, 1835 , 1899 , 1958 , 1878 , 2016
Public servants and public thinking •
Anna of Oldenburg (1501–1575), a Countess consort of East Frisia, spouse of Count
Enno II of East Frisia. •
Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844), Princess of Sweden, died locally •
Amalia of Oldenburg (1818–1875), a Bavarian princess and
Queen of Greece from 1836 to 1862. •
Karl von Wedel (1842–1919), a Prussian general and diplomat •
Helene Lange (1848–1930), politician, educator and suffragist •
Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928), jurist and politician;
vice-chancellor of Germany, 1920/21 •
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), philosopher, psychiatrist and writer •
Otto Schultze (1884–1966),
Generaladmiral with the
Kriegsmarine during
World War II •
Peter Suhrkamp (1891–1959), publisher and founder of the
Suhrkamp Verlag •
Otto Suhr (1894–1957), politician and
Governing Mayor of Berlin 1955/57 •
Wilhelm Gideon (1898–1977), Nazi SS commandant of the
Gross-Rosen concentration camp •
Hermann Ehlers (1904–1954), politician (
CDU), Bundestag President, was a local landlord and died locally •
Hermann Behrends (1907–1948), Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes •
Heinz Rökker (1920–2018), WWII fighter pilot •
Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), journalist, far-left activist and co-founder of the
Red Army Faction •
Bernd Althusmann (born 1966), politician (CDU) •
Thyra von Westernhagen (born 1973),
Hanoverian princess by marriage •
Hasnain Kazim (born 1974), journalist
Arts •
Martin Zaagmolen (buried 1669), Dutch painter •
Sophie Löwe (1815–1866), opera soprano. •
Christian Griepenkerl (1839–1916), painter and professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna •
August Jerndorff (1846–1906), Danish painter, known for his portraits. •
Ellen Plessow (1891–1967), German actress in films from 1922 to 1957 •
Friedrich W. Herzog (1902-1976), German writer and music critic •
Erna Schlüter (1904–1969), operatic dramatic soprano •
Jürgen Goslar (born 1927), actor and director •
Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (1949–2013), composer •
Klaus Modick (born 1951), author and literary translator •
Rena Niehaus (born 1954), film actress •
Thomas Schütte (born 1954), sculptor and draftsman •
Heiko Daxl (1957–2012), media artist and curator •
Andrea Clausen (born 1959), stage actress, member of the
Burgtheater ensemble •
Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter, born 1980), composer •
Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (born 1983), TV host, producer, actor and singer.
Science & business •
Otto Mencke (1644–1707), philosopher and scientist. •
Arp Schnitger (1648–1719), organ builder •
Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler (1821–1898), medical doctor and naturopath •
Isaac Friedlander (1823–1878), American wheat broker and California land speculator •
Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist, studied here •
Reinhard Schlichting (1835–1897), American manufacturer and politician in Wisconsin •
August Brauer (1863–1917), zoologist, studied deep-sea
ichthyology •
Carl Ramsauer (1879–1955), professor and research physicist, discovered the
Ramsauer–Townsend effect. •
Walter Behrmann (1882–1955), geographer; introduced a cylindrical map projection "
Behrmann projection" •
Hans Günther Aach (1919–1999), botanist •
Manfred Milinski (born 1950), biologist and formerly a director of the
Max Planck Institute •
Thomas Reiter (born 1958), retired European astronaut,
Air Force Brigadier General, lives locally
Sport •
Uta Frommater (born 1948), swimmer, team bronze medallist at the
1968 Summer Olympics •
Karsten Baumann (born 1969), football player and manager, played 389 games •
Hans-Jörg Butt (born 1974), footballer, played 479 games and 4 for
Germany •
Oliver Köhrmann (born 1976), handball player •
Florian Bruns (born 1979), football coach and former player who played 369 games •
Johannes Bitter (born 1982),
handball player, goalkeeper for
Germany •
Thomas Plößel (born 1988), sailor, twice team bronze medallist at the
2016 and
2020 Summer Olympics.
Others •
Diedrich A. W. Rulfs (1848–1926), German-American architect ==See also==