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