List of personalities of the city of Recklinghausen

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This list of personalities of the city of Recklinghausen includes the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city as well as other personalities who have worked in the city.

Honorary citizen

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

  • 1871: Wilhelm Caspers, high school professor at the Petrinum high school
  • 1881: Hugo Peus, Councilor of Justice
  • 1884: Bernhard Hölscher, priest, teacher and scholar
  • 1890: Friedrich Hagemann, retired mayor D.
  • 1892: Robert von Reitzenstein , Royal District Administrator and Privy Councilor
  • 1898: Rudolf Drecker, district physician
  • 1909: Hugo Werne, Counselor
  • 1913: August Strunk, alderman and pharmacist
  • 1915: August Randebrock, mine director
  • 1918: Heinrich Vogelsang, Councilor of Commerce
  • 1918: Franz Limper, factory owner and councilor
  • 1923: Josef Wesener, pensioner
  • 1927: Duke Engelbert-Maria von Arenberg
  • 1930: Hermann Bresser, pensioner
  • 1933: Paul von Hindenburg , President of the Reich
  • 1938: Carl Still
  • 1950: Gustav Schulte, chief physician at the Knappschaftskrankenhaus
  • 1959: Theodor Heuss , Federal President
  • 1966: Otto Burrmeister , Ruhr Festival director
  • 1971: Karl-Friedrich Still
  • 1974: Heinrich Auge , Former Mayor
  • 1989: Thomas Grochowiak , artist

Nullification of honorary citizenship:

  • Adolf Hitler (honorary citizen from April 19, 1933 to September 17, 1984): Subsequent nullification by unanimous declaration by the City Council of Recklinghausen with the tenor that the Nazis and the undemocratic-dictatorial conditions forced the city of Recklinghausen into honorary citizenship in April 1933 and that thus “Adolf Hitler was never legally an honorary citizen of Recklinghausen. Anyone who was not legally an honorary citizen cannot and does not need to be denied honorary citizenship 39 years after his death. The City Council of Recklinghausen therefore [...] states that a criminal like Adolf Hitler was never an honorary citizen of Recklinghausen and is therefore not included in the list of honorary citizens in our city. "

sons and daughters of the town

To 1900

  • around 1445, Thomas Eschaus , † 1535 in Wittenberg, doctor
  • 1494, Hans Regkmann , † late January 1561 in Lübeck , merchant and chronicler
  • 1567, August 1, Gerson ben Meir Biberach (later: Christian Gerson), † September 25, 1622 in Bernburg, Jewish scholar, later Protestant theologian
  • around 1630, Trine Plumpe , † unknown, withstood torture in a witch trial, thus contributed to the end of the witch hunt in Vest Recklinghausen
  • around 1641, Aegidius Aegidii , * near Recklinghausen, † 1677, Franciscan
  • 1798, Josef Kindermann , mine smith, † 1848 in Essen , technician
  • 1800, August 3, Ferdinand Werne , † September 2, 1874 in Berlin, philhellene, diplomat and explorer
  • 1811, December 28, Friedrich Oppenhoff , † December 14, 1875 in Berlin, lawyer
  • 1830, October 20, Heinrich Schüchtermann , † April 20, 1895 in Dortmund, entrepreneur and founder
  • 1838, Richard Stieve , † 1919, lawyer and district judge in Alsace-Lorraine, founder of the Vosges Club
  • 1851, July 4, Friedrich Busch , † August 30, 1931 in Arnsberg, teacher, meteorologist
  • 1852, April 19, Friedrich Karl Devens , † June 1, 1902 in Bonn, lawyer, genealogist and writer
  • 1855, February 10, August Peus , † November 8, 1939 in Münster, District Administrator
  • 1856, October 23, Paul Randebrock , † July 25 in Gelsenkirchen, mining engineer and mining entrepreneur
  • 1862, May 4, Max Winkelmann , † December 15, 1938 in Hamburg, manufacturer of varnishes and paints
  • 1865, December 21, Edmund Brüning , † unknown, illustrator
  • 1870, January 15, Karl Russell , † January 4, 1950 in Bad Godesberg, lawyer and politician (center)
  • 1878, February 10, Rudolf ten Hompel , † September 3, 1948 in Munich, industrialist and politician (center)
  • 1881, August 27, Heinrich Pieper , † November 15, 1960 in Holzen, miner and politician (SPD, USPD)
  • 1883, May 8, Ernst Andrée , † March 17, 1969 in Hanover, politician (SPD)
  • 1888, October 20, Heinrich Weber , * in Röllinghausen, today Recklinghausen, † August 29, 1946 in Münster, social and economic ethicist, social economist
  • 1891, June 17, Franz Redeker , † September 16, 1962 in Bad Godesberg, doctor
  • 1891, September 6, Josef Beeking , † November 18, 1947 in Freiburg im Breisgau , Catholic theologian and social politician
  • 1893, March 30, Heinrich Wiesmann , † January 6, 1978, politician (center) and member of the state parliament (CDU)
  • 1898, February 3, Heinrich Auge , † February 21, 1977 in Recklinghausen, politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Lord Mayor of Recklinghausen (1952–72)
  • 1900, February 13th Ernst Cordell , † October 18, 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau, engineer

