page_title: Münster
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Münster / Notable residents
context_page_description: Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland. Münster was the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Today it is known as the bicycle capital of Germany.
  Münster gained the status of a Großstadt with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1915. As of 2014, there are 300,000 people living in the city, with about 61,500 students, only some of whom are recorded in the official population statistics as having their primary residence in Münster.
context_section_description: Götz Alsmann (born 1957), television presenter, musician and singer
  Bernard Altum, zoologist, ornithologist and forest scientist
  Esther Dierkes (born 1990), opera singer
  Georges Depping, German-French historian
  Andreas Dombret, board member of German central bank Deutsche Bundesbank
  Alfred Dregger, politician and leader of the Christian Democratic Union.
  Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848), noble and poet
  Maria Droste zu Vischering, noble and nun beatified by Pope Paul VI.
  Alfred Flechtheim, art dealer, art collector, journalist, and publisher.
  Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck, National Liberal politician, mayor of Wroclaw and Berlin, president of the Prussian House of Representatives, president of the Reichstag
  Clemens August Graf von Galen, cardinal, Bishop of Münster, beatified by Pope Benedict XVI.
  Linus Gerdemann (born 1982), professional cyclist born and raised in Münster
  Kurt Gerstein, SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS and Head of Technical Disinfection Services
  Monika Grütters, politician
  Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler, 1850-1877 Bishop of Mainz ("Workers Bishop"), co-founder of the Centre Party
  Albert Kopfermann (1846–1914), musicologist and librarian
  Ute Lemper, cabaret singer and actress
  Heinz Lukas-Kindermann (born 1939), opera director
  Paul Melchers, 1857-1866 Bishop of Osnabrück, 1866-1885 Archbishop of Cologne
  Moondog, musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments.
  Elisabeth Ney, sculptor
  Friedrich-Carl Rabe von Pappenheim (1894–1977, general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, and war criminal
  Gunther Plaut, Reform rabbi and author
  Dieter Sieger (born 1938), shipbuilder
  Carl Schuhmann, athlete.
  Tanita Tikaram, German-British singer-songwriter
  Johannes Veghe, religious writer (c.1435-1504)
  Christoph Bernhard Verspoell (1743–1818, priest and publisher of an influential hymnal
  Berthold Warnecke (born 1971), dramaturge and opera director
  Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer, soldier, journalist, newspaper editor, politician and Marxist revolutionary
caption: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 1838
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