List of sons and daughters of the city of Remscheid

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In the list of sons and daughters of the city of Remscheid , articles about important personalities born in the area of ​​today's city of Remscheid are compiled and listed chronologically according to the year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Remscheid. Many moved away after their birth and became known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

15th century

  • around 1497, in Lüttringhausen (today part of Remscheid): Adolf Clarenbach ; † September 28, 1529 in Cologne, "Bergischer Reformer", Protestant reformer who ended up at the stake in Cologne-Melathen because of his convictions

18th century

  • 1745, October 23 in Neuenhammer near Remscheid: Johann Arnold Halbach ; † June 11, 1823 in Müngsten (today Solingen) was a manufacturer in the Bergisches Land.
  • 1752, February 11th in Auf dem Heidt , then Lüttringhausen, today Ronsdorf: Daniel Schürmann ; † February 25, 1838, was a teacher and author of school books, including a long-used arithmetic book.
  • 1773, June 5, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt ; in Lüttringhausen; † March 6, 1854 in Leiden, was a world-famous scientist.
  • 1785, May 19: Gottfried Duden ; † October 29, 1855 there, was a German doctor, farmer and justice of the peace in the USA as well as a writer
  • 1794 or 1795: Johann Gottfried Böker ; † In early March 1860 in New York City, was a German-American wine and liquor dealer, consul, art collector and gallery owner.

19th century

1801 to 1850

  • 1810, May 18: Johann Peter Hasenclever ; † December 16, 1853 in Düsseldorf, painter
  • 1813, March 16: Friedrich Jansen ; † February 16, 1884 in Wiesbaden, textile entrepreneur and member of the German Customs Parliament
  • 1813 May 16: Richard Hasenclever ; † June 8, 1876 in Düsseldorf, writer, medical councilor and member of the Reichstag
  • 1814, November 17th: Reinhard Mannesmann ; † April 27, 1894 in Remscheid, entrepreneur, file and tube manufacturer, local politician, father of Max and Reinhard Mannesmann
  • 1817, December 8th in Ehringhausen: Georg Hasenclever ; † August 24, 1904 in Aachen, Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
  • 1839, May 3: Johannes Fastenrath ; † March 16, 1908 in Cologne, was a German lawyer, writer and translator.
  • 1843, May 27th: Robert Böker ; † April 17, 1912 in Remscheid, German businessman, secret councilor and local politician
  • 1845, March 27th in Lennep (today part of Remscheid): Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ; † February 10, 1923 in Munich, physicist (discoverer of the X-rays named after him), but he spent most of his life in Würzburg

