Cologne, dialect author
  • 1845, November 15, Wilhelm Cremer , † March 28, 1919 in Berlin, architect
  • 1845, December 3, Peter Wallé , † September 8, 1904 in Berlin, architect and art historian
  • 1846, January 6, Henriette Hertz , † April 9, 1913 in Rome, patron and art collector
  • 1846, January 15, Adolf Pagenstecher , † May 9, 1900 in Königsberg, Prussian major general
  • 1846, May 18, Laura Oelbermann , † June 3, 1929 in Cologne, patron and art collector
  • 1847, December 1, Peter Norrenberg , † May 29, 1894 in Rhöndorf, priest, historian and social politician
  • 1847, August 8, Hermann Cardauns , † June 14, 1925, editor-in-chief of the Kölnische Volkszeitung, leading Catholic journalist during the Kulturkampf
  • 1848, May 10th, Johann Maria Friedrich Heimann , † March 1st, 1921 in Brühl, co-founder of the Markenverband 1903
  • 1848, July 30, Mathilde von Mevissen , † March 19, 1924 in Cologne, women's rights activist and education politician
  • 1849, March 17, Carl Zaar , † January 16, 1924 in Berlin, architect
  • 1849, December 4th, Eduard Moll , † 1933 in Eßlingen, classical philologist, director of grammar schools and secondary schools in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine
  • 1850, Felix Vierhaus , † October 14, 1917 in Breslau, lawyer
  • 1850, February 23, Adele Rautenstrauch ; † December 30, 1903 in Neustrelitz, patroness and founder of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
  • 1852, March 3, Sir Ernest Cassel , born Ernst Cassel, GCB , GCMG , GCVO , PC ; † September 21, 1921 in London , also known as "Windsor-Cassel" because of his "lordly" wealth and his good relations with the royal family, was a British banker of German descent
  • 1852, May 25, Peter Stern ; † February 14, 1929 in Bad Godesberg, Lord Mayor of Viersen
  • 1852, August 2, Bernhard Duhr ; † September 21, 1930 in Munich, Jesuit, theologian and historian
  • 1853, April 2, Albert Mertés ; † 1924 in Berlin, hat manufacturer
  • 1854, May 28, Francis Kruse ; † April 13, 1930 in Bad Godesberg, Prussian district president in Bromberg, Minden and Düsseldorf
  • 1854, December 2, Karl Trimborn , † July 25, 1921 in Bonn, politician
  • 1854, February 24, Wilhelm Spiritus , † December 27, 1931 in Bonn, politician
  • 1855, July 19, Ludwig Arntz ; † May 5, 1941 in Cologne, architect and master builder
  • 1855, November 16, Joseph von Lauff , † August 20, 1933 in Cochem-Sehl, officer and writer
  • 1855, November 19, Ludwig Becker ; † July 13, 1940 in Mainz, architect
  • 1856, May 23, Heinrich Hack ; † January 2, 1936 in Cologne, school principal, author and dialect writer
  • 1856, July 15, Paul Wilhelm Jakob von Schnitzler ; † February 19, 1932 in Cologne, lawyer, landowner and industrialist
  • 1857, August 13, Josef Neven DuMont , † October 31, 1915 in Cologne, publisher, member of parliament and president of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce
  • 1858, January 3, Richard Franck , † January 22, 1938 in Heidelberg, composer and pianist
  • 1858, April 20, Wilhelm Fassbinder , † August 10, 1915 in Cologne, sculptor of historicism and reform art
  • 1858, September 22, Karl Bachem , † December 11, 1945 in Burgsteinfurt, politician (Center Party), member of the Reichstag
  • 1859, July 14, Albert Hofmann , † March 22, 1926 in Karlsruhe, architect, publisher of the Deutsche Bauzeitung
  • 1859, August 26, Karl Biecker , † 1927 in Cologne, architect and construction officer
  • 1859, September 18, Max Wallraf , † September 6, 1941 in Oberstdorf, politician
  • 1859, November 23, Hubert Schwerger ; † 1933 in Cologne, wrestler
  • 1860, July 15, Max Freiherr von Oppenheim , † November 15, 1946 in Landshut, diplomat, orientalist and archaeologist in the Middle East
  • 1860, August 7, August Leo Zaar , † May 2, 1911 in Berlin, architect
  • 1860, November 9, Alexander Koch , † January 5, 1939 in Darmstadt, publisher
  • 1860, March 27, Elisabeth von Mumm , † March 30, 1933 in Cologne, women's rights activist

1861 to 1880

  • 1861, January 14, Erasmus Schüller , † January 21, 1890 in Cologne, architect
  • 1862, February 22, Louise Dumont , † May 16, 1932 in Düsseldorf, actress and theater director
  • 1863, January 15, Wilhelm Marx , † August 5, 1946 in Bonn, politician (center), Chancellor of the German Reich 1923–24, Prime Minister of Prussia 1925
  • 1863, May 14, Hugo von Cotzhausen , † November 18 in Dremmen, naval officer, rear admiral of the Imperial German Navy, naval attaché
  • 1864, March 18, Hermann Ritter , † October 25, 1925 in Cologne, writer
  • 1864, June 11, Helene Behm , † 1942, painter
  • 1864, December 18, Johann Knauth , † February 8, 1924 in Gengenbach, architect
  • 1865, January 23, August Raps , † April 20, 1920 in Berlin, physicist and board member Siemens & Halske
  • 1865, July 17, Nikolaus Friedrich , † February 6, 1914 in Berlin, sculptor
  • 1865, August 8, Wilhelm Räderscheidt , † July 6, 1926 in Cologne, elementary and secondary school teacher and director of the Cologne commercial school
  • 1865, November 25, Franz Wolter , † December 11, 1932 in Munich, painter and art writer
  • 1866, February 16, Max von Guilleaume , † June 15, 1932 in Remagen, regatta sailor and entrepreneur
  • 1866, March 23, Peter Berchem , † December 30, 1922 in Cologne, elementary school teacher and dialect poet
  • 1867, January 28, Albert Ahn , † July 8, 1935 in Lugano, publisher and industrialist
  • 1867, August 9, Alfred Schmidt , † March 8, 1931 in Cologne-Lindenthal, industrialist and pharmacy historian
  • 1868, January 3, Heinrich Brauns , † October 19, 1939 in Lindenberg im Allgäu, theologian and politician, member of the Reichstag
  • 1868, June 8, Adele Gerhard , † May 10, 1956 in Cologne, writer
  • 1868, August 10, Heinrich Renard , † November 6, 1928, architect
  • 1869, December 3, Laurenz Kiesgen , † February 19, 1957 in Dattenfeld, educator and writer
  • 1870, February 10, Max Osborn , † September 24, 1946 in New York, journalist and writer
  • 1870, July 18, Hermann Pauly , † October 31, 1950 in Würzburg, chemist
  • 1870, August 26, Ernst Flemming , † January 25, 1955 in Recklinghausen, chief miner and ministerial director in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry
  • 1870, November 10, Max Albermann , † July 26, 1927 in Steinfurt Monastery, last mayor of Kalk, head of the cultural department of Cologne
  • 1870, November 12, Minna Bachem-Sieger , † April 15, 1939 in Cologne, suffragette, politician and poet
  • 1871, Rudolf Klein-Diepold , † 1925, art historian, art writer and art critic
  • 1871, January 19, Franz Brantzky , † April 28, 1945 in Dinkelsbühl, architect, sculptor and painter
  • 1871, July 11 in today's Deutz district, Matthias Konrad Kann , date of death unknown, writer
  • 1872, May 10, August Adenauer , October 10, 1952 in Augsburg, lawyer, eldest brother of Konrad Adenauer
  • 1872, July 19, Karl Menser , † November 10, 1929 in Bonn, sculptor
  • 1872, August 24, Gustav von Stein , † November 30, 1952 in Enkirch, lawyer and Prussian district administrator in the Zell district
  • 1873, April 19, Carl Kühn , † June 21, 1942, architect, prince-bishop delegate building officer and diocesan building officer
  • 1873, September 11, Ernst Buddeberg , † January 9, 1949 in Bad Liebenzell, Lutheran theologian, director of the Liebenzeller Mission
  • 1873, December 13, Max von Mallinckrodt , † September 16, 1944 in Kreuzweingarten, writer
  • 1874, March 28, Robert Seuffert , † December 18, 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau, painter and professor at the Cologne Werkschulen from 1912 to 1936
  • 1874, August 27, Carl Bosch , † April 26, 1940 in Heidelberg, chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1930), technician and industrialist, President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society
  • 1874, September 11, Franz Löhr , † January 30, 1918 in Cologne, sculptor
  • 1874, November 2, Rudolf Breitscheid , † August 24, 1944 in Buchenwald (KZ), politician (SPD), Prussian interior minister, member of the German commission at the League of Nations
  • 1874, November 27, Ildefons Herwegen , * in Junkersdorf as Peter Herwegen ; † September 2, 1946 in Maria Laach , Benedictine monk and abbot of Maria Laach , historian and liturgist
  • 1875, January 8, Josef Buchhorn , † August 10, 1954 in Solingen-Ohligs, journalist, writer and politician (DVP)
  • 1875, March 4, Josef Winkel , † December 18, 1904 in Düsseldorf, painter and draftsman
  • 1875, March 12, Marie Becker , † July 29, 1930 in Hamburg, tailor, entrepreneur and politician
  • 1875, March 23, Moritz Bing , † November 13, 1947 in Bern, Jewish lawyer and patent attorney
  • 1875, May 18, Stephan Mattar , † June 29, 1943 in Cologne, architect
  • 1875, July 5, Wilhelm Pütz , † October 2, 1957 in Munich, mosaic and glass painting artist
  • 1875, July 16, Karl von Hartmann-Krey , † October 26, 1945 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, administrative lawyer and district administrator in the Wittgenstein district
  • 1876, January 5, Konrad Adenauer , † April 19, 1967 in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, politician (center, CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Federal Chancellor 1949–63, Foreign Minister 1951–55, Chairman of the CDU (1949–1966), Lord Mayor of Cologne 1917–33 and 1945
  • 1876, January 9, Robert Michels , † May 2, 1936 in Rome, sociologist
  • 1876, April 18, Hans Böhm , † December 12, 1946 in Dießen am Ammersee, literary scholar and writer
  • 1876, July 20, Arnold Langen , † January 17, 1947 in Darmstadt, engineer and industrialist
  • 1876, October 1st in today's OT Mülheim (at that time not yet incorporated), Willi Ostermann , † August 6th, 1936 in Cologne, composer, lyricist, singer (once on the Rhine) and carnivalist
  • 1876, October 4 in Cologne, Johann Duerst , † October 7, 1950 in Ins, Switzerland, agricultural scientist and university rector in Switzerland
  • 1876, December 2, Paul Moldenhauer , † February 1, 1947 in Bad Homburg, politician (DVP), Reich Minister (1929–1930)
  • 1877, April 19, Alice Neven DuMont , † August 23, 1964 in Cologne, politician (DVP), social politician
  • 1877, May 3, Wilhelm Ackermann , † unknown, journalist
  • 1877, March 6, Franz Lanters , † October 3, 1956 in Koblenz, first post-war Lord Mayor of Koblenz (1945)
  • 1878, June 4, Wilhelm Ewald , † May 12, 1955 in Cologne, Professor of History and Director of the Historical Museum in Cologne
  • 1878, July 16, Andreas Hermes , † January 4, 1964 in Krälingen, political scientist , politician ( center , CDU ) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • 1878, September 16, Carl Joseph Kuckhoff , † October 2, 1944 in Hildesheim, politician and member of the Reichstag
  • 1878, October 10, Theodor Scharmitzel , † December 27, 1963, politician
  • 1878, December 13, Otto Rudolf Haas , † January 23, 1956 in Sinn, managing partner W. Ernst Haas & Son
  • 1879, May 13, Christian Blank , † September 21, 1967 in Bonn, Prussian civil servant and politician (Center Party, CDU)
  • 1879, July 26th, Otto Hieronimus , † May 8th 1922 in Graz, German-Austrian automobile designer and racing driver
  • 1880, April 2, Ella Schmittmann , actually Helene Schmittmann, † December 21, 1970, there, social politician
  • 1880, June 25, Emil Ferdinand Malkowsky , † 1967, writer
  • 1880, August 12, Walter Eilender , † September 8, 1959 in Bad Mergentheim, Metallurg
  • 1880, October 22, Hans Janson , † March 10, 1949 in Bad Honnef, writer

