Elmshorn
Elmshorn is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the birthplace of writer and editor , the mathematician Hermann Weyl and the medievalist Heinz Woehlk.
Economy and industry
Historically Elmshorn had many companies in the food industry. Including meat processing and sausage production, margarine production and cereal processing. Major surviving companies include Dölling-Hareico and Kölln.Twin towns – sister cities
Elmshorn is twinned with:- Tarascon, France
- Wittenberge, Germany
- Stargard, Poland
- Raisio, Finland
Education
Notable people
The following people were born in Elmshorn :- Johann Christoph Biernatzki, writer.
- Johannes Rehmke, philosopher
- Fritz Höger,, architect
- Hermann Weyl, mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher.
- Carl August Rathjens, geographer
- Harald Paulsen, actor and director
- Walter Ohmsen, highly decorated Kriegsmarine Officer in WWII, in the 1950s-60s, a West German Navy Officer and organized the sailing at the Summer Olympics in the 1960s-70s.
- Karsten Voigt, politician and member of the SPD
- , Cultural Prize 2002, graphic artist and object artist
- , singer and one-hit wonder
- Anka Feldhusen, diplomat; German ambassador in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2019
- Sören Sieg, tenor, songwriter, composer, arranger, satirist, columnist and writer.
- Michael Stich, tennis player ; 1992 Summer Olympics men's doubles winner
- Tim Mälzer, cook and author of cookery books
- Birgit Hesse, politician
- Chiara Schoras, actress
- Hanno Behrens, soccer player, over 400 pro games
- Felix Nieder, model and author
- Daniel Kölbl, politician