List of personalities of the city of Apolda
This list contains personalities of the city of Apolda in Thuringia. The list does not claim to be complete.
Honorary citizen
The city of Apolda has granted honorary citizenship to 15 people since 1871 . It is the highest award the city bestows. It honors personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the city. The honorary citizenship expires with the death of the honored person. The honorary citizenship conferred on Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Frick on April 20, 1933 by the board of directors of the Thuringian City Association were revoked by an order of October 15, 1945. In the period from 1939 to 1945 granting honorary citizenship rights was prohibited.
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Gustav Francke
- First mayor of the city of Apolda from 1850–1861 and 1871–1877
- Honorary citizen from 1871 to 1895
- The award was made for his services as first mayor of the city of Apolda.
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Wilhelm Bock
- Grand Ducal District Council a. D.
- Honorary citizen from 1884 to 1888
- In recognition of his services to the development of the local city.
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Adolf Schwabe
- Grand Ducal Saxon Medical Council
- Honorary citizen from 1892 to 1906
- In recognition of his many years of successful work for the prosperity of the city of Apolda.
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Christian Linke
- Master weaver
- Honorary citizen from 1893 to 1909
- The award was made for his many years of unselfish work for the development of Apolda and on the occasion of his 25-year membership in the local council.
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Alfred Küchler
- Superintendent i. R.
- Honorary citizen from 1902 to 1928
- On the occasion of his 26 years as pastor of the city of Apolda.
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Gustav Compter
- Councilor
- Honorary citizen from 1909 to 1922
- The award was made in recognition of his 50 years of activity as director of the Grand Ducal Saxon Wilhelm and Louis Zimmermann secondary school .
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Louis Opel
- Commerce Council
- Honorary citizen from 1910 to 1921
- The award was in recognition of his foundations and his proven loyalty and love for the city of Apolda.
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Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg
- Reich President and Field Marshal General
- Honorary citizen from 1917 to 1934
- In appreciation of his work for the German Reich.
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Carl Ludwig
- Grand Ducal Council
- Honorary citizen from 1918 to 1925
- In recognition of his services in the acquisition of the Oetter springs and the love and loyalty to the city of Apolda that has always been shown.
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Max Wiener
- Manufacturer
- Honorary citizen from 1926 to 1940
- The award was made in grateful recognition of his services to the beautification and maintenance of the Apolda promenades.
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Carl Krause
- Master mason
- Honorary citizen from 1930 to 1943
- On the occasion of his 40th anniversary as a member of the Apolda city council.
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Ernst Horn
- City councilor according to the election results of September 8, 1946
- Honorary citizen from 1986
- The award was made for his services to youth work and for founding a local group of the Free German Youth in Apolda.
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Wolfgang Hoppe
- World champion in the four-man bobsleigh in 1995 and holder of a total of 30 international medals
- Honorary citizen since 1995
- The award was made for his services in bobsleigh and his commitment to club sports in the city of Apolda.
mayor
The First Mayor Ernst Stegmann was 33 years old and held the position of Mayor of Apolda for the longest time.