1851 to 1900

  • 1853, September 15: Moritz Böker ; † January 7, 1933 in Remscheid, engineer and industrialist, general director of the BSI and co-initiator of the Bökerhöhe settlement
  • 1856, May 13: Reinhard Mannesmann ; † February 20, 1922 in Remscheid, technician and industrialist (together with his brother Max inventor of the rolling process for the production of seamless steel tubes, co-founder of the Mannesmann Group)
  • 1857, September 9: August Gissler ; † August 8, 1935 in New York City, treasure hunter who lived with brief interruptions on Coconut Island (Costa Rica) from 1889 to 1908
  • 1857, December 6: Richard Pick ; † April 19, 1933 in Lüttringhausen, local politician in his hometown of Lüttringhausen, where he was also granted honorary citizenship
  • 1857, December 30: Max Mannesmann ; † March 2, 1915 in Aachen, inventor and entrepreneur (together with his brother Reinhard inventor of the rolling process for the production of seamless steel tubes, co-founder of the Mannesmann Group)
  • 1863, April 28 in Lennep: Johann Christian Josef Ommerborn ; † 1938 in Wuppertal, journalist, writer, head of the "Landstrasse Mission"
  • 1866, May 24th in Lennep (today part of Remscheid): Hermann Hardt ; † December 10, 1938 in Remscheid, merchant and cloth manufacturer
  • 1867, October 26th: Arthur Rehbein (pseudonym: Atz vom Rhyn; Atz vom Rheyn; Rehlauf); † February 28, 1952 in Berlin, writer, journalist, poet, travel writer and author of radio plays
  • 1869, November 12: Richard Lindenberg ; † July 22, 1925, built the first industrially used electric steel furnace
  • 1873: Wilhelm Engels ; † 1953, local researcher and school principal
  • 1874: May 10th: Otto Mannesmann ; † April 10, 1916 in Tripoli, Ottoman Empire, physicist and engineer, inventor of a gas lamp, founded Mannesmann Lichtwerke
  • 1874, September 21: Karl Jarres ; † October 20, 1951, politician (DVP) in the Weimar Republic
  • 1878, March 24th: Clemens Schaefer ; † July 9, 1968 in Cologne, physicist
  • 1879, November 11th: Heinrich Maria Martin Schäfer ; † September 1, 1951, politician
  • 1882, September 1st in Reinshagen: Erich Becher ; † January 5, 1929 in Munich, philosopher and psychologist
  • 1882, December 11th: Gustav Hermann Halbach ; † March 18, 1958 in Remscheid, author of the Bergisches Sprachschatzes
  • 1883, February 9 in Lennep: Fritz Windgassen ; † April 17, 1963 in Murnau am Staffelsee, singer (tenor)
  • 1883, June 12: Heinrich Alfred Kaiser ; † June 25, 1946 in Dresden, architect and painter
  • 1884, March 12th in Lennep (today part of Remscheid): Elisabeth Dicke ; † August 11, 1952 in Überlingen, physiotherapist, developed the connective tissue massage
  • 1884, July 2nd in Reinshagen: Prof. Dr. Ernst Siegfried Becher; † January 4, 1926 in Breslau, professor at the Universities of Rostock, Gießen, Munich and Breslau (physiology)
  • 1885, May 31: Hermann Kaiser ; † January 23, 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee, officer and person involved in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt
  • 1886, January 21: Gustav Theill ; † February 7, 1963, manufacturer and politician
  • 1886, February 22: Emil Lumbeck ; † August 8, 1979 in Wuppertal, mail order book dealer, who developed the threadless adhesive binding for books, notebooks and brochures using cold glue technology
  • 1887, December 19: Erwald "Ewald" Weisemann ; † 1963, educator and politician (DNVP).
  • 1889, February 21 in Lennep: Oskar Wingen ; † probably between 1945 and 1949, doctorate in economics and population theorist
  • 1889, May 23: Erich Engels ; † April 25, 1971 in Munich, film director and screenwriter
  • 1889, August 14th: Walter Freitag ; † June 7, 1958 in Herdecke / Ruhr, Member of the Bundestag and Landtag in North Rhine-Westphalia (SPD), Chairman of IG Metall, Vice President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Chairman of the German Trade Union Confederation DGB (1952-56)
  • 1890, August 10: Erwin Becher ; † September 4, 1944 in Frankfurt am Main, doctor
  • 1892, April 6th: Hermann Schäfer ; † May 26, 1966 in Bad Godesberg, politician (DDP, FDP, DP), Member of the Bundestag, Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag (1949–51 and 1952–53), Federal Minister for Special Tasks (1953–56)
  • 1892, December 29th: Otto Jungtow ; † March 13, 1961 in Remscheid, football player
  • 1894, February 20 in Lennep (today part of Remscheid): Curt Corrinth ; † August 27, 1960 in Berlin, novelist, poet, playwright, editor and screenwriter, a. a. Trojans; The King of Trinador
  • 1894, July 31: Otto Kuhler ; † August 5, 1977 in Denver, German-American industrial designer and artist
  • 1894, October 3rd, in Lüttringhausen / Garschagen (today part of Remscheid): Ewald Platte ; † October 3, 1985 in Opladen, painter who found international recognition
  • 1895, November 12th: Gustav Flohr ; † February 18, 1965 in Remscheid, politician (KPD)
  • 1896, October 27th: Otto Dowidat ; † July 4, 1975 in Remscheid, politician (FDP) and entrepreneur
  • 1897, November 15: Viktor Agartz ; † December 9, 1964 in Bensberg near Cologne, trade unionist
  • 1898, March 5th: Kurt Jahncke ; † October 20, 1962 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg), journalist and deputy press chief of the Reich government
  • 1898, April 24: Ernst Lemmer ; † August 18, 1970 in Berlin, politician (DDP, CDU), MdR, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications (1956–57), Federal Minister for All-German Issues (1957–62), Federal Minister for Expellees, Refugees and War Victims ( 1964-65)
  • 1898, June 29: Emil Friedrich Robert Lehnartz ; † January 10, 1979 in Münster (Westphalia), physiologist and university professor
  • 1899, June 25: Hans Schwippert ; † October 18, 1973 in Düsseldorf, important architect of the post-war period
  • 1899, September 21: Karl Nastelski ; † March 11, 1972, lawyer and Senate President at the Federal Court of Justice
  • 1900, July 6th in Lennep: Elfriede Senden ; † November 30, 1941 in Lennep, middle-distance runner
  • 1900, July 16: Robert Stamm ; † November 4, 1937 executed in Berlin-Plötzensee, politician, 1932/33 Bremen Reichstag member of the KPD and a victim of the Nazi regime
  • 1900, August 3: Peter Wilhelm Brand ; † August 1, 1978, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • 1900, October 19, in Lüttringhausen (today part of Remscheid): Ludwig Steil ; † January 17, 1945 in Dachau concentration camp, pastor critical of the regime in the Third Reich, most recently in Wanne-Eickel, martyr of the Confessing Church
  • 1900, December 11: Gerd Arntz ; † December 4, 1988 in The Hague, socially critical artist and graphic designer

