List of personalities of the city of Göttingen
In the many centuries of its rich history, Göttingen was the place of birth, study, work and death of numerous important personalities.
Honorary citizen
The city of Göttingen has granted the following people honorary citizenship (the list is made chronologically according to the date of award):
- Baron Friedrich von Hövel (born April 16, 1766 at Gut Herbeck near Hagen; † November 8, 1826 in Münster) and Baron Wilhelmine von Hövel
- Prefect of the Westphalian department of Leine.
- Awarded on June 20, 1808.
- When Germany was reorganized by Napoleon Bonaparte , the Kingdom of Westphalia was created in 1807 based on the French model . In 1808, Baron von Hövel took over the management of the Leine department, the capital of which was Göttingen. During the Wars of Liberation, however , he then took part in the construction of the Prussian Landsturm .
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Joseph Piautaz (born July 5, 1774 in Cluse, Savoy, Kingdom of Sardinia, † September 9, 1825 in Berlin) and Pinette Piautaz
- Secretary General of the Westphalian Département Leine.
- Awarded on July 8, 1808.
- Prince Adolph Friedrich (born February 24, 1774 in London; † July 8, 1850 there)
- Son of King George III. from the United Kingdom, Field Marshal of the British Army
- Awarded on November 8, 1814
- Prince Adolph Friedrich studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Later he took part as an officer in the coalition wars against Napoléon.
- Count Joachim Lobo de Silveira and Countess Sophie de Silveira
- diplomat
- Awarded on April 22, 1816
- Count Lobo de Silveira was the Portuguese envoy in Berlin.
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Johann Friedrich Hausmann (born February 22, 1782 in Hanover, † December 26, 1859 in Göttingen)
- Mineralogist and geologist
- Awarded on June 24, 1816
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Arnold Heeren (born October 25, 1760 in Arbergen near Bremen; † March 6, 1842 in Göttingen) and Henriette Heeren
- historian
- Awarded on April 5, 1817
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Georg Christian Franz Wedemeyer and Julie Wedemeyer
- jurist
- Awarded on February 11, 1822
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David Julius Pott (born October 10, 1760 in Nettelrede, † October 18, 1838 in Göttingen) and his daughters Julie and Emilie Pott
- theologian
- Awarded on August 29, 1826
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Christian Friedrich Ruperti
- theologian
- Awarded on April 5, 1832
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Carl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt (born September 11, 1768 in Celle; † April 27, 1845 in Hanover)
- Lawyer, Royal Minister of State and Cabinet in Hanover
- Awarded on September 17, 1837
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Carl Wilhelm August von Stralenheim (born August 17, 1777 in Imbshausen, today a district of Northeim, † May 19, 1847 in Hanover)
- Lawyer, Royal Minister of State and Cabinet in Hanover
- Awarded on September 17, 1837
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Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt (* July 8, 1779 in Hanover; † February 16, 1858 ibid)
- Lawyer, Secret Cabinet Councilor in Hanover
- Awarded on September 17, 1837
- The 123-year personal union between England and Hanover ended in June 1837. King Ernst August I was the first ruler to rule the country from the city of Hanover.
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Johann Wilhelm Junker and Johanne Junker
- Merchant
- Awarded on February 23, 1846
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Friedrich Gottfried Rettig and Hulda Rettig
- theologian
- Awarded on April 22, 1848
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Carl Heinrich Miede (* 1788 in Nordhausen; † September 1, 1851 in Göttingen) and Johanne Dorothea Elisabeth Miede
- theologian
- Awarded on April 22, 1848
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Carl Friedrich Gauß (born April 30, 1777 in Braunschweig, † February 23, 1855 in Göttingen)
- Mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist
- Awarded on July 16, 1849
- Gauß studied at the University of Göttingen from 1795 to 1799. In 1807 he became professor and director of the observatory here. Carl Friedrich Gauß is considered one of the most important mathematicians of his time.
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Georg Friedrich Julius Hildebrandt
- theologian
- Awarded on January 9, 1850
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Friedrich Wöhler (born July 31, 1800 in Eschersheim near Frankfurt am Main, † September 23, 1882 in Göttingen)
- Chemist
- Awarded on July 31, 1857
- Friedrich Wöhler was Professor of Medicine, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Göttingen from 1836 to 1882. Wöhler is considered a pioneer in organic chemistry.
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Karl Friedrich Christian Hoeck (born May 13, 1794 in Oelber on White Road, † January 13, 1877 in Göttingen)
- Classical philologist
- Awarded on August 23, 1865
- Prince Otto von Bismarck (born April 1, 1815 in Schönhausen (Elbe), Brandenburg; † July 30, 1898 in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein)
- Chancellor
- Awarded on March 15, 1877
- Otto von Bismarck was instrumental in founding the German Empire in 1871.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (born October 24, 1804 in Wittenberg, Saxony, † June 23, 1891 in Göttingen)
- physicist
- Awarded on August 26, 1886
- Weber was professor of physics at the University of Göttingen from 1831 to 1837, but lost his post as one of the Göttingen seven with whom he protested against the repeal of the Hanoverian constitution. After the March Revolution of 1848 he regained his post. Together with Gauss, he built the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833 .
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Gottlieb Planck (born June 24, 1824 in Göttingen; † May 20, 1910 there)
- jurist
- Awarded on January 1, 1898
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Paul von Hindenburg (born October 2, 1847 in Posen, † August 2, 1934 in Neudeck, East Prussia)
- Field Marshal General of the German Army, Reich President
- Awarded on October 2, 1917
- Paul von Hindenburg was considered a legendary military man who had been an officer since the 1860s. During the First World War he was celebrated as the "Held von Tannenberg " who prevented the occupation of East Prussia by Russian troops. In August 1916 he and General Ludendorff became chiefs of the Supreme Army Command .
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Georg Friedrich Calsow (born November 21, 1857 in Timmendorf on Poel, † February 12, 1931 in Göttingen)
- Lawyer, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
- Awarded on April 30, 1926
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Justus Theodor Valentiner (born August 9, 1869 in La Guaira, † May 26, 1952 in Göttingen)
- Lawyer, curator of the university
- Awarded on December 23, 1932
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Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, † April 30, 1945 in Berlin)
- "Führer" and Reich Chancellor
- Awarded on April 19, 1933; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
- Adolf Hitler was hailed as the leader of the National Socialist movement, which had set itself the goal of making Germany the dominant power in Europe at the expense of other states. The National Socialists murdered at least 6 million people in the Holocaust on the basis of their racial ideology. Over 50 million people died as a result of World War II triggered by Hitler.
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Bernhard Rust (born September 30, 1883 in Hanover; † May 8, 1945 in Berne, Oldenburg)
- Reich Minister for Science, Education and Public Education
- Awarded on May 2, 1934; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
- Rust was subject to the ideologization of the entire higher education system. The "leaders of the universities" (rectors) reported directly to him. The dismissal of all Jews and political opponents of the Nazis significantly weakened Germany's position in the natural sciences.
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Ludolf Haase (born January 6, 1898 in Hanover; † October 3, 1972)
- Mediciners
- Awarded on February 7, 1937; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
- Haase founded the local NSDAP association in Göttingen.
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Wilhelm Frick (born March 12, 1877 in Alsenz, Bavaria; † October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg)
- Reich Minister of the Interior
- Awarded on March 12, 1937; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
- As Minister of the Interior in the Nazi state, Wilhelm Frick was responsible for drafting the laws that were intended to undermine the Weimar Constitution and cement the National Socialist leadership. Among other things, the " Ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State " came from him. After the war he was found guilty and executed as part of the Nuremberg Trials for preparing a war of aggression, leading and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Viktor Lutze (born December 28, 1890 in Bevergern; † May 2, 1943 near Potsdam)
- Chief of Staff of the SA, Upper President of the Province of Hanover
- Awarded on June 26, 1937; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
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Edward Schröder (born May 18, 1858 in Witzenhausen, † February 9, 1942 in Göttingen)
- Germanist
- Awarded on June 26, 1937
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Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen (* March 20, 1874 in Hildesheim, Province of Hanover; † March 16, 1945 in Windischleuba, Thuringia)
- Writer and poet
- Awarded on June 26, 1937
- Von Münchhausen was one of the most funded authors of the National Socialists, participated in racist cultural policy and repeatedly publicly declared his unreserved support for the Nazi regime. From 1898 to 1905 he published the Göttingen Musenalmanach several times.
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Erich Schmidt
- Lawyer and City Director
- Awarded on December 31, 1951
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Max Born (born December 11, 1882 in Breslau, Silesia, † January 5, 1970 in Göttingen)
- Mathematician and physicist
- Awarded on June 28, 1953
- Max Born was a professor in Göttingen from 1921 to 1933. Here he developed large parts of modern quantum mechanics . For Born's probability interpretation , he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 .
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Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 in Lublinitz, Silesia, † January 27, 1972 in New York City)
- mathematician
- Awarded on June 28, 1953
- Richard Courant was a professor in Göttingen from 1922 to 1933. After he had to flee the National Socialists because of his origins, he built the mathematics research center at New York University , which is now one of the most respected institutes for applied mathematics.
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James Franck (born August 26, 1882 in Hamburg, † May 21, 1964 in Göttingen)
- physicist
- Awarded on June 28, 1953
- James Franck was a professor in Göttingen from 1920 to 1933. For the Franck-Hertz experiment , he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 . In 1933 he resigned his professorship and finally went to Chicago. Here he came into contact with the Manhattan Project , but tried to prevent the atomic bomb from being dropped on Japan with the Franck Report .
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Herman Nohl (October 7, 1879 in Berlin; † September 27, 1960 in Göttingen)
- Pedagogue and Philosopher
- Awarded on June 28, 1953
- Herman Nohl was a professor in Göttingen from 1919 to 1937. After the war he helped rebuild the school system and the university in Göttingen, where he became dean of his department.
