List of personalities of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel

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The list of personalities in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel shows well-known people who were born or lived and worked in Brandenburg an der Havel .

People who are connected to the city through the Brandenburg prison because they were imprisoned or executed there can be found in the article of the same name. The city's honorary citizens are included in the list of honorary citizens of Brandenburg an der Havel . There is also a list of the bishops of Brandenburg .

Coat of arms of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel

sons and daughters of the town

(after the year of her birth in Brandenburg an der Havel)

Until 1800

19th century

20th century

1901-1925

1926-1950

1951-1975

1976-2000

21st century

Other personalities associated with the city

  • Albrecht the Bear (around 1100 - 1170), conquered the city in 1157, founder of the Mark Brandenburg, first margrave
  • Habakuk Schmauch , legendary figure, robber chief with probably historical real background
  • Daniel von Mukede (between 12th and 13th centuries), knight, canon, coadjutor
  • Lippold von Bredow (before 1369 - after 1411), governor or governor of the Mittelmark in the Mark Brandenburg
  • Stephan Bodecker (1384–1459), 1421–1459 Bishop of Brandenburg, scholar, promoter of general education for children of all social classes
  • Engelbert Wusterwitz (around 1385 - 1433), lawyer of the Neustadt Brandenburg, important chronicler
  • Gertrud von Saldern (1518–1595), school founder
  • Simon Roter († 1595), mayor of the old town
  • Zacharias Garcaeus , also Gartz (1544–1583), city syndicus and city clerk of the old town of Brandenburg, clerk at the Schöffenstuhl, pedagogue, humanist, rector of the Latin school at St. Gotthardt , rector of the old Latin school at St. Gotthardt, the predecessor institute of the Saldria , most important local writer Brandenburg during the Renaissance , created the first known city view of Brandenburg an der Havel (view from St. Gotthardts tower to Marienberg)
  • Urban Pierius (around 1546 - 1616), Protestant theologian, 1578–1581 superintendent in Brandenburg
  • Balthasar Kindermann (1636–1706), poet, 1659–1667 vice rector and rector of the Saldria
  • Friedrich von Görne (1670–1745), Prussian minister
  • Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué (1698–1774), Prussian general, provost of the cathedral at Brandenburg Cathedral from 1763, friend of King Friedrich II , grandfather of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
  • Leopold von Görne (1715–1769), Prussian civil servant and castle owner
  • Adolf Julius Lauer von Münchhofen (1755–1831), Prussian civil servant, lord of the castle and ancestor of the Lauer von Münchhofen family
  • Marie Magdalene Charlotte von Stoltzenberg (1763–1838), actress, mistress, owner of the castle and ancestor of the von Stoltzenberg and Lauer von Münchhofen families
  • Moritz Ludwig Seyffert (1809–1872), philologist and teacher, 1839–1846 vice rector at the Brandenburg High School
  • Theodor Schönemann (1812–1868), mathematician, from 1842 to 1868 professor at the Brandenburg High School
  • Hermann Barschall (1815–1859), administrative lawyer, from 1844 to 1851 director of the Brandenburg prison
  • Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), 1849 member of Brandenburg and Rathenow in the Prussian state parliament (only 48.5% of the votes for him in Brandenburg)
  • Alfred von Rauch (1824–1900), Colonel and Commander of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 6 "Emperor Nicholas I of Russia" from 1866 to 1870, later General of the Cavalry and Adjutant General of the German Emperors
  • Fritze Bollmann (1852–1901), barber, popular original
  • Ernst Paul Lehmann (1856–1934), toy manufacturer in Brandenburg
  • Alfred Flakowski (1872–1942), businessman; from 1905 to 1942 in Brandenburg an der Havel
  • Fritz Beinkämpen (1873–1922), Prussian member of the state parliament of the SPD, city councilor and city councilor in Brandenburg / Havel
  • Erich Baron (1881–1933), newspaper editor (1907–1919) and city councilor (1910–1919) of the SPD and the USPD
