List of sons and daughters of the city of Hildesheim

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The following personalities were born in Hildesheim or are otherwise connected to the city:

Sons and daughters of the city of Hildesheim

The following people were born in Hildesheim. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Hildesheim is irrelevant.

Until 1800

1801 to 1900

  • 1802, June 2, Johannes Leunis , † April 30, 1873 in Hildesheim, botanist, co-founder and sponsor of the later Roemer Museum
  • 1814, February 16, Alfred von Görtz-Wrisberg † December 29, 1868 in Dubuque, Iowa, USA, officer and politician, 1848 revolutionary
  • 1825, Wilhelm Victor Keidel , † January 9, 1870, first doctor and first magistrate in Gillespie County, Texas
  • 1826, October 22, Siegfried Wilhelm Albrecht , † January 25, 1896 in Hanover, politician (National Liberal Party), member of the Reichstag
  • 1833, August 30, Alfred Lüntzel , † December 13, 1910 in Hanover, lawyer at the Reichsgericht
  • 1836, November 14, Hermann Langenbeck , † June 30, 1869 in Groß Schneen, Göttingen district, philosopher, associate professor in Marburg
  • 1837, Asminde Ubrich , singer
  • 1840, September 17, Antonius Fromm , † February 29, 1916 in Osnabrück, journalist and publisher
  • 1842, October 2, Heinrich Meister , † April 5, 1906 in Hanover, member of the Reichstag (SPD) and trade unionist
  • 1845, Joseph Ebers , † July 14, 1923 in Breslau, 1883–1921 diocesan master builder in Breslau
  • 1850, February 10, Alexander von Linsingen , † June 5, 1935, Prussian Colonel General
  • 1850, May 20, Wilhelm Krieger , † December 6, 1928 in Detmold, economist and member of the Lippe state parliament
  • 1851, September 6, Wilhelm Pelizaeus , † October 14, 1930 in Hildesheim, banker and merchant in Egypt, patron of the museum in Hildesheim named after him
  • 1853, December 23, Wilhelm Hartmann , † December 22, 1922 in Berlin, mechanical engineer and university professor
  • 1856, July 30th, Julius Fischer , † October 30th 1916 in Clausthal, mining expert and director of the mining academy in Clausthal
  • 1858 or 1860, March 2, Leonie Meyerhof , † August 15, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, writer
  • 1859, March 14, Adolf Bertram , † July 6, 1945 at Johannesberg Castle near Jauernig, Bishop of Hildesheim 1906–14, later Archbishop of Breslau, Cardinal
  • 1859, March 26, Adolf Hurwitz , † November 18, 1919 in Zurich, mathematician
  • 1860, March 31, Isidor Traube , † October 27, 1943 in Edinburgh, physical chemist
  • 1865, November 12, Karl Kattentidt , † July 12, 1931 in Hildesheim, Senator from Hildesheim, President of the Hildesheim Chamber of Crafts
  • 1867, July 30, Wilhelm Maxen , † November 21, 1946 in Schellerten-Dingelbe, Catholic priest and politician
  • 1874, March 20, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen , † March 16, 1945 in Windischleuba, writer and poet
  • 1874, March 21, Max Meyerhof , † April 19, 1945 in Cairo, ophthalmologist and medical historian