1901 to 1950

  • 1901, Wilhelm Busch , † 1988 in Rostock , agricultural scientist
  • 1902, February 7, Carl Ewers , † November 10, 1981, lawyer and administrative officer
  • 1902, May 15, Fritz Spanier , d. 1967, medic
  • 1903, August 2, Franz Worpenberg , † May 24, 1975, politician (CDU)
  • 1904, April 11, Erich Bödeker , † February 21, 1971 in Recklinghausen, miner and artist
  • 1905, November 5, Theodor Niebel , † August 10, 1974, psychiatrist who was involved in euthanasia crimes during the National Socialist era
  • 1906, January 27, Léon Pawlak , † September 8, 1977, football player
  • 1906, September 17th, Paulus Tillmann , † 1984, lawyer and priest, from 1947 founder of the Studienwerk für Heimatwerfte Schüler e. V.
  • 1907, March 27, Engelbert Dick , † February 14, 1962, politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1907, November 3, Hubert Schrübbers , † September 26, 1979 in Unterach am Attersee (Austria), lawyer
  • 1908, May 4, Bernhard Winkelheide , † November 25, 1988 in Waltrop, KAB chairman, trade unionist, CDU member of the Bundestag
  • 1910, August 8, Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer , b. Puening, † October 27, 1972 in Panama, botanist, wife of the physicist Robert Oppenheimer
  • 1911, June 18, Werner Hilff , † May 8, 1988 in Recklinghausen, driving instructor
  • 1913, August 10, Hans Niermann , † June 18, 1940, Reichsführer of the Catholic "Sturmschar" organization, employee in the youth center in Düsseldorf of the Catholic. Youth, imprisoned 1936–37
  • 1914, December 2, Thomas Grochowiak , † November 25, 2012 in Karlsruhe, painter and graphic artist, founder of the artist group Junge westen , director of the city museums
  • 1915, February 23, Heinrich Schirmbeck , † July 4, 2005 in Darmstadt, writer
  • 1915, August 9, Swidbert Schnippenkötter , † December 30, 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau, diplomat
  • 1917, April 22, Václav Sedláček , † October 28, 1939 in Prague, worker, murdered at a rally against the Nazi occupiers
  • 1917, September 24th, Willi Dirx , † October 9th, 2002 in Wuppertal, graphic artist, sculptor and wood cutter
  • 1920, April 13, Heinz Ridder , † December 31, 1986 in Ramsau (Austria), painter, graphic artist and art teacher
  • 1924, May 23, Rainer Willeke , † May 26, 2018, finance and transport scientist and university rector
  • 1927, 23 August, Walter Giller , † 15 December 2011 in Hamburg, actor
  • 1927, October 16, Rudolf Morsey , historian
  • 1928, October 12, Will Wehling , † February 4, 1975, film critic and director of the West German Short Film Festival
  • 1930, January 18, Bernhard Doerdelmann , † August 1, 1988 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, writer, publicist
  • 1932, May 29, Karl Ridderbusch , † June 21, 1997 in Wels (Austria), opera singer (bass)
  • 1933, October 10, Gisbert Greshake , Roman Catholic theologian and professor of dogmatics
  • 1935, Ursula Dirichs , actress
  • 1935, May 16, Hans Thiersch , educational scientist and social worker
  • 1935, July 25, Gerhard Voss , † November 3, 2013 in Deggendorf, Benedictine, astrologer
  • 1938, August 19, Werner Hansch , football commentator
  • 1938, December 17, Dieter Weidemann , † September 23, 2019, manager and association official
  • 1939, June 23, Manfred Funke , † September 20, 2010 in Datteln, political scientist and contemporary historian
  • 1939, March 5, Rosemarie Koczy , † December 12, 2007 in Croton-on-Hudson (New York), German-American artist
  • 1941, January 10, Horst Jüssen , † November 10, 2008 in Munich, actor, director and author
  • 1941, April 3, Theofried Baumeister , patrologist
  • 1941, August 27, Michael Sauer , triple jumper and journalist
  • 1942, February 23, Hermann-Josef Rupieper , † August 31, 2004 in Crete, historian
  • 1942, July 19, Herman Prigann , † December 9, 2008 in Portals Nous (Mallorca), nature and environmental artist
  • 1944, September 15, Werner Lechte , † January 13, 2018, church musician and university professor
  • 1945, Michi Strausfeld , translator, publisher's editor and literary scholar
  • 1949, January 7, Thomas R. Kraus , † April 12, 2019 in Aachen, historian and archive director
  • 1950, March 5th, Manon Grashorn , painter, graphic artist, writer and set designer
  • 1950, March 26th, Peter Paul Ahrens , SPD politician
  • 1950, April 3, Dietmar Ossenberg , former journalist and television presenter
  • 1950, May 23, Matthias Holtmann , musician and former radio editor and presenter
  • 1950, August 12, Ulrike Krasberg , ethnologist

