List of personalities of the city of Paderborn

This list contains the honorary citizens of Paderborn , personalities born in Paderborn and those who worked in Paderborn but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen of Paderborn

The city of Paderborn has granted the following people honorary citizenship:

1838: Diederich Friedrich Carl von Schlechtendal , chief president of the OLG Paderborn
1865: Friedrich Eduard Traugott Lange , President of the Higher Regional Court Paderborn
1871: Anton Karl Welter , Vice President of the Court of Appeal
1879: Joseph Freusberg , auxiliary bishop and cathedral provost
1879: Gustav Bernhard Victor Meyer , Chief President of the Court of Appeal
1883: Friedrich Wilhelm von Niesewand , Prussian lieutenant general
1899: Walther Jentzsch , District Administrator
1903: Augustinus Gockel , auxiliary bishop and cathedral dean
1903: Franz Nacke, professor , provost
1903: Heinrich Wigger , Vicar General, Provost
1903: Heinrich Franz Joseph Ruland , professor, provost
1909: Hermann Kirchhoff, ministerial official
1910: Andreas Vüllers , mining engineer
1920: Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte , Bishop of Paderborn or Archbishop of Cologne
1930: Caspar Klein , Archbishop of Paderborn
1931: Otto Plassmann , mayor
1933: Paul von Hindenburg , President of the Reich
1946: Wilhelm Peters , businessman
1947: Alois Fuchs , theologian and art historian
1952: Johannes Hatzfeld , theologian and church musician
1956: Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Archbishop of Paderborn
1968: Christoph Tölle , mayor, Sparkasse manager
1978: Jacques Maury , Mayor of Le Mans
1980: Joachim Bieling , teacher and local researcher
1984: Rainer Barzel , President of the Bundestag and former Federal Minister D.
1990: Herbert Schwiete , Mayor
1991: Johannes Joachim Cardinal Degenhardt , Archbishop of Paderborn
1999: Wilhelm Lüke , Mayor

Like numerous other cities and municipalities in Germany, the city of Paderborn also granted the Reich Chancellor and NSDAP leader Adolf Hitler honorary citizenship in 1933. Since this right automatically expires with the death of the borrower, a revocation after death is not legally possible. In order to set a public and official sign of remembrance of the National Socialist injustice, the City Council of Paderborn decided on February 3, 1983, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the so-called seizure of power, to formally remove Hitler's name from the list of honorary citizens City to paint.

Personalities born in Paderborn

Until 1800

Heinrich Aldegrever (1502–?), Engraver, painter and seal cutter
Liborius Wichard (~ 1550–1604), mayor
Heinrich Gröninger (1578 / 79–1631), sculptor
Gerhard Gröninger (1582–1652), architect and sculptor
Johann Mauritz Gröninger (1652–1707), sculptor and painter
Ferdinand von Plettenberg (1690–1737), treasurer and hereditary marshal
Johann Theodor Axer (1700–1764), baroque sculptor and carver
Hermann Werner von der Asseburg (1702–1779), Elector of Cologne Minister
Herman Ulphilas (1702–1761), naturalist
Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen (1727–1789), Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Paderborn
Anton Joseph Stratmann (1732–1807), artist
Ignatius Ferdinand von Vogelius (1740–1784), baron, electoral Cologne secret council and local lord
Clemens August von Westphalen (1753–1818), Kurmainzer State Minister and Imperial envoy
Richard Dammers (1762–1844), priest, lawyer and bishop of Paderborn
Wilhelm Anton Ficker (1768–1824), doctor, founder of the state hospital
Ignaz Theodor Liborius Meyer (1773–1843), cathedral chapter, archivist and historian
Franz Anton Cramer (1776–1829), pharmacist, owner of the Cramer'schen Hofapotheke
Anton Ferdinand Holtgreven (1778–1848), clergyman and Paderborn auxiliary bishop
Joseph von Hartmann (1780–1859), Prussian district administrator
Sophie Schröder (1781–1868), singer and actress
Friedrich Sertürner (1783–1841), pharmacist and discoverer of morphine