  • Hermann Friedrich (1885–1944), anti-fascist resistance fighter
  • Arnold Topp (1887–1945), expressionist and cubist painter, teacher at the Saldria from 1913 to 1940
  • Wilhelm Fraenger (1890–1964), city councilor and head of the Office for Popular Education 1946, founding member and director of the adult education center 1946–1947, second chairman of the Kulturbund 1947–1949
  • Friedrich Ebert junior (1894–1979), newspaper editor of the SPD in Brandenburg, later Lord Mayor (SED) of East Berlin
  • Otto Bernhard Wendler (1895–1958), educator and writer, childhood in Brandenburg, head of the secular school 1927–1933
  • Wilhelm Sievers (1896–1966), politician and NSDAP mayor in Brandenburg / Havel
  • Lothar Kreyssig (1898–1986), judge at the Brandenburg / Havel District Court, who opposed the so-called Action T4 during the Nazi era , later a church politician
  • Elinor Hubert (1900–1973), politician (SPD), was a general practitioner in Brandenburg / Havel at the end of the war
  • Albrecht Schönherr (1911–2009), 1946–1962 superintendent of the Brandenburg / Havel church district, 1951–1962 director of the preacher's seminary in the city of Brandenburg, 1972–1981 bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg / East Region, 1946–1999 dean of the cathedral monastery Brandenburg
  • Werner Mölders (1913–1941), fighter pilot in World War II, childhood and school time in Brandenburg
  • Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch (1925–2012), computer pioneer, inventor of virtual memory, industry and science manager, numerous ancestors from the city, lived in the old town from 1992 to 2012
  • Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), part-time school education at the Knight's Academy, 1995–2003 curator of the Friends' Association of Brandenburg Cathedral
  • Johann Friedrich Kekulé von Stradonitz (1930–2009), pupil of the Knight Academy, politician
  • Peter Gülke (* 1934), conductor, chief conductor of the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra
  • Bertram Schönwälder (1936–2018), mayor, pastor and steelworker
  • Bodo Henke (* 1937), painter, sculptor and teacher
  • Manfred Krug (1937–2016), actor; Apprenticeship training in the steel and rolling mill in Brandenburg
  • Hans-Joachim Lauck (* 1937), 1970–1979 director of the Brandenburg steel and rolling mill, 1979–1986 general director of the Brandenburg Quality and Stainless Steel Combine, 1986–1989 Minister for Heavy Machinery and Plant Engineering in the GDR
  • Wilfried Schwarz (* 1937), painter and teacher
  • Emil Spiess (1938–2009), painter, lived in Brandenburg
  • Monika Spiess (* 1942), sculptor, lives in Brandenburg
  • Ingeborg Arlt (* 1949), writer, in Brandenburg since 1970
  • Frank Castorf (* 1951), theater director, 1979–1981 director at the municipal theater
  • Petra Faderl (1952–2007), educator and politician (PDS)
  • Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg (1953–2018), Attorney General of the State of Brandenburg, has lived in the old town since 1997
  • Wilfried Pommerien (* 1954), internist and chief physician at the municipal clinic and vice dean of the Brandenburg Medical School
  • Herbert Trimbach (* 1954), presiding judge at the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court (2007–12)
  • René Mantke , surgeon and chief physician at the municipal clinic and vice dean of the Brandenburg Medical School
  • Eberhard Janotta (* 1961), outstanding footballer at BSG and BSV Stahl Brandenburg
  • Heiko Mathias Förster (* 1966), conductor, 1990–1993 chief conductor, 1993–1999 general music director of the Brandenburger Symphoniker
  • Roy Präger (* 1971), Bundesliga soccer player who played for BSG Stahl Brandenburg
  • Sven Beuter (1972–1996), the Federal Government recognized fatality from right-wing extremist violence
  • Andrei Walther (* 1972), civil engineer, winner of the Berlin-Brandenburg innovation award
  • Ronja Fini Sturm (* 1995), rower; grew up in Brandenburg
  • Elvis Rexhbeçaj (* 1997), Bundesliga soccer player; grew up in Brandenburg

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Contacting individual district councils. (No longer available online.) Vogtlandkreis, archived from the original on August 17, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vogtlandkreis.de