List of personalities from the city of Aschersleben

This list contains personalities from the city of Aschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Adam Olearius

Rudolf Christian Böttger

Johann August Ephraim Goeze, around 1780

Wilhelm Wieprecht, 1868

• Otto Arndt (1920–1992), Transport Minister of the GDR
• Bärbel Ballhorn (* 1941), politician (SPD, DSU) and member of the state parliament
• Gottlieb Theodor Becker (1812–1869), German educator
• Max Becker (1906–2000), animal physiologist and university professor.
• Friedrich Robert von Beringe (1865–1940), imperial captain and discoverer of the mountain gorillas in Burundi
• Christian Wilhelm Bernhardt (1815–1891), German educator and local researcher
• Erich Besser (1890–1972), communist politician
• Heinz Block (* 1925), former German politician (SED)
• Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), chemist and physicist
• Peter Adolf Boysen (1690–1743), Protestant theologian, philosopher and historian
• Friedrich Brandes (1864–1940), conductor
• Wolfgang Brauer (* 1954), Member of Parliament in Berlin
• Walther Brecht (1841–1909), lawyer and chairman of the Lübeck-Büchener railway company
• Walter Buhe (1882–1958), painter and graphic artist
• Manfred Busche (* 1933), trade fair manager in Berlin (1965–1999)
• Hans Karl Döring (1909–1978), sculptor who worked in India from 1939
• Sabine Ebert (* 1958), journalist and novelist
• Andreas Engelhardt (around 1610 - 1680), city doctor, since 1656 personal doctor of the Russian Tsar Alexei I.
• Carl Christian Gottfried Eberhard von Fischer-Treuenfeld (1788–1870), baron and Prussian lieutenant general, 1840 commander of the Magdeburg Fortress, 1843 honorary citizen of Magdeburg
• Karl Finke (1866–1935), German tattoo artist, wrestler and showman
• Albrecht Freiberg , (around 1600 - 1650), imperial colonel under Wallenstein
• Hans-Albrecht Freye (1923–1994), German zoologist
• Kurt Fried (1906–1981), publicist, art collector and publisher of the Schwäbische Donau-Zeitung (today Südwest Presse)
• Karsten Gaede (* 1976), legal scholar
• Dora Gerson (1884–1941), doctor and housekeeper
• Hermann Gieseler (1889–1948), union official
• Karl Lewin Leopold von und zu Gilsa (1820–1883), Prussian lieutenant general
• Anja Göritz (* 1972), psychologist
• Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731–1793), zoologist
• Rudolf von Gotsch (1804–1888), Lieutenant General
• Marianne Groß (* 1942), actress
• Detlef Gürth (* 1962), President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt since 2011
• Hiltrud Häntzschel (* 1939), literary scholar
• Gerhard Harkenthal (1914–1985), writer
• Johann David Hartmann (1761–1801), pedagogue, philologist and poet
• Ludwig von Hartrott (1829–1910), general of the cavalry
• Reinhold Heidecke (1881–1960), co-founder of the camera manufacturer Rollei
• Hugo Ottomar Hertzer (1831–1908), mathematician
• Gerd Höfer (* 1943), politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag since 1994
• Hermann Kickton (1878–1957), lawyer
• Richard Kiessler (* 1944), editor (editor-in-chief of Neue Ruhr Zeitung / Neue Rhein Zeitung)
• Ernst Klodwig (1903–1973), racing car driver
• Andreas von Knichen (1560–1621), legal scholar and politician
• Barbara Knöfler (* 1957), politician (independent)
• Johann Jacob Koch († 1751), Berlin politician
• Franz Körte (1782–1845), natural scientist
• August Bernhard Christian Körte (1786–1858), officer in the 1st Westphalian Cuirassier Regiment, in 1831 acting mayor of Aschersleben
• Tom Landgraf (* 1996), handball player
• Kurt Lebenstedt (1899–1945), politician (NSDAP)
• Robert Leffler (1866–1940), actor and director
• Ulrich Lupart (* 1951), politician (AfD)
• Erich Walter Lotz (1895–1966), local politician (SPD), senior city director of Braunschweig
• Heinrich Lüders (* 1832, † after 1884) member of the Reichstag
• Eva Mahn (* 1947), art historian, university lecturer and photographer
• Klaus Moritz (1930–2016), painter and graphic artist
• Marko Mühlstein (* 1974), politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag 2005–2009
• Adrian Müller (1573–1644), merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• Anna Muthesius (1870–1961), fashion designer and interior designer of the life reform movement
• Karl Ludwig Nordmann (1778–1848), domain tenant and animal breeder
• Gotthelf Friedrich Oesfeld (1735–1801), pastor and chronicler
• Ferry Ohrtmann (1894–1969), organizer and Nazi sports official
• Adam Olearius (1603–1671), writer and diplomat
• Georg von Oppen (1795–1876), Prussian major general
• Theodor Osterkamp (1892–1975), naval pilot in World War I, air force commodore in World War II
• Charles Johann Palmié (1863–1911), landscape and still life painter
• Hermann Eberhard Pflaume (1869–1921), architect
• Hermann Otto Pflaume (1830–1901), architect and secret building officer
• Johann Caspar Pflaume (1644–1689), city judge of Leipzig
• Andreas Ramdohr (1613–1656), lawyer and envoy of Duke August II of Braunschweig.
• Otto Ramdohr (1857–1928), Prussian major general
• Gustav Ramdohr (1834–1910), royal councilor and grain wholesaler, grand master of the lodge
• Johann Daniel Ramdohr (1775–1866), canton notary, court secretary, founder of the Ramdohrschen mild foundation
• Lilo Fürst-Ramdohr (1913–2013), member of the close circle of friends of the Munich resistance group White Rose
• Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), Field Marshal General in World War II
• Hermann Sander (1845–1939), manufacturer and local politician
• Eckart Schmidt (* 1936), architect
• Martin Schmidt (1863–1947), geologist and paleontologist
• Ernst Robert Schneider (1825–1900), chemist
• Richard Schoenfeld (1884–1956), sculptor and painter
• Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913–1992), singer, writer, cabaret artist, radio play writer and translator
• Johann Esaias Silberschlag (1721–1791), theologian and natural scientist
• Helmut Stein (* 1942), national soccer player of the GDR
• Joachim Telle (1939–2013), Old Germanist
• Steffen Wendzel (* 1984), specialist book author
• Petra Wernicke (1953–2017), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament since 1990, Minister for Agriculture and Environment until 2009
• Wilhelm Wieprecht (1802–1872), composer, conductor and arranger
• Ernst Woit (* 1932), philosopher, political scientist and peace researcher
• Christa Maria Ziese (1924–2012), song and opera singer, national prize winner
• Annemarie Zornack (* 1932), writer

