List of personalities of the city of Osnabrück

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Coat of arms of the city of Osnabrück

Honorary citizen

  • 1831 Hans-Ferdinand von Schmid , lieutenant colonel, commander of the 8th Infantry Regiment
  • 1831 Hermann Vezin , merits in combating cholera 1831
  • 1835 Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von Bar , services to the welfare of the city and its public institutions
  • 1842 Heinrich Wyneken, services to the temperance association
  • after 1830 Carl Anton Lüpke , bishop and auxiliary bishop, because of his services to the movement of the temperance association, to poor relief and as a co-founder of the poor institution
  • 1880 Johannes von Miquel , Lord Mayor, promotes the city's economic and industrial development
  • 1885 Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
  • 1926 Wilhelm August Julius Max Reimerdes, for his contribution to the economic and cultural development of his hometown.
  • 1927 Julius Rißmüller , Lord Mayor, because of special services to the city of Osnabrück.
  • 1928 Siegfried Pelz (1848–1936), go. Medical councilor, because of his services to the establishment and management of the city hospital, especially for his work as a successful surgeon and specialist
  • 1952 Wilhelm Berning , Archbishop, bestowed on him for his work as Shepherd of the Diocese of Osnabrück
  • 1972 Wilhelm Kelch , Lord Mayor, for special services to the city
  • 1984 Karl Kühling , editor and author, dealing with the past and present of the city of Osnabrück
  • 1987 Helmut Hermann Wittler , bishop, for special services to interdenominational dialogue and the integration of foreign citizens
  • 2006 Hans-Jürgen Fip , Lord Mayor, for his special contribution to the profile of Osnabrück as a city of peace
  • 2019 Christian Wulff , former Federal President , former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and long-time Osnabrück local politician, for special services to the city of Osnabrück

The following people were deprived of their honorary citizenship: In a roll-call vote in the council meeting on April 2, 1946, Paul von Hindenburg , Adolf Hitler and Hans Gronewald were denied honorary citizenship. Further documents about the granting of honorary citizenship rights were destroyed in the town hall fire. Also in the holdings of the Osnabrück State Archives no documents could be found that provide information about the granting of honorary citizenship rights.

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in the city of Osnabrück. It was not taken into account whether they later had their sphere of activity in Osnabrück. They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth. Also to be considered is the somewhat more defined category: Person (Osnabrück) .

Until 1800

1801 to 1850

  • 1801, January 22nd, Friedrich Clemens Gerke , † May 21st, 1888 in Hamburg, pioneer of telegraphy
  • 1809, August 19, Heinrich Abeken , † August 8, 1872 in Berlin, Protestant theologian
  • 1810, November 29, Karl von Reichmeister , † July 22, 1860 in Obornik, Prussian administrative officer and parliamentarian
  • 1819, May 23, August von Kreling , † April 22, 1876 in Nuremberg, painter and sculptor
  • 1820, February 6, Friedrich von Gülich , † January 3, 1903 in Wiesbaden, Prussian diplomat
  • 1820, June 27, Hermann Abeken , † April 27, 1854 in Hanover, statistician
  • 1822, March 23, Justus Wilhelm Lyra , † December 30, 1882 in Gehrden, Protestant pastor and poet
  • 1826, February 17, Gerhard Uhlhorn , † December 15, 1901 in Hanover, Protestant theologian
  • 1828, June 18, David August Rudolf Stüve , † December 31, 1896 in Osnabrück, Prussian building officer, built z. B. the Berlin school for the blind
  • 1830, Julius Rasch , † December 18, 1887 in Berlin, architect and railway official
  • 1832, April 19, Werner von Beesten , † March 30, 1905 in Lingen, lawyer and politician
  • 1832, November 26, Georg Hermann Schröder , † September 19, 1911 in Lübeck, first school councilor in the Hanseatic city
  • 1833, May 2, Gustav Stüve , † November 27, 1911 in Osnabrück, lawyer, politician, administrative officer and art collector.
  • 1833, May 8, Alfred von Wedel , † June 23, 1890 in Heidelberg, royal Hanover chamberlain, castle captain and travel marshal
  • 1834, May 13, Carl Brandenburg , † October 29, 1902 in Wolbeck, lawyer, politician, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives
  • 1837, August 2, Karl Westerkamp , † May 19, 1901 in Bad Ems, politician, Lord Mayor of Osnabrück
  • 1838, June 5, Ernst von Wedel , † November 25, 1913 in Weimar, head stable master of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
  • 1839, July 27, Hermann Struckmann , † December 20, 1922 in Berlin, lawyer
  • 1840, December 20, Adolf Bock von Wülfingen , † November 8, 1920 in Göttingen, Prussian major general
  • 1843, September 17, Christian Pieper , † 1934 in Stuttgart, portrait, genre and landscape painter
  • 1850, May 16, Wilhelm Thörner , † September 9, 1920 in Osnabrück, chemist, founder of the investigation office for food and chemical-technical products in Osnabrück

