page_title: Oldenburg (city)
section_title: Notable natives of Oldenburg
hierarchical_section_title: Oldenburg (city) / Notable natives of Oldenburg
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Helene Lange (1848–1930) Photographie Atelier Elvira, Hofphotographische Anstalt München vor 1899
context_page_description: Oldenburg is an independent city in the district of Oldenburg in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. The city is officially named Oldenburg to distinguish from Oldenburg in Holstein.
  During the French annexation in the wake of the Napoleonic war against Britain, it was also known as Le Vieux-Bourg in French. The city is at the rivers Hunte and Haaren, in the northwestern region between the cities of Bremen in the east and Groningen in the west. It has a population of 170,000. Oldenburg is part of the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region, with 2.37 million people.
  The city is the place of origin of the House of Oldenburg. Before the end of the German Empire, it was the administrative centre and residence of the monarchs of Oldenburg.
context_section_description: Christian I of Denmark (1426–1481), king of Denmark
  John V, Count of Oldenburg (1460–1526), Count of Oldenburg
  Johann Liss (c.1590-c.1630) Baroque painter, active mainly in Venice
  Martin Zaagmolen (??-c.1669) a Dutch painter
  Johan Samuel Augustin (1715–1785) German-Danish astronomical writer and civil servant
  Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse (1790–1866) historian
  Sophie Löwe (1815–1866), opera soprano
  Isaac Friedlander (1823–1878) American wheat broker and California land speculator
  Julius Lothar Meyer (1830 in Varel–1895) chemist
  Reinhard Schlichting (1835–1897) American manufacturer and politician in Wisconsin
  Helene Lange (1848–1930), politician, educator and suffragist
  August Dinklage (1849–1920) architect and buildings official
  John Henry Tihen (1861–1940) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  August Brauer (1863–1917), zoologist
  Rudolf Heinze (1865–1928) jurist and politician
  Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), philosopher and writer
  Otto Schultze (1884–1966) Generaladmiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II
  Otto Suhr (1894–1957) politician
  Wilhelm Gideon (1898–1977), German Nazi SS commandant of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp
  Hermann Behrends (1907–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
  Hans Günther Aach (born 1919) botanist
  Heinz Rökker (1920–2018), WWII fighter pilot
  Felix Gerritzen (1927–2007), football player in the German national football team
  Jürgen Goslar (born 1927), actor and director
  Ulrike Meinhof (1934–1976), journalist, terrorist and co-founder of the Red Army Faction
  Brigitte Boehme (born 1940) lawyer and church administrator.
  Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (1949–2013), composer
  Manfred Milinski (born 1950), biologist and member of the Max Planck Institute
  Stefan Czapsky (born 1950) American cinematographer
  Klaus Modick (born 1951), author and literary translator
  Rena Niehaus (born 1954) film actress
  Thomas Schütte (born 1954), sculptor and draftsman
  Heiko Daxl (1957–2012), media artist and curator
  Andrea Clausen (born 1959) stage actress, member of the Burgtheater ensemble.
  Karsten Baumann (born 1969), former football player and current coach
  Hans-Jörg Butt (born 1974), football goalkeeper
  Hasnain Kazim (born 1974), journalist
  Oliver Köhrmann (born 1976) handball player
  Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter, born 1980) composer
  Nils Logemann (born 1982), musician
  Thyra von Westernhagen (born 1973), Hanoverian princess by marriage
  Wilfred Hans-Günther Wlochal (Born 1927–2018), author
caption: Helene Lange 1899
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