List of personalities of the city of Allstedt

The list of personalities of the city of Allstedt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Allstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Allstedt and the incorporated localities and today's districts.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Allstedt see also the corresponding local article.

Honorary citizen

• April 1, 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
• Adolf Wuttig (1844–1929), Protestant pastor
• 2010: Ivan Borowský, Mayor of Vrbové
• June 18, 2011: Hans Tetzel, former city councilor (SPD)

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Allstedt or the incorporated localities or today's districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Allstedt is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

Christian Gottlob von Voigt

• Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch (1651–1717), writer
• Christoph August Heumann (1681–1764), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and polyhistor
• Friedrich Andreas Hallbauer (1692–1750), Lutheran theologian
• Johann Gottfried Blümner (1724–1798), electoral Saxon commissioner and district administrator for Leipzig and manor owner, born in Emseloh
• Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth (1737-1818), Prussian Field Marshal General, born in Sotterhausen
• Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (1740–1819), mining captain
• Christian Gottlob von Voigt (1743–1819), poet and friend of Goethe
• Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (1752–1821), mineralogist and geognostic
• Johann Karl Fischer (1760–1833), mathematician and physicist

19th century personalities

Otto Piltz

• August Thieme (1780–1860), poet
• Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800–1860), composer, is considered to be the leading figure in Central German male choirs in the mid-19th century
• Adolph Schmidt (1815–1903), legal scholar
• Karl Johann August Müller (1818–1899), bryologist
• Friedrich Albert Mehmel (1827–1888), organ builder
• Anton Vollert (1828–1897), statesman and author
• Gustav Demelius (1831–1891), German-Austrian lawyer and university professor
• Otto Piltz (1846–1910), painter
• Moritz Knobloch (1851–1923), administrative lawyer and member of parliament, born in Holdenstedt

20th century personalities

Reinhard Stöckel (2008)

• Heinz Sting (1904–1976), lawyer, administrative officer and politician (NSDAP)
• Hans-Henning Axthelm (* 1941), occupational physician and politician (CDU)
• Peter Pühringer (* 1942), Austrian asset manager and patron
• Dagmar Pohle (* 1953), politician (PDS / Die Linke)
• Reinhard Stöckel (* 1956), writer

21st century personalities

• Judith Rothe (* 1979), activist of the neo-Nazi scene, born in Sotterhausen

Personalities who died in the city

Marie Oberdieck (around 1934)

• Count Wolfgang zu Stolberg (1501–1552), regent of the counties of Stolberg and Wernigerode
• Melchior Acontius (around 1515–1569), humanist and poet
• August Thieme (1780–1860), poet
• August Disselhoff (1829–1903), Protestant pastor
• Marie Oberdieck (1867–1954), writer who wrote her works primarily in the Silesian dialect, died in Beyernaumburg
• Walther von Trebra (1869–1924), administrative lawyer and landowner

Personalities associated with the city

Thomas Müntzer

• Thomas Müntzer (around 1489–1525), theologian, reformer and revolutionary, worked in Allstedt from 1523–1525
• Melchior Acontius (around 1515–1569), humanist and poet (1515–1569 in Allstedt)
• Caspar Tryller (1542–1625), civil servant from Electoral Saxony and founder of several foundations, manor owner in Emseloh
• Christoph Felgenhauer (before 1604–1639), merchant, chamber councilor and raft director, manor owner in Kaltenborn
• Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714), Lutheran theologian, (1700–1704) court preacher in Allstedt
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), an important German poet, worked for several years at Allstedt Castle
• Werner von Strauch (1825–1898) was a forest inspector and forester from 1852–1861

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich Meinhold: Pfarrerbuch - Volume 8: Grand Duchy of Saxony (-Weimar-Eisenach) Weimar region with Jena and Neustadt / Orla (Neustadt district) , draft online as pdf, p. 1392 (accessed on October 29, 2016)
2. ^ Mansfeld-Südharz Mayor from Vrbové is an honorary citizen of Allstedt
3. ^ Allstedt honorary citizen celebrates 80th birthday