1851 to 1900

  • 1851, December 21, Eduard Hermann von Lütcken , † November 10, 1926, landowner, judge and parliamentarian
  • 1859, April 14, Rudolf Frisch , † September 1923 in Osnabrück, painter
  • 1859, May 9, Carl Friedrich Engelen , † July 18, 1936 in Osnabrück, lawyer and politician, member of the Reichstag and Provincial Parliament
  • 1861, July 7th, Ernst Finkenstaedt , † February 18, 1935 in Osnabrück, lawyer and politician, member of the provincial parliament of Hanover, citizens' college
  • 1861, October 23, Clemens August Ostman von der Leye , † July 4, 1933 in Atter, district administrator
  • 1861, December 26th, Gustav Schaumann , † December 7th, 1937 in Ospedaletti, architect, city councilor and building officer
  • 1862, December 20, Christian Dütting , † July 22, 1921 in Bad Nauheim, mine director
  • 1863, March 8, Emil Daniels , historian
  • 1863, July 21, Hugo Böttger , † February 17, 1944 in Berlin, publicist, member of the Reichstag, fraternity functionary
  • 1869, April 28, Walther Philipp Franz von Miquel , † 1945 in Schwanenbeck, administrative lawyer and Prussian district president
  • 1869, November 13, August Heisenberg † November 22, 1930 in Munich, Byzantinist, father of Werner Heisenberg
  • 1870, October 21, Carl Krone , † June 4, 1943 in Salzburg, circus director
  • 1871, February 6, Carl Vering , † June 15, 1955, lawyer, businessman and philosopher
  • 1872, May 31, Bernard Wieman , † February 10, 1940 in Osnabrück, doctor of law and writer in Germany
  • 1872, June 22, Alois Holtmeyer , † February 2, 1931 in Cologne, architect and preservationist
  • 1873, January 14, Friedrich Westmeyer , † November 14, 1917 in Rethel, politician and trade unionist
  • 1873, September 27, Gustav Görsmann , † September 15, 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp, Roman Catholic priest and victim of National Socialism
  • 1874, January 17, William Kurrelmeyer , born Wilhelm Kurrelmeyer in Osnabrück, † October 9, 1957 in Baltimore (USA), German studies and academic teacher at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
  • 1875, July 13, Ernst Brandi , † October 22, 1937 in Dortmund, engineer, manager and association politician in the Ruhr mining industry
  • 1875, August 13, Karl Koch , † February 28, 1964 in Osnabrück, teacher, botanist and conservationist
  • 1876, August 3, Albert Sleumer , † 1964, priest and Latinist, Cifal of the Volapük movement
  • 1876, November 19, Ludwig Schirmeyer , † October 10, 1960 in Osnabrück, high school professor and home historian
  • 1879, Bruno Wenzel , † after 1924, founded the first local group of the NSDAP outside of Bavaria in Hanover in 1921
  • 1881, April 25, Alfred Runge , † April 27, 1946 in Ahausen, architect
  • 1883, October 13, Karl Blume , † January 5, 1947 in Berlin, composer and singer (green is the heather)
  • 1884, January 4, Max Brose , † April 11, 1968 in Coburg, businessman and industrialist
  • 1884, September 22, Rudolf Wulfertange , † January 29, 1974 in Unkel, writer, painter and sculptor
  • 1885, November 6, Karl Wilker , † May 23, 1980 in Bad Camberg, reform pedagogue
  • 1887, February 16, Paul Borgelt , † August 28, 1971 in Bad Pyrmont, actor
  • 1887, October 31, Heinrich Herlitzius , printer, mayor of the city of Osnabrück, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
  • 1887, November 4th, Paul Steven , † May 9th, 1961 in Neustadt an der Aisch , businessman, NSDAP district head, SA-Hauptsturmführer and press clerk
  • 1889, April 10, Friedrich Alverdes , † September 1, 1952 in Marburg, zoologist and psychologist
  • 1889, May 7, Otto Löwenstein , † March 25, 1965 in New York, neuropsychiatrist
  • 1889, June 19, Emil Böhmer , † 1981, Reich Judge and Senate President at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court
  • 1889, October 5th, Walter Lichtschlag , † 1969, doctor and SS leader
  • 1891, February 24, Alwine Wellmann , † April 17, 1966 in Osnabrück, politician, member of the Prussian state parliament
  • 1892, May 11, Johannes Vincke , born in the Gretesch district, † March 3, 1975 in Wallenhorst, Catholic theologian, rector of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1892, June 22, Ludwig Bäte , † April 30, 1977 in Osnabrück, writer, poet, cultural historian
  • 1893, July 5, Gustav Tweer , † November 1, 1916 in Hanover, stunt pilot and aviation pioneer
  • 1894, October 3, Walter Warlimont , † October 9, 1976 in Kreuth, General of the Artillery
  • 1894, October 12, Johannes Drees , † September 3, 1944 killed near Compiègne, France, member of the Reichstag
  • 1895, April 24, Hanns-Gerd Rabe , † March 3, 1986 in Osnabrück, teacher, art journalist and writer
  • 1896, October 22, Adalbert Lutter , † July 28, 1970, orchestra conductor (we're not going home)
  • 1897, November 28, Friedrich Vordemberge , † 1981 in Cologne, painter, art professor
  • 1898, June 22, Erich Maria Remarque , † September 25, 1970 in Locarno, writer (nothing new in the West)
  • 1899, June 25, Karl Kühling , † April 21, 1985, editor-in-chief of the Osnabrücker Neue Tagespost and author
  • 1899, September 21, Friedrich August Knost , August 22, 1982 in Osnabrück, administrative lawyer
  • 1899, November 17, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart , † December 19, 1962 in Ulm, representative of constructivism
  • 1900, June 27, Rolf Koolman , † April 21, 1954 in Lübeck, silversmith

