List of famous personalities of the Johanneum Lüneburg

This list contains well-known former teachers and students of the Johanneum grammar school in Lüneburg .

Teacher

• Lucas Lossius , teacher since 1533, vice-principal from 1542 to 1582
• Georg Raphel , vice principal from 1702
• Konrad Arnold Schmid , Rector 1746 to 1761
• Johann Christoph Stockhausen , 1752 vice principal a. 1761–1767 rector
• Ludwig Gottlieb Crome , rector until 1794
• Wilhelm Friedrich Volger , Rector and founder of the Realgymnasium (1834)
• Julius Hoffmann , rector from 1849 to 1869
• Gustav Lahmeyer , Vice Rector 1856–1866
• Rudolf Weynand , director 1919–1923
• Rudolf Lennert , teacher from 1949–1954
• Dietrich Mack , director 1952–1959

student

• Johann Heinrich Büttner (* 1666), librarian and archivist, Leibniz correspondent
• Engelbert Kaempfer , doctor, explorer around 1700, pupil from 1668 to 1670
• Christian Ludwig Kotzebue (1661–1706), physician, personal physician, historian and genealogist
• Friedrich Karl von Buri (1702–1767), lawyer and diplomat, student before 1721
• Michael Christoph Brandenburg , pastor and poet, student before 1714
• Johann Abraham Peter Schulz , composer and Danish court conductor in the 18th century, pupil 1759–1764
• Daniel Ludwig Wallis (1792–1836), lawyer and notary, writer
• Wilhelm Friedrich Volger (1794–1879), Rector of the Johanneum in Lüneburg
• Georg Theodor Meyer (1798–1870), lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848, Abitur 1815
• Christian Wilhelm Lindemann (1798–1867), lawyer, Lord Mayor of Lüneburg and Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Hanover, Abitur 1817
• Wilhelm Theodor Kraut (1800–1873), lawyer and university professor (Abitur in Gotha around 1819)
• Georg Keferstein (1831–1907), Lord Mayor of Lüneburg
• Georg Gottlieb Schirges , pharmacist, writer and journalist, graduated from high school in 1829
• Rudolf von Bennigsen , 19th century liberal politician, chairman of the National Liberals, pupil 1833–1838
• Ottokar von Witzendorff (1824–1890), landowner and district administrator, graduated from high school in 1843
• Georg von Cölln (1837–1908), entrepreneur
• Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), mathematician, pupil 1842–1846
• Gerhard Hachmann , President of the Hamburg Parliament (Abitur 1856)
• Karl Kayser (1843–1910), Lutheran clergyman and church historian, student from 1857
• Harry Bresslau , historian and diplomat, student from 1860 to 1866
• Carl Peters , controversial colonial pioneer, student from 1870 to 1872
• Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932), theologian (Old Testament scholar), pupil from 1870 to 1881
• Wilhelm Bode (1860–1927), pastor and nature conservation pioneer, known as the Heidepastor, graduated from high school in 1880
• Hermann von Dassel , member of the Hamburg Parliament and Hamburg judge
• Udo Jürgens , composer , pianist and singer of German-language songs
• Heinrich Meldau (1866–1937), nautical professor in Bremen, Abitur 1886
• Adolf Jenckel (1870–1958), surgeon in Altona and Göttingen
• Hermann Jacobsohn , linguist, graduated from high school in 1898
• Theodor Steltzer , member of the Kreisau Circle, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein 1946–1947, student from 1897 to 1902
• Ernst Wagemann , economic researcher and statistician, student from 1898 to 1903
• Fritz Heinemann , philosopher, graduated from high school in 1907
• Iris Runge (1888–1966), physicist, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Abitur in 1907 as an external student
• Henry Heinemann (1883–1958), tropical medicine, high school diploma in 1908
• Ernst Schmidt , technical thermodynamicist
• Kurt Heinrichs (1894–1971), District President of Lower Saxony, graduated from high school in 1912
• Bruno Snell , classical philologist, student from 1903 to 1914
• Karl August Wittfogel , social scientist, graduated from high school in 1914
• Alfred Sohn-Rethel , social scientist and philosopher, graduated from high school in 1917
• Rudolf Utermöhlen , theologian and musicologist, graduated from high school in 1925
• Martin Maneke , pediatrician, Abitur 1928
• Jean Leppien , artist, student from 1920 to 1929
• Niklas Luhmann , sociologist, graduated from high school in 1946
• Hans-Hermann Thielke , born 1956, comedian, student from 1966 to 1972
• Claus von Amsberg , Prince of the Netherlands and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, graduated from high school in 1946
• Jürgen Peter Ravens , newspaper publisher, journalist and author, graduated from high school in 1952
• Klaus Alpers , classical philologist
• Eberhard von Koerber , entrepreneur, graduated from high school in 1958
• Ekkehard Jost , musicologist, composer, Abitur 1959
• Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig , professor for public law at the University of Kiel, 1996–1998 Federal Minister of Justice, Abitur 1961
• Ulrich Fischer , theologian, Protestant regional bishop in Baden, student from 1959 to 1960
• Dirk Hansen , former member of the Bundestag D. and Vice President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
• Herwig Haase , professor of economics, politician, high school diploma in 1964
• Ulrich Sinn , Professor of Classical Archeology, Abitur in 1965
• Klaus Sühl (* 1951), political scientist and politician, graduated from high school in 1970
• Henrike Lähnemann (* 1968), professor at the University of Oxford, pupil 1978–81
• Pascal Finkenauer (* 1977), singer, Abitur 1997

Individual evidence

1. ^ Büttner, Johann Heinrich (April 30, 1746) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition