List of personalities of the city of Mönchengladbach
The list of personalities of the city of Mönchengladbach includes both people born in Mönchengladbach and its districts (including Rheydt , Odenkirchen , Wickrath and (Rhein-) Dahlen ) as well as people who were not born in Mönchengladbach but worked locally. Also listed are people who have been honored by the city of Mönchengladbach for their services.
sons and daughters of the town
The following personalities were born in Mönchengladbach or in the communities that belong to Mönchengladbach today. They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Mönchengladbach is irrelevant.
16th Century
- Peter Syben (* 1596 in Dahlen; † October 14, 1659), Benedictine monk ( Latin Sybenius ), pastor of Dülken , 35th abbot of Gladbach
17th century
- Martin Syben (born October 21, 1604 in Dahlen; † October 15, 1668 in Cologne), Jesuit , teacher in Trier
- Jacob Masen (born March 23, 1606 in Dahlen, † September 27, 1681 in Cologne), Jesuit poet ( Masenius in Latin ), theologian and historian
- Wilhelm Nakaten (born November 1617 in Lürrip ; † 23 June 1682), Jesuit, pastor, professor at the Münster University of the Order
18th century
- Karl Kaspar von Bylandt-Schwarzenberg , (* 1712 in Rheydt; † December 16, 1794 in Ratingen), last lord of the Bylandt family , the subordinate Rheydt
- Johannes Jakobus Bouget (born November 1, 1762 in Odenkirchen ; † November 18, 1810 in Paris ), lawyer , diplomat , politician and member of parliament
- Johann Hüsgen (born September 22, 1769 in Giesenkirchen, † April 23, 1841 in Cologne), Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cologne
19th century
1801-1850
- Johann Wilhelm Preyer (born July 19, 1803 in Rheydt, † February 20, 1889 in Düsseldorf), painter
- Louise Preyer (* 1805 in Rheydt; † 1834 in Eschweiler), painter
- Richard Stein (born June 6, 1834 in Rheydt, † 1917 in Halle (Saale)), mining official
- Franz Brandts (born November 12, 1834 - † October 5, 1914), entrepreneur, founder of the People's Association for Catholic Germany
- Maria Lenssen (born July 17, 1836 in Rheydt; † March 1, 1919), benefactress
- Max Meckel (born November 28, 1847 in Dahlen; † December 24, 1910 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), architect .
1851-1900
- Otto Bardenhewer (born March 16, 1851, † March 23, 1935 in Munich), Roman Catholic theologian, important patrologist
- Louise Gueury (born May 13, 1854 - July 21, 1900), founder of the lung sanatorium in the Hardter Forest
- Hugo Junkers (born February 3, 1859 in Rheydt; † February 3, 1935 in Gauting), engineer and entrepreneur (aircraft designer)
- Carl Pauen (born April 7, 1859 - † June 7, 1935 in Bonn), modern pentathlon and Olympic participant
- Hermann Hirsch (born June 4, 1861 in Rheydt, † March 1, 1934 in Göttingen), painter and sculptor
- August Müller (March 4, 1864 - September 5, 1949), doctor and inventor of the contact lens
- Johanna Stocken , known as Mutter Ey (born March 4, 1864 in Wickrath, † August 27, 1947 in Düsseldorf), gallery owner and promoter of modern painting
- Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg (born June 10, 1867 in Rheydt, † April 22, 1937 in Münster), historian, professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University and director of the Münster State Archives
- Peter Nonnenmühlen (born June 7, 1868 - † February 9, 1952), Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach in 1946
- Ernst Vits (born September 15, 1868 in Rheydt, † November 15, 1939 in Berlin), Protestant court and cathedral preacher in Berlin and general superintendent of Neumark and Niederlausitz
- Carl Beines (born December 15, 1869 in Rheydt, † October 8, 1950 in Bad Wörishofen), conductor, music teacher and composer
- Anna Simons (born June 8, 1871; † April 2, 1951 in Prien am Chiemsee), calligrapher and typographer
- Johannes Greferath (born August 18, 1872 in Schelsen, † October 21, 1946 in Cologne), painter
- Heinrich Neusen (born April 9, 1876 in Dahlen ; † May 16, 1958 in Anrath ), Mayor of Anrath
- Ernst Jakob Christoffel (born September 4, 1876 in Rheydt; † April 23, 1955 in Isfahan), founder of the Christoffel Mission for the Blind
- Johannes van den Kerkhoff (born September 22, 1876 in Odenkirchen; † April 21, 1945 in Freudenstadt), politician (DNVP)
- Hermann Schoppelrey (born September 24, 1876 - May 25, 1940), Roman Catholic bishop, Divine Word missionary and Apostolic Vicar of Sinyangchow in China
- Clara Grunwald (born June 11, 1877 in Rheydt; † April 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp), Montessori educator