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sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Apolda. For the mention here it is irrelevant whether the persons later had their sphere of activity in Apolda or not. Many have become known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
| Surname | Born | Died | Profession / activity |
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| Dietrich von Apolda | 1220 or 1230 | after 1302 | Dominican monk and author of biographies of saints |
| Lorenz Hörnig | around 1577 | March 12, 1624 | Sculptor in Pirna |
| Johann Friedrich Hirt | 16 Aug 1719 | Jul 29, 1783 | Protestant theologian and orientalist |
| Johann Gottlieb Preller | 9 Mar 1727 | 21 Mar 1786 | Cantor , composer and surveyor |
| Christian Zimmermann | Aug 2, 1759 | Jan. 17, 1842 | Founder of the first trading house for hosiery in Apolda in 1789 |
| Karl Wilhelm Muller | possibly. 1801 | Aug 5, 1874 | Classical philologist |
| Friedrich Wilhelm barefoot | 23 Mar 1809 | 13 Aug 1854 | Mathematician , geodesist and author |
| Christian Gottlob Tröbst | 25 Jul 1811 | Apr 3, 1888 | Theologian , philosopher , mathematician and first director of the Realgymnasium in Weimar |
| Gottlieb Roh | May 10, 1813 | May 25, 1871 | Master weaver , company founder , publisher |
| Friedrich Klopfleisch | Aug 12, 1831 | May 30, 1898 | Founder of prehistory and early history research in today's Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt |
| Friedrich Louis Dobermann | Jan. 2, 1834 | Jun 9, 1894 | Breeder of the Doberman |
| Herrmann Bachstein | Apr 15, 1834 | Feb. 4, 1908 | Railway entrepreneur and initiator of many railway lines in Germany |
| Carl Friedrich Louis Opel | Jul 5, 1835 | Nov 23, 1921 | Manufacturer of meat and sausage products |
| Charles Conrad Schneider | Apr 24, 1843 | Jan. 8, 1916 | Engineer and Bridge Designer in the United States |
| Wilhelm Zimmer | Apr 16, 1853 | December 20, 1937 | painter |
| Franz Friedrich August Schilling Sr. | Oct. 31, 1853 | Jan 15, 1926 | First master bell founder named Schilling in Apolda |
| Arthur Burkhardt | Jan. 24, 1857 | Jul 21, 1918 | Engineer and designer, founder of the First German Calculating Machine Factory |
| Udo Dammer | Jan. 8, 1860 | Nov 15, 1920 | botanist |
| Karl Oßwald senior | 26th Mar 1861 | Jan 15, 1942 | Farmer and carpenter |
| Hans Holbein | Jan. 31, 1864 | Sept. 14, 1929 | Lawyer and Sexual Reform -Unterstützer |
| Albert Paul Veeh | May 9, 1864 | Feb. 26, 1914 | Pioneer of airship travel , builder of the semi-rigid airship Veeh1 |
| Karl Krehahn | Feb. 1, 1869 | Jan. 24, 1946 | Music pedagogue |
| Heinrich Richard Karl Ulrich | 25th Mar 1876 | Feb 12, 1924 | Bell founder |
| Hermann Schneider | 9 Mar 1877 | 3rd Mar 1961 | architect |
| Hugo Ruppe | Aug 15, 1879 | Jan. 23, 1949 | Engineer and automobile pioneer |
| Robert Birkner jun. | Dec 15, 1881 | Aug 7, 1944 | Print shop owners and publishers |
| Wolfgang Otto Schilling | 20 Mar 1882 | Aug 25, 1962 | Bell foundry master and foundry owner |
| Franz Moericke | 29 Mar 1885 | May 29, 1956 | Craftsman (model maker) and politician (KPD), member of the Reichstag |
| Eugene Hamm | May 12, 1885 | Jul 3, 1930 | Painter and graphic artist |
| Heinrich August Friedrich Schilling | Aug 20, 1886 | Apr 15, 1928 | Bell foundry master and foundry owner |
| Hans Walther | May 28, 1888 | Nov 4, 1961 | sculptor |
| Wilhelm Werner | June 6, 1888 | May 14, 1945 | Politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag and war criminal |
| Franz Roh | Feb. 21, 1890 | Dec 30, 1965 | Art critic and photographer |
| Karl Kötschau | Jan. 19, 1892 | Jun 14, 1982 | Nazi doctor and homeopath |
| Elisabeth Blochmann | Apr 14, 1892 | Jan. 27, 1972 | Pedagogue and first professor for pedagogy at the Philipps University of Marburg |
| Adolf But | Jan. 28, 1893 | May 21, 1960 | Musicologist and critic |
