This is a list of East Frisian people who are important to the region of
East Frisia
East Frisia or East Friesland (german: Ostfriesland; ; stq, Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is primarily located on the western half of the East Frisian peninsula, to the east of West Frisia ...
and its
history
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in that they have played a key role in the region or are otherwise renowned and closely linked to East Frisia.
Eggerik Beninga
Eggerik Beninga (1490–1562), also known as Eggeric(k) Benninga or Benynga, was an East Frisian chronicler and steward of the Leerort Fortress. From 1540 to 1556 he was also counselor to Anna of Oldenburg. He wrote an account of the history of the ...
, Frisian chronicler
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Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a German Baroque composer, a prolific writer of church music and secular music. Much of his work is lost due to a fire.
Life
Erlebach was born in Esens, Lower Saxony, the son of Jo ...
, composer
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Rudolf Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (; 5 January 184615 September 1926) was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and ...
, German Nobel prize winner for literature, 1908
* Martin Faber, architect, artist and cartographer
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Recha Freier
Recha Freier (Hebrew: רחה פריאר) born Recha Schweitzer, (October 29, 1892 in Norden, East Frisia – April 2, 1984 in Jerusalem) founded the Youth Aliyah organization in 1933. The organization saved the lives of 7,000 Jewish childre ...
, Swiss-born playwright, holder of the Israeli State Prize
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Hans-Joachim Hespos
Hans-Joachim Hespos (13 March 1938 – 18 July 2022) was a German composer of avant-garde music. He was trained as a teacher and worked until 1984. Self-taught as a composer, he then worked freelance and created more than 200 works in many genre ...
Hermann Lübbe
Hermann Lübbe (born 31 December 1926) is a German philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School.
Biography
Lübbe was born in Aurich. From 1947 to 1951, he studied philosophy, theology and sociology in Göttingen, Münster and Fre ...
, philosopher
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Henri Nannen
Henri Nannen (25 December 1913 in Emden – 13 October 1996 in Hanover) was a German journalist and art collector. He became one of the most prominent journalists and magazine publishers in Germany.
His father was a police officer in Emden wh ...
, publisher
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Uwe Rosenberg
Uwe Rosenberg (born 27 March 1970) is a German game designer and the co-founder of Lookout Games. He initially became known for his card game ''Bohnanza'', which was successful both in Germany and internationally. He is known for complex economic ...
Sportschau
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Eva Herman
Eva Bischoff ( Feldker; 9 November 1958), known as Eva Herman, is a German author and former television presenter. She worked as a news presenter on the nationwide ''Tagesschau'' news programme from 1989 to 2006 and also presented various other ...
, presenter, newscaster and playwright
* Wolfgang Petersen, Hollywood director of ''inter alia'' Das Boot and
Troy
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Helma Sanders-Brahms
Helma Sanders-Brahms (20 November 1940 – 27 May 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer.
Biography
Helma Sanders was born on 20 November 1940 in Emden, Germany. She attended a school for acting in Hannover from 1960 to 1 ...
Hanseatic League
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Carl Carlton (German musician)
Carl Carlton (born Karl Walter Ahlerich Buskohl, 20 April 1955) is a German rock guitarist, composer and producer. His collaboration with Robert Palmer culminated in the Grammy-nominated album ''Drive'', released in 2003. In 2005, Carlton join ...
Gitta Connemann
Gitta Connemann (born 10 May 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2002. Since 2021, she has been serving as the chairwoman of MIT, the pro ...
, MdB
* Garrelt Duin, former leader of the SPD in Lower Saxony, MdB
Sport
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Christian Alder
Christian Alder (born 3 September 1978) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Career
Alder was born in Wittmund, Lower Saxony. Between 1997 and 2000 he played for Arminia Bielefeld through their relegation and ...
Marco Kutscher
Marco Kutscher (born 2 May 1975 in Norden, Lower Saxony) is a German equestrian who competes in the sport of show jumping.
Kutcher originally finished fourth in the show jumping competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, b ...
, showjumper (European and Olympic bronze medallist)
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Silvia Rieger
Silvia Sabine Rieger (born 14 November 1970) is a retired German athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.
Her personal best time in the 400 metres is 54.22 seconds, achieved at the 1998 IAAF World Cup in Johannesburg. This places her si ...
, track and field athlete (hurdles)
* Ferydoon Zandi, footballer
Eduard Norden
Eduard Norden (21 September 1868 – 13 July 1941) was a German classical philologist and historian of religion. When Norden received an honorary doctorate from Harvard, James Bryant Conant referred to him as "the most famous Latinist in the worl ...
, philologist and religious historian
Science
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Eggerik Beninga
Eggerik Beninga (1490–1562), also known as Eggeric(k) Benninga or Benynga, was an East Frisian chronicler and steward of the Leerort Fortress. From 1540 to 1556 he was also counselor to Anna of Oldenburg. He wrote an account of the history of the ...
, chronicler
* Hermann Conring, legal scholar
* Ubbo Emmius, pastor, historian and founder of the University of
Groningen
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Rudolf Eucken
Rudolf Christoph Eucken (; 5 January 184615 September 1926) was a German philosopher. He received the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of thought, his wide range of vision, and ...
, philosopher
* Johannes Fabricius, one of the discoverers of sunspots
* Wilhelm von Freeden, German mathematician, scientist and oceanographer, founder of the North German Hydrographic Office in Hamburg
* Rudolf von Jhering, German lawyer
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Hermann Lübbe
Hermann Lübbe (born 31 December 1926) is a German philosopher. He is considered a member of the Ritter School.
Biography
Lübbe was born in Aurich. From 1947 to 1951, he studied philosophy, theology and sociology in Göttingen, Münster and Fre ...
FC Bayern Munich
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* Martin Tielke (ed.): ''Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland.'' Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich, 1993 {{in lang, ff, 5 volumes, Vol. 4, 2007.
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East Frisia
East Frisia or East Friesland (german: Ostfriesland; ; stq, Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is primarily located on the western half of the East Frisian peninsula, to the east of West Frisia ...