List of personalities of the city of Verl

This list contains people who were born in the German city of Verl or who have a special relationship with this city.

sons and daughters of the town

Born in Verl:

image	Year of birth	Surname	Year of death	job
	1777	Johann Christoph Bernsmeyer	1858	Franciscan priest
	1789	Johannes Otto Bredeick	1858	Pastor , founder of the city of Delphos in Ohio (USA)
	1839	Joseph Kolkmann	1880	Legal scholar
	1910	Katherine Allfrey	2001	Author of children and young people
	1930	Norbert Johannimloh		writer
	1931	Werner-Jakob Korsmeier		Sculptor and artist
	1935	Hans Franzen	1993	Singer
	1938	Wilhelm Tacke		Educator, historian and writer
	1943	Joachim Milberg		Engineer and manager
	1946	Elmar Brok		Politician ( CDU ) and former manager
	1947	Wilhelm cuttings		Oblate of the Immaculate Virgin Mary
	1948	Ludger Stratmann		Doctor and cabaret artist
	1949	Roland Berens		Blues musician and songwriter
	1950	Hubert Berenbrinker		Auxiliary bishop
	1950	Dieter Brei		Soccer player and coach
	1951	Christian Stratmann		Principal
	1956	Alois Fortkord		Soccer player
	1969	Stefan Hillebrand		Film producer , screenwriter and director
	1985	Soeren Brandy		Soccer player

Other personalities

No native losers, but who work or have worked in the city are:

image	Year of birth	Surname	Year of death	job	Relation to publ
	1711	Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg	1794	Austrian statesman , Reichshofrat and diplomat	Builder of St. Anne's Church
	1842	Ferdinand Kühlmann	1929	Cathedral Chapter	He built the Verler Hospital. In his honor, the road connecting St. Anne's Church and the hospital was named after him after his death. The connected Kühlmannplatz is now the school yard of the Verl high school .
	1885	Ernst Meurin	1965	Author and district home nurse	Meurin taught for 43 years as a teacher in Verl-Bornholte , where he was one of the founders of the Heimatverein in 1920. Ernst-Meurin-Strasse, south of the town center, is named after him.
	1939	Franz-Josef Balke		Politician ( CDU ), former district administrator of the Gütersloh district	From 1975 to 1992 Balke was a member of the Verler municipal council and from 1973 was a member of the district council in Gütersloh.
	1956	Paul Hermreck		Insurance salesman and politician ( CDU )	From 2004 to 2015 he was mayor of the city of Verl.
	1958	Detlef Karsten	2017	Contemporary artist	From 2007 until his death in 2017 Karsten lived and worked in the city.
	1959	Franziska Röchter		Poet and author	Röchter lives in Verl.
	1966	Michael Esken		Politician ( CDU ), mayor of the city of Verl since 2015 .	Esken grew up on a poultry farm in Verl-Kaunitz and later worked as a lawyer in Verl. From 1989 to 2002 he was a member of the then local council and represented Verl as a directly elected member of the district council from 1994 to 2003.
	1970	Jörg Sundermeier		Journalist and publisher	Sundermeier grew up in Verl.
	1979	Arne Friedrich		Soccer player	Friedrich played 31 games for the football club SC Verl in the 1999/2000 season
	1985	Heinrich Schmidtgal		Soccer player	Schmidtgal played for the football club SC Verl from 2003 to 2007.