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Harry Lambach
- Master carpenter
- Awarded on June 28, 1953
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August Reuper
- Telegraph inspector
- Awarded on June 28, 1953
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Rudolf Stich
- Mediciners
- Awarded on July 18, 1955
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Fritz Ulrici
- pharmacist
- Awarded on July 18, 1955
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Hermann Föge (born February 25, 1878 in Schleswig, † October 21, 1963 in Göttingen)
- Lawyer and Lord Mayor of Göttingen
- Awarded on March 1, 1957
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Fritz Wittorf
- Carpenter and enforcement officer
- Awarded on March 1, 1957
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Heinrich Ische
- Printers and typesetters
- Awarded on March 1, 1957
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Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main; † July 28, 1968 in Göttingen)
- Chemist
- Awarded on March 8, 1959
- Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of nuclear fission . But he was also one of the Göttingen eighteen people who resolutely opposed the military use of nuclear fission.
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Bruno Karl August Jung (born April 2, 1886 in Essen, † December 13, 1966 in Göttingen)
- Lawyer and Lord Mayor of Göttingen
- Awarded on April 2, 1961
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Konrat Ziegler (born January 12, 1884 in Breslau, Silesia, † January 8, 1974 in Göttingen)
- classical philologist
- Awarded on March 7, 1969
- Konrat Ziegler held lectures in Breslau and Greifswald from 1910 to 1933. During the Nazi era, he helped Jewish acquaintances several times to escape persecution by the Nazis. In 1958 he became chairman of the newly founded Göttingen Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. Posthumously in 2000 he was honored with the title “ Righteous Among the Nations ”.
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Walter Meyerhoff (born September 25, 1890 in Duderstadt, † August 20, 1977 in Göttingen)
- President of the Göttingen Regional Court and Lord Mayor of the City of Göttingen; Long-standing chairman of the Göttingen Handel Society .
- Awarded on September 25, 1970
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Else Wagner
- Kindergarten teacher
- Awarded on July 4, 1973
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Willy Michel
- Merchant
- Awarded on March 8, 1974
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Paul Riemer
- Union secretary
- Awarded on March 8, 1974
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Gottfried Jungmichel (born May 1, 1902 in Spantekow, † February 2, 1981 in Göttingen)
- Physician and Lord Mayor of Göttingen (1956–1966)
- Awarded on April 30, 1977
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Ulrike von Heynitz
- politician
- Awarded on March 15, 1980
- Ulrike von Heynitz was councilor of the FDP parliamentary group for 18 years .
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Heinrich Düker (November 24, 1898 in Dassel, Hanover Province; † November 2, 1986 in Saarbrücken)
- Psychologist and Lord Mayor of Göttingen (1946–1947)
- Awarded on May 3, 1985
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Hugo Donder
- Merchant
- Awarded on October 28, 1986
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Hannah Vogt (born March 3, 1910 in Berlin-Charlottenburg; † February 13, 1994 in Göttingen)
- Writer
- Awarded on March 14, 1987
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Franz Wieacker (born August 5, 1908 in Stargard, Pomerania; † February 17, 1994 in Göttingen)
- Lawyer and legal historian
- Awarded on November 14, 1990
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Horst Sartorius (1910 - July 16, 1998)
- Merchant
- Awarded on January 23, 1991
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Else Bräutigam (January 3, 1931 - March 24, 2001)
- Awarded on September 11, 1991
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Artur Levi (born August 28, 1922 in Munich, † May 27, 2007 in Göttingen)
- University professor and Lord Mayor of Göttingen (1973–1981, 1986–1991)
- Awarded on November 23, 1993
- Levi had to go into exile in London in 1937 and from 1941 participated in the resistance against the Nazi regime. In 1946 he returned to Göttingen and taught political science and social studies at the University of Education from 1961 to 1985.
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August Schütte (1921--14 September 2007)
- Promoter of popular sport, honorary chairman of the ASC 1846 Göttingen
- Awarded on May 21, 1996
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Manfred Eigen (born May 9, 1927 in Bochum; † February 6, 2019 in Göttingen)
- Biophysicist and physical chemist
- Awarded on August 9, 2002
- In 1957 Eigen became director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen . He and two of his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions .
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Göttingen. For the mention here, it is irrelevant whether the people later had their sphere of activity in Göttingen or not. Many have become known elsewhere. The list arranged by year of birth does not claim to be complete.
Until 1800
- Johann (es) Hake , called von Göttingen (around 1280–1349, place of birth possibly Göttingen), master's degree and professor of medicine, royal and papal personal physician
- Johannes Caselius (1533–1613), humanist, lawyer and philologist
- Johann Tobias Mayer (1752–1830), mathematician, physicist and university professor
- Johann Friedrich Eberhard Böhmer (1753–1828), legal scholar
- Johann Friedrich Christoph Gräffe (1754–1816), Protestant theologian and clergyman
- Georg Jacob Friedrich Meister (1755–1832), legal scholar and advocate of modern and humane criminal law
- Johann Tobias Lowitz (1757–1804), chemist and pharmacist
- Carl Friedrich Meyer (1757–1817), lawyer and university professor
- Johann Christoph Bleßmann (1760–1836), revolutionary
- (Johann) Georg Wilhelm Böhmer (1761–1839), theologian, co-founder of the Mainz Republic , justice of the peace in the Kingdom of Westphalia
- Georg von Wedekind (1761–1831), doctor and revolutionary
- Caroline Schlegel-Schelling (1763–1809), co-founder of early German romanticism
- Therese Huber (1764–1829), writer and editor
- Dorothea von Schlözer (1770–1825), second German woman to receive a doctorate (1787)
- Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe (1776–1854), mathematician and physicist
- Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835), chemist, discoverer of cadmium
- Georg Heinrich Lünemann (1780–1830), German classical philologist and lexicographer
- Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853), chemist
- August Neander (1789–1850), Protestant theologian and professor of church history
- Alfred Heyne (1792–1874), administrative lawyer
- Hans Georg Meyer (1792–1863), Royal Hanoverian Lieutenant General
- Theodor Marezoll (1794–1873), lawyer and university professor
- Otto Wigand (1795–1870), German publisher and politician
- Johann August Philipp Multhaupt (1797–1868), businessman and member of the Hamburg Parliament
- Georg Klindworth (1798–1882), German diplomat and secret agent who was in the service of several European statesmen and princes
- Friedrich August von Ammon (1799–1861), physician
- Carl Heinrich Edmund Freiherr von Berg (1800–1874), forest scientist and forestry practitioner
1801 to 1900
- Heinrich Georg August Ewald (1803–1875), theologian and orientalist
- Philipp August Friedrich Mühlenpfordt (1803-1891), botanist and physician
- Johann Heinrich Christoph Trefurt (1806-1852), gynecologist
- Georg Wigand (1808–1858), publisher
- Rudolf Kohlrausch (1809–1858), physicist
- Eduard Wadsack (1809–1881), member of the Reichstag
- Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen (1809–1876), geologist
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), chemist who a. a. perfected the Bunsen burner
- Eugen Gauß (1811–1896), entrepreneur and banker
- August Friedrich Karl Himly (1811–1885), chemist and mineralogist
- Heinrich Albert Oppermann (1812–1870), politician and writer
- Wilhelm Gauß (1813–1879), German-American entrepreneur
- August Wilhelm Dieckhoff (1823-1894), theologian
- Gottlieb Planck (1824–1910), lawyer
- Georg Wilhelm Schulze (1829–1901), theologian
- Carl von Lützow (1832–1897), art historian
- Wilko Levin Count of Wintzingerode-Bodenstein (1833–1907), Governor of the Province of Saxony , President of the Evangelical Union
- Arthur Auwers (1838–1915), astronomer who compiled star catalogs
- Carl Oesterley (1839–1930), painter
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1845–1923), classical philologist
- Alfred Stern (1846–1936), historian
- Florence Sartorius (1846–1925), mechanic and entrepreneur
- Wilhelm Kirchner (1848–1921), agricultural scientist and university professor
- Friedrich Ahlborn (1858–1937), zoologist and physicist who was involved in the development of the first streamline shapes
- Georg Süßenguth (1862–1947), architect
- Cornelia Paczka-Wagner (1864 - after 1930), painter and graphic artist
- Georg Heinrich Friedrich Lührig (1868–1957), painter, rector of the Dresden Art Academy
- Rudolf Wissell (1869–1962), politician (SPD) and Reich Minister
- Ernst Meyer (1871–1931), psychiatrist, prorector of the Albertus University
- Erich Köhler (1873–1914), frigate captain, commander of the small cruiser SMS Karlsruhe
- Erich Ebstein (1880–1931), doctor and writer
- Georg Grube (1883–1966), professor of physical chemistry at the TH Stuttgart
- Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884–1970), psychiatrist, developed autogenic training
- Karl von Buchka (1885–1960), politician ( DVP , CDU ), Member of the Bundestag
- Erich Molitor (1886–1963), legal scholar and labor judge
- Robert Bürkner (1887–1962), actor, theater manager, director and author
- Wilhelm Reetz (1887–1946), painter and journalist
- Emma Sachse , née Claus (1887–1965), women's politician, state politician (SPD / SED) and state chairwoman of the AWO in Thuringia
- Ulrich Leo (1890–1964), German-Canadian Romance studies and university professor
- Alfred Meyer (1891–1945), Reich Governor of Lippe 1936–45
- Otto Backenköhler (1892–1967), naval officer
- Paul Leo (1893–1958), Protestant theologian and university professor
- Günther Cario (1897–1984), physicist and university professor
- Erich Fascher (1897–1978), Protestant theologian
- Hermann Middendorf (1897–1981), district administrator in Bernkastel and Wittlich
- Johann Daniel Achelis (1898–1963), physiologist and medical historian
- Richard Uhlemeyer (1900–1954), craftsman, entrepreneur and first president of the Central Association of German Crafts
1901 to 1925
- Albrecht Wilhelm Tronnier (1902–1982), influential German optics designer of the 20th century
- Friedrich Schaffstein (1905–2001), criminal lawyer (National Socialist criminal law theory)
- Hellmut Schmalz (1905–1982), politician (KPD, SPD), member of the state parliament
- Otto Strerath (* 1906; † unknown), composer in chess
- Helmut Weiss (1907–1969), actor, screenwriter and film director
