page_title: Parchim
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Parchim / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Generalfeldmarschall Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke
context_page_description: Parchim is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is the capital of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. It was the birthplace of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, to whom a monument was erected in 1876.
  Founded about 1210, it was the seat of the short-lived Lordship of Parchim-Richenberg, a partition of the Duchy of Mecklenburg, from 1226 until 1248 when the lord relocated to Richenberg. Parchim was absorbed into the Lordship of Werle in 1255. In 1277 Werle was partitioned and Parchim became the seat of Werle-Parchim until it was reunited with Werle-Güstrow in 1307. One branch of the family of the duke of Mecklenburg resided in Parchim during part of the 14th century. It became a prosperous industrial town during the 16th century, but this prosperity was destroyed by the Thirty Years' War.
context_section_description: Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891), Prussian general field marshal, honorary citizen
  Rudolf Tarnow (1867-1933), low German writer
  Elise Blumann (1897-1990), German-Australian expressionist painter
  Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948), German SS Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter, and executed for war crimes
  Ernst Goldenbaum (1898-1990), politician, chairman of the DBD and Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR, 1949-1990 Member of the Volkskammer
  HA Schult (born 1939), object and action artist
  Jana Gerisch (born 1978), volleyball player
  Stefanie Weichelt (born 1983), football player
  Laura Larsson (born 1989), podcast and radio host
caption: Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke
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