List of personalities of the city of Lüdenscheid
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This page contains an overview of personalities such as honorary citizens, sons and daughters as well as well-known residents of the city of Lüdenscheid . |
Honorary citizen of the city
Before 1945
- 1856 August Gerhardi (1804–1860), on behalf of his brother Richard Gerhardi (1792–1855), physician
- 1864 Arnold Essellen (1822–1879), lawyer and municipal alderman
- 1866 Heinrich Nottebohm (1812–1869), manufacturer and mayor
- 1894 Friedrich Rottmann (1829–1895)
- 1895 Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prussian Prime Minister, founder and Chancellor of the German Empire
- 1910 Fritz Selve (1849–1916), manufacturer and founder of the Selve fountain
- 1930 Wilhelm Jockusch (1867–1945), important mayor and lord mayor
- 1933 Theodor Schulte (1863–1953), factory owner and city councilor
- 1934 Christiane Rajewsky (1934–1993), political scientist and peace researcher
From 1945
- 1971 - Erwin Welke (born January 9, 1910 in Dortmund ; † May 28, 1989 in Lüdenscheid)
- The SPD politician was active in the period of National Socialism in the resistance against the regime. From 1964 to 1971 he was mayor of Lüdenscheid; he received honorary citizenship in 1971.
- 2004 - Jürgen Dietrich (born June 17, 1935 in Lüdenscheid; † June 25, 2010 there)
- The honorary chairman of the CDU local union was mayor of Lüdenscheid from 1975 to 1994. In 2004 he was made an honorary citizen.
Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg were deprived of their honorary citizenship.
sons and daughters of the town
The following overview contains important personalities born in Lüdenscheid . It is irrelevant whether the people later had their sphere of activity in Lüdenscheid or not.
| Year of birth | Surname | Year of death | job |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1330 | Herbord Curlar | 1390 | Merchant |
| 1350 | Johann Lovenschede | around 1400 | Merchant |
| around 1360 | Hartlevus de Marca | 1390 | Rector of the University of Cologne |
| 1380 | Theodor Haeck | 1420 | Scholastics |
| around 1520 | Clemens Lüdemar | 1578 | pastor |
| 1592 | Jakob Fischer | 1653 | Farmer's head in Leifringhausen |
| 1661 | Reinhard von Hymmen | 1722 | Hogrefe, Chancellor of the Prussian government in Kleve |
| 1769 | Wilhelm Tappe | 1823 | Land builder |
| 1788 | Louise Kerksig | 1860 | Patroness |
| 1814 | Johann Diedrich Lüttringhaus | 1888 | School reformer |
| 1817 | Karl Green | 1887 | journalist |
| 1817 | Martin Gustav Nottebohm | 1882 | Musicologist |
| 1822 | Albert Green | 1904 | Revolutionary from 1848/49 |
| 1830 | Gustav von Neufeld | 1890 | Mining entrepreneur |
| 1842 | Rudolf Adamy | 1898 | Art historian |
| 1842 | Gustav Selve | 1909 | Entrepreneur |
| 1848 | Paul Mayer | 1923 | Zoologist and microscopist |
| 1849 | Fritz Selve | 1916 | Entrepreneur |
| 1851 | Carl Berg | 1906 | Airship builder |
| 1862 | Karoline Grüber | 1940 | Naturopaths |
| 1875 | Emma Cramer-Crummenerl | 1964 | Writer |
| 1881 | Otto Hembeck | 1958 | Entrepreneur, member of the Reichstag (DNVP) |
| 1892 | Siegmund Crummenerl | 1940 | Member of the Sopade board |
| 1893 | Richard Hueck | 1968 | Factory owner, local politician (CDU) |
| 1895 | Hans Winter | 1969 | Horticultural architect |
| 1897 | Paul Wieghardt | 1969 | painter |
| 1898 | Helmuth Groscurth | 1943 | Wehrmacht officer, resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| 1898 | Werner Kraus | 1964 | Politician (KPD) |
| 1899 | Fritz Nölle | 1980 | writer |
| 1900 | Hans Goudefroy | 1961 | CEO of Allianz Versicherungs-AG |
| 1901 | Werner Kowalski | 1943 | communist resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| 1906 | Walter Süskind | 1945 | Holocaust victims, saved 600 Jewish children from the Holocaust |
| 1906 | Hans-Jürgen Schlochauer | 1990 | Legal scholar (international law) |
| 1909 | Hans Müller | 1977 | Director |
| 1912 | Paul Deitenbeck | 2000 | Theologian and church politician |
| 1912 | Hans Zacher | 2003 | engineer |
| 1915 | Peter Hamel | 1992 | SPD politician |
| 1923 | Annerose Iber pity | 2020 | Entrepreneur |
| 1925 | Renate Kretschmar-Fischer | 2016 | Pianist and university teacher for music |
| 1926 | Peter Robert Franke | 2018 | Ancient historian, numismatist |
| 1926 | Walter Hostert | 2008 | Local politician (CDU) |
| 1927 | Herwig Blankertz | 1983 | Pedagogue |
| 1927 | Gerhard Quinkert | 2015 | Chemist |
