List of personalities of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr

This list of personalities shows people who have a special relationship to the city ​​of Mülheim an der Ruhr . These include the mayors and mayors, honorary citizens and other personalities who were either born in Mülheim an der Ruhr or are or have been connected to the city in some other way.

Mayor and Lord Mayor since 1808

Christian Weuste ; Mayor from 1822 to 1847

Karl Obertüschen ; Mayor from 1857 to 1873

Karl von Bock and Polach ; Mayor from 1879 to 1895; Mayor until 1902

From	To	Surname	Political party	Official title
1808	1813	Johann Hermann Voerster	independent	Municipal Director
1813	1816	Johann Heinrich Michels	independent	mayor
1816	1821	Lambert Maubach	independent	mayor
1822	1822	Franz Kniffler	independent	mayor
1822	1847	Christian Weuste	independent	mayor
1847	1851	Friedrich Fritsch	independent	mayor
1852	1856	Wilhelm Oechelhäuser	independent	mayor
1857	1873	Karl Obertüschen	independent	mayor
1873	1878	Heinrich Bang	independent	mayor
1879	1902	Karl von Bock and Polach	independent	Lord Mayor, Mayor until 1895
1903	1928	Paul Lembke	independent	Lord Mayor, provisional until 1904
1928	1933	Alfred Schmidt	independent	Lord Mayor, provisional until 1930
1933	1936	Wilhelm Maerz	NSDAP	Lord Mayor
1936	1945	Edwin Hasenjaeger	initially DNVP , then non-party and from 1937 NSDAP	Lord Mayor
In 1945 and 1946 the mayors changed frequently at the top of the city. In these post-war years, the Lord Mayors were temporarily appointed to the office by the Allies . In addition to the former mayor Edwin Hasenjaeger , who held office again from October 1945 to April 1946, the previous councilors Gustav Langweg and Werner Hoosmann and the later city director Josef Poell headed the city  - sometimes only for a few days. With the first free local elections in autumn 1946, there was again a certain continuity in the appointment of the office:
1946	1948	Wilhelm Diederichs	CDU	Lord Mayor
1948	1969	Heinrich Thöne	SPD	Lord Mayor
1969	1974	Heinz Hager	SPD	Lord Mayor
1974	1982	Dieter from Siepen	SPD	Lord Mayor
1982	1994	Eleonore Güllenstern	SPD	Lord Mayoress
1994	1999	Hans-Georg Specht	CDU	Lord Mayor
1999	2002	Jens Baganz	CDU	Lord Mayor
2003	2015	Dagmar Mühlenfeld	SPD	Lord Mayoress
2015	current	Ulrich Scholten	SPD	Lord Mayor

Honorary citizen

The city of Mülheim an der Ruhr has granted honorary citizenship rights to the following people (chronological list according to date of award):

• 1880: Peter Thielen , field provost
• 1888: Friedrich Hammacher , Mülheim member of the Reichstag
• 1895: Otto Fürst von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
• 1912: August Thyssen , industrialist
• 1928: Paul Lembke , Lord Mayor
• 1933: Paul von Hindenburg , President of the Reich (revoked in 1995)
• 1933: Adolf Hitler , Reich Chancellor (revoked 1995)
• 1935: Emil Kirdorf , industrialist (disqualified in 1995)
• 1941: Adolf Wirtz , hut director (revoked in 1995)
• 1960: Heinrich Thöne , Lord Mayor
• 1962: Max Kölges , district master craftsman, mayor, city councilor
• 1963: Karl Ziegler , chemist, Nobel Prize winner (1963)

At the meeting on March 23, 1995, the City Council of Mülheim an der Ruhr unanimously decided that the honorary citizenships of Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Emil Kirdorf and Adolf Wirtz were illegal. They were stripped of their honorary citizenship.