- Harold Joachim (1909–1983), German-American art historian
- Ricarda Schwerin (1912–1999), photographer
- Ilse Petri (1918–2018), German film actress
- Uta Hagen (1919–2004), German-American actress and drama teacher
- Helmut Meyer-Abich (1919–2008), naval officer and geologist
- Ernest Courant (1920–2020), German-American physicist
- Wolfgang Kühle (1920–2002), politician (CDU), member of the Hessian state parliament
- Werner Schmalenbach (1920–2010), art historian, author and curator
- Werner Rebhuhn (1922–2001), graphic designer and artist
- Wolfgang Senger (1925–2009), District President of the Hanover District
1926 to 1950
- Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926–2020), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister for Spatial Planning, Building and Urban Development (1972–1974), Federal Minister of Justice (1974–1981), Governing Mayor of Berlin (1981), Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag (1983–1991), chairman of the SPD (1987–1991)
- Emil Cimiotti (1927–2019), sculptor
- Klaus Thiessen (* 1927), physicist
- Wilhelm Fahlbusch (1929–2014), Lutheran theologian, pastor and university professor
- Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (* 1929), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- Diter von Wettstein (1929-2017), Danish biologist and genetics
- Walther Kuhn (1930–2006), physician and university professor
- Renate-Charlotte Rabbethge (* 1930), politician (CDU) and MEP
- Reinhard Müller-Mehlis (1931–2020), art historian, journalist and author
- Peter Brühl (1932–2016), physician
- Dieter Hinrichs (* 1932), photographer
- Gerry Neugebauer (1932–2014), American astronomer
- Gustav Andreas Tammann (1932–2019), astronomer
- Bernhard Vogel (* 1932), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate (1976–1988), Prime Minister of Thuringia (1992–2003)
- Hugo Fasold (1933–2017), biochemist
- Eike Jessen (1933–2015), professor of computer science
- Harald Bojé (1934–1999), pianist and university professor
- Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen (* 1934), canon lawyer and newspaper publisher
- Berno von Cramm (* 1934), actor and voice actor
- Helmut Teitzel (* 1934), union official, former federal chairman of the leather union
- Wolfgang Thielbörger (* 1934), politician of the FDP
- Werner Theune (* 1935), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Hans Brockmann (1936–2019), chemist and professor at Bielefeld University
- Friedhelm Döhl (1936–2018), composer (passion for orchestra; Julian minutes)
- Gert Jeremias (1936–2016), New Testament scholar
- Friedrich Koch (* 1936), educational scientist and university professor
- Gunter Hampel (* 1937), jazz musician
- Rolf Hartmann (1937–2007), handicraft teacher and sculptor
- Reinhold Wittig (* 1937), planetary geologist and game designer
- Reinhard Giebel (1939–2020), jazz musician and writer
- Jens Reich (* 1939), molecular biologist and human rights activist
- Hans Wallow (* 1939), politician, Member of the Bundestag (SPD and WASG)
- Armin Abmeier (1940–2012), bookseller and editor
- Peter Dimroth (* 1940), chemist and biochemist
- Klaus Wettig (* 1940), author, politician and MEP (SPD)
- Angela Hopf (* 1941), artist and writer
- Jürg Meyer zur Capellen (* 1941), art historian and university professor
- Jochen Rose (1941–2010), jazz musician
- Ginka Steinwachs (* 1942), writer
- Konrad Tack (* 1942), lawyer and retired civil servant
- Klaus Feldmann (* 1943), engineering scientist
- Götz Gliemeroth (* 1943), Lieutenant General in the Bundeswehr
- Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (* 1943), historian
- Klaus Uwe Ludwig (1943–2019), church musician
- Peter Struck (1943–2012), Federal Minister of Defense (2002–2005), chairman of the SPD parliamentary group since 2005
- Wolf Assmus (* 1944), experimental physicist
- Johann Konrad Keller (* 1944), lawyer, administrative officer and politician
- Ulrich Keller (* 1944), art historian and university professor
- Otto-Eberhard Zander (* 1944), officer and political scientist
- Claudia Butenuth (1945–2016), actress and author
- Kai Engelke (* 1946), writer, music journalist, reciter, songwriter and teacher
- Christoph Harbsmeier (* 1946), sinologist
- Wolfgang Spindler (* 1946), lawyer, judge and President of the Federal Fiscal Court
- Christian Trull (* 1946), General in the Bundeswehr
- Herbert Günther (* 1947), writer, translator and screenwriter
- Bernd Rumpf (1947–2019), actor and voice actor
- Fritz Behrens (* 1948), lawyer, from 1995 to 2005 Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in various departments
- Wulf Bernotat (1948-2017), manager
- Michael Job (* 1948), Indo-Europeanist
- Marion Kazemi (* 1948), archivist and science historian
- Harald Range (1948–2018), lawyer, from 2011 to 2015 Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice
- Johannes Cramer (* 1950), architect, building historian, building researcher and university professor
- Claus Koch (* 1950), psychologist, author and publicist
- Gudrun Landgrebe (* 1950), actress
- Dieter Spindler (* 1950), politician (CDU), Mayor of Meerbusch (1999–2014)
- Gerhard Steidl (* 1950), publisher
1951 to 1975
- Susanne von Falkenhausen (* 1951), art historian
- Didi Jünemann (* 1952), cabaret artist, actor and musician
- Werner Koch (* 1952), administrative lawyer and State Secretary of the State of Hesse
- Stefan Zauner (* 1952), musician and singer ("Munich Freedom")
- Gerrit Zitterbart (* 1952), pianist and chamber musician
- Dietrich Adam (* 1953), actor
- Axel Gottschick (* 1953), actor and radio play speaker
- Charlotte Schneidewind-Hartnagel (* 1953), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament
- Christian Eberl (* 1954), forest scientist and politician (FDP)
- Hubertus Georg Hoffmann (* 1955), lawyer, media manager and investor
- Gert Schaefer (1955-2014), actor (Schloss Einstein)
- Regina Schmidt-Kühner (* 1955), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2001 to 2006
- Andreas Staier (* 1955), musician
- Thomas Südhof (* 1955), biochemist ( Nobel Prize winner )
- Herbert Grönemeyer (* 1956), singer (men) and actor ( Das Boot )
- Bettina Schöne-Seifert (* 1956), doctor and medical ethicist
- Bettina Eberspächer (* 1957), Slavist and translator
- Max Goldt , actually Matthias Ernst (* 1958), writer and musician
- Hans-Christof Kraus (* 1958), historian and university professor
- Jacqueline Amirfallah (* 1960), cook
- Peter Nöthel (* 1960), cook
- Thomas M. Klapötke (* 1961), chemist
- Jobst von Berg (* 1962), artist
- Martina Schwonke (* 1962), lawyer
- Joachim Bahlcke (* 1963), historian and university professor
- Oliver Frank (* 1963), pop singer (Italian longing)
- Jörn Peter Hiekel (* 1963), musicologist and member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts
- Chris Kraus (* 1963), author and film director
- Andreas Krüger (* 1963), techno producer
- Eckart Lohse (* 1963), author and journalist
- Claus Christian Malzahn (* 1963), journalist and editor at Der Spiegel magazine
- Berthold Matschat (* 1963), jazz and studio musician
- Tom Schlüter (* 1963), pianist, music producer
- Gerhard Ernst-Peter Klaffus (* 1964), Brigadier General
- Michael Schneider (* 1964), Swiss composer and musicologist
- Marion Ackermann (* 1965), art historian
- Matthias Daneck (* 1965), drummer, composer and arranger
- Lothar Sippel (* 1965), former soccer player, a. a. for Eintracht Frankfurt
- Martin Sonneborn (* 1965), journalist ( Titanic ) and politician ( Die PARTTEI )
- Juliane Köhler (* 1965), actress
- Johannes Schäfer (* 1965), musician ("Fury in the Slaughterhouse"), doctor
- Werner Bartens (* 1966), doctor, historian, science journalist, non-fiction author
- Astrid Gloria (* 1966), cabaret artist and stage artist
- John von Düffel (* 1966), writer
- Jörg Ahlbrecht (* 1967), theologian, pastor, mentor and author of Christian books
- Andreas Baum (* 1967), journalist and writer
- Katharina Lehmann (* 1967), actress
- Michael Michalsky (* 1967), fashion designer and designer
- Roland Schimmelpfennig (* 1967), playwright
- Andreas Ebel (* 1968), editor-in-chief of the Ostsee-Zeitung
- Katja Horneffer (* 1968), meteorologist and television presenter
- Jörg-Andreas Krüger (* 1968), President of the German Nature Conservation Union (NABU)
- Thorsten Heise (* 1969), neo-Nazi, member of the National Board of the NPD
- Matthias Meyer (* 1969), artist
- Titus Vollmer (* 1969), musician and film composer
- Dunja Arnaszus (* 1970), radio play author, actress, dramaturge and lecturer
- Hans-Hinrich Koch (* 1970), film and television producer
- Philipp Schaufelberger (* 1970), jazz musician and radio play composer
- Anke Strüver (* 1970), Professor of Social and Economic Geography
- Georg-Ludwig von Breitenbuch (* 1971), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament in Saxony
- Anke Feller (* 1971), athlete and radio and television presenter
- Mathias Schlung (* 1971), actor (The Brazen Three)
- Florian Hoffmann (* 1972), political and legal scholar
- Alexandra-Maria Klein (* 1972), biologist and university professor
- Sven Schreivogel (* 1972), radio play producer
- Leah Striker (* 1973), camerawoman for film
- Franziska Stünkel (* 1973), film director, screenwriter and photographer
- Malte Dominik Krüger (* 1974), Protestant theologian
- Maria Jany (* 1975), actress
- Oliver Sechting (* 1975), director and author
- Anette Strohmeyer (* 1975), author
From 1976
- Franziska Gude (* 1976), hockey player
- Sandra Nasić (* 1976), singer
- Antonia von Romatowski (* 1976), voice imitator and voice actress
- Natalie O'Hara (born 1976), actress
- Arye Sharuz Shalicar (* 1977), political scientist and Israeli major
- Hendrik Streeck (* 1977), HIV researcher
- D-Bo (* 1978), rapper
- Cornelia Linde (* 1978), historian
- Korbinian von Blanckenburg (* 1979), university professor
- Christian “TheFatRat” Büttner (* 1979), music producer
- Dominik Klingberg (* 1979), actor
- Robert D. Marx (* 1979), musical actor
- Lasse Münstermann (* 1979), snooker player
- Tim Dudek (* 1980), jazz musician and music producer
- Lasse Nolte (* 1980), film director
- Stefan Rüttgeroth (* 1981), marksman
- Alexander Markgraf (* 1981), chess player
- Timo Ochs (* 1981), soccer player
- Kevin Kuhn (* 1981), writer
- Hanna Ballhaus (* 1982), basketball trainer
- Knut Höhler (* 1983), athlete, obstacle runner
- Marco Grimaldi (* 1983), basketball player
- Gabriel von Berlepsch (* 1984), actor
- Nora Dörries (* 1984), actress
- Sebastian Ghasemi-Nobakht (* 1985), football player
- Benjamin Hasselhorn (* 1986), theologian
- Rubic Ghasemi-Nobakht (* 1987), football player
- Jan Washausen (* 1988), soccer player
- Michael Schulze (* 1989), soccer player
- Maximilian Beister (* 1990), soccer player
- Niklas Liepe (* 1990), violinist
- Ruth Spelmeyer (* 1990), track and field athlete
- Adriano Grimaldi (* 1991), football player
- Felix Klieser (* 1991), horn player
- Nils Eichenberger (* 1992), handball player
- Kersten Thiele (* 1992), racing cyclist
- Anton Donkor (* 1997), football player
- Laura Antonia Roge (* 1998), actress
- Tobias Buck-Gramcko (* 2001), cyclist
Members of the University of Göttingen
The following have studied or taught at the University of Göttingen :
Science and math
A.