1901 to 1925

  • 1901, January 14, Wilhelm Gehring , † January 24, 1948 in Krakow, SS-Hauptscharführer in Auschwitz concentration camp
  • 1901, July 1, Johannes Lücke , † December 19, 1968 in Osnabrück, politician
  • 1902, June 23, Mathias Wieman , † December 3, 1969 in Zurich, actor
  • 1902, October 18, Bernhard Brockamp , † December 20, 1968 in Osnabrück, geophysicist and polar researcher
  • 1902, December 16, Heinrich "Heinz" Klosterkemper , † November 28, 1976, administrative lawyer and district administrator
  • 1903, January 17, Reinhard Karl Julius Badenhoop , † January 17, 1973 in Cologne, lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
  • 1903, March 25th, Elfriede Scholz , born Elfriede Remark, † December 16, 1943, victim of National Socialism
  • 1903, June 23, Hans Georg Calmeyer , † September 3, 1972, lawyer, Righteous Among the Nations , rescuer
  • 1903, September 30, Eberhard Westerkamp , † June 27, 1980, lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
  • 1904, December 11, Felix Nussbaum , † August 2, 1944 in Auschwitz, Jewish painter
  • 1905, May 28, Friedrich Sauthoff , † December 23, 1994 in Düsseldorf, mechanical engineer and expert for railway brake technology
  • 1905, August 27, Heinz Liepman , † June 6, 1966 in Agarone, writer, dramaturge, literary agent and anti-fascist
  • 1905, December 8, Fritz Szalinski , † May 20, 1970 in Osnabrück, sculptor
  • 1906, January 6, Karl August Hahne , † April 25, 1982 in Gelsenkirchen, founder of the St. Ansgar Apostolate
  • 1906, August 14, Heinrich Walkenhorst , † December 16, 1972 in Oldenburg, head of the personnel office of the NSDAP
  • 1906, Walter Borchers , † January 16, 1980 in Bad Salzuflen, art historian, folklorist and museum director
  • 1907, November 10, Wilhelm Hengelbrock , † February 12, 1945 in Manila / Philippines, German friar
  • 1907, December 11, Hermann Hoberg , † September 21, 1992 Osnabrück, Catholic theologian, priest and Vice Prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives
  • 1909, May 5, Wolfgang Heuer , † unknown, politician (DP, CDU)
  • 1909, May 26, Willi Baumert , † February 10, 1984, psychiatrist who was involved in euthanasia crimes during the National Socialist era
  • 1909, June 15, Helmut Baumert , † November 3, 1980 in Tübingen, politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
  • 1910, February 20, Rudolf Beckmann , † October 14, 1943 in the Sobibór extermination camp, SS-Oberscharführer and war criminal
  • 1910, May 20, Jürgen von Kempski , † October 11, 1998 in Berlin, lawyer, philosopher and social scientist
  • 1910, July 5, Otto Brinkmann , † February 5, 1985 in Enger, SS-Hauptscharführer
  • 1910, September 17th, Walter Mellmann , † 2001 in Osnabrück, sculptor and graphic artist
  • 1911, January 5, Walter Hammersen , † October 10, 1990 in Wiesbaden, politician (NSDAP, FDP)