In addition to the honorary citizenship of the city of Mülheim forgives other awards to persons who have rendered outstanding services to the city, the Ring of Honor of the city of Mülheim, the honor clip in gold and since 1962 the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science .

sons and daughters of the town

To 1900

• 1644, Wilhelm Rettinghaus , † 1708 in Germantown / USA, founder of the first paper mill in America
• 1745, Carl Arnold Kortum , † 1824 in Bochum, doctor and writer
• 1790, Mathias Stinnes , † 1845 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, company founder
• 1797, Johann Hermann Kufferath , † 1864 in Wiesbaden, composer
• 1806, Peter Thielen , † 1887 in Potsdam, theologian, Prussian field provost
• 1808, Hermann Heinrich von Eicken † 1888 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, businessman, head of the city council
• 1811, Louis Kufferath , † 1882 in Brussels, composer
• 1815, Friedrich Wilhelm Fabarius † 1900 in Düsseldorf, marine painter
• 1818, Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath , † 1896 in Brussels, composer
• 1818, Gustav Hanau , † 1902 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, banker
• 1820, Wilhelm Hollenberg , † 1912 in Godesberg, teacher, theologian and politician ( NLP )
• 1820, Hermann Strassburger , † 1886 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, entrepreneur
• 1831, Wilhelm Schmitz , † 1887 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, businessman, founder of the company “Wilh. Schmitz-Scholl ”(Wissoll), the nucleus of the Tengelmann Group
• 1833, Karl Heinrich Schönstedt , † 1924 in Berlin, judge and Prussian Minister of Justice
• 1835, Johann Hermann Leonhard , † 1905 in Berlin, doctor, founder of the Mülheim an der Ruhr ophthalmic hospital
• 1835, Hermann Heinrich Wilhelmi , † 1915 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, entrepreneur, owner of the Wilhelmi hoist factory
• 1840, Margarete Stinnes , † 1911 in Berlin, daughter of Mathias Stinnes, founder of the Mülheim an der Ruhr ophthalmic hospital
• 1844, Robert Rheinen , † 1920 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, local researcher, art collector, founder of the municipal museum in Mülheim an der Ruhr
• 1845, August Bungert , † 1915 in Leutesdorf, composer
• 1845, Julius Bachem , † 1918 in Cologne, lawyer, politician (center)
• 1853, Wilhelm Kufferath , † 1936 in Oldenburg, cellist
• 1854, Hubert Engels , † 1945 in Jena, hydraulic engineer
• 1855, Karl von den Steinen , † 1929 in Kronberg / Taunus, doctor, ethnologist and explorer
• 1860, August Reiser , † 1932, bank manager, board member of Rheinische Creditbank
• 1861, Gerhard Küchen , † 1932 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, councilor, managing director and partner in the Mathias Stinnes company
• 1862, Elisabeth von Eicken , † 1940 in Michendorf, landscape painter
• 1862, Heinrich Pattberg , † 1934 in (Moers-) Kapellen, mine director and pioneer of German mining
• 1862, Walter Hammerstein , † 1944 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, banker, founder of Broich-Speldorfer Wald- und Gartenstadt AG
• 1863, Karl Deicke , † 1943 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, district judge, local researcher