- Paul-Peter Schagen (born December 26, 1877 in Dahlen; † December 20, 1944), priest in Raeren, Linn, Aachen-Brand and chaplain in St. Peter in Cologne
- Walter Dilthey (born March 26, 1877 in Rheydt; † June 24, 1955 in Zülpich), chemist
- Leo Raape (born June 14, 1878 in Rheydt; † December 7, 1964 in Hamburg), legal scholar
- David Alexander Winter (23 November 1878 - 13 October 1953 in London), rabbi
- Max Popp (born December 16, 1878; † March 16, 1943 in Berlin-Zehlendorf), agricultural scientist and author of the first German-language biography of Jules Verne
- Walter Kaesbach (born January 18, 1879; † July 1, 1961 in Konstanz), art historian and important promoter of the art of Expressionism
- Ernst Stoltenhoff (born January 17, 1879 in Odenkirchen, † April 27, 1953 in Wittlaer), Protestant theologian
- Albert Huyskens (born July 30, 1879 - † October 26, 1956 in Aachen), historian, archivist and librarian
- Robert Pferdmenges (born March 27, 1880, † September 28, 1962 in Cologne), banker and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Alfred Heinen (born August 25, 1880; † July 9, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp), entertainer and Rhenish singer
- Konrad Miss (born October 30, 1880 - † September 14, 1952 in Cologne-Lindenthal), District Administrator (SPD)
- Hans Emil Weber (born March 8, 1882; † June 13, 1950 in Bonn), Protestant theologian
- Siegfried Klein (born December 31, 1882; † August 1944 in Auschwitz), rabbi
- Theo Blum (born January 10, 1883; † January 31, 1968 in Cologne), landscape painter and etcher
- Joseph H. Pilates (born December 9, 1883, † 1967 in New York), German-American body trainer who developed the method of the same name .
- Karl Köster (born September 1, 1883; † March 2, 1975 in Boisheim), painter and graphic artist
- Franz Doelle (born November 9, 1883 - † March 15, 1965 in Leverkusen), composer (When the white lilacs bloom again)
- Johannes Heck (born January 1, 1884 - † November 18, 1949), dialect poet, from 1928 to 1939 head of the Rheydter Heimatmuseum
- Gottfried Könzgen (born April 3, 1886; † March 15, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp), member of the Catholic labor movement and worker secretary of the Catholic labor movement.
- Carl Cohnen (7 August 1887 - 20 July 1976), painter
- Carl Spiecker (born January 7, 1888 - † November 16, 1953 in Königstein im Taunus), politician (ZENTRUM, CDU, MdL, federal chairman of the center)
- Hermann Pongs (born March 23, 1889 in Odenkirchen; † March 3, 1979 in Gerlingen), professor and literary scholar
- Richard Glücks (born April 22, 1889 in Odenkirchen; † May 10, 1945 in Flensburg, suicide), was head of the inspection of the concentration camps from November 1939
- Heinrich Lersch (born September 12, 1889; † June 18, 1936 in Remagen), boiler maker and worker poet
- Johannes Albers (born March 8, 1890 - † March 8, 1963 in Cologne), politician (CDU)
- Hans Leifhelm (born February 2, 1891 in Rheydt; † March 1, 1947), poet
- Anton Wendling (born September 26, 1891, † January 13, 1965 in Münsterlingen), painter and creator of church windows
- Heinrich Malzkorn (born January 4, 1892, † March 12, 1980 in Süchteln), writer, painter and conservationist
- Hubert Schlebusch (born June 28, 1893; † October 20, 1955 in Mehlem near Bonn), Prime Minister of Braunschweig 1945–46
- Heinrich Karsch (born February 12, 1894 in Rheydt; † October 24, 1955), politician (CDU)
- Josef Arndgen (born February 24, 1894 in Rheydt; † September 20, 1966 in Wiesbaden), politician (CDU)
- Werner Gilles (born August 29, 1894 in Rheydt; † June 23, 1961 in Essen), artist
- Johann Esser (born April 10, 1896 in Wickrath, † 1971 in Moers), poet and trade unionist, co-author of the song Die Moorsoldaten
- Wilhelm Jansen-Joerde (born August 17, 1896 in Dohr , † May 29, 1981 in Giesenkirchen ), artist
- Gottfried Kapp (born March 27, 1897; † November 21, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main), writer
- Joseph Goebbels (born October 29, 1897 in Rheydt; † May 1, 1945 in Berlin), politician (NSDAP) and Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment during the National Socialist era
- Lisel Haas (* 1898 - † 1989), photographer of the Birmingham Repertory Theater
- Fritz Böning (born January 28, 1898 in Odenkirchen; † June 3, 1971), local politician and district administrator (CDU)
- Paul Herrmann (born April 22, 1898; † September 14, 1980 in Koblenz), major general in the German Armed Forces
- Peter Erkens (born July 24, 1898 in Rheydt; † October 22, 1972 in Mönchengladbach), politician (center, CDU)