  • 1876, January 30, Wilhelm Schmidthild , † January 30, 1951 in Peine, painter, graphic artist, illustrator and art professor
  • 1877, July 26th in the district of Drispenstedt, Karl Schwabe , † April 14th, 1938 in Sponholz / Neubrandenburg, 1st State Minister of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1923–28
  • 1880, April 15, Julius Guttmann , died May 19, 1950 in Jerusalem, rabbi and religious philosopher
  • 1880, May 13, Elise Bartels (née Bicker), † October 25, 1925 in Berlin, politician (SPD), Member of the Parliament
  • 1883, February 15, Klara Löbenstein , † June 10, 1968 in Buenos Aires, mathematician and was one of the first women to do a doctorate in Germany
  • 1884, December 10, Hans Krüger , † August 9, 1933 in Hanover, Chairman of the State Ministry of Mecklenburg-Strelitz January 7 - October 13, 1919
  • 1885, May 21, Kurt Beitzen , † September 1918 at sea near Orkney, naval officer and submarine commander in World War I.
  • 1885, June 18, Theodor Ludwig Georg Albert Knolle , † December 2, 1955 in Hamburg, Protestant theologian
  • 1886, August 29, Joseph Godehard Machens , † August 14, 1956 in Hildesheim, Bishop of Hildesheim 1934–1956
  • 1888, May 16, Frieda Loebenstein , † May 6, 1968 in São Paulo, German-Brazilian music teacher
  • 1889, April 18, Karl Vogeler , † 1978, surgeon in Stettin and Rendsburg
  • 1889, May 20, Heinrich Ihde, † August 8, 1941 near St. Petersburg (Russia); Author of various school books (Am Born der Natur, Naturgeschichtliches Arbeitsbuch, In des Förster Reich, etc.)
  • 1889, July 20, Erich Pommer , † May 8, 1966 in Los Angeles; the film producer wrote with Metropolis and the Marlene Dietrich film The Blue Angel film history
  • 1890, April 11, Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen , † October 22, 1983 in Berlin, Christian union leader and resistance fighter
  • 1896, March 6, Hellmuth Prieß , October 21, 1944, General of the Infantry
  • 1896, June 15, Wilhelm Koppe , † July 2, 1975 in Bonn, SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and Police as well as a member of the German Reichstag
  • 1896, June 18, Bruno Snell , † October 31, 1986 in Hamburg, classical philologist
  • 1897, September 4, Marta Giesemann , † November 19, 1974 in Spetisbury (Great Britain), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
  • 1897, October 13, Erwin Johannes Bach , † 1961 in Berlin, composer and musicologist
  • 1898, August 25, Georg Rickhey , † 1966, engineer and general director of Mittelwerk GmbH
  • 1898, October 22, William Quindt , † December 29, 1969 in Marquartstein, writer
  • 1899, January 6, Heinrich Nordhoff , † April 12, 1968, entrepreneur
  • 1900, February 6, Harald von Elverfeldt , † March 6, 1945 in Cologne-Nippes, Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht
  • 1900, August 25, Hans A. Krebs , † November 22, 1981 in Oxford / England, biochemist (Nobel Prize 1953)
  • 1900, September 2, Theodor Sonnemann , † September 6, 1987 in Bonn, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, President of the German Raiffeisen Association