1881 to 1900

  • 1881, April 6, Marie Gey-Heinze , † March 28, 1908 in Leipzig, painter
  • 1881, June 21, Hermann von Berg , † August 16, 1964 in Cologne, architect
  • 1881, June 21, Toni Impekoven , † May 6, 1947 in Sprendlingen, comedian, playwright and screenwriter and cabaret artist
  • 1881, July 18, Robert Jansen , † after 1924, journalist and politician
  • 1881, September 12, Heinz Kroh , † July 1, 1972 in Dortmund, draftsman, etcher and painter
  • 1881, December 26, Fritz Krischen , † July 15, 1949, architect, building researcher and classical archaeologist
  • 1882, March 16, Paul Lejeune-Jung , † September 8, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, economist, politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1882, June 17, Paul Pott , † January 31, 1966 in Cologne, architect
  • 1882, August 6, Josef Pallenberg , † June 26, 1946 in Düsseldorf, sculptor
  • 1882, August 9, Hermann Romberg , † January 21, 1929 in Vienna, actor
  • 1882, October 31, Otto Karl Hartmann , † December 22, 1945 in Berlin, insurance lawyer and government director
  • 1883, March 1, Franzjosef Klemm , † June 1959 in Wittlaer, painter
  • 1883, April 17, Arthur Delfosse , † December 6, 1956, entrepreneur and aviation pioneer
  • 1883, June 18, Walter von Steinäcker , † November 7, 1956 in Bonn, National Socialist lawyer
  • 1883, November 16, Engelbert Brinker , † December 13, 1944, resistance fighter
  • 1884, January 28, Ludwig Schmitz , † June 29, 1954 in Hanover, actor
  • 1884, February 8, Willy Schmitter , † September 18, 1905 in Leipzig, cyclist
  • 1884, April 29, Heinrich Auer , † May 15, 1951 in Freiburg im Breisgau, librarian
  • 1884, July 21, Peter Pooth , † February 1, 1958 in Stralsund, scientist and archivist
  • 1884, September 8, Peter Kintgen , † December 15, 1957 in Cologne, pedagogue and dialect poet
  • 1884, October 29, Georg von Schnitzler , † May 24, 1962 in Basel, board member of IG Farben and convicted war criminal
  • 1884, December 23, Heinrich Schneidereit , † September 30, 1915 in France, weightlifter
  • 1885, January 22, Willy Bleissem , † September 22, 1964 in Westum, car dealer and racing driver
  • 1885, February 4, Franz M. Jansen , † May 21, 1958 in Büchel, painter
  • 1885, March 2, Joseph Zorn , † June 4, 1954 in Dinslaken, politician
  • 1885, April 29, Martin Müller , sculptor in Berlin
  • 1885, August 25, Alfred Isay , died as an emigrant in Amsterdam on June 3, 1948, businessman ( Isay department store , later Ortloff house)
  • 1885, September 14, Carl de Vogt , † February 16, 1970 in Berlin, actor
  • 1885, September 15, Leo Winkel , † March 12, 1981 in Duisburg, designer of air raid shelters (including in the Goldenberg power plant in Hürth-Knapsack)
  • 1885, November 24, Rudolf Klein-Rogge , † May 29, 1955 in Wetzelsdorf near Jagerberg / Austria, actor
  • 1886, January 14, Theodor Seidenfaden , † August 6, 1979 in Hattingen, writer
  • 1886, May 22, Carl Wyland , † May 24, 1972 in Cologne, blacksmith
  • 1886, May 31, Clemens Klotz , † August 18, 1969, architect
  • 1886, June 3, Max Salomon , died 1970, carnivalist
  • 1886, August 10, Ida zur Nieden , also Ida Harth-Zur Nieden; † May 26, 1981 in Bayrischzell, actress and opera singer
  • 1886, August 12, Heinz Heimsoeth , † September 10, 1975 in Cologne, philosopher
  • 1886, September 19, Elsa Jülich , † June 23, 1964 in Ramat Gan / Israel, opera singer
  • 1886, November 11, Philipp Eberhard Schrammen , † December 12, 1947 in Lübeck, painter and graphic artist
  • 1886, December 24, Peco Bauwens , † November 17, 1963 in Cologne, football player, referee and president of the DFB
  • 1887, February 12, Engelbert Regh , † August 23, 1955 in Stolberg, politician
  • 1887, May 2, Michael Bohnen , † April 26, 1965 in Berlin, opera singer
  • 1887, August 7, Emmi Welter , † March 10, 1971 in Aachen, CDU politician and women's rights activist
  • 1887, August 18, Albert Kramer , † October 6, 1942 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto, Cologne finance and city director from 1920 to 1930; Holocaust victim
  • 1887, September 22, Hans Carl Scheibler , † October 17, 1963, entrepreneur, Dutch consul general and art patron
  • 1888, January 4, Milly Zirker , † April 12, 1971 in Miami, Florida, journalist
  • 1888, April 18, Hans David Tobar , died April 4, 1956 in New York, cabaret artist, author and actor
  • 1888, June 11, Hanns Martin Elster , † November 17, 1983 in Graefelfing, writer and publicist
  • 1888, June 18, Clemens Prüssen , † October 23, 1966 in Cologne, landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School
  • 1888, June 30, Rudolf Amelunxen , † April 21, 1969 in Düsseldorf, politician (Center Party), Member of the Bundestag , Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia (1946–1947), later Minister of Social Affairs and Justice (until 1958)
  • 1888, August 4, Heinrich Pellenz , † August 12, 1974 in Cologne, entrepreneur
  • 1888, 23 August, Walter Bornheim , † 1971, art dealer
  • 1888, September 6, Otto Nückel , † November 12, 1955 in Cologne, painter and graphic artist
  • 1888, September 16, Carl Salm , † 1939 in Cologne, writer
  • 1888, October 11, Konrad Haemmerling , † May 29, 1957 in Berlin, writer
  • 1888, October 11, Christine Teusch , † October 24, 1968 in Cologne, politician (center, CDU), member of the Reichstag and minister
  • 1889, January 1, Paul Mayer , † March 8, 1970 in Zurich, editor, translator and writer
  • 1889, January 13, Walter Bertuch , † April 10, 1973 in Cologne, painter and graphic artist
  • 1889, January 22, Franz Krauss , † September 7, 1982 in Aachen, mathematician and dean at RWTH Aachen
  • 1889, February 12, Hans Elfgen , † October 25, 1968 in Cologne, 1927 to 1933 district president in Cologne
  • 1889, March 19, August Schnorrenberg , † July 11, 1973, composer and songwriter
  • 1889, May 5, Max Fremerey , † September 20, 1968 in Krün, Upper Bavaria, Lieutenant General in World War II
  • 1889, June 15, Josef Haubrich , † September 4, 1961 in Bad Münstereifel, lawyer, art collector and art patron
  • 1889, July 16, Gustav Halm , † February 2, 1948 in Cologne, writer
  • 1889, July 25, Wilhelm Riphahn , † December 27, 1963 in Cologne, architect
  • 1889, August 11, Engelbert Esser , † November 1947 in Koblenz, politician (KPD), member of the Reichstag
  • 1889, November 29, Friedrich von Bülow , † January 17, 1984 in Cologne, department director at Krupp , convicted as a war criminal in the Krupp trial
  • 1890, February 19, Sibille Hartmann , † September 23, 1973 in Cologne, politician, co-founder of the children's homes in Cologne
  • 1890, April 8, Cordy Millowitsch , † probably after 1960 in Berlin, actress and singer
  • 1890, June 26, Lily Schwenger-Cords , † January 23, 1980 in Cologne, writer
  • 1890, November 23, Josef Klein , † December 14, 1952 in Bremen, economist, football functionary and politician of the NSDAP, member of the Reichstag and NSDAP district economic advisor
  • 1890, December 7, Carl Hubert Niessen , † March 6, 1969 in Troisdorf, theater scholar
  • 1891, January 16, Franz Joseph Esser , † June 18, 1964 in Seefeld / Upper Bavaria, painter, watercolorist, draftsman, caricaturist, graphic artist, illustrator, press illustrator
  • 1891, January 25, Ernst Berliner , † August 19, 1977 in Miami
  • 1891, February 14, Robert Meldau , † February 14, 1978 in Gütersloh, engineer
  • 1891, March 17th, Alexander Michels , + June 26th 1968 Bad Hörningen, Vice Admiral in World War II
  • 1891, March 24, Fifi Kreutzer , † December 29, 1977 in Ruppichteroth-Broscheid, painter
  • 1891, April 9, Walter Stoecker , † March 10, 1939 in Buchenwald concentration camp, communist politician, 1924 to 1929 parliamentary group leader of the KPD in the Reichstag
  • 1891, September 19, Willy Birgel , † December 29, 1973 in Dübendorf near Zurich, actor in film, stage and television
  • 1891, October 22, Doris Reichmann , † October 17, 1973 in Hanover, gymnastics teacher
  • 1891, November 4, Johannes Theodor Kuhlemann , † March 9, 1939 in Cologne, writer
  • 1891, November 27, Hans Karl Rosenberg , † April 17, 1942 in Bad Godesberg, professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Bonn
  • 1891, December 27, Fritz Keller , † May 15, 1943 in Aachen, Roman Catholic priest, resistance fighter against National Socialism and martyr
  • 1892, September 22, Herbert Janssen , † June 3, 1965 in New York, opera singer
  • 1892, October 11, Anton Räderscheidt , † March 8, 1970 in Cologne, painter of the New Objectivity
  • 1892, November 29, Wilhelm Richter , † March 14, 1944 in Baschtanka, dermatologist
  • 1893, January 22, Bruno Herbert Jahn , writer
  • 1893, February 18, Otto Scheib , † March 13, 1965, government architect
  • 1893, May 26, Wilhelm Dorn , † August 30, 1974 in Essen, writer
  • 1893, June 17, Jean van Kessel , † October 27, 1956, teacher and politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1893, June 28, Christa Thomas , † April 2, 1989 in Cologne, social worker, Catholic pacifist and women's rights activist
  • 1893, September 23, August Hermann Zeiz , † August 30, 1964 in Berlin, writer
  • 1893, October 8, Otto Haase , † March 19, 1961 in Hanover, fighter pilot in World War I, reform pedagogue and ministerial director
  • 1893, November 11, Paul von Guilleaume , † December 16, 1970, automobile racing driver and motorsport official
  • 1893, December 2, Luise Straus-Ernst , † 1944 in Auschwitz , art historian, artist and journalist
  • 1894, January 14, Elisabeth Moses , died December 21, 1957 in San Francisco, art historian and museum curator
  • 1894, March 9, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert , † July 3, 1933 in Cologne, painter and sculptor
  • 1894, July 4, Peter Franz Nöcker , † June 29, 1984 ibid, architect
  • 1894, July 22, Edith Leffmann , † February 3, 1984, Jewish doctor, member of the Resistance
  • 1894, August 7, Toni Weiler , † January 30, 1970 in Bonn, opera singer
  • 1894, November 23, Georg Statz , † August 29, 1945 in Neu-Ulm, teacher, entomologist and fossil collector
  • 1895, April 6, Erich Abberger , † May 3, 1988, officer
  • 1895, June 6, Michel Becker , † December 11, 1948 in Bedburg / Erft, writer
  • 1895, June 30th, Erwin Ettel , pseudonym after 1945 Ernst Krüger , † September 9th, 1971 in Bad Bevensen, diplomat, SS leader and time editor
  • 1895, July, Fritz Koenen , † August 1978 in Waldbröl, zoologist and painter
  • 1895, July 19, Martha Dix , † March 6, 1985 in Sarrians, gold- and silversmith and wife of Otto Dix
  • 1895, August 5, Josefine Doerner , † September 5, 1968 in Bonn, politician
  • 1895, September 1, Heinrich Hoerle , † July 3, 1936 in Cologne, painter
  • 1895, October 24, Franz Vehlow , code name Louis Schuster; † December 1, 1936 outside Madrid, trade union functionary, KPD politician and interbrigadist
  • 1895, December 7th, Auguste Adenauer , † March 3rd, 1948 in Rhöndorf, second wife of Konrad Adenauer
  • 1896, January 30, Joseph Roth , † January 22, 1945 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg Friesdorf, chairman of the Godesberg Center, his brothers Thaddäus Maria Roth and Ernst Moritz Roth
  • 1896, February 3, Henny Wolff , † January 29, 1965 in Hamburg, concert singer (soprano) and vocal teacher
  • 1896, June 29, Mathieu Ahlersmeyer , † July 23, 1979 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, singer
  • 1896, November 15, Leo Haubrich , † August 29, 1983 in Cologne, writer
  • 1897, March 19, Heinz Steguweit , † May 25, 1964 in Halver / Westphalia, writer
  • 1897, June 14, Karl Schnog , † August 23, 1964 in Berlin, writer
  • 1897, July 9, Johann Wilhelm Naumann , † May 1, 1956 in Würzburg, journalist and publisher
  • 1897, August 19, Adolf Heinen , † January 29, 1975 in Münster, Jesuit, missiologist
  • 1898, Rudolf Gosekuhl , † 1951 in Bad Godesberg, portrait, landscape and still life painter of the Düsseldorf School
  • 1898, January 21, Gertrud Meyer , † December 21, 1975 in Hamburg, member of a KPD resistance organization and author
  • 1898, June 1, Ruth Hallensleben , † April 18, 1977 in Cologne, photographer
  • 1898, June 21, Elisabeth Emundts-Draeger , † May 7, 1987 in Bergisch Gladbach-Bensberg, writer
  • 1898, June 26, Thaddäus Maria Roth , † October 12, 1952 in Cologne, brother of Joseph Roth , Dominican priest and artist
  • 1898, July 17, Leo Statz , † November 1, 1943 in Brandenburg / Havel, factory owner, critic of National Socialism, carnival president
  • 1898, September 17, Karl Hennemann , † December 1, 1963, politician (KPD), trade unionist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • 1898, October 4, Goswin Peter Gath , † October 15, 1959 in Sürth, writer
  • 1898, November 2, Hans Loch , † July 13, 1960 in Berlin, politician of the GDR
  • 1898, December 30, Hein Domgörgen , † April 1, 1972 in Cologne, boxer
  • 1899, April 9, Heinrich Hamacher , † July 19, 1974, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag
  • 1899, April 23, Ernst Leffmann , died March 22, 1972 in Arnhem, lawyer
  • 1899, August 1, William Steinberg , born as Hans Wilhelm Steinberg, † May 16, 1978 in New York City, German-American conductor
  • 1899, August 10, Margarete Heymann-Marks , † November 11, 1990, ceramic artist of Jewish descent and Bauhaus student
  • 1899, October 6, Clemens Bosch , also Clemens Emin Bosch, † July 22, 1955 in Istanbul, ancient historian and numismatist
  • 1899, November 20, Angelika Hoerle , † September 9, 1923 in Cologne, painter and graphic artist of the 1920s (belonged to the Cologne DADA group "stupid")
  • 1899, December 16, Kate Kühl , † January 29, 1970 in West Berlin, cabaret artist, chansonnière and actress
  • 1900, March 5, Lilli Jahn , † presumably June 19, 1944 in Auschwitz, doctor
  • 1900, April 18, Peter Herkenrath , † November 13, 1992 in Mainz, painter
  • 1900, May 10, Ernst Ising , † May 11, 1998 in Peoria / Illinois, mathematician and physicist
  • 1900, June 8, Werner Flechsig , † October 12, 1981 in Wolfenbüttel, physicist and television pioneer
  • 1900, June 21, Wilhelm Schürmann-Horster , † September 9, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee, actor and resistance fighter
  • 1900, July 14th, Carl Josef Linfert , also Karl Josef; † May 30, 1981 in Cologne, art historian, journalist and radio editor
  • 1900, July 26, Karl Berbuer , † November 17, 1977 in Cologne, composer, lyricist, singer (Heidewitzka, Herr Kapitän)
  • 1900, September 9, Thomas Liessem , † September 20, 1973 in Cologne, carnivalist and organizer of the Cologne carnival
  • 1900, September 25, Willy Richartz , † August 8, 1972 in Bad Tölz, composer (Hein plays so beautifully on the boatman's piano in the evening)
  • 1900, October 5, Karl Pfeifer , † 1983 in Nideggen, painter
  • 1900, December 5, Everhard Bungartz , † January 19, 1984 in Munich, entrepreneur and politician
  • 1900, December 26, Otto Butterlin , † May 21, 1956 in Mexico, chemist and painter

