List of personalities of the city of Bad Harzburg
The list of personalities of the city of Bad Harzburg contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Lower Saxon city of Bad Harzburg in the district of Goslar . These are personalities who were born or died here or who worked in Bad Harzburg or in today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bad Harzburg, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- April 1, 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
- July 4, 1938: Dietrich Klagges (1891–1971), Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig from 1933 to 1945 (NSDAP); honorary citizenship was revoked in 2014.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Bad Harzburg or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Bad Harzburg is irrelevant.
19th century personalities
- Johann Christoph Lüders (1803–1872), industrial pioneer and local politician
- Conrad Willgerodt (1841–1930), chemist
- Hedwig von Alten (1847–1922), writer and women's rights activist
- Otto Nordmann (1876–1946), surgeon in Berlin, 1939 President of the German Society for Surgery
- Waldemar Koch (1880–1963), politician
- Kurt Körber (1885–1957), Protestant theologian, historian and educator
- Friedrich-Gustav Bernhard (1888–1945), Lieutenant General in World War II, born on Gut Radau
- Günther Nebelung (1896–1970), lawyer
- Emil Herzig (1898–1962), architect
20th century personalities
- Lutz Mackensen (1901–1992), linguist
- Manfred Schmidt (1913–1999), comic artist
- Willi Bartels (1914–2007), "King of St. Pauli"
- Eberhard Fiebig (* 1930), sculptor
- Klaus Homann (1937–2004), politician and former mayor of Bad Harzburg
- Martin Hecht (* 1946), German radio presenter, advertising spokesman and radio producer
- Hannsjörg Voth (* 1940), artist
- Hans-Peter Schwintowski (* 1947), legal scholar
- Thomas Zacharias (* 1947), athlete
- Hans-Christian Bues (* 1948), writer
- Stefan Bajohr (* 1950), politician and social scientist
- Frithjof Schmidt (* 1953), politician
- Martin Ibler (* 1955), legal scholar
- Rainer Korff (* 1955), General
- Klaas Hübner (* 1967), politician
- Irina Kuhnt (* 1968), hockey player and Olympic participant
- Thorsten Schatz (* 1968), author and journalist
- Oliver Krauss (* 1969), politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Stefan Meissner (* 1973), soccer player
- Riem Hussein (* 1980), referee
- Lars Fuchs (* 1982), soccer player
- Tim Zechel (* 1996), handball player
Personalities associated with the city
- Philipp August von Amsberg (1788–1871), General Director of the Duke of Brunswick State Railway
- Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), inventor, wrote his memoirs in his holiday home built in 1882. Daughter Hertha donated the "Ettershaus" in 1910 as a rest home.
- Carl Haber (1842–1895) co-founder of the consumer association, the credit cooperative and the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG) Hamburg.
- Julius Elster (1854–1920), teacher and physicist, died here
- Carl Peters (1856–1918), colonialist and traveler to Africa, died here
- Richard Stegemann (1856–1925), economist and Chamber of Commerce secretary, died here
- Rudolf Huch (1862–1943), writer, died here
- Max Frey (1874–1944), painter, died here
- Martin Luserke (1880–1968), reform pedagogue, theater maker, bard and writer, led seminars at the youth group leader school in Bündheim
- Gustav Adolf Erich Bogeng (1881–1960), lawyer, book collector and bibliophile
- Dietrich Klagges (1891–1971), NSDAP politician and Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig , died here as a pensioner
- Karl Theodor Weigel (1892–1953), symbol researcher
- Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), photographer of the New Objectivity , lived and worked in Bad Harzburg in the late 1920s
- Christoph Hackethal (1899–1942), Roman Catholic pastor and opponent of the Nazi regime; was killed in the Dachau concentration camp
- Adolf Schmidt-Bodenstedt (1904–1981), teacher and politician (NSDAP, FDP), lived in the city since 1948
- Reinhard Höhn (1904–2000), leading SS ideologist and founder of the Academy for Business Executives
- Horst Voigt (* 1933), former SPD politician
- Luz Leskowitz (* 1943), Austrian violinist and founder and artistic director of the Harzburg Music Days from 1970 to 2005
- Hans Georg Faust (* 1948), CDU politician
- Heinz Hoenig (* 1951), actor, grew up in Harlingerode
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Körner: Martin Luserke , appreciation for his 80th birthday, in: Bulletin of the Association of Former Students and Teachers of the Meldorfer School of Academics, double booklet 19/20 (December 1960), pp. 5-7.