1901 to 1950

  • 1901, October 19, Wunibald Talleur , † March 21, 1975 in Fulda, Bishop of Chapada or Rondonópolis (Brazil)
  • 1903, March 4, Karl Hamann , † June 16, 1973 in Munich, from 1948 to 1951 Chairman of the LDPD and Minister for Trade and Supply of the GDR
  • 1903, March 8, Karl Helbig , † October 9, 1991 in Hamburg, scientist, explorer, travel writer, ship heater, geographer, geologist and ethnologist
  • 1903, June 12, Hertha von Walther , † April 12, 1987 in Munich, actress
  • 1904, December 26th, Walter Gerstenberg , † October 26th, 1988 in Tübingen, musicologist
  • 1905, July 10, Wolfram Sievers , † June 2, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech, Nazi war criminal and managing director of the Research Association of German Ahnenerbe
  • 1906, May 31, Hermann Walch , † April 29, 1945, SA brigade leader and honorary member of the People's Court
  • 1906, September 25, Dietrich Mülder , † June 27, 2000, forest scientist and professor
  • 1908, February 5, Wilhelm Henze , † 1996 in Södertälje, resistance fighter, worker writer and puppeteer
  • 1908, November 8, Heinz Klevenow , † January 27, 1975 in Hamburg, actor and radio play speaker
  • 1911, March 18, Heinz-Josef Adamski , † August 15, 2002 in Diekholzen, historian, folklorist and high school teacher
  • 1912, June 8, Hermann Blazejezak , † January 13, 2008 in Mönchengladbach, athlete
  • 1914, March 12, Annie Loebenstein , † October 26, 2010, chemist and translator
  • 1919, January 25, Heinrich Machens , † February 17, 2001, auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Hildesheim
  • 1920, November 8, Hildebert Kirchner , † May 28, 2012 in Karlsruhe, lawyer, legal librarian at the Federal Court of Justice
  • 1920, November 17, Heinz-Otto Ihde , † August 25, 2017, Rector, builder of the Didrik Pining School
  • 1921, June 3, Eberhard Schlotter , † September 8, 2014 in Altea, painter and graphic artist
  • 1922, January 14, Guy Stern , American literary scholar and honorary citizen of the city
  • 1922, December 24th, Gotthelf Schlotter , † August 4th 2007 in Darmstadt, sculptor
  • 1923, February 18, Wilhelm Hennis , † November 10, 2012 in Freiburg im Breisgau, political scientist
  • 1926, January 28, Maria Henze , † April 10, 1972 in Hildesheim, educator and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1926, March 16, Georg Böhme , † July 1, 2016 in Hildesheim, administrative officer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1926, November 14th, Rudi Theissen , racing cyclist
  • 1927, May 4th, Walter Georg Olms , publisher and horse breeder
  • 1929, January 23, Erich Heinemann , † July 26, 2002 in Hanover, writer and Karl May researcher
  • 1929, February 28, Hubert Rohde , † 17./18. February 2019 near Hildesheim, director of the Saarländischer Rundfunk (1978 to 1989), former member of the Saarland state parliament, rector of the Saarbrücken University of Education
  • 1930, August 19, Horst Rabe , historian
  • 1932, May 31, Hans-Christian Drömann , † June 19, 2018 in Hildesheim, Lutheran theologian, state superintendent and abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery
  • 1934, March 13th, Hans-Dieter Lösenbeck , editor-in-chief at Stiftung Warentest
  • 1935, February 12, Johannes Koch , † December 26, 1994 in Berlin, athlete and athletics trainer
  • 1935, May 1st, Hasso Freiherr von Uslar-Gleichen , retired Brigadier General D. and Defense Attaché
  • 1937, May 5th, Hans-Michael Heise , senior district director in the district of Grafschaft Hoya and in the district of Diepholz
  • 1938, September 28, Heinrich Biermann , † June 8, 2003 in Giesen, architect and politician (CDU)
  • 1938, October 12, Friedrich-Wilhelm Raasch , † February 10, 1997 in Lilienthal, politician (CDU), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
  • 1939, October 25, Uwe Gronostay , † November 29, 2008 in Berlin, choirmaster
  • 1940, January 9, Dieter Mertens , † October 4, 2014 in Freiburg im Breisgau, historian
  • 1940, February 8, Ilona Bodden , † April 17, 1985 in Hamburg, poet, author and translator
  • 1940, July 5th, Gerfried Fischer , legal scholar
  • 1940, November 25, Klaus Berger , † June 8, 2020 in Heidelberg, theologian
  • 1941, Wilfried Ehbrecht , historian
  • 1941, Viktor R. , real name Claus Stitz, artist
  • 1941, December 9th, Wolfgang Danne , figure skater
  • 1942, October 28, Peter Schumm , athlete
  • 1943, July 17, Alida Gundlach , television presenter and author
  • 1943, July 21, Henning Langhage , jazz musician
  • 1944, July 10, Werner Schäfke , historian and art historian
  • 1945, October 21, Bernhard Nauck , sociologist and professor at the TU Chemnitz
  • 1945, February 1, Hartmut Keune , biologist and ministerial official
  • 1945, February 17, Katharina Lopinski , voice actress and actress
  • 1946, July 1st, Hans-Michael Goldmann , politician (FDP)
  • 1946, October 5th, Karlheinz Köller , agricultural scientist, professor at the University of Hohenheim
  • 1946, November 19, Klaus-Michael Machens , politician and manager of the Hanover zoo
  • 1947, Udo Wolff , musician and producer as well as founder of the blues band Das third Ohr
  • 1947, January 17th, Heinz Kattner , writer
  • 1947, September 13, Ulrich Podewils , lawyer
  • 1947, October 11, Walter G. Neumann , philosopher and social scientist
  • 1948, April 10, Bernd Clüver , † July 28, 2011 in Palma, pop singer (The boy with the harmonica; The Little Prince)
  • 1948, August 31, Rudolf Schenker , guitarist and songwriter (Scorpions)
  • 1949, October 23, Harald Grosskopf , musician and drummer in the band Wallenstein

From 1951

Other people connected with Hildesheim

The following people are also associated with the city of Hildesheim; but these were not born in Hildesheim:

Until 1850

  • Altfrid , * around 800, † August 15, 874, saint, founder of Essen Abbey and Bishop of Hildesheim
  • Bernward von Hildesheim , * around 950/60, † November 20, 1022 in Hildesheim, saint, bishop of Hildesheim
  • Godehard von Hildesheim , * 960 in Reichersdorf / Niederbayern, † May 5, 1038 in Hildesheim, saint, bishop of Hildesheim (better known under the name St. Gotthard )
  • Rainald von Dassel , * around 1114/20, † August 14, 1167 in Rome; attended the cathedral school, around 1146 as subdeacon and cathedral provost in Hildesheim, from 1159 to 1167 Archbishop of Cologne and Arch Chancellor of Italy (he brought the 3 Kings to Cologne)
  • Johannes Busch , * 1399 in Zwolle; † 1479 or 1480 in Hildesheim, reformer of the Augustinian order
  • Nikolaus Selnecker , * 1528 in Hersbruck near Nuremberg, † 1592 in Leipzig; was a hymn poet and superintendent of Hildesheim
  • Ernst von Bayern , born December 17, 1554 in Munich, † February 17, 1612 in Arnsberg (Westphalia), Bishop of Hildesheim
  • Ferdinand of Bavaria , born October 6, 1577 in Munich, † September 13, 1650 in Arnsberg (Westphalia), Bishop of Hildesheim
  • Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern , born December 8, 1621 in Munich, † June 5, 1688 in Bonn, Bishop of Hildesheim
  • Elisabeth von Rantzau , * 1624, † 1706 in Hildesheim, founder of the Klein Bethlehem monastery in Hildesheim
  • Ernst Dietrich Bartels , born October 4, 1679 in Hanover, † May 21, 1762 in Hildesheim, carver
  • Johannes Süßemann , † after 1766, picture carver
  • Georg Philipp Telemann , born March 14, 1681 in Magdeburg, † June 25, 1767 in Hamburg, composer; attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim from 1697 to 1701
  • Wilhelm von Arentsschild , born January 7, 1761 in Bremen, † October 25, 1835 in Hildesheim, Russian major general ; spent his twilight years in Hildesheim
  • Karl August von Malchus , born September 27, 1770 in Mannheim, † October 24, 1840 in Heidelberg, Minister in Westphalia and Württemberg; As a former Hildesheim cathedral secretary, he organized the secularization of the monasteries and monasteries of the duchy of Hildesheim; was able to reduce the burden of the French occupation through negotiation
  • Winand Nick , born September 11, 1831 in Fritzlar, † December 18, 1910 in Hildesheim; Cathedral music director, music teacher and composer in Hildesheim
  • Luise Ahlborn , born May 14, 1834 in Jemgum, East Friesland, † July 30, 1921 in Hildesheim, German writer; lived in Hildesheim from 1910 to 1921
  • Georg von Kopp , born July 25, 1837 in Duderstadt, † March 4, 1914 in Toppau, Prince-Bishop of the Archdiocese of Breslau; attended the Josephinum grammar school and was vicar general of the Hildesheim diocese from 1872 to 1881
  • Ernst Ohlmer , born March 21, 1847 in Betheln, † January 1, 1927 in Hildesheim, customs clerk at the Chinese water customs, from 1898 to 1914 sea customs director in Tsingtau , photographer and important porcelain collector; bequeathed a large part of his collections to the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum . A street in Hildesheim is named after him.
  • Anton von Behr , born September 7, 1849 in Dönhofstädt, † after 1922 or 1929, architect, construction clerk and architecture writer; lived from 1882 to 1901 in Hildesheim and Goslar and wrote a. a. the "guide through Hildesheim and surroundings"

