List of personalities of the city of Mansfeld
The list of personalities of the city of Mansfeld contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city of Mansfeld in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in the city of Mansfeld and the current districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into the city of Mansfeld, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Karl von Hassell (1872–1932), Prussian administrative officer and member of parliament
The current main statute of the city of Mansfeld allows the appointment of honorary citizens with a two-thirds majority of the voting members of the city council.
sons and daughters of the town
- Peter Reinicke (before 1440–1518), smelter, mountain bailiff and councilor
- Georg Aemilius (1517–1569), theologian and botanist
- Johann Wigand (around 1523–1587), Protestant theologian and reformer
- Zacharias Praetorius (originally Breiter) (1535–1575), poet and theologian
- Wolfhart Spangenberg (1567–1636), poet of animal fables and school dramas
- Georg Engelmann (around 1575–1632), organist and composer of the early Baroque
- Christian Steltzer (1778–1848), lawyer and civil servant.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil (1783–1859), born in Rammelburg, forestry practitioner, teacher and forest scientist
- Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784–1863), born in Rammelburg, Kamchatka explorer
- Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809–1864), physician and natural scientist (mushroom and plant flora, discoveries and research in Sumatra and Java )
- Carl Friedrich August Koch (1820–1890), born in Leimbach, lawyer and insurance company
- Bernhard von Schenck (1851–1934), Prussian officer and administrative officer
- Dedo von Schenck (1853–1918), Prussian general
- Eberhard von Krosigk (1855–1932), lieutenant general and legal knight of the Order of St. John
- Harry Dember (1882–1943), born in Leimbach, physicist and discoverer of the Dember effect
- Arthur Gaebelein (1891–1964), football player
- Wolfgang Zeller (1893–1967), born in Biesenrode, composer of film music
- Carl Graf von Hardenberg (1893–1965), born in Rammelburg, farmer, entrepreneur and district administrator of the Northeim district
- Hermann Wolfgang Beyer (1898–1942), born in Annarode, theologian and Christian archaeologist
- Willy Blume (1913–1995), teacher and politician (SPD)
- Walter Ernst Fricke (1915–1988), born in Leimbach, astronomer
- Curt Gröper (1916–1985), painter
- Roswitha Stolfa (* 1942), politician (PDS / Die Linke)
Personalities associated with the city
- Hans Luder (1459–1530), smelter
- Martin Luther (1483–1546), monk and reformer
- Simon Musaeus (1521–1576), Protestant theologian and reformer, died in Mansfeld
- Cyriacus Spangenberg (1528–1604), theologian and historian
- Ernst Helbig (1802–1866), resin painter, died in Mansfeld
Individual evidence
- ↑ $ 14 of the main statute of the city of Mansfeld from December 8, 2014