Sögel is a municipality in the Emsland district, in

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. Sögel is most known for the Clemenswerth Palace, a hunting lodge built 1737-1749 by Johann Conrad Schlaun for Elector Clemens August. Clemenswerth1

Personalities

Born in Sögel

* Wilhelm Röpke (1873-1945), surgeon in Wuppertal, president of the German Society of Surgery * Bernhard Rakers (1905-1980), Nazi war criminal

Died in Sögel

* Katharina Sibylla Schücking (1791-1831), poet *

Johann Heermann Johann Heermann (11 October 158517 February 1647) was a German poet and hymnodist. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Paul Gerhardt. Life Heermann was born in Raudten ( ...

(1897-1976), politician, MdL

World War II

Much of the centre of Sögel was deliberately destroyed by the Canadian Army after the town was captured in April 1945.

References

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