List of personalities of the city of Coburg

This list contains personalities who are connected with the city of Coburg .

Personalities related to Coburg

Well-known personalities are listed here who spent part of their life in Coburg or who died in Coburg.

Balthasar Düring (* around 1466 in Königsberg in Bavaria ; † autumn 1529 in Coburg), theologian , Superintendent of Coburg and Coburg reformer , lived in Coburg from 1520
Eucarius Binder (* 2nd half of the 15th century in Coburg; † October 26, 1527 in Salzburg ), Anabaptist messenger and martyr
Martin Luther (born November 10, 1483 in Eisleben ; † February 18, 1546 there), theologian , reformer and professor, lived in Coburg in 1530
Johannes Langer (* around 1485/1486 in Bolkenhain ; † September 15, 1548 in Coburg), theologian and reformer, lived as a preacher in Coburg from 1530
Justus Jonas the Elder (born June 5, 1493 in Nordhausen ; † October 9, 1555 in Eisfeld ), lawyer , humanist , hymn poet , Lutheran theologian and reformer
Christoph Stathmion also Christoph Maß, Mass or Maaß (* around 1508/1509 in Krumau am Kamp ; Lower Austria ; † mid-April (burial April 24th) 1585 in Coburg), city doctor, astrologer and calendar maker
Maximilian Mörlin (born October 14, 1516 in Wittenberg , † April 20, 1584 in Coburg), Protestant theologian superintendent and reformer
Johannes Dinckel (born June 23, 1545 in Tröchtelborn , † December 24, 1601 in Coburg) Protestant theologian and general superintendent
Petrus Wesenbeck (born May 5, 1546 in Antwerp , † August 27, 1603 in Coburg), Flemish lawyer
Melchior Bischoff (born May 20, 1547 in Pößneck , † December 19, 1614 in Coburg), hymn poet and clergyman
Andreas Libavius (* 1555 in Halle (Saale) ; † July 25, 1616 in Coburg), polymath , alchemist and rector of the Casimirianum
Peter Sengelaub (* 1558 in Martinroda ; May 1622 in Coburg), court painter and Princely Saxon master builder
Caspar von Teutleben (* 1576 in Laucha ; † 1629 in Wenigensomern ), poet, councilor, co-founder of the Fruitful Society
Melchior Franck (* approx. 1580 in Zittau ; † June 1, 1639 in Coburg), composer, lived as court conductor in Coburg from 1603
Johann Gerhard (* 1582 in Quedlinburg; † August 17, 1637 in Jena), an important representative of Lutheran Orthodoxy , was general superintendent in Coburg from 1615 to 1616
Johann Matthäus Meyfart (born November 9, 1590 in Jena ; † January 1642 in Erfurt ), Protestant theologian , hymn book poet and witch theorist
Johannes May (born September 19, 1592 in Römhild ; † June 9, 1671 in Coburg), doctor and city physician in Römhild and Coburg
Johann Dilliger (born November 30, 1593 in Eisfeld , † August 28, 1647 in Coburg), Protestant theologian and composer
Cornelius Pleier (* 1595 in Coburg , † 1646 or 1649 in Prague), doctor and opponent of the witch hunt
Michael Franck (born March 16, 1609 in Schleusingen , † September 24, 1667 in Coburg), Protestant hymn poet
August Carpzov (born June 4, 1612 in Colditz ; † November 19, 1683 in Coburg), since 1651 Chancellor and Consistorial President in Coburg
Johann Wilhelm Vogel (born March 16, 1657 in Ernstroda , † July 17, 1723 in Coburg), East India driver, mining inspector and writer
Gottfried Ludovici (born October 26, 1670 in Baruth near Bautzen , † April 21, 1724 in Coburg), theologian, hymnologist and hymn poet, professor of theology and rector at the local grammar school
Johann Gerhard Meuschen (born May 4, 1680 in Osnabrück , † December 15, 1743 in Coburg), Lutheran theologian and clergyman, general superintendent of Saxe-Coburg, professor and scholar at the local grammar school
Erdmann Rudolf Fischer (born November 28, 1687 in Hafenpreppach, † June 1, 1776 in Coburg), Lutheran theologian
Lorenz Adam Bartenstein (born August 28, 1711 in Heldburg, † February 25, 1796 in Coburg), Rector of the Casimirianum
Johann Friedrich Gruner (born August 1, 1723 in Coburg, † March 29, 1778 in Halle (Saale)) Protestant theologian, historian, rhetorician and educator
Moritz August von Thümmel (May 27, 1738 in Schönefeld near Leipzig ; † October 26, 1817 in Coburg), writer and minister, lived in Coburg from 1761 to 1817
Johann Christian Hofmann (born February 11, 1739 in Salzungen , † February 16, 1792 in Coburg ), real privy councilor in Coburg
Albrecht Anton Adolph Hofmann (born September 24, 1758 in Meiningen ; † February 11, 1837 in Coburg), lawyer and civil servant
Jean Paul (born March 21, 1763 in Wunsiedel ; † November 14, 1825 in Bayreuth ), writer, lived in Coburg from 1803 to 1804
Friedrich Karl Forberg (born August 30, 1770 in Meuselwitz ; † January 1, 1848 in Hildburghausen ), philosopher , philologist and civil servant, lived in Coburg from 1801 to 1827
Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke (born October 9, 1770 in Halberstadt , † 7 November 1818 in Coburg), German polymath who for contributions to cartography and Paleontology is known