- Othenio Abel - Biology - Professor
- Wolfram Achtnich - Agricultural Science - Professor
- Wilhelm Ackermann - Mathematics - Student 1914–1924
- Ernst-Günter Afting - Biochemistry - Professor 1980
- Reinhart Ahlrichs - Theoretical Chemistry
- Reimar von Alvensleben - Agricultural Sciences - Student
- Gustav Angenheister - former director of the Institute for Geophysics
- Peter Ax - Biology Professor
B.
- Walter Baade - astronomer, astrophysicist
- Kord Baeumer - Agricultural Sciences
- Borwin Bandelow - psychiatrist, neurologist and psychologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen - Mathematics
- Peter Emil Becker - Human Genetics - Professor
- Richard Becker - Physics
- Friedrich Konrad Beilstein - Chemistry (student, associate professor)
- Matthias Bethge - physics student
- Hans-Jürgen Beug - Biology - Professor
- Christof Biebricher - Natural Sciences - Professor
- Wilhelm Biltz - Chemistry - Privatdozent
- Georg Birukow - Zoology - Professor
- Georg Bitter - Botany - Professor
- Edwin Blanck - Agricultural Sciences - Professor
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Zoology - Professor
- Eberhard Bodenschatz - Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
- Wolfgang Böhm - Agricultural Sciences (apl. Prof.)
- Hans-Jürgen Borchers - Physics - Professor
- Michael Börgerding - Philosophy - Sociology - German Studies
- Max Born - mathematical physics - (o. Prof.) - (in Göttingen 1921–1933) - Nobel Prize for Physics 1954
- Hel Braun - Mathematics - Associate Professor
- Bertram Brenig - Veterinary Medicine (o. Prof.)
- Egbert Brieskorn - Mathematics - Professor
- Hans Brockmann - Chemistry - Professor
- Kurt Brüning - Geology - Professor
- Michael Buback - Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry (o. Prof.)
- Detlev Buchholz - Physics - Professor
- Hans Bucka - Physics - PhD student
- Detlef Bückmann - Biology - Senior Assistant
- Robert Bunsen - chemistry
- Adolf Butenandt - Chemistry - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
- Heinz Butin - Forest Sciences - Professor
- Rudolf Georg Walrab von Buttlar - Forest Science (stud.)
C.
- Johann Friedrich Camerer - Correspondent of the Royal British Society of Sciences in Göttingen
- Moritz Benedikt Cantor - Mathematics
- Constantin Carathéodory - Mathematics
- Edna Carter - Physics
- Alonzo Church - Mathematics and Computer Science (guest stay)
- Carl Claus - Zoology - Professor
- Alfred Clebsch - Mathematics - Professor
- Carl Wilhelm Correns - Mineralogy (o. Prof.)
- Richard Courant - Mathematics
- Lorenz von Crell - chemistry professor
- Willi Czajka - Geographer (o. Prof.)
D.
- Peter Debye - Mathematical Physics - (o. Prof.) - (in Göttingen 1914–1920) - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1932
- Richard Dedekind - Mathematics
- Max Delbrück - Astronomy, Physics (Nobel Prize for Medicine 1969)
- Dietrich Denecke - Geography
- Dietrich von Denffer - botanist - professor
- Hartmut Dierschke - Biology - Student
- Paul Dirac - Physics; Probably study visit - Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 (together with Schrödinger )
- Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - Mathematics, successor to Gauß (Prof.)
- Friedrich Dolezalek - Physical Chemistry
- Gustav Drechsler - Agricultural Sciences and founder of the Agricultural Institute
- Oscar Drude - Botanist - Privatdozent
- Hermann Duderstadt - biology
- Hans Julius Duncker - biology
E.
- Christian Eberl - Forest Science (student, research assistant)
- Wilfried Ehlers - Agricultural Sciences - Professor
- Paul Ehrenberg - Agricultural Chemistry - Professor
- Manfred Eigen - Biophysical Chemistry - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 (together with Norrish and Porter)
- Josef van Eimern - Forest and Agricultural Science (o. Prof., Chair of Bioclimatology 1980–1986)
- Heinz Ellenberg - biology, botanist (o. Prof.) (retired in Göttingen 1966–1981)
- Norbert Elsner - zoologist and neurobiologist (since 1978 in Göttingen)
- Wolf von Engelhardt - Mineralogy - Wiss. Employee
- Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben - Biology - Founder of the Veterinary Institute
- Walter Eschrich - Forest Sciences - Full Professor
- Arnold Eucken - Physical Chemistry (o. Prof.)
F.
- William Feller - Mathematics
- Enrico Fermi - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1938)
- Max Fesca - Agricultural Chemistry - Professor
- Antal Festetics - forest scientist, wildlife biologist - (without professor)
- Kurt von Figura - Biochemistry - Professor, President
- Franz Firbas - botany - professor
- Julia Fischer Biology / Primate Research (Prof.)
- Rudolph Fittig - Chemistry (student, associate professor)
- Wilhelm Fleischmann - Agricultural Science - (without professor)
- Carl Flügge - chemistry - student
- Friedrich Förster - Mathematics and Physics (Student)
- Theodor Förster - chemistry professor
- Jens Frahm - chemistry professor
- James Franck - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1926)
- Hans Joachim Fröhlich - Forest Science (stud.)
- Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs - Mathematics
- Walter Heinrich Fuchs - Phytopathology - Professor
- Werner Funke - Zoology - Professor
G
- Carl Friedrich Gauß - Mathematics, Astronomy
- Gerhard Gentzen - Mathematics
- Oskar Glemser - Chemistry (o. Prof.)
- Georg Wilhelm Glünder , officer and later second director of the Polytechnic School in Hanover
- Martin Göpfert - biologist and zoologist
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1963)
- Hans Grauert - Mathematics
- August Grisebach - Botany
- Hans Achim Gussone - forest scientist - (associate professor)
H
- Alfréd Haar - Mathematics
- Peter Haasen - director of metal physics, author of the standard work physical metal science
- Otto Hahn - Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944)
- Georg Hamel - Mathematics
- Karl Hasel - Forest Science (o. Prof.)
- Helmut Hasse - Mathematics
- Hans H. Hattemer - Forest Science - (without professor)
- Walter Norman Haworth - Chemistry - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937
- Heinrich Heesch - Mathematics
- Oskar Heil - Physics
- Werner Heisenberg - Physics (o. Prof.) - Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
- Hans Werner Heymann - Educational Science and Social Psychology (stud.)
- Dirk Helbing - Mathematics, Physics (stud.) - Prof.
- Stefan Hell - Physics (honorary professor) - Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2014 (together with Betzig and Moerner)
- Ernst Hellinger - Mathematics
- Wilhelm Carl Heraeus - Chemistry, Pharmacy (stud.)
- Gerhard Herzberg - Chemistry - one year study visit - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971
- David Hilbert - Mathematics (o. Prof.)
- Heinz Hopf - Mathematics
- Friedrich Georg Houtermans - Physics
- Jürgen Hövermann - Geography
- Alexander von Humboldt - Physics
- Friedrich Hund - Physics (o. Prof.)
- Theodor Husemann - Pharmacology (Prof.)
I.
- Joachim Illies - Biology
- Ernst Ising - Mathematics
J
- Pascual Jordan - Physics (PhD, Assistant)
- Wilhelm Jost - Physical Chemistry (o. Prof.)
K
- Martin Kappas - geography
- Abraham Gotthelf Kästner - Mathematics
- Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer - Biology
- Felix Klein - Mathematics
- Peter Kloeppel - Agricultural Sciences (student) - today editor-in-chief at RTL
- Georg Simon Klügel - stud.
- Alfred Koch - microbiology
- Friedrich Kohlrausch - Physics (stud.)
- Hermann Kolbe - Chemistry (stud.)
- Carl Koldewey - Mathematics
- Horst Kramer - Forest Science (stud., O. Prof.)
- Walter Kremser - forest scientist
- Fritz Krückeberg - Mathematics and Physics
- Wolfgang Krull - Mathematics
- Bernd-Olaf Küppers - Physics
- Matthias Kuhle - geography
L.
- Edmund Landau - Mathematics
- Irving Langmuir - Physical Chemistry - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932
- Max von Laue - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1914)
- Susanne Leonhard - Mathematics and Philosophy
- Rudolf Leuckart - Chemistry (associate professor)
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy (stud., O. Prof.)
- Walther Lietzmann - Mathematics
- Burghard von Lüpke - Forest Science (student, o. Prof.)
- Saunders Mac Lane - Mathematics
M.
- Johann Tobias Mayer - Physics
- Tobias Mayer - Mathematics
- Wilhelm Meinardus - Geographer (o. Prof.)
- Helmut Metzner - Plant Physiologist (Habilitand)
- Brunk Meyer - Soil Science
- Victor Meyer - Chemistry (o. Prof.)
- Preda Mihăilescu - Math Prof.
- Hermann Minkowski - Mathematics
- Alexander Mitscherlich - chemist
N
- Erwin Neher - Physics (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1991)
- Leonard Nelson - Mathematics
- Walther Nernst - Physical Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920)
- John von Neumann - Mathematics (Privatdozent)
- Emmy Noether - Mathematics
O
- Reinhard Oehme - Physics - (PhD student)
- Hans von Ohain - Physics, Aerodynamics (PhD student)
- Robert Oppenheimer - Physics - (PhD student)
- Hans-Jürgen Otto - Forest Science - (student, doctorate, associate professor)
P
- Wolfgang Pauli - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1945)
- Frauke Petry - Chemistry (student, doctorate)
- Wilhelm Pfeffer - Botany (stud.)
- Max Planck - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1918)
- Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe - Mathematics
- Hans Poser - Geography
- Ludwig Prandtl - Physics (o. Prof.)
- Volker Pudel - nutritional psychologist (student, doctorate, associate professor)
R.
- Richard Rado - Mathematics
- Johann Radon - Mathematics
- Kurt Reidemeister - Mathematics
- Franz Rellich - Mathematics
- Theodore William Richards - Chemistry - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914
- Charlotte Riefenstahl - physics, chemistry
- Bernhard Riemann - Mathematics (o. Prof.)
- Frigyes Riesz - Mathematics
- Jürgen Rimpau - Plant Breeding and Genetics
- Walter Ritz - Mathematics
- Edmone Roffael - chemist and forest scientist - (apl./o. Professor)
- Carl Runge - Mathematics
S.
- Friedrich Sauvigny - Mathematics - Study, Habilitation
- Arnold Scheibe - Agricultural Science - (without professor)
- Georg Gottlieb Schirges - Philosophy and Natural Sciences 1834/35 - Student
- Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig - research assistant at the Institute for International Law
- Reinhard Schober - forest scientist - (o. Professor)
- Arthur Moritz Schoenflies - Mathematics
- Manfred Schroeder - Physics (esp. Acoustics)
- Rudolf Schulten - physicist and nuclear technologist
- Stefan Schulz-Hardt - Psychology - Professor (since 2004)
- Hermann Amandus Schwarz - Mathematics
- Fritz Schwerdtfeger - forest scientist - (o. Professor em.)
- Conrad von Seelhorst - Agricultural Science - (o. Professor)
- Jürgen Seibel - Chemistry - (Professor)
- Kurt Sethe - Egyptology (o. Prof.)
- Carl Ludwig Siegel - Mathematics - (o. Prof.)
- Branislav Sloboda - forest scientist - (o. Professor)
- Arnold Sommerfeld - Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
- Hertha Sponer - Physics
- Carl Sprengel - Agricultural Sciences
- Otto Stern - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1943)
T
- Gustav Tammann - Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (o. Prof.)
- Edward Teller - Physics - (Research Associate)
- Carl Johannes Thomae - Mathematics
- Otto Toeplitz - Mathematics
- Otto Tornau - Agricultural Sciences
- Johann Georg Tralles - Mathematics
- Stefan Treue - Biology, Neuroscience and Biological Psychology
- Jürgen Troe - Physical Chemistry - (o. Prof.)
- Johannes Trojan - medicine (student), later writer
U
- Ezequiel Uricoechea - chemist
V
- Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch - forest scientist - (without professor)
W.
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden - Mathematics
- Hermann Wagner - Geographer (o. Prof.)
- Otto Wallach - Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910)
- Wilhelm Weber - Physics - (o. Prof.)
- André Weil - mathematics
- Julius Weisbach - Mathematics
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker - Physics (partly degree, honorary professor, Max Planck Institute for Physics , Göttingen Academy of Sciences , initiator Göttinger Eighteen )
- Ole Wendroth , agricultural scientist
- Hermann Weyl - Mathematics
- Rainer Westermann - Psychology
- Fritz von Wettstein - Botany
- Emil Wiechert - Geophysics
- Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied - WS 1811/12; later carried out expeditions to Brazil and North America
- Wilhelm Wien - Student (Nobel Prize in Physics 1911)
- Norbert Wiener - Mathematics
- Eugene Paul Wigner - Physics (Nobel Prize in Physics 1963)
- Adolf Windaus - Chemistry (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928)
- Friedrich Wöhler - Chemistry, Pharmacy (o. Prof.)
- August Wolkenhauer - Geography
Z
- Ernst Zermelo - mathematics, axiomatization of modern set theory
- Richard Zsigmondy - Chemistry - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925
Law, economics and social sciences
A.
- Wilhelm Abel - First Director of the Institute for Economic and Social History
- Wilhelm Abegg - Law - (Student, PhD student)
- Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht - Law - Student
- Kai Ambos - Law (criminal lawyer) - (o. Prof., judge)
- Josef Augstein - Law (criminal lawyer) - student, doctoral candidate
B.
- Fritz Baade - Economics - Student
- Peter Badura - Law (constitutional lawyer) - (without professor 1964–1970)
- Hans Paul Bahrdt - Sociology - Professor
- Carl Ludwig von Bar - Law - Student
- Günther Bartke - Business Administration - Full Professor
- Anton Bauer - Law - Professor
- Johann Karl von der Becke - Law - Student
- Jens Beckert - Sociology - Professor
- Johann Beckmann - Economics - Professor
- Günther Beitzke - Law - Professor
- Wolfgang Benner - Economics - Studies and Habilitation
- Rudolf von Bennigsen - Law - Student
- Günther von Berg - law - professor, later politician
- Volker Bergen - Economics - Professor
- Hartmut Berghoff - economic historian, chair at the Institute for Economic and Social History
- Wulf Bernotat - Law - Student
- Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust - Law - Student
- Konrad Beyerle - Law - Professor
- Otto von Bismarck - Law (the first Chancellor of the German Empire) - student
- Carl Gotthard von Bistram - Law - Student
- Wolfgang Bittner - law - student and doctoral candidate, later writer
- Wilhelm von Bode - law, art history - student
- Johann Friedrich Eberhard Böhmer - Law - Professor
- Uwe Blaurock - Law - Professor
- Jürgen Bloech - Business Administration - (o. Professor)
- Friedrich Bluhme - Law - Professor
- Georg Ludwig Böhmer - Law - Professor
- Harald Bogs - Law - Professor
- Dieter Bohlen - Business Administration - Student
- Otto Friedrich Bollnow - Psychology - Professor
- Hans-Otto de Boor - Law - Full Professor
- Margarete Boos - Economic and Social Psychology - Professor
- Rolf Wilhelm Brednich - Folklore - Professor
- Johann Salomon Brunnquell - Law - (o. Professor of Canon Law 1735)
- Gottfried August Bürger - Law - Student
C.
- Christian Calliess - Law - Student
- Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen - Law - Professor
- Friedrich Wilhelm Compe - law student
- Rudolf Crisolli - Law - Student
- Dagmar Coester-Waltjen - Law - Professor
- Hedda von Wedel , b. Czasche - Law - Student / PhD candidate
D.
- Hermann von Dassel - Law
- Jost Delbrück - Law
- Markus A. Denzel - economic historian - professor
- Hans-Dieter Deppe - Economist - Professor
- August Egbert von Derschau - Law - Student
- Georg Diederichs - political and economic sciences, pharmacy - student
- Uwe Diederichsen - Law (without professor)
- Michael Diekmann - Law
- Karl Doehring - Law
- Georg Draheim - Economics - Professor
- Ralf Dreier - Law - Professor
- August Dresbach - Law - Politician
- Tobias Dürr - Political Science
- Gunnar Duttge - Medical Lawyer - Head of Department
E.
- Wilhelm Ebel - Law - Professor
- Georg Ebers - law (later famous Egyptologist) - student
- Horst Paul August Ehmke - law and economics student
- Victor Ehrenberg - Law - Professor
- Thomas Elbel - Law - Student
- Karl Friedrich Eichhorn - Law - Professor
F.
- Andreas Falke - Political Science - Doctoral Candidate
- Werner Flume - Law - Full Professor
- Ferdinand Frensdorff - Law - Full Professor and Rector
- Armin Fuhrer - Political Science - Student
G
- Georg Christian Gebauer - Law - Professor and First Vice Rector
- Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter - Law - Student
- Carl Friedrich Goerdeler - Law - PhD student
- Manfred Grieger - Honorary Professor
- Jürgen Großmann - Business Administration - Student
- Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1777–1781) - law (later diplomat and composer) - student
- Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode - Law - Student
- Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode - Law - Student
H
- Karl August von Hardenberg , Prussian statesman - law - student
- Jan Hecker - Law - PhD student
- Heinrich Heine - Law (famous poet) - (Student, PhD student)
- Gustav Ferdinand Hertz - Law - Student
- Tessen von Heydebreck - Law - Student
- Gert Hoffmann - politician
- Gustav von Hugo - Law (legal philosopher) - (student, o. Professor)
- Wilhelm von Humboldt - Law (famous educator and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin) - student
I.
- Rudolf von Jhering - Law (civil lawyer and legal philosopher) - (Student, o. Professor 1872-1892)
- Ulrich Immenga - Law (Stud., Prof.)
J
- Hans-Joachim Jarchow - Economics
K
- Gerhard Kegel - Law - Student
- Robert Justus Kleberg - Law - Student
- Hans Hugo Klein - Law (constitutional lawyer) - (o. Prof. and former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court)
- Klaus Kleinfeld - former CEO of Siemens AG
- Hans Knoblich - Professor of Commercial Management and Marketing
- Matthias Koenig - Professor of Sociology
- Ludwig Kohli - Theology - Law - Student
- Manfred Köhne - agricultural economist and dean of the agricultural sciences department
- Michael Kölmel - Economics - Founder of Kinowelt AG
- Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf - Law and Political Sciences - First Minister President of Lower Saxony - Student
- Herbert Kraus - International Law and Diplomacy
- Christian Graf von Krockow - political science - student from 1947, professor from 1961
- Arnd Krüger - Sports Science - from 1980 Professor of Sports Science
- Steffen M. Kühnel - Professor of Sociology
L.
- Bernd Lange - political science and theology student
- Johann Graf Lambsdorff - Economist (diploma student, doctoral student, habilitation student)
- Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger - Law - Federal Minister of Justice - (Student)
- Karl Larenz - Law (civil lawyer and legal philosopher) - PhD student
- Rudolf Leonhard - law student
- Carl Lichtenberg - law student
- Klaus Liesen - Law (student, AStA, doctoral candidate), former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG
- Peter Lösche - Political Science
M.
- Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz - Law
- Hartmut Maurer - Law - PhD student
- Peter Mezger - Politics
- Georg Jacob Friedrich Meister - legal scholar
- Georg Michaelis - Law - PhD student
- Christoph Möllers - Law (constitutional lawyer) - (o. Prof.)
- John Pierpont Morgan - student
- John Lothrop Motley - Law - Student
- Hans Mühlenfeld - law - student, later minister and ambassador
- Hans-Martin Müller-Laube - Law (civil law) - (o. Prof.)
- Michael Mronz - Business Administration
N
- Georg Nolte - Law (international lawyer) - (o. Prof. 1999-2004)
O
- Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim - Law (international lawyer) - Student
- Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim - Law (international lawyer) - PhD student
- Thomas Oppermann - Law - Student
P
- Andreas L. Paulus - Law (international lawyer) - (o. Prof.)
- Butz Peters - Law and Journalism - Journalist
- Helmuth Plessner - (Professor and University Director)
- Jobst Plog - (journalist)
- Johann Stephan Pütter - Law (famous student of "jus publicum" / constitutional lawyer and publicist) - (o. Prof. 1746–1807)
- Hugo Preuss - lawyer
R.
- Henning Radtke
- Dietrich Rauschning - Law (international lawyer) - (o. Prof.)
- Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg - Law - Student, PhD student
- Theodor Christian Friedrich Raydt - Law - Student
- Albrecht von Roeder - Law - Student (1832-)
- Claus Roxin - Law (criminal lawyer) - (without professor 1963–1971)
- Justus Friedrich Runde - Law - (Student and Professor)
S.
- Friedrich Carl von Savigny - Law - Student
- Günther Schanz - Economics (o. Prof. 1977-2008)
- Johann Jakob Schmauß - Law, History - Professor
- Eberhard Schmidt-Aßmann - Law - Doctoral Candidate
- Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig - Law - (Research Assistant, Habilitand)
- Wilhelm Schneider - Economics - Studies and PhD
- Jörg Schomburg - Business Administration - Student
- Gerhard Schröder - Law - (student, honorary doctorate in natural sciences, former Federal Chancellor)
- Johann Hieronymus Schroeter - Law (later an important astronomer)
- Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg - Law (victim of July 20, 1944 ) - Student
- Dietmar Schulz - Law - Student
- Dietmar Schütz - Law - Student
- Hans-Peter Schwintowski - Law (PhD, Habil.)
- Bruno Seidel - political scientist (o. Prof. 1962–1970)
- Elisabeth Selbert - Law - (Student)
- Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe - Law - (student, later Chief President of the Rhenish Auditing and Cassation Court)
- Christian Starck - Law (constitutional lawyer) - (o. Prof.)
- Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein - Law - Student (1773–1777)
- Horst Steinmann - Business Studies - Student
- Peter-Tobias Stoll - Law (international lawyer) - (o. Prof.)
- Jan Stöß - Law - Student
- Friedrich Karl von Strombeck (legal scholar)
- Rita Süssmuth - Professor
T
- Bassam Tibi - International Relations - (o. Prof.)
- Ludwig Theuvsen - Agricultural Economics - Prof.
- Jürgen Trittin - Social Sciences - (Student, AStA member)
- Adam von Trott zu Solz - Law (student) - Diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism (victim of July 20, 1944 )
- George Turner - Law - (Undergraduate, PhD student)
V
- Hartmut Vogel - Law - Student, PhD student
- Ruprecht Vondran , AStA chairman (1957), politician and union member of the iron and steel industry
W.
- Martin Wagener - political scientist - student
- Franz Walter - party researcher - (o. Prof.)
- Helmut Kurt Weber - Economics - (o. Prof.)
- Werner Weber - Law (constitutional lawyer) - (without professor)
- Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe - Folklore, Sports Science - (Student, Lecturer)
- Stephan Weil - Law - Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (2013–) - Student
- Richard von Weizsäcker - History, Law - President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1984–1994) - (Student, PhD student)
- Norbert Wieczorek - Business Administration - Student
- Emil Woermann , agricultural management
- Hans Julius Wolff - Law (administrative lawyer) - PhD student
Z
- Daniel Zimmer - Law - Doctorate, Habil.
Humanities and theology
A.
- Sigurd Abel - Study of History
- Narcissus Ah - Philosophy - Privatdozent
- Gottfried Achenwall - Philosophy - Professor
- Anneli Aejmelaeus - theology - professor
- Georg Althaus , Evangelical Lutheran theologian and opponent of the Nazi regime
- Paul Althaus the Elder - Professor - Theology
- Christoph Ammon - Professor - Theology
- Friedrich Carl Andreas - Professor - Iranian Studies
- August Heinrich Andreä - City Architect in Hanover (Student)
- Reiner Anselm - Professor - Ethics
- Achim Arbeiter - Professor - Christian Archeology
- Justus Arnemann Student - Philology
- Peter Aufgebauer - Professor - History
- Erik Aurelius - Professor - Theology
- Wolfram Ax - Professor - Classical Philology
B.
- Wilhelm Baehrens - Professor - Philology
- George Bancroft - politician
- Wilfried Barner - Professor - Philology
- Karl Barth - Protestant theologian (honorary professor in Göttingen 1921–1925): one of the "Church Fathers of the 20th Century"
- Hermann Wolfgang Beyer - Privatdozent - Theology
- Walter Bauer - Professor - Theology
- Eduard Baumgarten - Visiting Professor - Philosophy
- Jörg Baur - Professor - Theology
- Heinz Bechert - Professor - Indology
- Ansgar Beckermann - Professor - Philosophy
- Michael Behnen - Professor - History
- Georg Friedrich Benecke - Professor - History
- Friedrich Eduard Beneke - Professor - Philosophy
- Johannes Bergemann - Professor - Archeology
- Marianne Bergmann - Professor - Archeology
- Hans Bernsdorff - Professor - Philology
- FW Bernstein - art teacher
- Karl Bertau - Professor - Philology
- Ernst Bertheau - Professor - Philosophy
- Walter Birnbaum - Professor - Theology
- Christoph Bizer - Professor - Theology
- Jochen Bleicken - Professor - History
- Erich Boehringer , Prof. for archeology and founder of the Academic Burse
- Hartmut Boockmann - Professor - History
- Helga Botermann - Privatdozentin - History
- Erich Botzenhart - Professor - History
- Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck - Privatdozent - History
- Alois Brandl - Professor - Philology
- Jonas Breitenstein - Student - Theology
- Heinrich Brugsch - Egyptology - (without Prof.) - (in Göttingen 1868–1870)
- Theo Buck - Professor - Literary Studies
- Ézsaiás Budai - Student - Philology
- Nils Büttner - Art History (Student)
- Eberhard Busch - Theology - Professor
- Carl Busse - Theology
- Anton Friedrich Büsching - Theology - Professor
- Georg Busolt - History - Professor
C.
- Friedrich Gottlieb Canzler - History - Private Lecturer
- Carl Joachim Classen - Professor - Philology
- Carsten Colpe - Professor - History of Religion
- Alexander Conze - Archeology - (Student, Privatdozent)
- Werner Conze - History - Professor
- Hans Conzelmann - Theology - Professor
- Friedrich Gottlieb Crome - Theology
- Magnus Crusius - Theology - Professor
- Ernst Curtius - Archeology - Professor
D.
- Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann - Philosophy - Professor
- Paul Darmstädter - History - Professor
- Georg Dehio - art historian - stud./prom.
- Heinrich Detering - Literary Studies - Professor
- Albrecht Dihle - Philology - Privatdozent
- Karl Dilthey - Philology - Professor
- Georg Ludolf Dissen - Philology - Student
- Siegmar Döpp - Philology - Professor
- Isaak August Dorner - Theology - Professor
- Heinrich Dörrie - philology - student
- Hermann Dörries - Patrology - Professor
- Jutta Dresken-Weiland - Archeology - Private Lecturer
- Hans Drexler - Latin Studies - Professor
- Boris Dreyer - historical studies - scientist staff
- Friedrich von Duhn Archeology - Privatdozent
- Klaus Düwel - Philology - Professor
- Karl Dziatzko - Philology - Professor
E.
- Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser - Latin Studies - Professor
- Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter - Theology - Professor
- Johann Gottfried Eichhorn - Oriental Studies - Professor
- Wilhelm Emrich - German Studies (Lecturer)
- Manfred Engelbert - Romance Studies - Professor
- Arnold Esch - History - Professor
- Norbert Eschbach - Archeology - Substitute Professor
- Rudolf Eucken - Philosophy - (student, Nobel Prize for Literature 1908)
- Heinrich Ewald - Theology, Oriental Studies - (Student, o. Prof.)
F.
- Adam Falkenstein - Assyriology - Professor
- Christian Friedrich Falkmann - Theology - developed methodological principles for teaching English
- Wolfgang Fauth - Philology - Lecturer and Professor
- Johann Georg Heinrich Feder - Philosophy - Professor
- Richard Fick - Indology - Professor
- Johann Dominik Fiorillo - Philosophy - Professor
- Paul Artur Förster - Anti-Semite
- Eduard Fraenkel - Philology - Professor
- Hermann Fränkel - Philology - Professor
- Gottlob Frege - Philosopher (PhD student)
- Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich - Philology - Professor
- Klaus Fittschen - Archeology - Professor
- Egon Flaig - History - Privatdozent
- Karl-Heinz Flechsig - Pedagogy - Professor
- Josef Fleckenstein - History - Professor
- Günter Fuchs - Archeology - Professor
G
- Sigmar Gabriel - teaching German, sociology, politics (student) - later politician
- Johann Matthias Gesner - Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric, Director of the University Library (in Göttingen 1734–1761)
- Karl Goedeke - literary historian (student, professor)
- Sybil Countess Schönfeldt - Art History
- Jacob Grimm - Linguistics and Literature Studies - (o. Prof., librarian)
- Wilhelm Grimm - Linguistics and Literature Studies - (o. Prof., librarian)
- Georg Friedrich Grotefend - Philology - Decipherer of the cuneiform
H
- Jürgen Habermas - Philosophy and History - (Student)
- Nicolai Hartmann - Philosophy (ontological theory of layers ; o. Prof., 1945–1950)
- Carl Gustav Hempel - student - later philosopher and science theorist
- Johann Christian Friedrich Heyer - theology (student) - later missionary
- Christian Gottlob Heyne - (full professor) - Linguistics, Classical Studies, Archeology
- Jochen Hieber - Student - German Studies
- Walter Höllerer - student
- Edmund Husserl - philosopher and mathematician (without professor)
K
- Gundolf Keil - History of Medicine (Assistant)
- Franz Kielhorn - Indology, full professor, member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- Nils Klawitter - history, law (student)
- Rüdiger Klessmann - art historian - doctorate
- Friedrich Knoke - student
- Wolfgang Köhler - Psychologist (Professor)
L.
- Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757–1822), theologian and political writer
- Friedrich Leo - philologist, member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Hugo Lindemann - University professor, Member of the Bundestag (SPD)
- Eduard Lohse - ev. Theologian, rector of the university
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze - Philosophy (Professor)
- Friedrich Ludwig - musicologist, founder of historical musicology (o. Professor and rector)
- Gerd Lüdemann - theologian (professor)
M.
- Andreas Meyer-Landrut - Slavic Studies (Student)
- Johann David Michaelis - theologian and orientalist
- Peter Michelsen - German Studies (Professor)
- Klaus Mollenhauer - Pedagogy (Professor)
- Johann Lorenz von Mosheim - ev. Theologian, o. Professor and chancellor of the university
- Henry Melchior Mühlenberg - theologian, founder of the German-speaking Lutheran church system in British North America
- Georg Elias Müller - Psychologist (Professor of Philosophy, founder of the world's second psychological institute)
- Karl Otfried Müller - Professor of Art History, Archeology, Classical Studies from 1819
- Adolf Muschg - German Studies (Assistant)
N
- Anja Niedringhaus - German Studies (student)
- Dietlef Niklaus - Pedagogy
O
- Eugen Oswald - PhD 1874
- Franz Camille Overbeck - theologian
P
- Carl Peters - Colonial Pioneer - History, Geography, Philosophy (Student)
- Ludwig Adolf Petri - student - theologian
- Richard Pietschmann - full professor for Egyptology and Oriental Studies, director of the university library
- Ines Pohl - Student - German and Scandinavian Studies
Q
- Ludwig Quidde - student history, philosophy, economics - Nobel Peace Prize 1927
R.
- Helmut Roth - archeology
S.
- Georg Friedrich Sartorius - economic historian, o. Prof.
- Berndt Schaller - Theology, Judaic Studies - (PhD, Habilitation, Lecturer, Dean)
- August Ludwig von Schlözer - historian, educator, statistician, editor of the magazine Stats-Werbung
- Arthur Schopenhauer - Philosophy - (Student and PhD candidate)
- Ernst Schulze - Philosophy - (student, doctoral candidate and lecturer)
- Georg Wilhelm Schulze - Theology (Student)
- Johannes Schulze - Theology (Student)
- Kurt Selle - Classical Philology - (Student)
- Philipp Albert Stapfer - Theology - (Student)
- Edith Stein (Teresia Benedicta vom Kreuz) - Philosophy - (PhD student)
- Carl Stumpf - Philosophy / Psychology - (PhD, Habilitation)
U
- Jürgen Udolph - Linguist - (Prof.)
V
- Claus Vaske - Middle and Modern History - (Student)
- Charles de Villers - Philosophy - (o. Prof.)
- Robert Vischer - for art history and aesthetics - (o. Prof.)
- Georg Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt - Art History - (o. Prof.)
- Peter Voss - German, English
W.
- Jens-Christian Wagner - Studies in Medieval and Modern History and Romance Philology
- Georg Waitz - History - (o. Prof.)
- Harriet von Waldenfels - Philology, Sociology and Comparative Literature - (Student)
- Max Weber - History - (Student)
- Julius Wellhausen - theologian - (o. Prof.)
- Rudolf Wiegmann - Professor of Architecture and Perspective at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (student)
- Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - classical scholar - (o. Prof.)
- Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken - Theology - (Student)
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- Zhu De - Philosophy - Student (1922–1925) - Co-founder and Marshal of the People's Army of China
Medicine and dentistry
A.
- Jürgen Aschoff - Professor - Physiology
B.
- Borwin Bandelow - Professor - Psychiatry
- Wolfgang Bargmann - Professor - Anatomy
- Carl Bergmann - Anatomy
- Arnold Adolf Berthold - Professor - Anatomy
- Helmut Bauer - Professor - Medicine
- Wilhelm Baum - Professor - Surgery
- Heinz Becker - Full Professor - Surgery
- Erich Blechschmidt - Director of the Anatomical Institute
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - student and professor of medicine, anatomist, anthropologist, zoologist
- Max Borst - Professor - Pathology
- Heinrich Braun - Professor - Surgery
- Walter Brednow - Professor - Medicine
- Johann Gottfried Brendel , Professor of Medicine
- Karl-August Bushe - Professor - Neurosurgery
C.
- Manfred Cierpka - Professor - Psychosomatics
- Klaus Conrad - head of a department at the University Hospital
- Werner Creutzfeldt - Medicine - Professor
D.
- Karl Deichgräber - Medicine - Professor
- Eduard Deisenhofer - SS-Oberführer
- Max Delbrück - Medicine - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1969
- Erwin Deutsch - medical lawyer - professor
- Gert Dieckmann - neurosurgeon - professor
E.
- Wilhelm Ebstein - Internal Medicine - Professor
- Rudolf Ehrenberg - Physiology - Private Lecturer and Professor
- Hannelore Ehrenreich - Medicine - Vice President of the University
- Paul Ehrlich , full professor (1904–1914) - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1908 (together with Metschnikow )
- Thomas Ellrott - nutrition psychologist - studies, doctorate, habilitation
- Dieter Emrich - Nuclear Medicine - Professor
F.
- Walter Fischer - pathology assistant
- August Förster - Medicine Professor
G
- Frank Grünwald - nuclear medicine specialist and university professor
H
- Johanna Haarer - part study medicine - specialist for lung diseases
- Friedrich Joseph Haass - doctorate in Göttingen 1805, the "holy doctor of Moscow"
- Albrecht von Haller - Prof. for Anatomy, Botany and Surgery, (1708–1777, in Göttingen 1736–1753)
- Karl Gustav Himly - degree and professor
K
- Eduard Kaufmann - medicine, pathologist. Anatomy, - o. Prof. from 1907 to 1928
- Heinz Kirchhoff - Medicine - Full Professor 1954–1973
- Robert Koch - Medicine, studies and doctorate in Göttingen - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1905
- Rolf Koschorrek - Dentistry, studies and doctorate in Göttingen - Member of the Bundestag
- Hans Adolf Krebs - studied medicine - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1953 (together with Lipmann )
L.
- Bernhard von Langenbeck - studies and doctorate
- Martin Lohse - medicine, studies and doctorate
M.
- Ilja Iljitsch Metschnikow - Study visit to Göttingen - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1908 (together with Ehrlich )
- Joachim-Ernst Meyer - Professor and Director of the Psychiatric University Clinic (1963–1985)
- Ludwig Meyer - Professor and Director of the Psychiatric Institution (1866–1900)
N
- Erwin Neher - Medicine - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1991
O
- Wilhelm Olbers , medicine, astronomer
P
- Volker Pudel - Nutritionist (Science Journalist)
S.
- Ulrich Jasper Seetzen - Arabian researcher
Y
- Thomas Young - Medicine, Physics, Linguistics (PhD in Medicine)
Other personalities related to Göttingen
Well-known personalities are listed here who have spent part of their life in Göttingen or who died in Göttingen. Please only enter personalities here who are not already listed as members of the university. The list is sorted by time.
- Emperor Heinrich II. , Died on July 13, 1024 in the Palatinate of Grona
- Theodor Berckelmann (born November 9, 1576 in Neustadt am Rübenberge, † July 30, 1645 in Göttingen) was a Lutheran theologian, Latin poet and general superintendent in Göttingen from 1630 to 1645.
- Ernst August Spangenberg (born October 21, 1689 in Barbis; † September 24, 1784 in Göttingen), lawyer and mayor of the city of Göttingen
- Johann Gottfried Zinn (born December 4, 1727 in Schwabach in the Margraviate of Ansbach; † April 6, 1759 in Göttingen), doctor and botanist
- Gottfried August Bürger (born December 31, 1747 in Molmerswende in the Eastern Harz, † June 8, 1794 in Göttingen), German poet
- Johann Heinrich Voss (born February 20, 1751 in Sommerstorf; † March 29, 1826 in Heidelberg), German poet and translator of famous classics
- Jean Louis Burckhardt (born November 24, 1784 in Lausanne, † October 15, 1817 in Cairo), traveler to the Orient
- Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns (born November 28, 1787 in Lodersleben near Querfurt, † February 25, 1853 in Göttingen), architect and building contractor
- Heinrich Heine (born December 13, 1797 in Düsseldorf, † February 17, 1856 in Paris), one of the most important German poets and journalists of the 19th century.
