page_title: Düsseldorf
section_title: Born 1851–1900
hierarchical_section_title: Düsseldorf / Notable natives / Born 1851–1900
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: de:Georg Wenker, Deutscher SprachwissenschaftlerEnglish: Georg Wenker, German linguist
context_page_description: Düsseldorf is the capital and second-largest city of the most populous German state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, and the seventh-largest city in Germany, with a population of 617,280. At the confluence of the Rhine and its tributary Düssel, the city lies in the centre of both the Rhine-Ruhr and the Rhineland Metropolitan Regions with the Cologne Bonn Region to its south and the Ruhr to its north. Most of the city lies on the right bank of the Rhine. The city is the largest in the German Low Franconian dialect area. "Dorf" meaning "village" in German, the "-dorf" suffix is unusual in the German-speaking area for a settlement of Düsseldorf's size.
  Mercer's 2012 Quality of Living survey ranked Düsseldorf the sixth most livable city in the world. Düsseldorf Airport is Germany's third-busiest airport after those of Frankfurt and Munich, serving as the most important international airport for the inhabitants of the densely populated Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area. Düsseldorf is an international business and financial centre, renowned for its fashion and trade fairs, and is headquarters to one Fortune Global 500 and two DAX companies.
context_section_description: Georg Wenker, (1852–1911), linguist, founder of linguistic atlas of the German Reich (Wenkeratlas)
  Karl Janssen, (1855–1927), sculptor, professor at the Art Academy
  Fritz Reiss, (1857–1915), lithographer, illustrator, graphic artist and painter
  Bruno Schmitz, (1858–1916), architect
  Otto Hupp, (1859–1949), signature graphic artist, engraver
  Albert Herzfeld, (1865–1943), painter and author
  Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck, (1870–1919), composer and pianist
  Hanns Heinz Ewers, (1871–1943), writer and filmmaker
  Wilhelm Levison, (1876–1947), historian
  Elly Ney, (1882–1968), world-famous concert pianist
  Carl Maria Weber, (1890–1953), writer
  Willy Reetz, (1892–1963), painter, "Düsseldorf School"
  Hermann Knüfken, (1893–1976), marine soldier, revolutionary, union activist, resistance fighter and secret agent
  Ludwig Gehre, (1895–1945) in Flossenbürg, officer and resistance fighter
  Hans Globke, (1898–1973), jurist, National Socialist, from 1949 Assistant Secretary, then Secretary of State in the Federal Chancellery (1953–1963)
  Karl von Appen, (1900–1981), stage designer
caption: Georg Wenker
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