Karl August von Wangenheim (born March 14, 1773 in Gotha ; † July 19, 1850 in Coburg), lawyer and politician
Johann Georg Florschütz (born May 7, 1779 in Coburg; † June 26, 1849), Superintendent in Iserlohn
Friedrich Rückert (born May 16, 1788 in Schweinfurt , † January 31, 1866 in Neuses near Coburg), poet, translator and orientalist
Friedrich Wilhelm Donauer (born October 4, 1788 in Thurnau, † March 5, 1870 in Coburg), kk lieutenant, forestry specialist and pomologist
Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler , (born March 6, 1793 in Ostheim vor der Rhön, † January 20, 1858 in Coburg), general superintendent in Coburg
Caspar Kummer (born December 10, 1795 in Erlau near Schleusingen , † May 31, 1870 in Coburg), flautist , composer and music teacher of the Romantic period
Friedrich Bröhmer (born April 11, 1796 in Oberlind , † April 22, 1851 in Coburg), Privy Councilor of State and representative of Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , when he fought against the Danes
Johannes Gerl (born October 29, 1803 in Salzburg ; † January 1, 1873 in Coburg), Austrian opera singer ( baritone ) and singing teacher , who worked and lived in Coburg for 37 years from 1835 until his death
Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born August 26, 1819 at Rosenau Castle , † December 14, 1861 at Windsor Castle ), husband of Victoria I of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1857 British Prince Consort
Nina Bellosa (* around 1824 in Gonsenheim ; † April 4, 1899 in Gotha ), actress, honorary member of the Hofbühne
Johann Strauss (born October 25, 1825 in St. Ulrich, today part of Vienna - new building ; † June 3, 1899 in Vienna), conductor and composer , from 1887 until his death a citizen of Coburg
Wilhelm Popp (born April 29, 1828 in Coburg, † June 25, 1903 in Hamburg ); Flautist and composer
Ferdinand I (born February 26, 1861 in Vienna , † September 10, 1948 in Coburg), Prince and Tsar of Bulgaria
Georg Kükenthal (born March 30, 1864 in Weißenfels , † October 20, 1955 in Coburg), theologian and botanist
Louis Anton von Horst (born December 16, 1865 in Tuttlingen , † September 6, 1947 in Erlangen ), entrepreneur and inventor
Max Böhme (born May 14, 1870 in Zeitz ; † November 18, 1925 in Coburg), architect and town planning officer
Franz Klingler (born May 14, 1875 in Oettingen ; † July 15, 1933 in Coburg), head of government of the Free State of Coburg , member of the state parliament ( SPD ) and editor of the Coburger Volksblatt
Otto Poertzel (born October 24, 1876 in Scheibe ; † January 16, 1963 in Coburg), artist
Hans Woldemar Schack (born July 3, 1878 in Neustadt bei Coburg , † February 15, 1946 in Leipzig ), lawyer, politician and botanist
Reinhard Claaßen (born July 30, 1886 in Norden ; † February 10, 1960 in Coburg), architect
Hans von Boetticher (born August 30, 1886 in Staraja Russa ; † January 20, 1958 in Coburg), zoologist , ornithologist and long-time director of the Coburg Natural History Museum
Fritz Schaper (born October 14, 1890 in Holzminden ; † May 27, 1966 in Coburg), politician and resistance fighter
Max Brose (born January 4, 1884 in Osnabrück , † April 11, 1968 in Coburg). Merchant and entrepreneur ( Brose vehicle parts )
Eugen Stocke (born June 27, 1895 in Dirmstein ; † March 3, 1992 in Rödental near Coburg), entrepreneur (porcelain goods factory W. Goebel) and patron , honored by the city of Coburg with the naming of the Dr. Stocke Stadium
Richard Wagenbauer (born June 30, 1896 in Germersheim, † October 20, 1942 in Coburg), politician of the NSDAP
Johannes Künzel (born May 6, 1899 in Oberachern ; † unknown), politician and city councilor of the NSDAP
Carl Kaeser (born April 14, 1914 in Munich; † July 8, 2009), mechanical engineer, entrepreneur ( Kaeser Kompressoren ) and honorary citizen
Ali Kurt Baumgarten (born March 21, 1914 in Judenbach ; † April 4, 2009 in Coburg), graphic artist, artisan and painter
Heinz Petruo (born June 11, 1918; † November 12, 2001 in Coburg) broadcaster, actor and voice actor
Michael Ballhaus (born August 5, 1935 in Berlin; † April 11, 2017 there), cameraman, lived in Coburg for a few years during his childhood; his parents founded the Coburg culture group
Freddy Quinn (born September 27, 1931 in Niederfladnitz / Lower Austria ) Austrian pop singer and actor , the Coburg Arbeiterwohlfahrt dedicated the Freddy-Quinn-Platz to him in 2001 in front of the after-school care center in Neustadter Str.7b
Oda Mielenhausen (born October 2, 1938 in Braunschweig, † June 18, 2010 in Coburg), table tennis player, lived and died in Coburg
Detlef Altenbeck (* 1966 in Düsseldorf ), theater director, since 2001 senior stage director for drama and music theater at the Landestheater Coburg
Katja Röder (* 1975 in Coburg), author
Hermann J. Vief (* 1964 in Neuburg an der Donau ), culture and theater pedagogue and director
Yevgeny Grischbowski (born July 20, 1992 in Zhytomyr ), music producer and DJ

