List of personalities of the city of Minden

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Coat of arms of the city of Minden

The list of personalities of the city of Minden contains a selection of the most important personalities who are associated with the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden in North Rhine-Westphalia . These people are either honorary citizens of the city, born in Minden, worked in Minden or have some other connection to the city of Minden.

Honorary citizen

Ludwig von Vincke, honorary citizen of Minden

The honorary citizenship of the city of Minden is awarded to living people. Are honorary citizens of the city of Minden.

Deceased honorary citizens of the city of Minden were:

  • Ludwig Freiherr von Vincke (1774–1844), Prussian reformer, became an honorary citizen of the city of Minden on December 23, 1841.
  • Nikolaus Meyer (1775–1855), Privy Councilor and Medical Councilor, Goethe's pen pal.
  • Karl Freiherr von der Horst (1780–1861), District President of the Minden District (1816–1825), honorary citizen since 1825.
  • Karl Gottlieb Richter (1777–1847), District President of the Minden District (1825–1847), on April 30, 1846 made an honorary citizen.
  • Franz von Borries (1785–1858), District President of the Minden District (1847–1853), honorary citizen since June 29, 1853.
  • Robert Ilgner (1810–1891), fortress commander , honorary citizen since February 18, 1864.
  • August von Goeben (1816–1880), General of the Infantry, temporarily stationed in Minden in 1864/1866, honorary citizen since July 22, 1871.
  • Alexander von Oheimb (1820–1903), district administrator of the Minden district (1869–1892), honorary citizen since May 26, 1891.
  • Theodor Bleek (1833–1905), Privy Councilor, Lord Mayor of the City of Minden 1880 to 1903, honorary citizen since October 1, 1903.
  • Alfred Meyer (1891–1945), Upper President of the Province of Westphalia, since October 18, 1936 honorary citizen.
  • Hermann Dröse (1880–1957), head of the employment office and deputy mayor for many years, made an honorary citizen on February 19, 1955.
  • Karl Ronicke (1893–1968), factory owner, city major 1938 to 1963, honorary citizen since February 26, 1963.

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Minden:

13th to 18th centuries

19th century

20th century

Stefanie Anhalt , born in Minden in 1968, radio presenter

Other personalities who are or were connected to the city

Until 1500

  • Sophia von Minden (* around 304), martyr, relics in Minden
  • Dorothea (saint) (* around 279, † around 305), martyr, relics partly in Minden
  • Gorgonius of Rome († around 305), martyr, relics partly in Minden
  • Sturmius (715-779), missionary, evangelized the area around Minden
  • Adolf II. (Schauenburg and Holstein) (1128–1164), Count of Schauenburg, Holstein and Stormarn, buried in Minden
  • Heinrich von Herford (* around 1300; † 1370), chronicler, historian, theologian, Dominican in Minden
  • Wilhelm von Boldensele († around 1339), travel writer, Dominican in Minden
  • Gerhard von Berg († around 1400), theologian, cathedral dean in Minden
  • Bartholomaeus Coloniensis (* around 1460, † around 1516) was a German humanist and rector of the Minden Cathedral School
  • Katharina von Sachsen (1468–1524), wife of an Archduke of Austria, was buried in Minden
  • Johann Pollius (* around 1490; † 1562) was a Protestant theologian and reformer as well as rector of the Minden Cathedral School for several years.
  • Johannes Dreyer (* around 1500; † 1544), theologian and Augustinian, lived in Minden at the end of his life
  • Gerd Omeken (* around 1500; † 1562), theologian, superintendent in Minden

1501 to 1700

1701 to 1800

1801 to 1900

1901 to 1950

  • Leonhard Miksch (1901–1950), economist, deputy. Head of the Central Economic Office for the British Zone
  • Bruno Schlage (1903–1977), SS-Unterscharführer, died in Minden
  • Paul Bleiß (1904–1996), politician, active in the administration for the economy of the British zone in Minden
  • Max Ingberg (1904–1983), resistance fighter under National Socialism, social democrat and chairman of the Jewish community in Minden
  • Richard Schulz (1906–1997), Romance scholar, spread Esperanto from Minden
  • Heinrich Ewers (1906–1992), theologian, Abitur in Minden
  • Johanna Braach (* 1907), senior criminal secretary, headed the girls' police in Minden
  • Wilhelm Hahn (1909–1996), theologian and politician, pastor and superintendent in Minden
  • Rudolf Hillebrecht (1910–1999), architect, worked in Minden in the Central Economic Office for the British Zone
  • Heinz Starke (1911–2001), Federal Minister, worked in Minden
  • Hans-Werner Staratzke (1912–2004), economic manager and politician, head of department in the economic administration of the British Zone in Minden
  • Elisabeth Ostermeier (1913–2002), politician, lived in Minden
  • Hans-Georg Stemann (1916–2011), senior admiralty, doctor in Minden
  • René Carol (1920–1978), singer, died in the Minden Clinic
  • Helmut Seckfort (March 7, 1920 in Düsseldorf - March 22, 2016 in Minden), Medical Director of the Minden Clinic
  • Walter Schmithals (1923–2009), theologian, vicar in Minden
  • Erentrud Trost (1923–2004), glass painter, designed a window in Minden Cathedral
  • Werner Pohle (1925–2012), politician, managing director of the AWO Minden
  • Karl Peter Grotemeyer (1927–2007), mathematician, student in Minden
  • Rainer Böhm (* 1928), entrepreneur in Minden
  • Gert Huffmann (1930–2011), doctor, student in Minden
  • Hermann Kreutz (* 1931), church musician, grew up in Minden
  • Friedhelm von Estorff (1932–2014), photographer, married in Minden
  • Albrecht Wellmer (1933–2018), philosopher, Abitur in Minden
  • Henning Venske (* 1939), actor, cabaret artist and writer, student in Minden
  • Qabus ibn Said (1940–2020), Sultan of Oman, officer in Minden
  • Wolfgang von Stetten (* 1941), politician, student in Minden
  • Wolfgang Senff (* 1941), politician, student in Minden
  • Mario Botta (* 1943), architect, built the Harting administration in Minden
  • Lothar Ibrügger (* 1944), politician, Abitur in Minden
  • Hans-Josef Becker (* 1948), archbishop, pastor in Minden
  • Jutta Hering-Winckler (* 1948), lawyer, chairwoman of the Richard Wagner Association in Minden

1951 to 2000

Familys

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the city of Minden: Municipal awards , accessed on May 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt, March 6, 2010

See also

For more people working in Minden, see: