List of people in the city of Bad Oeynhausen
This list contains the names of people who are in any way related to the city of Bad Oeynhausen , the health resort in the Minden-Lübbecke district , North Rhine-Westphalia . If a name is already mentioned in an upper category, it does not appear again in a lower category.
Honorary citizen
- 1912 Paul Baehr (* 1855 in Thorn; † 1929 in Bad Oeynhausen), 2nd mayor of the city, head of the city council, writer, author of local literature about Bad Oeynhausen
- 2008 Reiner Körfer (born January 18, 1942 in Kleve), cardiac surgeon and medical director of the Heart and Diabetes Center NRW in Bad Oeynhausen
People related to Bad Oeynhausen
The following people have a special personal relationship with Bad Oeynhausen; some of them were also born or died there.
- Karl von Oeynhausen (1795–1865), mining captain, opened up the first brine spring in Bad Oeynhausen
- August Friedrich Georg Disselhoff (1829–1903), pastor and poet, preacher in Bad Oeynhausen
- Eduard Hoffmann (1832–1894), entrepreneur, apprenticeship in Bad Oeynhausen
- Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus (1851–1942), doctor, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Georg von Borries (1857–1922), politician, died in Bad Oeynhausen
- Elsbeth Montzheimer (1858–1926), writer, lived in Bad Oeynhausen
- Christian Colberg (1859–1911), photographer in Bad Oeynhausen
- Hermann Krekeler , pastor, founder of the Wittekindshof in Volmerdingsen
- Wilhelm Schlüter (1871–1930), politician (SPD), grew up in Rehme, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Lisa Löns (1871–1955), journalist, translator and writer, lived and died in Bad Oeynhausen
- Karl Koch (1876–1951), Superintendent, President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, pastor in Bad Oeynhausen
- Walther Flechtheim (1881–1949), variety artist in Bad Oeynhausen
- Carl Jäcker (1884–1974), politician (SPD)
- Wilhelm Nieberg (1887–1970), politician (DVP, NSDAP, CDU), apprenticeship in Bad Oeynhausen
- Klotilde Gollwitzer-Meier (1894–1954), balneologist in Bad Oeynhausen
- Jan Bontjes van Beek (1899–1969), visual artist, worked in Dehme
- Karl Paetow (1903–1992), founder and director of the Fairy Tale and Weser Legends Museum in Bad Oeynhausen
- Johannes Baptist Waas (1904–2002), writer in Bad Oeynhausen
- Hans Thimme (1909–2006), theologian, President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, vicar in Bad Oeynhausen
- Kurt Lütgen (1911–1992), writer, lived in Bad Oeynhausen
- Rudolf Pörtner (1912–2001), writer and historian, attended school in Bad Oeynhausen
- Werner Sanß (1913-2004), theologian and vicar in Bad Oeynhausen, politician (DFU)
- Hans-Georg Stemann (1916–2011), doctor and admiralty officer, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Ulrich Gleichmann (1933), cardiologist
- Reinhard Rürup (1934–2018), historian, grew up in Bad Oeynhausen
- Jochen Fahrenberg (1937–), personality psychologist and psychophysiologist, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Hermann Oetting (1937–), engineer and politician, internship in Bad Oeynhausen
- Jan Reichow (1940–), violinist and music critic, grew up in Lohe
- Heinrich Dietmar Borcherding (1942–), politician, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Fritz Rolf Baur (1945–), grew up in Bad Oeynhausen
- Ingo Petzke (1947–), filmmaker and author, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Otto Foit (1947–), clinic manager, managing director of the HDZ NRW in Bad Oeynhausen
- Margarete Zimmermann (1949–), Romanist
- Roland Pröll (1949–), musician, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Bernhard Sprute (1949–), visual artist, lives and works in Bad Oeynhausen
- Dieter Horstkotte (1951–), cardiologist at the HDZ NRW
- Helge Timmerberg (1952–), journalist, grew up in Bad Oeynhausen
- Olaf Kappelt (1953–), publicist, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Hans-Georg Kluge (1953–), attended school in Bad Oeynhausen
- Erhard O. Müller (1955–2008), social scientist, journalist and publicist, grew up in Bad Oeynhausen
- Norbert Horst (1956–), author, grew up in Bergkirchen
- Hans-Christian Pape (1956–), neurophysiologist
- Wolfgang Burchert (1958–), nuclear medicine specialist at the HDZ
- Diethelm Tschöpe (1958–), diabetologist at HDZ NRW
- Tilmann Meyer zu Erpen (1959–), rider, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Peggy Wehmeier (1960–), author
- Arno Meyer zu Küingdorf (1960–), author, grew up in Bad Oeynhausen
- Jochen Althoff (1962–), classical philologist, student in Bad Oeynhausen
- Jan Gummert (1963–), cardiac surgeon and medical director at HDZ NRW
- Markus Wagner (1964–), politician (AfD), student in Bad Oeynhausen
- Christian Lohse (1967–), cook, worked in Bad Oeynhausen
- Latica Honda-Rosenberg (1971–), violinist
- Christopher Spehr (1971–), Protestant theologian
- René Müller (1974–), footballer, played for FC Bad Oeynhausen
- Arne Friedrich (1979–), soccer player, grew up in Bad Oeynhausen and played for FC Bad Oeynhausen
- Daniel Budiman (1983–), TV presenter, attended school in Bad Oeynhausen
People whose achievements are visible in Bad Oeynhausen
The following artists or architects who were not citizens of the city are represented with their works in Bad Oeynhausen.
- Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866), garden architect, designed the spa gardens in Bad Oeynhausen
- Friedrich Hartjenstein (1881–?), Architect, planner of the “garden city” settlement in Bad Oeynhausen
- Diez Brandi (1901–1985), architect of the Resurrection Church in Bad Oeynhausen
- Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen (1920–2010), visual artist, created glass windows for the Church of the Resurrection
- Ernemann Sander (1925–), visual artist, created works for Bad Oeynhausen
- Heinz Lilienthal (1927–2006), painter, created church windows in Dehme
- Frank Gehry (1929–), architect, designed two buildings for Bad Oeynhausen
Born in Bad Oeynhausen
Furthermore, the following people were born in Bad Oeynhausen or its formerly independent districts.
- 1852: August von Borries , engineer
- 1863: Max Rüdenberg , manufacturer and politician
- 1880: Fritz Tarnow , trade unionist and politician (SPD)
- 1886: Friedrich Altemeier , fighter pilot
- 1893: Paul Hecker , businessman, member of the Bremen Citizenship (SRP)
- 1895: Elisabeth Hecker , pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist, participant in the Nazi euthanasia program
- 1895: Walther Victor , publicist and writer
- 1899: Arnold Büscher , head of the camp guard in Plaszow concentration camp
- 1902: Walther Ludwig , opera and lieder singer
- 1902: Martin Wellmer , historian and archivist
- 1907: Wolfram Dörinkel , politician (NSDAP, FDP)
- 1913: F. Wolfgang Schnell , agricultural scientist
- 1921: Karl-Heinz Spilker , member of the Waffen-SS Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, politician (CSU)
- 1929: Günter Hitzemann , Baptist pastor, deaconry chief and church president
- 1930: Friedhelm Farthmann , State Minister (SPD)
- 1931: Ralf Dreier , legal scholar
- 1935: Siegfried Linkwitz , engineer
- 1938: Walfried König , ministerial official
- 1941: Lothar Papula , mathematician and author
- 1943: Bernd Bohmeier , writer and painter
- 1944: Peter Conrady , literary scholar
- 1944: Britt Hagen , pop singer
- 1958: Ernst-Wilhelm Rahe , politician (SPD)
- 1959: Fred Apke , playwright, director and actor
- 1960: Dirk-Friedrich Klagges , general physician in the Bundeswehr
- 1960: Arno Meyer zu Küingdorf , entrepreneur and writer
- 1962: Jörg Rogge , historian
- 1965: Hans Bernsdorff , classical philologist
- 1965: Bernd Schröder , Protestant theologian
- 1966: Christian Berg , author and composer
- 1968: Heiko Tiemann , photographer
- 1969: Carmen Meinert , religious scholar
- 1971: Daniela Elsner , English and didactic specialist
- 1971: Arndt Klocke , politician (Greens)
- 1971: Alexandra Rietz , commissioner and actress
- 1973: Torben Giehler , painter
- 1975: Sebastian Krämer , chansonnier and songwriter
- 1976: Yvonne Rüger-Krömker , triathlete
- 1976: Grant Hendrik Tonne , State Minister (SPD)
- 1982: Victor Perli , politician (PDS, left)
- 1991: Richard Becker , tennis player
- 1998: Nina Lange , soccer player
Died in Bad Oeynhausen
The following people also died in Bad Oeynhausen.
- Melanie von Schlotheim (1803–1876), Countess, illegitimate daughter of Jérôme Bonaparte
- Georg von Vincke (1811–1875), politician
- Franz Bölsche (1869–1935), musician and composer
- Marie Charlotte Siedentopf (1879–1968), author of children's books
- Albert Wodrig (1883–1972), officer
- August Weinhold (1892–1961), politician (SPD)
- Friederike Charlotte Louise Nadig (1897–1970), one of the four “mothers” of the Basic Law
- Max Strub (1900–1966), violinist
- Kurt Thomas (1904–1973), composer and choir director
- Adolf von Thadden (1921–1996), politician (NSDAP, DKP-DRP, DRP, NPD)
- Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), historian