List of personalities of the city of Bernburg (Saale)
The list of personalities of the city of Bernburg (Saale) contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Bernburg (Saale) in the Salzlandkreis of Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bernburg (Saale) see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- May 8, 1833: August Hartung (born March 11, 1762 in Bernburg, † April 30, 1839), school reformer in Berlin at the time of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
- March 26, 1854: Wilhelm Ernst von Braun (1790–1872), privy councilor and chamber president in Bernburg, promoted the economic and transport development of Bernburg
- June 13, 1874: Timon Theodor Gustav Walther (1800–1881), General Superintendent and Senior Consistorial Councilor in Bernburg
- April 10, 1890: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
- June 13, 1907: Carl Wessel (1842–1912), General Director of Deutsche Solvay-Werke AG in Bernburg
- July 1, 1933: Ernst Eilsberger (* February 28, 1868, † March 26, 1947), General Director of Deutsche Solvay-Werke AG in Bernburg
- April 7, 1937: Hermann Göring (1893–1946), Commander in Chief of the German Air Force
- June 12, 1938: Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887–1977), Reich Minister of Finance.
The appointments of honorary citizens made from 1933 to 1945 were canceled by decision of the municipal meeting of the city of Bernburg com March 26, 1946.
- February 24, 1950: Johannes R. Becher (1891–1958), poet, Minister of Culture and President of the GDR Cultural Association.
- February 19, 1953: Hermann Henselmann (1905–1995), architect
- February 5, 1967: Hilde Benjamin (1902–1989), Justice Minister of the GDR
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Bernburg (Saale) or what is now the districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Bernburg (Saale) is irrelevant.
Personalities of the early modern period
- Christoph Rothmann (between 1550 and 1560 – around 1600), mathematician and astronomer
- Daniel Nebel (1558–1626), legal scholar and rector of Heidelberg University
- Sibylla von Anhalt (1564–1614), Duchess of Württemberg
- Barbara Meyhe (* 1565), wife of Mayor Christopher Meyhen, was convicted in a witch trial from 1617 to 1619 .
- Burkhard von Erlach (1566–1640), lawyer and court marshal
- Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg (1568–1630), Prince, governor of the Upper Palatinate
- Anna Elisabeth von Anhalt-Bernburg (1647–1680), Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg and by marriage Duchess of Württemberg-Bernstadt
- Karl Friedrich Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1668–1721), ruling Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg from 1718 until his death
- Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg (1669–1727), the first prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, founder of an Ascanian branch
- Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Bernburg (1693–1774), Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg and, by marriage, Princess of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Friederike Henriette von Anhalt-Bernburg (1702–1723), Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg and, by marriage, Princess of Anhalt-Köthen
- Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Bucholz (1734–1798), medical officer
- Friedrich Albrecht Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1735–1796), ruling Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
- Friederike Auguste Sophie, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, born Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg (1744–1827), princess and sister-in-law of Tsarina Catherine II of Russia
- Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751–1817), diplomat, orientalist and bibliophile
- Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren (1760–1798), chemist
- Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke (1762–1830), Protestant theologian and educator
19th century personalities
- Johann Philipp August Bunge (1774–1866), builder of the court theater
- Victor Friedrich Leberecht Petri (1782–1857), pastor and teacher of ancient literatures and oriental languages at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig
- Salomon Herz (1791–1865), businessman and founder of Germany's first oil trading company
- Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860), historian
- Ferdinand Reich (1799–1882), chemist and physicist
- Carl Hoffmann (1802–1883), publisher, printer owner and bookseller
- Hermann Paldamus (1805–1854), classical philologist and high school teacher
- Alexander Friedrich Franz Hoffmann (1814–1882), youth and folk writer and bookseller
