List of people associated with Braunschweig

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Coat of arms of the city of Braunschweig

The following people were not born in Braunschweig , but are connected to the city through their work.

See also:

A.

B.

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (born November 22, 1710 in Weimar; † July 1, 1784 in Berlin), composer and organist, lived in Braunschweig from 1770 to 1774
  • Tina Bachmann (born August 1, 1978), hockey player and Olympic champion
  • Eberhard Baring (born December 6, 1608 in Lübeck, † March 6, 1659 in Hanover), Lutheran theologian, educator and polyhistor
  • Scooter Barry (born August 13, 1966 in San Francisco , USA ), former German-American basketball player with SG Braunschweig
  • August Christian Bartels (born December 9, 1749 in Harderode; † December 16, 1826 in Wolfenbüttel ), Lutheran theologian and high church official in Braunschweig
  • Fritz Bauer (born July 16, 1903 in Stuttgart ; † July 1, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ), judge and public prosecutor , from 1949 to 1956 first regional court director , then general public prosecutor in Braunschweig
  • Johann Georg Beck (born April 24, 1676 in Augsburg; † August 7, 1722 in Braunschweig), copperplate engraver, lived and worked in Braunschweig from 1706 to 1722
  • Ilse Becker-Döring (born September 15, 1912 in Frankfurt am Main; † April 5, 2004), councilwoman and first mayor of the city of Braunschweig from 1966 to 1972
  • Reinhard Bein (* 1941 in Guben), historian, high school teacher and non-fiction author
  • Franziska Bennemann (born May 30, 1905 in Hermsdorf [near Ruhland] / Province of Brandenburg; † August 26, 1986 in Braunschweig), politician (SPD)
  • Oswald Berkhan (born March 19, 1834 in Blankenburg im Harz, † February 15, 1917 in Braunschweig), physician . Co-founder of the Neu-Erkeröder institutes for the sick and handicapped and a reformer of the special education system
  • Rudolf Berndt (born July 27, 1910 in Cremlingen; † June 2, 1987 in Weddel), ornithologist and nature conservationist
  • Johann Georg Bertram (born September 10, 1670 in Lüneburg, † August 2, 1728 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian and regional historian, pastor at St. Martini
  • Werner Bertram (born April 26, 1835 in Ottenstein; † December 1, 1899 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian, pastor of St. Katharinen, Braunschweig superintendent and botanist
  • Otto Beseler (born May 12, 1841 in Schleswig; † July 20, 1915 in Braunschweig), farmer and plant breeder
  • Wilhelm Beste (born April 6, 1817 in Wolfenbüttel, † June 13, 1889 in Braunschweig), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor
  • Gerd Biegel (born May 26, 1947 in Mannheim), historian, director of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum 1986 to 2008 and since 2008 of the Institute for Braunschweigische Regionalgeschichte
  • Otto Bieligk (born March 16, 1897 in Züllichau, Brandenburg; † August 14, 1964), engineer and university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Bert Bilzer (born August 13, 1913 in Bautzen, † December 16, 1980 in Braunschweig), art historian and from 1953 to 1977 director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum
  • Johann Heinrich Blasius (born October 7, 1809 in Nümbrecht -Eckenbach, † May 26, 1870 in Braunschweig), founder of the Braunschweig Botanical Garden
  • Arthur Blaustein (born September 4, 1878 in Stolp, Western Pomerania, † April 30, 1942 in Baden-Baden), lawyer , economist and university professor ; worked for the association for commercial education in Braunschweig
  • Hermann Blenk (born December 9, 1901 in Bad Hersfeld; † October 6, 1995 in Braunschweig), physicist, aerospace engineer and university professor. Among other things, he was President of the German Research Institute for Aviation (DFL) in Braunschweig.
  • Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau (born December 26, 1819 in Hasselfelde / Harz, † October 30, 1899), founder of the city of Blumenau (Brazil)
  • Wilhelm von Bode (born December 10, 1845 in Calvörde , † March 1, 1929 in Berlin ), art historian and museum specialist
  • Emil Bodenstab (born July 20, 1856 in Calvörde; † August 23, 1924 in Braunschweig), pharmacist and local researcher
  • Otto Bögeholz, fictional Braunschweig poet, after whom even a street is named.
  • Robert Bohlmann (born September 6, 1854 in Gandersheim, † May 20, 1944 in Braunschweig), pharmacist and gun collector
  • Wilhelm Boller (born July 9, 1835 in Bonn, † May 15, 1921 in Braunschweig), wallpaper manufacturer
  • Bartholomäus Botsack (born April 24, 1649 in Lübeck, † April 16, 1709 in Copenhagen), Lutheran theologian and pastor at the Katharinenkirche in Braunschweig, superintendent for the churches and schools in the province of Braunschweig, professor and consistorial assessor in Copenhagen
  • Carl Josef Alois Bourdet (born October 30, 1851 in Prague, † February 28, 1928 in Braunschweig), painter and watercolorist
  • August Heinrich Werner Brandes (born October 21, 1798 in Goslar ; † January 28, 1858 in Braunschweig), pedagogue and university professor at the Collegium Carolinum
  • Hans Heinrich Georg Brandes (born May 23, 1803 in Bortfeld (Braunschweig), † October 6, 1868 in Braunschweig), German landscape and portrait painter, gallery inspector in Braunschweig
  • Otto Brennecke (born October 29, 1882 in Groß Mahner; † October 3, 1936 in Hanover), SPD politician, ADGB district secretary Braunschweig-Hanover
  • Urban Brückmann (born April 23, 1728 in Wolfenbüttel; † June 20, 1812 in Braunschweig), doctor, mineralogist and scientific writer. He was the personal physician of three Brunswick dukes. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was one of his patients.
  • Brun I of Braunschweig (* 960–980; † around 1014), Brunone, Count of Braunschweig
  • Hermann Buchler (born September 16, 1815 in Trieste, † May 4, 1900 in Braunschweig), businessman and industrialist
  • Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz (born November 25, 1607 in Schöningen; † May 20, 1671 in Braunschweig), theologian, philologist and novelist
  • Richard Buerstenbinder (born April 12, 1840 in Berlin; † November 20, 1894 in Braunschweig), agricultural scientist, lecturer at the TH Braunschweig
  • Heinrich Büssing (born June 29, 1843 in Nordsteimke [today Wolfsburg], † October 27, 1929), industrialist, engineer, pioneer of truck and bus construction (see Büssing AG )
  • Heinz Butin (born April 13, 1928 in Bad Godesberg), phytopathologist and forest scientist, long-time director of the Institute for Plant Protection in the Forest of the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry
  • Gerhard Büttenbender (* 1938 in Darmstadt), director, media scientist and university lecturer, rector of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts

C.

  • Asche Burchard Karl Ferdinand von Campe (born October 9, 1803 in Wickensen, † October 14, 1874 in Braunschweig), Brunswick statesman.
  • Joachim Heinrich Campe (born June 29, 1746 in Deensen, near Holzminden, † October 22, 1818 in Braunschweig), writer, linguist, educator and publisher
  • Johann Friedrich Ludwig Cappel (* July 18, 1759 in Helmstedt; † July 16, 1799 in Wladimir) was a doctor in Braunschweig
  • Günther Cario (born August 3, 1897 in Göttingen; † September 18, 1984 in Braunschweig), physicist and university professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier (* 1968), biochemist, worked at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research from 2013 to 2015
  • Rudolph Anton Chely (* 1692; † November 12, 1770 in Braunschweig), Lieutenant Colonel in the Braunschweig Army and from 1745 holder of a princely privilege that allowed him to manufacture faience and porcelain in Braunschweig.
  • Max Clarus (born March 31, 1852 in Mühlberg / Elbe; † December 6, 1916 in Braunschweig), conductor and composer
  • Günther Clausen (born February 20, 1885 in Berlin; † February 14, 1954 in Braunschweig), graphic artist
  • Albrecht Heinrich Carl Conradi (1698 / 1699–1774), German building manager and cartographer
  • Heinrich Cordes (born May 19, 1906; † March 12, 1999 in Hildesheim), chemist and university professor at the TH Braunschweig before and after 1945
  • Euricius Cordus , called Eberwein, actually Heinrich Ritze (* 1486 in Simtshausen near Wetter (Upper Hesse), † December 24, 1535 in Bremen), humanist, poet, doctor and botanist; 1523–1527 city doctor in Braunschweig
  • Franziska Cornet , b. Kiel (born January 23, 1808 in Kassel; † August 7, 1870 in Braunschweig), opera singer
  • Hardy Crueger (* 1962 in Oldenburg), German writer

D.

