List of personalities of the city of Bad Pyrmont

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Coat of arms of the city of Bad Pyrmont

The list of personalities of the town of Bad Pyrmont in Niedersachsen displays people who in the history of the town of Bad Pyrmont (to 1914 Pyrmont have played a significant role). These are personalities who were born or died here, who worked here or who were spa guests.

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

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Bad Pyrmont or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Bad Pyrmont is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

Johann Philipp Seip

19th century personalities

Friedrich Drake (around 1865)
Friedrich Gösling
  • Sophie Sander b. Diederichs (1768–1828), salonière and acquaintances of many famous personalities of their time
  • Christoph Hemmerich (1795–1885), wine merchant and politician
  • August Wilhelm Papen (1799–1858), military engineer, geodesist and cartographer
  • Wilhelm Gleisner (1803–1873), politician and president of the state parliament
  • Friedrich Drake (1805–1882), sculptor and architect, his best-known work is the figure of Victoria on the Berlin Victory Column
  • Friedrich Lyncker (1806-1892), doctor and politician
  • Adolph Windel (1806–1886), judge and politician
  • Philipp Fehrmann (1807–1879), wood turner and politician
  • Carl Rudolph Waldeck (1807–1861), innkeeper and politician, Mayor of Pyrmont 1854
  • Carl Georg Siemens (1809–1885), professor of technology
  • Prince Hermann Otto Christian zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (1809–1876), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Ludwig Kruhöffer (1811–1900), forester and politician, born in Thal
  • Carl Ludwig Rumpf (1811–1857), wine merchant and politician
  • Adolf Siemens (1811–1887), Prussian major general of the artillery and inventor
  • Ludwig Leberecht Dietrich Arnold Theodor Severin (1811–1867), lawyer in Waldeck, was President of the State Parliament and a national liberal member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation
  • Ferdinand Büchner (1823–1906), flautist and composer
  • Hugo Schröter (1831–1871), reindeer and politician, member of the state parliament of the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont
  • Adolf Seebohm (1831–1916), doctor and politician, member of the state parliament of the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont
  • Friedrich Gösling (1837–1899), entrepreneur and architect, born in Holzhausen
  • Carl Rumpff (1839–1889), partner and chairman of the supervisory board of the paint factories Friedrich Bayer & Co., Berlin patron
  • Wilhelm Sievers (1840–1917), spa pension owner and politician, member of the state parliament of the Principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont
  • Wolrad Wolff (1842–1934), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and court preacher at the grand ducal court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Julius Simmonds (1843–1924), genre, still life and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School
  • Theodor Stroefer (1843–1927), publisher
  • Heinrich Schaper (born February 3, 1847 in Oesdorf; † May 27, 1884), farmer, saved the flag of the fusilier battalion on December 2, 1870, during the battle of Loigny and Poupry.

20th century personalities

Friedrich Weitz
Harry Gondi
Stephan Maass

21st century personalities

Personalities associated with the city

  • Heinrich Matthias Marcard (1747–1817), was a well doctor in Bad Pyrmont in 1776
  • Jakob Calmann Linderer (1771–1840), dentist (1797–1807), especially for high-ranking people during the bathing season
  • Carl August Wackerhagen (1786–1857), sponsor of the poor house around 1850
  • Reinhard Kleinschmit (1820–1863), lawyer and politician, mayor of Pyrmont
  • Max Born (1882–1970), mathematician and physicist, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 , lived in Bad Pyrmont since 1953
  • Marc Roland (1894–1975), film music composer.
  • Mario Traversa (1912–1997), violinist and Kapellmeister, directed the Bad Pyrmont spa orchestra from the late 1950s.
  • Hans Bartel (1918–1970), freelance architect in Bad Pyrmont
  • Annette Humpe (* 1950), singer and musician, spent her childhood in Herdecke and Bad Pyrmont, where she passed her Abitur in 1971 at the Humboldt Gymnasium
  • Lionel Pracht (1875–1945), administrative officer and politician (DDP), Mayor of Bad Pyrmont from 1918 to 1924

People who died in Bad Pyrmont

Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck
  • Wolfgang Ernst von Eller (1610–1680), major general in Brandenburg, secret war council and governor of Minden, Landdrost in Ravensberg and governor of Sparrenberg
  • Johann Kahler (1649–1729), mathematician and Lutheran theologian and university professor in Rinteln
  • Caspar Corswant (1664–1713), lawyer and mayor of Stargard in Pomerania
  • Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck (1676–1728), Count or Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • Ernst Ludwig Orlich (1706–1764), chief pastor of St. Michaelis
  • Georg I (1747-1813), was Count of Pyrmont from 1805 to 1813 and Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1812 to 1813
  • Johann Georg Spangenberg (1786–1849), General Staff Doctor in the Kingdom of Hanover
  • Levin Schücking (1814–1883), writer and journalist.
  • Otto Lüer (1865–1947), architect with numerous buildings in Hanover (Markuskirche, Nazareth Church, Hölty monument), lived in Bad Pyrmont since 1932
  • Hans Baatz (1906–1996), gynecologist and spa doctor
  • Alfred Kubel (1909–1999), politician (SPD), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony 1970–1976
  • Erhard Wehrmann (1930–2004), photographer

Famous spa guests

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Was founded on August 13, 1875 by Kaiser Wilhelm I , in the presence of the Crown Prince, who later became Emperor Friedrich III. , personally honored in Pyrmont.
  2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : MARCARD, H (e) inrich Matthias , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p 246; online through google books
  3. ↑ Ullrich Rainer Otte: Jakob Calmann Linderer (1771-1840). A pioneer in scientific dentistry. Medical dissertation, Würzburg 2002, especially pp. 25-27.