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Coburg. For the mention here, it is irrelevant whether the people later had their sphere of activity in Coburg or not. Many have become known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

16.-18. century

Paul Crusius (approx. 1525–1572) Protestant theologian, mathematician and historian
Nicolaus Zech (1559–1607), Princely Saxon land rent master
Sigismund Heusner von Wandersleben (1592–1645), officer and politician, partly in the Swedish service
Andreas Kesler (1595–1643), Lutheran theologian
Michael Ludovici (1602–1680), Lutheran theologian
Johann Konrad Schwarz (1676–1747), educator and Protestant theologian.
Charlotte Wilhelmine von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1685–1767), princess and countess of Hanau-Münzenberg
Johann Sebastian Albrecht (1695–1774), doctor and natural scientist
Johann Friedrich Christ (1700–1756), archaeologist and art historian
Luise Dorothea of Saxe-Meiningen (1710–1767), Duchess of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg
Johann Balthasar Kehl (1725–1778), cellist, organist and composer
Johann Friedrich Fischer (1726–1799), philologist
Christoph Daniel Prätorius (1733–1810), City General Counsel
Johann Gerhard Gruner (1734–1790), President of the Rentkammer and lawyer
Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787), composer
Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1737–1815), Austrian field marshal
Johann Ludwig von Eckardt (1737–1800), legal scholar
Johann Friedrich Facius (1750–1825), pedagogue at the Casimirianum Coburg and classical philologist
Ludwig Voigt (1752–1835), educator, school inspector in Riga
Johann Christian August Clarus (1774-1854), medic
Antoinette von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779–1824), ancestor of the House of Württemberg
Carl Hohnbaum (1780–1855), doctor and publicist, founder of the Hildburghausen insane asylum
Juliane von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781–1860), Grand Duchess
Ernst I (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (1784–1844), Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and first Duke of the newly created dual duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prussian general and father of Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Louise Lehzen (1784–1870), governess
Ferdinand Georg August von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry (1785-1851), Lieutenant Field Marshal in Austrian service
Victoire von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786–1861), mother of the British Queen Victoria
Christian Friedrich von Stockmar (1787–1863), doctor and statesman.
Leopold I (1790–1865), first king of the Belgians
Christoph Florschütz (1794–1882), teacher of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his brother Hereditary Prince Ernst
Heinrich Anton Carl Berger (1796–1861), doctor, fossil collector, geologist and paleontologist