• 1863, Charlotte Francke-Roesing , † 1942 in Schöneiche near Berlin, writer
• 1867, Carl Nedelmann , † 1947 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, businessman
• 1867, Joseph Allekotte , † 1944 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, politician (center), member of the Reichstag
• 1868, Karl Schmitz-Scholl senior , † 1933 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, wholesale merchant
• 1870, Hugo Stinnes , † 1924 in Berlin, industrialist, politician ( DVP )
• 1873, Katharina Fleischer-Edel , † 1928 in Dresden, opera singer (soprano)
• 1873, Fritz Thyssen , † 1951 in Buenos Aires, industrialist
• 1874, Richard Merländer , † 1942 in Treblinka / Poland, silk merchant
• 1878, Karl Broermann , † 1947 in Heinsberg / Westphalia, pedagogue and writer
• 1879, Carl Otto von Eicken , † 1960 in Heilbronn, doctor
• 1880, Walther Franz , † 1956 in Schöningen, Vice Admiral
• 1881, Ernst Oberfohren , † 1933 in Kiel, politician (DNVP), member of the Reichstag, chairman of the parliamentary group
• 1881, Ernst Henke , † 1974 in Essen, industrialist
• 1883, Notker Becker , † 1978 in the Maria Laach Abbey, Benedictine and sacred artist
• 1884, Heinrich Malzahn ; † 1957 in Berlin, politician, trade unionist
• 1885, Josef Hehl , † 1953 in Xanten, ceramic artist
• 1885, Hermann Haber , † 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp (declared dead), painter, caricaturist
• 1888, Arthur Kaufmann , † 1971 in Nova Friburgo / Brazil, painter
• 1890, Wilhelm Müller , † 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp, SPD chairman, member of the provincial parliament
• 1890, Luise Blumberg , † 1974 in Oberhausen, politician, city councilor (1919), member of the provincial parliament (1932)
• 1890, Wilhelm Dörnhaus , † 1970, politician, member of the state parliament
• 1891, Walter Hartmann , † 1977 in Hameln, General of the Artillery
• 1891, Peter Hütgens , † 1945 in Munich, politician, member of the Reichstag
• 1891, Friedrich Siebel , † 1954 in Duisdorf, pilot, aircraft manufacturer
• 1892, Wilhelm Henn , † 1986 in Ründeroth, politician, mayor, district administrator and MdL
• 1893, Heinrich Dinkelbach , † 1967 in Düsseldorf, industrial manager
• 1893, Otto Pankok , † 1966 in Wesel, painter, draftsman and sculptor
• 1894, Werner Gilles , † 1961 in Essen, painter
• 1895, Fritz Peretti , † 1978 in Düsseldorf, sculptor
• 1895, Heinrich Josef Oberheid , † 1977 in Düsseldorf, National Socialist Protestant theologian, bishop
• 1896, Karl Camphausen , † 1962 in Schötmar, politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag
• 1896, Karl Schmitz-Scholl , † 1969 in Castagnola near Lugano, sole managing partner of the companies Wissoll and Tengelmann
• 1898, Ludwig Freund , † 1970 in Hanover, political scientist, university professor
• 1899, Wilhelm Ludolf Schmitz , † 1973 in Bonn, physicist, pioneer of amateur radio
• 1899, Hermann Prüssmann , † 1980 in Wamel / Möhnesee, painter, graphic artist
• 1900, Ernst Gnoss , † 1949 in Düsseldorf, politician (SPD), President of the Landtag
• 1900, Rudolf Heinz , † 1960 in Leipzig, geologist and university professor
• 1900, Wilhelm Schütte , † 1968 in Vienna, architect