  • Brandanus Daetrius (born June 4, 1607 in Hamburg; † November 22, 1688 in Wolfenbüttel; also Dätri Brandan), Lutheran theologian, city superintendent of Braunschweig, court preacher, consistorial director and abbot in Riddagshausen monastery, buried in the church of the monastery
  • Manfred Dambroth (born June 19, 1935 in Wriezen; † April 12, 1994 in Peine), crop scientist, institute director and former president of the FAL Braunschweig
  • Karl Dauber (born August 20, 1841 in Holzminden, † May 13, 1922 in Braunschweig), high school teacher and school director in Holzminden, Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig
  • Josef Daum (born February 8, 1924 in Merzig; † August 18, 2004 in Braunschweig), biologist, librarian and university professor. From 1967 to 1987 he was director of the Braunschweig University Library.
  • Alexander David (born January 17, 1687 in Halberstadt, † October 14, 1765 in Braunschweig), ducal chamber councilor, re-founder of the Braunschweig Jewish community
  • Wolf-Dieter Deckwer (born August 3, 1941 in Finsterwalde ; † October 4, 2006 in Oldenburg), chemist, since 1986 head of the bioprocess engineering department at GBF (now Helmholtz Center for Infection Research ) and university professor at the TU Braunschweig
  • Julius Dedekind (born July 11, 1795 in Holzminden; † August 2, 1872 in Braunschweig), lawyer and from 1822 to 1872 teacher at the Collegium Carolinum
  • Thomas Dexel (born June 28, 1916 in Jena ; † July 6, 2010 in Braunschweig), from 1955 to 1996 head of the form collection of the city of Braunschweig
  • Walter Dexel (born February 7, 1890 in Munich; † June 8, 1973 in Braunschweig), painter, commercial artist, designer, traffic planner, art historian and museum director
  • Paul Diercke (born July 9, 1874 in Stade, † July 23, 1937 in Braunschweig), cartographer
  • Hermann Dießelhorst (born December 1, 1870 in Peine; † February 22, 1961 in Braunschweig), physicist and TH professor
  • Jürgen Diestelmann (born May 29, 1928 in Coburg ; † December 29, 2014 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian, 1975–1990 pastor at the Brothers Church
  • Paul Dorn (born January 15, 1901 in Hollfeld, † July 12, 1959 in Braunschweig), geologist and university professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Anna Dräger-Mühlenpfordt (born October 9, 1887 in Lübeck, † January 31, 1984 in Braunschweig; born Anna Dräger), painter and graphic artist
  • Andreas Duncker the Elder Ä. (* in Magdeburg; † September 10, 1629 in Braunschweig), printer and publisher

E.

  • Hans Ebeling (* 1906; † May 26, 1967 in Braunschweig), history didactician and textbook author, teacher and school board member in Braunschweig
  • Heinrich Ebeling (born October 14, 1840 in Vorsfelde near Helmstedt, † after 1913), classical philologist
  • Carl Friedrich Echtermeier (born October 27, 1845 in Kassel, † July 30, 1910 in Braunschweig), sculptor
  • Hans Eckensberger (born March 16, 1897 in Leipzig, † January 13, 1966 in Braunschweig), journalist, newspaper publisher and editor-in-chief of the Braunschweiger Zeitung
  • Kurt Edzard (born May 26, 1890 in Bremen, † October 22, 1972 in Braunschweig), sculptor, university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Samuel Levi Egers (born June 11, 1769 in Halberstadt; † December 3, 1842 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig regional rabbi
  • Rudolf Egger-Büssing (born October 13, 1893 in Marburg an der Drau [Slovenia]; † February 2, 1962 in Freiburg im Breisgau), General Director of the Büssing-NAG-Werke
  • Heinrich Eggersglüß (born March 10, 1875 in Untereinzingen, Fallingbostel district; † July 6, 1932 in Braunschweig), local poet (known as the "Heidedichter")
  • Ferdinand Eichhorn (born November 22, 1853 in Garlstorf; † February 18, 1934 in Braunschweig), coffee merchant and entrepreneur
  • Frauke Eickhoff (born October 24, 1967 in Celle), Judoka (World Champion and Vice European Champion)
  • Manfred Eigen (born May 9, 1927 in Bochum; † February 6, 2019), Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry and Honorary Professor at the TU Braunschweig
  • Gebhard Friedrich Eigner (born October 21, 1776 in Vorsfelde; † April 5, 1866 in Braunschweig), teacher, prince educator, librarian and museum director
  • Ekbert I. von Meißen († January 11, 1068), Brunone, Saxon Count and Margrave of Meißen, promoter of trade in Braunschweig
  • Ekbert II. Von Meißen (* around 1059/61; † July 3, 1090 in Selketal, Harz), Brunone, Margrave of Meißen and Count of Friesland, founder of the Brunswick Cyriakus Foundation
  • Hartmut El Kurdi (* 1964 in Amman, Jordan), writer, playwright, satirist, children's book author, etc. a. Winner of the German Children's Radio Play Prize. Lived in Braunschweig from 1995 to 2009.
  • Gottlieb Elster (born October 8, 1867 in Greene, † December 6, 1917 in Braunschweig), sculptor
  • Theodor Engelbrecht (born January 18, 1813 on the Monplaisir farm in Halchter near Wolfenbüttel; † August 4, 1892 in Braunschweig), doctor and one of the most important German pomologists of the 19th century
  • Martin Erdmann (born July 23, 1896 in Ingeleben, † September 1, 1977 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian and Braunschweig regional bishop
  • Alexander Leopold von Erichsen (born May 10, 1787 in Nikolai (Upper Silesia), † February 2, 1876 in Braunschweig), lieutenant general and last city commandant of Braunschweig
  • Philipp Erlanger (born March 31, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main, † April 20, 1934 in Braunschweig), painter and sculptor
  • Christian Ludwig Ermisch (born November 15, 1652 in Celle, † December 19, 1722 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian, pastor at the Braunschweig Katharinenkirche and since 1693 superintendent of the city of Braunschweig
  • Nadine Ernsting-Krienke (born February 5, 1974 in Telgte), hockey player and Olympic champion
  • Johann Joachim Eschenburg (born December 7, 1743 in Hamburg, † February 29, 1820 in Braunschweig), literary historian and university professor
  • Till Eulenspiegel (* around 1300 in Kneitlingen, † 1350 in Mölln), a jester and juggler; Title hero of a book whose stories are z. T. have (should) have happened in Braunschweig

F.

  • Ferdinand Faesebeck (born March 4, 1809 in Obersickt, † January 8, 1900 in Braunschweig), surgeon and prosector at the Anatomical-Surgical Institute in Braunschweig
  • Minna Faßhauer (born October 10, 1875 in Bleckendorf (today in Egeln), † July 28, 1949 in Braunschweig), was the first woman in Germany to hold a ministerial office, resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Jean Baptiste Feronce von Rotenkreutz (born October 23, 1723 in Leipzig, † July 19, 1799 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig Minister
  • Alexander Fesca (born May 22, 1820 in Karlsruhe, † February 22, 1849 in Braunschweig), composer and pianist
  • August Fink (born December 14, 1890 in Wolfenbüttel; † August 23, 1963 there), art historian, university professor and director of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum from 1934 to 1955
  • Otto Finsch (born August 8, 1839 in Warmbrunn; † January 31, 1917 in Braunschweig), businessman, ethnologist, ornithologist and explorer
  • Eduard Flechsig (born April 9, 1864 in Zwickau, † December 1, 1944 in Achim near Wolfenbüttel), art historian and museum official. He had been working at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum since 1895 , where he was director from 1924 to 1931. In 1930/31 he prevented the planned sale of the Vermeer painting The Girl with the Wine Glass , one of the most valuable works in the collection.
  • Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer (born July 10, 1727 in Koethen , † August 20, 1787 in Braunschweig), architect and court builder, built Richmond Palace
  • Herman Flesche (born October 21, 1886 in Rheinbrohl ; † January 4, 1972 in Braunschweig), architect, university professor and Braunschweig master builder, head of the old town renovation
  • Wilhelm Floto (born June 14, 1812 in Tangermünde, † February 22, 1869 in Braunschweig), pharmacist and comedy writer
  • Christoph Bernhard Francke (* around 1660 to 1670 in Hanover; † January 18, 1729 in Braunschweig), officer and painter
  • Wolfgang Frank (born February 21, 1951; † September 7, 2013 in Mainz), soccer coach , former soccer player (1974–1978, striker ), one of the " top scorer " at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Bernd Franke (born February 12, 1948 in Düsseldorf) former football player (1971–1985, goalkeeper ), one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Paul Franke (born November 30, 1888 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † March 18, 1950), co-founder of the camera manufacturer Rollei
  • Anton Franzen (born April 9, 1896 in Schleswig ; † May 16, 1968 in Kiel ), lawyer, 1928–1931 NSDAP politician, from October 1930 until a perjury affair in July 1931 first National Socialist state minister in the Free State of Braunschweig
  • Kurt Otto Friedrichs (born September 28, 1901 in Kiel ; † December 31, 1982 in New Rochelle ), German-American mathematician, from 1930 professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig , before he moved to the in 1937 with his future wife, the Jewess Nellie Bruell USA emigrated
  • Karl Theophil Fries , (born March 13, 1875 in Kiedrich; † September 6, 1962 in Marburg), chemist and university professor; from 1918 to retirement for political reasons in 1938 at the TH Braunschweig
  • Barthold Fröler (* probably Strasbourg; † after 1612), stonemason and sculptor
  • Franz Fuhse (born November 21, 1865 in Lutter am Barenberge , † November 2, 1937 in Braunschweig), art historian and curator, first full-time director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum

G

  • Karl Christian Gärtner (born November 24, 1712 in Freiberg, † February 14, 1791 in Braunschweig), writer
  • Gustav Gassner (born January 17, 1881 in Berlin, † February 5, 1955 in Lüneburg), botanist, phytomedicist and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, honorary senator since 1951
  • Wilhelm von Gebhardi (born August 28, 1738 in Wolfenbüttel, † February 24, 1809 in Braunschweig), architect and head of the ducal-Braunschweig building department
  • Julius Geertz (born April 21, 1837 in Hamburg, † October 21, 1902 in Braunschweig), painter
  • Albert Genzen (born September 30, 1868 in Stralsund; † July 27, 1940 in Braunschweig), gardener, union official and politician (SPD, USPD)
  • Bernd Gersdorff (born November 18, 1946 in Berlin), former soccer player (1969–1976, striker), one of the "top scorer" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker (born May 10, 1816 in Hamburg, † May 31, 1872 in Braunschweig), writer (e.g. " The River Pirates of the Mississippi ")
  • Gertrud the Elder of Braunschweig († 1077), founder of the later Welfenschatz
  • Gertrud the Younger of Braunschweig (* around 1060; † December 9, 1117 in Braunschweig), Brunonin, Margravine of Meißen, founder of the later Aegidienkloster (1115)
  • Klaus Gerwien (born September 11, 1940 in Lyck; † September 3, 2018), football player (1961–1973, all-round player), one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Erich Giese (born March 3, 1876 in Küstrin; † after 1945), traffic scientist and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Carl Giesecke (1854–1938), mechanical engineer and industrialist, co-founder of the Brunswick mill construction company "Amme, Giesecke and Konegen" ( MIAG since 1925 )
  • Friedrich Oskar Giesel (born May 20, 1852 in Winzig / Silesia, † November 14, 1927 in Braunschweig), chemist and pioneer of radioactivity research
  • Lorenz Gieseler (* in Osterode; † end of February 1684 in Braunschweig), physician, city physician in Braunschweig from 1657 to 1684
  • Frank Glatzel (born February 26, 1892 in Altenkirchen; † May 18, 1958 in Braunschweig), politician (DVP)
  • Paul Gmeiner (born August 28, 1892 in Afferde-Unna, † April 18, 1944 in the Heinkel external command of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp ), leading KPD politician during the Weimar period in Braunschweig, member of the state parliament 1924–1933, led the KPD resistance in Braunschweig until the end 1933
  • Johannes Göderitz (born May 24, 1888 in Ramsin; † March 27, 1978 in Braunlage), architect, town planner, construction officer and university professor
  • Martin Gosebruch (born June 20, 1919; † September 17, 1992), art historian at the TH / TU Braunschweig
  • Hermann von Görtz-Wrisberg (born April 5, 1819 in Hanover, † February 22, 1889 in Braunschweig), lawyer, politician and Braunschweig State Minister, Chairman of the Regency Council
  • Hulda Graf , b. Meyer (born July 20, 1879 in Winzerla; † January 18, 1944 in Jena-Winzerla), politician (USPD, SPD)
  • Otto Graff (born August 17, 1917 in Berlin-Steglitz; † January 3, 2014 in Braunschweig), from 1949 to 1980 zoologist and soil scientist at the former Agricultural Research Institute, Braunschweig-Völkenrode (now the Thünen Institute)
  • Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl (born December 10, 1782 in Peine; † April 6, 1849 in Braunschweig), Germanist, pedagogue, musicologist and conductor
  • Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl (born May 4, 1810 in Hofwil ; † October 16, 1868 in Braunschweig), playwright, storyteller and art critic
  • Herman Grote (born January 29, 1885 in Hohegeiß in the Harz Mountains; † March 21, 1971 ibid.), Educator and composer. Particularly known as the composer and lyricist of the " Lower Saxony Song ", written in Braunschweig around 1926 .
  • Johann Grothusen (born January 26, 1586 in Hildesheim, † November 15, 1648 in Braunschweig), lawyer, syndic of the city of Braunschweig, Privy Councilor and Chancellor
  • Friedrich Grotrian (* 1803 in Schöningen; † 1860 in Braunschweig), piano maker and entrepreneur
  • Wolfgang Grzyb (born July 29, 1940, † October 7, 2004), football player (1966–1978, defender ), one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Hermann Günther (born November 10, 1811 in Gandersheim, † May 4, 1886 in Braunschweig), teacher and headmaster. Today's Braunschweiger Gymnasium Raabeschule emerged from the private school he founded in 1861.