  • 1911, September 15, Franz Lucas , † December 7, 1994 in Elmshorn, concentration camp doctor
  • 1912, June 26, Wilhelm Schitli , † March 31, 1945 (missing), SS-Hauptsturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Neuengamme concentration camp
  • 1912, September 28, Hanna Deinhard (née Levy), † July 14, 1984 in Basel, art historian
  • 1913, May 18, Monika Plessner , † 2008, art historian and translator
  • 1913, September 28, Helmut Hermann Wittler , † December 30, 1987 in Osnabrück, Bishop of Osnabrück
  • 1913, November 10, Heinz Mellmann , † May 5, 1945 in Beelitz, graphic artist
  • 1913, November 11, Hermann Hackmann , † August 20, 1994 in Uslar, SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Majdanek and Buchenwald concentration camps
  • 1914, July 6, Hans Borgelt , † February 17, 2000 in Berlin, journalist and author
  • 1915, March 3, Herbert Tiede , † December 13, 1987 in Munich, actor
  • 1916, March 3, Benno Sterzenbach , † September 13, 1985 in Feldafing, actor
  • 1916, May 26, Otto Coors , † August 14, 1970, football player
  • 1918, Thomas A. Krüger , † 1984, painter and graphic artist
  • 1918, March 31, Hildegard Diessel , † May 29, 1971 in Bad Neuenahr, writer
  • 1919, February 26, Irmgard Woldering , † April 24, 1969 in Hanover, art historian, Egyptologist and museum director
  • 1919, May 13th, Hanns Aderhold , † 1987 in Wellinghofen, water diver, multiple German champion, European champion and Olympic participant in 1952
  • 1919, October 6, Friedel Meyer , † December 25, 2001 in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, football player
  • 1920, January 9, Walter Haas , † February 10, 1996 in Osnabrück, politician, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
  • 1920, June 24, Herbert Hellmann , † January 8, 1990, politician
  • 1921, January 13, Ferdinand Erpenbeck , † January 20, 1997 in Osnabrück, politician, member of the Bundestag
  • 1921, February 10, Margarete Herzberg , † March 29, 2007 in Woltersdorf near Berlin, opera singer
  • 1921, August 15, Walter Holy , † March 7, 2006 in Cologne, trumpeter, university professor
  • 1921, October 11th, Hans Haferkamp ('Hannes'), † June 30th 1974, tobacco goods retailer and contract soccer player VfL Osnabrück, national soccer player
  • 1922, July 14, Ursula Lübbe , † August 19, 2016 in Bergisch Gladbach, publisher and co-owner of Bastei-Verlag
  • 1922, July 29th, Hans Edzard Busemann , diplomat in the Netherlands, India and Argentina, most recently consul general in Italy
  • 1923, May 7, Ursula Daphi (née Ellinghaus), † July 5, 2013 in Osnabrück, painter
  • 1923, November 17, Hubertus Brandenburg , † November 4, 2009 in Osnabrück, Bishop of Stockholm
  • 1924, November 17, Ursula Flick , † October 1, 2006 in Celle, politician, member of the state parliament and mayor of the city of Osnabrück
  • 1924, November 23, Klaus Überall , † October 29, 2008 in Bad Wiessee, director

