List of personalities of the city of Meerbusch

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Coat of arms of the city of Meerbusch

This list contains well-known personalities who have an essential connection with the city of Meerbusch .

Note: People are not sorted alphabetically, but chronologically.

mayor

Since it was founded in 1970, Meerbusch has had the following mayors :

Honorary citizen

Meerbusch has only one honorary citizen :

The city also awards the Ring of Honor as a further award . The sponsors include the former mayors (see above) Beseler, Handschumacher and Nüse, as well as the well-deserved citizens Eberhard Kuntze, Günter Lorch, Louis Le Calvez from the twin town of Fouesnant, Alfons Wirtz, Franz Rybak, Konrad Bauschinger, Klaus Litzenburger.

Sons and daughters of the city (born in the city of Meerbusch)

Michael Sommer , DGB Chairman, born in Büderich

Others

Grew up or went to school in Meerbusch

Michaela Noll , Member of the Bundestag, Abitur in Meerbusch

Resident or active in Meerbusch

Verona Pooth , lives in Meerbusch

The following known persons were in the past or are currently living or significantly working in Meerbusch:

  • Gerhard Vynhoven (* 1596 in Neersen; † 1674 in Düsseldorf), priest
  • Theodor Holzschneider (* 1842; † 1912), chronicler and local researcher, Osterath
  • Adolf Lins (* 1856; † 1927), painter, lived and painted personalities in Nierst around 1886
  • Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot (* 1883 in Solingen; † 1960 in Cologne), architect and designer, around 1908 co-initiator of the garden city of Meererbusch
  • Herta Klingbeil (* 1905 in Duisburg; † 1990 in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth), community nurse in Lank-Latum, holder of the Meerbusch merit plaque
  • Joseph Beuys (* 1921 in Krefeld; † 1986 in Düsseldorf), action artist, sculptor, draftsman, art theorist and educator
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Christians (* 1922 in Paderborn, † 2004 in Düsseldorf), banker
  • Will Brüll (* 1922 in Viersen; † August 22, 2019 in Meerbusch-Osterath), sculptor, lived in Osterath
  • Holger Runge (* 1925 in Weimar), artist
  • Friedrich Karl Flick (* 1927 in Berlin; † 2006 in Auen am Wörthersee), entrepreneur and billionaire, lived in Büderich
  • Hansjürgen Bulkowski (* 1938 in Berlin-Dahlem), writer, lived in Osterath from 1979 to 2008
  • Florian Schneider-Esleben (* 1947 in Düsseldorf; † 2020), musician, co-founder of the band Kraftwerk , last lived in Büderich
  • Wolfgang “Wölli” Rohde (* 1950 in Kiel; † 2016), musician, former drummer for Toten Hosen, lived in Lank-Latum
  • Felix Droese (* 1950 in Singen / Hohentwiel), artist
  • Walter Freiwald (* 1954 in Wittmund; † 2019), presenter and actor
  • Jürgen Marbach (* 1958 in Duisburg), manager
  • Ingo Bredenbach (* 1959 in Wuppertal), organist and church musician
  • Oliver Keymis (* 1960 in Düsseldorf), politician, vice-president of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, lives in Lank-Latum
  • Ralf Bos (* 1961 in Düsseldorf-Bilk), cook, restaurant specialist and entrepreneur, works in Büderich
  • Dieter "Didi" Hegen (* 1962 in Kaufbeuren), ice hockey player
  • Ramon Zenker (* 1968 in Willich), musician, composer and music producer, grew up in Osterath, now lives in Büderich
  • Verona Pooth (* 1968 in La Paz, Bolivia), born in Feldbusch, entertainer, entrepreneur, advertising icon and television presenter, lives in Büderich
  • Franjo Pooth (* 1969), entrepreneur, lives in Büderich
  • Lutz Lienenkämper (* 1969 in Cologne), politician (CDU), Minister for Building and Transport 2009-2010 and Minister of Finance since 2017 in North Rhine-Westphalia, grew up and lives in Strümp
  • Marc Margielsky (* 1972 in Krefeld), painter, designer and author, lived in Osterath from 1977 to 1999
  • Michael Ballack (* 1976 in Görlitz), soccer player, lived in Büderich from 2010 to 2013
  • Christian Lindner (* 1979 in Wuppertal), politician (FDP), has lived in Meerbusch since 2012
  • André Krieger (* 1979), YouTuber
  • Martin Stranzl (* 1980 in Güssing, Austria), soccer player, lives in Meerbusch
  • Jermaine Jones (* 1981 in Frankfurt am Main), soccer player, lived in Büderich
  • Raffael (* 1985 in Fortaleza, Brazil), soccer player, lives in Strümp
  • Melissa Satta (* 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States), model, presenter and actress, lives in Büderich
  • Kevin-Prince Boateng (* 1987 in West Berlin), soccer player, lives in Büderich
  • Lars Unnerstall (* 1990 in Ibbenbüren), football player

