Altenkirchen

Altenkirchen (ˌaltn̩ˈkɪʁçn̩) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.

Population development

Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld

Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver
Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD)
Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship Bismarck
Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.

The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city:

Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz
Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician
Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in Altenkirchen to combat bovine tuberculosis^[2]
François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general
Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer
Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer
Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers ^[3]

^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Altenkirchen, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
^ Diarium the Westerwald Gymnasium with reference to Rhein-Zeitung of 5 January 1985 (+ without attribution autobiography 1974 p.134)
^ "Staff--International Scientific Center of Fertilizers(CIEC)"