1801 to 1850

Fanny Nathan (1803–1877), founder of the Jewish orphanage
Georg Joseph Rosenkranz (1803–1855), director of the Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia, Dept. Paderborn
Joseph Hermann Schmidt (1804–1852), Paderborn doctor, director of the maternity department at the Charité in Berlin
Eduard von Raven (1807–1864), Prussian general
Franz von Löher (1818–1892), politician, lawyer and historian
Gustav von Wilmowski (1818–1896), German legal scholar and lawyer
Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix (1821–1891), manor owner, judge and member of the German Reichstag
Friedrich Marpurg (1825–1884), conductor and composer
Julius von Ficker (1826–1902), German-Austrian historian
Heinrich Hesse (1827–1902), businessman and member of the German Reichstag
Andreas Vüllers (1831–1931), mountain and hut director
Ignaz Böttrich (1835–1924), judge at the Imperial Court of the German Empire in Leipzig
Karl Schmidt (1836–1894), legal historian
Heinrich Vollmar (1839–1915), Catholic priest and field provost
Otto Schmidt (1842–1910), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
Karl Crüwell (1845–1899), businessman and politician
Heinrich Gerlach (1846–1928), physician and politician
Gustav Wendt (1848–1933), teacher and politician

1851 to 1900

Karl von Plettenberg (1852–1938), Prussian officer
Clemens Baeumker (1853–1924), Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy
Heinrich Keiter (1853–1898), writer, editor of the Westphalian Mercury and the German House Treasure
Franz Mündelein (1857–1926), architect
Julius Malten (1860–1915), opera singer
Karl Féaux de Lacroix (1860–1927), local historian
Hermann-Joseph Wurm (1862–1941), Roman Catholic clergyman and journalist
Hubert Grimme (1864–1942), Semitist
Carl Hettlage (1874–1935), politician
Johannes Rabeneck (1874–1960), Jesuit and dogmatist
Hans Güldenpfennig (1875–1945), architect
Johannes Buse (1876–1925), printer and writer
Josef Büssemeier (1877–1954), politician
Heinrich Lücking (1884–1968), politician
Johannes Brockmann (1888–1975), politician
Josef Ortner (1891–1951), administrative lawyer and district administrator
Leo Sarrazin (1891–1969), bank manager
Hermann Brockmann (1892–1953), politician
Heinrich Vockel (1892–1968), economic politician
Friedrich Wilhelm Willeke (1893–1965), politician
Ella Bergmann-Michel (1895–1971), painter, photographer and documentary filmmaker
Hans Kraft (1895–1978), painter, commercial artist and art teacher
Karl-Josef Koch (1897–1958), politician
Otto Flachsbart (1898–1957), mechanical engineer
Christoph Tölle (1898–1977), politician

1901 to 1925

Heinrich Kalbers (1901–1969), politician
Josef Wirmer (1901–1944), lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Johannes Ising (1902–1971), politician
Jupp Ernst (1905–1987), graphic artist, industrial designer and educator
Joseph Spohr (1905–1979), lawyer and inland port manager
Tea Ernst (1906–1991), designer and entrepreneur
Josef Lucas (1906–1973), architect
Josef Hißmann (1907–1989), author
Jupp Besselmann (1909–1983), boxer
Josefthomas Brinkschröder (1909–1992), painter and sculptor
Otto Kindt (1909–2006), architect
Otto Höxtermann (1912–2002), soccer player and coach
Jenny Aloni (1917–1993), German-Israeli writer
Karl-Heinz Saxowski (1918–1981), politician
Gerd Semmer (1919–1967), poet, columnist and translator
Anton Borgmeier (1920–2006), economist
Joseph Köhler (1920–2011), politician
Aloys Schwarze (1921–1990), politician
Friedrich Wilhelm Christians (1922-2004), banker
Clemens Christians (1923–1998), high school teacher, politician and President of the German Teachers' Association
Josef Rikus (1923–1989), sculptor
Erentrud Trost (1923–2004), glass painter and mosaicist
Leo Ernesti (1925–1996), officer and politician
Rolf Ertmer (1925–2004), model railroader and author
Heinz Nixdorf (1925–1986), computer pioneer and entrepreneur
Eva Sternheim-Peters (1925–2020), teacher and psychologist