- Rudolf Hermann Lotze (born May 21, 1817 in Bautzen, † July 1, 1881 in Berlin), philosopher and psychologist
- Gustav von Meyern-Hohenberg (born September 10, 1820 in Calvörde, † March 1, 1878 in Konstanz); he was a lawyer, artistic director and playwright.
- Hans Breymann (born April 12, 1850 in Bernburg (Saale), † June 28, 1903 in Göttingen); he was an architect.
- Theodor Melior (born March 18, 1853 in Schotten, † April 17, 1940 in Göttingen); the later general of the infantry moved his retirement home from Lübeck to Göttingen during the First World War .
- Lou Andreas-Salomé (born February 12, 1861 in St. Petersburg, † February 5, 1937 in Göttingen), writer and psychoanalyst
- Emil Mehle (born March 25, 1868 in Grünstadt; † 1960 in Göttingen), local entrepreneur, manufacturer of files and office registry items
- Gustav Wyneken (born March 19, 1875 in Stade, † December 8, 1964 in Göttingen), German reform pedagogue
- Karl Julius Walther Lietzmann (born August 7, 1880 in Drossen, † July 12, 1959 in Göttingen), mathematician , pedagogue and influential maths didactic .
- Martin Lindow (born September 26, 1880 in Zachan in the former West Pomerania; † January 11, 1967 in Göttingen), astronomer, headed the University Observatory in Münster from 1930 to 1944 and then lived in Göttingen
- Wilhelm Keitel (born Sept. 22, 1882 in Helmscherode; † Oct. 16, 1946 in Nuremberg), Field Marshal General, head of the OKW ; Attended school and A-levels in Göttingen
- Zhu De (December 1886 - July 6, 1976), politician
- Richard Becker (born December 3, 1887 in Hamburg, † March 16, 1955 in Bad Schwalbach ), German physicist
- Heinz Hilpert (born March 1, 1890 in Berlin, † November 25, 1967 in Göttingen), German theater director
- Elinor Hubert (born May 11, 1900 in Breslau; † January 25, 1973 in Cologne), doctor and politician (SPD)
- Rudolf Otto Wiemer (March 24, 1905 Friedrichroda; † June 5, 1998 Göttingen), German poet, puppeteer and teacher
- Heinz Erhardt (born February 20, 1909 in Riga; † June 5, 1979 in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet; made some films in Göttingen, a. a. The drivers, of course .
- Hartmut von Hentig (born September 23, 1925 in Posen), German pedagogue and publicist
- Hans Achim Gussone (born January 7, 1926 in Schneidemühl (today Piła, Poland); † December 9, 1997 in Göttingen), German forest scientist, headed the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute from 1978 to 1991 and also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen.
- Günter Grass (born October 16, 1927 in Danzig; † April 13, 2015 in Lübeck), writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
- Joop Bergsma (born February 1, 1928 in Rotterdam; † July 8, 2011 in Harsum), from 1976 to 1986 Catholic pastor and dean in Göttingen
- Walter Kempowski (born April 29, 1929 in Rostock ; † October 5, 2007 in Rotenburg (Wümme)), writer; studied pedagogy in Göttingen
- Friedhelm Farthmann (born November 25, 1930 in Bad Oeynhausen), politician (SPD), former. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia and SPD -Fraktionsvorsitzender, longstanding member of the SPD Federal Executive Committee, member of the Konigsberg fraternity Gothia Göttingen
- Barbara , actually Monique Andrée Serf (born June 9, 1930 in Paris, † November 25, 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), chanson singer; u. a. Singer of the Göttingen chanson
- Reinhard Döhl (born September 16, 1934 in Wattenscheid; † May 29, 2004 in Stuttgart), literary and media scholar, author and artist
- Inge Wettig-Danielmeier (born October 1, 1936 in Heilbronn), Federal Treasurer of the SPD
- Robert Gernhardt (born December 13, 1937 in Tallinn, † June 30, 2006 in Frankfurt am Main), poet; grew up in Göttingen and went to school here.
- FW Bernstein (born March 4, 1938 in Göppingen; † December 20, 2018 in Berlin), writer, was an art teacher in Göttingen
- Götz George (born July 23, 1938 in Berlin; † June 19, 2016 in Hamburg), actor; many years at the Deutsches Theater
- Jobst Plog (born February 26, 1941 in Hanover), NDR director; studied u. a. in Göttingen Jura
- Bruno Ganz (born March 22, 1941 in Zurich; † February 16, 2019 in Wädenswil), Swiss actor ; began his career at the Junge Theater .
- Wolfgang Bittner (born July 29, 1941 in Gleiwitz / Upper Silesia), lawyer and writer
- Bert Sakmann (born June 12, 1942 in Stuttgart), physician; Nobel Prize 1991, the work on this was done in Göttingen.
- Evelyn Hamann (born August 6, 1942 in Hamburg; † October 28, 2007 in Hamburg ), actress
- Wolf-Michael Catenhusen (born July 13, 1945 in Höxter; † April 30, 2019 in Berlin), Member of the Bundestag a. D. and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education
- Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (born July 26, 1951 in Minden), Federal Minister of Justice
- Thomas Oppermann (born April 27, 1954 in Freckenhorst), former State Minister D., Member of the Bundestag
- Dieter Bohlen (born February 7, 1954 in Berne, Lower Saxony), musician and producer, studied business administration in Göttingen
- Eckhard Gorka (born May 24, 1955 in Braunschweig), since 2007 state superintendent in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district
- Matthias Reim (born November 26, 1957 in Korbach, Hessen), pop musician
- Christian Schrader (* 1959 in Wolfenbüttel), legal scholar, judge and university professor, doctorate in Göttingen, City Council of Göttingen, member of the board of directors and member of the credit committee of Sparkasse Göttingen
- Lou Richter (born September 10, 1960 in Einbeck), television presenter; Abitur in Göttingen
- Gunnar Fehlau (* 1973 in Dortmund), specialist journalist and book author, runs the Göttingen-based pressienst-fahrrad (pd-f).
- Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (born January 27, 1975 in Bremen), author; Abitur in Göttingen.
- Dennie Klose (born March 28, 1979 in Einbeck), television presenter; Studied in Göttingen.
- Florian Reichert (born February 10, 1982 in Hanover), long-distance and ultra-marathon runner; Studied in Göttingen, teacher at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium
- Robert Kulawick (born February 1, 1986 in Berlin), basketball player; Studied in Göttingen
Mayor or Lord Mayor since 1809
For the period before 1809: List of the mayors of Göttingen .
- 1809–1831: Conrad Julius Hieronymus Tuckermann, Maire, later mayor
- 1811–1813: Caspar Christian Campen, Maire
- 1813–1817: Johann Friedrich Christoph Hesse, mayor
- 1831–1851: Georg Christoph Ernst Ebell, Mayor, Magistrate Director and Lord Mayor
- 1851–1852: Georg Ferdinand Friedrich Insinger, Mayor and Georg Friedrich Morrien, Mayor
- 1852–1858: Ferdinand Heinrich Ludwig Oesterley, Mayor
- 1858–1867: Adolf Eberhardt, mayor
- 1867–1870: Georg Heinrich August Wunderlich, mayor
- 1870–1893: Georg Merkel , mayor from 1885 mayor
- 1893–1926: Georg Friedrich Calsow , Lord Mayor
- 1926–1938: Bruno Karl August Jung , Lord Mayor
- 1938–1945: Albert Gnade , Lord Mayor
- 1945–1946: Erich Schmidt , (independent), Acting Mayor
- 1946, January to November: Hermann Föge (FDP), Lord Mayor
- 1946–1947: Heinrich Düker (SPD), Lord Mayor
- 1947–1948: Franz Arnholdt (SPD), Lord Mayor
- 1948–1956: Hermann Föge (FDP), Lord Mayor
- 1956–1966: Gottfried Jungmichel (FDP), Lord Mayor
- 1966–1973: Walter Leßner (SPD), Lord Mayor
- 1973–1981: Artur Levi (SPD), Lord Mayor
- 1981–1982: Joachim Kummer (CDU), Lord Mayor
- 1982–1986: Gerd Rinck (CDU), Lord Mayor
- 1986–1991: Artur Levi (SPD), Lord Mayor (2nd term of office)
- 1991–2000: Rainer Kallmann SPD, Lord Mayor
- 2000–2006: Jürgen Danielowski , (CDU), Lord Mayor
- 2006–2014: Wolfgang Meyer (SPD), Lord Mayor
- since 2014: Rolf-Georg Köhler (SPD), Lord Mayor
City directors 1946–2001
- 1946–1948: Erich Schmidt
- 1948: Helmut Kuß , city director in the function of senior city director
- 1948–1949: Hans Otto Glahn
- 1949–1952: Erich Schmidt
- 1952–1959: Helmut Kuß, City Director, later City Director (2nd term)
- 1959–1968: Erich Heinrich Biederbeck
- 1968–1980: Kurt Busch
- 1980–1987: Rolf Vieten
- 1987–1988: Eberhard Nickel, City Director in the role of Senior City Director
- 1988–2000: Hermann Schierwater
literature
- Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttingen memorial plaques - a biographical guide. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-39161-7
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de/texte/ehrenbuerger.htm
- ↑ Stine Marg , Katharina Trittel, Bonnie Pülm: White coat and brown shirt: The Göttingen physician Rudolf Stich in a kaleidoscope , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014
- ↑ Sport & Society: Athletes as namesake . In: LSB magazine . No. 11 , 2016, p. 19–21 ( [1] [PDF; accessed June 4, 2019] - as of October 2016).
- ↑ The Stadtsportbund Göttingen eV mourns its honorary chairman August Schütte. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
- ^ Karl Karmarsch: Georg Wilhelm Glünder , in: Die polytechnische Schule zu Hannover , second, very expanded edition, "With three sheets of images of the institution's building", Hannover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung , 1856, p. 154 and above , online about Google books