| Walter Gordon | Aug 3, 1893 | December 24, 1939 | physicist |
| Franz August Schilling jun. | Feb. 2, 1897 | Oct 10, 1977 | Bell caster |
| Otto Kleine | Nov 16, 1898 | Nov 7, 1968 | communist resistance fighter |
| Otto Meisser | Jun 19, 1899 | Jul 23, 1966 | Geophysicist |
| Richard artist | Jun 17, 1906 | Jun 26, 1976 | Teacher and historian |
| Willy Hundertmark | Apr 16, 1907 | Dec 15, 2002 | Communist, editor and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| Ingeborg Krummer-Schroth | Feb. 2, 1911 | Jul 13, 1998 | Art historian |
| Otto Franz Georg Schilling | Nov 3, 1911 | Jun 20, 1973 | Mathematics - Professor in the US |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling | Sep 2 1914 | Jun 6, 1971 | Bell founder in Heidelberg |
| Karl Schnieke | Aug 24, 1919 | Jun 13, 1974 | Soccer player |
| Albert Raisner | Sep 30 1922 | Jan. 1, 2011 | French musician (harmonica player) and television presenter |
| Hans Boll | Nov 25, 1923 | Jun 12, 2016 | Composer , arranger, instrumentalist and conductor |
| Hansjürgen Müller-Beck | Aug 13, 1927 | Aug 2, 2018 | Prehistoric |
| Rolf Jahn | Oct 8, 1927 | May 3, 2001 | Soccer player and soccer coach |
| Karl Schäffner | December 29, 1931 | Jun 8, 1995 | Soccer player and coach |
| Hans-Joachim Scheel | Jun 23, 1933 | Feb 28, 2015 | Motorcycle racer and doctor |
| Annerose Neumann | Jun 16, 1935 | Apr 15, 2016 | First news anchor for German television in the GDR |
| Lothar Paul Schleicher | Oct 22, 1939 | Nov 6, 1999 | Collectors of two - wheeled classic cars |
| Ehrenfried Schulz | Nov 13, 1939 | Jul 31, 2016 | Roman Catholic theologian |
| DE saddler | 1939 | Editor of the Frankfurt Hölderlin edition | |
| Peter Franz | May 10, 1941 | Author , local researcher and Stasi-IM | |
| Martin Lüdke | Apr 9, 1943 | Literary scholar and literary critic | |
| Elisabeth Onisseit | Sep 15 1944 | Cyclist, winner of the Medal of Honor of the City of Apolda in 2004 | |
| Joachim Weyrich | 1945 | Painter , graphic artist , art teacher and director of the Graal-Müritz local history museum | |
| Richard Albrecht | May 4, 1945 | Social scientist , civil rights activist and author | |
| Jörg Grünler | Nov 9, 1945 | Film director and screenwriter | |
| Heinz Hoppe | 6th Mar 1947 | Motorcyclist and 37-time GDR master in motocross, brother of Wolfgang Hoppe | |
| Christine Laser | 19 Mar 1951 | Former athlete | |
| Sigrun Siegl | Oct 29, 1954 | Former athlete | |
| Hartmut Reich | May 7, 1956 | Former German wrestler , world and European champion in free style in flyweight | |
| Wolfgang Hoppe | Nov 14, 1957 | Former bobsledder | |
| Jörg Henke | June 23, 1961 | Politician ( AfD ) and since 2014 member of the Thuringian state parliament | |
| Axel Lobenstein | May 19, 1965 | Judoka , European champion and third in the world championship | |
| Uwe Langhammer | Jun 12, 1965 | Last GDR champion in the pole vault | |
| Ralph Lenkert | May 9, 1967 | Member of the Bundestag (Die Linke) | |
| Sybille Schmidt | Aug 31, 1967 | Former rower who became Olympic champion in quadruples in 1992 | |
| Andrea Eskau | 21 Mar 1971 | Handbike athlete and double Para-Olympic winner 2014 in biathlon and on the ski sledge | |
| Mike Mohring | Dec 22, 1971 | Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in Thuringia, state chairman of the CDU Thuringia and since 1999 member of the Thuringian state parliament | |
| Mark Ashley | Jul 6, 1973 | Pop singer | |
| Nico tail | Jan. 12, 1978 | Photo model | |
| Thomas Gottweiss | 1979 | Politician | |
| Marcel blade | Dec. 4, 1980 | Politician ( FDP ) and member of the German Bundestag since 2017 | |
| Martin Putze | Jan. 14, 1985 | Bobsledder | |
| Anne Schäfer | 1st Mar 1987 | Tennis player | |
| Melanie Grudge | Jun 21, 1987 | Soccer player | |
| Luise Wolfram | Jul 27, 1987 | Theater and film actress | |
| Marco Riemer | Feb. 24, 1988 | Soccer player | |
| Franziska Dittmann | 1988 | Photo model | |
