List of personalities of the city of Ballenstedt
The list of personalities of the city of Ballenstedt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city of Ballenstedt in the Harz district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in the city of Ballenstedt and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into the city of Ballenstedt, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Sieskind Sieskind (1833–1925), Jewish wholesale merchant
sons and daughters of the town
- Uta von Ballenstedt (around 1000 - before 1046), founder of the Naumburg Cathedral
- Johann Arndt (1555–1621), theologian
- Wilhelm Ernst Starke (1692–1764), Reformed theologian, philologist and hymn writer
- Ernst Julius Marx (1728–1799), organ builder
- Pauline zur Lippe (1769–1820), regent of the Principality of Lippe
- Caroline Bardua (1781–1864), painter
- Franz Junot (1785–1846), mining captain and son-in-law of Schiller
- Wilhelmine Bardua (1798–1865), writer, poet, singer, singing teacher, dramaturge and salonnière
- Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg (1799–1882), Princess of Prussia
- Christian Friedrich Gille (1805–1899), painter, draftsman and engraver
- Adolf Zeising (1810–1876), author and scholar
- August Reinhard (1831–1912), composer, author of a harmonium school
- Gustav Strube (1867–1953), composer
- Wilhelm von Krosigk (1871–1953), sea captain of the Imperial Navy , commander of the large-scale ship SMS Posen , rear admiral
- Wilhelm Thiele (1897–1990), politician (NSDAP)
- Marie Auguste von Anhalt (1898–1983), princess
- Friedrich Bloch (1904–1996), Lord Mayor of Gera from 1945 to 1948
- Richard Schuhmann (* 1938), former politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
- Hilmar Brinkmann (1939–1965), fatality on the inner-German border, born in today's Rieder district
- Eduard Prinz von Anhalt (* 1941), head of the House of Anhalt-Askanien since 1963
- Justus Pfaue (1942–2014), writer and screenwriter
- Heidelore Böcker (1943–2019), mediaevalist and Hanseatic historian
- Rainald Steck (* 1945), diplomat
- Eckhard Lesse (* 1948), long-distance runner
- Gerhard Müller (* 1954), former ice hockey player and referee in the German ice hockey league and the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga, who now works as a referee trainer for the German ice hockey association
- Volker Schimpff (* 1954), politician (CDU)
- Martin Hoff (1965–2016), Kapellmeister
- Josepha Bock (* 2000), volleyball player
Personalities associated with the city
- Albrecht the Bear (1100–1170), Count von Ballenstedt, since 1157 Margrave of Brandenburg, buried in Ballenstedt
- Bernhard III. (1140–1212), Duke of Saxony, buried in Ballenstedt
- Johann Zechendorf (1580–1662), German philologist and educator
- Johann Caspar Häfeli (1754–1811), preacher, died in Ballenstedt
- Johann Gottfried Keßler (1754–1830) founded the Anhalt bernburg provincial collection of some fossils from 1783 at Bernburg Castle
- Karl Christian Kehrer (1755–1833), portrait, landscape and history painter; from 1778 princely Anhalt court painter; died in Ballenstedt.
- Carl Christian Agthe (1762–1797), composer and court conductor, worked and died in Ballenstedt
- Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762–1830), Protestant theologian and educator
- Just Friedrich von Seelhorst (1770–1857), court marshal in Ballenstedt
- August von Krohn (1781–1856), major general and minister of war
- Eduard Nehse (1794 – after 1855), natural scientist and innkeeper. 1852 initiator of the Ballenstedt Music Festival with Franz Liszt.
- Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1802–1867), painter and man of letters, worked and died in Ballenstedt
- Werner VIII von Alvensleben (1802–1877), Prussian lieutenant general, buried in Ballenstedt
- Gustav von Alvensleben (1803–1881), Prussian. General of the infantry, buried in Ballenstedt
- Constantin von Alvensleben (1809-1892), Prussian. General of the infantry, buried in Ballenstedt
- Friedrich Winfried Schubart (1847–1918), court preacher in Ballenstedt, bell expert and local researcher
- Friedrich von Scholtz (1851–1927), general in World War I, died and buried in Ballenstedt
- Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld (1861–1902), inventor and aeronautical operator, buried in Ballenstedt
- Emil Baumecker (1866–1947), pastor and member of the state parliament of the Free State of Anhalt, spent many years of his childhood and youth as well as his old age in Ballenstedt
- Wilhelm Vöge (1868–1952), art historian, lived in Ballenstedt since 1917
- Fritz Klocke (1898–1978), teacher, folklorist and local researcher in Ballenstedt
- Marco Gebhardt (* 1972), soccer player, grew up in Ballenstedt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memory of honorary citizen Sieskind Sieskind was a Ballenstedter at heart - article in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Quedlinburg issue of March 22, 2015