Max Bockmühl (1882-1949), chemist Walter Julius Bloem (1898–1945) (Kilian Koll), author and recipient of the Iron Cross Birthplace of Friedrich Engels Adeline Rittershaus (1876–1924), philologist, a scholar in old Scandinavian literature, and champion for the equality of women Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (1897-1947), "The Butcher of Crete" Birthplace of Hermann Ebbinghaus