List of personalities from the city of Braunlage

The list of personalities in the town of Braunlage contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the town of Braunlage in Lower Saxony . These are personalities who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Braunlage see also the corresponding local articles.

Sons and daughters of the Braunlage district

• Wilhelm Brandes (1854–1928), writer and classical philologist
• Otto Jordan (1856–1937), chemist, manufacturer and manager
• Wilhelm Töllner (1879–1963), politician (SPD)
• Walter Kahn (1911–2009), travel company
• Bernd Rebe (1939–2013), lawyer, university professor and from 1983 to 1999 President of the Technical University of Braunschweig
• Harald Beyer (1939–2017), football player
• Manuel Lommel (* 1949), cameraman
• Peter Dettmar (* 1953), diplomat
• Barbara Lorenz-Allendorff (* 1955), politician (independent)
• Peter Scharff (* 1957), chemist
• Angela Gorr (* 1957), politician (CDU)
• Stefan Grote (* 1958), politician and mayor (SPD)
• Dorothea Strauss (* 1960), art historian, was director of the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich
• Kerstin Weule (* 1966), triathlete and world champion in Xterra-Cross-Triathlon (2000)
• Thomas Gropper (* 1969), baritone and professor of singing

Sons and daughters of the Sankt Andreasberg district

• Johann Barthold Niemeier (1644–1708), logician and Lutheran theologian
• Christian Müller (1690–1763), leading organ builder in Holland in the 18th century
• Heinrich August Wrisberg (1739–1808), gynecologist and director of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Georg August University of Göttingen
• Johann Anton Ludwig Seidensticker (1766–1817), legal scholar
• Johann Gottfried Schmeisser (1767–1837), pharmacist, chemist and natural scientist
• Bruno Kerl (1824-1905); University professor for mining and metallurgy
• Hermann Guthe (1825–1874), geographer, non-fiction author and professor
• Wilhelm Trute (1836–1889), breeder of carnaries and miner
• Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Louis Rosenbusch (1840–1895), teacher and writer
• Hogo Koch (1845–1932), miner and smelter and university professor
• Erhard Heldmann (1908–1949), politician
• Valeska Jakobasch (* 1912), politician
• Arthur Höltge (* 1932), GDR diplomat, chargé d'affaires, counselor in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia
• Birgit Kipfer (* 1943), politician, member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament
• Holger Kammerhoff (* 1945), Lieutenant General ret. D. the Bundeswehr
• Rainer Herbst (* 1945), artist in the fields of painting, printing, graphics, drawing, plastic, sculpture and objects

Personalities associated with the Braunlage district

• Christian Julius Wackerhagen (1667–1748), one of the 4 major factors
• Johann Georg von Langen (1699–1776), forestry and chief hunter, initiated potato cultivation in Braunlage
• Arthur Ulrichs (1838–1927), forester, introduced skiing in the Harz Mountains
• Wilhelm Heye (1869–1947), officer, most recently Colonel General and Chief of Army Command in the Weimar Republic, died in Braunlage
• Friedrich Carl Untucht (1870–1939), entrepreneur, died in Braunlage
• William Müller (1871–1913), architect, died in Braunlage
• Otto von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (1875–1927), Prussian district administrator, died in Braunlage
• Franz Mattenklott (1884–1954), infantry general in World War II, died in Braunlage
• Johannes Göderitz (1888–1978), architect, town planner, construction officer and university professor, died in Braunlage
• Grete Albrecht (1893–1987), neurologist, psychotherapist and president of the German Medical Association (1955–1965), died in Braunlage
• Robert Kabelac (1894–1976), shipyard director, died in Braunlage
• Lucie Mannheim (1899–1976), stage and film actress, died in Braunlage
• Gustav Dahrendorf (1901–1954), SPD politician, consumer cooperative, co-founder of the Young Socialists, journalist, member of the Reichstag, died in Braunlage
• Willy Lages (1901–1971), SS-Sturmbannführer, head of the security service in Amsterdam and, in this function, superior of the head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam. He was jointly responsible for the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to the German concentration camps and died in Braunlage.
• Klaus Wilhelm Rath (1902–1981), National Socialist economist, died in Braunlage
• Heinz Schwitzke (1908–1991), author and editor, died in Braunlage
• Kurt Mederacke (1910–1983), bassoonist and composer, died in Braunlage
• Carlo Graaff (1914–1975), politician of the FDP, MdL, MdB, died in Braunlage

Personalities associated with the Sankt Andreasberg district

• Adolf Achenbach (1825–1903), honorary citizen of the city and mining captain
• Otto Erich Hartleben (1864–1905) wrote the drama Rosenmontag here in the Hotel Bergmann in February 1899 together with his brother Otto H. (1866–1929) . An officer tragedy . The play was a worldwide success around 1900.
• Oswald Teichmüller (1913–1943), mathematician, spent his childhood up to the age of 12 in Sankt Andreasberg.
• Werner Grübmeyer (1926–2018), CDU politician, rector and long-time mayor of St. Andreasberg, honorary citizen since 2001.
• Detlev Block (* 1934), theologian, worked as a pastor in St. Andreasberg in the late 1960s.
• Wolf-Eberhard Barth (* 1941), forest scientist, cynologist and nature conservationist, headed the Oderhaus Forestry Office from 1974 to 1993 and the Harz National Park from 1994 to 2005.
• Wilfried Ließmann (* 1958), mineralogist and mining historian, whose research focus is the area around Sankt Andreasberg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The city of Braunlage currently has no honorary citizens.