Westerwald - Famous People

Famous People

• John Peter Altgeld (Governor of Illinois)
• Sabine Bätzing (German politician, SPD)
• Hans-Arthur Bauckhage (German politician, FDP)
• Johann Wilhelm Bausch (Bishop of Limburg 1834–1840)
• Joseph Blank (German politician, CDU)
• Theodor Blank (former Federal minister, CDU)
• Wilhelm Boden (German politician, CDU; Premier of Rhineland-Palatinate 1946–1947)
• Katja Burkard (German television moderator)
• Ralph Dommermuth (entrepreneur)
• Paul Deussen (German philosophic historian and Indologist)
• Paul Dickopf (co-founder of the BKA)
• Thomas Enders (manager)
• Dieter Fritsch (German surveyor)
• Erhard Geyer (former Federal Chairman of the German Officials’ Federation)
• Frank Göbler (German Slavist)
• Paul A. Grimm (German artist)
• Dieter Hackler (Federal Commissioner for the Civil Service 1991–2006)
• Annegret Held (German writer)
• Hendrik Hering (German politician, SPD)
• Joseph Höffner (Bishop of Münster 1962–1969 and Archbishop of Cologne 1969–1987)
• Joachim Hörster (German politician CDU, Member of the Bundestag)

• Bodo Illgner (German national football player)
• Johannes Kalpers (German singer)
• Kaspar Kögler (German painter and homeland poet)
• Georg Leber (former Federal minister, SPD)
• Franz Leuninger (Resistance fighter against the National Socialist régime, died 1945)
• Ernst Lindemann, (German naval officer, Captain of the Bismarck)
• Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar (German prince)
• Heinrich August Luyken (German writer in Esperanto)
• Hanns-Josef Ortheil (German writer)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (German social reformer)
• Mike Rockenfeller (German racecar driver)
• Gerhard Roth (German politician, SPD)
• Barbara Rudnik (German actress)
• Rudolf Scharping (German politician, SPD)
• Dirk Schiefen (German musician)
• Gerd Silberbauer (German actor)
• Martin Stadtfeld (German pianist)

• Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein (Prussian politician)
• Clemens Wilmenrod (German television cook)
• Jan Schlaudraff (German national football player)
• Dominik Schwaderlapp (Vicar-General of the Archbishopric of Cologne)
• Johann Philipp von Walderdorff (as Johann IX Elector and Archbishop of Trier 1756-1768, Prince-Bishop of Worms 1763-1768)
• Hermann Heinrich Traut (German librarian)
• Erich Wenderoth (German jurist and co-founder of the Rheinische Post)
• Siegfried von Westerburg (Archbishop of Cologne 1275–1297)
• Peter, Manfred, Uwe and Günter Ludolf, the main producers of the television series Die Ludolfs
• Dominik Eulberg, famous minimal techno producer and is inspired by nature.