20th century

1901 to 1910

  • 1901, January 3, Eric Voegelin , † January 19, 1985 in Palo Alto, California, political scientist
  • 1901, February 13, Fritz Kronenberg , † April 4, 1960 in Hamburg, painter of the Hamburg Secession
  • 1901, February 15, Jupp Schmitz , † March 26, 1991 in Cologne, singer (Who should pay for that ?; Everything is over on Ash Wednesday)
  • 1901, March 3, Hannes Maria Flach , † October 20, 1936 in Cologne, photographer
  • 1901, March 7, Bertha Sander , † July 23, 1990 in Bodiam, East Sussex, England, interior designer and specialist author
  • 1901, April 28, Werner Mantz , † May 12, 1983 in Eijsden, German-Dutch photographer
  • 1901, June 18, Hilde Spier , † September 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp, philologist and journalist
  • 1901, July 31, Lis Böhle , † October 29, 1990 in Troisdorf, dialect poet
  • 1902, Johannes Maringer , † 1981 in Sankt Augustin, prehistoric
  • 1902, January 6, Wilhelm Kratz , † November 10, 1944 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism
  • 1902, January 16, Oscar Herbert Pfeiffer , † April 22, 1996 in Sigmaringen, writer
  • 1902, January 26, Heinz Plumanns , † January 11, 1986 in Bad Neuenahr, water diver and swimmer
  • 1902, January 31, Ernst Moritz Roth , † March 12, 1945 in Dreisel, vicar, artist and Nazi opponent, brother of Joseph Roth
  • 1902, April 2, Eva Guttsman Ostwalt , † May 23, 2010 in Bethesda (Maryland), survivor and contemporary witness of the Holocaust
  • 1902, July 26, Jupp Schlösser , † February 23, 1983 in Cologne, lyricist, singer (cornflower blue; pay attention to the year of birth)
  • 1902, November 24, Alfred Teichmann , † September 21, 1971, civil engineer
  • 1903, September 8, Max Otto Kramer , † June 1986 in Pacific Palisades (California), scientist and aeronautical engineer
  • 1903, November 19, Gottfried Brockmann , † July 9, 1983 in Kiel, socially critical artist, cultural advisor for the city of Kiel, and professor for "Free and Applied Painting" at the Muthesius-Werkschule in Kiel
  • 1903, December 9, Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden , † November 30, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, lawyer and resister against the Nazi regime
  • 1904, February 12, Enrique Beck , † September 16, 1974 in Riehen (Switzerland), poet and translator
  • 1904, March 18, Alfred Bonnemann , † June 2, 1979 in Hann. Münden, forest scientist
  • 1904, March 25, Walter Hewel , † May 2, 1945 in Berlin, SS-Brigadführer and State Secretary in the Foreign Office
  • 1904, October 21, Hermann Conrad , † March 18, 1972 in Bonn, legal historian, university professor, created the standard work on German legal history
  • 1904, November 24, Josef Steinberg † May 7, 1981 in Cologne, cath. Priest, student chaplain, academy director
  • 1904, December 7th, Martin Frey , † November 5th 1971 in Heinsberg, graduate farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
  • 1905, March 5, Fritz Schwerdtfeger , † August 4, 1986 in Göttingen, forest scientist and zoologist
  • 1905, March 24, Karl John , † December 22, 1977 in Gütersloh, stage, film and television actor and voice actor
  • 1905, June 7, Fanny Meyer , † around 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp, puppeteer
  • 1905, June 9, Walter Wilhelm Johann Kraft , † May 5, 1977 in Amsterdam, organist and composer
  • 1905, June 16, Elsbeth von Ameln , † April 30, 1990 in Cologne, lawyer and defense attorney
  • 1905, July 10, Hans Otten , † October 31, 1942 in Cologne, composer (You cannot be faithful)
  • 1905, July 30, Franz Kremer , † November 11, 1967, first president of 1. FC Köln, founded in 1948
  • 1905, August 18, Emilio Willems , † November 19, 1997 in Nashville, Tennessee, German-American sociologist and ethnologist
  • 1905, September 5, Willy Schneider , † January 12, 1989 in Cologne, singer (pour your worries into a glass of wine; you would have to be twenty again)
  • 1905, October 16, Mathias Engel , † June 23, 1994 in Carlstadt, New Jersey, German track cyclist and world champion
  • 1905, November 4, Karl Küpper , † May 26, 1970 in Düsseldorf, Büttenredner; as "Dr Verdötscht" one of the few Cologne carnivalists who openly positioned themselves against the National Socialists
  • 1905, November 27th, Gottfried Hürtgen , † in Argentina, track cyclist
  • 1905, December 31, Frank Barufski , † October 21, 1991 in Cologne, actor, radio play speaker and presenter
  • 1906, January 6, Franziska Kessel , † April 23, 1934 in Mainz, politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1906, January 29, Adolf Peter Hoffmann , † July 23, 1982 in Berlin, actor
  • 1906, April 23, Walter Koppel , † October 25, 1982 in Marburg, film producer
  • 1906, July 17th, Joseph Caspar Witsch in Kalk; † April 28, 1967 in Cologne, librarian and publisher
  • 1906, July 22nd, Reimer Mager , † October 10th 1966 in Dresden, Christian trade unionist and Lutheran church leader
  • 1906, August 2 in Worringen , Josef Marxen , † November 16, 1946 near Tirana, Catholic priest and missionary, martyr
  • 1906, August 8, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff , † May 24, 1974 in Potsdam, actor, director and theater manager
  • 1906, August 27, Theo Frankenstein , † unknown, track cyclist
  • 1906, October 19, Theo Burauen , † October 28, 1987 in Cologne, Mayor of Cologne from 1956 to 1973
  • 1906, December 12, Ludwig Suthaus , † September 9, 1971 in Berlin, Heldentenor
  • 1906, December 23, Wolfgang Vacano , † January 3, 1985, conductor and music teacher
  • 1907, January 25, Peter Klein , † October 4, 1992 in Vienna, opera singer and vocal teacher
  • 1907, March 19, Hans Mayer , † May 19, 2001 in Tübingen, literary scholar and author
  • 1907, May 28, Trude Löwenstein , † June 11, 2003 in Israel, surgeon
  • 1907, June 17th, Friedebert Becker , † 1984, journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher of Sport und Kicker
  • 1907, June 28, Inge Conradi , † September 20, 1990, actress
  • 1907, September 9, Hans Deichmann , † December 7, 2004 in Bocca di Magra (Italy), resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1907, September 19, Kurt Klipp , † May 2, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen, SS-Obersturmführer
  • 1907, October 21, Wilhelm Höck , † March 4, 1983 in Salzgitter, politician and Lord Mayor of Salzgitter
  • 1907, October 28, Ferdi Hülser , † March 27, 1995 in Cologne, resistance fighter, anti-fascist, peace activist
  • 1907, November 7, Hans Schiff , † September 17, 1976 in New York City, photographer
  • 1908, January 19, Wilhelm Reusch , † August 19, 1995 in Trier, archaeologist
  • 1908, February 16, Rudolf Jacquemien , † September 20, 1992 in Kaliningrad, writer and journalist
  • 1908, March 24th, Jonas Kessler , shot dead on August 5th, 1944 in Plaszow concentration camp, businessman
  • 1908, April 8, Franz Dübbers , † August 1987 in Cologne, boxer
  • 1908, June 4th, Hans Dormbach , † unknown, racing cyclist
  • 1908, June 7, Leo Fritz Gruber , † March 30, 2005 in Cologne, advertising specialist and publicist and, together with Bruno Uhl, founder of Photokina
  • 1908, October 12, Jakob Domgörgen , † unknown, boxer
  • 1908, October 23, Herbert Meyer , † July 16, 1992 in Mannheim, Germanist, librarian and museum director
  • 1908, November 6, Ludwig Landen , † October 14, 1985 in Cologne, canoeist and Olympic champion
  • 1908, December 5, Walter Rieger , † August 1, 1989 in Cologne, lawyer and politician (FDP) and 1957/58 district president of the Cologne district
  • 1908, December 9, Karl-Maria Schley , † March 11, 1980 in Berlin, actor and radio play speaker
  • 1909, January 4, Cilly Aussem , † March 22, 1963 in Portofino (Italy), tennis player
  • 1909, January 8, Willy Millowitsch , † September 20, 1999 in Cologne, folk actor, singer (schnapps, that was his last word)
  • 1909, January 24, Fritz Weber , † June 1984, pop singer, composer (I am ene Cologne young)
  • 1909, February 13, Joseph Meurers , † July 31, 1987 in Ettenhausen, astronomer, astrophysicist and natural philosopher
  • 1909, February 20, Albert Verbeek , † November 28, 1984 in Bonn, art historian
  • 1909, March 20, Hubert Hermans , † December 28, 1989 in Koblenz, administrative officer, lawyer and politician
  • 1909, April 20, Kurt Oster , † 1988 in the USA, cardiologist, pharmacologist and nutritionist
  • 1909, July 27, Hilde Domin , † February 22, 2006 in Heidelberg, writer and poet
  • 1909, September 2, Hans Erich Kubach , † May 26, 1999 in Speyer, art historian
  • 1909, September 11, Gerd Lohmer , † September 6, 1981 in Cologne, architect
  • 1910, March 14th, Ernst Schäfer , † July 21st, 1992 in Bad Bevensen, zoologist and Tibet researcher as well as leading member of the German Ahnenerbe Research Association and SS-Sturmbannführer
  • 1910, March 18, Curt Cüppers , † December 29, 1995 in Cologne, professor of ophthalmology and pioneer of strabology
  • 1910, March 22nd, Heinz Heyne , † unknown, doctor and independent politician, member of the newly appointed Braunschweig Landtag
  • 1910, April 12, Hugo von Wallis , † May 4, 1993 in Munich, lawyer and President of the Federal Fiscal Court

