List of well-known students at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig

This list includes well-known students from the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . See also the list of well-known teachers at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and the list of rectors at the St. Thomas School in Leipzig .

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

• Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), composer and viol soloist, son of Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682–1761) and grandson of Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634–1696)
• Franz Abt (1819–1885), song composer and court music director
• Stefan Altner (* 1956), musician, musicologist and manager, manager of the St. Thomas Choir
• Nikolaus von Amsdorf (1483–1565), theologian and church political reformer, Bishop of Naumburg (1542–1546), close confidante of Martin Luther (1483–1546)
• August Apel (1771–1816), lawyer and writer, councilor, son of Heinrich Friedrich Innocenz Apel (1732–1802)
• Hans Apel-Pusch (1862–1921), major general
• Armand Léon von Ardenne (1848–1919), lieutenant general and military historian, archetype of the fictional character Baron von Innstetten in Fontane's Effi Briest
• Leon Asher (1865-1943), physiologist
• Albin Max Ay (1862-1941), lawyer and local politician, councilor, mayor of the city of Meissen (1912-1926)

B.

• Johann August Bach (1721–1758), legal historian
• Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), composer, mentor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Milanese or London Bach , member of the Bach family
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), composer, music director and cantor at the Johanneum , most famous of Bach's sons , baptized child Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), composer, organist of the Sophienkirche , music director of the Marienkirche , head of the Stadtsingechors zu Halle , Hallesche Bach , eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795), musician and composer, father of Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759–1845)
• Johann Ernst Bach (1722–1777), composer and court conductor, son of Johann Bernhard Bach the Elder. Ä. (1676–1749), grandson of Johann Egidius Bach (1645–1716), father of Johann Georg Bach (1751–1797)
• Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715–1739), organist, son of Maria Barbara Bach (1684–1720), cousin of Johann Nikolaus Bach (1669–1753)
• Reinhold Backmann (1884–1947), teacher and Germanist
• Karl Wilhelm Baedeker (1877–1914), physicist
• Alfred von Bake (1854–1934), civil servant, president of the Arnsberg administrative district
• Christian Samuel Barth (1735–1809), oboe virtuoso and composer
• Felix Barth (1851–1931), General
• Paul Bassenge (1828–1898), lawyer, entrepreneur and politician
• Karl Ludwig Bauer (1730–1799), important philologist
• Georg Friedrich Baumgärtel (1760–1840), educator
• Fritz Beblo (1872–1947), urban planner, architect and painter
• Christian Daniel Beck (1757–1832), philologist, director of the Leipzig University Library , rector of Leipzig University
• Cornelius Becker (1561–1604), theologian, pastor of the Nikolaikirche
• Carl Ferdinand Becker (1804–1877), organist and music writer
• Oskar Becker (1889–1964), philosopher, logician and mathematician
• Roderich Benedix (1811–1873), comedy poet, actor and theater director, artistic director of the Stadttheater Frankfurt am Main (1855–1859)
• Arnold Berger (1862–1948), philologist and Germanist
• Ernst Hugo Berger (1836–1904), classical philologist and historical geographer
• Theodor von Bergk (1812–1881), well-known classical philologist, member of the Committee of Seventeen , son of Johann Adam Bergk (1769–1834)
• Hans-Jürgen Bersch (1925–2016), chemist and science journalist
• Hans-Jürgen Beyer (* 1949), pop singer, front singer of the Klaus Renft Combo and the Bürkholz formation
• Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865–1910), man of letters, editor of the magazines Die Freie Bühne / Neue Deutsche Rundschau , Pan and Die Insel
• Georg Christoph Biller (* 1955), Thomaskantor (since 1992) and conductor, director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Choir (1980–1991), patron of the Schönberg Music Summer
• Georg Bleyer (1647 – unknown), composer and poet
• Robert Blüthner (1867–1932), lawyer and entrepreneur, owner of the Julius Blüthner pianoforte factory
• Claudius Böhm (* 1960), librarian and author
• Carl Böhme (1842–1904), lawyer, notary and politician
• Werner von Boltenstern (1897–1985), major general
• Victor Borosini von Hohenstern (1872–1968), German-Austrian officer and diplomat
• Adolf Böttger (1815–1870), poet, playwright and translator
• Christian Ludwig Boxberg (1670–1729), composer and organist
• Albert Brockhaus (1855–1921), publisher
• Eduard Brockhaus (1829–1914), publisher and politician
• Heinrich Brockhaus (1858–1941), art historian
• Eduard Brücklmeier (1903–1944), lawyer and diplomat, resistance fighter
• Hans Buchheim (1922–2016), political scientist and politician of the CDU , board member of the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation , son of Karl Buchheim (1889–1982)
• Karl Buff (1862-1907), singer
• Conrad Bursian (1830–1883), philologist and archaeologist, director of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Jena
• Heinrich Byk (1845–1923), chemist and entrepreneur

C.

• Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), painter, illustrator of the Romantic period and most important representative of Nazarene art , brother of Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1788–1853) and father of Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1836–1865)
• August Benedict Carpzov (1644–1708), legal scholar
• Friedrich Benedict Carpzov (1649–1699), lawyer, councilor and master builder
• Johann Benedict Carpzov II (1639–1699), Lutheran theologian, ethnologist and philologist, pastor of the St. Thomas Church and rector of the Leipzig University (1679, 1691 and 1697), member of the famous Saxon family of scholars Carpzov
• Johann Benedikt Carpzov IV. (1720–1803), Theology and Philology
• Samuel Benedict Carpzov (1647–1707), poet and Protestant theologian, superintendent and pastor of the Kreuzkirche , son of Johann Benedikt Carpzov I (1607–1657), grandson of Benedikt Carpzov the Elder (1565–1624), brother of Johann Benedict Carpzov II. (1639–1699), father of Johann Gottlob Carpzov (1679–1767) and Johann Benedict Carpzov III. (1675–1739)
• Carl Gustav Carus (1789–1869), doctor, painter and natural philosopher, court and medical advisor, president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and personal physician to Friedrich August II (1797–1854) and Anton von Sachsen (1755–1836)
• Walter Cramer (1886–1944), entrepreneur and politician of the DNVP , chairman of the advisory board of Deutsche Bank , anti-fascist, participant in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 and friend of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945)
• Benno Credé (1847–1929), surgeon and general practitioner
• Caspar Cruciger the Elder (1504–1548), Protestant theologian and reformer

D.

• Günter Dalitz (1918–1995), German translator and linguist
• Thomas Christian David (1925–2006), Austrian composer and conductor
• Max Dieckmann (1882–1960), German high-frequency technician, founder of aeronautical radio research
• Ludwig Dindorf (1805–1871), classical philologist, son of Gottlieb Immanuel Dindorf (1755–1812) and brother of Wilhelm Dindorf (1802–1883)
• Wilhelm Dindorf (1802–1883), classical philologist, son of Gottlieb Immanuel Dindorf (1755–1812) and brother of Ludwig Dindorf (1805–1871)
• Lampert Distelmeyer (1522–1588), lawyer and chancellor of the Mark Brandenburg
• Rudolf Dix (1884–1952), lawyer and notary
• Christoph von Dohnányi (* 1929), conductor, director of the Frankfurt Opera , chief conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and the NDR Symphony Orchestra
• Klaus von Dohnanyi (* 1928), lawyer and politician of the SPD , managing partner of the market research institute Infratest (1960–1966), member of the German Bundestag (1969–1981), Federal Minister for Education and Science (1972–1974), First Mayor of Hamburg ( 1981–1988), Deputy Chairman of the Convention for Germany , member of the Hamburg Citizenship (1982–1988), member of the Club of Rome , member of the Dohnányi family , nephew of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945)
• Georg Dohrn (1867–1942), conductor and pianist
• Edmund Drechsel (1843-1897), chemist
• Paul Drews (1858–1912), Protestant theologian
• Martin Drucker (1869–1947), lawyer, notary and councilor, President of the German Bar Association (1924–1932), co-founder of the LDPD (1946)

E.

• Hans-Jürgen Eberhardt (1936–2017), radiologist and radiation therapist
• Erich Ebermayer (1900–1970), writer, president of the Association of German Stage Writers, board member of the Association of German Writers' Associations and member of the administrative board of the collecting society Wort
• Hermann Ebert (1861–1913), physicist
• Karl Echte (1885–1960), lawyer and politician
• Axel Eggebrecht (1899–1991), journalist and writer, Vice President of the Pen Club
• Hans Jürgen Ehlers (1926–2013), inventor of the ISBN
• Ernst Theodor Eichelbaum (1893–1991), educator and politician of the CDU , co-founder and federal chairman of the Association of Soviet Zone Refugees (1952–1963), member of the German Bundestag (1957–1965)
• Eugen Einenkel (1853–1930), Anglicist
• Rudolf Engelmann (1841–1888), astronomer and publisher-bookseller
• Wilhelm Engelmann (1808–1878), bookseller and publisher, a. a. the Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum , father of Rudolf Engelmann (1841–1888)
• Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann (1843–1909), physiologist
• August Wilhelm Ernesti (1733–1801), classical philologist, rector of the University of Leipzig , cousin of Johann August Ernesti (1707–1781)

F.

• Georg Fabricius or Goldschmidt (1516–1571), poet, historian and archaeologist, Poeta laureatus , rector of the Princely School St. Afra , inspector of the monastery school Roßleben
• Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758), important instrumental composer and court conductor, father of Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800)
• Christian Gottfried Findeisen (1738–1796), philologist and philosopher
• Friedrich Gotthilf Findeisen (1742–1796), Vice Rector
• Johannes Fischer (1936–2019), pianist, composer and choir conductor, Vice President of the Beethoven Society in Munich
• Ernst Flechsig (1852–1890), chemist and chess master
• Paul Fleming (1609–1640), doctor and writer, court squire and Truchseß, most important lyric poet of the Baroque era and poet of the song In all my deeds ( EG 368)
• Johann Georg Friedrich Franz (1737–1789), doctor
• Karl Friedrich August Fritzsche (1801–1846), prot. Theologian, son of Christian Friedrich Fritzsche (1776–1850) and brother of Otto Fridolin Fritzsche (1812–1896)
• Gustav Adolf Fricke (1822–1908), evangelical theologian, central director of the Gustav Adolf Association
• Hermann Frohberger (1836–1874), philologist

G

• Hugo Gallenkamp (1859–1925), lawyer
• Gustav Adolf Gebauer (1830–1890), Vice Rector
• Peter von Gebhardt (1888–1947), genealogist
• Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976), eminent philosopher and sociologist, opponent of the Frankfurt School , cousin of Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979)
• Paul Geibel (1845–1915), farmer and NLP politician
• Gottfried Geiler (1927–2018), doctor, Vice President of the Leopoldina
• Christoph Genz , singer, student of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915–2006)
• Stephan Genz (* 1973), singer
• Christoph Gertner von Gartenberg (1626–1689), lawyer and language teacher of King Karl XI. of Sweden
• Christian Alfred Giesecke (1868–1945), publisher, owner of the BG Teubner publishing house
• Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Younger (1784–1829), composer and music director, son of Carl Ludwig Traugott Glaeser (1747–1797) and grandson of Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Elder (1715–1792)
• Carl Ludwig Traugott Glaeser (1747–1797), composer and cantor, son of Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Elder (1715–1792) and father of Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Younger (1784–1829)
• Michael Gläser (* 1957), singer and choir director
• Johann Friedrich Gleditsch (1653–1716), important publisher and bookseller of the 16th and 17th centuries. Jh., Editor of the Real State and Newspaper Lexicon and the German Acta Eruditorum
• Reinhard Goerdeler (1922–1996), lawyer and auditor, founder of KPMG , son of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945)
• Ferdinand Goetz (1826–1915), doctor, chairman of the board of the German Gymnastics Association , member of the German Reichstag , member of the North German Reichstag
• Walter Goetz (1867–1958), historian, director of the Institute for Cultural and Universal History , politician of the DDP , member of the German Reichstag , son of Ferdinand Goetz (1826–1915)
• Johann Gottlieb Görner (1697–1778), organist, brother of Johann Valentin Görner (1702–1762)
• Ferdinand Friedrich Graefenhain (1743–1823), Protestant theologian
• Christoph Graupner (1683–1760), composer and court conductor
• Helmuth Greiner (1892–1958), military historian
• Karl Grunert (1810–1869), actor
• Andreas Roland Grüntzig (1939–1985), angiologist and cardiologist, clinical director of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
• Johannes Grüntzig (* 1937), ophthalmologist
• Johann Gottfried Gurlitt (1754–1827), philologist, pedagogue and teacher, rector of the Berge monastery , director of the Johanneum's school of scholars
• Alexander von Graevenitz (* 1932), microbiologist
• Ernst Friedrich Günther (1789–1850), Counselor

H

• Johann Gottlob Haase (1739–1801), physician
• Karl Heinrich Haase (1785–1868), lawyer, councilor of appeal, manor owner and politician, President of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
• Wilhelm Andreas Haase (1784–1837), physician
• Wolf Haenisch (1908–1978), librarian and Japanologist
• Albert Hänel (1833–1918), lawyer and politician
• Ferdinand Hardekopf (1876–1954), journalist, writer, poet and translator
• Georg Harig (1935–1989), medical historian
• Georg Oskar Harnapp (1903–1980), doctor and chemist
• August Ferdinand Häser (1779–1844), teacher, cantor, conductor and composer, choirmaster of the Weimar court theater , music director of the Herderkirche , son of Johann Georg Häser (1729–1809) and brother of Charlotte Henriette Häser (1784–1871)
• Friedrich Hahn (1852–1917), geographer
• Christoph Michael Haufe (1932–2011), Canon and theologian
• Karl Gottlob Hausius (1754–1825), Protestant clergyman and writer
• Christoph Hegendorf (1500–1540), humanistic poet, Lutheran theologian and lawyer
• Gustav Ernst Heimbach (1810–1851), lawyer
• Karl Wilhelm Ernst Heimbach (1803–1865), lawyer and councilor
• Carl Erdmann Heine (1819–1888), lawyer and important entrepreneur of the 19th century.
• Thomas Theodor Heine (1867–1948), painter, draftsman and writer, son of Isaak Heine
• Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729), composer and music theorist, teacher Johann Georg Pisendels (1687–1755) and Johann Joachim Quantzs (1697–1773)
• Karl Heldrich (1900–1939), Higher Regional Judge, father of Andreas Heldrich (1935–2007)
• Diethard Hellmann (1928–1999), church musician and university professor, founder of the Mainz Bach Choir and cantor of the Christ Church
• Hugo III Count Henckel von Donnersmarck (1857–1923), magnate and officer
• Klaus Herfurth (1917–2000), newspaper publisher
• Frederick Heuser (1878–1961), literary historian
• Max Hellmann (1884–1939), lawyer
• John Hennig (1911–1986), Irish-German literary and religious scholar
• Karl Hennig (1903–1992), evangelical theologian and pastor
• Conrad Hermann (1819–1897), philosopher
• Antje Hermenau (* 1964), politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ), parliamentary group leader in the Saxon state parliament
• Günter Herrmann (* 1931), Legal Director of WDR and Artistic Director of the broadcaster Free Berlin (SFB)
• Heinz Herz (1907–1983), historian
• Wolfgang Heubner (1877–1957), pharmacologist, member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , son of Johann Otto Leonhard Heubner (1843–1926)
• Karl Heinrich Heydenreich (1764–1801), writer and philosopher
• Karl Heym (1818–1889), mathematician
• Heinz Herz (1907–1983), historian
• Horst Karl Hessel (1916–2006), composer, organist and choir director
• Gustav Moritz Heydrich (1820–1885), playwright and dramaturge
• Gerhard Hilbert (1868–1936), theologian
• Rudolf Hildebrand (1824–1894), Germanist, teacher and linguist, editor of the Grimm dictionary
• Stefan Hildebrandt (1936–2015), mathematician
• Curt Hillig (1865–1939), counselor, lawyer and notary, honorary member of the German Publishers' Association
• Hans-Peter Hillig (* 1934), lawyer, deputy Legal Counsel of the West German Broadcasting Corporation Cologne (WDR)
• Sascha Hingst (* 1971), TV presenter, news anchor for the Hessenschau in HR and the Berliner Abendschau in the RBB
• Rudolf Hirzel (1846–1917), classical philologist
• Karl von Hochmuth (1673–1736), Russian general and councilor
• Otto Hoetzsch (1876–1946), scientist, politician of the DNVP , member of the Prussian state assembly and member of the German Reichstag
• Willy Hoffmann (1888–1942), lawyer and notary, editor of the magazines Archive for Copyright, Film and Theater Law (UFITA) and Archive for Radio Law (ArchFunkR)
• Hodo Freiherr von Hodenberg (1887–1962), lawyer and politician of the DHP and CDU , co-editor of the journal Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP), board member of the German Bar Association (1930–1933), president of the Higher Regional Court of Celle (1945–1955), Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (1955–1959)
• Christoph Hohlfeld (1922–2010), music theorist and composer
• Titus Maria Horten (1882–1936), Dominican and Catholic priest
• Wilhelm Hermann Howard (1848–1919), agricultural economist
• Hans-Olaf Hudemann (1915–1984), singer (bass) and musicologist
• Gerhard Hund (* 1932), mathematician, computer scientist and chess official
• Julius Ambrosius Hülße (1812–1876), mathematician and technician, director of the Technical College in Dresden
• Carl Theodor Hütterott (* 1926), school musician and composer

I.

• Werner Ihmels (1926–1949), theology student and victim of Stalinism

J

• Arnold Jacobi (1870–1948), zoologist and ethnographer
• Gustav Adolph Jahn (1804–1857), astronomer and mathematician
• Ottomar Jänichen (1900–1967), businessman and writer, co-founder of the JUH
• Günter Jena (* 1933), choirmaster and church music director, founder of the Würzburg Bachtage, vice-president of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg

K

• Hannes Kästner (1929–1993), harpsichordist and Thomas organist (1951–1984)
• Hermann Kees (1886–1964), Egyptologist
• Reinhard Keizer (1674–1739), composer and opera producer, Royal Danish Kapellmeister, organist at Hamburg Cathedral
• Michael Keller (1896–1961), Bishop of Münster (1947–1961)
• Otto Kestner (1873–1953), physiologist
• Johann Friedrich Kind (1768–1843), lawyer, councilor, writer and librettist for Freischütz
• Franz Moritz Kirbach (1825–1905), revolutionary 1848/49, lawyer and notary, member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament, pupil 1839–1844
• Hans-Peter Kirchberg (* 1956), conductor and pianist, musical director of the Neukölln Opera (since 2002)
• Christian Victor child father (1758–1806), general superintendent
• Svend-Gunnar Kirmes (* 1949), lawyer, MdL
• Paul Kirn (1890–1965), historian
• Bernhard Klee (* 1936), conductor and pianist
• Heinrich Hermann Klemm (1816–1899), lawyer and politician
• Otto Klemm (1884–1939), psychologist
• Wilhelm Klemm (1881–1968), poet, owner of the Dieterich'sche publishing house , husband of Alfred Kröner's daughter (1861–1922)
• Edmund Kloeppel (1871–1926), lawyer and chemist
• Otto Kloeppel (1873–1942), architect, rector of the Technical University of Danzig
• Antonio Knauth (1855–1915), German-American lawyer
• Dietrich Knothe (1929–2000), choirmaster, director of the Berliner Singakademie and chief conductor of the Rundfunkchor Berlin (1982–1993)
• Lothar Koch (1860–1915), educator
• Georg Rudolf Koegel (1855–1899), Germanist
• Carl Kolbe (1855–1909), chemist, owner of the chemical factory v. Heyden
• Arthur Kötz (1871–1944), chemist
• Gottlob Krause (1850–1938), Africa explorer, dog groom with Fräulein Alexandrine Tinné (1835–1869)
• Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780), composer and organist, cathedral organist at the St. Marien Church in Zwickau , son of Johann Tobias Krebs (1690–1762)
• Johann Tobias Krebs (1718–1782), classical philologist
• Roland Krug von Nidda (1895–1968), writer, translator, German diplomat in occupied France, National Socialist
• Sebastian Krumbiegel (* 1966), singer and musician, patron of the Ronald McDonald House in Leipzig and the Ecumenical Peace Decade
• Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse (1790–1866), theologian, historian and writer
• Christian Gottlieb Kühnöl (1768–1841), philosopher and theologian
• Christian Kunert (* 1952), songwriter and musician, keyboard player of the Klaus Renft Combo
• Karl Sigismund Kunth (1788–1850), botanist
• Gustav Kunze (1793–1851), botanist, director of the Botanical Garden at Leipzig University
• Wilhelm Kunze (1894–1960), major general
• Tobias Künzel (* 1964), front man of the princes , ambassador of the Fans for Kids e. V.
• Albrecht Kurzwelly (1868–1917), art historian and folklorist
• Christian Wilhelm Küstner (1721–1785), lawyer, councilor and mayor of the city of Leipzig
• Karl Theodor von Küstner (1784–1864), theater director

L.

• Johann August Landvoigt (1715–1766), lawyer and librettist
• Ludwig Lange (1863–1936), physicist
• Victor Lange (1908–1996), German-American German studies specialist
• Konrad von Lange (1855–1921), art historian and teacher
• Oskar Lasche (1868–1923), electrical engineer, inventor of the electric express train car
• Christian Lehmann the Younger (1642–1723), theologian and superintendent, son of Christian Lehmann (1611–1688)
• Christian August Joachim Leißring (1777–1852), actor and singer
• Wolfgang Lenk (* 1966), singer
• Hans Leo (1890–1963), lawyer and notary, in the resistance against National Socialism
• Eckhard Lessing (1935–2020), theologian
• Rudolf Leuckart (1854–1889), chemist
• Hans Lewald (1883–1963), lawyer
• Karl Theodor Albert Liebner (1806–1871), Lutheran theologian, philologist and historian, court preacher in Dresden (1855–1873)
• Karl Lilienfeld (1885–1966), art historian and art dealer
• Justus Hermann Lipsius (1834–1920), philologist, rector of the Nikolaischule
• Richard Adelbert Lipsius (1830-1892), Protestant theologian
• Karl Friedrich Salomon Liscovius (1780–1844), doctor and physiologist
• Renatus Gotthelf Löbel (1767–1799), lawyer, lexicographer and private scholar, co-author of the Conversationslexikon with excellent consideration of contemporary times , the basis for the Brockhaus encyclopedia
• Christoph Friedrich Loesner (1734–1803), classical philologist
• Carl Günther Ludovici (1707–1778), philosopher, lexicographer and economist, director of the Great Universal Lexicon , member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , son of Christian Ludovici (1663–1732)
• Johann Martin Luther II. (1663–1756), theologian, great-great-grandson of the reformer Martin Luther

M.

• Morton Masius (1883–1979), physical chemist
• Hermann Mau (1913–1952), historian, teacher and private lecturer, deputy director of the historical institute at the University of Leipzig , general secretary of the institute for contemporary history , politician of the CDU
• Erhard Mauersberger (1903–1982), organist, music teacher and Thomaskantor (1961–1972), choir director and director of the Bach Society in Aachen , director of the Eisenach Bach choir , brother of Rudolf Mauersberger (1889–1971)
• Max Maurenbrecher (1874–1930), clergyman, publicist and politician
• Jakob Mauvillon (1743–1794), lieutenant colonel and military writer
• Adolph Mayer (1839–1908), mathematician
• Gerhard Mehnert (1914–1983), media scientist and Japanologist
• Hellmut Mehnert (* 1928), doctor, President of the German Society for Internal Medicine and the German Diabetes Union
• Helmut Meyer von Bremen (1902–1941), composer
• Hermann Meyer (1871–1932), publisher, geographer and explorer
• Jacques Mieses (1865–1954), German-British natural scientist, International Chess Grandmaster (IGM)
• Heinrich Mitteis (1889–1952), important legal historian
• Albin Möbusz (1871–1934), German educator and Esperantist
• Paul Julius Möbius (1883–1907), neurologist and psychiatrist, descriptor of Möbius syndrome , grandson of August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868)
• Max Morgenstern-Döring (1858–1931), major general
• Felix Moscheles (1833–1917), English painter and writer
• Heinrich Leberecht August Mühling (1786–1847), organist, cantor, conductor and composer
• Carl Otto Müller (1819–1898), lawyer and politician

N

• Phokion Naoúm (1875–1950), chemist and explosives expert
• Christoph Neander (1589–1625), Kreuzkantor (1615–1625)
• Karl Eugen Neumann (1865–1915), indologist and translator
• Christoph Nichelmann (1717–1762), composer
• Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche (1756–1826), theologian and grandfather of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Arthur Philipp Nikisch (1888–1968), lawyer, son of Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922) and brother of Mitja Nikisch (1899–1936)

O

• Vera Oelschlegel (* 1938), actress, singer and theater director
• Robert Oertel (1907–1981), art historian
• Georg Austria (1664–1735), composer and court conductor, founder of the Bokemeyer Collection
• Hans Otto (1922–1996), organist and cantor, president of the Gottfried Silbermann Society
• Carlernst Ortwein (1916–1986), musician and composer, a. a. the film music " Beloved White Mouse "

P

• Siegfried Pank (* 1936), cellist and gambist
• Carl Paul (1857–1927), pastor and mission director
• Johannes Paul (1891–1990), historian, university professor in Greifswald, Riga and Hamburg
• Bernhard Payr (1903; † unknown), former director of the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature
• Christian Friedrich Penzel (1737–1801), cantor and composer
• Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), mathematician and computer scientist, definer of the Petri network , member of the Academia Europaea
• Basilius Petritz (1647–1715), Kreuzkantor (1694–1713)
• Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868), zoologist, botanist and explorer
• Ernst Petzold (1930–2017), theologian and pastor
• Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), art historian, member of the British Academy
• David Peifer (1530–1602), Electoral Saxon Chancellor
• Ernst Platner (1744–1818), anthropologist, physician and philosopher
• Johann Ehrenfried Pohl (1746–1800), botanist and pathologist
• Max Pommer (* 1936), choir and orchestra conductor and musicologist, chief conductor of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (1987–1991), great-grandson of Max Pommer (1847–1915)
• Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755), important violinist and composer
• Peter Conradin von Planta (1815–1902), Swiss lawyer, journalist and politician
• Hugo Carl Plaut (1858–1928), doctor, bacteriologist and mycologist

R.

• Justus Radius (1797-1884), pathologist
• Günther Ramin (1898–1956), organist, composer and choir director, Thomaskantor (1940–1956), director of the Leipzig Bach Festival (1950, 1953 and 1955) and managing director of the New Bach Society
• Christian Rau (1744–1818), legal scholar
• Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798–1859), court conductor and composer, teacher of Hermann Berens (1826–1880)
• Hans Reiter (1881–1969), bacteriologist and hygienist
• Christian Reuter (1665–1712), writer
• Thomas Reuter (* 1952), composer, choir director and pianist
• Johann Gottfried Richter (1763–1829), journalist and translator
• Oswald von Richthofen (1908–1994), lawyer and diplomat
• Wilhelm Friedrich Riem (1779–1857), composer, conductor and organist
• Martin Rinckart (1586–1649), poet, prot. Theologian and church musician, composer of the chant " Now thank all God "
• Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (1769–1842), storyteller, playwright and music writer, councilor, founder of the Allgemeine musical newspaper
• Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1684–1756), composer and cantor, court conductor
• Wolfgang Röllig (* 1932), ancient orientalist, editor of the New Handbook of Literary Studies
• Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1684–1756), court conductor and cathedral organist
• Johann Rosenmüller (1619–1684), composer and court conductor, teacher of Johann Philipp Kriegers (1649–1725)
• Wolfgang Rosenthal (1882–1971), oral surgeon
• Reginald Rudorf (1929–2008), political scientist and media critic
• Friedrich Ruge (1894–1985), Vice Admiral and Military Writer, Inspector of the Navy

S.

• Hans Wolfgang Sachse (1899–1982), composer
• Georg Robert Sachsse (1840–1895), agricultural chemist
• Robert Karl Sachße (1804–1859), lawyer, legal historian and librarian
• Albrecht Sack (* 1964), tenor
• Ernest Sauter (1928–2013), composer
• Johann Schelle (1684-1701), composer and choirmaster (1677-1701)
• Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (1735–1803), classical philologist and lexicographer
• Georg Christian Schemelli (1678–1762), cantor and author of the musical song book
• Johann Christian Schieferdecker (1679–1732), church musician and composer, organist at St. Marien zu Lübeck (1707–1732)
• Michael Schirmer (1606–1673), teacher and hymn poet
• Benjamin Friedrich Schmieder (1736–1813), philologist
• Albrecht Schmidt (* 1938), lawyer and manager, spokesman for the board of the Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank
• Georg Schmidt (1877–1941), lawyer and Saxon Minister of Economics
• Hans Schmidt-Leonhardt (1886–1945), lawyer and civil servant
• Hanns-Martin Schneidt (1930–2018), conductor, harpsichordist, organist and university professor, director of the church music school in Berlin , general music director of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra (1963–1985), artistic director of the Munich Bach Choir (1984–2001)
• Wilhelm Schomburgk (1882–1959), banker and athlete, co-founder and president of the German Tennis Federation (1934–1937)
• Theodor Schreiber (1848–1912), archaeologist and monument protector
• Johann Andreas Schubert (1808–1870), universal engineer, designer of the Saxonia and the Göltzschtal bridge , director of the mechanical engineering institute Übigau
• Johann Philipp Christian Schulz (1773–1827), composer and conductor, music director of the Gewandhaus
• Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk (1921–2016), agricultural chemist
• Hermann Schultze-von Lasaulx (1901–1999), lawyer and legal historian
• Christian Schumann (1681–1744), pastor and hymn poet
• Friedrich Seetzen (1868–1943), Consistorial President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and Lord Mayor of Wurzen
• Thomas Selle (1599–1663), church musician and composer
• Justus Siegismund (1851–1876), classical philologist
• Wolfgang Sobek (* 1945), chemist and polygraph
• Gerhard Sörgel (* 1935), mechanical engineer
• Moritz Schreber (1808–1861), doctor, orthopedist, university professor and representative of the education of the Enlightenment , namesake of the allotment gardens , father of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) and cousin of Johann Christian von Schreber (1739–1810)
• Paul Schreber (1842–1911), lawyer, writer, President of the Senate at the Dresden Higher Regional Court
• Einar von Schuler (1930–1990), ancient orientalist
• Ekkehard Schumann (* 1931), lawyer, Vice President of the Bavarian Senate
• Max Seddig (1877–1963), physicist and photography pioneer
• Bernhard Spiegel (1826–1895), evangelical theologian, superintendent and church historian
• Horst Springer (1926–2002), entrepreneur, owner of the Schirmer Kaffee company
• Johann Gottfried Stallbaum (1793–1861), philologist and rector of the Thomas School (1835–1861)
• Albert Steche (1862–1943), chemist, entrepreneur and politician
• Franz Richard Steche (1837–1893), architect, art historian and preservationist, founder of the Saxon inventory
• Otto Hermann Steche (1879–1945), physician, zoologist and educator
• Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein (1771–1830), geographical writer
• Karl Wilhelm Siebdrat (1770–1834), classical philologist and rector
• Adolf Stern (1835–1907), literary historian and poet
• Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1756–1836), lawyer, councilor and mayor of the city of Leipzig
• Wilhelm Stiehler (1797–1878), lawyer and civil servant
• Otto zur Strassen (1869–1961), zoologist, rector of the University of Frankfurt am Main, director of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main
• Rudolf Straube (1717–1785), theologian, lutenist, guitarist and composer
• Hanns Studniczka (1891–1975), writer, translator and lawyer
• Peter Stuhlmacher (* 1932), ev. Theologian and New Testament scholar
• Friedrich Wilhelm Sturz (1762–1832), rector
• Reiner Süß (1930–2015), chamber singer and entertainer, politician of the SPD , member of the Berlin House of Representatives , presenter of the GDR television program " Da geht Musike drin " (1968–1985)