1926 to 1950

  • 1926, November 8, Peter van Pels , † May 10, 1945 in Mauthausen concentration camp; Victim of National Socialism, friend of the Anne Franks family
  • 1926, November 26, Helmut Lüdtke , † April 27, 2010 in Kiel; Lusitanist and Romance scholar, linguistics professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel
  • 1927, January 20, Egon Kuhn , † January 23, 2019 in Hanover; Local politicians, social democrats and trade unionists
  • 1927, July 23, Jürgen Driehaus , † December 29, 1986 in Nuremberg; Prehistoric
  • 1927, September 8, Karl Peter Grotemeyer , † July 30, 2007 in Bielefeld; Mathematician, Rector at Bielefeld University from 1970 to 1992
  • 1928, January 26, Heinrich Franke , † June 26, 2004 in Nuremberg; Politician, President of the Federal Labor Office
  • 1928, June 21, Elisabeth Gössmann , † May 1, 2019 in Munich; catholic feminist theologian
  • 1928, May 10, Alfred Emmerlich , † March 31, 2017; Lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
  • 1928, July 12, Edelhard Harlis , † July 3, 1985 in Düsseldorf; Furniture designer and interior designer
  • 1929, April 26, Friedel Meyer , † September 6, 2007, master electrician, politician (FDP), Member of Parliament for North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1929, August 22, Lieselotte Rau , † December 30, 2017 in Berlin; actress
  • 1930, June 22, Reinhold Remmert , † March 9, 2016 in Osnabrück; mathematician
  • 1930, October 8, Horst Borcherding , † February 9, 2015 in Osnabrück; Soccer goalkeeper, Saarland national player
  • 1931, January 29, Hans May , † August 13, 2019 in Loccum, Evangelical Lutheran theologian
  • 1932, March 27, Heinrich Egon Weber , vegetation expert, musicologist and university professor
  • 1933, January 24th, Horst Jungkurth , General of the Bundeswehr
  • 1933, July 14, Werner Suerbaum , classical philologist
  • 1933, October 29, Rolf Overberg , † December 14, 1993 in Osnabrück; Ceramic artist
  • 1933, November 4, Volker Kühn , † September 20, 2015 in Berlin; Author, television and theater director and film producer
  • 1934, Bernhard Winking , architect, urban planner and university professor
  • 1934, Jürgen Heinemann , photographer
  • 1934, March 15, Jost Vacano , cameraman
  • 1934, April 27, Jürgen Kühling , † December 16, 2019; Lawyer, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
  • 1934, July 13, Peter Bulthaup , † October 29, 2004; Philosopher and chemist
  • 1934, December 22, Reinhold Stühlmeyer , † September 9, 2012 in Kiel; Trade unionists and politicians
  • 1935, March 23, Ernst Finkemeyer , † August 7, 1981 in Sölden; Lawyer and City Director of Essen
  • 1935, September 28, Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake , physicist and mathematician, member of the board of trustees of the German Environmental Foundation
  • 1936, February 27, Peter Krause , judge, lawyer and university professor
  • 1936, June 2nd, Hans Micheiloff , retail salesman in Osnabrück, table tennis Bundesliga player Osnabrück, national player and German champion
  • 1936, June 21, Johannes Eidt , painter and graphic artist
  • 1937, March 25, Hartwig Piepenbrock , † July 3, 2013 in Berlin; Entrepreneur, patron and former president of VfL Osnabrück
  • 1937, May 31, Winfried Schlepphorst , † September 24, 2006 in Osnabrück; Musicologist, organist and organ curator
  • 1937, September 24, Uwe E. Reinhardt , † November 14, 2017 in Princeton, New Jersey; Health economist
