Lastrup is a municipality in the
district of Cloppenburg, in
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is situated approximately 15 km southwest of
Cloppenburg
Cloppenburg (; nds, Cloppenborg; stq, Kloppenbuurich) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of Cloppenburg District and part of Oldenburg Münsterland. It lies 38 km south-south-west of Oldenburg in the Weser-Ems region between Brem ...
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Notable people
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Ludger Gerdes
Ludger Gerdes (10 April 1954, Lastrup, (Germany) – 17 October 2008 near Dülmen) was a German painter, sculptor and multimedia artist.
Life
After his school-leaving examination (Abitur) at the secondary school Antonianum in Vechta, Ludge ...
(1954–2008), painter and sculptor
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Andreas Schnieders
Andreas Schnieders (22 December 1966 – 6 October 2022) was a German boxer.
He competed in the men's super heavyweight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
After his career ended in 1994 he worked as a security guard at the Emsland Nuclear Pow ...
(born 1966), boxer
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Özlem Türeci
Özlem Türeci (; born 6 March 1967) is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against Coronavir ...
(born 1967), immunologist and businessperson
References
Cloppenburg (district)
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