List of personalities of the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen

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Coat of arms of the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen

The list of personalities of the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city ​​of Bitterfeld-Wolfen , which was created in 2007 through the unification of the two cities of Bitterfeld and Wolfen . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Bitterfeld-Wolfen or who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bitterfeld-Wolfen, see also the corresponding local articles.

Coat of arms of the city of Bitterfeld

Honorary citizen of the Bitterfeld district

  • August 2, 1896: Eugen Gustav Goltz, city councilor
  • 1902: Heinrich August Piltz , city councilor and industrialist
  • 1924: Albert Richter, businessman and city councilor
  • April 19, 1933: Adolf Hitler , Reich Chancellor, revoked in 1990
  • Paul von Hindenburg , Field Marshal General and President of the Reich, revoked in 1990
  • 1996: Lothar Hentschel (1930–1999), Mayor of the twin town of Marl
  • 1998: Ernst Thronicke (born September 6, 1920 - † October 28, 2007), drawing teacher and painter

Honorary citizen of the Wolfen district

Coat of arms of the city of Wolfen

Sons and daughters of the Bitterfeld district

  • Michael Schneider (1612–1639), scholar and philosopher
  • Conrad Victor Schneider (1614–1680), medic
  • Johann Ernst Altenburg (1734–1801), trumpeter and organist
  • Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold von Seydewitz (1787–1872), Prussian administrative officer, born in Niemegk near Bitterfeld
  • Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger (1825–1891), Upper President of West Prussia
  • Wilhelm Trautmann (1846–1903), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
  • Rudolf Kobert (1854–1918), medical historian and pharmacologist
  • Arthur Wienkoop (1864–1941), architect, worked as professor and director at the state building trade school in Darmstadt
  • Sella Hasse (1878–1963), painter and graphic artist
  • Leonhard Kaupisch (1878–1945), officer, most recently general of the artillery in World War II
  • Rolf Habild (1904–1970), district administrator in Bitterfeld from 1933 to 1945
  • Paul Mylius (1904–1945), lawyer in the police force and SS leader
  • Hans Werner Schmidt (1904–1991) art historian, museum director in Braunschweig
  • Kurt Bunge (1911–1998), painter, graphic artist and restorer
  • Erwin Ding-Schuler (1912–1945), SS-Sturmbannführer and first camp doctor at the Buchenwald concentration camp
  • Adolf Drescher (1921–1967), pianist
  • Jochen Seidel (1924–1971), painter and graphic artist
  • Fred-Arthur Geppert (1925–1999), actor and voice actor
  • Franz Klepacz (1926–2017), football player
  • Götz Beck (1934–2009), literary and linguist
  • Nikolaus Cybinski (* 1936), aphorist
  • Lutz Zülicke (* 1936), theoretical chemist
  • Heinz-Jürgen Voß (1938–2003), mathematician, professor for algebra, especially for graph theory, since 1992 professor for graph theory / classical algebra at the TU Dresden
  • Gunter Herrmann (* 1938), painter, graphic artist and restorer
  • Hans-Joachim Müller (* 1938), historian with a focus on the academic analysis of the persecution of homosexual men during the National Socialist era
  • Kurt Rahmig (1938–2020), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 1994 to 2002
  • Rudi Czaja (1939-2001), Member of the State Parliament (DVU)
  • Hartmut Weule (* 1940), process engineer and professor emeritus at the former University of Karlsruhe
  • Rainer Dorndeck (1941–2011), photographer
  • Udo Leuschner (* 1944), journalist and writer
  • Ingrid Wenz-Gahler (* 1946), interior designer and specialist book author
  • Hans Zimmermann (1948–2015), site manager, environmental activist (in June 1988 worked on the contrasts contribution Bitteres from Bitterfeld )
  • Curt Bernd Sucher (* 1949), theater critic, author and university lecturer
  • Hanns Schimansky (* 1949), draftsman and printmaker, was professor of painting at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 1998 to 2015
  • Erhard Schipporeit (* 1949), manager
  • Frank Emmrich (* 1949), doctor, professor for clinical immunology at the University of Leipzig, head of the Leipzig Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology as well as Director of the Translational Center for Regenerative Medicine Leipzig and Secretary General of the Association for Clinical Research Centers in Germany, born in Niemegk
  • Eugen Blume (* 1951), curator and art historian, from 2001 to 2016 director of the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin
  • Ilse cell (* 1951), teacher and author
  • Waldemar Köppe (* 1952), former soccer player who was active between 1971 and 1976 for Halleschen FC Chemie in the GDR league
  • Rita Henke (* 1952), politician (CDU), was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1990 to 2009
  • Peter Rasym (* 1953), musician, has been playing bass guitar with the Puhdys since 1997
  • Uwe-Volkmar Köck (* 1953), politician (Die Linke), MdL
  • Hans-Christoph Hobohm (* 1955), Professor of Library Science at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences with a focus on library management, knowledge management and information behavior research
  • Bettina Fortunato , née Bettina Alter (* 1957), politician (Die Linke), was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament from 2009 to 2014, and since 2016 she has been a member again as a replacement for Stefan Ludwig
  • Marion Bekker (* 1958), artist (painting, graphics) and art and history teacher at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Lahr / Black Forest
  • Matthias Hermann (* 1958), writer
  • Dagmar Zoschke (* 1959), politician (Die Linke), MdL
  • Chris Böhm (* 1983), BMX athlete and freestyler, entertainer and record holder in the Guinness Book of World Records
  • Jochen Seidel (1924–1971), painter and graphic artist

Sons and daughters of the Wolfen district

Personalities associated with the Bitterfeld district

  • August von Parseval (1861–1942): Some of the impact airships he developed were built in Bitterfeld. In 1907 an airship yard was established here. Parseval was an honorary member of the "Airship Association of Bitterfeld and Surroundings" founded in 1909. In 1910, the Parsevalstraße running there was named after him. The vocational school center, which was newly built between 1998 and 2000, is located on Parsevalstrasse . In the same year, the vocational school center was given the honorary name “August von Parseval” at a ceremony.
  • Walther Rathenau (1867–1922): He brought the chemical industry to Bitterfeld by setting up the electrochemical works on behalf of the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft ( AEG ) in 1893, thus establishing the region's rise to an industrial center.
  • Paul Othma (1905–1969): Electrician, spokesman for the strike committee of June 17, 1953, sentenced to 12 years in prison.
  • Manfred Sult (1934–2016), Baptist pastor and from 1981 to 1991 President of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in the GDR
  • Klaus Staeck (* 1938): graphic artist and lawyer as well as President of the Academy of Arts, grew up in Bitterfeld and lived here on June 17, 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Roi (AfD). In: Bitterfeld Sparrow. September 13, 2013, accessed March 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Paul Othma tries to curb violence and tries to enforce the strike committee as the new power center on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Center for Political Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Short biography of Paul Othma
  4. ^ Eyewitness report by Klaus Staeck on the 1953 popular uprising in Bitterfeld on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Center for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 20, 2017.