1851 to 1900

  • Richard Herzig , born September 8, 1851 in Schinne, † February 25, 1934 in Hildesheim, architect and Prussian construction officer and diocesan master builder of the Diocese of Hildesheim
  • Heinrich Sohnrey , born June 19, 1859 in Jühnde near Hann. Münden / Göttingen, † January 26, 1948 in Neuhaus / Solling, publicist and founder of the "Hildesheim Sunday Messenger"
  • Emil Mackel , * 1862, † 1940; from 1911 to 1927 director of the Andreas Realgymnasium
  • Wilhelm Altmann , born April 4, 1862 in Breslau, † March 25, 1950 in Hildesheim, Prof. Dr., founder of the German Music Collection and director of the music department of the Berlin State Library (1915–1927), grave of honor in the north cemetery in Peiner Strasse, Department VI left with his wife Marie geb. Louis, graves no. 7/8
  • Hermann Seeland , * 1868, † 1954; Cathedral capitular and prelate in Hildesheim, historian and local researcher
  • Anton Schrammen , born July 12, 1869 in Rheinbach; † April 6, 1953 in Hildesheim, paleontologist and dentist in Hildesheim, expert on fossil sponges and cephalopods
  • Leopold Höhnen , born July 16, 1870 in Barmen, † October 3, 1941 in Baden-Baden; from 1927 to 1933 district president in Hildesheim
  • Fritz Haarmann , born October 25, 1879 in Hanover, † April 15, 1925 in Hanover, one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century; sat in Hildesheim in the Sülte, a psychiatric facility
  • Martin Brustmann , born May 4, 1885 in Berlin, † July 7, 1964 in Hildesheim, athlete, sports medicine specialist, SS leader and family doctor of Reinhard Heydrich and, after the end of the war, a doctor in Hildesheim
  • Wilhelm Offenstein , * July 2, 1889 in Linden, † February 26, 1964 in Hildesheim, theologian and vicar general of the Diocese of Hildesheim and politician (center)
  • Berthold Sander , born April 17, 1890 in Emmerich, † November 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp , Kapellmeister in Hildesheim, where he was released by the National Socialists in 1933 because of his Jewish beliefs
  • Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf , May 6, 1893 in Neuenkirchen, † December 21, 1961 in Göttingen , politician; attended the Andreanum grammar school
  • Heinrich Krone , born December 1, 1895 in Hessisch Oldendorf, † August 15, 1989 in Bonn, politician; did his Abitur at the high school Josephinum Hildesheim
  • Christoph Hackethal , born March 28, 1899 in Hanover; † August 25, 1942 Dachau concentration camp, Catholic priest and Nazi victim; was rector at the Hildesheim St. Bernward hospital and cathedral preacher at the Mariendom; for it is Christoph-Hackethal Street in the district Moritzberg named
  • Otto Dunkelberg , born March 25, 1900 in Hann. Münden, † March 18, 1964 in Bergheim, organist, composer and teacher as well as cathedral music director in Hildesheim

