List of personalities of the city of Aurich
The list of personalities of the city of Aurich contains people who are important for Aurich and its history , who have thus had a significant effect here or whose person is closely associated with the city.
Own lists
- List of mayors of the city of Aurich
- List of the counts and princes of East Frisia
- List of presidents of the East Frisian landscape
sons and daughters of the town
The following well-known people come from Aurich:
- Eberhard Bacmeister , princely East Frisian personal physician who also treated the city's poor free of charge
- Thomas Bohlen , geophysicist
- Uke Bosse , TV presenter and journalist
- Ewald Christophers , educator and Low German author
- Ernst Clausen , officer and writer
- Hermann Conring , politician ( CDU )
- Erik Dreesen , bodybuilder and strength athlete
- Karl Dunkmann , Protestant theologian and sociologist
- Rudolf Eucken , Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
- Hannes Flesner , artist, music journalist
- Ellen Frank , actress and dancer
- Daniel Francis , football player
- Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs , internist and ophthalmologist
- Harro Füllgrabe , editor and moderator
- Lotte Gleichmann , drawing teacher and painter
- Karl Gramberg , painter
- Wilfried Grunau , engineer and geodesist
- Okka Gundel , TV presenter and journalist
- Siegfried Haag , former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF)
- Peter Heeren , composer
- Thomas Hinrichs , journalist
- Daniel Holthuis , e-athlete
- Marie Hoppe , Member of the Bremen Parliament for the Green Group
- Marie Hübner , illustrator
- Rudolf von Jhering , lawyer
- Stefan Lampadius , actor and filmmaker
- Frank Löning , soccer player
- Jens Wemmer , soccer player
- Hermann Lübbe , philosopher
- Conrad Bernhard Meyer , businessman, artist, architect
- Uwe Rosenberg , game designer
- Paul Ronzheimer , chief reporter and author
- Otto Ruprecht , architect
- Jan Schapp , legal philosopher
- Herbert Schnoor , SPD politician, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Gert Schlechtriem , folklorist, museum director
- Cirk Heinrich Stürenburg , lawyer
- Diedrich Rudolf Stürenburg , classical philologist and teacher
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs , lawyer and pioneer of the lesbian and gay movement
- Michael Walther the Younger , mathematician and Lutheran theologian
- Johannes Wienholtz , politician (DHP)
- Imke Wübbenhorst , soccer player, U-19 European champion 2006 and 2007
Other personalities
The following personalities were not born in Aurich, but worked there:
- Theodor Aden , Government Director of the Waterways and Shipping Directorate Northwest, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Gila Altmann , politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
- Rudi Brehm , union official
- Götz von Glisczynski , lawyer and author
- Thilo Hoppe , politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
- Remmer Janssen , pastor and East Frisian revival preacher
- Wolfgang Ontijd , politician ( CDU )
- Wilhelm Schapp , philosopher and lawyer
- Christian Sethe , lawyer and privy councilor and his wife Charlotte, b. Heßlingh, founder of the Sethestift
- Rainder Steenblock , politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )
- Johannes Steinhoff , officer
- Michael Walther the Elder , Lutheran theologian
- Aloys Wobben , founder and owner of the wind turbine manufacturer Enercon