| 1928 | Manfred Sönnecken | 2003 | Local history explorer |
| 1932 | Horst Ludwigsen | 2015 | writer |
| 1936 | Wolfgang Windfuhr | 2018 | Pedagogue and Politician (CDU) |
| 1939 | Udo Scholz | 2020 | Stadium and hall speakers |
| 1941 | Rudiger Bubner | 2007 | philosopher |
| 1942 | Lisa Seuster | Local politician, member of the Bundestag (SPD) | |
| 1944 | Helmut Kostal | 2015 | Entrepreneur |
| 1945 | Hajo Gies | Film and television director | |
| 1946 | Nina Schindler | Writer and translator | |
| 1946 | Wilhelm Schlote | Illustrator | |
| 1946 | Klaus father | Spokesman for the German Federal Government, author | |
| 1947 | Joseph-Theodor Blank | Lawyer and member of the Bundestag (CDU) 1983–2002 | |
| 1947 | Jörg-Dieter Gauger | 2015 | Ancient historian |
| 1948 | Lisa Hefendehl-Hebeker | Mathematician and university professor | |
| 1949 | Annette Gonserowski | Writer | |
| 1950 | Jochen Bohl | Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony | |
| 1950 | Petra Crone | Member of the Bundestag (SPD) | |
| 1950 | Jörg Michael Fey | 1996 | biologist |
| 1950 | Frank Huebner | Sailors | |
| 1951 | Martin Gies | Screenwriter | |
| 1951 | Jürgen Werth | Christian journalist and songwriter, church politician | |
| 1952 | Wolfgang Büld | Film and television director | |
| 1952 | Evelyn Roll | Journalist and publicist | |
| 1955 | Martin Carrier | philosopher | |
| 1955 | Dieter Dzewas | Local politician (SPD) | |
| 1959 | Gunhild Aiyub | Writer | |
| 1961 | Cornelia Yzer | Member of the Bundestag (CDU) 1990–1998, Senator for Economics, Technology and Research in the Senate of Berlin | |
| 1966 | Angela Freimuth | Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia (FDP) | |
| 1966 | Matthias Heider | Member of the Bundestag (CDU) | |
| 1966 | Amir Shaheen | writer | |
| 1966 | Johann Peter Wieghardt | Painter and sculptor | |
| 1969 | Götz Hamann | Business and investigative journalist, non-fiction author | |
| 1970 | Dorina Pieper | Biathlete | |
| 1972 | Matthias Schröter | journalist | |
| 1972 | Holm Friebe | Journalist, writer | |
| 1973 | Bernhard Sven Anuth | Roman Catholic theologian | |
| 1973 | Andreas Menn | Film editor | |
| 1974 | Christoph Hardebusch | Fantasy author | |
| 1974 | Adrian Kasnitz | writer | |
| 1975 | Jens Friebe | Musician, music journalist | |
| 1979 | Leif Frey | Ski jumper | |
| 1980 | Tobias Weindorf | Jazz musician | |
| 1983 | Jini Meyer | Singer and songwriter | |
| 1987 | Falko Ochsenknecht | Amateur actors and pop singers | |
| 1988 | Nuri Sahin | Soccer player | |
| 1989 | Bjorn Meyer | actor | |
| 1993 | Marian Orlowski | Handball player |
Well-known residents of the city
Here is an overview of people who lived and / or worked in Lüdenscheid but were not born in Lüdenscheid.
- Abscess ,
- Rapper and member of the rapper group 58 X-Men Klan
- Wilhelm Ackermann (born March 29, 1896 - † December 24, 1962 in Lüdenscheid)
- 1948–1961 Wilhelm Ackermann taught at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium . He was a German mathematician and became famous for the Ackermann function named after him .
- Konrad Ameln (1899–1994)
- The musicologist Konrad Ameln moved to Lüdenscheid in 1934, where he enriched the local musical life for decades. The Lüdenscheider Musikvereinigung e. For a long time, V. organized the “small music festivals”, music festivals with a focus on baroque music .
- Willi Bürger (born April 16, 1901 in Düsseldorf ; † October 26, 1981)
- Willi Bürger was a German SPD politician and a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament from 1946 to 1947 . In 1946 he was Lord Mayor of Lüdenscheid.
- Heinrich Cornelius (1843–1934),
- Teacher, city councilor and city councilor, sustainable promoter of the city library, local cultural and church life, after him the Corneliusstr. named.
- Paul Deitenbeck (1912-2000),
- Protestant pastor, chairman of the German Evangelical Alliance
- Wilhelm Ehmer (born August 1, 1896 in Hong Kong ; † June 16, 1976 in Lüdenscheid)
- The German writer Wilhelm Ehmer was editor-in-chief and publisher of the Lüdenscheider General-Anzeiger for many years (from 1949 Lüdenscheider Nachrichten ).
- Ida Gerhardi (1862-1927)
- Painter of classical modernism and promoter of Franco-German cultural exchange, moved from Paris to Lüdenscheid in 1913 after she had to close her studio in the French capital for health reasons. She lived in the house of the Gerhardi family in Lüdenscheid until her death.
