List of personalities of the city of Rendsburg

This list of personalities of the city of Rendsburg shows people who were born in Rendsburg or who are closely connected to the city.

sons and daughters of the town

Before the 19th century

Nikolaus Wulf (around 1395–1481), Bishop of Schleswig
Samuel Meiger (1532–1610), pastor, author, editor and scholar
Michael Maier (1568-1622), alchemist
Johannes Jonsius (1624–1659), educator and historian of philosophy, principal of the school in Rendsburg

Christian Scriver (1629–1693), Lutheran theologian

Christian von Stökken (1633–1684), poet

Marquard Gude (1635–1689), philologist and book collector

Johann Heinrich Lobeman von Lohendal (1671–1746), holstein-gottorfischer general

Johann Hermann von Elswich (1684–1721), Lutheran theologian

Michael Johann Herbst (1699–1762), Schoutbynacht

Heinrich Wilhelm Lawätz (1748–1825), lawyer and writer

Johann Daniel Lawaetz (1750–1826), German businessman and Danish budget adviser

Ferdinand Otto Vollrath Lawätz (1751–1840), German-Danish lawyer, landowner, author and civil servant

Friedrich Ernst Christian Oertling (1757–1837), pastor, writer, cartographer and draftsman

Johann Georg Friedrich Wendell (1774–1836), printer and newspaper publisher

Carl Heinrich Behn (1799–1853), Danish budget adviser

Wilhelm von Schröter (1799–1865), legal scholar, Minister of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg

19th century

Gottlieb Heinrich von Schröter (1802–1866), history painter and author
Friedrich Hedde (1818–1908), lawyer and politician
Wilhelm von Kauffmann (1821–1892), Lieutenant General and Minister of War
Theodor Lehmann (1824–1862), politician and lawyer
Karl Anton Theodor Rethwisch (1824–1904), customs officer and local poet in Holstein
Nathan Nachmann Nathan (1830–1897), businessman, from 1892 head of the Jewish community in Oslo
Wilhelm Dreesen (1840–1926), photographer
Ludwig Friederichsen (1841–1915), cartographer
Heinrich Wilhelm Lawätz (1748–1825), playwright, poet, syndic of the Uetersen monastery and judiciary
Christian Gottlieb Deckmann (1798–1837), surgeon and university professor in Kiel
Eduard von Liebert (1850–1934), general and politician
Karl Larsen (1860–1931), Danish writer
Theodor Volbehr (1862–1931), art historian and museum director
Otto Tetens (1865–1945), natural scientist
Ludwig Fahrenkrog (1867–1952), painter and poet
Rudolf Krohne (1876–1953), politician (DVP), Reich Minister
Hermann Eggers (1879–1957), entrepreneur
Gottfried Hansen (1881–1976), admiral and functionary of the German veterans' associations after the Second World War
Hermann Klee (1883–1970), composer, conductor and university professor
Ernst Bamberger (1885–1941), doctor of Jewish origin (Nazi victim)
Artur Holde (1885–1962), German-American composer, conductor and music critic
Erwin Waßner (1887–1937), naval officer, most recently rear admiral and naval attaché
Paul Eggers (1888–1939), businessman and politician
Barthel Gilles (1891–1977), painter
Karl Feldmann (1892–1963), politician
Gustav Kieseritzky (1893–1943), naval officer, most recently vice admiral in World War II
Hermann Böhrnsen (1900–1976), politician

20th century

Erhard Asmus (1907–1978), author of Low German comedies
Erich Mahrt (1910–1988), Righteous Among the Nations
Hans Egon Holthusen (1913–1997), poet
Hans Blohm (* 1927), photographer, author in Canada
Ralph-Rainer Wuthenow (1928–2013), literary scholar
Hinrich Seidel (1931–2020), President of the University of Hanover
Marvelli Jr. (1932–2008), magician
Otto Bernhardt (* 1942), politician
Peter Reichel (* 1942), political scientist
Hans-Joachim Hennig (1945–2017), painter and graphic artist
Günter Dibbern (* 1946), manager
Gesine Froese (* 1947), journalist and author
Dorit Urd Feddersen-Petersen (* 1948), behavioral scientist
Wolf-Rüdiger Heilmann (* 1948), actuary and university professor
Günter Neugebauer (* 1948), politician
Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk (* 1948), politician
Herbert H. Klement (* 1949), Protestant theologian
Hanne Haller (1950–2005), pop singer
Ingo Langner (* 1951), documentary filmmaker, author, publicist
Helmut Oppermann (1953–2015), artist
Wolfgang Joecks (1953–2016), university professor for commercial and tax criminal law and politician
Silke Leverkühne (* 1953), painter and university lecturer
Jens Ahlers (* 1953), director of the Schleswig-Holstein State Library
Jörn Eckert (1954–2006), lawyer
Volker Reinhardt (* 1954), historian
Ines Barber (* 1957), journalist, radio presenter and Low German author
Andreas Willers (* 1957), jazz musician
Gerhard Delling (* 1959), sports journalist
Thomas Mayer (* 1959), neurologist, psychiatrist and epileptologist
Uwe Arkuszewski (1962-2004), musician and moderator (The Voice of the North)
Marianne Grosse (* 1962), politician
Torsten Warnecke (* 1962), politician
Monika Iwersen (* 1963), diplomat
Pierre Gilgenast (* 1965), mayor
Hans-Timm Hinrichsen (* 1965), musician, member of the band Santiano
Jost de Jager (* 1965), politician
Jørgen Kühl (* 1965), Danish historian
Jörn Jacob Rohwer (* 1965), Judaist, educator, publicist
Mannhard Bech (* 1967), former handball player
Knud Bielefeld (* 1967), name researcher
Margret Boysen (* 1967), geologist and author
Andreas Merkel (* 1970), writer
Arne Feldhusen (* 1971), director
Arne Reimer (* 1972), photographer and author
Alexander Kühl (* 1973), basketball player
Miriam Pede (* 1975), presenter and journalist
Torge Greve (* 1975), handball player
Tobias Skerka (* 1975), handball player
Norman Kolodziej (* 1977), electronic musician and producer
Maik Makowka (* 1979), handball player
DJ Phono (* 1979), DJ and concept artist
Nico Kibat (* 1980), handball player
Dennis Tretow (* 1983), handball player
Marco Wriedt (* 1984), guitarist and composer
Gyde Jensen (* 1989), politician (FDP) and member of the Bundestag
Jan-Henrik Sievers (* 1989), actor, acting teacher and presenter
Lauritz Schoof (* 1990), rower
Morten Dibbert (* 1991), handball player
Jannes Vollert (* 1998), soccer player
Dennis Jastrzembski (* 2000), football player

