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Diepholz (; Northern Low Saxon: Deefholt) is a town and capital of the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the rivers Hunte and Lohne, approximately 45 km northeast of Osnabrück, and 60 km southwest of Bremen.

It was the capital of the sovereign County of Diepholz and the principal seat of the Noble Lords, later Counts, of Diepholz.

Diepholz

Politics

City Council

The City Council of Diepholz consists of 32 councilwomen and councilmen. This is the prescribed number for a municipality with a population between 15,001 and 20,000 inhabitants. Council members are elected for five-year terms through a local election. In addition to the 32 members elected in the municipal council election, the full-time mayor also has voting rights in the council.

Diepholz

The results of the 2021 local election led to the following seat distribution: CDU: 12 seats SPD: 9 seats FDP: 4 seats GREENS: 4 seats LEFT: 1 seat AfD: 2 seats

Diepholz

Mayor

On June 10, 2018, Florian Marré (independent), supported by the CDU and FDP, was elected as the Mayor in a runoff election with 50.65% of the votes, succeeding Thomas Schulze.

Religion

According to the census conducted in 2011, 59,1% of the city's inhabitants were Evangelical Christians, 13,3% were Roman Catholic, and 27,6 % were irreligious, belonged to a different religious community or preferred not to say. On December 31st 2019, of 17.577 inhabitants, 47,3 % were Evangelical Christians, 18,9 % Roman Catholic and 33,8 % of other confessions, or irreligious.

Notable people

Notable people associated with Diepholz include: Rudolf van Diepholt (c. 1390–1455), bishop of Utrecht and bishop of Osnabrück Fritz Klatte (1880–1934), German chemist and the discoverer of polyvinyl acetate Eva Leo (1901 in Diepholz – 10 April 1998 in Dubuque, Iowa), German Master Metal Sculptor Zygfryd Kuchta (born 1944), Polish handball player Klaus Schlichte (* 1963), political scientist and professor Georg Moller (1784–1852), architect and town planner who worked in the South of Germany, mostly in the region today known as Hesse Marianne of Sweden (died after 1285), Swedish Princess and countess consort of Diepholz by marriage to Rudolf, Count of Diepholz, whom she married in Nyköping in Södermanland in 1285.