- Walter Heidenreich (* 1949 in Iserlohn)
- controversial so-called evangelist and preacher, chairman of the FCJG, a charismatic religious community in Lüdenscheid
- Georg Hermann von Holtzbrinck ( 1664–1742),
- State official in the Electoral Saxon service: "Privy Council of War" and "General-Kron-Postmeister" with ministerial rank, raised to hereditary nobility by Augustus the Strong , owner of the Lüdenscheid manor Oedenthal since 1725
- Heinrich Wilhelm von Holtzbrinck (1809–1877),
- Lawyer, "Real Privy Councilor", Prussian Minister of Commerce in 1862, then District President and "Landtag Marshal" of Westphalia, spent his retirement years at Oedenthal Castle
- Else Hueck-Dehio (1897–1976),
- Writer (short stories, books for young people, novels), from 1920 married the industrialist Richard Hueck from Lüdenscheid
- Richard Jahnke (1868–1933),
- Poet and later as "Ministerialdirektor" in Berlin head of the entire secondary school system in Prussia, from 1904 to 1911 head of the Lüdenscheider Realgymnasium, published his first volume of poetry in Lüdenscheid and wrote a "History of the Lüdenscheider Latin School"
- Wilhelm Jockusch lawyer (born September 16, 1867 in Bielefeld ; † November 21, 1945),
- 1896 to 1930 successively mayor, first mayor and lord mayor, is considered Lüdenscheid's most important local politician (status as a district-free town in 1907, construction of the municipal hospital, the municipal power station, the slaughterhouse, old people's and children's homes, seven schools and, among other things, the establishment of the motor transport company Mark-Sauerland (predecessor of the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft MVG)), after Wilhelm Jockusch the Jockuschstr. named.
- Manfred Kanther (born May 26, 1939 in Schweidnitz , Silesia)
- German politician, lawyer (legal clerkship in Lüdenscheid)
- Julius Lenzmann (1843–1906),
- left-liberal politician and co-founder of the Democratic Party. Lenzmann was a district judge, lawyer and local politician in Lüdenscheid and first chairman of the TuS Jahn-Lüdenscheid.
- Wilfried Lieck (born October 29, 1945 in Aalborg (Denmark))
- Wilfried Lieck, who lives in Lüdenscheid, is a successful German table tennis player. In 1970 he became German champion for the first time. He won this title again in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1976.
- Hans Medernach (1928-2007)
- Publishing director and editor of Lüdenscheider Nachrichten 1975 to 2000
- Wilhelm von der Marck (pharmacist) (1815–1900),
- Geologist, botanist and local historian, pharmacist in Lüdenscheid since 1840, city councilor there in 1848, collected materials for a Lüdenscheid city chronicle and wrote a book about local botany, died in Hamm
- KT Neumann (1919–2012)
- Metal sculptor, lived and worked in Lüdenscheid from 1945 to 1999; shaped the cityscape through numerous public and private commissioned works (fountains on Stern- and Graf-Engelbert-Platz, doors of the council chamber in the New Town Hall ), and also participated in the renovation of the Quadriga of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin after 1989, who has lived there since 1999
- Emil Opderbeck (1845–1910),
- Lüdenscheider Amtmann (strong expansion of infrastructure and education in Lüdenscheid-Land), after him Opderbeckstr. named
- Wilhelm Proebsting (1857–1945),
- Proebsting was one of the most important pastors and district school inspector in Lüdenscheid, chairman of the "Westphalian main association of the Evangelical Federation" and deputy president of Westphalia.
- Johannes Raithel (1864–1939),
- Lüdenscheid teacher and novelist, Raithelplatz is named after him.
- Walter Schmidt (* 1891 in Neuemühle, Herscheid ; † 1981)
- from 1960 to 1975 so-called Chief Apostle , d. H. highest religious and organizational head of the New Apostolic Church
- Wilhelm Tobien (1837-1911),
- Author of stories and historical treatises (including "Memories from the Past of Westphalia"), 1862–1866 "scientific teacher" at the Lüdenscheider Citizens' School
- Ludwig Schneider (born December 20, 1893 in Niedermöllrich ; † February 26, 1977 in Kassel)
- Ludwig Schneider was a German politician ( FDP ). From 1930 to 1935 he was Lord Mayor of Lüdenscheid.
- Kurt Weill (born March 2, 1900 in Dessau , † April 3, 1950 in New York / USA)
- The later important German and American composer Kurt Weill - u. a. Collaboration with Bertolt Brecht (e.g. setting the Threepenny Opera to music ) - had his first engagement as Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater Lüdenscheid since December 1919, before he returned to Berlin in 1921 to continue his studies.
- Louis Weinbrenner (born 1825),
- Conductor, music teacher and composer (including "Westfalenlied" and "Lüdenscheider Lied")
The list does not claim to be complete.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on the death of Jürgen Dietrich http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-luedenscheid-halver-und-schalksmuehle/juergen-dietrich-gestorben-stadt-war-sein-leben-id3349780.html