Osnabrück

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Benno II of Osnabrück (ca 1020 – 1088), Bishop of Osnabrück from 1068 to 1088.
• Albert Suho (c. 1380 – c. 1450), clergyman, theologian, historian
• Friedrich Staphylus (1512–1564), theologian, first a Protestant, a Catholic convert.^[6]
• Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1649–1727), evangelical theologian, mystic, and Millennialist.
• Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1674–1728), brother of George I of Great Britain.^[7]
• Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington (1675–1725), courtier and a half-sister of George I of Great Britain
• Justus Möser (1720–1794), jurist and social theorist.^[8]
• Ernst zu Münster (1766–1839), politician, statesman in the service of House of Hannover
• Justus von Gruner (1777-1820), a Prussian official, the first president of the Berlin Police.
• Bernhard Rudolf Abeken (1780–1866), philologist
• Karl Fortlage (1806–1881), philosopher.^[9]
• Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), evangelical theologian.^[10]
• Ludwig Windthorst (1812–1891), politician and leader of the Catholic Centre Party.^[11]
• Friedrich Blass (1843–1907), classical scholar.^[12]
• Georg Thieler (1854–1945), jurist and mayor of Jena from 1885 to 1889.
• Friedrich Westmeyer (1873–1917), politician and trade unionist
• Walter Warlimont (1894–1976), General of the Artillery
• Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), attorney, Righteous Among the Nations
• Fritz Buntrock (1909–1948), SS officer and war criminal
• Rudolf Beckmann (1910–1943), SS-Oberscharführer and war criminal
• Franz Lucas (1911–1994), concentration camp doctor
• Wilhelm Schitli (1912–1945?), SS officer
• Hubertus Brandenburg (1923–2009), Bishop of Stockholm
• Peter van Pels (1926–1945) son of Auguste van Pels and Hermann van Pels, occupant at the Secret Annex in Amsterdam together with Anne Frank and her family
• Jürgen Kühling (1934–2019), lawyer, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court between 1989 and 2001
• Rudolf Seiters (born 1937), politician (CDU), Vice-President of the Bundestag 1998–2002
• Paul Kirchhof (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, prof. of tax law
• Hans-Gert Pöttering (born 1945), lawyer and politician, former President of the European Parliament
• Ferdinand Kirchhof (born 1950), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, professor of tax law
• Thomas Bellut (born 1955), journalist
• Olaf Scholz (born 1958), politician (SPD) and Chancellor of Germany from 2021
• Christian Wulff (born 1959), politician and lawyer, President of Germany from 2010 to 2012
• Boris Pistorius (born 1960), politician, former Lord mayor of Osnabrück, Minister of Defence from 2023
• Anke Hennig (born 1964), politician (SPD)
• André Berghegger (born 1972), politician (CDU); from 2006 to 2013, mayor of the city of Melle
• Sabine R. Huebner (born 1976), ancient historian

• Gerlach Flicke (c. 1500–1558), painter, an artist of the Tudor court in London
• John Closterman (1660–1711), portrait painter, mostly of European noblemen and their families.^[13]
• Friedrich Clemens Gerke (1801–1888), journalist, musician and pioneer of telegraphy, he revised the Morse code.
• Alfred Runge (1881–1946), architect
• Hinnerk Scheper (1897-1957), mural painter and architectural colourist, monument conservator and restorer
• Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), novelist, he wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in 1928
• Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899–1962), a De Stijl painter
• Mathias Wieman (1902–1969), stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor from 1925 to 1966
• Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944), a surrealist painter
• Herbert Tiede (1915–1987), actor from 1943 to 1975.
• Benno Sterzenbach (1916–1985), cinema and theatre actor and director from 1948 to 1983
• Ursula Levy (born 1935), American author, child psychologist and Holocaust survivor
• Birgitta Tolksdorf (born 1947), German-American actress
• Markus Becker (born 1963), pianist
• Evelyn Herlitzius (born 1963), opera singer, and a dramatic soprano.
• Marc Engelhard (born 1973), writer, designer, journalist, comedian, actor, musician
• Gentleman (born 1974), reggae musician, real name Tilmann Otto
• Robin Schulz (born 1987), musician, DJ and record producer
• Waterdown (1999–2012), hardcore punk band

• Ludwig Clamor Marquart (1804–1881), pharmacist and entrepreneur, coined the term "anthocyanin"
• Hermann Kemper (1892–1977), engineer and pioneer in magnetic levitation
• Heinrich Wenner (1912–2008), antiquarian bookseller
• Wilhelm Karmann Jr. (1914–1998), motor industry entrepreneur with VW (Karmann).
• Reinhold Remmert (1930–2016), mathematician, wrote two books on number theory and complex analysis
• Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake (born 1935), physicist and mathematician
• Hans Huchzermeyer (born 1939), physician and musicologist
• Cathrin Brisken (born 1967), medical doctor, researches the hormonal control of breast cancer

• Horst Borcherding (1930–2015), a football goalkeeper, played 254 games.
• Heike Nagel (born 1946), former swimmer, team bronze medallist at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• Thomas Möllenkamp (born 1961), a retired rower, team gold medallist at the 1988 Summer Olympics
• Volker Fried (born 1961), former field hockey player, team gold medallist at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Stefani Werremeier (born 1968), a rower, team silver medallist at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Daniel Flottmann (born 1984), footballer who has played over 490 games
• Felix Klaus (born 1992), footballer who has played over 330 games
• Carolin Schnarre (born 1992), a Paralympic equestrian, team silver medallist at the 2016 Paralympic Games

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