Died or buried in Meerbusch

  • Heinrich Maria Martin Schäfer (* 1879 in Remscheid, † 1951 in Meerbusch), lawyer and politician
  • Herbert Böttger (* 1898 in Krefeld, † 1954 in Büderich), painter
  • Carl Christian Schmid (* 1886 in Osnabrück, † 1955 in Meerbusch), administrative lawyer and politician (DVP)
  • Hans Ellenbeck (* 1889 in Krefeld, † 1959 in Strümp), politician (DNVP)
  • Ewald Mataré (* 1887 in Aachen-Burtscheid, † 1965 in Büderich), painter and sculptor
  • Otto-Ernst Flick (* 1916; † 1974 in Meerbusch), industrialist
  • Wilhelm Hanebal (* 1905 in Steinheim, † 1982 in Büderich), sculptor
  • Franz Ruffing (* 1912 in Cologne-Kalk, † 1989 in Büderich), painter and graphic artist
  • Franz Heinrich Ulrich (* 1910 in Hanover, † 1987 in Meerbusch), bank manager
  • Ruth Niehaus (* 1925 in Krefeld; † 1994 in Hamburg), German actress and director
  • Frank Töppe (* 1947 in Bleicherode; † 1997 in Meerbusch), author and graphic artist
  • Rolf Crummenauer (* 1925 in Duisburg-Ruhrort; † 1999 in Osterath), artist and university professor
  • Hans Schlütter (* 1913 in Helderloh; † 2003 in Meerbusch), agricultural scientist, administrative officer and politician
  • Erwin Heerich (* 1922 in Kassel; † 2004 in Osterath), sculptor, lived in Osterath
  • Manfred Schatz (* 1925 in Bad Stepenitz; † 2004 in Meerbusch) animal painter, university professor, lived in Osterath until his death in 2004
  • Ben Tijnagel (* 1964 in Nijmegen, † 2005 in Meerbusch (car accident on the A57)), Dutch ice hockey player
  • Erich Potthoff (* 1914 in Cologne; † 2005 in Meerbusch), economist and university lecturer, auditor and member of the state parliament
  • Herbert Thomas Mandl (* 1926 in Bratislava; † 2007 in Büderich), Czech-German-Jewish author, concert violinist, music professor, philosopher, inventor, traveling speaker
  • Hartmut Krebs (* 1946 in Isny; † 2007 in Meerbusch), civil servant, state secretary and entrepreneur

Web links

Commons : Personalities of the city of Meerbusch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meerbusch - wanted citizenship. RP-Online
  2. ↑ Bylaws on the awarding of honorary awards by the city of Meerbusch from October 11, 1984 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meerbusch.de
  3. ↑ Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung of December 20, 2001
  4. ^ Bishop Heinrich Leven. The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church, accessed July 29, 2011 .
  5. ^ Equal Opportunities Commissioner of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss (Hrsg.): Women's street names in the cities and communities in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss . S. 50 ( full text on kaarst.de [PDF]).
  6. ↑ FDP hopes for Neu-Meerbuscher Lindner. RP Online , April 23, 2012, accessed April 24, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Footballer Raffael moves to Strümp . In: Rheinische Post . July 12, 2013 ( full text in the RP's online archive ).