List of personalities of the city of Warburg

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

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Warburg:

13 ??: Heinrich von Spiegel zum Desenberg , Benedictine, Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Prince Abbot of Corvey 1361–1380
1395: Dietrich Ebbracht , protonotary of Kaiser Siegmund, canon and scholaster, leading church politician at the time of the Basel Council
1455/1460: Hermann Barckhusen , publisher
1476: Otto Beckmann , theologian
1501: Anton Corvinus , theologian, also called raven
1533/34: Antonius Eisenhoit , goldsmith
15 ?? Martin Thonemann - Abbot of Hardehausen, (1544 to 1567) of the Cistercian monastery in Hardehausen.
1542: Jobst II Reuber , (North German Röver ) lawyer and Chancellor of the Electoral Palatinate
1562: Otto Casmann , German humanist
1582: Gabel Schaffen , abbot of the monasteries Grafschaft (1612–1633) and Abdinghof (1632–1650)
1596: Johannes Arnoldi , Jesuit, martyr, was in the spread of the cath. Faith of Lower Saxony. Killed farmers.
1635: Johannes Adrian von Plencken lawyer, senior councilor in Silesia, chancellor of the University of Breslau
16 ??: Coelestin von Geismar , Abbot Kloster Werden (1706–1718), in the function of director of the Rhenish Prelate College
1693: Johann Vitus Christoph Edler von Thönemann, from 1740 Imperial Chamber Court Assessor, ennobled by Emperor Karl VI.
1694: Johannes Konrad Franz von Thönemann, Vicariate Assessor General, Council of Churches in Mainz, from Emperor Karl VI. ennobled
1695: Johann Conrad Schlaun (born in OT Nörde); Baroque builder
1701: Johanna Maria Helena Christiana Thönemann, abbess of the aristocratic convent in Willebadessen (1741 to 1778).
1717: Engelbert Engemann , (born in OT Welda), Benedictine, Abbot Huysburg Monastery , 1781–1796
1764: Ignaz Philipp Rosenmeyer , lawyer and historian
1770: Karl van Eß , theologian and Benedictine
1772: Leander van Eß , theologian and Bible translator
1783: Caspar von Geismar , Imperial Russian General Adjutant to Tsar Nicholas I.
1797: Wilhelm Rintelen , lawyer and politician (Minister of Justice)
1821: Johann Ignaz Fuchs , (born in the OT Welda), watchmaker and mechanic
1825: Hermann Evers judge and member of the Reichstag
1830: Arnold Güldenpfennig , Paderborn cathedral and diocesan architect
1835: Ferdinande von Brackel , (born in OT Welda) author
1836: Ernst von Hoffbauer , Prussian general of the artillery
1837: (Philomena) Gertrud Schmittdiel, Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of Christian Love
1840: Julius Dammann , clergyman and writer
1841: Josef Kohlschein , engraver and draftsman
1848: Auguste Förster (1848–1926), German educator and women's rights activist
1848: Ignaz Urban , botanist
1857: Sally Berg , department store founder and fashion designer in Amsterdam
1858: Hermann Oppenheim , neurologist at the Charité
1866: Ludwig Cramer , coffee merchant and emigrant
1867: Adelbert Niemeyer , painter, architect, professor and ceramist
1877: Emil Herz , Germanist and publishing director in Ullstein
1878: Rudolf von Delius , writer and editor
1881: Friedrich von Delius , mine director in Plessa
1881: Walter Flechtheim alias Walther Monroe, variety artist
1887: Hippolytus Böhlen , (born in OT Dössel) Franciscan, editor, author
1899: Josef Menke , politician
1900: Josef Gockeln (born in the OT Großeneder), politician (Minister and Mayor of Düsseldorf) and trade unionist
1901: Wilhelm Tegethoff , police chief in Bonn
1909: Anton Volmert , politician, member of the state parliament
1910: Ernst Wirmer , ministerial official
1922: Heinrich Krefeld , classical philologist, specialist didactic and grammar school director
1924: Paul Mikat , (born in OT Scherfede), politician (CDU), Minister of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia
1927: Wilm Tegethoff , lawyer and energy manager
1936: Johannes Wasmuth , gallery owner
1935: Adolf Hartmann, trade unionist, former federal chairman of the GDBA , former personnel director of DB
1939: Manfred Grothe , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Paderborn
1939: Karl Hengst , professor of church history
1941: Dieter Nolte (born in the Herlinghausen district), former member of the Hessian state parliament
1941: Hubertus Menke , Professor of German Studies
1945: Wolfram Hogrebe , Professor of Philosophy
1940: Johannes Volmert , Germanist, professor in Magdeburg
1946: Klaus Dinger guitarist, drummer. u. a. at Kraftwerk and Neu!
1950: Hubertus Fehring , politician
1954: Dietmar Klenke , historian
1955: Alfons Holtgreve , painter and graphic designer
1957: Heiger Scholz , State Secretary in Lower Saxony
1958: Rainer Brinkmann , Vice Admiral of the German Navy
1959: Christoph H. Werth , education expert, lecturer and writer
1960: Paul Salvator Goldengruen (Paul Ricken), artist Art brut
1966: Andreas Wiemers , television journalist and satire author
1968: Michael Stickeln , Mayor of Warburg