1911 to 1920

  • 1911, January 30, Gerhard Jussenhoven , † July 13, 2006 in Cologne, composer ( cornflower blue , bathtub tango )
  • 1911, February 20, Albrecht Fabri , ( pseudonyms : Karl Albrecht, Albertin Charlus, Otto Rodenkirchen), writer, † February 11, 1998 in Cologne
  • 1911, March 29, Freya Countess von Moltke , as Freya Deichmann ; † January 1, 2010 in Norwich , Vermont , resistance fighter against National Socialism, writer and lawyer. She became known to the general public primarily as the widow of the resistance fighter Helmuth James Graf von Moltke .
  • 1911, May 15, Herta Oberheuser , † January 24, 1978 in Linz am Rhein, doctor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
  • 1911, May 24, Lotte Rausch , † March 11, 1995 in Offenbach, actress
  • 1911, December 31, Franz Mai , † October 26, 1999 in Saarbrücken, director of the Saarländischer Rundfunk
  • 1912, Heinrich Schilausky , † after 2000, racing cyclist
  • 1912, February 18, Heinz Kühn , † March 12, 1992 in Cologne, politician (SPD), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (1966–1978)
  • 1912, February 21, Sally Kessler , † March 27, 1985 in Cologne, local politician and survivor of the Holocaust
  • 1912, March 13, Wilhelm Kweksilber , † December 7, 1988 in Amsterdam, stateless, later Dutch publicist and politician
  • 1912, March 16, Jupp Arents , † December 24, 1984 in Arnsberg, racing cyclist
  • 1912, May 15, Egon Kraus , † April 19, 2001, music teacher and university professor
  • 1912, June 21, Toni Merkens , † June 20, 1944 in Wildbad, racing cyclist, 1936 Olympic sprint champion
  • 1912, August 26, Werner Dissel , † January 22, 2003 in Wildpark-West near Potsdam, actor and director
  • 1912, September 26, Aenne Ley , † April 15, 2010 in Mainz, politician (FDP)
  • 1912, October 14, Albert Richter , † January 2, 1940 in Lörrach, cyclist, sprint world champion of track amateurs from 1932
  • 1912, October 23, Anneliese Planken , † January 31, 1994 in Cologne, painter
  • 1912, November 23, Josef Kindel , † August 5, 1948 in Almelo
  • 1912, December 13, Franz Bachem , † July 3, 2002 in Cologne, publisher
  • 1913, January 13th, Lotte Berk , died 2003, German-British dancer and training theorist
  • 1913, July 2, Claus Mosler , † January 13, 1999 in Cologne, entrepreneur and banker
  • 1913, August 9th, Johann Ferbach , † June 21st, 1970 in Straubing, gained notoriety throughout Germany when he and Vera Brühne were accused of murdering the Munich doctor Otto Praun and his housekeeper
  • 1913, December 5, Heinz Müller-Pilgram , † November 3, 1984 in Bad Soden am Taunus , painter
  • 1914, Hein Bitz , † 1987, folk and street singer, called "Der Spatz vom Wallrafplatz"
  • 1914, January 11, Fritz Ruland , † January 1999 in Cologne, racing cyclist
  • 1914, March 2, Ferdi Leisten , † May 6, 1995 in Cologne, entrepreneur, horse breeder and carnivalist
  • 1914, April 26, Wilhelm Heinrichs , † February 15, 1995 in Chiemgau, composer
  • 1914, June 20, Walter Dick , † June 29, 1976 there, photographer and photo editor
  • 1914, June 27, Alice Koch-Gierlichs , † October 21, 2009, visual artist
  • 1914, July 30, Elisabeth Scherer , † April 18, 2013 in Cologne, actress
  • 1914, November 17, Marianne Kühn , † June 13, 2005 in Cologne, politician (SPD) and art collector
  • 1915, February 6, Werner Bornheim called Schilling , † October 29, 1992 in Wiesbaden, art historian and monument conservator, 1946 to 1980 state curator of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 1915, February 18, Adolph Marx , † November 1, 1965 in Cologne, first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville in Texas , USA
  • 1915, March 25, Karl Sommer (SS member) , † unknown, SS-Hauptsturmführer and convicted war criminal
  • 1915, June 7, Toni Zenz , † March 18, 2014, sculptor
  • 1915, August 3, Kurt Engels , † December 31, 1958 in Hamburg, commandant of the Ghetto Izbica concentration camp
  • 1915, September 10, Willi Meurer , † September 29, 1981 in Dahlem , racing cyclist
  • 1916, January 28, Wilhelm Neef , † March 20, 1990 in Potsdam, film composer and conductor
  • 1916, February 8, Günter Diehl , † August 25, 1999 in Oberwinter, Head of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government and Government Spokesman (1967–1969)
  • 1916, April 29, Hanne Schleich , † October 14, 2000 in Arnsberg, writer
  • 1916, May 13, Paul Rudolf Kraemer , † May 10, 2007 in Frechen, entrepreneur and founder of the non-profit Gold Kraemer Foundation
  • 1916, June 23, Heinrich "Heinz" Klein-Arendt , † July 15, 2005 in Bergheim-Oberaussem, sculptor
  • 1916, November 29, Karl Bette , † May 9, 2006 in Schlehdorf, composer (where the torrent rushes; in Hamburg the nights are long)
  • 1917, December 21, Heinrich Böll , † July 16, 1985 in Langenbroich, writer (views of a clown; the lost honor of Katharina Blum; group picture with lady), Nobel Prize winner for literature
  • 1918, May 28, Helmut Friedmann , † January 6, 2012 in London, linguist, philologist, writer
  • 1918, August 6, Otto Wolff von Amerongen , † March 8, 2007 in Cologne, industrialist, President of the DIHT (1969–1988)
  • 1918, September 25, Helene Rahms , † January 14, 1999 in Oberursel, journalist and author
  • 1918, December 9, Max H. Rehbein , † November 13, 2015, film producer, journalist and publicist
  • 1918, Hans Müller-Westernhagen , † December 18, 1963 in Düsseldorf, actor
  • 1919, January 31, Hans Katzer , † July 18, 1996 in Cologne, politician (CDU), Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs (1965–1969)
  • 1919, August, Ernst Simons , † January 29, 2006 in Cologne, government school director and survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
  • 1919, August 11, Brian B. Shefton , † January 25, 2012, classical archaeologist
  • 1919, September 20, Jupp Lückeroth , † May 3, 1993 in Cologne, Informel painter
  • 1919, November 7, Helmuth Hoffmann , † June 19, 2010 in Bergisch Gladbach, table tennis player
  • 1920, January 4, Eduard Trier , † June 27, 2009 in Cologne, art historian , exhibition curator and university rector
  • 1920, March 12, Roland Lorent , † November 10, 1944 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1920, March 18, Helmut Blume , † July 8, 2008, geographer
  • 1920, March 22nd, Werner Klemperer , † December 6th, 2000 in New York, musician, conductor and actor, son of singer Johanna Geisler and conductor Otto Klemperer
  • 1920, April 24, Wilhelm Schlombs (usually called Willi Schlombs), † August 25, 1993, architect and church builder
  • 1920, June 6th, Kurt Wiemers , † February 14th, 2006 in Denzlingen near Freiburg, anesthetist and university professor
  • 1920, June 24, Jimmy Ernst (actually Hans-Ulrich Ernst), † February 6, 1984 in New York, German-American painter, son of the painter Luise Straus-Ernst and the painter Max Ernst
  • 1920, July 6, Paul Bresgen , † February 19, 1984, politician (SPD), from 1962 to 1975 member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1920, September 19, Rudi von der Dovenmühle (pseudonym: Rudi Lindt), † March 18, 2000, composer (Liechtensteiner Polka; I want a cowboy as a man )
  • 1920, November 29, Manfred Weil , † May 6, 2015 in Meckenheim, painter, Holocaust survivor

