List of personalities from the city of Artern
The list of personalities from the city of Artern contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city of Artern in the Kyffhäuserkreis . These are personalities who were honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Artern or Artern / Unstrut and today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated after Artern / Unstrut see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Hans Heinrich Büchner (1864–1959), head of the city council
- 1993: Walter-Wilhelm Funcke
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Artern or what is now part of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Artern is irrelevant.
Personalities of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period
- Johannes Lonicer (around 1497–1569), theologian and friend of Martin Luther
- Johann Christoph Kunze (1744–1807), Pietist and Protestant missionary
- Johann Christoph Krause (1749–1799), historian
- Johann Gottfried Keßler (1754–1830), mining and building advisor
19th century personalities
- Christian Lebrecht von Ampach (1772–1831), councilor, canon and numismatist
- August Alexander Kämmerer (1789–1858), geologist and pharmacist
- Emil von Czettritz and Neuhaus (1801–1887), Prussian lieutenant general
- Richard Henrion (1854–1940), composer and military bandmaster
20th century personalities
Johanna Schaller (1977)
- Fritz Herbert (1860–1925), SPD member of the Reichstag, member of the consumer cooperative, supervisory board and trade unionist
- Richard Ungewitter (1869–1958), former organizer of the nudist movement
- Max Penkert (1877–1955), gynecologist and obstetrician
- Marie Charlotte Siedentopf (1879–1968), author of children's books
- Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser (1884–1965), painter
- Hans Welzel (1904–1977), legal scholar
- Günther Panzram (1923–2014), internist and diabetologist at the Medical Academy in Erfurt
- Otto Nitze (1924–1988), composer and conductor, son of Otto Nitze senior, director of the Artern music school
- Karl Oettle (1926–2009), economist
- Johanna Schaller , later Johanna Klier (* 1952), former athlete and Olympic champion
Personalities who died in Artern / Unstrut
- Zacharias Brendel the Elder (1553–1626), philosopher, physicist, physician and botanist
- Christian Friedrich Traugott Voigt (1770–1814), Enlightenment writer, translator, theologian and co-designer of the " Beautified Tharandt Landscape "
- Paul von Krause (1882–1946), Prussian district administrator
Personalities associated with the city
- Alexander Haubold Marshal von Bieberstein (1635–1694), manor owner (Unterhof)
- Hans Dietrich Marschall von Bieberstein (1643–1687), chamber councilor from Saxony-Weißenfels, owner of manors in Ober- and Niederschmon and in the city of Artern as well as in the associated Ritteburg
- Johann Gottfried Borlach (1687–1768), Bergrat, founder of the Artern salt works
- Katja Hofmann (* 1986), author and poetry slammer