Kiel

:This article is about the city in Germany. There is also Kiel, Wisconsin in the United States of America.

Important personalities

Buildings and Constructions

• Fernmeldeturm Kiel

Famous residents

• Eric Braeden (actor, emigrated to the United States at age 19)
• Georg Landsberg (mathematician)
• Carl Loewe (composer)
• Peter III of Russia (tsar of Russia)
• Max Planck (physicist)
• Ernst Steinitz (mathematician)
• Carl Zuckmayer (writer and playwright)

Important historic mayors and lord mayors of Kiel

• 1688 - 1720: Asmus Bremer
• 1730 - 1732: Ernst Joachim von Westphalen
• 1920 - 1933: Emil Lueken (removed from office by the Nazis)

Lord mayors after World War II

• 1946 - 1954: Andreas Gayk (SPD)
• 1954 - 1965: Hans Müthling (SPD)
• 1965 - 1980: Günther Bantzer (SPD)
• 1980 - 1994: Karl-Heinz Luckhardt (SPD)
• 1994 - 1997: Otto Kelling (SPD)
• 1997 - 2003: Norbert Gansel (SPD)
• 2003 - today: Angelika Volquartz (CDU)