1901 to 1950

  • Gustav Knuth , born July 7, 1901 in Braunschweig, † February 1, 1987 in Küsnacht (Switzerland), actor; got his first engagement at the Hildesheim City Theater in 1918
  • Erich Riebartsch , born May 14, 1902 in Dankersen, † November 22, 1986 in Hildesheim, Catholic theologian, from 1934 to 1986 professor of liturgy and canon law and catechesis at the Hildesheim seminary
  • Rudolf Platte , born February 12, 1904 in Hörde, † December 18, 1984 in Berlin; Actor who lived for a while in Hildesheim on Neue Straße and played at the city theater
  • Kurt Binding , born March 6, 1904 in Usedom; † May 20, 1971 in Bensberg, lawyer, district president in Hildesheim and SS-Oberführer
  • Heinrich Cordes , born May 19, 1906 in Haspe / Westphalia; † March 12, 1999 in Hildesheim, chemist and university professor
  • Otto Ohlendorf , born February 4, 1907 in Hoheneggelsen, † June 7, 1951 in Landsberg am Lech, Nazi war criminal and SS group leader; attended the Andreanum grammar school
  • Hermann Hansing , born January 20, 1908 in Seelze; † November 25, 1977 in Bremen, politician of the SPD and Member of the Bundestag; worked as a foundry master in Hildesheim between 1939 and 1945
  • Oskar Schindler , born April 28, 1908 in Zwittau, † October 9, 1974 in Hildesheim, industrialist; saved about 1200 Jewish slave laborers employed by him during the Second World War from murder (Schindler's list)
  • Georg Schulze-Büttger , born October 5, 1904 in Posen; † October 13, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee , Colonel i. G., childhood and school in Hildesheim, after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , resistance fighter against the Nazi regime executed
  • Franz Josef Wothe , born October 21, 1910 in Bottrop, † August 27, 1994 in Hildesheim, Catholic priest of the Diocese of Danzig and, after the war, apostolic visitor for the expelled Danzig Catholics and professor at the Hildesheim seminary
  • Franz Sommer , born March 30, 1914, † December 24, 2014 in Hildesheim, architect; significantly involved in the development of Hildesheim after the Second World War.
  • Heinrich Pachowiak , born March 25, 1916 in Wilhelmsburg, † November 22, 2000 in Hildesheim, Roman Catholic clergyman and auxiliary bishop of the Hildesheim diocese for over forty years
  • Franz Flintrop , * 1920, † 2012, philosophy professor at the University of Hildesheim
  • Lily van Angeren-Franz , born January 24, 1924 in Neustädtel, † March 7, 2011 in Woerden (Netherlands), was deported as a German Sintizza to the "Gypsy camp" in Auschwitz-Birkenau on March 2, 1943, survivors of the Porajmos and important ones Contemporary witness
  • Joop Bergsma , born February 1, 1928 in Rotterdam, † July 8, 2011 in Harsum, Roman Catholic theologian and cathedral capitular at Hildesheim Cathedral
  • Heinz-Wilhelm Alten , born January 5, 1929 in Hanover; † January 27, 2019 in Hildesheim, mathematician and from 1979 to 1981 first rector of the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences, today Hildesheim University
  • Oskar Brüsewitz , born May 30, 1929 in Willkischken, Memelland, † August 22, 1976 in Halle an der Saale, Protestant pastor who, with his public self-immolation in Zeitz in 1976, had a significant influence on the church and later opposition in the GDR and for several years lived in Hildesheim
  • Engelbert Nelle , born June 9, 1933 in Essen; † August 22, 2016 in Hildesheim, politician and sports official
  • Carl-Ludwig Wolff , born October 11, 1933, journalist, worked at the Hildesheim City Theater
  • Walter Horstmann , born August 28, 1935; † August 21, 2015, football referee
  • Fred Winkelmann , born May 17, 1937 in Bad Gandersheim; Footballer, played at VfV Hildesheim
  • Hans-Georg Koitz , born April 4, 1935 in Striegau, auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Hildesheim
  • Klaus Winkelmann , born January 26, 1939 in Stettin; † April 23, 2007 in Bad Gandersheim, footballer, played at VfV Hildesheim
  • Dieter Thun , born June 4, 1939, footballer, 1965 German champion with Werder Bremen, began his career at VfV Hildesheim
  • Gunter Gabriel , born June 11, 1942 in Bünde / Westphalia; † June 22, 2017 in Hanover, musician; was a disc jockey in the Hildesheim nightclub Western Saloon in the late 1960s
  • Claus Schiprowski , born December 27, 1942 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, track and field athlete, who won the silver medal in the pole vault at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, was a district sports instructor in the Hildesheim district from 1972 to 2007
  • Bernd Munck , born January 30, 1943 in Wolfsburg, national handball player, began his career at Eintracht Hildesheim
  • Jürgen Udolph , born February 6, 1943 in Berlin-Pankow, grew up in Hildesheim, name researcher at Radio Eins
  • Rolf Heissler , born June 3, 1948 in Bayreuth, former member of the RAF, attended the Andreanum high school
  • Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger , born October 1, 1948 in Haar, auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Hildesheim