20th century

1901 to 1920

  • 1903, March 18: Dr. med. Elisabeth Kalt , b. Chandler; † July 1, 1961 in Birkesdorf, Nazi doctor at the PHP Andernach , involved in euthanasia crimes
  • 1903, May 12th: Friedel Schuster ; † 1983, January 20th in Mendig, film actress and voice actress
  • 1904, February 4: Teo Otto ; † 1968, June 9th, one of the most famous stage designers of the 20th century
  • 1905, March 13th in Lüttringhausen: Walther Peter Fuchs ; † November 4, 1997, was a German historian and university professor
  • 1905 May 12th: Artur Becker ; † 1938 in Spain, exact date unknown, was a functionary of the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD), Spain fighter and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1905 July 3: Richard Corts ; † August 7, 1974 in Remscheid, was a German athlete and Olympic medalist
  • 1905, July 30th: Ewald Funke ; † March 4, 1938 in Berlin-Plötzensee, was a German resistance fighter against National Socialism.
  • 1905, October 12: Rolf vom Busch ; † July 6, 1971 in Vienna, murderer, was convicted of treason in 1936 because he had accused Adolf Hitler of being homosexual and claimed to be able to prove this by describing the genitals.
  • 1906, February 26: Hans Bertram ; † January 8, 1993 in Munich, German aviation pioneer, aerial photo publisher, film director, screenwriter and production manager.
  • 1909, May 2nd: Käthe Kalweit ; † May 22, 1950, was a social democratic member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • 1909, October 11th: Hellmut Holthaus ; † May 16, 1966 in Staufen im Breisgau, was an editor in various magazines, writer and author of humorous short stories and feature articles.
  • 1909, November 10, Hans Hofmann ; † March 8, 1954, politician and member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1910, December 26th: Walter Held (under the name Heinz Epe ); † October 28, 1942 in the Soviet Union, Trotskyist politician and victim of Stalinism
  • 1911, June 14: Walter Pongs ; † 20th century or 21st century, concentration camp doctor and dentist in Buchenwald concentration camp
  • 1912 11 March: Karl Kleinjung ; † February 20, 2003 in Westphalia, was the former head of Department I of the Ministry for State Security, most recently as Lieutenant General.
  • 1912, May 24th: Josef Linden; † End of December 1944, communist resistance fighter in the Hans Salz group
  • 1913, January 31: Gustav Sichelschmidt ; † 1996, German historian and author
  • 1913, March 14th: Karl Schröder ; † March 16, 1971, politician (SPD), member of the state parliament
  • 1916, May 13th, in Lennep (today a part of Remscheid): Adolf Müller ; † February 22, 2005, was a German trade unionist and politician (CDU).
  • 1918, December 18: Emil Lux ; † December 18, 2005, founder of the Obi hardware store .
  • 1919, 23 October in Lüttringhausen (today a district of Remscheid): Ludwig Poullain , banker, Chairman of the Board of Management of Westdeutsche Landesbank (1968–1977), President of the German Savings Banks Association (1968–1974)
  • 1920, July 28: Friedrich Loew ; † February 8, 2018, neurosurgeon