H

  • August Haake (born September 23, 1829 in Halle (Westphalia); † April 6, 1906 in Braunschweig), businessman, councilor, commercial judge and chamber of commerce president
  • Wilhelm Habich (born October 20, 1840 in Clausthal, † March 2, 1933 in Braunschweig), sculptor
  • Friedhelm Haebermann (born July 24, 1946 in Duisburg ), former soccer player (1969–1978, defender), one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Ernst Häseler (born May 25, 1844 in Sankt Andreasberg; † April 3, 1911 in Braunschweig), civil engineer and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Lothar Hagebölling (born October 10, 1952 in Coesfeld, Münsterland), Head of the Office of the Federal President, was a trainee lawyer, doctoral student and civil servant in Braunschweig
  • Rolf Hagen (born April 14, 1922 in Sandershausen; † June 17, 2009 in Braunschweig), German historian and director of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum from 1965 to 1986
  • August Hampe (born April 20, 1866 in Holzminden; † February 6, 1945 ibid.), German lawyer and politician of the Free State of Braunschweig
  • Helmut Hampe (born November 19, 1896 in Leipzig, † August 22, 1939 in Braunschweig), music teacher and ornithologist
  • Egbert Harbert (born November 25, 1882 in Arnsberg; † January 22, 1968 in Braunschweig), geodesist and university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Heiko Harborth (born February 11, 1938 in Celle), mathematician and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Karl August von Hardenberg (born May 31, 1750 in Essenrode, at apprenticeship; † November 26, 1822 in Genoa), Prussian statesman, worked in Braunschweig between 1781 and 1790
  • Johann Christoph Harenberg (born April 28, 1696 in Langenholzen near Alfeld; † November 12, 1774 in Braunschweig), Protestant theologian and historian, professor at the Collegium Carolinum
  • Johann Oswald Harms (baptized April 30, 1643 in Hamburg; † 1708 in Braunschweig), painter and important baroque stage designer
  • Wolter Hasemann (buried July 11, 1614 in Braunschweig), stonemason, sculptor and master builder
  • Hans Hassel (* July 28, 1860; † September 10, 1932 in Braunschweig), President of the Braunschweig Administrative Court
  • Heinrich Heffter (born May 17, 1903 in Bad Polzin, † January 13, 1975 in Braunschweig), historian, professor of history at the TH Braunschweig
  • Reinhold Heidecke (born January 2, 1881 in Aschersleben (Harz), † February 26, 1960 in Braunschweig), co-founder of the camera manufacturer Rollei
  • Berthold Heilig (born October 26, 1914 in Heidelberg, † 7 November 1978 in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina), NSDAP district leader in Brunswick and Regional Inspector for the country Braunschweig and Deputy Gauleiter South Hanover-Braunschweig
  • Heinrich (V) the Elder of Braunschweig (* around 1173/74; † April 28, 1227 in Braunschweig), Welfe, 1195–1212 Count Palatine near the Rhine
  • Heinrich the Lion (* around 1129/1135 on Lake Constance, probably in or around Ravensburg; † August 6, 1195 in Braunschweig), Welf, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, built Braunschweig into his royal seat
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Heise (* 1718 in Kerstlingerode; † October 1804 in Braunschweig), lawyer and writer. From 1764 to 1769 he was the librarian of the library of the Collegium Carolinum.
  • Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke (born February 22, 1804 in Helmstedt; † December 1, 1872 in Marburg), Protestant theologian, professor at the Collegium Carolinum
  • Heinrich Georg Henneberg (* 1669; † February 19, 1717 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig postmaster and news agent. He founded the kitchen post between Braunschweig, Hamburg and Blankenburg.
  • August Hermann (born September 14, 1835 in apprenticeship; † February 20, 1906 in Braunschweig), educator and author, introduced the soccer game in Germany together with Konrad Koch
  • Horst Herrmann (* 1906 in Dresden; † 1973 in Braunschweig), mathematician, university professor at the TU Braunschweig
  • Hans Herse (born December 10, 1855 in Neuteich / West Prussia, † January 23, 1939 in Braunschweig), painter and teacher
  • Levi Herzfeld (born December 28, 1810 in Ellrich; † March 11, 1884 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig regional rabbi from 1843 to 1884
  • Jürgen Hesselbach (born November 2, 1949 in Stuttgart), mechanical engineer, President of the TU Braunschweig from 2005 to 2017
  • Walther Hoeck (born June 13, 1885 in Holzminden; † February 12, 1956 in Egolfs im Allgäu), painter
  • Albert Höft (born May 29, 1893 in Zerrenthin; † July 2, 1980 in Braunschweig), MdL and State Minister
  • Hoffmann von Fallersleben (born April 2, 1798 in Fallersleben [today Wolfsburg], † January 19, 1874 in Corvey), writer, poet of the " Song of the Germans " and linguist
  • Jakob Hofmann (born December 17, 1876 in Aschaffenburg, † June 26, 1955 in Braunschweig), sculptor and draftsman, created a. a. Masks on the former building of the public library in Braunschweig, memorials for the 70th and 92nd infantry regiments, Pieta for the Katharinenkirche, sculpture of a lion for the colonial monument in the Brunswick city park, bronze Siegfried fountain for the Siegfriedviertel, Brunswick "Besenmännchen" , Bust of Heinrich Jaspers and renewed the weathered figures of the Braunschweiger Gewandhaus
  • Reiner Hollmann (born September 30, 1949 in Walsum), soccer coach, former soccer player, one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Karl Hoppe (born October 21, 1892 in Osterwieck; † June 27, 1973 in Braunschweig), Germanist and Raabe researcher
  • Ernst Wilhelm Horn (* 1732/33 in Wilnau, Altmark, † April 17, 1812 in Braunschweig), late baroque architect
  • David Ferdinand Howaldt (born November 8, 1772 in Breslau / Silesia, today Poland, † November 5, 1850 in Kiel), Braunschweig goldsmith

I.

  • Ottokar Israel (born June 14, 1919 in Königsberg; † September 13, 2004 in Süsel), historian, archivist and genealogist, director of the Braunschweig City Archives
  • Israhel von Halle (* in Halle; † 1480 in Braunschweig), Jewish entrepreneur

J

  • Günter Jaenicke (born November 27, 1937 in Tilsit; † September 12, 2015), Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1974 to 1976
  • Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem also called "Abbot Jerusalem" (born November 22, 1709 in Osnabrück; † September 2, 1789 in Braunschweig), German Protestant theologian , Abbot of Riddagshausen, co-founder of the Collegium Carolinum (today TU)
  • Wilhelm Jesse (born July 3, 1887 in Grabow; † January 11, 1971 in Braunschweig), historian, numismatist and from 1932 to 1952 director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum
  • Helmuth Johannsen (born February 27, 1920 in Hamburg; † November 3, 1998 ibid), football coach, master coach Eintracht Braunschweig
  • August Junke (born April 23, 1877 in Stadtoldendorf ; † November 21, 1926 in Braunschweig), Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig
  • Eduard Justi (born May 30, 1904 in Hong Kong, † December 16, 1986 in Braunschweig), physicist and university professor. From 1946 to 1974 he headed the Institute for Applied Physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He is considered a pioneer in fuel cell and solar technology.
  • The musicians of the Jazzkantine , since 1993

K

  • Hans Kaiser (born April 29, 1914 in Bochum; † October 2, 1982 in Soest), Informel artist , lived in Braunschweig from 1937 to 1938
  • Hugo Kanter (born on September 27, 1871 in Breslau; died on November 17, 1938 in Berlin), university professor at the TH Braunschweig, from 1924 to 1933 syndic of the Braunschweig Chamber of Industry and Commerce and member of the Braunschweig Landtag
  • Hans-Dieter Karras (born November 1, 1959 in Jena), German church musician and composer
  • Hans Kaufmann (* 1876; † 1957), Braunschweig theater director, dramaturge and artistic director
  • Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla (born September 26, 1966 in Schwerte ), materials scientist and mechanical engineer, President of the TU Braunschweig
  • Arno Keil (born August 17, 1900 in Görlitz; † April 24, 1974 in Braunschweig), actor and director, worked at the Braunschweig State Theater from 1935 to 1965.
  • Heinrich Kielhorn (born September 2, 1847 in Vallstedt , † December 1, 1934 in Braunschweig), pioneer of special education
  • Inge Kilian (born June 3, 1935 in Geisenheim ), high jumper and Olympic participant
  • August Kind (born August 27th in Wiel , † December 30th in Berlin ), architect and construction clerk, 1875–1889 head of the building administration of the Reichspost
  • Balthasar Kircher (* Baden-Baden; † after 1601), stonemason and stone sculptor
  • Stefan Kläsener (born October 15, 1964 in Dortmund), journalist and theologian , from 2006–2009 deputy editor-in-chief of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, since 2010
  • Dietrich Klagges (born February 1, 1891 in Herringsen ; † November 12, 1971 in Bad Harzburg), politician of the NSDAP, during the time of National Socialism Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig , SS- Obergruppenführer, persecution of political opponents, responsible for the deportation of Jews in the concentration camps , convicted after the end of the war for involvement in murders, torture etc.
  • Bernhard Klein (* before 1600 in Stuttgart), stone sculptor and plasterer
  • Rüdiger Klessmann (born March 15, 1927 in Lemgo; † March 30, 2020 in Augsburg), art historian, director of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum from 1970 to 1990
  • Walter Klöditz (born December 7, 1911 in Großenhain; † December 25, 1994 in Braunschweig), SPD politician and Lord Mayor of the city of Braunschweig from 1972 to 1974
  • Emmi Knoche (born May 1, 1881 in Mainz, † March 3, 1970 in Braunschweig), pianist and piano teacher
  • Friedrich August Knost (born September 21, 1899 in Osnabrück; † August 22, 1982 ibid), administrative lawyer , 1936 commentator on the Nazi Nuremberg race laws , 1956–1964 president of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig
  • Hermann Koch (born December 29, 1899 in Harriehausen; † February 10, 1984), furniture manufacturer and CDU politician since 1945
  • Adolf Otto Koeppen (born November 7, 1902 in Magdeburg, † June 25, 1972 in Braunschweig), painter, graphic artist and caricaturist
  • Albrecht Köstlin (born August 12, 1905 in Ochsenhausen; † December 17, 1970 in Braunschweig), agricultural economist, agronomist and head of the FAL in Braunschweig-Völkenrode
  • Karl Friedrich Ernst Koldewey (born April 26, 1839 in Barmke, Helmstedt district, † September 16, 1909 in Braunschweig), educator and historian
  • Julius Konegen (born July 1, 1857 in Königsberg / Prussia; † May 9, 1916 in Braunschweig), mechanical engineer and industrialist, co-founder of the Braunschweig mill construction company "Amme, Giesecke und Konegen" (since 1925 MIAG )
  • Carl Koppe (born January 9, 1844 in Soest; † December 10, 1910 in Cologne), geodesist and university professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, played a key role in surveying the Gotthard tunnel (1874–1875).
  • Heinrich Koppe (born March 26, 1891 in Nordhausen; † November 9, 1963 in Braunschweig), aeronautical engineer, flight meteorologist and university lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Karl Kordina (born August 7, 1919 in Vienna, † August 14, 2005 in Braunschweig), civil engineer
  • Georg Ludwig Korfes (born October 29, 1769 in Ottenstein, † December 31, 1810 in Lisbon), Braunschweig officer in the coalition wars against Napoleon
  • Peter Joseph Krahe (born April 8, 1758 in Mannheim; † October 7, 1840 in Braunschweig), architect and Brunswick court builder
  • Arnold Kramer (born May 17, 1863 in Wolfenbüttel; † May 9, 1918 in Braunschweig), sculptor, creator of the Eulenspiegel fountain
  • Helmut Kramer (born March 30, 1930 in Helmstedt ), lawyer and legal historian , judge at the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court , founding member and until 2006 chairman of the “Forum Justizgeschichte e. V. “, author of specialist books on the history of justice in the Nazi and post-war era
  • Friedrich Kreiß (born August 28, 1842 in Ortenberg (Hesse), † October 19, 1915 in Braunschweig), garden architect. As a ducal promenade inspector, he designed numerous parks in Braunschweig.
  • Fritz J. Krüger (born December 28, 1941 in Stettin ), fossil collector and amateur paleontologist
  • Helmut Kruse (* 1936 in Nordhausen ; † January 25, 2009 in Braunschweig), church music director and cathedral cantor at Braunschweig Cathedral, founder of the Braunschweiger Domsingschule.
  • Werner Küchenthal (born January 13, 1882 in Münchehof ; † June 20, 1976 in Hedeper ) lawyer, DNVP member from 1919, minister in two governments of the Free State of Braunschweig before 1933, a. a. a coalition between DNVP and NSDAP, NSDAP member from May 1933, during the time of National Socialism president of the Braunschweigische Staatsbank
  • Klaus-Dieter Kühbacher (born October 30, 1943 in Heerlen, Netherlands), administrative officer and politician (SPD), 1974–1976 member of the state parliament in Lower Saxony, 1976–1990 member of the Bundestag, 1990–1995 finance minister in Brandenburg, 1995–2002 president of the Landeszentralbank Berlin / Brandenburg and member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank
  • Kurt Kuhnke (born April 30, 1910 in Stettin ; † February 8, 1969), racing driver and designer
  • Werner Kunkel (born July 18, 1922 in Magdeburg ; † July 1, 2017 in Braunschweig), painter, draftsman and graphic artist
  • Wolf-Dietrich von Kurnatowski (1908–1972), canon lawyer and pastor of the Christian Community

