Sögel

Sögel is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Sögel is most known for the Clemenswerth Palace, a hunting lodge built 1737–1749 by Johann Conrad Schlaun for Elector Clemens August.

Personalities

Born in Sögel

Wilhelm Röpke, surgeon in Wuppertal, president of the German Society of Surgery
Bernhard Rakers, Nazi war criminal

Died in Sögel

Katharina Sibylla Schücking, poet
Johann Heermann, 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.