1921 to 1940

  • 1921, May 3: Max Kratz ; † July 2, 2000 in Düsseldorf, Prof. for Art and Design in Essen, sculptures and drawings, sacred works
  • 1921, August 3rd: Gert Harald August von Kortzfleisch ; † October 16, 2007 in Mannheim, Prof. Dr. rer. pol., was a professor at the University of Mannheim and a member of the Club of Rome. He is a knight of honor of the Order of St. John.
  • 1922, February 6: Bruno Tetzner ; July 25, 2008 in Wermelskirchen, church musician, music educator and cultural politician
  • 1923, April 28: Peter Wolf ; † September 25th, 2000 in Remscheid, was Lord Mayor of Remscheid and entrepreneur.
  • 1924, February 7th: Gustav Adolf Theill ; † November 29, 1997 in Cologne, composer, church musician and musicologist
  • 1925, March 31: Petra Peters ; † July 31, 2004 in Munich, actress
  • 1925, June 29th in Lüttringhausen (today part of Remscheid): Kurt Wüster ; † November 22, 1999 in Remscheid, was a politician (SPD).
  • 1925, September 13: Gerd Ludwig Lemmer , lawyer and politician (CDU)
  • 1928, August 28: Karl-Michael Vogler ; † June 9, 2009 in Seehausen am Staffelsee, was an actor.
  • 1930, March 8: Lonny Kellner ; † January 22, 2003 in Hamburg, singer (Im Hafen von Adano, Bum-Budi-Bum), wife of Peter Frankenfeld
  • 1932, August 24th: Günter Lesche , concert singer (“Bergischer Baritone”) and initiator of the Kulturbrücke to Russia.
  • 1933, June 11th: Heinz-Gregor Johnen ; † January 30, 2012 in Aachen, entrepreneur and long-time managing director of Zentis
  • 1934, September 9th: Elmar Fastenrath , Catholic theologian
  • 1937, March 3rd: Floris Michael Neusüss , photographer, lecturer in photography
  • 1937, June 16: Dierk Henning Schnitzler , lawyer, policeman and police president (water police in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn)
  • 1937, November 15: Hans-Ulrich Everts , Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Hanover
  • 1938, March 16: Gus Anton , conductor, composer and arranger
  • 1938, June 14th: Johannes Zittartz , physics professor at the University of Cologne
  • 1938, September 14th: Heide Buscher , literary historian
  • 1939, January 3: Gerd Hanebeck ; † October 27, 2017 in Wuppertal, painter, graphic artist and object artist
  • 1939, October 21: Peter Plichta , chemist and author
  • 1940: Heidi Urbahn de Jauregui , professor emeritus of German literature at the University of Saint-Étienne
  • 1940, January 22nd: Wolfgang Seiler , biogeochemist and internationally renowned climate researcher
  • 1940, November 28th: Erich Küthe ; † January 10, 2003, was a textbook author. He studied goods and economics at the University of Cologne and was a professor there.

1941 to 1960

1961 to 1980

1981 to 2000