19th century

Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff (1800–1839), Saxon-Coburg economist
Karl Fichtner (1805–1873), actor
Gustav König (1808–1869), painter
Wilhelm Sebaldt (1803–1874), government assessor, judge and district president
Ernst Friedrich Eberhard (1809–1868), school councilor, classical philologist and natural scientist
Moriz Adolph Briegleb (1809–1872), politician
Johann Friedrich Emil von Müller (1810–1900), Protestant theologian
Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly (1813–1871), Austrian statesman
Friedrich Hofmann (1813–1888), writer and contributor to Meyer's Konversationslexikon
Ludwig Max Praetorius (1813–1887), painter
Georg Karl Frommann (1814–1887), Germanist and linguist
Louise von Meyern-Hohenberg (1815–1865), painter and sculptor
Adolf Senfft von Pilsach (1816–1897), royal Saxon general of the cavalry
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1893)
Ernst Popp (1819–1883), sculptor
Friedrich Forkel (1822–1890), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
Heinrich Rückert (1823–1875), historian and Germanist
Selmar Bagge (1823-1896), composer
Wilhelm Pertsch (1832–1899), librarian and orientalist
Georg Meyer (1834–1907), architect, building officer, director of the building trade school
Felix Draeseke (1835–1913), composer
Max Brückner (1836–1919), theater painter
Ernst Faber (1839–1899), sinologist and missionary
August Sommer (1839–1921), sculptor
Burkhardt Quarck (1843–1909), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
Amalie von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1848-1894), princess and duchess in Bavaria
Bernhard Fischer (1852–1915), hygienist
Richard Ludloff (1830 – after 1913), German translator, author and poet
Eduard Study (1862–1930), mathematician
Anna Ritter (née Nuhn; 1865–1921), poet and writer
Ferdinand Lepcke (1866–1909), sculptor
Richard Leutheußer (1867–1945), lawyer and politician
Otto Appel (1867–1952), phytomedicist
Anna Bernhardine Eckstein (1868–1947), pacifist
Eduard Hermann (1869–1950), linguist and university professor
Clara Möller-Coburg (1869–1918), graphic artist
Reinhold Artmann (1870–1960), carpenter and politician
Hermann Quarck (1873–1932), State Councilor and member of the German Reichstag
Hugo Kreyssig (1873–1939), painter
Hans Berger (1873–1941), neurologist and psychiatrist
Abraham Friedmann (1873–1938), merchant
Heinrich Höllein (1874–1947), painter
Alexandra von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (1878–1942), Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and a member of the British royal family, and later by marriage Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Louis Oppenheim (1879–1936) commercial artist
Alexander Zinn (1880–1941), writer, politician and State Councilor in Hamburg
Fred Immler (1880-1965), actor
Curt Liebmann (1881–1960), infantry general
Eduard Scheler (1883–1964), architect
Carl Eduard (1884–1954), last Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Willy Menzner (1885–1932), sculptor
Paul Römhild (1885–1953), politician
Carl Leonhardt (1886–1969), conductor
Hans Schreyer (1886–1945), politician
Marga Lindt (born Margareta Sauer; 1888–1969), actress
Fritz Mollwitz (1890–1967), baseball player in the USA
Maria Uhden (1892–1918), painter and graphic artist
Kuno Popp (1893–1973), politician of the NSDAP
Richard Teufel (1897–1958), architect and art historian
Hans-Joachim Büttner (1900–1973), actor
Herbert Zeitner (1900–1988), goldsmith and silversmith

1901 to 1950

Alfred Seidler (1901–1976), politician (NSDAP)
Carl Otto Müller (1901–1970), painter
Georg Schneider (1902–1972), writer and politician
Hans Morgenthau (1904–1980), lawyer and political scientist
Kurt Eccarius (1905– † after 1971), head of the detention area in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Otto Kindler (1905–1962), director, actor and writer
Ernst Kupfer (1907–1943), fighter pilot in World War II and bearer of oak leaves
Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993), French composer
Hermann Meusel (1909–1997), botanist
Günther Weißenborn (1911–2001), pianist, accompanist and conductor
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912–1954) astronomer
Karl-Heinz Schwab (1920–2008), lawyer and professor emeritus for civil law and civil procedural law
Wolfgang Stammberger (1920–1982), politician (FDP, SPD), Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister of Justice, Lord Mayor of Coburg
Horst Siegel (1922–2006), officer and book author
Heinrich Strecker (1922–2013), professor of statistics and mathematics
Walter Hamel (1923–2009), mechanical engineer
Werner Scheler (1923–2018), doctor and pharmacologist
Helmut Knauer (1924–2010), District Administrator of the Coburg district
Günter Dührkop (1925–2002), painter and graphic artist
Jens Feddersen (1928–1996), journalist and publicist
Heinrich Beck (1928–2006), physician
Jürgen Diestelmann (1928–2014), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn (* 1934), German theologian
Herbert Schumann (1935–2010), German inorganic chemist, spent a long time at TU Berlin
Hubertus Ernst (1938–2016), entrepreneur
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (* 1939), mathematician and science manager
Dietrich von Haeften (* 1940), colonel and non-fiction author
Tatunca Nara (* 1941), German-Brazilian impostor
Klaus Volk (* 1944), legal scholar and defense attorney
Michael Welder (1944–1996), German modern historian, non-fiction author and photographer
Peter Jacobi (* 1945), politician
Anneliese Hübner (* 1946), author and local poet
Michael Stoschek (* 1947), entrepreneur
Klaus-Peter Göpfert (* 1948), wrestler
Leopold Schindler (* 1950), choir director, church musician and music teacher
Jürgen Kloosterhuis (* 1950), director of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage
Carl-Hubertus von Butler (* 1950), General

Since 1951

Norbert Hofmann (* 1951), soccer player and coach
Horst Schörshusen (* 1951), politician
Michael Rutz (* 1951), journalist
Roland Sauerbrey (* 1952), physicist
Klaus Janson (* 1952), American comic artist
Alexander Pelz (* 1953), actor and director
Rolf Schieder (* 1953), professor of practical theology and religious education
Walter-Jörg Langbein (* 1954), non-fiction author
Michael Kortstock (* 1954), President of the Munich University of Applied Sciences
Jutta Czurda (* 1955), choreographer and singer
Michael Laube (* 1955), painter and installation artist
Wolfgang Blendinger (* 1955), Professor of Petroleum Geology
Michael C. Busch (* 1957), District Administrator of the Coburg district
Norbert Mutzbauer (* 1957), lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
Sabine Friedrich (* 1958), author
Annette Hopfenmüller (* 1959), filmmaker and music producer
Norbert Kastner (* 1959), Lord Mayor of Coburg
Andreas Krämmer (* 1959), sculptor
Georg Schnurer (* 1960), journalist and moderator
Martin May (* 1961), actor, author and speaker
Sabine Demel (* 1962), theologian
Albert Koch (* 1962), music journalist
Stefan Liebig (* 1962), sociologist
Doris Nauer (* 1962), Roman Catholic theologian
Eckart Conze (* 1963), historian
Michael Zäh (* 1963), university professor, Technical University of Munich
Florian Don-Schauen (* 1964), author
Uwe Hiksch (* 1964), former member of the Bundestag for the SPD (1994–1999) and for the PDS (1999–2002)
Bernd Friedmann (* 1965), musician and producer
Christian Schmidt (* 1966), stage and costume designer
Frank Greiner (* 1966), soccer player
Kerstin Hack (* 1967), English studies specialist, ethnologist, author, publisher and speaker
Marcus Köhler (* 1967), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
Achim Wagner (* 1967), writer
Friederike Schmöe (* 1967), crime writer
Thomas Hofmann (* 1968), food chemist
Markus Kotzur (* 1968), lawyer
Claudia Porwik (* 1968), tennis player
Alexandra von der Weth (* 1968), soprano
Carl-Christian Dressel (* 1970), Member of the Bundestag for the SPD (2005–2009)
Andreas Hackethal (* 1971), Professor
Till Nassif (* 1971), moderator
Natalie Gutgesell (* 1972), artist
Johannes Rosenstein (* 1973), documentary filmmaker
Stefan Unterberger (* 1974), cameraman
Julia Stoschek (* 1975), art collector
Christian Rose (* 1977), national handball player
Thorsten Köhler (* 1978), actor
Fabian Bauersachs (* 1979), freestyle motocrosser
Christian Bögle (* 1979), cartoonist
Martin Forkel (* 1979), soccer player
Volkram Zschiesche (* 1979), actor
Michael Wagner (* 1981), ski jumper
Sebastian Grünewald (* 1984), actor
Maximilian Grünewald (* 1989), actor
Andreas Wolf (* 1990), handball player
Aykut Civelek (* 1994), football player
Marius Wolf (* 1995), soccer player
Cedric Teuchert (* 1997), soccer player