page_title: Essen
section_title: Famous people in Essen
hierarchical_section_title: Essen / Famous people in Essen
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hotel Handelshof in Essen This is a photograph of an architectural monument.It is on the list of cultural monuments of Essen, no. 5
context_page_description: Essen is a German city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Ruhr River and it is near Cologne, Duisburg and Bochum. 585,000 people live in Essen. Together with Dortmund, Essen is the biggest city of the Ruhr area with its 5,000,000 inhabitants. Essen is often called the shopping city because there are so many malls and shops in it.
context_section_description: The most known people from Essen are the actor Heinz Rühmann, whose parents were the owner of Essen's famous hotel Handelshof near the Central Station (Hauptbahnhof), Carl Humann, explorer of the Great Altar of Pergamon, Karl Baedeker, a publisher whose company made many books for tourists (Baedeker), Alfred Krupp and Franz Dinndendahl, who made the first steam machine in the Ruhr area. These people were born in the city. Other people who were not born in Essen but lived and worked there a long time are Berthold Beitz, who saved the Krupp company from the ruin, Wilhelm Busch, a famous poet and painter or Gustav Heinemann, a German politician who was mayor of Essen and federal president of Germany. Other people like Otto von Bismarck and Paul von Hindenburg were honorary people in Essen.
caption: Hotel Handeshof - on the roof the armorial of Essen and the text Essen die Einkaufsstadt (Essen the shopping city)
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