Gehrden is a town in the district of Hanover, in

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated approximately southwest of

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

Notable people

Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; ; ; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He foun ...

(1816-1892), inventor, founder of electrical engineering and industrialist *

Carl Wilhelm Siemens Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Biography Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Han ...

(1823-1883), industrialist *

Werner Lueg Werner Lueg (16 September 1931 – 13 July 2014) was a West Germany, West German middle distance runner who equalised Lennart Strand's and Gunder Hägg's 1500 m world record in 3:43.0 min in Berlin in 1952. Along with Otto Peltzer he is th ...

(1931-2014), athlete, Olympic champion 1952 *

Hans-Joachim Frey Hans-Joachim Frey (born 10 June 1965, in Gehrden, Lower Saxony) is a German cultural manager. From 1997 to 2007, he was Artistic Director of Operations and Director of Opera (from 2003) at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2007 to 2010 and general ...

(born 1965), theater director *

Maria Schrader Maria Schrader (born 27 September 1965) is a German actress, screenwriter, and director. She directed the award-winning 2007 film ''Love Life'' and the 2020 Netflix miniseries '' Unorthodox'', for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for O ...

(born 1965), actress and director *

Tim Pritlove Tim Pritlove (born 25 November 1967 in Gehrden, Germany) is a British/German podcaster, media artist and discordianist. He lives and works in Berlin. Pritlove studied computer science but never graduated. From 1998 to 2005 he was the main ...

(born 1967), eventmanager, media artist and member of

Chaos Computer Club The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an '' eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters (called ''Erfa-Kreise'') i ...

Wolfgang Kreißig Wolfgang Kreißig (born 29 August 1970 in Gehrden, West Germany) is a retired German track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump. He was a finalist at both 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing ninth and eighth respectively. His b ...

(born 1970), high jumper * Grischa Niermann (born 1975), racing cyclist *

Marc Bator Marc Bator (born December 4, 1972) is a German television moderator. Life Bator was born in Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) in ...

(born 1972), newsreader at the Tagesschau 2000–2013, since then at Sat.1 *

Christian Pampel Christian Pampel (born 6 September 1979 in Gehrden) is a volleyball player from Germany. He currently plays and coaches at TSV Mimmenhausen. Career Christian Pampel started his career in Hochstetten in 1995. After three years in the Volleyb ...

(born 1979), volleyball national player *

Carolina Bartczak Carolina Bartczak (born October 5, 1985) is a Canadian actress of Polish descent. She is known for her role as Magda Lehnsherr, the wife of Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto, in '' X-Men: Apocalypse'' and as Maura Mackenzie in the CBC film ''An Audience ...

(born 1980), actress *

Nils Pfingsten-Reddig Nils Pfingsten-Reddig (born May 23, 1982) is a German retired professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, A ...

(born 1982), soccer player *

Kristin Demann Kristin Marion Demann (born 7 April 1993) is a German football defender, currently playing for VfL Wolfsburg. Club career In May 2022, Demann signed to join VfL Wolfsburg. International career She was a member of the German Under-19 national ...

(born 1993), soccer player

References

Towns in Lower Saxony Hanover Region {{Hanover-geo-stub