1926 to 1950

Dieter Thoma (1927–2017), journalist and moderator
Heinrich Frohne (* 1928), electrical engineer and specialist book author
Karl Vibach (1928–1987), theater director, director, actor and screenwriter
Walter Bunsmann (1928–2017), architect
Walter Seidensticker (1928–2019), judge
Franz Drewes (1929–2017), administrative lawyer
Rainer Kolligs (1929–2015), mining manager and mine director
Lothar Eley (* 1931), philosopher, logician and phenomenologist
Elmar Jansen (1931–2017), art historian, author and editor
Meinolf Wewel (* 1931), publisher
Franz-Josef Spieker (1933–1978), filmmaker
Wilhelm Lüke (* 1934), politician
Helmut Scherer (* 1934), citizen of the city of Unna and initiator of the smallest carnival parade in the world
Norbert Brox (1935–2006), Catholic theologian
Toto Blanke (1936–2013), jazz guitarist
Heinrich Rüthing (1937–2017), historian
Manfred Alexander (* 1939), historian
Franz-Josef Balke (* 1939), politician
Gerhart Kreft (* 1939), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
Werner Franke (* 1940), Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology
Hans Ulrich Humpert (1940–2010), composer and radio play maker
Rolf Oberliesen (* 1940), educational scientist
Rainer Waltert (* 1940), soccer referee
Ulrich Vogt (* 1941), teacher and non-fiction author
Franz-Josef Leikop (* 1942), politician
Alois Schröder (* 1942), Catholic priest
Elija Boßler (* 1943), Discalced Carmelite, photographer
Rainer Christoph Schwinges (* 1943), historian
Michael Geier (* 1944), diplomat
Jörg Gülden (1944–2009), music journalist and musician
Helmut Zielinski (1944–2017), clergyman, Roman Catholic theologian and professor of moral theology and ethics
Ingbert Koppermann (* 1945), national basketball player from 1967 to 1973 (DBB), 2005 to 2009 founding managing director of ARGE Paderborn
Engelbert Westkämper (* 1946), professor
Annelie Marquardt (* 1947), lawyer and judge at the Federal Labor Court
Mechtild Rothe (* 1947), politician
Wolfgang Schulte (* 1947), politician
Hubert Tintelott (* 1947), General Secretary of the International Kolping Society
Jürgen Heumann (* 1948), religious educator and university professor
Wolfgang Nieke (* 1948), educational scientist
Wolfgang Schmitz (* 1948), politician
Gerd Wameling (* 1948), theater and film actor
Klaus Ehl (* 1949), athlete
Carl Hegemann (* 1949), author and theater maker
Karin Hagemann (* 1949), politician
Cornelia Rogall-Grothe (* 1949), political officer
Hannelore Ludwig (* 1949), politician
Frederick Schulze (* 1949), politician
Hans-Günther Vosseler (* 1949), swimmer
Karlheinz Barwasser (* 1950), writer
Rolf Schönlau (* 1950), writer

