List of personalities of the city of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser

Coat of arms of the city of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser

The list of personalities of the city of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser contains people who played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city ​​of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser (until 1927 Frankenhausen ) in the Kyffhäuserkreis . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser or who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

• Wilhelmm Schall (1828–1916), wholesale merchant and banker
• Ernst Graef (1872–1922), Dr. med., district physician
• 1917: Karl Apel, button maker
• 1918: Franz Winter, President of the Landtag

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Rothmaler (1601–1650), theologian and clergyman, later superintendent of Frankenhausen
• Heinrich Nicolaus Trebs (1678–1748), court organ builder for the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar, best known for his collaboration with Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig Friedrich von Beulwitz (1726–1796), lawyer
• Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (1726–1777), writer, professor of poetry at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig
• August Zierfuß (1803–1867), needleworker and entrepreneur
• Theodor Obbarius (1817–1855), classical philologist
• Karl Steinhäuser (1823–1903), musician in Mühlhausen / Thuringia
• Robert Herman Foerderer (1860–1903), from 1901 to 1903 American Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Selmar Schönland (1860–1940), botanist, researcher of flora in southern Africa
• Franz Winter (1860–1920), first social democratic president of a German state parliament
• Rudolf Aderhold (1865–1907), botanist, secret councilor, director of the Imperial Institute for Agriculture and Forestry in Berlin-Dahlem
• Robert Wiemann (1870–1965), conductor and composer
• Hugo L. Braune (1872– †), painter, lithographer and illustrator
• Wilhelm Apel (1873–1960), politician (SPD) and district administrator of the Main-Taunus district
• Hugo L. Braune (1875–?), Painter
• Wilhelm Alverdes (1896–1980), garden architect
• Hermann Rübesamen (1892–1916), chess composer
• Wilhelm Tarnogrocki (1904–1993), track and field athlete and Olympic participant over 800 meters, who was active as a long sprinter and middle-distance runner in the 1920s
• Rolf Lüdecke (1924–1973), politician (SED) as well as party and agricultural functionary
• Doris Schade (1924–2012), actress
• Tom Schilling (* 1928), choreographer for modern dance theater, born in Esperstedt
• Gerhard Wolf (* 1928), writer and publisher
• Rainer Kerndl (1928–2018), writer and theater critic
• Hans-Dieter Döpmann (1929–2012), church historian
• Günther Gaßmann (1931–2017), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• Dietrich Burger (* 1935), painter and graphic artist
• Reinhard Lauer (* 1935), Slavist and professor emeritus
• Dieter Rex (1936–2002), painter and graphic artist
• Sieghard Brandenburg (1938–2015), musicologist who stood out in particular as a Beethoven researcher
• Peter Petrel (* 1940), singer
• Gert Schilling (* 1945), politician (SPD), was mayor of the Berlin district of Weißensee from 1990 to 2000
• Christa Wißkirchen (* 1945), teacher, composer and author of children's books
• Harald Vollmar (* 1947), marksman and multiple Olympic medalist
• Heinz-Helmut Wehling (* 1950), wrestler
• Reimund Neugebauer (* 1953), engineer and university professor, 10th President of the Fraunhofer Society
• Peter Rochhaus (* 1958), museologist and art historian
• Kersten Steinke (* 1958), member of the German Bundestag (Left Party)
• Edgar Knobloch (* 1968), contemporary artist, has lived in Leipzig since 1998
• Nils Schumann (* 1978), athlete and Olympic champion
• Dapayk (* 1978), producer and label operator
• Eva Padberg (* 1980), model
• Ulrich Brandhoff (* 1985), actor
• Christopher Handke (* 1989), soccer player, has been under contract with 1. FC Magdeburg since 2013
• Carsten Kammlott (* 1990), soccer player

Personalities associated with the city

Thomas Müntzer on the 5 GDR mark banknote

• Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), theologian and peasant leader in the peasant war
• Johann Thölde (1565–1614), alchemist and saltworks specialist, councilor and Pfannherr in Frankenhausen
• Sethus Calvisius (1556–1615), composer, went to school in Frankenhausen
• Philipp Ernst Förster (1618–1658), civil servant, at times Syndicus von Frankenhausen
• Johann Hoffmann (1644–1718), Protestant hymn poet and teacher, rector of the Frankenhausen school
• Johann Arnold Zeitfuchs (1671–1742), theologian and writer, went to school in Frankenhausen
• August Wilhelm Reinhart (1696–1770), pastor in Frankenhausen
• Julius Strobel (1814–1884), organ builder, lived in Frankenhausen from 1842
• Friedrich Lüttich (1849–1912), farmer and member of the Reichstag, died in Frankenhausen
• Anna Ritter (1865–1921), writer, lived for some time in Frankenhausen
• Alfred Berg (1876–1945), teacher, founding director of the Kreisheimatmuseum
• Leonhard Schrickel (1876–1931), writer, died in Frankenhausen
• Fritz Brather (1880–1945), 1916–1945 director of the secondary school and writer
• Carl Wilhelm Witterstätter (1883–1964), aviation pioneer, lecturer at the technical center in Frankenhausen
• Walther Karl Johann Ernst Frahm (1884–1970), painter and graphic artist, died in Frankenhausen
• Hermann Groine (1897–1941), politician (NSDAP), studied at the technical college in Frankenhausen
• Alf Teichs (1904–1992), film producer, at times director of the Thomas Müntzer Festival in Frankenhausen
• Martin Gottfried Weiß (1905–1946), SS-Obersturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant , studied electrical engineering at the technical center in Frankenhausen
• Ludwig Elsbett (1913–2003), inventor, studied at the Technikum in Frankenhausen
• Werner Tübke (1929–2004), painter and graphic artist, creator of the Peasant War Panorama in Bad Frankenhausen
• Christa Wolf (1929–2011), writer, Abitur in Bad Frankenhausen (1949)
• Susanne Melior (* 1958), politician (SPD), worked in the hospital in Bad Frankenhausen between 1984 and 1986
• Uwe Mundlos (1973–2011), terrorist and alleged serial killer, was from 1994 to 1995 basic military service in the Kyffhäuser barracks in Bad Frankenhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary Citizen - honored ... and forgotten. regionalmuseum-bfh.de