It was founded in 1885 by German immigrants and named for Elberfeld, Germany.
Helmut Ulm's father was an elementary school teacher in Elberfeld.
Klaus Hesse (born 1954 in Elberfeld) is a German graphic designer.
Amongst the other tournaments he won were the annual major tournaments in Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; St. Petersburg, Russia; Elberfeld, Germany; and Berlin, Germany.
Cläre Tisch, also "Kläre Tisch" or "Klara Tisch," (* January 14, 1907 in Elberfeld (today: Wuppertal); † (lost) November 1941 in Minsk, Belarus) was a German economist.
The association was founded in Leipzig by Lassalle and twelve delegates from some of the most important cities in Germany: Barmen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Elberfeld, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Harburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Mainz and Solingen.
He made his singing debut aged 37, going on to make appearances at Cassel, Zurich, Bremen, Neustrelitz, Brunn, Elberfeld and Mannheim.
He studied theology at Duisburg and became pastor in Bärl (today part of Duisburg; 1798), Wülfrath (1801) and Elberfeld (1816), was the leader of the pietists of Wupperthal.
He began his career with conducting jobs in Elberfeld (1913-1918), Leipzig (1918-1919) and Dessau (1919-1922).
After several years teaching in Elberfeld she studied History, Philosophy and Romance Languages in Bonn and Grenoble.
In 1824 he accompanied Martha Savory, an English Quaker, on a gospel journey up the Rhine from Elberfeld to Würtemberg, Tübingen, and other German towns, through Switzerland to Congénies in Central France, where some Friends were and (as of 1897) still are settled.
Julius Heinrich Dorpmueller (24 July 1869 in Elberfeld – 5 July 1945 in Malente) was general manager of Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft from 1926 to 1945 and the German Reich Transport Minister from 1937 to 1945.
Olga Bernstein Kohlberg (August 2, 1864, Elberfeld, Westphalia – August 12, 1935, El Paso, Texas) was a Jewish Texan philanthropist and founder of the first public kindergarten in Texas.
Hans Haym, to whom Delius dedicated the work, conducted the premiere on 14 December 1901 in Elberfeld, Germany.
On 9 September 1826 he advised the Elberfeld Council two routes for the construction of such a railway from Elberfeld via Uellendahl, Horath and Herzkamp to Hinsbeck or from Elberfeld via Horath to Langenberg.
The “Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission” initially deported them into the unoccupied area around Wuppertal-Elberfeld and were placed, several days later in Königswinter and Altenkirchen /Westerwald.
German industrial pioneer, thinker and politician Friedrich Harkort built a demonstration track of Palmers' system in 1826, in Elberfeld, Germany, at the time commercial centre of the early industrial area Wupper Valley.