  • 1937, October 13th, Rudolf Seiters , politician, former Federal Minister and Vice President of the Bundestag
  • 1937, November 21, Hans-Horst Henschen , † June 20, 2016 in Munich; translator
  • 1939, Walter Hollstein , Swiss sociologist
  • 1939, April 29, Ulrich Roloff-Momin , politician (FDP, non-party)
  • 1939, September 22, Paul Uwe Dreyer , † September 10, 2008 in Stuttgart; Painter, university professor and rector
  • 1939, September 26th, Hans Huchzermeyer , internist and musicologist
  • 1940, September 27, Eva-Maria Alves , writer
  • 1940, October 3, Ekkehard Ramm , civil engineer
  • 1941, November 10th, Hans-Wolf Sievert , entrepreneur and university professor
  • 1943, February 21, Paul Kirchhof , former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, professor of tax law at Heidelberg University
  • 1943, April 19, Heide Moser , † April 10, 2009 in Norderstedt; politician
  • 1944, Hans-Joachim Manske , art historian and curator
  • 1946, January 16, Heike Hustede , former swimmer
  • 1946, July 19, Ulli Martin , pop singer
  • 1947, January 11th, Egon Homm , former basketball Bundesliga player VfL Osnabrück and national basketball player
  • 1948, September 25, Alfred Cordes , writer and teacher
  • 1949, February 19, Luise Schorn-Schütte , historian
  • 1949, May 1, Jost Bauch , † December 2, 2018; Sociologist, freelance lecturer and publicist
  • 1949, May 15, Reinhard Lührmann , biochemist
  • 1949, October 25th, Wolfgang Korte , General of the Bundeswehr
  • 1950, June 21, Ferdinand Kirchhof , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, professor of tax law at the University of Tübingen

1951 to 1975

From 1976

Personalities who lived and worked in Osnabrück

To 1900

  • Reiner von Osnabrück († 1233), hermit
  • Eduard Christian von Lütcken (1800–1865), Landdrost von Osnabrück
  • Wilhelm Bölsche (1843–1893), high school teacher and paleontologist; worked in Osnabrück from 1872 to 1893
  • Alexander Behnes , (1843–1924), cathedral and diocesan architect in Osnabrück
  • Helene Lange (1848–1930), women's rights activist and education politician; worked in Osnabrück as an educator from 1867 to 1871
  • Nikolaus Bödige (1859–1926), teacher, naturalist and local researcher
  • August Josef Hagemann (1875–1950), member of the Reichstag for the Center Party; lived in Osnabrück
  • Conrad Bäumer (1878–1960), cathedral organist, composer and cathedral choir director in Osnabrück
  • Matthias Brinkmann (1879–1969), educator and biologist; lived in Osnabrück
  • Heinrich Fründ (1880–1952), surgeon; Head of the Osnabrück City Hospital 1920–38, released by the National Socialists
  • Bernhard Eggers (1882–1937), politician (NSDAP) and district president
  • Johannes Petermann (1886–1961), politician (center, CDU), former Lord Mayor and District President in Osnabrück
  • Wilhelm Renfordt (1889–1950), painter, lived and died in Osnabrück
  • Hans Ramshorn (1892–1934), officer and politician (NSDAP); Policeman in Osnabrück
  • Wilhelm Rodenberg (1892–1955), politician (NSDAP) and district president
  • Paul Leo (1893–1958), Protestant theologian and clergyman; Pastor in Osnabrück until his expulsion in 1938
  • Otto Marxer (1896–1942), head of the NSDAP local group in Osnabrück
  • Hermann van Pels (1898–1944), victim of National Socialism, friend of the Anne Franks family
  • Karl-Heinz Schäfer (1899–1970), conductor, composer, pianist and music director, lived in Osnabrück
  • Hans Wunderlich (1899–1977), journalist and politician (SPD)