Honorary citizen

• Ferdinand Leopold von Thadden , Rittmeister in the 10th Hussar Regiment (April 13, 1836)
• Adolph Wölfing , pastor of the Catholic community (January 1843)
• Kleineke, sergeant in the 10th Hussar Regiment (1846)
• Buchheister, sergeant in the 10th Hussar Regiment (1846)
• Wilhelm Wieprecht , King. General Music Master (August 15, 1862)
• Count Hugo Sholto Douglas , Entrepreneur and Member of the Prussian State Parliament (April 25, 1890)
• Hans Christian Bestehorn , Royal Privy Councilor of Commerce (November 26, 1901)
• Richard Bestehorn , Royal Commerce Councilor (April 1, 1911)
• Otto Bestehorn , Royal Councilor of Commerce (April 1, 1911)
• Paul von Beneckendorf and von Hindenburg , Chief of the Army General Staff (October 26, 1917)
• Paul Michaelis , Lord Mayor until 1912 (October 2, 1929)
• On April 4, 1933, Adolf Hitler was made an honorary citizen of the city. After the Second World War, the GDR did not see itself as the legal successor to the National Socialist state and therefore ignored honorary citizenship; In 2006 this was then formally repealed by the city council.
• Walter Friedrich , medic (1952)
• Wilhelm Feit , chemist (1952)
• Walter Buhe , local painter (1957)
• Harlan W. Newell , Army Major (1992)
• Hildegard Ramdohr , chairwoman of the support group for the preservation of the historic city fortifications of Aschersleben (2012)
• Dorothee Mücksch , pastor, provost, chairwoman of the city council (2019)

