page_title: Detmold
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Detmold / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Depicted person&#58; &#32;Albert Lortzing
context_page_description: Detmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of about 73,400. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of the district of Lippe and of the Regierungsbezirk Detmold. The Church of Lippe has its central administration located in Detmold. The Reformed Redeemer Church is the preaching venue of the state superintendent of the Lippe church.
context_section_description: Notable people born in Detmold include:
  Friedrich Adolf Lampe (1683–1729), theologian
  Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold (1727–1782), Count of Lippe
  Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767–1802), Prince of Lippe
  Leopold Zunz (1794-1886), scientist, founder of Reform Judaism
  Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796–1851), Prince of Lippe
  Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836), alongside Georg Büchner the most important innovator of German-language drama in his time
  Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876), poet and author
  Leopold III, Prince of Lippe (1821–1875), Prince of Lippe
  Ferdinand Weerth (1774-1836), Pastor and School Reformer
  Georg Weerth (1822–1856)
  Gustav Wallis (1830-1878), botanist and South American traveler
  Joseph Plaut (1879–1966), actor, spieler, elocutionist, singer and regional poet
  Jürgen Stroop (1895–1952), German Nazi general of the SS, executed for war crimes
  Werner Buchholz (born 1922), engineer, creator of the art word byte
  Manfred Fuhrmann (1925–2005), old philologist
  Hans-Ulrich Schmincke (born 1937), volcanologist
  Heinz Burt (1942–2000), British musician and member of The Tornados
  Hartmut Fladt (1945), musicologist
  Hans Ottomeyer (born 1946), art historian, for 11 years curator of the German Historical Museum in Berlin
  Iris Berben (born 1950), actress
  Peter Lampe (born 1954), German theologian
  Detlef Grumbach (born 1955), journalist, journalist, author and publisher
  Frank-Walter Steinmeier (born 1956), foreign minister, Vice Chancellor, and current President of Germany
  Manfred Ostermann (born 1958), German local politician (independent) and former Landrat of Soltau-Fallingbostel
  Andreas Voßkuhle (born 1963), jurist, president of the Bundesverfassungsgericht
  Ludger Beerbaum (born 1963), jumping rider
  Wotan Wilke Möhring (born 1967), actor
  Matthias Opdenhövel (born 1970), German television presenter and journalist
  Sven Montgomery (born 1976), Swiss-American cyclist
  Vera Ludwig (born 1978), German poet
  Stefan Langemann (born 1990), footballer
  Long-time residents of Detmold include: 
  Albert Lortzing (1801–1851), composer
  Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer, who lived in Detmold in the winters of 1857-60.
  Heinrich Drake (1881–1970), politician
  Felix Fechenbach (1894–1933), journalist
  Florian Reike, entrepreneur
  Giselher Klebe (1925–2009), composer
  Thomas Quasthoff (born 1959), bass-baritone
  Others:
  Detmold child, a child mummy who got its name from this city.
  Amongst the honorary citizens of Detmold, besides politicians are scientists and artists who have served in Detmold. The best-known are the builder of the Hermannsdenkmal, Ernst von Bandel (1871), Reich Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (1895), and Reich President, Paul von Hindenburg (1917).
caption: Albert Lortzing
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