- Peter Kuhlen (born September 30, 1899 in Rheydt; † November 17, 1986 in Düsseldorf), founder of the Apostolic Community
- Ernst Alfred Philippson (born April 6, 1900; † August 9, 1993 Urbana (Illinois), USA), Professor of German Philology
- Hanns Vogts (born December 2, 1900; † June 20, 1976 in Freudenstadt), writer
- Friedrich Paul Krappen (7 December 1900 - 22 April 1976 in Mönchengladbach), city director
20th century
1901-1910
- Michael Münster (born February 23, 1901 - † March 31, 1986 in Schwalmtal (Lower Rhine)), politician (NSDAP)
- Hans Wolfgang Hillers (born April 22, 1901; † April 12, 1952 in Düsseldorf), writer
- Paula Walendy (* 1902; † 1991), children's book author and journalist
- Hans Jonas (born May 10, 1903, † February 5, 1993 in New York), German-Jewish philosopher and ethicist
- Robert Ullmann (born July 18, 1903, † March 19, 1966 in Vienna), sculptor
- Josef Windeck (born October 11, 1903 in Rheydt, † 1977 in Mönchengladbach), sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years imprisonment for murder in the third Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt
- Theo Hespers (born December 12, 1903, † September 9, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee), resistance fighter during the National Socialist era
- Paul Franken (born December 19, 1903, † December 15, 1984 in Bonn), historian and first director of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- Max Stern (born April 18, 1904; † May 30, 1987 in Paris), German-Canadian art dealer and patron
- Hans Lünenborg (born April 20, 1904, † April 1, 1990 in Cologne), painter
- Werner Becker (born May 17, 1904; † June 1, 1981 in Leipzig), lawyer, Catholic theologian and university professor
- Ernst Jansen-Winkeln (born February 13, 1904, † April 11, 1992), important wall and glass painter
- Viktor Achter (born February 8, 1905 in Rheydt; † August 16, 1981), lawyer, university professor and entrepreneur
- Ernst Schumacher (born July 11, 1905, † 1963 in Berlin), painter and graphic artist
- Curt Becker (7 August 1905 - 21 February 1987), politician (CDU)
- Fritz Frame (born June 13, 1905 in Rheindahlen; † August 25, 1977), politician, last Lord Mayor of Rheydt (CDU)
- Kurt Rauxloh (born February 23, 1906 in Rheydt; † unknown), overseer in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- Will Sommer (born March 19, 1906 in Günhoven, † March 17, 1974 in Rheindahlen), sculptor
- Fritz Mühlen (born April 17, 1906 in Rheydt; † July 4, 1981 in Wegberg), painter
- Leonhard Jansen (born July 26, 1906, † January 22, 1997 in Bruges), poet and writer
- Katja Andy , b. Käte Aschaffenburg (born May 23, 1907 in Mönchengladbach; † December 30, 2013 in the USA), pianist
- Otto Coenen (* 1907; † 1971), constructive painter and teacher in Mönchengladbach
- Richard Lauffen (born June 2, 1907, † August 28, 1990 in Marquartstein), actor
- Artur Petzoldt (born June 2, 1908 in Rheydt; † 1972), former President of the Hamburg Federal Railway Directorate
- Franz Meyers (born July 31, 1908 - † January 27, 2002), politician (CDU); from 1958 to 1966 Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Member of the Bundestag
- Walter Flachsenberg (born October 26, 1908 - † November 3, 1994), naval officer, most recently flotilla admiral of the German Navy
- Anne Marie Stoll-Rommerskirchen (born January 20, 1909, † July 14, 1985 in Geilenkirchen), sculptor
- Otto Hartloff (born February 25, 1909 in Rheydt, † February 24, 1977 in Kusel), artist
- Hans Bange (born April 7, 1909, † December 21, 1992), author, founder of the Münster-Bauverein
- Sophronius Clasen (born May 30, 1909, † April 21, 1974 in Mönchengladbach), Franciscan, theologian, church historian and philosopher
- Helmut Dörner (born June 26, 1909, † February 11, 1945 in Budapest), SS-Oberführer Schutzstaffel and Waffen-SS in World War II
- Werner Labbé (born July 3, 1909 in Rheydt; † April 3, 1989), painter, graphic artist and illustrator
- Franz Lennartz (born March 20, 1910 Rheydt; † January 16, 2003 Salem, Baden-Württemberg), writer, publicist, lexicographer and collector
- Josef Hilgers (born October 26, 1910 in Rheydt; † January 21, 1955 in Weisweiler), local politician (CDU)
1911-1920
- Lene Hille-Brandts (* 1911; † 1973), children's book author
- Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth (born May 21, 1911 - † January 4, 1986 in Bad Gastein), menswear manufacturer
- Thomas Münster (* 1912; †?), Writer
- Lev Aronson (born February 7, 1912, † November 12, 1988 in Dallas), cellist, cello teacher and composer
- Vilma Sturm (born October 27, 1912; † February 17, 1995 in Bonn), writer and journalist