L.

  • Hans Lampe (* unknown; † 1604 in Braunschweig), builder of the Gewandhaus in Braunschweig
  • Christian Gottlob Langwagen (* 1752 or 1753 in Dresden; † August 13, 1805 in Braunschweig), architect and Braunschweig court builder
  • Ludwig Leichtweiß (born April 5, 1878 in Eberstadt; † July 11, 1958 in Braunschweig), pioneer of hydraulic engineering research
  • Johann Anton Leisewitz (born May 9, 1752 in Hanover; † September 10, 1806 in Braunschweig), writer and lawyer
  • Johannes Leitzen (born November 13, 1848 in Stadtoldendorf; † December 30, 1922 in Blankenburg (Harz)), painter and architect, from 1876 to 1917 director of the Braunschweig Municipal Trade School
  • Walter Lerche (born October 7, 1901 in Vorsfelde; † December 26, 1962 in Wolfenbüttel), lawyer and judge at the Braunschweig Special Court during the Nazi era
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born January 22, 1729 in Kamenz, Electorate of Saxony, † February 15, 1781 in Braunschweig), poet and philosopher
  • Ephraim Moses Lilien (born May 23, 1874 in Drohobycz, Austria-Hungary, † July 17, 1925 in Badenweiler), graphic artist
  • Henry Litolff (born February 6, 1818 in London, † August 6, 1891 in Colombes), English composer and pianist, lived in Braunschweig from 1847 to 1860, where he founded the important Henry Litolff's publishing house (for music literature)
  • Fred Jochen Litterst (born December 9, 1945 in Göggingen ), physicist, President of the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1999 to 2004
  • Lothar III. (* before June 9, 1075; † December 4, 1137 in Breitenwang, Tyrol), also called Lothar von Süpplingenburg or Lothar von Supplinburg, Duke of Saxony and King (from 1125) and Emperor (from 1133) of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Erich Walter Lotz (born February 11, 1895 in Aschersleben; † December 20, 1966 in Braunschweig), senior city director of Braunschweig from 1946 to 1960, honorary citizen
  • Georg Lübke (born March 31, 1859 in Bülstringen; † July 17, 1924 in Braunschweig), professor of architecture at the TH Braunschweig from 1901 to 1924
  • Gebhard Levin Lüdecke (born February 27, 1662 in Calbe (Saale); † November 27, 1732 in Braunschweig) was mayor of Braunschweig for over 40 years
  • Hugo Luther (born November 18, 1849 in Wolfenbüttel; † June 30, 1901 in Goslar), mechanical engineer and industrialist, head of the machine factory and mill construction institute G. Luther
  • Rudi Lüttge (born December 19, 1922 in Ilsenburg (Harz), † September 23, 2016 in Bad Schwartau), walker and Olympic participant

M.

  • Otto Mackensen (born May 14, 1879 in Holzminden; † February 10, 1940 in Jena), mechanical engineer, optician and inventor
  • Wilhelm Mansfeld (born May 7, 1831 in Wolfenbüttel; † August 26, 1899 in Braunschweig), lawyer, from 1892 to 1899 President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court
  • Wilhelm Mansfeld (born October 16, 1875 in Wolfenbüttel, † December 25, 1955 in Braunschweig), lawyer, President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court from 1945 to 1948
  • Marie Mathis (born October 24, 1868 in Neutornow ; † July 30 or 31, 1935 in Braunschweig), social worker and politician, member of the state parliament of the Free State of Braunschweig
  • Gerhard Marquordt (born June 7, 1881 in Wierthe; † November 18, 1950 in Braunschweig), lawyer, administrative officer and DVP politician
  • Walter Meidinger (born June 7, 1900 in Berlin-Charlottenburg; † February 5, 1965 in Braunschweig), photo chemist at PTB in Braunschweig (1949–1962)
  • Paul Jonas Meier (born January 22, 1857 in Magdeburg, † February 11, 1946 in Braunschweig), archaeologist and director of the Ducal Museum Braunschweig (today HAUM ) from 1901 to 1924
  • Hans Meier-Branecke (born July 4, 1900 in Stadtoldendorf; † April 10, 1981 in Braunschweig), lawyer, NSDAP member since 1933, NS judge, after 1945 higher regional judge and from 1950 senate president at the higher regional court Braunschweig
  • Fritz Menzel (born April 13, 1867 in Helmstedt; † July 6, 1935 in Braunschweig), forester and ornithologist
  • August Merges (born March 3, 1870 in Malstatt - Burbach ( Saarbrücken ), † March 6, 1945 in Braunschweig), politician and revolutionary as well as member of various communist and syndicalist organizations.
  • Franz Merkhoffer ("Horse-Franz"; born November 29, 1946), former soccer player (1968–1984, defender), one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Hans-Joachim Mertens , (born October 28, 1905 in Halle (Saale), † April 11, 1945 in Braunschweig), acting Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1943 to 1945
  • Albert Methfessel (born October 6, 1785 in Stadtilm; † March 23, 1869 in Heckenbeck near Gandersheim), composer and conductor, court music director in Braunschweig
  • Fritz Meyen (born May 30, 1902 in Weimar; † July 13, 1974 in Immenstadt im Allgäu), Scandinavian scholar and librarian, from 1946 to 1967 director of the Braunschweig University Library
  • Bernhard Meyersfeld (born August 14, 1841 in Einbeck; died October 2, 1920 in Braunschweig), banker and patron of the Jewish faith
  • Christoph Meyns (born January 22, 1962 in Bad Segeberg ), Lutheran theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig since 2014
  • Bianka Minte-König (born July 28, 1947 in Berlin), writer and university lecturer for literature, media and theater education at the Braunschweig / Wolfenbüttel University of Applied Sciences
  • Richard Moderhack (born October 14, 1907 in Berlin; † July 14, 2010 in Braunschweig), historian and from 1956 to 1970 director of the Braunschweig City Archives and City Library
  • Friedrich Möhlmann (born December 2, 1904 in Thedinghausen; † April 9, 1977 in Braunschweig), aeronautical engineer and from 1955 to 1969 first director of the Federal Aviation Office in Braunschweig
  • Jürgen Moll (born November 16, 1939; † December 16, 1968), as a football player (1958–1968), one of the "record players" and "top scorer" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Lienhard von Monkiewitsch (born March 23, 1941 in Steterburg ), German painter , draftsman and graphic artist , professor (HBK Braunschweig)
  • Willy Moog (born January 22, 1888 in Neuengronau; † October 24, 1935 in Braunschweig), philosopher and university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Gerd-Peter Münden (* 1966), German church musician and composer, cathedral cantor and director of the Braunschweig cathedral singing school

