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==Notable people== {{see also|Counts, dukes and grand dukes of Oldenburg}} [[File:Peter Cecilia of Sweden.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)|Princess Cecilia of Sweden]], 1835]] [[File:Helene Lange vor 1899.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Helene Lange]], 1899]] [[File:Karl Jaspers Büste.JPG|thumb|140px|[[Karl Jaspers]]]] [[File:DBPB 1958 181 Otto Suhr.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Otto Suhr]], 1958]] [[File:IsaacFriedlanderPortrait-1878.png|thumb|140px|[[Isaac Friedlander]], 1878]] [[File:Jörg Butt – Tag der Legenden 2016 04.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Hans-Jörg Butt]], 2016]] === Public servants and public thinking === *[[Anna of Oldenburg]] (1501–1575), a Countess consort of East Frisia, spouse of Count [[Enno II of East Frisia]]. *[[Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844)|Princess Cecilia of Sweden]] (1807–1844), Princess of Sweden, died locally *[[Amalia of Oldenburg]] (1818–1875), a Bavarian princess and [[Queen of Greece]] from 1836 to 1862.<ref>{{Cite NIE |wstitle= Amalie, Marie Friederike |volume= I | page= |short=1}}</ref> *[[Karl von Wedel]] (1842–1919), a Prussian general and diplomat *[[Helene Lange]] (1848–1930), politician, educator and suffragist *[[Rudolf Heinze]] (1865–1928), jurist and politician; [[vice-chancellor of Germany]], 1920/21 *[[Karl Jaspers]] (1883–1969), philosopher, psychiatrist and writer *[[Otto Schultze]] (1884–1966), [[Generaladmiral]] with the [[Kriegsmarine]] during [[World War II]] *[[Peter Suhrkamp]] (1891–1959), publisher and founder of the [[Suhrkamp Verlag]] *[[Otto Suhr]] (1894–1957), politician and [[Governing Mayor of Berlin]] 1955/57 *[[Wilhelm Gideon]] (1898–1977), Nazi SS commandant of the [[Gross-Rosen concentration camp]] *[[Hermann Ehlers]] (1904–1954), politician ([[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]), Bundestag President, was a local landlord and died locally *[[Hermann Behrends]] (1907–1948), Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes *[[Heinz Rökker]] (1920–2018), WWII fighter pilot *[[Ulrike Meinhof]] (1934–1976), journalist, far-left activist and co-founder of the [[Red Army Faction]] *[[Bernd Althusmann]] (born 1966), politician (CDU) *[[Thyra von Westernhagen]] (born 1973), [[House of Hanover|Hanoverian]] princess by marriage *[[Hasnain Kazim]] (born 1974), journalist === Arts === *[[Martin Zaagmolen]] (buried 1669), Dutch painter *[[Sophie Löwe]] (1815–1866), opera soprano.<ref>{{Cite AmCyc |wstitle= Löwe, Sophie |volume= X |short=1 }}</ref> *[[Christian Griepenkerl]] (1839–1916), painter and professor at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]] *[[August Jerndorff]] (1846–1906), a Danish painter, known for his portraits. *[[Ellen Plessow]] (1891 – 1967), a German actress in films from 1922 to 1957 *[[Erna Schlüter]] (1904–1969), operatic dramatic soprano *[[Jürgen Goslar]] (born 1927), actor and director *[[Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski]] (1949–2013), composer *[[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 *[[Sarah Nemtsov]] (née Reuter, born 1980), composer *[[Klaas Heufer-Umlauf]] (born 1983), TV host, producer, actor and singer. === Science & business === *[[Otto Mencke]] (1644–1707), philosopher and scientist. *[[Arp Schnitger]] (1648–1719), organ builder *[[Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler]] (1821–1898), medical doctor and naturopath *[[Isaac Friedlander]] (1823–1878), American wheat broker and California land speculator *[[Lothar Meyer]] (1830–1895), chemist, studied here *[[Reinhard Schlichting]] (1835–1897), American manufacturer and politician in Wisconsin *[[August Brauer]] (1863–1917), zoologist, studied deep-sea [[ichthyology]] *[[Carl Ramsauer]] (1879–1955), professor and research physicist, discovered the [[Ramsauer–Townsend effect]]. *[[Walter Behrmann]] (1882–1955), geographer; introduced a cylindrical map projection "[[Behrmann projection]]" *[[Hans Günther Aach]] (1919–1999), botanist *[[Manfred Milinski]] (born 1950), biologist and formerly a director of the [[Max Planck Institute]] *[[Thomas Reiter]] (born 1958), retired European astronaut, [[German Air Force|Air Force]] [[Brigadier General]], lives locally === Sport === *[[Uta Frommater]] (born 1948), swimmer, team bronze medallist at the [[1968 Summer Olympics]] *[[Karsten Baumann]] (born 1969), football player and manager, played 389 games *[[Hans-Jörg Butt]] (born 1974), footballer, played 479 games and 4 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]] *[[Oliver Köhrmann]] (born 1976), handball player *[[Florian Bruns]] (born 1979), football coach and former player who played 369 games *[[Johannes Bitter]] (born 1982), [[Team handball|handball]] player, goalkeeper for [[Germany men's national handball team|Germany]] *[[Thomas Plößel]] (born 1988), sailor, twice team bronze medallist at the [[2016 Summer Olympics|2016]] and [[2020 Summer Olympics]]. === Others === *[[Diedrich A. W. Rulfs]] (1848–1926), German-American architect
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