List of personalities of the city of Bad Blankenburg

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Coat of arms of the city of Bad Blankenburg

The list of personalities of the city of Bad Blankenburg contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Bad Blankenburg . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked in the city.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bad Blankenburg, see the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

  • Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852), educator, inventor of the kindergarten
  • Carl Friedrich Bernhardt (1822–1896), rentier, born in Goßwitz near Ranis, as a wealthy Berliner, often a spa guest and vacationer in Blankenburg
  • Carl Fischer (1824–1912), post office owner
  • Hermann Bähring (1845–1914), mayor, member of the state parliament in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Otto Schmiedeknecht (1847–1936), entomologist, specialized in hymenoptera (Hymenoptera), especially parasitic wasps
  • Carl Franke (1865–1929), doctor, founder of the medical team
  • Helmut Steuer (1911–2005), doctor, entomologist , particularly researched the butterfly fauna

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities related to the place

Günther Graf von Kirchbach
  • Georg Friedrich Danz (1733–1813), master tailor, royal Prussian mountain ridge and mountain commissioner
  • Florence Friedrich Sigismund (1791–1877), lawyer and poet, author of the poem My father was a wanderer
  • Berthold Sigismund (1819–1864), Mayor of Blankenburg, doctor, educator, writer, poet and politician, son of Florence Friedrich Sigismund
  • Carl Vollrath (1822–1911), hose weaver and entrepreneur
  • Eleonore Heerwart (1835–1911), teacher, lived temporarily in Blankenburg
  • Anna Thekla von Weling (1837–1900), writer, translator and founder of the Blankenburg Alliance Conference
  • Günther Graf von Kirchbach (1850–1925), Prussian officer, most recently Colonel General in World War I and Commander-in-Chief of Army Group “Kiev”, retired here.
  • Karl Doflein (1852–1944), architect of historicism. He stood out particularly in the field of Protestant church building and died in Bad Blankenburg.
  • Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923), journalist and publisher, lived here from 1913 to 1915 with his wife from Blankenburg
  • Ernst Modersohn (1870–1948), Protestant theologian, lived in Bad Blankenburg from 1906
  • Paul Wiedeburg (1872–1935), doctor, medical councilor, founded the Thuringian forest sanatorium "Schwarzeck" in 1901, which he ran until 1935
  • Hans Berger (1873–1941), neurologist and psychiatrist, developer of electroencephalography (EEG), ran the Warda sanatorium shortly before his death
  • Gustav Töpfer (1881–1968), merchant, honorary citizen of the Böhlplatten district
  • Johannes Prüfer (1882–1947), Froebel researcher, lived in Bad Blankenburg from 1933
  • Marc Chagall (1887–1985), Russian-French painter, stayed at the Schwarzeck Sanatorium in 1922/23 , where he painted the so-called Steinerne Schwarzabrücke
  • Erwin Kaldarasch (* 1940), handball player, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Klaus Beer (* 1942), athlete, attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule in Bad Blankenburg
  • Joachim Kirst * (1947), decathlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Hannelore Friedel (* 1948), athlete, GDR champion in shot put 1970, attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule and the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Wolfgang Thüne (* 1949), gymnast, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Renate Stecher (* 1950), track and field athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Bärbel Struppert (* 1950), athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Bernd Jäger (* 1951), gymnast, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Rolf Beilschmidt (* 1953), track and field athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg Ingrid Brestrich (* 1957), track and field athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Marlies Göhr (* 1958), track and field athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Petra Felke (* 1959), athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg
  • Heike Drechsler (* 1964), track and field athlete, attended the children's and youth sports school in Bad Blankenburg

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