Other people associated with the city

• Lothar Ahrendt (* 1936), Interior Minister of the GDR, trained at the Aschersleben Police School
• Joachim I von Alvensleben (1514–1588), lord of the castle in Erxleben, scholar and reformer
• Caspar Abel (1676–1763), historian and Low German poet
• Dankwart Brinksmeier (* 1956), Protestant pastor
• Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794), poet of Sturm und Drang
• Heinrich Camin (1787–1848), officer in the Kingdom of Westphalia, later in the Army of Prussia
• Konrad Elmer (* 1949), Protestant pastor
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843), poet and member of the local 6th Cuirassier Regiment
• Johann Melchior Goeze (1717–1786), theologian
• Johann Christoph Greiling (1765–1840), theologian, pedagogue, writer, 1805–1840 senior preacher and superintendent in Aschersleben
• William Friedrich von Hammerstein (1785–1861), Westphalian cavalry general, later in the army of the Austrian Empire
• Julius Hartwig Friedrich von Hartmann (1817–1878), royal Prussian general of the cavalry
• Friedrich Herte (* 1902), master roofer and CDU member of the GDR People's Chamber
• Gustav Heyse (1809–1883), teacher and regional historian
• Hans Heckner (1878–1949), architect, town builder and town planner of Aschersleben
• Günter Herzog (* 1937), deputy head of the Aschersleben People's Police School
• Waldemar Holtz (1921–1923), Member of the Prussian Parliament (USPD, VSPD)
• Ernst Gottfried Hornung (* 1795 in Bad Frankenhausen, † 1862 in Aschersleben), pharmacist, botanist and entomologist (steppe cress "Hornungia" was named after him)
• Jayne-Ann Igel (* 1954), writer
• Christoph Irenäus (1522–1595), Lutheran theologian and reformer
• Gottfried Adolf Kinau (1814–1887), pastor and astronomer
• Hans Christoph von Königsmarck (1600–1663), military leader in the Swedish service
• Karl Georg von Loebell (1777–1841), ensign in the 6th Cuirassier Regiment (with Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué)
• Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), Protestant theologian and revolutionary during the Peasant War
• Kersten Naumann (* 1958), politician (Die Linke), member of the Bundestag since 2005
• Johann Christoph Oley (1738–1798), organist and composer, in Aschersleben from 1762
• Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil (1783-1859), forest scientist
• Hans-Joachim Preil (1923–1999), playwright, director and comedian
• Heinrich Pröhle (1822–1895), teacher and writer
• Neo Rauch (* 1960), painter
• Leonhard Christoph Rühl (1685–1741), deputy principal at the Stephaneum from 1713 to 1741, author
• Duke Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar (1757–1828), 1794–1806 chief of the 6th Cuirassier Regiment
• Christoph Ludwig von Stille (1696–1752), major general and curator of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin
• Frank Thiess (1890–1977), writer
• Johann Zechendorf (1580–1662), philologist and educator

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Freydank 1999, Opera Slavica Vol. 34, pp. 425ff, 575
2. ↑ M. Heine: Fragments from the history of Medicin in Russia, 1848, p. 76
3. ^ Ludwig Wilhelm Schrader: History of the city of Aschersleben during the Thirty Years War (Google eBook) . Haller, Aschersleben 1852, p. 4 and fragmentary biography, origin Braunschweig, which at that time was via Bstm. Halberstadt, including Aschersleben, ruled
4. ↑ Hitler finally deleted ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ Website of the city of Aschersleben January 28, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Dorothee Mücksch receives honorary citizenship of the city of Aschersleben in 2019. Accessed on November 18, 2019 .