From 1951

  • Birgit Arnold , born July 24, 1951 in Wiedelah, politician (FDP / DVP) and historian; studied at the University of Education in Hildesheim
  • Hanns-Josef Ortheil , born November 5, 1951 in Cologne, writer and professor at the University of Hildesheim
  • Christoph Biemann , born August 6, 1952 in Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg), known for Die Sendung mit der Maus; graduated from high school Andreanum in Hildesheim in 1970
  • Guido Fuchs , born October 8, 1953 in Göppingen, Catholic liturgist and publicist, heads the Institute for Liturgy and Everyday Culture in the Diocese of Hildesheim
  • Michael Schenker , born January 10, 1955 in Sarstedt, rock guitarist; Founding member of the Scorpions and member of the band UFO
  • Heinz-Günter Bongartz , born March 5, 1955 in Gütersloh, auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Hildesheim
  • Eckhard Gorka , born May 24, 1955 in Braunschweig, since 2000 state superintendent in Hildesheim
  • Werner Schreer , born May 12, 1957 in Einbeck, vicar general in the diocese of Hildesheim
  • Benedikt Lindemann , * 1958 in Welschen Ennest, Benedictine monk, has been working in the Jerusalem House in Hildesheim since the end of 2011
  • Carsten Maschmeyer , born May 8, 1959 in Bremen, financial entrepreneur; grew up in Hildesheim
  • Roland Koch , born November 2, 1959 in Hagen, writer and literary scholar at the University of Hildesheim
  • Katja Flint * November 11, 1959 in Stadthagen, actress; made in 1979 at the high school Himmelsthür her high school
  • Wenzel Storch , born March 21, 1961 in Braunschweig, director and film producer; he produced his films Die Reise ins Glück (2004), The Shine of These Days (1989) and Summer of Love (1993) in Hildesheim with amateur actors from the region
  • Thomas Viezens * 1962 in Helmstedt, church musician; Cathedral music director in Hildesheim
  • Anna Eunike Röhrig * January 29, 1962 in Pirmasens, writer and librarian at the Hildesheim Cathedral Library
  • Michael Krieter , born August 21, 1963 in Northeim, national handball player and handball trainer; played for Eintracht Hildesheim from 1998 to 2000
  • Bruno Eyron , born November 4, 1964 in Lühnde, German actor, presenter, producer, author and businessman; graduated from high school in Hildesheim in 1982
  • Andreas Golombek , born August 9, 1968 in Amshausen, soccer player and soccer coach, worked for VfV 06 Hildesheim from 2003 to 2012
  • Annette Behnken , * 1969 in Bielefeld, Protestant pastor who completed her vicariate in Hildesheim
  • Slava Gorpischin , born January 20, 1970 in Chișinău, Russian handball national player and Olympic champion; played for Eintracht Hildesheim from 2004 to 2008
  • Sven Lakenmacher , May 26th 1971 in Magdeburg, national handball player and handball trainer, played for Eintracht Hildesheim from 2004 to 2008
  • Michael Hoffmann , born April 23, 1975 in Copenhagen, Danish handball national player, played for Eintracht Hildesheim from 2007 to 2014
  • Diane Kruger , * July 15, 1976 as Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, model, internationally known actress (e.g. Troja); grew up in Hildesheim
  • Stefanie Schardien , * 1976 in Dortmund, Protestant theologian; From 2008 to 2014 she held the chair for systematic theology and ecumenism in Protestant theology at the University of Hildesheim as a junior professor
  • Nora Steen , * 1976 in Braunschweig, Protestant pastor, was in charge of a cultural project in Hildesheim from 2007 to 2010, the 1000th anniversary of the World Heritage Church of St. Michaelis and was a school pastor at the Andreanum grammar school
  • Georgi Nikolow , born April 11, 1977 in Varna / Bulgaria, Bulgarian handball national player, has played for Eintracht Hildesheim since 2001
  • Christian Prokop , born December 24, 1978 in Koethen, national handball coach, was youth coach at Eintracht Hildesheim and studied at the University of Hildesheim
  • Raphael Schäfer , born January 30, 1979 in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, German soccer goalkeeper in the German Bundesliga. He started the soccer game at SC Drispenstedt.
  • David Klemperer , born June 22, 1980 in Kiel, successful beach volleyball player and Olympic participant in 2008, his partner is Eric Koreng. He plays for MTV 48 Hildesheim.
  • Dennis Klockmann , born September 2, 1982 in Hamburg, handball goalkeeper; played for Eintracht Hildesheim from 2008 to 2014 and was Hildesheim's player of the year in 2010
  • Nikolas Katsigiannis , born September 17, 1982 in Werne, national handball player; played for Eintracht Hildesheim from 2005 to 2007
  • Andreas Simon , born January 30, 1984 in Minden, handball player, plays for Eintracht Hildesheim
  • Sven-Sören Christophersen , born May 9, 1985 in Lübeck, national handball player, played for Eintracht Hildesheim

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Rule of the city council. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 170–174; here: p. 173f.
  2. ↑ Mackelweg website of the city of Hildesheim, city archives, Alphabetical list of street names. Retrieved April 8, 2015
  3. ^ Franz Sommer: Obituary notice in the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung , accessed on October 24, 2016