twinned with: Haarlem, Netherlands (1961) Angers, France (1964) Gmünd, Austria (1971) Derby, United Kingdom (1976) Greifswald, Germany (1988) Tver, Russia (1991) Evansville, United States (1991) Gwangmyeong, South Korea (1997) Çanakkale, Turkey (2004) Vila Real, Portugal (2005) Hefei, China (2006) Twinning with Derby Previously Osnabrück had made contact with the British authorities as early as 1948, hoping to find an English twin town and therefore achieve greater understanding with their former enemies in the Second World War. Unfortunately, this attempt was unsuccessful and Osnabrück did not actively consider the idea again for another quarter-century. The twinning agreement with Derby was signed on 17 February 1976. Every year since then the two cities have exchanged envoys. Derby also has a square named after Osnabrück in honour of the twinning arrangement; this features an obelisk among other things. Notable people Public service & commerce Albert Suho (c. 1380 – c. 1450), clergyman, theologian, historian Friedrich Staphylus (1512–1564), theologian Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1649–1727), evangelical theologian Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1674–1728), brother of George I of Great Britain Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington (1675–1725), courtier and a half-sister of George I of Great Britain Justus Möser (1720–1794), jurist and social theorist Ernst zu Münster (1766–1839), politician, statesman in the service of House of Hannover Bernhard Rudolf Abeken (1780–1866), philologist Karl Fortlage (1806–1881), philosopher Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), evangelical theologian Friedrich Blass (1843–1907), classical scholar Friedrich Westmeyer (1873–1917), politician and trade unionist Walter Warlimont (1894–1976), General of the Artillery Elfriede Scholz (1903–1943), victim of national socialism Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), attorney, Righteous Among the Nations Fritz Buntrock (1909–1948), SS officer and war criminal Rudolf Beckmann (1910–1943), SS-Oberscharführer and war criminal Franz Lucas (1911–1994), concentration camp doctor Wilhelm Schitli (1912–1945?), SS officer Hubertus Brandenburg (1923–2009), Bishop of Stockholm Reinhold Remmert (1930–2016), mathematician Jürgen Kühling (1934–2019), lawyer, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake (born 1935), physicist and mathematician Rudolf Seiters (born 1937), politician (CDU), Vice-President of the Bundestag 1998–2002 Hans Huchzermeyer (born 1939), physician and musicologist Paul Kirchhof (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, prof. of tax law Hans-Gert Pöttering (born 1945), lawyer and politician, former President of the European Parliament Ferdinand Kirchhof (born 1950), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, professor of tax law Thomas Bellut (born 1955), journalist Olaf Scholz (born 1958), politician (SPD) and Chancellor of Germany from 2021 Christian Wulff (born 1959), politician and lawyer,