Schleiden
Schleiden is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the Eifel hills, in the district of Euskirchen, and has 12,998 inhabitants as of 30 June 2017. Schleiden is connected by a tourist railway to Kall, on the Eifel Railway between Cologne and Trier. The town consists of 18 settlements, the largest of which are Gemünd and Schleiden proper.History
Mayors
- 1972−1975: Max Fesenmeyer
- 1975−1984: Herbert Hermesdorf
- 1984−1995: Alois Sommer
- 1995−1997: Dieter Wolter
- 1997−2004: Christoph Lorbach
- 2004−2012: Ralf Hergarten
- since 2012: Udo Meister
Education
There are the following schools in the city:
- Municipal High School
- Clara-Fey-High School, Schleiden
- Municipal Secondary School
- Primary school
- Elementary school
- Elementary school Gemünd
- Elementary school Dreiborn
- Astrid Lindgren School, Schleiden
Public figures
- Johannes Sturm , educator and scholar of the Renaissance, a professor in Paris and founder of the University of Strasbourg
- Johannes Sleidanus, historian, professor, Schleiden / Strasbourg
- Leopold Schoeller, industrialist and Privy Councillor of Commerce
- Gustav Poensgen, industrialist and Privy Councillor of Commerce
- Rudolf Poensgen, industrialist and councillor of commerce
- Carl Poensgen, industrialist and Privy Councillor of Commerce
- Larres Albert, painter
- Francis Albert Heinen, journalist and nonfiction writer
- George Schreiber, photographer
- Vera Hilger, painter
