the German and continental European Baptist churches Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), developed about the same time and independent of Dmitri Mendeleev modern periodic table of the elements Oskar Emil Meyer (1834–1909), physicist Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1865–1946), statistician Wilhelm Hegeler (1870–1943), writer Carl Carls (1880–1958), chess champion Erich Heckel (1883–1979), painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976), expressionist painter and printmaker Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), pathologist Hildegard Behrens (1937–2009), singer (dramatic soprano) Hans-Paul Bürkner (born 1951), CEO of the Boston Consulting Group Heiko Daxl (1957–2012), media artist, exhibition curator, art gallery owner and design / art collector Ines Varenkamp (born 1963), cyclist Markus Eichler (born 1982), cyclist Massiv in Mensch (founded in 1996), industrial musical duo Esther Henseleit (born 1999), professional golfer International relations Varel is twinned with: Jackson, Michigan (United States) References External links Official site Port cities and towns of the North Sea Friesland (district) Grand Duchy of Oldenburg