- Leonor Reichenheim (1814–1868), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation
- Wilhelm Herz (1823–1914), entrepreneur and from 1902 to 1913 the first President of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce
- Gustav von Salmuth (1832–1875), District Administrator in East Prussia
- Julius von Bandel (1845–1899), Fideikommißherr on Dröbel as well as Prussian councilor and leaseholder of the Calenberg domain
- Otto Wolf (1849–1917), composer, conductor and director of the Maastricht Conservatory
- Hans Breymann (1850–1903), architect
- Elly Allesch (1853–1944), writer
- Lothar von Heinemann (1859–1901), historian
- Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld (1861–1902), airship pioneer
- Paul Günther (1867–1891), mathematician
20th century personalities
- William Büller (1876–1950), actor, director, theater director in Hildesheim
- Julius Berstl (1883–1975), writer
- Hans-Adam Stolte (1888–1975), zoologist
- Karl Friedrich Oppermann (1889–1969), government architect and railroad director
- Theodor Pichier (1889–1974), Lord Mayor of Erfurt
- Hans Bollmann (1894–1945), sports journalist, born in Baalberge
- Hans Günther (1899–1938), Marxist economist, writer and literary critic
- Hans Reinowski (1900–1977), politician
- Herbert Weißbach (1901–1995), actor
- Hilde Benjamin (1902–1989), judge in a number of political show trials in the 1950s and Justice Minister of the GDR
- Walter Knape (1906–2000), conductor, composer, author and university professor
- Hans-Joachim Elster (1908-2001), limnologist
- Werner Reinowski (1908–1987), writer
- Kurt Rose (1908–1999), teacher and author
- Hellmut Ley (1909–1973), chemist, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metallgesellschaft AG (1961–1964), President of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) (1966–1967) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (1970–1974)
- Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel (1911–2005), lawyer, university professor and President of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Ruth Elster (1913–2002), nurse and chairwoman of the Agnes Karll Verband Württemberg, vice-president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN)
- Heinz Steffens (1913–1982), painter and graphic artist
- Friedrich Türcke (1915–1998), forester and hunting scientist
- Liselotte Rauner (1920–2005), writer
- Lykke Aresin (1921–2011), doctor and sexologist
- Otto Knefler (1923–1986), soccer coach and player
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt (* 1927), bibliographer and cultural historian
- Hans-Joachim Böhme (1929–2012), SED functionary and member of the Politburo
- Günter Held (* 1935), Ambassador in the service of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Hartmut Harnisch (* 1934), archivist and historian
- Peter Weber-Schäfer (1935–2019), political scientist and translator
- Peter Jakubeit (* 1939), author
- Volker Ebersbach (* 1942), writer, 1997–2002 town clerk of Bernburg
- Gunnar Müller-Waldeck (* 1942), author and professor of literary studies
- Michael Müller (* 1948), politician
- Wolfgang Rumpf (* 1948), theater director
- Gerd-Ulrich Herrmann (* 1950), officer, social scientist and military writer
- Rolf Milser (* 1951), weightlifter
- Uta Mauersberger (* 1952), writer
- Johannes Schelhas (* 1961), Catholic theologian
- Heike Hartwig (* 1962), athlete
- Ingo Weißenborn (* 1963), fencer
- Cristin Claas (* 1977), singer and songwriter
- Christian Kreis (* 1977), writer
21st century personalities
- Christoph Bernstiel (* 1984), politician
- Philipp Knechtel (* 1996), soccer player
Personalities who died in the city
- Cyriacus Gericke († 1551), Lutheran theologian
- Nikolaus Medler († 1551), Lutheran theologian and reformer, worked as a mathematics teacher and, as rector in Eger and Hof, also set accents in the school system
- Bartholomäus Frenzel († late 16th century), neo-Latin poet
- Christian Gerson († 1622), a Jewish convert, a Protestant theologian and polemical author
- Christian II († 1656), ruling Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg from 1630 to 1656
- Prince Viktor I. Amadeus von Anhalt-Bernburg († 1718), since 1656 ruling Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg from the Ascanian family
- Princess Luise of Anhalt-Dessau († 1732), wife of Prince Victor Friedrich, since 1724 Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg
- Wilhelm Ernst Starke († 1764), Reformed theologian, philologist and hymn poet
- Ernst Ludwig Pauli († 1783), Protestant theologian
- Karl von Knoblauch († 1794), lawyer and Bergrat in the service of the Princes of Orange-Nassau in Dillenburg and as a philosophical author a representative of the materialistic and religious-critical late Enlightenment
- Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken († 1862), mineralogist and mining director in Bernburg. The mineral zinkenite is named after him
- Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Zachariä († 1869), civil servant in the Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg and politician
- Emilie Pohlmann († 1875), opera singer (soprano)
- Salomon Herxheimer (died 1884), rabbi
- Johann Ignaz Fuchs († 1893), mechanic and watchmaker
- Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt († 1894), Prussian military musician and composer
- Hermann Hellriegel († 1895), agricultural chemist
- Hermann Wilfarth († 1904), agricultural chemist
- Friedrich Brauner († 1942), Austrian machinist and resistance fighter
- Rita Gerszt († 1942), Polish communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Thea Graziella († 1942), writer
- Selma Grünewald (died 1942) was a Jewish victim of the National Socialists
- Amalie Jordt († 1942), Jehovah's Witness
- Fritz Junkermann († 1942), theater and silent film actor as well as cabaret artist and speaker
- Mathilde Klose († 1942), trade unionist
- Käthe Leichter (died 1942), Austrian social scientist, socialist trade unionist and founder and head of the women's department of the Vienna Chamber of Labor
- Rosa Menzer († 1942), Dresden worker functionary and resistance fighter
- Olga Benario-Prestes († 1942), communist
- Georg Wimmer († 1945), agricultural chemist
- Max Eggert († 1947), local politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of the city of Bernburg from 1933 to 1945
- Wilhelm Krüger († 1947), agricultural chemist, 25 years director of the Anhalt State Agricultural Research Station in Bernburg
- Kurt Müller († 1952), lawyer and Anhalt Minister of State (1924–1929)
- Friedrich Oelze († 1954), educator and politician of the (DNVP)
- Erich Besser († 1972), communist politician
- Fritz Oberdorf († 1976), professor at the University of Leipzig 1951–1960, founder and first rector of the University of Agriculture in Bernburg 1961–1963
- Franz Ehrlich († 1984), architect, graphic artist and designer
- Eberhard Frey († 1993), painter and graphic artist
- Martin Oschmann († 2012), biologist specializing in entomology and phytopathology
Personalities associated with the city
- Christoph Irenäus (around 1522–1595), theologian, from 1545 to 1547 school principal in Bernburg
- Johann Arndt (1555–1621), one of the most important post-Reformation theologians, was ordained in Bernburg in 1583
- Wilhelm Ernst Starke (1692–1764), Reformed theologian, philologist and hymn writer
- Johann Caspar Häfeli (1754–1811), superintendent and chief preacher since 1805
- Johann Gottfried Keßler (1754–1830), mining and building advisor
- Alexius Friedrich Christian (1767–1834), Prince and Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg
- Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (1767–1845), theologian, general superintendent in Bernburg 1812–1824
- Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1802–1867), early romantic painter and author, in the Bernburg court service
- Richard Wagner (1813–1883), studied Mozart operas in the Bernburg Court Theater in 1834.
- Otto von Heinemann (1824–1904), librarian and historian, teacher at the grammar school from 1854 to 1863, where he also managed the main archive in Bernburg
- Hermann Hellriegel (1831–1895), biologist and agricultural chemist in Bernburg 1880–1895
- Ingo Insterburg (1934–2018), comedian, singer, multi-instrumentalist, writer and actor, grew up in Bernburg and graduated from high school in 1953
- Hellmuth Karasek (1934–2015), journalist and literary critic, from 1948 to 1952 pupil at the secondary school (today Carolinum Bernburg high school)
- Karlheinz Klimt (* 1934), doctor of biology and ecologist as well as writer, puppeteer and barrel organ interpreter; active at the secondary school from 1957 to 1964
- Ulrike Krenzlin , née Görner (* 1940), art historian, attended high school here
- Uta Priew (* 1944), opera singer, sang in the choir of the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Theater
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernburg City Archives (Saale), Findbuch 8 / II-675.
- ↑ Honorary citizenship no longer exists; Information from the city of Bernburg from January 20, 2014.
- ↑ Stolte Hans-Adam - detail page - LEO-BW. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Stolte Hans-Adam - detail page - LEO-BW. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Manfred Lahne: From the city theater to the green hill of Bayreuth. Part 1. In: Bernburger Bear. Journal for homeland, dialect and winemaking tradition. Volume 51, No. 131, 2013, ZDB -ID 2018890-0 , pp. 12-14.