1951 to 1975

Franz-Josef Bode (* 1951), Bishop of Osnabrück
Wilfried Finke (1951–2019), entrepreneur and football official
Wolfgang Kuhoff (* 1951), ancient historian
Michael Hartmann (* 1952), sociologist
Markus Bentler (* 1953), Lieutenant General of the Army of the Bundeswehr
Volker Heuer (* 1953), manager
Eva Brinkschulte (* 1954), medical historian and medical ethicist
Ulrich Günther (* 1954), actor, screenwriter and songwriter
Josef Kloppenburg (* 1954), musicologist and music teacher
Martin Textor (* 1954), author, publicist and educator
Susanne Asche (* 1955), literary scholar
Georg Fortmeier (* 1955), politician
Hans-Joachim Grote (* 1955), municipal official and politician
Bernward Hoffmann (* 1955), educational scientist
Harald Pohlmann (* 1955), politician
Michael Sagurna (* 1955), politician
Christoph Wurm (* 1955), philologist and author
Sigrid Beer (* 1956), politician
Pinguin Moschner (* 1956), tuba player
Martin Classen (* 1957), jazz musician
Hermine Huntgeburth (* 1957), director
Michael Mönninger (* 1958), journalist, architecture critic and university lecturer
Ulrich Bröckling (* 1959), sociologist
Rüdiger Hütte (* 1959), politician
Georg Steins (* 1959), Roman Catholic theologian
Christa Müller (* 1960), sociologist and publicist
Michael Dreier (* 1961), Mayor of Paderborn
Rainer Heller (* 1961), politician
Karina Odenthal (* 1961), writer and dramaturge
Gerhard Gemke (* 1962), musician and author
Antonius Kass (* 1963), sports medicine specialist and volleyball player
Peter Liggesmeyer (* 1963), computer scientist
Ulrike Lubek (* 1963), Director of the Rhineland Landscape Assembly
Martin Middeke (* 1963), English and literary scholar
Elmar Simon , (1963 *) Cooking with a star in the Michelin guide awarded
Claudia Vorst (* 1963), pedagogue, Germanist and university professor
Andreas Fischer (* 1964), soccer player
Rüdiger Hoffmann (* 1964), cabaret artist and musician
Ralf Kabelka (* 1964), comedian
Oliver Reese (* 1964), dramaturge and artistic director
Mechthild Kluth (* 1965), track and field athlete
Günter Kutowski (* 1965), soccer player
Ralf Schnitzmeier (* 1965), business graduate and football official
Christian Waldhoff (* 1965), lawyer and professor
Jörg Ernesti (* 1966), theologian and church historian
Burkhard Schwuchow (* 1966), Mayor of Büren
Cornelia Tausch (* 1966), politician
Ludger Weskamp (* 1966), politician
Patrick Bahners (* 1967), journalist and author
Peter Bolte (* 1967), alto saxophonist
Sascha Korf (* 1968), presenter, comedian, improvisation artist and actor
Paulus Vennebusch (* 1968), author
Fabian Wittreck (* 1968), lawyer and university professor
Martin Driller (* 1970), football player
Matthias Spielkamp (* 1970), journalist
Bernd Hüttemann (* 1970), General Secretary of the European Movement Germany
Patrick Sensburg (* 1971), member of the Bundestag and professor
Stephan Oppel (* 1973), organ builder
Eva Ruth Wemme (* 1973), translator and author
Tina Lanik (* 1974), theater director
Felix Fuchssteiner (* 1975), director, screenwriter and producer
Stefan Gödde (* 1975), TV presenter and journalist

From 1976

Reiner Plaßhenrich (* 1976), soccer player and coach
Marvin Polte (* 1976), volleyball player
Judith Rakers (* 1976), journalist and television presenter
Daniel Sieveke (* 1976), politician
Ansgar Frerich (* 1977), mixer, managing director and cultural worker
Carsten Linnemann (* 1977), economist and politician
Mark Brain (* 1978), DJ and producer
Antonio Di Salvo (* 1979), football player
Stefan Evers (* 1979), politician
Stefano Garris (* 1979), basketball player
Marius Nolte (* 1981), basketball player
Matthias Struck (* 1982), handball player
Andreas Hartmann (* 1983), cameraman and video designer
Lukas Kruse (* 1983), soccer goalkeeper
Mahir Sağlık (* 1983), Turkish football player
Johann Büsen (* 1984), artist
Manuel Eckel (* 1985), soccer player
Ardian Jevric (* 1986), football player
Christian Strohdiek (* 1988), soccer player
Kai Malina (* 1989), actor
Tolgay Arslan (* 1990), German-Turkish soccer player
Claudia Bujna (* 1991), soccer player
Lisa Hackauf (* 1991), volleyball player
Andreas Wiegel (* 1991), soccer player
Jasmin Glaesser (* 1992), Canadian cyclist
Aykut Soyak (* 1995), football player
Till Brinkmann (* 1995), soccer goalkeeper
Alexander Nübel (* 1996), soccer goalkeeper
Pia Leweling (* 1998), volleyball player

