List of personalities from the city of Melle
This list of personalities of the city of Melle gathers the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city - without claim to be exhaustive - as well as other people who are connected with the city of Melle .
Honorary citizen
Johann-Heinrich Bitter
Carl Starcke
Wilhelm Fredemann
Josef Stock
The honorary citizenship was granted in 1869 for the first time earned in Melle citizens at community events and large celebrations.
- Justus Dieterich Block (born March 20, 1788 - † June 10, 1871), consistorial councilor and superintendent
- Awarded on October 26, 1869
- Johann Heinrich Bitter (* July 25, 1804; † September 18, 1883), Privy Medical Council
- Awarded on February 4, 1876
- August Titgemeyer (born July 22, 1834 - † August 11, 1919), businessman and mayor
- Awarded on July 22, 1914
- Carl Starcke (born February 17, 1845 - † July 26, 1934), manufacturer and senator
- Awarded on October 26, 1923
- Conrad Caesmann (March 4, 1852 - July 12, 1936), master baker and senator
- Awarded on January 8, 1923
- Ernst Ebermeier (born July 27, 1862 - † January 14, 1936), pharmacy owner and senator
- Awarded on July 27, 1932
- Heinrich Budke (born November 17 1860. † 21 August 1934), vice principal a. D. and former senator
- Awarded on August 2, 1933
- Johann Uttinger (born August 3, 1879 - † October 23, 1968), former commercial clerk and mayor
- Awarded on August 3, 1964
- Maria Heilmann (born November 8, 1887; † March 12, 1969), historian, holder of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit, 1st class
- Awarded on June 5, 1968
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Wilhelm Fredemann (born April 15, 1897; † October 11, 1984), former high school principal , writer and historian
- Awarded on April 14, 1977
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Josef Stock (born July 11, 1938), former interior minister and deputy prime minister of Lower Saxony, former mayor of the city of Melle
- Awarded on June 27, 2007
The following entries were removed from the list by a city council resolution after the Second World War
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Hermann Göring (born January 12, 1893 - October 15, 1946), Field Marshal
- Awarded on October 31, 1937
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Baldur von Schirach (born May 9, 1907 - August 8, 1974), Reich Youth Leader of the NSDAP
- Awarded on October 31, 1937
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Carl Röver (born February 12, 1889 - † May 15, 1942), NSDAP head of the Gaus Weser-Ems
- Awarded on October 31, 1937
mayor
Carl Starcke
Josef Stock
André Berghegger
The mayors of Melle have been documented by name since 1488. The following is a list of people from the past 200 years:
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sons and daughters of the town
Hermann von der Hardt
Archbishop Albert Bitter
August Vordemfelde
Heinrich Stühlmeyer
Josef Stock
Karl-Dieter Möller
Ernst-August Hoppenbrock
Peter Neubäcker
Dietmar Wischmeyer
Ludger Stühlmeyer
Thomas Stühlmeyer
- Johannes Heringsdorf (1606–1665), Jesuit and hymn poet
- Johann Lucas Pestorf (1638–1693), theologian, general superintendent and abbot
- Hermann von der Hardt (1660–1746), historian and orientalist
- Eduard Niemann (1804–1884), theologian, member of the consistory in Hanover and general superintendent
- Karl Wedekind (1809–1881), entrepreneur and patron
- Ludwig von Hammerstein (1832–1905), Jesuit priest and spiritual writer
- Albert Bitter (1848–1926), Vicar Apostolic of Sweden, Archbishop of Stockholm
- Otto von Pestel (1848–1919), district administrator of the Melle district and Prussian politician
- Matthias Rosemann (1866–1961), dean , oldest acting pastor in Germany
- August Vordemfelde (1880–1972), clothing manufacturer and politician (DNVP), NSDAP (1933–1945); born in the Meller district of Westerhausen
- Ludwig Münchmeyer (1885–1947), pastor on the North Sea island of Borkum and Reich speaker of the NSDAP; born in the Hoyel district of Melle
- Wilhelm Fredemann (1897–1984), rector, writer and historian
- Hermann Althaus (1899–1966), senior social officer and SS-Oberführer during National Socialism ; born in the Hoyel district of Melle
- Heinrich Stühlmeyer (1907–1978), custodian, cantor and silent hero of the resistance
- Albert Lütkemeyer (1911–1947), SS-Hauptsturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Neuengamme concentration camp; born in the Meller district of Wellingholzhausen
- Ilse Losa (1913–2006), writer and publisher's editor; Jewish woman who took a critical stance against Adolf Hitler
- Willy Potthoff (1925–2006), reform pedagogue, professor and rector of the Freiburg University of Education
- Josef Stock (* 1938), former Minister of the Interior of Lower Saxony and Mayor of Melle
- Rolf Glittenberg (* 1945), stage designer
- Karl-Dieter Möller (* 1945), former television journalist, until 2010 judicial policy correspondent for ARD
- Hermann Rohling (* 1946), mathematician and university professor
- Ernst-August Hoppenbrock (* 1948), politician (CDU)
- Christoph Büttner (* 1949), admiralty doctor in the Bundeswehr
- Ulrich Schröder (1952–2018), bank manager, CEO of KfW Bankengruppe
- Peter Neubäcker (* 1953), musician and inventor
- Dietmar Wischmeyer (* 1957), radio author, columnist and satirist
- Christine Eichel (* 1959), journalist and writer
- Thomas Dinkelmann (* 1959), politician (non-party, formerly SPD), mayor of Mettmann
- Ludger Stühlmeyer (* 1961), music director ACV, musicologist and composer
- Thomas Stühlmeyer (* 1964), pastoral theologian and pastor
- Axel Bulthaupt (* 1966), TV presenter for ARD and MDR
- Jörg Bode (* 1969), footballer
- Karim Köster (* 1973), actor
- Lars Schiersand (* 1975), footballer
- Mehmet Yozgatlı (* 1979), Turkish professional footballer
- Thomas Kröger (* 1979), national volleyball player
- Anja Brinker (* 1991), artistic gymnast, medalist at the European Championships and the Olympic Games
- Aytürk Geçim (* 1995), German national soccer player
Persons connected to Melle
Georg Christoph Freiherr von Hammerstein
Jenny from Voigts
Friedrich Leopold Count zu Stolberg
Bernard Wieman (right on the cello)
Lothar Mohn
- Johannes Kersebroke , 1265 Drost of the Counts of Ravensberg ; the family's ancestral home (today Brincke Castle ) was in the Kerßenbrock district
- Heinrich von Vincke , knight , acquired the Ostenwalde estate and joined the Grönenberger Ritterbund in 1278
- Sergius von Plettenberg bought a plot of land in Melle in 1388 and built the Walle house
- Hermann von dem Bussche , knight, acquired Gesmold Castle around 1400
- Hermann von Amelunxen († 1580), Drost of the Grönenberg Office and lord of the castle from 1540 to 1575. Assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice
- Georg Christoph von Hammerstein (* 1624; † 1687), court marshal , received Gesmold Castle in 1664 through an exchange from the Bishop of Osnabrück
- Jenny von Voigts (* 1749; † 1814), writer, lived on the family property Haus vor Melle since her marriage in 1768
- Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (* 1750; † 1819), lawyer, diplomat, poet and writer; spent his twilight years at Gut Sondermühlen
- Bernard Wieman (* 1872; † 1940), lawyer and writer, civil judge in Melle
- Gerhard Kohnert (née Kohn) (* 1882; † 1962), entrepreneur, furniture manufacturer, local politician and promoter of local cultural institutions
- Ludwig von Bar (* 1886; † 1928), District Administrator of the Melle District
- Hermann Meyer-Rabingen (* 1887; † 1961), Lieutenant General, Mayor of Melle
- Ludwig Bäte (* 1892; † 1977), writer, poet, cultural historian and translator; Teacher in Melle
- Karl Gossel (1892–1966), from 1928 to 1934 district administrator of the Melle district, then in the Reich Ministry of Finance; 1948 Oberkreisdirektor in the district of Melle, from 1957 to 1965 member of the German Bundestag ( CDU Lower Saxony )
- Hermann Helberg (* 1898 in Manhorn; † 1996 in Melle), chemist and writer, manager of the Carl Starcke-Melle match factory ; Member of the NSDAP and SA , 1933–1945, author of right-wing novels and short stories such as "England and we" (1940), "A Heidehof and the fates of its people" (1986), "So became Europe" (1989)
- Fritz Avenarius (* 1900; † 1956 in Melle), head of the district court of Melle, district training speaker of the NSDAP, training leader and troop leader of the SA (1933–1945)
- August Hoppenbrock (1905–1976), local group leader of the NSDAP in the Gerden district of Melle ; 1955–1967, CDU member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Erich Gust alias Franz Giese (1909–1992), SS-Obersturmführer , concentration camp supervisor and from 1942 to 1944 protective custody camp leader in Buchenwald concentration camp ; lived under a false identity from 1966 as head of the Heimathof restaurant in Melle
- Erich Engelbrecht (* 1928; † 2011), Meller sculptor
- Harding Meyer (* 1928; † 2018), theologian and professor; lived in Melle in retirement
- Heinrich Egon Weber (* 1932), vegetation expert, musicologist and university professor; was a teacher at the Gymnasium Melle
- Horst Szymaniak called "Schimmi" (* 1934; † 2009), national soccer player; lived in Melle and trained the team of TuRa Grönenberg Melle for a while
- Fritz-Gerd Mittelstädt (* 1948), director of studies at the Melle high school and professor at the Institute for Geography at the University of Osnabrück
- Lothar Mohn (* 1954), cantor at the St. Petri Church in Melle
- Karsten Mosebach (* 1969), teacher at Melle grammar school and photographer
- Tom Bartels (* 1965), football presenter initially at RTL , now ARD
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Knigge: Meller Geschichte - Rückblicke , Melle 2002. P. 125–135.
- ^ Bearer of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Unbeatable in terms of embarrassment - When Hermann Göring became an honorary citizen of Melle. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Simone Grawe: Berghegger gets direct mandate: Meller cheer for CDU candidate André Berghegger. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Announcement of the election committee on the determination of the result of the runoff election ( memento of October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hagestedt, Lutz (ed.) (2011): Das Deutsche Literatur-Lexikon. The 20th Century , Volume 16: 'Heinemann - Hermann'. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011, p. 232.
- ↑ Plaß, Uwe (2020): Numerous Mellers lined up his funeral procession - The Meller lawyer Avenarius: actor, rifleman, Nazi . Osnabrück: Meller Kreisblatt , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ) , June 5, 2020.
- ^ Fuhrer, Armin (1996): Ernst Thälmann and the innkeeper from 'Heimathof . Hamburg: Die Welt , October 10, 1996.
- ↑ Der Spiegel (1964): Zeitgeschichte - Thälmann: Uhr in der Asche , Hamburg: Der Spiegel , May 6, 1964, pp. 56-64.
- ^ Werkentin, Falco (1997): Political criminal justice in the Ulbricht era . Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, pp. 203-216.