- Elisabeth Gottschalk (born October 28, 1912; September 14, 1989 in Amsterdam), Dutch historical geographer
- Heinz Ditgens (born July 3, 1914 - † June 20, 1998 in Mönchengladbach), football player
- Rolf Dettmann (born February 15, 1915 - † March 7, 1992), painter, draftsman, illustrator and graphic artist
- Gertrud Aretz (born March 24, 1915; † March 30, 2004 in Neuwied), welfare worker and politician, MdL Rhineland-Palatinate (CDU)
- Alfred Katzenstein (born May 16, 1915; † January 16, 2000 in Berlin), psychologist; Resistance fighters in the time of National Socialism
- Josef Rommerskirchen (born February 16, 1916 in Odenkirchen; † March 9, 2010 in Wachtberg), politician, Member of the Bundestag (CDU)
- Eugen Viehof (born February 28, 1916 - † February 5, 2010), entrepreneur
- Johannes Botterweck (born April 25, 1917 in Rheydt; † April 15, 1981 in Bonn), theologian, Old Testament scholar and dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Heinz Sielmann (born June 2, 1917 in Rheydt; † October 6, 2006 in Munich), animal filmmaker
- Kurt Kremers (* February 1920 in Rheydt; † October 24, 1991 in Mönchengladbach), composer, poet and writer
1921-1930
- Gisela Hoeter (born April 12, 1922 - March 12, 2010 in Munich), actress
- Hilde Sherman , née Zander (born March 22, 1923 in Wanlo; † March 11, 2011 in Jerusalem), German Jew who was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust
- Jack Zunz (born December 25, 1923 - December 11, 2018), British civil engineer, involved in the Sydney Opera House, among others
- Gerhard Ackermans (born February 25, 1926 - † November 7, 2011 in Kerken), entrepreneur
- Bruno Schmidt-Bleibtreu (born August 2, 1926 in Odenkirchen; † December 14, 2018 in Bonn), Ministerial Director and constitutional lawyer
- Heinz Kremers (born October 19, 1926 in Rheydt; † May 26, 1988 in Moers), professor of theology and recipient of the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal
- Ruth Brühl (born February 17, 1927), writer
- Gunther Lambert (* 1928 in Rheydt; † 2015 in Düsseldorf), entrepreneur, designer and interior designer
- Hermin Esser (born April 1, 1928 in Rheydt; † April 17, 2009 in Naurod), opera singer
- Helga Stöver (born April 9, 1926 - † October 7, 1993 in Mönchengladbach), was committed to the integration of disabled people, the concerns of refugees and Christian-Jewish understanding
- Odilo Engels (born April 24, 1928 in Rheydt; † February 26, 2012 in Erftstadt-Lechenich), historian
- Wilhelm Junkers (born August 1, 1928 - January 11, 2011), mathematician
- Paul Speck (born December 19, 1928 - August 18, 2003 in Berlin), Byzantinist
- Günter Faßbender (born March 5, 1929 - † March 25, 2017 in Wesel), lawyer and administrative officer
- Heinz Feldhege (born May 27, 1929), politician (CDU), Honorary Mayor of Mönchengladbach, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Erich Meuthen (born May 31, 1929; † June 2018 in Cologne), historian
- Michael Cramer (born March 1, 1930 in Wickrath; † November 28, 2000 in Munich), film actor and voice actor
- Karl Heinz Beckurts (born May 16, 1930 in Rheydt; † July 9, 1986, murdered in Straßlach-Dingharting near Munich), nuclear physicist and director of the Institute for Applied Nuclear Physics at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center from 1963 to 1970
- Hans-Karl Siebigs (born January 28, 1930 - June 8, 2018), architect and Aachen cathedral master builder
1931-1940
- Hermann Jansen (born October 28, 1931 in Rheydt; † July 13, 2020), politician ( SPD ), member of the state parliament
- Günter Seuren (born June 18, 1932 in Wickrath ; † December 10, 2003 in Munich), writer
- Alexander Arnz (born August 25, 1932 in Rheydt; † September 30, 2004 in Cologne), television director
- Helmutjoy (born September 2, 1932 in Rheydt ; † November 14, 2008 in Mönchengladbach), senior city director of the former city of Rheydt from 1968 to 1974, senior city director of Mönchengladbach from 1975 to 1993, youngest head of administration in a major West German city
- Gerd Schommen (born December 16, 1932), former football player
- Petra Schürmann (born September 15, 1933; † January 14, 2010 in Munich), Miss World 1956, actress and presenter
- Josef Lauter (born August 4, 1936), didactic specialist and university professor
- Uwe Erichsen (born August 9, 1936 in Rheydt), writer
- Hans D. Barbier (born April 15, 1937 - † February 17, 2017 in Bonn), journalist
- Helge Breloer (born October 28, 1937; † April 23, 2011 in Dortmund), appraiser and valuation expert for trees and bushes, lawyer and non-fiction author