T

• Klaus-Jürgen Teutschbein (* 1944), church musician and choir director, father of Markus Teutschbein (* 1971)
• Georg Friedrich Louis Thomas (1838–1907), physician
• Paul Thymich (1656–1694), poet
• Wolfgang Tilgner (1932–2011), rock and hit writer, poet and non-fiction author
• David Timm (* 1969), pianist, organist, choir director and jazz musician, musical director of the Leipzig University Choir (since 2005)
• Ernst Trendelenburg (1882–1945), lawyer and politician (DDP), State Minister and Reich Minister of Economics
• Ferdinand Trendelenburg (1896–1973), physicist and President of the German Physical Society
• Friedrich Trendelenburg (1878–1962), lawyer and advisor in the Prussian Ministry of Culture
• Paul Trendelenburg (1884-1931), pharmacologist
• Heinrich Triepel (1868–1946), lawyer, constitutional and international law expert, founder of the Association of German constitutional law teachers
• Hermann Triepel (1871–1935), anatomist and embryologist
• Carl Bruno Tröndlin (1835–1908), lawyer and notary, politician of the NLP , member of the German Reichstag (1884–1890), member of the Assembly of Estates of the Kingdom of Saxony (1899–1908) and Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig (1899–1908)

U

• Christian Uhlig (* 1931), bookseller and economist
• Eckhard Unger (1884–1966), ancient orientalist

V

• Karl Wilhelm Valentiner (1845–1931), astronomer
• Eduard Vogel (1829–1856), Africa explorer
• Martin Christian Vogel (* 1951), theologian and singer, President of the Federal Association of German Singing Pedagogues (2000–2003) and Rector of the Detmold University of Music (since 2001)
• Moritz Voigt (1826–1905), lawyer and notary, legal historian
• Woldemar Voigt (1850–1919), physicist
• Peter Volkelt (1914–2002), art historian
• Artur Volkmann (1851–1941), sculptor

W.

• Richard Wachsmuth (1868–1941), physicist, rector of the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences (1913/14), son of Curt Wachsmuth (1837–1905)
• Carl Wagner (1901–1977), chemist, pioneer of modern solid-state chemistry
• Gottlob Heinrich Adolph Wagner (1774–1835), writer
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883), playwright, conductor and important composer, a. a. the opera " The Ring of the Nibelung "
• Matthias Weichert (* 1955), singer
• Jörg-Peter Weigle (* 1953), choir conductor, chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic (1986/87), chief conductor and artistic director of the Stuttgart Philharmonic (1995–2003), rector of the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin (since 2008)
• Georg Fritz Weiß (1822–1893), opera singer, actor and translator
• Karl Friedrich Christian Wenck (1784–1828), lawyer
• Helmut Wenck (* 1935), chemist
• Johann Amadeus Wendt (1783–1836), philosopher
• Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815–1905), diplomat and orientalist
• Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873), musician and important music teacher, father of Clara Schumann (1819–1896), teacher of Hans von Bülows (1830–1894) and Robert Schumanns (1810–1856)
• Karl Theodor Wilisch (1847–1935), politician
• Johann Winckler (1642–1705), Lutheran theologian and senior pastor of the St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg
• Martin Eduard Winkler (1893–1982), icon collector and Russia researcher
• Carl Gottfried von Winkler (1722–1790), lawyer and mayor
• Karl Witte (1800–1883), “child prodigy of Lochau”, lawyer and Dante translator
• Ulrich Wolf (1933–2017), human geneticist
• Christoph Wolle (1700–1761), theologian

Z

• Emil Zacharias (1867–1944), chemist, inventor of the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production process
• Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663–1712), composer, choir director of the Stadtsingechors zu Halle and organist of the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen , teacher Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759), Gottfried Kirchhoff (1685–1746) and Johann Gotthilf Ziegler (1688–1747)
• Karl von Zahn (1877–1944), lawyer and ministerial official
• Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800–1860), composer and leading figure in the male choir, father of Heinrich Zöllner (1854–1941)
• Erich Zweigert (1879–1947), lawyer and ministerial official, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior
• Kurt Zweigert (1886–1967), lawyer, federal judge and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court

Remarks

1. ↑ See for example Mario Sicca , Rita Maria Fleres (Ed.): Rudolf Straube, Tre Sonate per chitarra, clavicembalo e violoncello. Zerboni, Milan.