List of personalities from the town of Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains
The list of personalities from the city of Bad Lauterberg in the Harz region contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Lower Saxony city of Bad Lauterberg in the Harz region in the district of Göttingen . These are personalities who were born, died or worked here in the city of Bad Lauterberg (until 1906 Lauterberg , conferred city rights in 1929) and today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into the city of Bad Lauterberg, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
Bad Lauterberg currently has no honorary citizens.
sons and daughters of the town
- Georg Heinrich Hoffmann (1797–1868), mathematician, fireworker, artilleryman and teacher
- Adolf Heinrich Friedrich Schwarz (1812 – after 1859), doctor, 1848/50 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
- Hermann Schläger (1820–1889), member of the Reichstag and Landtag
- Rudolf Mehmke (1857–1944), mathematician
- Alfred Ritscher (1879–1963), captain and polar explorer
- Walter Schnackenberg (1880–1961), painter and illustrator
- Albert Köhler (1886–1955), Lower Saxony politician (SPD), member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, member of the Appointed Lower Saxony State Parliament and member of the Appointed Hanover State Parliament
- Henricus Halthoff (1888–1956), Mayor of Hanover, Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus
- Herbert Meyer (1899–1984), lawyer, administrative officer and local politician (NSDAP, FDP)
- Franz Abelmann (1905–1987), manager
- Hans Gärtner (1934–2014), classical philologist and medical historian
- Hans-Heinrich Hillegeist (* 1935), local history researcher, author and vocational school teacher i. R.
- Eberhard Umbach (* 1948), German physicist and science manager
- Bernd Langer (* 1960), former member of the autonomous scene
- Edgar Eduard Herbst (* 1961), photographer
- Constanze Wolter (* 1965), volleyball player
- Kai Peter Schmitz (* 1971), soccer coach
- Bibiana Steinhaus (* 1979), soccer referee
- Tino Schmidt (* 1993), soccer player
Personalities associated with the city
- Friedrich August Crome (1757–1825), pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Andreas
- Ernst Ritscher († 1859), doctor, founder of Bad Lauterberg as a spa
- Franz Georg Ferdinand Schläger (1781–1869), pastor in Bad Lauterberg
- Hermann Hunaeus (1812–1893), architect and Hanoverian building officer, died in Lauterberg. The Secret Government and Building Council is one of the earliest representatives of the Hanoverian round arch style [1] and is attributed to the Hanover School of Architecture.
- Hermann von Wissmann (1853–1905), German Africa explorer and governor of the colony of German East Africa (now Tanzania)
- Joseph Müller (1894–1944), priest and martyr, 1931–1934 pastor in the Catholic parish of St. Benno, executed by the National Socialists in 1944
- Michael Müller (songwriter) (1975–2009), right-wing extremist German songwriter, lived in Bad Lauterberg