Other personalities

The following personalities are not born in Warburg, but have lived and worked in the city:

Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff (1843–1922), officer, entrepreneur, landowner
Peter Hille (1854–1904), writer
Theodor Niemeyer (1857–1939), lawyer and international lawyer
Ludwig Hagemann (1859–1941), pastor and historian
Hans Kohlschein (1879–1948), painter, draftsman and caricaturist
Heinrich Schauerte (1882–1975), priest, professor of religious folklore
Hans von Geisau (1889–1972), classical philologist, author, pedagogue, historical researcher
Wilhelm Weskamm (1891–1956), cath. bishop
Joseph Peitzmeier (1897–1978), priest, biologist, ornithologist, professor
Franz-Josef Würmeling (1900–1986), Minister of Family Affairs , graduate of the Marianum High School

Josef Wirmer (1901–1944), lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism; a memorial stone at the Gymnasium Marianum is dedicated to him

Lorenz Humburg (1906–1994), painter, worked as an art teacher at Warburg high schools

Christoph Bernhard Graf von Galen (1907–2002), politician, papal secret chamberlain

Anton Böhlen (1912–1964), politician (Mayor of Warburg 1952 to 1964)

Gordian Landwehr (1912–1998), prior and Dominican

Horst Fritsch (1931–2010), social worker and politician, Member of the Bundestag

Heiko Bewermeyer (* 1940), professor of neurology and psychiatry

Irmgard Schwaetzer (* 1942), politician, former member of the Bundestag

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn (* 1945), Archbishop of Vienna, entered the Dominican order in Warburg in 1963

Hannelore Ludwig (* 1949), secondary school teacher, city councilor, former MdL

Friedrich Wilhelm Gieseler (* 1953), CEO of DEVK ; has Warburg roots and was a student in Warburg

Michel van Dyke (* 1961), musician and producer from the Netherlands, moved to the Menne district at the age of 16 and passed his Abitur at the Marianum high school in Warburg

Heinrich Hadding (* 1972), screenwriter and actor, was a student in Warburg and lives there

Sarah Hakenberg (* 1978) cabaret artist and author , has lived in Warburg since 2015

Noble

The following noble families were or are living in Warburg:

Boyneburg , Lower Hessian noble family
Canstein , Westphalian noble family
von Brackel , Westphalian noble family in Welda
Everstein , Lower Saxony-Westphalian noble family (Wormeln)
Haolde , Westphalian noble family, Count Dodiko (Warburg and surroundings)
von Haxthausen , Westphalian noble family, Welda line
Hiddessen , Go- and Free Count of Warburg in the 18th century.
Rabe von Pappenheim , Westphalian noble family
Spiegel , Westphalian noble family (Desenberg and Warburg, Dalheim)
Welda , also called Wellede, Westphalian noble family in Welda
Dalheim Westphalian noble family (knights) in Dalheim

Familys

Families who were or are connected to Warburg:

Warburg family
Family Fischer, u. a. Mayor Heinrich Fischer
Geismar family
Family robber / Reuber
Family Schepers / Pastorius (lat.)
Hiddessen family
Rintelen family
Family Thöne (husband)
Werth family

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