party) candidate Thomas Möller replaced SPD (social democrat) Gisela Schwarz as Mayor. Notable people Dieter Berg (born 1966), boxer (1898–1995), geologist and paleontologist (born 1981), actress and singer (1852–1929), zoologist and ichthyologist (1896–1969), politician (SPD) (born 1945), politician (SPD in the GDR, SPD) (born 1930), author of radio plays and Low German texts Maria Kraus-Boelté (1836–1918), German-American educator (born 1961), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany Stefan Nimke (born 1978), Olympic and world champion track cyclist Lukas Pägelow (born 1994), footballer (LSK Hansa) Carl Schmidt (1868–1938), coptologist Kurt Schröder (1888–1962), composer Michael Timm (born 1962), amateur boxer for East Germany Charles Nelson (businessman) (1835-1891), distiller References External links Cities and towns in Mecklenburg Ludwigslust-Parchim Populated places established in 1754 1754 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Holocaust locations in Germany