1921 to 1930

  • 1921, February 8, Hans Albert , sociologist, philosopher and university professor
  • 1921, February 12, Günter Aust , † May 2, 2018 in Bad Münstereifel, art historian
  • 1921, April 1, Peter Fuchs , † March 1, 2003 in Cologne, writer and historian (chronicle of the history of the city of Cologne)
  • 1921, April 1, Hans Martin Klinkenberg , † February 20, 2002 in Cologne, historian of medieval history
  • 1921, April 13, Toni Steingass , † October 29, 1987 in Mechernich (Eifel), composer (the most beautiful place is always at the bar)
  • 1921, April 30, Kaspar Roos , † August 25, 1986, doctor and professional medical officer
  • 1921, May 28, Heinz Günther Konsalik , † October 2, 1999 in Salzburg, writer (The Doctor of Stalingrad)
  • 1921, June 10, Stella Baum , † November 27, 2006 in Wuppertal, author, art collector and honorary citizen of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  • 1921, July 12, Jan Brügelmann , † June 23, 2012 in Cologne, local politician, carnivalist and patron of sports
  • 1921, October 2, Peter Florin , † February 17, 2014 in Berlin, politician (SED) and diplomat
  • 1921, December 14, Fritz Hilgers , † May 18, 2014 in Cologne, monument conservator and professor at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences
  • 1922, March 9, Karin von Ullmann , † June 1, 2009 entrepreneur and owner of the Schlenderhan Stud
  • 1922, March 16, Raffael Becker , † October 23, 2013, painter and sculptor
  • 1922, April 1, Wolfgang Rennert , † March 24, 2012 in Berlin, conductor
  • 1922, July 12, Christa von Schnitzler , † June 28, 2003 in Frankfurt am Main, sculptor
  • 1922, August 10, Günter Steffens , † December 6, 1985 in Heidelberg, writer
  • 1922, November 9, Erich Ebert , † November 25, 2000 in Munich, actor, dubbing actor, dubbing writer and dialogue director
  • 1922, December 16, David Scott-Barrett , † January 1, 2004 in Inverness, British Lieutenant General, Commander of the British Berlin Sector
  • 1923, February 25, Gisbert Brovot , † March 29, 2016, carnivalist
  • 1923, April 14, Günter Eilemann , † October 5, 2015 in Cologne, composer, pianist, singer (father is the best)
  • 1923, May 15, Adolf Grünbaum , † November 15, 2018, American physicist, philosopher and scientific theorist
  • 1923, June 4, Dieter Schütte , † February 8, 2013 in Cologne, publisher
  • 1923, June 26, Franz-Paul Decker , † May 19, 2014 in Montreal, German-Canadian conductor
  • 1924, March 6, Heribert Calleen (also known as Herbert Calleen), † November 24, 2017 in Cologne, sculptor and medalist
  • 1924, May 13, Harry Heinz Schwarz , † February 5, 2010 in Johannesburg, South African anti-apartheid politician
  • 1924, May 16, Horst Becker , † November 16, 2005, diplomat, ambassador to Somalia and New Zealand
  • 1924, May 19, Carl-Heinz Hargesheimer, artist name Chargesheimer , † 1971 in Cologne, photographer
  • 1924, June 1, Gertrud Koch , † June 21, 2016, resistance fighter
  • 1924, June 3, Gustav Adebahr , † December 9, 2008, medical examiner
  • 1924, October 3, Josef Anselm Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , † September 20, 2003 in Stuttgart, theologian and writer
  • 1924, October 5, Grete Wehmeyer , † October 18, 2011 there, pianist and musicologist
  • 1924, November 23, Friedrich Karl Klein-Blenkers , † April 14, 2015 in Bergisch Gladbach, economist and university professor
  • 1924, December 18, Margot Scharpenberg , writer
  • 1925, February 28, Josef Röhrig , † February 12, 2014 in Cologne, soccer player and coach
  • 1925, March 8th, André Müller sen. , Poet, publicist, theater critic and theater practitioner
  • 1925, March 24, Karl Oskar Blase , † December 27, 2016, graphic artist and university professor
  • 1925, March 28, Paul Nagel , † March 24, 2016 there, metal sculptor, painter and blacksmith
  • 1925, April 12, Erwin Bechtold , painter; lives in Ibiza
  • 1925, April 28, Hans Peter Richter , † November 1993 in Mainz, scientist and writer
  • 1925, May 29, Hermann Braun , † June 30, 2002 in Cologne, figure skater
  • 1925, June 1, Paul Verbeek , † December 24, 2019, diplomat
  • 1925, June 6, Erich Endlein , † August 12, 2017, Catholic pastor
  • 1925, August 9, Alfred Antkowiak , † September 6, 1976 in East Berlin, editor and writer
  • 1925, October 12, Elmar Hillebrand , † January 8, 2016 in Cologne, sculptor
  • 1925, November 16, Anna Gisela Johnen , † February 1, 2014 in Cologne, ornithologist and professor of zoology at the University of Cologne
  • 1926, January 6, Walter Hayman , died January 1, 2020, British mathematician
  • 1926, January 9, Kurt Link , † December 27, 1996 in Düsseldorf, sculptor, draftsman, conceptual artist and painter
  • 1926, January 21, Willehad Paul Eckert , † January 18, 2005 in Düsseldorf, Catholic theologian
  • 1926, February 9, Karlheinz Jansen , † May 1, 2017 in Cologne, carnivalist and handcrafted speaker
  • 1926, February 22, Heinz Dieter Köhler , † March 26, 2019 in Gummersbach, theater and radio play director
  • 1926, May 12, Hans Fricke , † April 9, 2015, resistance activist during the Second World War
  • 1926, September 18, Wolfgang Schoor , † January 28, 2007 in Wernigerode, composer
  • 1926, September 19, Oswald Gilles , composer, choirmaster
  • 1926, October 16, Hedda Heuser-Schreiber , † May 29, 2007 in Bamberg, doctor, journalist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
  • 1926, November 9, Maria Anders , † February 9, 1997 in Apolda, historian
  • 1926, December 1, Margret Krick , † April 5, 2016, publisher and entrepreneur
  • 1927, February 20, Ingetraut Dahlberg , † October 24, 2017, information scientist and philosopher
  • 1927, February 24, Peter Müller , † May 30, 1992 in Cologne, boxer, known as "de Aap"
  • 1927, March 29, Alfred Neven DuMont , † May 30, 2015 in Cologne, publisher
  • 1927, May 4, Trude Herr , † March 16, 1991 in Aix-en-Provence, actress, singer
  • 1927, May 7, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , † April 3, 2013 in New York, screenwriter
  • 1927, June 9th, Marlies Müller , javelin thrower
  • 1927, August 11, Gustav Bermel , † November 10, 1944 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, Wehrmacht deserter, publicly hanged
  • 1927, September 20, Katharina Tüschen , † April 2, 2012 in Berlin, actress
  • 1927, October 19, Hans Schäfer , † November 7, 2017 in Cologne, football player
  • 1927, October 27, Thomas Nipperdey , † June 14, 1992 in Munich, historian
  • 1928, Wolfram Gehring , organist
  • 1928, January 9, John W. Cahn , † March 14, 2016 in Seattle, physical chemist and materials scientist
  • 1928, February 9, C. Doberman (actually Carla-Ingrid Hahn); † June 2, 2008 in Karlsruhe, writer
  • 1928, February 14, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , politician (CDU)
  • 1928, February 27, Klaus Dick , auxiliary bishop emeritus in the Archdiocese of Cologne
  • 1928, April 18, Karl Josef Cardinal Becker SJ , † February 10, 2015 in Rome, Roman Catholic theologian and dogmatist
  • 1928, May 1, Sepp Hürten , † April 24, 2018, sculptor, works in various Cologne churches
  • 1928, May 4, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , † September 10, 1961 in Monza, automobile racing driver
  • 1928, May 17, Elisabeth Adenauer , † February 3, 2019 in Neuss, youngest daughter of Konrad Adenauer
  • 1928, June 9, Erwin Kurt Scheuch , † October 12, 2003 in Cologne, sociologist
  • 1928, June 10, Hans Abraham Ochs , † September 30, 1936 in Cologne, pupil and victims of National Socialism
  • 1928, July 2, Helmut Kentler , † July 9, 2008 in Hanover, social worker and university professor
  • 1928, July 28, Karl Heinz Berger , † November 25, 1994 in Berlin, writer
  • 1928, August 13, Theo Breidenbach , † July 7, 2019 in Düsseldorf, advertising specialist
  • 1928, August 26, Günther Schwarz , † November 10, 1944 in Cologne, resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1928, September 9, Fritz Herkenrath , † April 18, 2016, football player and university professor
  • 1928, October 24, Günther van Norden , † November 21, 2018 in Bonn-Mehlem, historian
  • 1928, December 15, Pierluigi "Gigi" Campi , † January 6, 2010 in Cologne, Italian jazz producer, architect and restaurateur
  • 1928, December 28, Max Scheler , † February 7, 2003 in Hamburg, photographer
  • 1929 April 12, Henry Beissel , Canadian author
  • 1929, May 18, Otto Flimm , † February 10, 2020 in Brühl, entrepreneur, ADAC Vice President 1972–1989, President 1989–2001, Honorary President since 2001
  • 1929, June 17th, Gerhard Uhlenbruck , professor of medicine (immunobiology) at the University of Cologne and well-known aphorist
  • 1929, July 5, Klaus Hartmann , † December 3, 2019 in Cologne, sports official and sixth president of 1. FC Cologne
  • 1929, August 5, Franz M. Keil , † September 12, 2018, diplomat
  • 1929, September 26, Heinz Soénius , † February 8, 2020 in Cologne, politician (CDU)
  • 1929, September 29, Rolf Kühn , musician and jazz clarinetist
  • 1929, September 30, Dorothee Steffensky-Sölle , † April 27, 2003 in Göppingen, theologian and literary scholar
  • 1929, October 1, Peter Meven , † August 30, 2003 in Waldorf, opera and concert singer
  • 1929, November 26th, Inge Minor , figure skater
  • 1930, January 27, Irmgard Gaertner-Fichtner , b. Gaertner, † December 16, 2018, economist and politician (SPD)
  • 1930, January 31, Hermann Moers , writer
  • 1930, February 12, Heinz Hartmann , sociologist and university lecturer
  • 1930, March 1, Ludwig Steffens , urologist
  • 1930, March 10, Klas Ewert Everwyn , writer
  • 1930, July 29, Christian Watrin , economist
  • 1930, September 7, Karl Wilhelm Krämer , † December 4, 1990 in Bielefeld, writer and librettist
  • 1930, October 30, Wilhelm Uhlenbruck , lawyer
  • 1930, October 31, Eduard Prüssen , † October 2, 2019 in Cologne, graphic designer, book illustrator and artist

1931 to 1940

  • 1931, Manfred Adams , architect, † December 9, 2019
  • 1931, March 3, Herbert Obenaus , historian, university professor and author
  • 1931, April 1, Alexander Groß , † September 24, 2019 in Cologne, teacher and academy director
  • 1931, April 12, Siegfried Meurer , † September 8, 2001 in Lauris, General Secretary of the German Bible Society
  • 1931, April 15, Klaus Liesen , † March 30, 2017 in Essen, Manager
  • 1931, July 16, Will Thonett , † June 5, 1973 in Cologne, artist
  • 1931, August 28, Manfred Adams , † December 9, 2019, architect
  • 1931, October 8, Otto Hermann Pesch , † September 8, 2014, Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
  • 1931, October 17, Gina Ruck-Pauquèt , pseudonym: Katja Romin, writer
  • 1932, January 31, Karl Theodor "KT" Geier , † March 21, 2020, jazz bassist
  • 1932, May 11, Sigrid Heuck , † October 2, 2014 in Bad Tölz, writer, children's and young adult book author
  • 1932, May 13, Robert Weimar , † February 28, 2013, university professor and psychologist
  • 1932, July 10, Jürgen Becker , poet, prose writer and radio play author
  • 1932, August 25, Hans Rolf Maria Koller , † April 29, 2015 in Cologne, painter and art professor
  • 1932, September 8th, Herbert Leuninger , Roman Catholic clergyman and human rights activist
  • 1932, September 26th, Karl Heinz Bohrer , literary theorist and publicist
  • 1932, November 24th Norbert Burger , † May 16, 2012 in Cologne, politician (SPD), Mayor of Cologne from 1980 to 1999
  • 1932, December 31, Mildred Scheel , † May 13, 1985 in Bonn, doctor, President of the German Cancer Aid from 1974
  • 1932, December 31, Felix Rexhausen , † February 6, 1992 in Hamburg, journalist and writer
  • 1933, May 6, Wilhelm Janssen , historian and archivist
  • 1933, June 1, Heiner Berger , † May 2, 2015 in Aachen, politician (CDU) and administrative officer, senior city director a. D. of the city of Aachen
  • 1933, June 15, Rudolf Weber , † May 30, 2017 in Vienna, architect and professor
  • 1933, July 26, Paul-Dolf Neis , † December 3, 1996 in Leipzig, film and theater actor as well as dubbing and radio drama speaker
  • 1933, July 30, Jutta Held , † January 27, 2007, art historian
  • 1933, August 15, Wolfram Engels , † April 30, 1995 in Bad Homburg, economist and publicist
  • 1933, September 10, Dietmar Korzeniewski , † December 5, 1979 in Frechen, classical philologist and high school teacher
  • 1933, September 18, Manfred Niehaus , † February 21, 2013 in Cologne, composer, violist and conductor
  • 1933, October 21, CO Paeffgen , † June 5, 2019 in Cologne, painter and sculptor
  • 1933, November 5, Ernst Leuninger , † June 9, 2018 in Limburg, Catholic theologian and university professor
  • 1933, November 11, Hanni Schaaf , writer
  • 1934, January 3, Marie-Louise Steinbauer , journalist, presenter and author
  • 1934, January 30, Gerhard Dautzenberg OFM, † December 17, 2019 in Gießen, Roman Catholic theologian
  • 1934, February 25, Klaus Ring , microbiologist and from 1986 to 1994 fourth President of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1934, March 22, Joseph Milz , † December 25, 2013, historian, archaeologist and archivist
  • 1934, April 9, Wolfgang Gerold Esser , Roman Catholic religious educator
  • 1934, April 9, Walter Foelske , † May 3, 2015, writer
  • 1934, May 5, Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim , † January 5, 2005 in Cologne, banker
  • 1934, May 9, Heinz G. Hahs , † November 16, 2019 in Mainz, writer
  • 1934, May 30, Kurt Emil Hugo Arentz , † June 23, 2014 in Munich, sculptor
  • 1934, June 28, Friedrich Victor Rolff , † February 15, 2012, entrepreneur, art collector and racing driver
  • 1934, August 16, Jean Löring , † March 6, 2005 in Cologne, patron and president of Fortuna Cologne
  • 1934, September 18, Dieter Stolte , journalist and television manager, director of the ZDF from 1982 to 2002
  • 1934, October 12, Rudolf Lill , † July 18, 2020, modern historian
  • 1935, February 1, Dieter Kühn , † July 25, 2015 in Brühl, writer
  • 1935, March 3, Fritz H. Lauten , † June 9, 1989 in Cologne, visual artist and glass painter
  • 1935, March 10th, Manfred Germar , athlete and Olympic medalist
  • 1935, April 6, Hildegard Moos-Heindrichs , † May 18, 2017, writer
  • 1935, October 8, Heribert A. Hilgers , † December 6, 2012 in Cologne, philologist, linguist, author and professor at the University of Cologne
  • 1935, November 26, Jürgen Hans Grümmer , † April 1, 2008 in Cologne, painter and sculptor
  • 1936, Bert Breuer , mechanical engineer
  • 1936, February 28, Horst Petri , neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author
  • 1936, April 18, Joachim Bandau , visual artist
  • 1936, August 12, Hans Haacke , concept artist
  • 1936, September 21st, Jean Pütz , German-Luxembourgish science journalist and television presenter
  • 1936, October 28, Pius Engelbert , Benedictine abbot and church historian
  • 1936, November 12, Reinhold Neven DuMont (also Reinhold Neven Du Mont), publisher
  • 1937, Paul Kohl , writer
  • 1937, January 2, Martin Lauer , † October 6, 2019 in Lauf an der Pegnitz, athlete, Olympic champion and pop singer
  • 1937, January 23, Alwy Becker , actress
  • 1937, February 27, Wolfram Brück , † June 15, 2016 in Cologne, politician (CDU) and lawyer
  • 1937, March 17th, Hildegard Kühn , † 2006 in Cologne, actress
  • 1937, March 25, Heinz Lanser , draftsman and painter
  • 1937, May 14, Heribert Hellenbroich , † July 10, 2014 in Cologne-Roggendorf, lawyer and from 1983 to 1985 President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
  • 1937, July 20, Dietmar Schott , sports journalist
  • 1937, August 1, Ingeborg Pacher-Gossel , † August 9, 2010 in Küps, Austrian poet
  • 1937, November 9, Stephan Boeder , † June 28, 2018 in Cologne, graphic artist and painter
  • 1937, November 21, Günter Schulte , † April 26, 2017, philosophical writer, painter and sculptor
  • 1937, November 24th, Otto Pfister , football teacher, Africa's coach of the year 1992
  • 1937, December 14th, Jürgen Dethloff Kruse-Jarres , doctor for clinical chemistry and university professor
  • 1938, Georg Bense , † April 9, 2020, filmmaker, author, director and cameraman
  • 1938, January 6, Karl-Heinz Kunde , † January 15, 2018, racing cyclist
  • 1938, February 28, Bruno Fromme , † May 7, 2017 in Wittlich, Cistercian abbot of Himmerod
  • 1938, April 2. Paulo Suess , Roman Catholic theologian
  • 1938, April 16, Karl Loweg , football goalkeeper
  • 1938, July 26th, Ingeborg Drews (born as Ingeborg Weiser); † August 21, 2019 in Cologne, poet, visual artist, art therapist and journalist
  • 1938, October 16, Nico (Christa Päffgen), † July 18, 1988 in Ibiza, photo model, actress and singer
  • 1938, November 24th, Ludwig Verbeek , writer
  • 1939, Ute Gerhard , sociologist and professor emerita at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1939, February 3, Monika von Starck (née Monika Helen Hußmann), contemporary artist
  • 1939, April 15, Manfred Baum , philosopher and university professor
  • 1939, May 3rd, Rolf Roggendorf , track cyclist
  • 1939, August 7, Everhard Kleinertz , historian and archivist
  • 1939, September 22, Wilhelm "Charly" Pirot , † October 15, 2015 in Cologne, painter
  • 1939, October 20, Elmar Doppelfeld , nuclear medicine specialist, university professor and editor
  • 1940, Barbara Hobom , science journalist
  • 1940, Manfred Pütz , publisher
  • 1940, January 23, Armin Maiwald , author, director and producer
  • 1940, January 24th, Paul Kindervater , football referee
  • 1940, March 13, Herbert Schui , † August 14, 2016 in Pomy, politician (Die Linke) and professor of economics
  • 1940, June 18, Klaudi Fröhlich , † October 15, 2019, director of music and comedy shows
  • 1940, July 10, Erich Iltgen , † June 10, 2019, politician (CDU), President of the Saxon State Parliament (1990–2009)
  • 1940, August 19, Ulla Willick , † October 16, 2019 in Ulm, theater actress
  • 1940, September 2, Jack White (née Horst Nussbaum), composer, producer
  • 1940, November 20, Hermann L. Gremliza , † December 20, 2019 in Hamburg, journalist and writer
  • 1940, December 6, Klaus Meurers , † October 4, 2019, doctor
  • 1940, December 19, Heinz Günter Horn , Provincial Roman archaeologist and conservationist