N

  • Wilhelm Neddermeier (born January 20, 1885 in Bienrode near Braunschweig; † December 11, 1964 in Braunschweig), union official and politician (SPD)
  • Georg Niemeier (born October 25, 1903 in Soest; † March 22, 1984 in Bad Nauheim), geographer, member of the NSDAP and SA during the Nazi era , responsible for "ideological training" in the NS teachers' association , university professor in Göttingen , Münster and Strasbourg, 1956–1966 university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Bernhard Noeldechen (born August 8, 1848 in Hanover, † February 12, 1919 in Braunschweig), chamber singer. He worked at the Braunschweig court theater from 1875 to 1915.
  • Klaus Nührig (born October 31, 1958 in Wrestedt ), German writer and poet

O

  • Justus Oldekop (* 1597 in Hildesheim; † February 19, 1667 in Wolfenbüttel), lawyer and diplomat, as well as a committed fighter against witch trials and madness.
  • Werner Oehlmann (* 1901 in Schöppenstedt near Braunschweig; † 1985), music critic, music educator, author, concert accompanist and music consultant in Berlin during the Nazi era, publications in Nazi magazines, 1946 to 1948 director of the Braunschweig Municipal Music School , music editor from 1950 to 1966 at the Berliner Tagesspiegel
  • Sepp Oerter (born September 24, 1870 in Straubing, † December 14, 1928 in Braunschweig), politician. He was initially a member of various anarchist and later socialist groups and parties, such as the USPD and the SPD and, after turning away from the left, the NSDAP .
  • Hermann Oetting (born March 27, 1937 in Gladbeck), engineer and politician (SPD), 1971–1975 member of the Bundestag
  • Dietrich Oldenburg (born January 19, 1933 in Berlin), writer, director of the Braunschweig Employment Office 1970–1975
  • Otto IV of Braunschweig (* 1175/76; † May 19, 1218 in the Harzburg ), Roman-German Emperor

P

  • Wilhelm Peukert (born May 16, 1855 in Hodkovice nad Mohelkou (Liebenau), † April 15, 1932 in Braunschweig), engineer, university lecturer for electrical engineering at the TU Braunschweig
  • Wilhelm Karl Petzold (born February 8, 1848 in Keutschen; † July 24, 1897 in Pouch), geographer and botanist. He was a professor at the secondary school in Braunschweig.
  • Georg Heinrich Pfeiffer (* 1662 in Hamburg; † April 4, 1734 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian, pastor at the Katharinenkirche and librarian. His private library had around 5500 volumes.
  • Carl Pfleiderer (born July 3, 1881 in Waiblingen; † August 7, 1960 in Braunschweig), mechanical engineer and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He developed the theoretical foundations of modern centrifugal pump construction.
  • Ernst Pieper (born December 20, 1928 in Gerolstein ; † February 4, 1995 in Braunschweig), German industrial manager
  • Agnes Pockels (born February 14, 1862 in Venice , † November 21, 1935 in Braunschweig), chemist
  • Karl Friedrich Pockels (born November 15, 1757 in Wörmlitz near Halle (Saale), † October 29, 1814 in Braunschweig), popular philosophical writer and Brunswick court advisor. He became known as the biographer of Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand.
  • Wilhelm Pockels (born July 19, 1832 in Wolfenbüttel, † January 13, 1904 in Braunschweig), Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1879 to 1904
  • Werner Pöls (born March 15, 1926 in Manker near Fehrbellin; † February 21, 1989 in Braunschweig), historian and CDU politician
  • Ludwig Popp (born July 3, 1911 in Kulmbach; † May 24, 1993 in Bimöhlen in Holstein), bacteriologist, university lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Carl von Praun (born May 13, 1732 in Wolfenbüttel, † March 30, 1808 in Braunschweig), lawyer, Brunswick miner and chamber president
  • Georg Septimus Andreas von Praun (born August 4, 1701 in Vienna; † April 30, 1786 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig statesman, archivist, librarian, historian and numismatist
  • Rudolf Prescher (born March 19, 1912 in Dresden; † June 15, 1997 in Braunschweig) played a key role in the rescue of around 23,000 people trapped in the fire in the bombing of October 15, 1944
  • Viktoria Luise von Prussia , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Princess of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, (born September 13, 1892 in Potsdam, † December 11, 1980 in Hanover), lived in Riddagshausen for decades
  • Philipp Ludwig Probst (born March 25, 1633 in Gandersheim; † November 17, 1718 in Braunschweig), also called Probst von Wendhausen, princely prime minister of Brunswick-Lüneburg, chancellor and state syndic

Q

  • Adolf Quast (born September 6, 1910 in Hildesheim , † July 21, 2014 in Celle ), theologian and cathedral preacher at the Braunschweig Cathedral of St. Blasii
  • Adolf Quensen (born March 2, 1851 in Gandersheim, † April 16, 1911 in Helwan / Egypt), Braunschweig court decoration and church painter
  • Georg Querfurth (born January 30, 1838 in Tiefenbach; † November 27, 1902 in Braunschweig), mechanical engineer and university professor.

R.

  • Margarethe Raabe (born July 17, 1863 in Stuttgart, † March 17, 1947 in Wolfenbüttel), painter, daughter and estate administrator of the poet Wilhelm Raabe
  • Wilhelm Raabe (born September 8, 1831 in Eschershausen; † November 15, 1910 in Braunschweig), writer of German realism (e.g. " Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse ", " Der Hungerpastor ")
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch (born January 3, 1827 in Potsdam, † March 25, 1907 in Schwerin) Commander of the Brunswick Hussar Regiment No. 17 (Brunswick Hussars) 1869 to 1876, later Lieutenant General
  • Paul-Josef Raue (born June 13, 1950 in Castrop-Rauxel; † March 11, 2019), journalist, non-fiction author, 2001-09 editor-in-chief of the Braunschweiger Zeitung
  • Bernd Rebe (born September 5, 1939 in Braunlage; † December 12, 2013 in Braunschweig), legal scholar, President of the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1983 to 1999
  • Philipp Julius Rehtmeyer (born February 21, 1678 in Schliestedt; † December 7, 1742 in Braunschweig), pastor and regional historian
  • Carola Reimann (born August 25, 1967 in Goch), biotechnologist, politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag since 2000
  • Otto Reinke (born February 2, 1852 in Naugard in Western Pomerania; † October 16, 1943 in Braunschweig), pharmacist, chemist and professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Hans Reinowski (born January 28, 1900 in Bernburg; † January 3, 1977), SPD politician
  • Hugo Retemeyer (born April 24, 1851 in Mascherode [since 1974 in Braunschweig]; † March 17, 1931 in Braunschweig), Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1904 to 1925
  • Philip Christian Ribbentrop (born March 25, 1737 in Detmold; † March 26, 1797 in Braunschweig), lawyer, writer and chronicler
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Richter (born February 14, 1727 in Halle (Saale); † July 27, 1791 in Braunschweig), general superintendent of the Principality of Wolfenbüttel
  • Hermann Riedel (born January 2, 1847 in Burg (near Magdeburg), † October 6, 1913 in Braunschweig), composer
  • Friedrich Adolf Riedesel (born June 3, 1738 in Lauterbach / Hessen, † January 6, 1800 in Braunschweig), commanded the Braunschweig troops during the American War of Independence
  • Herman Riegel (born February 27, 1834 in Potsdam, † August 12, 1900 in Braunschweig), art historian, director of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum , founder of the General German Language Association
  • Heinrich Rieke (born June 10, 1843 in Teichhütte, † July 21, 1922 in Braunschweig), SPD politician and trade unionist
  • Anna Roleffes (* around 1600 in Harxbüttel; † December 30, 1663 in Braunschweig), commonly known as "Temple Anneke"; was one of the last women who was accused of being a "witch" and executed in the city of Braunschweig
  • Jacob Ludwig Römer (* 1770 in Einbeck, † 1855 in Braunschweig), teacher at the Katharineum, then ducal government official, writer
  • Ferdinand Rostásy (born May 4, 1932 in Vienna; † August 16, 2018), building materials scientist
  • Jürgen Röttger (* 1550/51 in Silesia; † October 14, 1623 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig sculptor
  • Nina Ruge (born August 24, 1956 in Munich), television presenter, book author and journalist
  • Gutmann Rülf (born December 3, 1851 in Rauischholzhausen, † December 17, 1915 in Braunschweig), from 1884 to 1915, Braunschweig regional rabbi
  • Heinrich Christian Rust (born August 9, 1953 in Bückeburg); Theologian and book author, pastor of the Braunschweiger Friedenskirche since 2003

S.

