List of personalities of the city of Bad Sachsa
The list of personalities of the city of Bad Sachsa contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Lower Saxony city of Bad Sachsa in the district of Göttingen . These are personalities who were born or died in the town of Bad Sachsa (until 1905 Sachsa ) and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into the city of Bad Sachsa, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
In Bad Sachsa, the respective city eldest is an honorary citizen of the city.
sons and daughters of the town
- Eduard von Michael (1805–1874), forester
- Peter M. Rudhart (* 1939), manager
- Klaus Bühler (* 1941), politician (CDU)
- Hans-Ulrich Schulz (* 1945), theologian and general superintendent
- Axel Hartmann (* 1948), diplomat
- Mechthild Dyckmans (* 1950), politician (FDP)
- Siegfried Rockendorf (1950-2000), cook
- Johannes Schaedlich (* 1957), jazz bassist and composer
Personalities associated with the city
- Richard Breslau (1835–1897), politician and Lord Mayor of Erfurt from 1871 to 1889, he was also a member of the Prussian mansion from 1872 to 1889 and died here
- Georg Arnold Bacmeister (1850–1921), Privy Senior Justice Councilor and District Court President zu Neuwied, died here
- Fedor Encke (1851–1926), portrait and genre painter, died here
- Benno Kühn (1865–1949), geologist, spent the evening of his life in Bad Sachsa
- Max von Bleichert (1875–1947), major industrialist in cable car and transport system construction. Together with his brother Paul von Bleichert, he managed the company Adolf Bleichert & Co., a factory for cable cars, Leipzig-Gohlis, founded by his father, and developed it into the world's largest cable car and transport system factory. He died in Bad Sachsa.
- Werner Issel (1884–1974), architect, lived in Bad Sachsa
- Willi Müller (1896–1964) politician (SPD), was mayor, community director, honorary citizen and city director of Bad Sachsa
- Klaus Holzkamp (1927–1995) attended education until shortly before graduating from high school, later the founder and most important representative of critical psychology
- Erich Storz (1927–2016), singer, music producer and publisher, lived and died in Bad Sachsa
- Rolf Kalmuczak (1938–2007), writer, student of education
- Franz Ludwig Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (* 1938), lawyer and politician (CSU); was interned as a child in Bad Sachsa after his father's unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944
- Veruschka Countess von Lehndorff (* 1939), actress, photo model, painter and photographer; was interned as a child after her father's unsuccessful assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 in Bad Sachsa
- Alexandra (1942-1969), singer, often spent holidays in Bad Sachsa and was Wilhelm Bobring song My friend the tree inspires
- Hans-Heinrich Sander (1945–2017) politician (FDP), environment minister and member of the state parliament in Lower Saxony, was a student at the pedagogy
- Lutz Hoffmann (1959–1997), Turner, worked as a teacher at the pedagogy