civil servant in Barsinghausen Colonel Ernst Poten (1785–1838), prominent cavalry leader (1808–1815) in the King's German Legion in Portugal, Spain, France and at Waterloo and later in the Hanoverian Army. August Heinrich Walter Münstermann (1931–2007), founder of Pelikan Company in Mexico. Writer and Journalist of Wochenblatt in the region of Schaumburg, Niedersachsen. References External links Towns in Lower Saxony Hanover Region