From 1951

People who have worked in the city

  • Friedrich Carl Devens (born November 7, 1782 in Horst-Emscher, † January 4, 1849 in Welheim), Prussian Justice Commissioner and member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament
  • Franz Wüllner (born November 27, 1798 near Eslohe; † June 22, 1842 in Düsseldorf), director of the Petrinum grammar school 1828–32
  • Heinrich Bone (born September 25, 1813 in Drolshagen; † June 10, 1893 in Hattenheim), high school graduate (1831), later headmaster of the Petrinum grammar school (1856-59), then headmaster in Mainz, author of standard works on German teaching and hymn collections
  • Carl Still (born August 2, 1868 in Struthütten, † August 8, 1951 in Recklinghausen), entrepreneur
  • Carl Ruschen (born March 6, 1871 in Wickede (Ruhr), † 1931 in Recklinghausen), mine director
  • Ernst Flemming (* 1871 in Cologne, † 1955 in Recklinghausen), miner and civil servant
  • Wilhelm Rinkens (born June 15, 1879 in Eschweiler-Röhe, † June 22, 1933 in Eisenach), composer and 1905 music director in Recklinghausen
  • Joseph Dünnebacke (born August 6, 1878 in Hengsbeck; † July 14, 1963 in Recklinghausen), politician (Center Party), co-founder of the CDU Recklinghausen, Lord Mayor of the city (1948–52)
  • Franz Bielefeld (born April 11, 1880 in Gelsenkirchen; † August 8, 1949 in Münster), 1927–1933 President of the Chamber of Crafts in Münster, 1928–33 member of the Reichstag (center), 1946–1949 member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Erich Klausener (born January 25, 1885 in Düsseldorf, † June 30, 1934 in Berlin, shot by the SS in the Reich Ministry of Transport), 1919–24 District Administrator in Recklinghausen, later chairman of Catholic Action Berlin, Ministerialrat
  • Wilhelm Bitter (born December 13, 1886 in Cologne; † June 9, 1964 Ittenbach), publisher, politician (center, co-founder of the CDU Recklinghausen), 1946–48 Lord Mayor, 1948–64 Chairman of the CDU's Local Political Association
  • Albert Albin Funk (born October 15, 1894 in Zwickau, † April 27, 1933 in Recklinghausen), trade unionist, miner and politician
  • Fritz Stricker (born May 4, 1897 in Aplerbeck, † July 9, 1949 in Recklinghausen), politician
  • Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg , (born September 5, 1902 in London, † August 10, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee), administrative officer and resistance fighter, executed in 1944, 1928–32 government assessor in the district office
  • Count Raphael Droste zu Vischering (born October 25, 1906 in Lüdinghausen , † 1987 in Münster ), provost of St. Peter , canon of honor in Münster
  • Alfred Ollesch (born November 20, 1915 in Castrop-Rauxel, † April 16, 1978 in Cologne), politician (FDP), member of the Bundestag
  • Inge Donnepp (born December 13, 1918 in Unna; † July 31, 2002 in Recklinghausen), lawyer and politician
  • Helmut Frohne (born June 4, 1920 in Insterburg; † February 12, 1982), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
  • Kurt Meyer (born February 4, 1921 in Upper Silesia; † August 23, 2008 in Recklinghausen), football player and coach
  • Rolf Abrahamsohn (born March 9, 1925 in Marl), survivor of the Riga ghetto, head of the Jewish community from 1978–92
  • Günter Nehm (born June 12, 1926 in Wattenscheid; † February 11, 2009 in Recklinghausen), humorous poet and wordplayer
  • Erich Wolfram (born October 5, 1928 in Bruch, Czechoslovakia, † February 8, 2003), Lord Mayor of the city from 1972 to 1984
  • Walther Schmieding (born December 12, 1928 in Beuthen in Upper Silesia, † May 16, 1980 in Berlin), cultural journalist
  • Helga Matura (born August 19, 1933 in Bottrop; † January 27, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main), prostitute and murder victim, was buried in Recklinghausen
  • Peter Plath (born August 22, 1933 in Narva ; † November 11, 2017 in Recklinghausen), physician, lived, worked and died here
  • Klaus Beckmann (born December 6, 1935 in Wanne-Eickel), musicologist, choir director and high school teacher
  • Erwin Marschewski (born March 31, 1940 in Herten), council member and member of the Bundestag (CDU)
  • Heinrich Breloer (born February 17, 1942 in Gelsenkirchen), documentary filmmaker and author
  • Josef F. Bille (born September 20, 1944 in Neuenkirchen), physicist and inventor, graduated from high school in Recklinghausen in 1964
  • Thilo Sarrazin (* 1945 in Gera), politician, economist and author
  • Jochen Welt (* 1947 in Velbert), mayor of the city from 1987 to 1998, district administrator of the Recklinghausen district from 2004 to 2009
  • Andrea Jürgens (born May 15, 1967 in Wanne-Eickel; † July 20, 2017 in Recklinghausen), singer
  • Martin Max (born August 7, 1968 in Tarnowskie Góry), former soccer player, soccer coach
  • Thomas Godoj (born March 6, 1978 in Rybnik, Poland), musician, winner of the 5th season of Germany is looking for the superstar
  • Philipp Missfelder (born August 25, 1979 in Gelsenkirchen; † July 13, 2015), Federal Chairman of the Junge Union (from 2002), member of the German Bundestag (from 2005), member of the CDU Presidium
  • Adam Bodzek (born September 7, 1985 in Zabrze), professional footballer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Kordes: The award of honorary citizenship of the city of Recklinghausen to Adolf Hitler on April 19, 1933. Notes on local history on a thousandfold process in German urbanism at the beginning of the “Third Reich”. In: Vestischer Calendar. 83 (2012), ISSN  0938-8745 , pp. 232-245.
  2. ^ Die Zeit , February 18, 1966