| Bertram Burkert | 1994 | Jazz musician |
People whose work is connected to Apolda
| Surname | Born | Died | Profession / activity |
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| Count Berno (also Becelin) | lived in the middle of the 11th century | Territorial lord , buried in the "upper church" of Apolda at the end of the 11th century, but transferred to Ettersburg in 1123 | |
| Count Wichmann | lived in the 12th century | after 1133 (?) | Son of Count Berno, chairman of the Thuringian country thing , owner of a Church of Apolda |
| Apel III. Vitzthum | 1425 | 1474 | Territorial lord with possessions in Apolda |
| Busso II. Vitzthum | 1467 | Territorial lord with possessions in Apolda | |
| Bernhard Vitzthum | 1486 | Territorial lord with possessions in Apolda | |
| Anton Friedrich von Vitzthum | 1631 | Territorial lord owner of the castle and rule over Apolda until his death | |
| Johann Nikolaus Eschner | Craftsman and dealer, brought the first stocking knitting loom to Apolda around 1690 | ||
| Peter Herold | May 16, 1700 | Organ builder in Apolda | |
| Johann Nicolaus Mempel | Dec 10, 1713 | Feb. 26, 1747 | Cantor in Apolda |
| Adolf Facius | 1803 | 1872 | Deacon and 1859 founder of the forerunner of the Realschule |
| Karl Timler | Jul 10, 1836 | Feb 10, 1905 | Architect and planner of the Zimmermann factory and today's seat of the Weimar District Office |
| August Baudert | Jun 16, 1860 | Apr 24, 1942 | Publicist and politician of the SPD |
| Paul Louis Adolf Mebes | Jan. 23, 1872 | Apr 9, 1938 | Architect, representative of "New Building", builder of the mountain school |
| Hugo Michel | Apr 4, 1872 | Jun 9, 1944 | Thuringian collector, stamp dealer and publisher of the MICHEL stamp catalog |
| Carl Joachim Slevogt | December 29, 1876 | 6 Sep 1951 | Mechanical engineer, designer, automobile pioneer, racing driver, ADAC official |
| Hermann Schiering | Apr. 27, 1884 | Oct 16, 1944 | Resistance fighters |
| August Berger | Jan. 30, 1892 | in April 1945 | Local politician |
| Willi Brümmer | Jan. 24, 1893 | Jun 16, 1936 | Resistance fighters against the Nazi regime |
| Rudi Moser | Apr 6, 1898 | Apr 15, 1979 | radiologist |
| Johann Ollik | Jul 12, 1905 | Jan. 10, 1945 | Resistance to the Nazi regime |
| Irene Seiler | Apr 26, 1910 | July 1984 | Photographer and victim of fascism |
| Kurt Weiland | Jul 15, 1910 | in Sep 1944 | Resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| Hermann Fischer | Jan. 18, 1912 | Nov 23, 1984 | Sportsman and communist resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| Ludwig Edinger | Jan. 7, 1917 | 27 Mar 2000 | First lieutenant , combat commander and rescuer of the city of Apolda |
| Erich Bartl | Nov 12, 1920 | Aug 5, 1985 | Founder of the Apoldaer Volkssternwarte on the Jahnhöhe |
| Hans Geupel | Oct 10, 1923 | Dec 29, 2000 | Sports pedagogue, training manager and eponym for the Apolda stadium |
| Margarete Schilling | Jul 4, 1932 | Author and expert on bells and carillons | |
| Gerd Fesser | 1941 | Historian and author | |
| Kurt Weyh | 29 Sep 1952 | Dec 21, 2014 | SPD member of the state parliament, city councilor and entrepreneur in the printing industry |
| Hiltrud Dorothea Werner | Apr 16, 1966 |
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Manager, Volkswagen Board of Management |
| Marco Schreyl | Jan. 1, 1974 |
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TV and radio presenter |
| Ronny Weiland | Feb 25, 1975 | Popular singer, winner of the 2007 Superstar Folk Music Competition | |
| Max Reschke (politician) | Aug 18, 1995 | Beekeeper, politician (deputy chairman of the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN Thuringia) |
literature
- Gollrad, Eva: History and description of the city of Apolda 1871–1990 , Apolda o. J., ISBN 3-00-002012-8
Web links
Commons : Personalities of the city of Apolda - album with pictures, videos and audio files