Well-known residents of Paderborn

Altmann von Passau (≈1015-1091), founder of the monastery and bishop
Gerhard II zur Lippe (≈1190–1258), clergyman
Hermann von Hessen (≈1450–1508), clergyman
Johannes Pelcking (1573–1642), auxiliary bishop
Konrad Wippermann († 1632), Chancellor
Ferdinand von Fürstenberg (1626–1683), Prince-Bishop of Paderborn
Franz Arnold von Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1658–1718), Prince-Bishop of Paderborn
Vitus Georg Tönnemann (1659–1740), Jesuit
Georg Joseph Bessen (1781–1838), high school teacher, author of the history of the diocese of Paderborn
Johann Püllenberg (1790–1856), professor at the grammar school, subregens in seminar
Luise Hensel (1798–1876), religious poet
Friedrich Wilhelm Weber (1813–1894), doctor, politician and poet
Karl Weierstrass (1815–1897), mathematician
Wilhelm Engelbert Giefers (1817–1880), high school professor , historian and author

Pauline von Mallinckrodt (1817–1881), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Christian Love

Bernhard Joseph Féaux (1821–1879), high school teacher and author

Julius Evelt (1823–1879), professor of church history

Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme (1827–1887), writer, local poet and botanist

Arnold Güldenpfennig (1830–1908), architect

Peter Soemer (1832–1902), theologian and poet

Ferdinande von Brackel (1835–1905), writer

Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer (1836–1921), anatomist

Wilhelm Cuno (1876–1933), businessman and politician

Stephan Heibges (1888–1938), classical philologist and high school teacher

Woldemar Winkler (1902–2004), painter, draftsman and sculptor

Franz Hengsbach (1910–1991), Bishop of Essen

Herbert Schwiete (1918–1994), teacher and politician

Hugo Staudinger (1921–2004), historian and scientific theorist

Hanne Glodny (1924–2015), doctor and recipient of the New Year's Eve

Herbert Behre (1927–1994), director of the Fürstenberg secondary school

Paul-Werner Scheele (1928–2019), theologian and university professor; from 1975 to 1979 auxiliary bishop in Paderborn

Günter Hagedorn (1932–2018), sports scientist and basketball coach

Margarete Niggemeyer (1932–2020), religious educator

Helmar Frank (1933–2013), mathematician and communication cyberneticist

Eugen Drewermann (* 1940), Catholic theologian and psychoanalyst

Wilfried Hagebölling (* 1941), sculptor and draftsman

Karl-Heinz Indlekofer (* 1943), mathematician

Heinz Josef Algermissen (* 1943), Bishop of Fulda

Bernhard Lang (* 1946), Catholic theologian

Franz Jacoby (* 1947), senior director of the Jacoby Group, holder of the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Renata Al-Ghoul (* 1952), artist and lawyer

Carsten Peter Thiede (1952–2004), literary scholar, historian and papyrologist

Ute Berg (* 1953), politician

Reinhard Marx (* 1953), cardinal and archbishop of Munich and Freising

Erwin Grosche (* 1955), cabaret artist, actor, author and filmmaker

Martin Leutzsch (* 1956), Protestant theologian

Ali Askar Lali (* 1959), Afghan football player

Gina Capellmann-Lütkemeier (* 1960), dressage rider

Simone Probst (* 1967), politician

Heiko Schumacher (* 1982), baseball player and winner of Schlag den Raab

literature

Sibilla Pelke: Paderborn Profile. Möllmann, Schloss Hamborn 1998 ff., 3 volumes so far published (as of 2015).

Individual evidence

↑ Overview of Paderborn's honorary citizens ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ August Hirsch: Ficker, Wilhelm Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 775.
^ Wikisource author page
^ Karl Wippermann: Wippermann, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 514 f.
↑ Nekrolog Georg Joseph Bessen

[1] Overview of Paderborn's honorary citizens ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] August Hirsch: Ficker, Wilhelm Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 775.

[3] Wikisource author page

[4] Karl Wippermann: Wippermann, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 514 f.

[5] Nekrolog Georg Joseph Bessen