1901 to 1950

• 1901, Hermann Josef Müller , † 1955 in Düsseldorf, writer
• 1901, Clärenore Stinnes , † 1990 in Sweden, racing driver
• 1902, Otto Weiß , † 1944 executed in Berlin-Plötzensee, lawyer, resistance fighter
• 1904, Heinrich Siepmann , † 2002 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, painter
• 1905, Hans Keiter , † 2005 in Solingen, field handball player, Olympic champion 1936
• 1905, Carl Ballhaus , † 1968 in Eisenach, actor, screenwriter, director and theater manager
• 1906, Erich Bachem , † 1960 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, engineer, designer
• 1906, Käthe Guss , † 1994 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, operetta singer, actress
• 1907, Franz Kartz , boxer
• 1907, Fritz Terres , † 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, KPD city councilor
• 1908, Oskar Ballhaus , † 1972 in Munich, actor, theater director and theater director
• 1909, Otto Kohler , † 1984 in Veringenstadt, Catholic clergyman and Nazi victim
• 1909, Werner Stertzenbach , † 2003 in Düsseldorf, journalist and communist
• 1909, Fritz Buchloh , † 1998 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, goalkeeper of the German national soccer team
• 1909, Ferdinand from Fünten , † 1989 in Duisburg, head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam
• 1910, Werner Marx , † 1994 in Bollschweil, philosopher
• 1910, Matías Stinnes , † unknown, German-Argentinian luge rider
• 1910, Otto Plöger , † 1999 in Bonn, Protestant theology professor
• 1912, Karl Kessel , † 1997 in Bonn, officer, major general in the Bundeswehr
• 1913, Friedrich Engelhardt , † 1994 in Hamburg, chemist, namesake of the Kölbel-Engelhardt synthesis
• 1913, Herbert Burgmüller , † 1970 in Nuremberg, writer, general secretary of the German PEN center
• 1914, Edgar Reinhardt , † 1985 in Pforzheim, field handball player, Olympic champion 1936
• 1915, Wilhelm Perpeet , † 2002, cultural philosopher
• 1918, Kurt Conle , † 1966 in Immenstadt / Allgäu, architect, founder of the airline LTU
• 1918, Otto-Axel Herbst , † 2016, diplomat, ambassador
• 1918, Fritz Wolf , † 2001 in Bad Rothenfelde, cartoonist
• 1919, Karlhans Paul Abel , † 1998 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, classical philologist
• 1920, Franzpeter Goebels , † 1988 in Detmold, pianist
• 1920, Helmut Winschermann , oboist, university professor and conductor
• 1921, Kurt Gies , † 1943 in Russia (Eastern Front), tennis player
• 1921, Cornelia Hahn-Oberlander , Canadian landscape architect, niece of Kurt Hahn
• 1921, Marga Höffgen , † 1995 in Müllheim (Baden), singer
• 1923, Annemarie Buntrock , poet and graphic artist
• 1924, Werner Janssen , pathologist, forensic specialist and university professor
• 1925, Willi Müller , † 2007, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag (1965-80)
• 1926, Klaus Bungert , † 2006 in Düsseldorf, politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of the City of Düsseldorf (1974–79, 1984–94)
• 1926, Werner Koch , † 1992 in Cologne, writer
• 1926, Udo van Meeteren , entrepreneur and art patron
• 1926, Ernst Rasche , † 2018 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, sculptor
• 1927, Wilhelm Holtmann , † 2019 in Darmstadt, Protestant Reformed pastor and theologian
• 1927, Wim Thoelke , † 1995 in Niedernhausen near Wiesbaden, sports presenter, show master
• 1928, Wolfgang Müller-Ruchholtz , † 2019 in Molfsee, immunologist in Kiel
• 1930, Leila Negra , actually Marie Nejar, pop singer, actress
• 1930, Klaus Heitmann , † 2017 in Heidelberg, Romance studies
• 1931, Edith Polland-Dülfer , † 2018 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, fashion draftsman, painter and graphic artist
• 1933, Helmut Nonn , hockey player
• 1934, Karl W. Butzer , † 2016, American geographer and archaeologist of German descent
• 1934, Hans-Joachim Hoffmann-Nowotny , † 2004 in Zumikon, sociologist and professor at the University of Zurich
• 1935, Klaus Mackscheidt , finance scientist
• 1935, Werner H. Schmidt , theologian
• 1936, Rolf Knippers , † 2017 in Konstanz, molecular biologist and geneticist, professor at the University of Konstanz
• 1937, Frigga Haug , philosopher
• 1940, Wolf Dietrich , linguist and university professor
• 1940, Jürgen Sundermann , football coach
• 1941, Ulrich Mehler , † 2019 in Borkum, Germanic Medievalist
• 1943, Bernd Möllenstädt , type designer
• 1943, Peter Schäfer , Judaist, museum director
• 1944, Karin Kucki , badminton player
• 1945, Berengar Pfahl , director
• 1945, Hans Walitza , football player
• 1946, Dore Oberloskamp , film director, known as "Dore O."
• 1948, Bärbel Kramer , papyrologist and university teacher
• 1948, Ina Kramer , graphic designer and author
• 1948, Ulrich Stevens , monument conservator
• 1949, Rolf Stolz , publicist, writer and photographer
• 1950, Eva-Maria Neher , biochemist