- Walter Jansen (born December 31, 1938), chemist, university professor, chemistry didactic
- Albin Hänseroth (born February 24, 1939; † September 9, 2004 in Cologne) economist and media scientist, director of the Hamburg State Opera and director of the Cologne Philharmonic
- Paul Eßer (born May 30, 1939), writer
- Helmut Harff (born June 5, 1939 - † September 8, 2018), General of the Bundeswehr
- Karl-Wilhelm Blum (born July 23, 1939), economist and university professor
- Andreas Birkmann (born August 14, 1939 in Rheydt), politician (CDU)
- Rolf Herings (born July 10, 1940 - September 29, 2017), javelin thrower and Olympic participant as well as soccer coach
1941-1950
- Rolf Königs (born August 19, 1941), entrepreneur and football functionary
- Herbert Nobis (born June 22, 1941), composer and former university lecturer for music in Aachen
- Walter Strerath (born September 18, 1942 in Odenkirchen; † September 23, 1981 in Mönchengladbach), jazz musician
- Dieter Pauly (born February 14, 1942 in Rheydt), Bundesliga soccer referee
- Wilhelm Josef Gerhards (born January 21, 1943), writer and journalist
- Hans Heyer (born March 16, 1943), entrepreneur and former automobile racing driver
- Heinz Abels (born April 2, 1943), sociologist
- Willy Wimmer (born May 18, 1943), politician (CDU)
- Herbert L Bäumen (born August 11, 1943), former football player
- Erwin Müller-Ruckwitt (born August 26, 1943), Catholic theologian, adult educator and media expert
- Horst-Dieter Höttges (born September 10, 1943), former football player
- Werner Janssen (* 1944), philosopher, Germanist, educator and university professor
- Wilfried Jacobs (born January 14, 1944), former President of Borussia Mönchengladbach and former Chairman of the Board of AOK Rheinland / Hamburg .
- Rolf Göttel (born February 21, 1944), former referee and stadium announcer
- Günter Netzer (born September 14, 1944), former national soccer player
- Jupp Heynckes (born May 9, 1945), former national soccer player and coach of various Bundesliga teams, including Borussia Mönchengladbach , FC Bayern Munich and Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- Jürgen Aretz (born February 10, 1946 in Rheydt), former State Secretary
- Uli Vos (born September 2, 1946, † December 1, 2017 in Mönchengladbach), field hockey player and Olympic champion
- Helga Kirchner (born October 20, 1946), journalist
- Erwin Spinnler (born April 11, 1947), football player
- Jürgen Lenssen (born May 11, 1947), Cathedral Chapter in Würzburg, artist
- Klaus Bayer (born June 24, 1947), Germanist and university professor
- Kajo Breuer (born July 19, 1948 in Rheydt), politician ( GREEN )
- Erwin Kremers (born March 24, 1949), former national soccer player
- Helmut Kremers (born March 24, 1949), former national soccer player
- Felix Becker (born August 29, 1949), politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Harald Grosskopf (born October 23, 1949), drummer (rock band Wallenstein) and electronic musician. In Mönchengladbach from 1970 to 1974 and 1987–1989.
- Hildegard Wester (born December 28, 1949 in Rheydt), politician (SPD)
- Günter vom Dorp (born October 17, 1950), radio presenter, singer and author
1951-1960
- Eva Weissweiler (born February 14, 1951), writer
- Gerhard Krieger (born February 17, 1951; † December 30, 2018 in Brühl), theologian and philosopher
- Peter Klusen (born March 20, 1951), writer, playwright and cartoonist
- Norbert Post (born June 16, 1952), politician (CDU)
- Klaus Mohrs (born June 27, 1952), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Wolfsburg
- Frank Schäffer (born July 6, 1952), football player
- Helmut W. Pesch (born August 30, 1952), fantasy author, illustrator, translator and editor
- Gregor Quasten (born October 3, 1952 - † November 13, 2004 in Edenkoben), football goalkeeper
- Ursula Gather (born April 28, 1953), professor of mathematical statistics and industrial applications
- Hans Klinkhammer (born August 23, 1953), former soccer player
- Ursula Peysang (born September 10, 1953 - † August 27, 1991 in Hanover), pop singer ( in the car in front of me with Henry Valentino )
- Gabriele Schrey-Vasara (born October 25, 1953 in Rheydt), translator from Finnish
- Martin Lersch (born April 5, 1954), draftsman, illustrator, painter and musician
- Hans-Willi Körfges (born June 1, 1954), politician (SPD), MdL
- Detlef Neuss (born November 30, 1954), Federal Chairman of the Pro Bahn eV passenger association since 2016
- Hans Walter Hütter (born December 15, 1954), German historian
- Peter Riemer (born March 20, 1955 in Rheydt), classical philologist