1941 to 1950

1951 to 1960

1961 to 1970

1971 to 1980

1981 to 1990

1991 to 2000

21st century

Persons connected with Cologne

Until 1800

  • 63 BC BC, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa , † 12 BC In Campania, Roman general, politician, close confidante and son-in-law Augustus , ancestor of the emperors Caligula and Nero
  • 69 AD, Aulus Vitellius , Roman Emperor
  • around 108, Publius Salvius Iulianus , * in Hadrumetum ( Africa ), 150–161 governor of the province of Germania inferior and residence in its capital Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium , later Cologne
  • Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus , 259 to May / June 268 the first emperor of the Imperium Galliarum, which was formed from the fallen Roman western provinces
  • around 955, Theophano or Theophanu , * in the Byzantine Empire, † June 15, 991 in Nijmegen, wife of Emperor Otto II and co-empress, buried in Cologne ( St. Pantaleon ).
  • around 970, Adelheid von Vilich , † 1015/18 in Cologne, first abbess of the Benedictine Abbey of Vilich near Bonn
  • around 1010, Anno II of Cologne , † December 4, 1075 in Siegburg near Bonn, Archbishop of Cologne 1056-1075, saint of the Catholic Church
  • around the summer of 1098, Hildegard von Bingen , † September 17, 1179, saint, Benedictine, first German mystic of the Middle Ages, founder of Rupertsberg Monastery
  • 1185 or 1186, Engelbert I. von Berg , † November 7, 1225 near Gevelsberg; Count Engelbert II. Von Berg and Archbishop of Cologne
  • around 1200, Albertus Magnus or Albert the Great, * in Lauingen on the Danube; † November 15, 1280 in Cologne, Christian Aristotelian of the Middle Ages
  • around 1210/1215, master Gerhard , * probably in Reil; † April 24th or 25th around 1271 in Cologne, Gerhard von Rile, latinized as Master Gerardus, was the first master builder of Cologne Cathedral
  • around 1225, Thomas von Aquin , * at Aquino; † March 7, 1274 in Fossanova, Italian theologian, philosopher, mystic of the Middle Ages
  • around 1260, Meister Eckhart , * in Tambach or in Hochheim near Gotha, † 1328 in Cologne or Avignon, theologian and mystic of the Christian Middle Ages
  • 1266, Johannes Duns Scotus , English John Duns Scotus, * in Duns, Scotland, † November 8, 1308 in Cologne, Scottish theologian and philosopher of scholasticism
  • 14th century, Hermann von Goch , † May 7, 1398 in Cologne, cleric and businessman
  • 1328, Heinrich Eger von Kalkar , * in Kalkar, † December 20, 1408 in Cologne, mystic and choral theorist
  • around 1410, Stefan Lochner , * in Meersburg on Lake Constance, † 1451 in Cologne, also called Master Stefan, as a painter a main representative of the Soft Style
  • Johannes Kölner (* around 1448; † July 29, 1490), professor, dean, Dominican, full professor and author of the Summarium textuale et Conclusiones super Clementinas 1484 and other works
  • Middle of the 15th century, Heinrich von Beeck , dates unknown, chronicler, author of Agrippina (1467 to 1472)
  • 1493, Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder , * probably in Wesel, † April 22, 1555 in Cologne, painter of the Renaissance
  • around 1545, Jacob Henot , * in the Duchy of Geldern; † November 17, 1625 in Cologne, postal organizer and postmaster
  • around 1511 Caspar Vopelius , * in Medebach, † 1561 in Cologne, mathematician, astronomer and cartographer
  • 1526, Tilmann Bredenbach * in Emmerich am Rhein, † May 6, 1587 in Cologne; Theologian, Canon at St. Gereon
  • around 1527, Jakob Lichius * in Cochem on the Moselle, † September 15, 1584 in Cologne, humanist, university professor and rector of the Bursa Cucana
  • 1535, Frans Hogenberg , * in Mechelen, † 1590 in Cologne, engraver and eraser
  • 1548, March 13, Sasbout Vosmeer , * in Delft, † May 3, 1614 in Cologne, Catholic bishop, had his seat in Cologne
  • 1557, Mathias Quad von Kinckelbach , * in Deventer, † before October 29, 1613 in Eppingen, historical-geographical writer, engraver, teacher
  • 1567, October 23, Frans van Dusseldorp , † March 31, 1630 in Cologne, Roman Catholic preacher and lawyer
  • 1573, April 26, Maria von Medici , † July 3, 1642 in Cologne, wife of the French king Heinrich IV and mother of Ludwig XIII.
  • 1591, Count Johann von Werth , called Jan von Werth, * in Büttgen near Neuss; † September 16, 1652 at Benatek Castle near Königgrätz, rider general in the Thirty Years' War
  • 1591, February 25, Friedrich Spee , * in Kaiserswerth, † August 7, 1635 in Trier, German Jesuit and church scholar, formulated the legal principle in dubio pro reo
  • 1650 (around), Johann Gottfried von Bequerer , * in Bonn, † July 16, 1720 in Cologne, priest
  • 1651, May 31, Amalia Maria Therese von Pfalz-Sulzbach , † December 11, 1721 in Cologne, princess of the Wittelsbach family , 1683–1721 Carmelite in the monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse
  • 1685, Johann Maria Farina , † 1766, the city of Cologne honors the father of Eau de Cologne with a statue on the town hall tower
  • 1693, June 7th, Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach , * Sulzbach-Rosenberg, † January 18, 1762 in Cologne, princess from the Wittelsbach family, from 1714 a Carmelite in the monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse
  • 1770, January 14th, Christian Gottlieb Bruch , * in Pirmasens; † May 30, 1836 in Cologne, first Lutheran clergyman in Cologne
  • 1772, October 26th, Gottfried Gymnich , * in Niederembt; † March 10, 1841 in Cologne, first district administrator in the Cologne district
  • 1772, November 23, Johann Christoph Winters , * in Bonn; † August 5, 1862 in Cologne, founder of the Hänneschen Theater
  • 1773, February 23, Daniel Heinrich Delius , * in Bielefeld; † December 25, 1832 in Cologne, Cologne District President
  • 1774, April 1st Gustav von Rauch , * in Braunschweig; † April 2, 1841 in Berlin, General of the Infantry and Inspector General of the Prussian fortresses, under his overall direction expansion of the fortress ring in Cologne
  • 1775, May 5th, Maria Clementine Martin , * in Brussels; † August 9, 1843 in Cologne, nun and inventor of the well-known "Klosterfrau-Melissa spirit"
  • 1776, Franz Heinrich Gossen , * in Düren; † October 2, 1835 in Cologne, district president
  • 1778, October 5th Ernst Ludwig von Aster , * in Dresden; † February 10, 1855 in Berlin, the fortress ring in Cologne was laid out according to his plans
  • 1785, January 22nd, Johann Peter Bachem , * in Erpel, † May 9th 1822 in Cologne, publisher and founder of the JP Bachem publishing house
  • 1789, March 16, Georg Simon Ohm , * in Erlangen; † July 6, 1854 in Munich, professor of mathematics and physics
  • 1798, August 3, Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann , * Rodenberg; † November 23, 1876 in Bonn-Mehlem, banker
  • 1800, September 20, Jakob Greiß , * in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort; † September 14, 1853 in Baden Baden, gardening director of the first botanical garden in Cologne and head of all urban green spaces.