From 1951

• 1952, Ulrike Beisiegel , biochemist and university president
• 1952, Jürgen Großmann , steel entrepreneur, CEO of RWE AG
• 1952, Bodo Hombach , politician (SPD), Federal Minister for Special Tasks, Head of the Federal Chancellery (1998–99)
• 1952, Barbara Wollrath-Kramer , actress and director
• 1954, Hans-Günter Bruns , soccer player (defender of the German national team), soccer coach
• 1954, Monika Griefahn , politician (SPD), Environment Minister of Lower Saxony (1990-98)
• 1955, Gisela Fischdick , chess grandmaster
• 1955, Thomas Hufschmidt , jazz pianist, composer
• 1955, Jörg Juretzka , writer
• 1955, Helge Schneider , entertainer, film director, actor and jazz musician
• 1956, Ralph Morgenstern , actor, presenter
• 1956, Andreas Schmidt , politician (CDU), chairman of the committee of inquiry into the Kohl donation affair
• 1957, Hendrik Dorgathen , comic artist
• 1959, Jürgen Kruse , lawyer and university professor
• 1959, Wolfgang Patzke , † 2016 in Berlin, football player
• 1959, Stephanie Überall , one half of the cabaret duo "Missfits"
• 1960, Margit Eckholt , Roman Catholic theologian
• 1960, Martina Hartmann , historian and university professor
• 1960, Stefan Hufschmidt , actor, cabaret artist and author
• 1961, Ulla Kock am Brink , TV presenter
• 1961, Hannelore Kraft , politician (SPD), 2010–17 Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1962, Arnd Wiedemann , business economist
• 1964, Dirk Martens , actor, entrepreneur
• 1964, Tanja Michalsky , art historian
• 1965, Andrea Kocsis , trade unionist
• 1965, Ralf Lübke , athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1967, Carolin Emcke , publicist
• 1968, Olaf Henning , composer, pop singer
• 1968, Willi Landgraf , soccer player
• 1968, Katharina Reschke , author
• 1970, Andreas Becker , hockey player and Olympic champion
• 1970, Thomas Häuser , electronic game developer
• 1972, Jens Weymann , politician (SPD), holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1973, André Lenz , football player
• 1973, René Steinberg , cabaret artist, author
• 1974, Sandra Borgmann , film actress
• 1974, Thomas Ernst , non-fiction author and literary scholar
• 1974, Christian Hirdes , music cabaret artist
• 1975, Lars Burgsmüller , tennis player
• 1975, Lars Lürig , Paralympic winner in freestyle
• 1976, Daniel Hausrath , chess player
• 1978, Tina Bachmann , hockey player
• 1978, Rebekka Pax , writer
• 1979, Simone Hanselmann , actress
• 1979, Matthias Schrör , historian
• 1983, Alexander Weimann , hockey player
• 1987, Miriam Höller , stunt woman, model and presenter
• 1990, Bora Karadag , soccer player
• 1992, Mats Moraing , tennis player
• 1994, Aris Alexander Blettenberg , pianist, composer and conductor
• 1994, Axel Borgmann , soccer player
• 1995, Marvin Schulz , soccer player

Other personalities

Personalities who lived or worked in Mülheim an der Ruhr and are therefore connected to the city:

• Wirich VI. von Daun-Falkenstein (1542? –1598), sovereign of the Broich rule
• Adolf Vorster (1610–1675), papermaker, tenant of the Broich paper mill
• Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769), pietist, preacher, spiritual poet and songwriter
• Johann Wilhelm von Eicken (1749–1804), tobacco manufacturer
• Johann Dinnendahl (1780–1849), designer, inventor, co-founder of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte
• Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), linguist and literary scholar, member of the Mülheim district of Duisburg (29th constituency) in the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Hermann Adam von Kamp (1796–1867), teacher, writer and song poet
• Eduard Wilhelm Schulz (1796–1880), pastor, founder of the Evangelical Hospital
• Wilhelm Kaulbach (1805–1874), painter
• Ernst Nedelmann (1818–1888), businessman
• Julius Römheld (1823–1904), ironworks technician, entrepreneur
• Hubert Engels (1824–1891), music director, composer
• Friedrich Hammacher (1824–1904), lawyer, member of the Reichstag
• Josef Zerwes (1836–1901), businessman, director of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte
• Wilhelm Hasenclever (1837–1889), tanner, journalist, writer, social democratic politician, member of the Reichstag
• August Thyssen (1842–1926), industrialist, company founder
• Hermann Thielen (1844–1915), President of the Mülheim / Oberhausen Chamber of Commerce
• Joseph Thyssen (1844–1915), industrialist, brother of August Thyssen
• Emil Kirdorf (1847–1938), industrialist, promoter of Adolf Hitler
• Ernst Otterbeck (1860–1925), company founder, shoe manufacturer
• August Kirchberg (1863–1945), founder of the building and savings association, city councilor
• Otto Schöpf (1863–1929), editor-in-chief of the "Generalanzeiger"
• Otto Müller (1870–1944), Catholic priest, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Heinrich Forsthoff (1871–1942), Protestant pastor, provost
• Franz Hagen (1871–1953), architect, newspaper publisher
• Martin Gerste (1872–1956), municipal gymnastics and sports director
• Adolf Wirtz (1872–1953), engineer, director of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte
• Konrad Jakobs (1874–1931), Catholic pastor
• Edmund Neuendorff (1875–1961), grammar school director, founder of the VHS
• Franz Fischer (1877–1947), director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research (1914–1943), co-inventor of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
• Otto Gaudig (1878–1945), KPD city councilor
• Ludwig Wessel (1879–1922), Protestant pastor
• Hans Großmann (1879–1949), architect, responsible for numerous large buildings in Mülheim an der Ruhr
• Otto Kaiser (1880–1925), rabbi, teacher
• Max Kölges (1880–1973), district master craftsman, politician (first center, later CDU)
• Arthur Brocke (1884–1933), civil engineer, municipal alderman (1919–1933)
• Theodor Suhnel (1886–1965), architect
• Werner Kruse (1886–1968), director of the municipal museum
• Hans Tropsch (1889–1935), chemist, co-inventor of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis
• Ernst Barnstein (1891–1975), Protestant pastor, superintendent
• Otto Striebeck (1894–1972), journalist, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag (1949–1953, 1958–1965)
• Werner Gilles (1894–1961), painter
• Karl Ziegler (1898–1973), Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (1943–1969), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1963)
• Hermann Lickfeld (1898–1941), sculptor
• Augustin Floßdorf (1901–1967), Catholic pastor
• Ernst Haage (1901–1968), precision mechanic, company founder
• Alexander Wiedenhoff (1901–1989), Director of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte (1943–1966)
• Ernst Forsthoff (1902–1974), lawyer
• Richard Bottler (1903–1985), diplomat, ambassador
• Werner Best (1903–1989), lawyer, National Socialist
• Willy Huppertz (1904–1978), mechanic, anarchist
• Daniel Traub (1909–1995), painter, graphic artist
• Günther Smend (1912–1944), General Staff officer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944 
• Ruth Wendland (1913–1977), Protestant pastor, Righteous Among the Nations
• Siegfried Reda (1916–1968), Protestant church musician, composer
• Heinz-Oskar Vetter (1917–1990), Chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions (1969–1982)
• Wilhelm Knabe (* 1923), politician, co-founder of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party, second mayor (1994–1995)
• Günter Westerhoff (1923–2015), working-class writer
• Erich Endlein (1925–2017), Catholic pastor
• Theodor Wüllenkemper (1925–2012), aviation entrepreneur
• Roberto Ciulli (* 1934), theater director
• Reinald Schnell (* 1935), filmmaker
• Peter-Torsten Schulz (* 1944), also known as "Petoschu", artist, inventor of "Ollen Hansen"
• Werner Nekes (1944-2017), film director (Uliisses)
• Gerhard Kucki (* 1945), badminton player
• Werner Müller (1946–2019), Federal Minister of Economics (1998–2002), Chairman of the Executive Board of Evonik AG (formerly Ruhrkohle AG)
• Peter Meyer (* 1949), manager and ADAC president
• Helmut Schäfer (* 1952), dramaturge
• Gabriela Grillo (* 1952), Olympic champion in dressage riding 1976
• Harald Schartau (* 1953), politician (SPD)
• Stefan Klöckner (* 1958), musician, theologian and university professor (Folkwang University), specialist in Gregorian chant, winner of the Ruhr Prize
• Giorgio Basile (* 1960), called "the angel face", hit man of the 'Ndrangheta
• Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010), theater director, action artist and film director
• Carsten Fischer (* 1961), hockey player, gold medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona
• Naomi Schenck (* 1970), production designer, author
• Mark Kleinschmidt (* 1974), rower, Olympic medalist
• Raffael Tonello (* 1975), football player
• Emanuel Awere Twellmann (* 1979), singer and rapper, known under the stage name "Manuellsen"
• Peter Schyrba (* 1980), football player
• Jan Philipp Rabente (* 1987), hockey player, gold medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games in London
• Thilo Stralkowski (* 1987), hockey player, gold medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games in London
• Jamule (* 1996), rapper; grew up in Mülheim

Web links

• Mülheim's mayor from 1808 until today
• Historical Mülheim personalities

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article in the Smend City Archives. In: muelheim-ruhr.de. September 2, 2015, accessed April 11, 2017.