- Karl Jansen-Winkeln (born April 3, 1955), Egyptologist and university professor
- Hans Wilhelm Reiners (born July 7, 1955), politician (CDU), acting Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach since 2014
- Georg Minkenberg (* 1955; † March 10, 2016 in Aachen), art historian, head of the Aachen Cathedral Treasury
- Reinhard Feiter (* 1956), Roman Catholic theologian
- Ansgar Puff (born January 8, 1956), cathedral chapter and auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- Norbert Ringels (born September 16, 1956), former soccer player
- Reinhold Ewald (born December 18, 1956), physicist and astronaut
- Burkhard Spinnen (born December 28, 1956), writer
- Ulrike von der Groeben (born March 25, 1957), editor and moderator
- Walter Moers (born May 24, 1957), comic artist and writer
- Axel Bendung (born August 21, 1957 in Rheydt), music producer
- Norbert Spinrath (born September 26, 1957 in Rheydt), Federal Chairman of the Police and Politicians Union (SPD)
- Volker Pispers (born January 18, 1958), political cabaret artist
- Willihaben (born March 21, 1958), writer
- Christoph Seeßelberg (* 1959), Professor of Steel Construction and President of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences
- Harald Zillikens (born June 4, 1959 in Rheydt-Odenkirchen), politician (CDU), mayor of Jüchen
- Norbert Bude (born September 14, 1959), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach from 2004 to 2014
- Reinhard Mahlberg (born November 1, 1959), actor
- Tobias H. Strömer (born May 1, 1960 in Rheydt), lawyer and author
1961-1970
- Marlene Bach (* 1961 in Rheydt), writer
- Frank Boss (* 1961 in Rheydt), politician, Member of the Bundestag (CDU)
- Jürgen Wieshoff (* 1961 in Rheydt), journalist, author and inventor
- Andreas Hensel (born January 13, 1961), veterinarian, professor, President of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
- Uwe Röhrhoff (* 1962), CEO of Gerresheimer
- Günter Theißen (born January 16, 1962), geneticist
- Armin Krings (born November 22, 1962), football player
- Hans-Georg Maaßen (born November 24, 1962), lawyer, President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (2012-18)
- Wilfried Bauer (* 1963 in Rheydt), geologist and professor at the German University of Technology in Oman
- Bert Goebel (born July 14, 1963), swimmer
- Andreas Magdanz (born August 9, 1963), photographer
- Axel Baltzer (born December 13, 1963), orthopedist
- Thomas Johnen (* 1964), German theologian and professor of Romance studies
- Gregor Maria Hoff (born January 29, 1964), fundamental theologian
- Michael Frontzeck (born March 26, 1964), soccer coach and former national soccer player
- Kai Ebel (born August 30, 1964), sports reporter
- Rebecca Gablé (born September 25, 1964 in Wickrath), pseudonym of Ingrid Krane-Müschen , writer
- Gabriele Köster (born December 18, 1964), art historian, director of the Magdeburg Cultural History Museum
- Hans-Georg Dreßen (born December 30, 1964), former soccer player
- Chris Kempers (born January 7, 1965), singer at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990
- Ellen Lohr (born April 12, 1965), motor sports enthusiast
- Svenja Pages (born August 3, 1966 in Rheydt), actress
- Michael Hilgers (born August 6, 1966), national field hockey player, silver and gold medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona
- Sabine Ercklentz (* 1967), musician
- Dietmar Jacobs (* 1967), screenwriter
- Heinz-Harald Frentzen (born May 18, 1967), Formula 1 racing driver
- Iris Criens (born June 20, 1967), singer in the music group Wind
- Bernd Kardorff (born December 31, 1967), dermatologist, author, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- Armin Pongs (born January 18, 1968 in Rheydt), writer
- Klaus Dohmen (born March 8, 1968 in Rheydt), mathematician
- Rene Runge (born June 27, 1968), known as Jaspa Jones from Blank & Jones
- Stefanie Kunschke (* 1969), opera singer
- Axel Ockenfels (born February 9, 1969 in Rheydt), economist
- Gregor Schneider (born April 5, 1969 in Rheydt), artist
- Volker Kaibel (born May 16, 1969 in Rheydt), mathematician
- Günter Krings (born August 7, 1969 in Rheydt), politician, Member of the Bundestag (CDU)
- Peter Platen (born April 24, 1969), Catholic theologian and canonist
- Martina Hannen (born March 6, 1970), politician, Member of the Bundestag (FDP)
- Mario Kaiser (born April 8, 1970 in Rheydt), journalist
- Torsten Knippertz (born June 19, 1970), actor and presenter
- Marc Romboy (born June 19, 1970), music producer, DJ, composer and label boss