1801 to 1850

  • 1803, January 10, Ludolf Camphausen , * Hünshoven; † December 3, 1890 in Cologne, Prussian Prime Minister, banker and entrepreneur
  • 1804, April 17th Johann Baptist Birck , * in Trier; † April 24, 1869 in Cologne, Prussian administrative officer, 1866/1867 district president in Cologne
  • 1804, March 4th, Johann Joseph Gronewald , * in Lindlar; † August 28, 1873 in Cologne, teacher
  • 1806, November 8th, Emil Pfeifer , * in Amsterdam; † September 20, 1889 in Mehlem / Rheinl., Kommerzienrat, sugar manufacturer - Pfeifer & Langen , 1872 co-founder and major shareholder as well as chairman of the supervisory board of " Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz AG ", liberal member of the Cologne city council from 1868 to 1877
  • 1808, March 22nd, August Reichensperger , * in Koblenz; † July 16, 1895 in Cologne, lawyer and politician as well as sponsor of Cologne Cathedral
  • 1810, December 7th, Theodor Schwann , * in Neuss; † January 11, 1882 in Cologne, physiologist
  • 1811, Charlotte Oppenheim , b. in Frankfurt am Main; died October 24, 1887 in Cologne, patron
  • 1813, January 6, Paulus Melchers , * in Münster; † December 14, 1895 in Rome, Archbishop of Cologne
  • 1813, December 8th, Adolph Kolping , * in Kerpen near Cologne; † December 4, 1865 in Cologne, Catholic priest, founder of the Kolping Society , beatification on October 27, 1991 in Rome.
  • 1815, February 28, Andreas Gottschalk , * in Düsseldorf; † September 8, 1849 in Cologne, doctor and revolutionary
  • 1816, December 26th, Johann Classen-Kappelmann , * in Sinzig; † May 28, 1879 in Cologne, entrepreneur, city councilor and politician
  • 1817, January 30, Wilhelm Wilmers , * in Boke an der Lippe; † May 9, 1899 in Roermond, professor at the Jesuit college and personal theologian of the Archbishop of Cologne at the Cologne Provincial Council in 1860
  • 1818, May 5, Karl Marx , * in Trier, † March 14, 1883 in London, philosopher, editor of the Rheinische Zeitung (1842/43) and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848/49)
  • 1819, January 30, Gustav Waldemar von Rauch , * in Berlin, † May 7, 1890 there, major general and commander of Cologne's 15th Cavalry Brigade, later General of the Cavalry
  • 1822, February 22nd, Ferdinand Stiefelhagen , * in Marialinden, † December 2nd, 1902 in Cologne, Dr. phil., theologian, priest, 1886 cathedral chapter in Cologne
  • 1827, April 11th, Hermann Grüneberg , * in Stettin, † June 7th 1894 in Cologne, entrepreneur, pioneer of mineral fertilization in agriculture
  • 1828, August 2, Wilhelm Schmitz , * in Kalkum, † June 17, 1898 in Cologne, philologist, director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne for 27 years
  • 1830, January 26th, Hermann Otto Pflaume , * in Aschersleben, † August 4th 1901 in Würzburg, architect, secret building officer and city councilor in Cologne
  • 1830, February 12, Heinrich Milz , * in Trier, † May 27, 1909 in Bonn, high school professor, philologist and rector
  • 1832, June 14th, Nicolaus August Otto , * in Holzhausen an der Haide / Taunus, † January 28th, 1891 in Cologne, mechanical engineer and co-inventor of the four-stroke principle, the Otto engine was named in his honor
  • 1834, May 21, August Carl Lange , * in Kassel, † May 24, 1884 in Ichendorf, architect
  • 1835, May 28, Wilhelm Albermann , * in Werden an der Ruhr, † August 9, 1913 in Cologne, sculptor
  • 1836, April 17, Tony Avenarius , * in Bonn, † January 31, 1901 in Cologne, book illustrator, graphic artist, draftsman, composer and librettist.
  • 1837, December 22nd, Valentin Pfeifer (entrepreneur) , * in Düren; † November 14, 1909 in Cologne, Kommerzienrat, sugar manufacturer - Pfeifer & Langen , 1872 co-founder and major shareholder of " Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz AG "
  • 1840, Engelbert Kayser , † 1911, entrepreneur and artist, "father of Kayser pewter"
  • 1840, March 16, Oskar Rauter , * in Gumbinnen, † June 11, 1913 in Cologne, entrepreneur
  • 1842, November 25, Carl Aldenhoven , * in Rendsburg, † September 24, 1907 in Cologne, director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
  • 1846, September 28, Karl Schwering * in Osterwick, † November 27, 1925 in Cologne, director of the Apostelgymnasium
  • 1848, May 29, Heinrich Welsch , * in Wachtberg, † June 7, 1935 in Cologne, teacher who was committed to disadvantaged working-class children. Model for the Cologne carnival song En dr Kayjass number zero

1851 to 1900

  • 1851, September 25, Carl Jatho , * in Kassel, † March 1, 1913 in Cologne, Protestant pastor in Bucharest, Boppard and from 1891 in Cologne
  • 1854, June 27, Friedrich Mettegang , * in Frankfurt a. M., † September 28, 1913 in Mainz, architect and construction officer.
  • 1856, February 16, Alois Kreiten , * in Oedt, † March 3, 1930 in Cologne, goldsmith
  • 1856, December 10, Fritz Beermann , * in Schweringen, † July 30, 1928 in Cologne, architect and construction clerk.
  • 1857, January 10, Antonio Gobbo , * in Venice, † April 14, 1907 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, mosaicist.
  • 1857, February 21, Friedrich Haumann , * in Elberfeld, † November 7, 1924 in Cologne, Lord Mayor of Solingen, General Director at van der Zypen & Charlier
  • 1859, January 11, Hermann von Schlechtendal , * in Mühlhausen / Thuringia, † November 7, 1920 in Paderborn, district administrator of the Mülheim am Rhein district
  • 1860, May 11, Eduard Endler * in Hanover, † May 21, 1932 in Cologne, architect
  • 1861, April 5th, Fritz Encke , * in Oberstedten near Bad Homburg, † 1931 in Herborn, garden architect and royal. Horticultural director, designed numerous parks and squares in Cologne
  • 1862, January 27, Peter Joseph Früh , * in Brühl, † October 22, 1915 in Cologne, brewer and brewery owner
  • 1862, April 26th Joseph Hansen , * in Aachen; † June 29, 1943 in Cologne, 1891–1927 director of the historical archive
  • 1862, April 29, Otto von Falke , * in Vienna, † August 15, 1942 in Schwäbisch Hall, 1895–1907 director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum
  • 1863, May 15, Alexander Wirminghaus , * in Schwelm; † October 3, 1938 in Cologne, lawyer at the Chamber of Commerce and from 1901 professor at the Cologne University of Commerce and 1919 at the new university
  • 1865, February 11, Ferdinand Zinsser , * New York; † January 3, 1952 in Tübingen, dermatologist in the Lindenburg, university professor and rector of the University of Cologne
  • 1867, April 29, Else Wirminghaus , * in Oldenburg, † August 13, 1939 in Cologne-Lindenthal, women's rights activist and author
  • 1869, February 18, Ludwig Bopp , * in Memmingen, † January 10, 1930 in Cologne, architect
  • 1869, March 6, Hermann Eberhard Pflaume , * in Aschersleben, † December 11, 1921 in Cologne, architect
  • 1870, January 5th, Ferdinand Breuer , * in Nörvenich-Binsfeld, † 1946 ibid., Popular doctor in Cologne's Severinsviertel, “Dr. Two chair ".
  • 1871, January 2, Matthias Eberhard , * in Trier, † October 28, 1944 in Cologne, District Administrator of the Mülheim and Rheinisch-Bergisch districts
  • 1871, November 16, Friedrich Pincus , b. in Posen, died November 6, 1943 in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Cologne ophthalmologist and head of the ophthalmological department of the Israelite Hospital
  • 1872, April 25, Else Falk , b. in Barmen, died January 8, 1956 in São Paulo, social politician and women's rights activist
  • 1874, January 17, Friedrich Dircksen , * in Elberfeld, † March 17, 1907 in Cologne, civil engineer and construction officer (Hohenzollern and Südbrücke)
  • 1874, March 16, Christian Eckert , * in Mainz, † June 27, 1952 in Cologne, economist and rector of the University of Cologne
  • 1874, March 24, Frieda Fischer-Wieruszowski , * in Berlin, † December 27, 1945, museum director of the Museum of East Asian Art, founder and writer
  • 1875, February 26, Hans Böckler , * in Trautskirchen, † February 16, 1951 in Cologne, politician (SPD), first chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB)
  • 1875, March 3, Peter Schlack , * in Kreuzau; † February 4, 1957 in Cologne, member of the consumer cooperative (Cologne direction), politician
  • 1875, April 12, Adam Wrede , * in Düsseldorf, † December 21, 1960 in Cologne, philologist, linguist and folklorist.
  • 1875, May 8, Otto Müller-Jena , * in Jena; † August 12, 1958 in Cologne, architect
  • 1876, March 7, Otto Bauknecht , * in Stuttgart; † June 2, 1961 in Bad Cannstatt, police chief
  • 1876, March 9, Emil Meirowsky , * in Guttstadt, † January 22, 1960 in Nashville, doctor, chairman of the Cologne Medical Association
  • 1876, November 17, August Sander , * in Herdorf an der Heller / Siegerland, † April 20, 1964 in Cologne, photographer
  • 1877, May 18, Theodor Hürth , * in Aachen, † September 27, 1944 in Cologne, Catholic clergyman and General Praeses of the International Kolping Society
  • 1877, October 6, Isidor Caro , * in Żnin, died August 28, 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto , rabbi of the Cologne community
  • 1878, September 14, Hugo Röttcher , * in Lüneburg, † May 2, 1942, architect and construction clerk.
  • 1878, March 16, Heinrich Müller-Erkelenz , * in Worms, † 1945 in Berlin, architect
  • 1879, September 3, Adolf Kober , * in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, † December 30, 1958 in New York City, rabbi and medieval historian
  • 1879, December 19, Johannes van Acken , * in Goch, † May 17, 1937 in Berlin, Roman Catholic clergyman, initiator and first director of the Caritas teaching institute and the St. Elisabeth hospital in Hohenlind
  • 1880, January 24th Peter Wilhelm Millowitsch , * in Düsseldorf, † January 14th 1945 in Remagen, popular actor and director of the Millowitsch Theater
  • 1880, October 23, Dominikus Böhm , * in Jettingen, † August 6, 1955 in Cologne, architect (mainly Catholic church buildings) and professor at the Cologne factory schools
  • 1882, March 14, Walther Lingens , * in Aachen, † January 28, 1940 in Düsseldorf, police chief
  • 1882, July 6, Hans Marzen , * in St. Wendel, † April 7, 1924 in Cologne, district administrator
  • 1883, October 10, Eduard Scheler , * in Coburg, † August 19, 1964 in Cologne, architect
  • 1884, March 26th, Wilhelm Backhaus , † July 5, 1969, pianist, married to the Herzberg family in Cologne, buried on Melaten , street of the family residence named after him.
  • 1885, February 2, Alexander Heinrich Alef , * in Bonn, † February 16, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp, Catholic priest
  • 1885, April 9, Elsbeth Gropp , * in Aachen, † January 7, 1974 in Pforzheim, photographer
  • 1885, May 19, Gustav Lampmann , * in Frankfurt am Main; † August 24, 1970 in Wiesbaden, architect, construction clerk and architecture writer.
  • 1886, January 6, Klara Caro , * in Berlin, † September 27, 1979 in New York, Jewish suffragette
  • 1886, October 28, Rudolf zur Bonsen , * in Fredeburg, † October 18, 1952 in Grainau, district president and administrative lawyer
  • 1887, February 6, Joseph Frings , * in Neuss; † December 17, 1978 in Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne
  • 1887, June 20, Bernhard Deermann , * in Baccum, † March 26, 1982 in Cologne, politician and educator
  • 1887, August 2, Goswin Frenken , * in Hottorf, † 1944/1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp, philologist and literary scholar at the University of Cologne
  • 1887, August 31, Margarete Tietz , b. in Berlin; died February 26, 1972 in London, social welfare worker, patroness, educator
  • 1887, September 3, Ludwig Gies , * in Munich, † January 27, 1966 in Cologne, medalist, professor of sculpture at the Cologne factory schools
  • 1888, June 7, Robert Grosche , * in Düren, † May 21, 1967 in Cologne, theologian and cathedral chapter
  • 1888, July 29, Robert Görlinger , * in Ensheim, † February 10, 1954 in Cologne, politician, member of the Provincial Parliament, Member of the Bundestag
  • 1890, August 24th, Josef Kögl , * in Sajach (Austria); † March 26, 1968 in Cologne, architect
  • 1891, October 12, Edith Stein , * in Breslau; † August 9, 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, philosopher and Catholic nun, was a member of the Order of the Carmelites in Cologne
  • 1891, September 9, Helmuth Wirminghaus , * in Oldenburg; May 27, 1968 in Cologne, architect
  • 1892, January 11, Alice Haubrich-Gottschalk , b. in Konitz ; Escape to death February 10, 1944 in Cologne, Jewish pediatrician, gynecologist
  • 1892, January 21, Arthur Vollstedt , * in Hamburg, † November 15, 1969, speed skater and trainer at Cologne EK
  • 1892, September 4th, Friedl Münzer , born in Vienna ; died January 13, 1967 in Cologne, Austrian actress
  • 1893, March 19, Albert Wolter , * in Magdeburg; † July 5, 1977 in Marbach SG, Switzerland, President of the RDM
  • 1893, April 23, Willi Busch , * in Siegen, † May 10, 1951 in Cologne, actor
  • 1894, November 13, Otto H. Förster , * in Nuremberg, † April 27, 1975 in Cologne, art historian and general director of the Cologne museums and director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
  • 1895, November 1, Max Graeff , * in Zell (Mosel), † May 22, 1973 in Cologne, 36 years representative of Lindgens & Sons in Mülheim (Cologne), lawyer and consul of Ecuador
  • 1896, February 20, Heinrich Loevenich , * in Frechen; † December 12, 1965 there, 1933 to 1945 District Administrator of the Cologne District
  • 1896, March 9, Werner Beinhauer , * in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, † January 1, 1983 in Cologne, Romanist and Hispanicist
  • 1896, July 10, Stefan Askenase , * in Lemberg / Galicia, † October 18, 1985 in Cologne, Belgian-Polish pianist
  • 1896, July 31, Alfred Roseno , * in Hamburg, † January 29, 1965 in New York, German urologist and surgeon
  • 1897, April 27, Paulina Olga Guszalewicz , * in Prague, † January 15, 1965 in Cologne, German press illustrator
  • 1899, March 27, Robert Brandes , * in Wolfenbüttel, † March 5, 1987 in Wiesbaden, 1944/1945 provisional Lord Mayor
  • 1899, November 7th, Hermann Wunderlich , * in Budweis; † October 29, 1981 in Cologne, architect and head of the technical headquarters of Kaufhof AG
  • 1900, July 18, Herbert Hennies , * in Breslau, † July 18, 1979 in Altötting, actor, radio play speaker, writer and songwriter, who has appeared on Cologne stages for decades and worked for the NWDR and WDR.
  • 1900, August 2, Franz Marszalek , * in Breslau, † October 28, 1975 in Cologne, conductor of the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne
  • 1900, September 1, Fritz Burgbacher , * in Mainz, † July 29, 1978 in Cologne, politician and energy economist
  • 1900, November 28, Erich Klibansky , * in Frankfurt am Main, † July 24, 1942 in Blagowschtschin / Minsk, director and teacher of the "Jawne"