  • Wilhelm Sagebiel (born December 9, 1855 in Boitferde near Hameln, † March 24, 1940 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig court sculptor
  • Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Sallentien (born October 22, 1780 in Cattenstedt, † April 16, 1848 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian, general and city superintendent in Braunschweig.
  • Herz Samson (* 1738 in Wolfenbüttel; † December 12 or 23, 1794 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig court banker and councilor of Jewish origin
  • Malte Sartorius (born November 8, 1933 in Waldlinden / East Prussia, † September 11, 2017 in Braunschweig), professor at the Braunschweig University of Art
  • Hermann Schaefer (born June 16, 1907 in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, † November 7, 1969 in Braunschweig), mathematician and university professor for technical mechanics at the TH Braunschweig
  • Hans Schäfer (born December 6, 1913 in Jebel, Banat; † July 19, 1989 in Braunschweig), lawyer and politician (FDP, SPD). From 1970 to 1976 he was Minister of Justice of Lower Saxony.
  • Peter Schanz (born July 10, 1957 in Bamberg ) author , dramaturge and director
  • Günter Scheel (born February 9, 1924 in Rathenow; † September 26, 2011 in Tutzing), historian and archivist, from 1979 to 1989 director of the Lower Saxony State Archives in Wolfenbüttel, honorary member of the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein
  • Georg Anton Christoph Scheffler (October 21, 1762 in Wolfenbüttel; † February 21, 1825 in Braunschweig), rector of the Martineum, the Katharineum and director of the Collegium Carolinum
  • Christian Scherer (born August 24, 1859 in Kassel, † August 15, 1935 in Braunschweig), art historian, from 1895 to 1924 museum inspector at the Ducal Museum in Braunschweig
  • Hubert Schlebusch (born June 28, 1893 in Munich-Gladbach; † October 20, 1955 in Braunschweig), teacher, SPD politician and 1945/46 first post-war Prime Minister of the State of Braunschweig, 1946–1955 President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig
  • Albert Schmid (born July 18, 1812 in Leinde, † November 14, 1891 in Braunschweig), first president of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court
  • Konrad Arnold Schmid (born February 23, 1716 in Lüneburg, † November 16, 1789 in Braunschweig), writer and philologist
  • Ernst Schmidt (born February 11, 1892 in Vögelsen near Lüneburg, † January 22, 1975 in Munich), thermodynamic engineer and university professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Hans Werner Schmidt (born March 17, 1904 in Bitterfeld, † June 8, 1991 in Munich), from 1936 to 1969 head of the graphic collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum ; saved its collections from the bombing war
  • Walter Schmidt (born August 2, 1937), former football player (1959-1969, right runner and midfielder), one of the "record players" at Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt (born April 9, 1904 in Fallersleben, † August 18, 1981 in Bad Harzburg), teacher, Nazi functionary and politician
  • Karl von Schmidt-Phiseldeck (born April 4, 1835 in Wolfenbüttel, † October 11, 1895 in Braunschweig), lawyer, archivist and president of the consistory of the Braunschweig regional church
  • Hermann Schrader (born June 12, 1844 in Braunschweig; † September 12, 1899 in Holzminden), member of the Braunschweig State Parliament
  • Karl Schultes (born July 9, 1822 in Triesdorf Castle near Ansbach , † July 9, 1904 in Hanover), actor, director and writer
  • Walter Hans Schultze (born June 15, 1880 in Tokyo; † April 27, 1964), physician and university professor, from 1909 to 1949 head of the pathological institute at the state hospital in Braunschweig
  • Karl von Schwartz (born November 1, 1873 in Erkerode, † January 30, 1943 in Braunschweig), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and cathedral preacher at Braunschweig Cathedral
  • Michael Schwarz (* 1940 in Greifswald), art historian, 1983-2004 professor at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig, 1994-2004 its president, 1997-2001 speaker of the conference of the president, presidents, rector and rectors of German art academies
  • Hans-Christoph Seebohm (born August 4, 1903 in Emanuelssegen / Upper Silesia; † September 17, 1967 in Bonn), politician (DP and CDU), 1947–1963 President of the Chamber of Commerce in Braunschweig and several times Minister of Lower Saxony and the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Friedrich Seele (born May 15, 1819 in Minden; † July 6, 1859 in Braunschweig), businessman, entrepreneur and Braunschweig city councilor
  • Georg Segler (1906–1978) was a German agricultural scientist, engineer, author and inventor
  • Hermann Seidel (born July 13, 1856 in Schwerin, † November 8, 1895 in Braunschweig), physician, chief physician of the surgical department of the state hospital
  • Johannes Selenka (born June 25, 1801 in Hochheim am Main; † May 14, 1871 in Braunschweig), bookbinder, pioneer of the German craft movement and craft regulations and co-founder of a forerunner of the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts (HBK)
  • Eugen Sierke (born September 2, 1845 in Saalfeld, East Prussia, † November 21, 1925 in Braunschweig), cultural historian and newspaper editor
  • Hans Sievers (born February 25, 1893 in Hamburg, † February 16, 1965 in Kiel), educator and SPD politician, from 1927 to 1930 Braunschweig Minister of Justice and Education
  • Julius Spiegelberg (born February 18, 1833 in Peine; † January 24, 1897 in Cologne), entrepreneur, founder of the first jute spinning mill on the European mainland and the "Braunschweigische Aktiengesellschaft für Jute- und Flax-Industrie"
  • Werner Spieß (born February 5, 1891 in Düsseldorf, † December 7, 1972 in Braunschweig), archivist, from 1935 to 1956 director of the city ​​archive and the city ​​library of Braunschweig
  • Richard Stegemann (born August 16, 1856 in Groß Wanzleben; † May 15, 1925 in Bad Harzburg), economist and Chamber of Commerce secretary from 1894 to 1924 in Braunschweig
  • Bodo Steigerthal (born October 27, 1872 in Köchingen, † October 5, 1937 in Braunschweig), Evangelical Lutheran pastor, church councilor and member of the Braunschweig State Parliament
  • Karl Steinacker (born September 2, 1872 in Wolfenbüttel; † January 31, 1944 in Braunschweig), art historian and from 1910 to 1935 head of the Fatherland Museum in Braunschweig
  • Gustav Steinbrecher (born February 3, 1876 in Groß Beckern near Liegnitz; † January 30, 1940 in Mauthausen concentration camp), printer, workers secretary, SPD politician and state minister in Brunswick
  • Theodor Steinweg (* 1825 in Seesen, † 1889 in Braunschweig), piano maker
  • Thorsten Stelzner (born March 19, 1963 in Wolfenbüttel), poet, satirist, publisher and gallery owner
  • Alfred Sternthal (born September 25, 1862 in Koethen, † April 24, 1942 in Chicago), dermatologist, pioneer of dermatological radiation therapy and fighter for public health care
  • August Stisser (born September 13, 1671 in Oebisfelde; † May 21, 1741 in Braunschweig), Lutheran theologian, superintendent in Braunschweig
  • Johann Heinrich Stobwasser (born November 16, 1740 in Lobenstein, † August 31, 1829 in Braunschweig), lacquer goods manufacturer
  • Günter-Helge Strickstrack (born May 28, 1921 in Wieda; † July 20, 2020 in Hanover), textile entrepreneur and CDU politician since 1945
  • Georg Christoph Sturm (baptized November 23, 1698 in Wolfenbüttel; buried April 9, 1763 in Braunschweig), late baroque architect and first Brunswick court architect
  • Hermann von Stutterheim (born October 7, 1843 in Holzminden; † January 15, 1909 in Braunschweig), district court director
  • The musicians of Such a Surge
  • Albert Sukop (born November 24, 1912 in Klein Lafferde ; † May 9, 1993), national soccer player, active at Eintracht Braunschweig from 1924 to 1948