- Karlheinz Pflipsen (born October 31, 1970), former football player
1971-1980
- Jörg Albertz (born January 29, 1971), former soccer player
- Michael von Ameln (born August 23, 1971 in Rheydt), referee in the 1st Bundesliga in field and indoor hockey
- Martin Heckmanns (born October 19, 1971), writer and playwright
- Sandra Navidi (born September 1, 1972), lawyer
- Sam Eisenstein (born November 26, 1972), actor
- Shakuntala Banerjee (* 1973 in Rheydt), TV journalist
- Sonja Oberem (born February 24, 1973 in Rheydt), triathlete, long-distance runner and Olympic participant
- Günter Bollmann (born March 7, 1973), jazz musician
- Ulla Lenze (born September 18, 1973), writer
- Andreas Coenen (born February 15, 1974), District Administrator
- Melanie Kraus (born October 24, 1974), long-distance runner
- Nina Juraga (born December 17, 1975), actress
- Jens Bülte (* 1976), lawyer and university professor
- Nikola Huppertz (born May 7, 1976), writer
- Sven Lintjens (born October 5, 1976), football player
- Ann-Kristin Hamm (* 1977), painter
- Nick Heidfeld (born May 10, 1977), Formula 1 racing driver
- Marcel Ketelaer (born November 3, 1977), football player
- Joachim Winterscheidt (born January 13, 1979), television presenter
- Joscho Stephan (born June 23, 1979), jazz guitarist
- Axel Lindner (* 1980), violinist
1981-1990
- Navina Omilade (born November 3, 1981), national soccer player
- Dominik Jansen (born January 30, 1982), football player
- Tim Erfen (born October 22, 1982), football player
- Cem Toraman (born April 11, 1983), known by the synonym Summer Cem , rapper of Turkish descent
- David Wallen (born April 30, 1983), former American football player
- David Jakobs (born July 25, 1983), musical actor
- René Schnitzler (born April 14, 1985), football player
- Jennifer White (born May 18, 1985), voice actress
- Marcell Jansen (born November 4, 1985), former soccer player, president of Hamburger SV
- Dominic Musa Schmitz (* 1987), dropout from the Salafist scene
- Isabell Herlovsen (born June 23, 1988), Norwegian national soccer player
- Christian Dorda (born December 6, 1988), German-Polish soccer player
- Yvonne Zielinski (born December 1, 1989), soccer player
- Cansu Yağ (born June 22, 1990), Turkish soccer player
1991-2000
- Marc-André ter Stegen (born April 30, 1992), soccer goalkeeper
- Maurice Pluntke (born January 23, 1994), football player
- Carolin von der Groeben (born February 13, 1995), actress
- Sinan Kurt (born July 23, 1996), football player
21st century
- Luca Pferdmenges (born August 24, 2001), juggler
Honorary citizen
In § 6 of the Rhenish City Code of May 15, 1856, the city council's assembly is enabled, in agreement with the mayor, to appoint men who have rendered outstanding services to the city. The cities of Mönchengladbach , Rheydt , Gladbach-Rheydt, Odenkirchen and Rheindahlen made use of the right to grant honorary citizenship to individuals . The Prussian law on civil and municipal law of July 15, 1919 allowed women to be granted honorary citizenship. In the case of Maria Lenssen, the honorary citizenship of the city of Rheydt was granted unofficially and under legal reservations as early as 1913.
Honorary citizen of the city of Mönchengladbach
- Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor; on the occasion of his 80th birthday (awarded in 1895)
- Peter Nonnenmühlen , Lord Mayor (awarded 1950)
- Hennes Weisweiler , coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach between 1964 and 1975 (awarded on December 17, 1974)
- Franz Meyers , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (awarded 1978)
- Hans Jonas , philosopher and ethicist (awarded 1989)
Honorary citizen of Odenkirchen
- Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
Honorary citizen of (Rhine) Dahlen
- Johann Franz Nicodem , from 1857 to 1900 mayor of the city of Dahlen and Rheindahlen
Honorary citizen of the city of Rheydt
- Johann David Büschgens (born March 28, 1782 in Rheydt-Dorf; † July 12, 1869 in Rheydt), silk manufacturer and first full-time mayor of Rheydt from 1823 to 1857 (awarded on September 11, 1857)
- Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor; awarded on February 22, 1895, on the occasion of his 80th birthday
- Tonio Bödiker , go. Oberregierungsrat, District Administrator of the Gladbach District (awarded on January 10, 1897)
- Maria Lenssen , benefactress (awarded 1913)
- Hugo Junkers , aircraft designer (awarded on June 5, 1928)
- Joseph Goebbels (awarded April 5, 1933; from Rheydt, awarded again on October 16, 1934 after the separation between Gladbach and Rheydt. Revoked on June 14, 1945.)