1901 to 1950

  • 1901, February 2, Hans Schmitt-Rost , * in Essen; † March 2, 1978 in Cologne, publicist, author, head of the Cologne press office
  • 1901, June 28th, Alfred Müller-Armack , * in Essen; † March 16, 1978 in Cologne, political economist and cultural sociologist
  • 1902, February 28, Elsa Scholten , * in Homberg, today part of Duisburg; † October 14, 1981 in Cologne, popular actress ( engaged for over 50 years at the Millowitsch Theater )
  • 1902, June 11, Ernst Wilhelm Nay , * in Berlin; † April 8, 1968 in Cologne, painter
  • 1902, July 5th, Els Vordemberge , b. in Vienna; died February 25, 1999 in Cologne, radio play speaker and head of children's radio at WERAG and WDR
  • 1902, July 10, Kurt Alder , * in Königshütte (Upper Silesia); † June 20, 1958 in Cologne, chemist, Nobel Prize winner (chemistry 1950)
  • 1903, August 16, Eduard Hermann , * in Steinau an der Oder; † March 25, 1964, actor and radio play director for many years at NWDR and WDR in Cologne (including director of the Paul Temple radio plays)
  • 1904, May 23, Otto Klein , * in Berdjansk (Ukraine); † August 8, 1995 in Hoya / Weser, restorer, founder of the Otto Klein restoration school
  • 1904, September 17, Lisamaria Meirowsky , * in Graudenz; † August 9, 1942 in Auschwitz, doctor and religious
  • 1904, December 7, Klara Stoffels , † August 11, 1944 in Plötzensee, Jehovah's Witness
  • 1905, November 8th, Lucy Millowitsch , * in Chemnitz; † June 21, 1990 in Cologne, popular actress and director of the Millowitsch Theater
  • 1906, November 4th, Bernhard Günther , * in Koblenz; † October 31, 1981 in Cologne, President of the Chamber of Commerce and politician
  • 1910, March 16, Wunibald Maria Brachthäuser , * in Küntrop / Sauerland; † February 16, 1999 in Cologne, Catholic clergyman, 1950–1958 provincial of the Dominican Order, cathedral preacher at the High Cathedral in Cologne
  • 1911, June 16, Georg Meistermann , * in Solingen; † June 12, 1990 in Cologne, painter and creator of numerous glass windows
  • 1912, January 7, Günter Wand , * in Elberfeld, today Wuppertal; † February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz, Switzerland, conductor (including WDR symphony orchestra)
  • 1912, April 22nd, Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler , * in Thale; † June 13, 2000 in Baden-Baden, sculptor, medalist and first cathedral sculptor at Cologne Cathedral
  • 1914, May 10, Karl-Heinz Lauterjung , * in Leichlingen; † March 29, 2000, physicist
  • 1918, March 20, Bernd Alois Zimmermann , * in Bliesheim, today Erftstadt; † August 10, 1970 in Großkönigsdorf near Cologne, composer
  • 1918, August 15, Ernst Rudolph , * in Gladbeck; † September 14, 1986 in Cologne, carom player (17-time German champion, two-time vice European champion), father of Christian Rudolph
  • 1918, December 12, Arno Faust , * in Großkönigsdorf; † February 5, 1985 in Cologne, singer and draftsman, Cologne original
  • 1919, July 1, Hans Bender , * in Mühlhausen; † May 28, 2015 in Cologne, writer and editor
  • 1920, January 23, Gottfried Böhm , * in Offenbach am Main, architect
  • 1921, May 2nd Else Schmitt , * in Brühl; † March 22, 1995 in Cologne, Mayor of Cologne
  • 1921, May 3, Henner Berzau * in Magdeburg; † January 8, 2008 in Cologne, Cologne dialect poet, songwriter and composer
  • 1921, May 23, Erwin Grochla , * Zabrze; † June 2, 1986 in Cologne, business economist at the University of Cologne
  • 1921, August 18, Marie Veit , * in Marburg (Lahn); † February 14, 2004 in Cologne, theologian
  • 1922, June 17, Paul Schallück , * in Warendorf; † February 29, 1976 in Cologne, writer
  • 1922, July 24th, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski * in Allenstein / East Prussia; † February 24, 2005 in Cologne, trade union official and politician (SPD)
  • 1923, January 30th, Alexandra Kassen * in Bavaria, founder and director of the Senftöpfchen theater
  • 1925, March 3, Friedrich Wilhelm Waffenschmidt , * in Pingsdorf near Brühl; † March 26, 2017 in Cologne, entrepreneur, founder of Hansa-Foto and Saturn
  • 1925, November 3rd, Dieter Wellershoff , * in Neuss; † June 2018 in Cologne, writer
  • 1926, July 1st, Hans Werner Henze , * in Gütersloh; † October 27, 2012 in Dresden, composer
  • 1926, August 4th, Werner Koch , * in Mülheim (Ruhr); † March 30, 1992 in Cologne, writer
  • 1928, January 6, Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes , * in Leverkusen as Astrid Claes; † December 1, 2011 in Düsseldorf, writer and translator
  • 1928, March 9, Helmar Meinel , * in Vogtland, journalist and satirist
  • 1928, August 16, Rüdiger Göb , * in Berlin; † January 21, 2015, councilor for urban development and statistics from 1975 to 1987
  • 1928, August 22nd, Karlheinz Stockhausen , * in Mödrath near Cologne; † December 5, 2007 in Kürten, composer
  • 1928, November 25th, Heinz Ludger Uhlenküken , * in Schwerte; † March 23, 2015 in Schwerte, City Director (1978–1993)
  • 1931, December 24, Mauricio Raúl Kagel , * in Buenos Aires; † September 18, 2008 in Cologne, Argentine-German composer, conductor, librettist and director
  • 1932, February 19, Gerhard Richter , * in Dresden, painter, lives and works in Cologne
  • 1932, October 28, Gerhart Baum , * in Dresden, politician (FDP), cultural council of North Rhine-Westphalia , lives in Cologne
  • 1933, February 27, Albert Caspers , * in Lissendorf; † January 6, 2015 in Cologne, Manager (Ford) and President of 1. FC Cologne
  • 1933, December 25th, Joachim Meisner , * in Breslau; † July 5, 2017 in Bad Füssing, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Cologne from 1989 to 2014
  • 1934, November 27, Franz-Josef Antwerpes , * in Viersen, politician (SPD), former district president D.
  • 1934, May 5, Ingund Mewes , * in Hanover; † February 18, 2005 in Cologne, theater director at one of the first feminist theaters in Germany
  • 1934, July 10th, Alfred Biolek , * in Freistadt, presenter and television producer
  • 1935, January 16, Udo Lattek , * in Bosemb, East Prussia; † January 31, 2015 in Cologne, soccer player and coach, lived in Cologne for a long time
  • 1935, September 3, Hans Sturm , * in Schönau; † June 24, 2007 in Cologne, soccer player, moved to Cologne at the age of 15, long-time striker at 1. FC Cologne
  • 1935, October 26th, Heiko R. Blum , * in Jena; † March 27, 2011 in Cologne, film critic and author, lived with his family for several decades in Nippes
  • 1937, May 23, Ellen Thiemann * in Dresden; † May 6, 2018 in Cologne, journalist, author and victim of the dictatorship in the GDR
  • 1938, March 21, Fritz Pleitgen * in Duisburg-Meiderich; Journalist and director of the WDR in Cologne from 1995 to 2007, lives in Cologne
  • 1938, April 11, Kurt Moll , * in Buir near Kerpen; † March 5, 2017 in Cologne, opera singer (bass); University professor in Cologne
  • 1938, September 28th, Klara van Eyll , * in Essen, archivist and director of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv
  • 1939, June 24th, HA Schult , * as Hans Jürgen Schult in Parchim, Mecklenburg, contemporary artist, lives in Cologne
  • 1939, May 18, Peter Grünberg , * in Pilsen, physicist, until 2004 Prof. in Cologne, Nobel Prize Winner (Physics 2007)
  • 1940, January 20th, Klaus von Wrochem, known as Klaus the violinist , * in Dippoldiswalde, socially critical songwriter
  • 1940, April 6, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann , * in Vechta; † April 23, 1975 in London, poet and storyteller, lived in Cologne from 1962 to 1975; The Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Scholarship of the City of Cologne is named after him
  • 1940, August 9, Marie-Luise Marjan , * in Essen, actress, lives in Cologne
  • 1941, February 13, Sigmar Polke , * in Oels, Lower Silesia; † June 11, 2010 in Cologne, painter and photographer
  • 1941, June 17, Hermann Rüppell , * in Berlin, professor of psychology at the University of Cologne
  • 1941, July 29, Wolfgang Bittner , * in Gleiwitz, writer, WDR Broadcasting Council 1996–1998, lives in Cologne (since 1989) and Göttingen
  • 1941, August 17th, Evert Everts , * in Bonn, writer and lawyer in Cologne
  • 1942, July 5th, Hannes Löhr , * in Eitorf; † February 29, 2016 in Cologne, soccer player and coach, lived in Cologne for a long time
  • 1942, October 1st, Günter Wallraff , * in Burscheid, journalist and writer, lives in Cologne
  • 1942, December 24th, Frieder Döring , * in Dattenfeld, Sieg, doctor and writer, has worked as a publisher and editor in Cologne since 1989 and founded the Wolkenstein publishing house there with Bert Brune and Heinz Schüssler
  • 1943, February 15, Elke Heidenreich , * in Korbach, writer, presenter and journalist, lives in Cologne
  • 1943, April 4th, Bert Brune , * in Büren, writer, has lived and worked in Cologne since 1966 and founded the Wolkenstein publishing house there in 1989 together with Frieder Döring and Heinz Schüssler
  • 1943, July 11th, Rolf Stommelen , * in Siegen; † April 24, 1983 in Riverside, California, German sports car and Formula 1 racing driver, lived in Cologne
  • 1943, August 26th, Angelika Mechtel , * in Dresden; † February 8, 2000 in Cologne, writer
  • 1943, September 29, Wolfgang Overath , * in Siegburg, national soccer player (world champion 1974) and former president of 1. FC Cologne in 2004
  • 1943, December 15, Klaus Zumwinkel , * in Rheinberg, Manager, lived in Cologne until the beginning of 2009
  • 1944, Peter Udelhoven , science journalist and non-fiction author
  • 1944, March 15, Joachim Kühn , * in Leipzig, jazz musician
  • 1944, August 1st, Michael Buthe , * in Sonthofen; † November 15, 1994 in Bad Godesberg, lived and worked as a painter and sculptor in Cologne
  • 1944, December 19, Heinz-Günter Prager , * in Herne / Westphalia, sculptor
  • 1944, December 24, Reinhard Birkenstock , * Haiger-Dillbrecht; † June 13, 2018 in Cologne, lived and worked as a lawyer and criminal defense attorney in Cologne
  • 1947, July 26th, Georg Herold , * in Jena, sculptor, lives in Cologne
  • 1947 or 1953 (?), Elke Koska , actress, cultural manager, muse of HA Schult , lives in Cologne
  • 1947, September 1st, Rainer Arke , * in Hamburg, painter and visualist, lives in Cologne
  • 1948, September 21, Edgar Franzmann , * in Krefeld, journalist and author
  • 1948, December 2nd, Christine Westermann , * in Erfurt, television presenter, journalist and author
  • 1949, January 15th, Jürgen Roters , * in Coesfeld, Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne a. D., lives in Cologne
  • 1949, May 17th, Hans Mahr , * in Vienna, journalist and media manager, lives in Cologne

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