Personalities closely associated with the city

Christian zu Rantzau (1614–1663), imperial count of Rantzau, lord of Breitenburg and governor in the royal Danish part of Schleswig-Holstein
Henrik Ruse (1624–1679), Dutch fortress builder
Andreas Fuchs (1641–1720), German-Danish general and governor of Rendsburg
Uwe Jens Lornsen (1793–1838), lawyer and civil servant in the Danish government
Leonhard Selle (1816–1884), teacher and organist
Thomas Johann Gottfried Hollesen (1837–1898), Senator from Rendsburg, co-founder of the Rendsburg fertilizer factory
Hans Bredow (1879–1959), high-frequency technician and chairman of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG)
Thomas Otto Achelis (1887–1967), high school teacher, historian and author; taught from 1935 to 1945 at the secondary school for girls and from 1945 to the early 1950s at the Herderschule grammar school
Heinrich de Haan (1896–1957), Mayor of Rendsburg
Walter Wiborg (1904–1969), Low German author
Knud Knudsen (1912–2000), entrepreneur and politician
Erwin Lingk (1920–1979), politician (SPD)
Rudolf Stibill (1924–1995), Austrian-German poet
Edward Hoop (1925–2008), educator, historian and writer
Günter Kießling (1925–2009), General in the Bundeswehr
Hans-Jürgen Stutzer (1926–2007), administrative officer and politician
Claus Ehlers (* 1944), politician (CDU)
Arfst Wagner (* 1954), Waldorf teacher, writer, publisher, editor, politician
Christian Gayed (* 1966), conductor, composer
Andreas Breitner (* 1967), politician (SPD)

Governors and commanders of the Rendsburg Fortress since 1690

Rendsburg Fortress (1848)

1690 Major General v. Fox
1701 Colonel v. reaper
1708 Brigadier v. Hohendorf
1709 Colonel v. Schmettau
1714 Lieutenant General v. Rodtstein
1728 Major General v. Ahrenholt
1737 Lieutenant General Henrik von Scholten
1740 Lieutenant General Friedrich Ehrenfried von Amthor
1741 Lieutenant General v. Praetorius
1742 Lieutenant General Detlev von Revenfeld
1746 Major General Johann Christoph von Reitzenstein
1749 Lieutenant General. v. Daubrock
1752 Lieutenant General. HB v. Rantzau
1757 Lieutenant General Samuel Ludwig von Kalckreuth
1759 Lieutenant General v. Stretch
1762 Lieutenant General Count C. v. Ahlefeld to Eschelsmark
1767 Duke of Bevern
1773 Lieutenant General v. Köller banner
1775 General CW Graf v. Ahlefeld
1788 Lieutenant General Karl Wilhelm von Sames
1790 Lieutenant General Baron Nicolaus Maximilian Gersdorff
1795 Lieutenant General C. Graf v. Moltke
1800 Field Marshal Friedrich zu Hessen-Kassel
1836 Major General v. Dudden

List of mayors of the city of Rendsburg

Christian Timm (until 1929)
Heinrich de Haan (1929–1934)
Heinrich de Haan (1950–1957)
Hans-Heinrich Beisenkötter (1957–1981)
Hans Speck (1981–1987)
Rolf Teucher
Andreas Breitner (2003–2012)
Pierre Gilgenast (since 2013)

Individual evidence

^ Günter Neugebauer : Against forgetting. Victims and perpetrators in Rendsburg's Nazi era . Rendsburg printing and publishing house, Osterrönfeld, ISBN 978-3-9810912-6-7 . Here chapter 3.2 Dr. Heinrich Haan - Mayor of Rendsburg in three political systems. P. 97f.
^ Manfred Sihle-Wissel: Hans-Heinrich Beisenkötter. In: sh-kunst.de. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
^ Otto Höfer: Neue Heimat Rendsburg - Appeal of the former mayors , Schleswig-Holsteinische Tageszeitung, October 11, 2017.
↑ Mayor. In: www.rendsburg.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .

[1] Günter Neugebauer : Against forgetting. Victims and perpetrators in Rendsburg's Nazi era . Rendsburg printing and publishing house, Osterrönfeld, ISBN 978-3-9810912-6-7 . Here chapter 3.2 Dr. Heinrich Haan - Mayor of Rendsburg in three political systems. P. 97f.

[2] Manfred Sihle-Wissel: Hans-Heinrich Beisenkötter. In: sh-kunst.de. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .

[3] Otto Höfer: Neue Heimat Rendsburg - Appeal of the former mayors , Schleswig-Holsteinische Tageszeitung, October 11, 2017.

[4] Mayor. In: www.rendsburg.de. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .