List of personalities of the city of Bad Langensalza
The list of personalities of the city of Bad Langensalza contains people who played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city of Bad Langensalza (up to the end of the 16th century Salza and up to 1956 Langensalza ) in the Unstrut-Hainich district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Bad Langensalza and today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bad Langensalza, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- April 1, 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
- November 1925: Oskar Wiebeck (1857–1932), Mayor of Langensalza from 1886 to 1919
- March 29, 1933: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor
- 1937: Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (1876–1956), composer
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Bad Langensalza or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Bad Langensalza is irrelevant.
Personalities of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period
- Hermann von Salza (around 1162–1239), 4th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- Ludwig Fachs (1497–1554), lawyer and several times Mayor of Leipzig between 1534 and 1552
- Esaias Stiefel (1561–1627), theologian
- Jeremias Spiegel (1589–1637), Lutheran theologian
- Bernhard Fuckeradt (1601–1662), Jesuit priest and painter
- Georg Neumark (1621–1681), composer
- Johann Heinrich Köhler (1669–1736), goldsmith and court jeweler
- Johann Christoph Schmidt (1704–1781), royal mansfeld court and mountain ridge and most recently the office director in Eisleben
- Johann Gottlieb Aurbach (1707–1782), councilor, bailiff and manor owner
- Caspar Christian Gutbier (1709–1785), lawyer and bailiff
- Johann Michael Heinze (1717–1790), educator
- Johann Christoph Erbstein (1720–1805), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and theologian
- Friedrich Christian Edler von Reinhardt (1728–1795), excise officer and district tax collector in the Thuringian district and mayor
- Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732–1800), naturalist and pharmacist
- Johann Gottlob Schulze (1755–1834), architect
- Georg Gottfried Marpurg (1755–1835), clergyman and author of Estonian writings
- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836), doctor, founder of macrobiotics
19th century personalities
- Johann Philipp Christoph Schulz (1773–1827), composer and Gewandhaus Kapellmeister
- Johann August Heinrich Tittmann (1773–1831), philosopher and theologian, Canon of Meissen
- Wilhelm Christian Friedrich Moritz (1773–1850), Prussian major general
- Friedrich von Sydow (1780–1845), officer and writer
- Carl Friedrich Göschel (1781–1861), theological writer
- Georg Blättermann (1782–1850), philologist and at times teacher of Edgar Allan Poes
- Hermann Bonitz (1814–1888), philologist and educator
- Ernst Keil (1816–1878), publicist
- Alexis Bravmann Schmidt (1818–1903), journalist, philosopher and Masonic order master
- Karl Friedrich von Berlepsch (1821-1893), politician, landowner, member of the Prussian manor house
- Hermann Frobenius (1841–1916), officer and military writer
- Hermann Gutbier (1842–1936), author of the Langensalza regional history
- Hermann Zimmermann (1845–1935), civil engineer
- Otto Klauwell (1851–1917), composer
- Adolph Witzel (1847–1906), first a. o. Professor of Dentistry at the University of Jena
- Oskar Witzel (1856–1925), physician
20th century personalities
Radost Bokel (2013)
Marco Engelhardt (2007)
- Hermann Haupt (1873–1959), teacher and entomologist
- Theodor Ludwig Karl Krieghoff (1879–1946), musician and composer, born and died in Ufhoven
- Ulrich Kleemann (1892–1963), General of the Armored Force in World War II
- Carl Nacken (1894–1962), teacher and district administrator and director of the Westphalia State Insurance Institute
- Oskar Trübenbach (* 1900), NSDAP member of the Reichstag and district leader
- Paul Hockarth (1902–1974), typesetter, newspaper editor, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, party functionary (KPD / SED), trade union official and general director of the Zentrag
- Curt Ludwig (1902–1989), politician (NSDAP)
- Rudolf Batz (1903–1961), SS-Sturmbannführer, as leader of the Einsatzkommando 2 responsible for the mass murder of Jews in the Baltic States
- Rolf Dieß (1925–1964), painter, graphic artist and mosaic artist
- Heinz Hundeshagen (1928–2017), nuclear medicine specialist and professor at the Hannover Medical School
- Manfred Schomers (* 1940), architect, town planner and university professor
- Dieter Fromm (* 1948), track and field athlete
- Harald Rockstuhl (* 1957), publisher and non-fiction author
- Uwe Barth (* 1964), politician (FDP)
- Olaf Rahardt (* 1965), marine painter
- Konstantin Krause (* 1967), long jumper
- Michael Molata (* 1973), former soccer player
- Radost Bokel (* 1975), actress
- Claudia Schramm (* 1975), bobsledder
- Enrico Kühn (* 1977), bobsledder
- Marco Engelhardt (* 1980), soccer player
21st century personalities
- Silvio Heinevetter (* 1984), handball goalkeeper
- Matthias Rahn (* 1990), soccer player
- Theodor Bergmann (* 1996), soccer player
Personalities who died in Bad Langensalza
- Johann Friedrich Olearius (1661–1689), Lutheran theologian
- Friederike Elisabeth von Sachsen-Eisenach (1669–1730), Princess of Sachsen-Eisenach from the house of the Ernestine Wettins and, by marriage, Duchess of the Saxon-Weißenfels-Querfurt secondary school
- Johann Christian Ernesti (1695–1769), theologian, was superintendent here
- Friederike von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1715–1775), Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and by marriage the last Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels, from 1712 she lived in the retirement home of Dryburg Castle in Langensalza
- Johann Friedrich von Braun (1722–1799), soldier, non-fiction author and manor owner
- Karl Gottlob Leisching (1725–1806), Superintendent of Langensalza
- Karl Gottlieb Richter (1777–1847), government official
- Carl von Seebach (1809–1877), local politician
- Eduard Klemm (1838–1926), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
- Eberhard von Claer (1856–1945), Prussian infantry general in the First World War
- Hans Thuar (1887–1945), painter, mainly painted landscapes and is attributed to Rhenish Expressionism
- Anni Berger (1904–1990), rose breeder
- Ernst Großmann (1911–1997), farmer and first LPG chairman in the GDR.
Personalities associated with the city
- Erich Volkmar von Berlepsch (1525–1589), from 1562 chief captain of Thuringia with his seat in Langensalza
- Henning Dedekind (1562–1626), composer, cantor and deacon in Langensalza
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), poet, worked for two years in Langensalza as a private tutor
- Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809), composer, worked as a teacher at the girls' school in Langensalza
- Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738–1804), physician, worked as a doctor in Langensalza
- Karl Christian Tittmann (1744–1820), Protestant theologian, deacon in Langensalza
- Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), botanist, completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Langensalza
- Otto Ruppius (1819–1864), writer, lived in Langensalza for a long time
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Rockstuhl : Chronicle of the City of Bad Langensalza 786-2000, Verlag Rockstuhl, 2015, [1]
- ↑ honorary citizenship papers at zvab.de
- ↑ Thamsbrück , Bad Langensalza.de, accessed on November 15, 2018