RHEYDT

'Rheydt' () is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1918 and then again from 1933 (due to a split from Mönchengladbach arranged by Joseph Goebbels) through 1975 it was an independent city.
After merging with Mönchengladbach, the central station (Rheydt Hauptbahnhof) kept its original name, making Mönchengladbach the only city in Germany to have two stations called Hauptbahnhof.
The castle Schloss Rheydt, one of the best conserved castles of the renaissance era, is located in Rheydt.

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Mayors 1808–1974

Demographic Development

Notable residents

External links

Mayors 1808–1974

★ 1808–1823: Dietrich Lenßen

★ 1823–1857: Johann David Büschgens

★ 1857–1877: Carl Theodorf von Velsen

★ 1877–1893: Emil Pahlke

★ 1893–1901: Dr. Wilhelm Strauß

★ 1901–1905: Dr. Karl August Tettenborn

★ 1906–1920: Paul Lehwald

★ 1920–1929: Dr. Oskar Graemer

★ 1929–1930: Franz Gielen

★ 1930–1933: Dr. Johannes Handschumacher

★ 1933: Wilhelm Pelzer

★ 1934–1936: Edwin Renatus Robert August Hasenjaeger

★ 1936–1940: Heinz Gebauer

★ 1940–1945: Dr. Alexander Doemens

★ 1945: August Brocher

★ 1945–1948: Dr. Carl Marcus

★ 1948–1950: Heinrich Pesch

★ 1950–1956: Johannes Scheulen

★ 1956–1961: Wilhelm Schiffer

★ 1961–1963: Dr. Friedrich Hinnah

★ 1963–1964: Fritz Rahmen

★ 1964–1969: Wilhelm Schiffer

★ 1969–1974: Fritz Rahmen

Demographic Development

Year Population 1532 650 1794 2.776 1804 2.743 1830 2.200 3. December 1849 ¹ 8.189 3. December 1861 ¹ 10.200 3. December 1864 ¹ 11.400 3. December 1867 ¹ 12.200 1. December 1871 ¹ 13.766 1. December 1875 ¹ 15.835 1. December 1880 ¹ 19.100

Year Population 1. December 1885 ¹ 22.658 1. December 1890 ¹ 26.830 2. December 1895 ¹ 30.102 1. December 1900 ¹ 34.036 1. December 1905 ¹ 40.149 1. December 1910 ¹ 43.999 1. December 1916 ¹ 38.468 5. December 1917 ¹ 37.657 8. October 1919 ¹ 42.821 16. June 1925 ¹ 45.095 16. June 1933 ¹ 77.261

Year Population 17. May 1939 ¹ 77.339 31. December 1945 65.755 29. October 1946 ¹ 68.921 13. September 1950 ¹ 78.302 25. September 1956 ¹ 89.029 6. June 1961 ¹ 94.004 31. December 1965 98.862 27. May 1970 ¹ 100.077 31. December 1974 99.963

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Notable residents

★ 1859, February 3, Hugo Junkers, † February 3, 1935 in Gauting, engineer

★ 1876, September 4, Ernst Jakob Christoffel, † April 23, 1955 in Isfahan, founder of the Christoffel-Blindenmission

★ 1894, August 29, Werner Gilles, † June 22, 1961 in Essen, artist

★ 1894, February 24, Josef Arndgen, † September 20, 1966 in Wiesbaden, German politician (CDU)

★ 1897, October 29, Joseph Goebbels, † May 1, 1945 in Berlin, Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime

★ 1898, July 24, Peter Erkens, † October 22, 1972 in Mönchengladbach, politician

★ 1910, Emil Vorster, † 1976, race driver

★ 1917, June 2, Heinz Sielmann, † October 6, 2006 in Munich, film maker

★ 1918, May 6, Ruth Lommel, actress

★ 1930, May 16, Karl Heinz Beckurts, † July 9, 1986 in Straßlach, Munich, physicist, killed by Red Army Fraction

★ 1932, August 25, Alexander Arnz, † September 30, 2004 in Cologne, director

★ 1936, August 9, Uwe Erichsen, author

★ 1967, May 18, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, race driver

★ 1973, February 24, Sonja Oberem, marathon runner

★ 1977, May 10, Nick Heidfeld, race driver

External links

★ Rheydt-Online - a city guide to Rheydt