From 1901

  • Theo M. Landmann (1903–1978), glass painter; lived and worked in Osnabrück
  • Hermann Gösmann (1904–1979), lawyer in Osnabrück, former president of VfL Osnabrück and the German Football Association
  • Max H. Berling (1905–1999), architect; lived in Osnabrück from the 1930s
  • Theodor III. Nietner (1905–1988), head of the Osnabrück cemetery office
  • Gerhard Sperling (1908–1975), painter with a studio in Osnabrück
  • Erich Konrad (1910–1987), Holocaust perpetrator and politician (CDU, FDP)
  • Gustav Sorge , (1911–1978), SS-Hauptscharführer and war criminal
  • Ruth Landmann (1912–2008), ceramicist; lived and worked in Osnabrück
  • Erich Gleixner (1920–1962), soccer player VfL Osnabrück, participant in the 1952 Summer Olympics
  • Ursula Pistorius (1933–2015), politician (SPD)
  • Helge von Bömches (1933–2014), opera singer
  • Peter Berling (1934–2017), actor, grew up in Osnabrück
  • Eckhard Fasold (1936–2020), Osnabrück politician (SPD)
  • Hans-Jürgen Fip (* 1940), entrepreneur, politician (SPD), honorary citizen and former Lord Mayor of Osnabrück
  • Heinz Rudolf Kunze (* 1956), musician, grew up in Osnabrück
  • Wolfgang Griesert (* 1957), politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Osnabrück since 2006
  • Michael Hull (* 1959), competition dancer and dance school operator, lives in Osnabrück
  • John McGurk (* 1961), extreme athlete, supporter of non-profit children's aid projects, lives in Osnabrück
  • Thomas Bühner (* 1962), chef and patron of the now closed three-star restaurant “la vie” , continues to live in Osnabrück
  • Conny Dachs (* 1963), porn actor and presenter
  • Martin Sonneborn (* 1965), satirist, journalist and politician, grew up in Osnabrück
  • Mario Basler (* 1968), former soccer player, today's soccer coach and expert, lives in Osnabrück
  • Jan Südmersen (* 1969), non-fiction author and fire officer with the Osnabrück fire department
  • Joe Enochs (* 1971), former soccer player and current coach, lived and worked in Osnabrück between 1996 and 2018
  • Daniel Thioune (* 1974), former soccer player and today's coach, grew up in Osnabrück
  • Peter Smits (* 1989), web video producer, Let's Player, managing director of PietSmiet UG , lives in Osnabrück
  • Sun Diego (Dmitrij Chpakov; * 1989), rapper; grew up in Osnabrück

Individual references and references

  1. ↑ Resolution proposal, submission number: VO / 2019/4864, granting honorary citizenship. (PDF; 0.0461 MB) In: Ratsinformationssystem der Stadt Osnabrück. City of Osnabrück, November 28, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Wilfried Hinrichs: Honorary Citizen of Osnabrück: How do you like that, Mr. Wulff? In: noz.de. NOZ Medien, December 4, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ City of Osnabrück: honorary citizen. In: osnabrueck.de. City of Osnabrück - The Lord Mayor, accessed on June 24, 2019 .