page_title: Solingen
section_title: Born before 1900
hierarchical_section_title: Solingen / Notable people / Born before 1900
context_page_description: Solingen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, is after Wuppertal the second largest city in the Bergisches Land. It is a member of the regional authority of the Rhineland.
  Solingen is called the "City of Blades", since it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by famous firms such as WKC, DOVO, Wüsthof, Zwilling J. A. Henckels, Böker, Hubertus, Diefenthal, Puma, Clauberg, Eickhorn, Linder, Carl Schmidt Sohn, Dreiturm, Herder, and numerous other manufacturers.
  In Medieval times, the swordsmiths of Solingen designed the town's coat of arms, which continues to the present. In the latter part of the 17th century, a group of swordsmiths from Solingen broke their guild oaths by taking their sword-making secrets with them to Shotley Bridge, County Durham in England.
context_section_description: Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845), insect collector, specialist of Diptera
  J. C. C. Devaranne (1784–1813), helped to lead resistance against Napoleonic occupation in 1813
  Karl Mager (1810–1858), school educator and school politician
  Karl Adams (mathematician) (1811–1849), mathematician and teacher
  Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), landscape painter
  Adolf Kamphausen, (1829–1909), biblical scholar
  Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853–1923), chemist
  Ludwig Woltmann (1871–1907), anthropologist, zoologist and neo-Kantian
  Artur Möller van den Bruck  (1876–1925), writer
  Albert Müller (1891–1954), communist and politician
  Paul Voss (1894–1976), designer
  Paul Franken (1894–1944), socialist politician, victim of Stalinism
  Karl Allmenröder, (1896–1917), fighter pilot of the Luftstreitkräfte during World War I
  Carl Clauberg (1898–1957), Nazi SS gynecologist who carried out massive forced sterilizations and experiments on mainly Jewish concentration camp prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp
caption: Joh. Wilh. Meigen
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