Other personalities
The following people are connected with the city of Mönchengladbach, who were not born there but worked there:
9/10 century
- Gero von Köln (≈900–976), founder of the Gladbach Abbey
18th century
- Klemens August Bernhard von Bouget (born September 2, 1731 in Aachen ; † April 20, 1779 in Odenkirchen , Kurköln ), court chamber councilor, Vogt zu Odenkirchen, entrepreneur (founder of the first velvet and silk factory in Odenkirchen), tenant of the Zoppenbroich house
19th century
- Ludwig Weber (1846–1922), Protestant theologian and social reformer, founder of the Evangelical Workers' Association in Gladbach, pastor in Gladbach from 1881 to 1914
- August Monforts (born September 18, 1850 in Gerderath ; † July 7, 1926 in Mönchengladbach), founder of the mechanical engineering company A. Monforts textile machines and A. Monforts machine tools in Mönchengladbach.
- Franz Heat (1851–1921), Catholic theologian and Center Party politician; Founder of the People's Association
- Heinrich von der Helm (born May 8, 1859 in Koblenz ; † June 23, 1950), priest
- Paul Lehwald (* 1863 in Bromberg ; † 1928 in Hameln ), Mayor of Rheydt
- Ernst Brasse (September 30, 1865 in Potsdam ; † August 31, 1923 in M. Gladbach ), historian, author of the basic history of the city and abbey of Gladbach
- Josef Blum (born February 6, 1866 in Krefeld , † February 1, 1924 in Mönchengladbach ), chief physician at the St. Franziskus lung sanatorium and head of the Hardterwald Clinic.
- August Pieper (1866–1942), theologian and chairman of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany
- Franz Gielen (1867–1947), Mayor of Munich-Gladbach from December 8, 1920 to 1930
- Heinrich Brauns (1868–1939), Catholic theologian, director of the Mönchengladbach-based central office of the People's Association for Catholic Germany , center politician, Reich Minister of Labor
- Wilhelm Elfes (1884–1969), first Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach after the collapse of the Nazi regime
- Josef Kleinle (born August 22, 1884 in Donauwörth ; † March 26, 1912 in Derendorf ), aviation pioneer
- Heinz Vogel (1898–1977), artist; lived and worked in Mönchengladbach until 1961
20th century
- Johannes Cladders (1924–2009), 1967–85 director of the city's museums
- Heinz Mack (* 1931), artist; lives and works in Mönchengladbach
- Edmund Erlemann (1935–2015), socially committed Roman Catholic priest, provost of Mönchengladbach Minster and founder of the Volksverein Foundation
- Viktor Scholz (* 1935), Russian-German church music director and concert organist, has lived in Mönchengladbach since 1958, cantor of the St. Vitus Minster in Mönchengladbach from 1958 to 2000
- Albert Brülls (1937–2004), national football player and 1952–62 player from Borussia Mönchengladbach
- Blinky Palermo (Peter Schwarze / Peter Heisterkamp) (1943–1977), artist; lived and worked in Mönchengladbach from 1969
- Walter Büchsel (born October 9, 1943 in Cologne ; † May 18, 2010 in Düsseldorf ), police chief in Mönchengladbach from 1994 to 2008
- Klaus Schmitt (* 1955), artist, lives and works in Mönchengladbach
- Berti Vogts (* 1946), soccer player (five times German champion with Borussia Mönchengladbach, world champion 1974, European champion 1972), soccer coach ( European champion 1996)
- Gülistan Yüksel (* 1962), Mönchengladbach politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Kadir Sözen (* 1964), radio journalist and filmmaker, grew up in Mönchengladbach
- Oliver Neuville (* 1973), former national soccer player; lives and works in Mönchengladbach
- Charlotte Roche (* 1978), presenter of the alternative music program Fast Forward at the music channel Viva and writer; lived in Mönchengladbach for a long time
- Andreas Tölzer (* 1980), judoka for the 1st JC Mönchengladbach and bronze medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
- Ina Menzer (* 1980), Featherweight boxing world champion according to the WIBF version, lives in the Wickrath district
- Jan-Marco Montag (* 1983), 2006 world hockey champion, 2008 Olympic hockey champion, played for HTC in Gladbach
- Fatmire Alushi (* 1988), national soccer player and world champion; lives in the district of Giesenkirchen
literature
- City of Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.): Mönchengladbacher heads . 53 personalities of the city's history. 2nd Edition. tape 1 . City Museum Schloß Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, 1996, ISBN 3-925256-45-8 .
- City of Mönchengladbach (Hrsg.): Mönchengladbacher heads . 53 personalities of the city's history. 1st edition. tape 2 . Municipal Museum Schloß Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, 1998, ISBN 3-925256-55-5 .
- Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 73 ff .
References and individual references
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 73 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 45 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 76 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 79 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 82 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 86 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 89 .
- ^ Hans Hoff: Rheydter yearbook for history, art and local history . Ed .: Otto von Byland Society for the Promotion of the Municipal Museum at Rheydt Castle. tape 10 . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1973, The honorary citizens of the city of Rheydt, p. 91 .
- ^ Monforts, August . Bavarian State Library. Retrieved July 4, 2014.