T

  • Carl Tappe (born July 31, 1816 in Schöppenstedt; † May 8, 1885 in Braunschweig), Braunschweig city planner
  • Werner Thamm (born August 24, 1926 in Klein Korbetha near Weißenfels , † October 20, 1987 in Braunschweig), football player, record goalscorer for Eintracht Braunschweig
  • Matthias Theisen (born January 30, 1885 in Essen, † April 10, 1933 in Braunschweig), German politician (first the KPD, then the SPD) in Braunschweig, who was murdered by the SS
  • Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von Thielau (born May 19, 1800 at Gut Niedersektiven; † November 12, 1865 in Braunschweig), politician (including member of the Frankfurt National Assembly )
  • Daniel Thulesius (born May 6, 1889 in Hamburg; † April 3, 1967 in Braunschweig), architect and from 1918 to 1957 professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Heinrich Emil Timerding (born January 23, 1873 in Strasbourg, † 1945 in Braunschweig), mathematician and university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Fritz Timme (born June 20, 1903 in Celle; † May 26, 1976 in Braunschweig), historian and university professor at the TH Braunschweig
  • Ludger tom Ring the Younger (* 1525 in Münster; † before May 22, 1584 in Braunschweig), painter
  • Sergei Traustel (born July 30, 1903 in Saint Petersburg, † February 9, 1975 in Braunschweig), mechanical engineer and university lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig
  • Paul Trautmann (born February 24, 1881 in Frankfurt an der Oder ; † August 13, 1929 in Braunschweig), Mayor of Braunschweig from 1925 to 1929
  • Franz Trinks (born June 19, 1852 in Helmstedt; † October 2, 1931 in Braunschweig), inventor of the world's first writing calculating machine
  • Anna Tuckermann (born November 30, 1595 in Celle; † June 30, 1678 in Braunschweig), orphanage donor. The Tuckermann orphanage in Braunschweig, which she founded in 1677, existed until 1935.

U

  • August Uhde (born April 26, 1807 in Königslutter; † July 25, 1861 in Braunschweig), astronomer, mathematician and university professor at the Collegium Carolinum
  • Karl Uhde (born August 21, 1813 in Hohegeiß; † September 1, 1885 in Braunschweig), surgeon, from 1844 to 1885 head of the ducal hospital in Braunschweig
  • Lothar Ulsaß (born September 9, 1940 in Hanover, † June 16, 1999 in Vienna), soccer player (1964–1971, center forward ), one of the "top scorer" at Eintracht Braunschweig

V

  • Franz Varrentrapp (born August 29, 1815 in Frankfurt am Main; † March 4, 1877 in Braunschweig), chemist and entrepreneur, co-founder of the Braunschweig canning industry
  • Eduard Vieweg (born July 15, 1797 in Berlin, † December 1, 1869 in Braunschweig), publisher
  • Friedrich Vieweg (born March 11, 1761 in Halle (Saale), † December 25, 1835 in Braunschweig), publisher and founder of the Vieweg publishing house
  • Johann Caspar von Völcker (born January 21, 1655 in Lüneburg, † September 10, 1730 in Braunschweig), engineer, architect, Braunschweig fortress construction director and major general
  • Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer (born November 17, 1812 in Vienna, † April 8, 1878 in Braunschweig), optician and photography pioneer

W.

  • Rudolf Wassermann (born January 5, 1925 in Letzlingen ; † June 13, 2008 in Goslar), lawyer and legal scholar , 1971–1990 President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court, 1969–1980 deputy. and Federal Chairman of the Working Group of Social Democratic Jurists , 1976–1990 President of the Lower Saxony State Judicial Examination Office , 1977–2000 member of the Lower Saxony State Court , initiator of the “Wassermann model” designated one-stage legal training at the University of Hanover , general editor of the series of alternative comments by Luchterhand-Verlag
  • Erna Wazinski (born September 7, 1925 in Ihlow ; † November 23, 1944 in Wolfenbüttel ), armaments worker who was sentenced to death by the Braunschweig Special Court at the age of 19.
  • Friedrich Weber (born February 27, 1949 in Ehringshausen / Wetzlar; † January 19, 2015 in Frankfurt am Main ), Lutheran theologian, 2002–2014 regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig
  • Katharina Weise (born April 14, 1888 in Stettin, † 1975 in Braunschweig), writer
  • Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch (born October 16, 1723 in Hesse am Fallstein, † August 6, 1803 in Salzdahlum), landscape painter and draftsman
  • Ehm Welk (born August 29, 1884 in Biesenbrow [district of Angermünde]; † December 19, 1966 in Bad Doberan), writer, between 1910 and 1919 journalist in Braunschweig. His novel “Im Morgennebel” reproduces the events of the November Revolution in the city, in 1934 after public criticism of the Nazi press censorship he was briefly interned in the Oranienburg concentration camp , in the GDR adult education center founder and well-known writer
  • Dr. med. Hildegard Wesse , née Irmen (born March 28, 1911 in Strotzbüsch, † May 27, 1997 in Braunschweig) was involved as a doctor in the euthanasia crimes of the National Socialists.
  • Alexander Wernicke (born January 3, 1857 in Görlitz, † March 30, 1915 in Braunschweig), school man and university professor
  • Wilfried Wester-Ebbinghaus (born January 17, 1947 in Bielefeld; † July 12, 1993 in the North Sea) was a professor for photogrammetry and cartography at the TU Braunschweig from 1986 until his death
  • George Westermann (born February 23, 1810 in Leipzig, † September 7, 1879 in Wiesbaden), publisher
  • Gottlob Wiedebein (born July 21, 1779 in Eilenstedt near Halberstadt , † April 17, 1854 in Braunschweig), court conductor at the "Ducal Court Theater" and composer
  • Arend Joachim Friedrich Wiegmann (born March 30, 1770 in Hadersleben , † March 12, 1853 in Braunschweig), pharmacist and botanist, lecturer at the Collegium Carolinum
  • Johannes Winkler (born May 29, 1897 in Bad Carlsruhe; † December 27, 1947 in Braunschweig), space pioneer , launched the first European liquid rocket in 1931, continued his work in the Junkers factories during the Nazi era , and initially at the Hermann Göring Aviation Research Institute during World War II ( LFA) , from 1941 Aerodynamic Research Institute , 1945–1947 reports to the Royal Air Force on his rocket research
  • Carl Wolf (born March 28, 1820 in Blankenburg, † August 21, 1876 in Oels), architect
  • Gustav Anton von Wolffradt (born September 1, 1762 in Bergen auf Rügen; † January 13, 1833 ibid), lawyer, civil servant in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and Minister of State in the Kingdom of Westphalia
  • Ronald Worm ("Ronnie"; born October 7, 1953 in Duisburg), football coach, former football player (1979–1987, striker), one of the "top scorer" at Eintracht Braunschweig

Z

  • Johann Zanger the Elder (born November 1517 in Innsbruck; † April 5, 1587 in Braunschweig), music theorist, lawyer and Lutheran theologian
  • Heinz Zeebe (born November 27, 1915 in Berlin; † April 17, 1983 in Braunschweig), conductor and from 1946 to 1981 first Kapellmeister at the Braunschweig State Theater
  • Georg Heinrich Zincke (n) (born September 27, 1692 in Altenroda, † August 15, 1769 in Braunschweig), formerly an economist, from February 1746 curator at the newly founded Collegium Carolinum
  • Ludwig Zinkeisen (born June 3, 1779 in Hanover, † November 28, 1838 in Braunschweig), violinist, violin teacher and composer
  • Ernst Zörner (born June 27, 1895 in Nordhausen; missing since 1945, declared dead in 1960), businessman, NSDAP member since 1922, NSDAP politician, 1930 President of the Braunschweig Landtag , participation in the naturalization of Adolf Hitler , member of the Reichstag and Lord Mayor of Dresden.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition on the literature of Lower Saxony opened. on haz.de