List of personalities of the city of Bernburg (Saale)

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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

Daniel Nebel
Prince Christian I of Anhalt-Bernburg
Karl Friedrich Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Bucholz (1791)
Friedrich Albrecht (Anhalt-Bernburg)

19th century personalities

20th century personalities

21st century personalities

Personalities who died in the city

Emilie Pohlmann (1825)

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

  1. ↑ Bernburg City Archives (Saale), Findbuch 8 / II-675.
  2. ↑ Honorary citizenship no longer exists; Information from the city of Bernburg from January 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Stolte Hans-Adam - detail page - LEO-BW. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Stolte Hans-Adam - detail page - LEO-BW. Retrieved August 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 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.