List of personalities of the city of Eilenburg

This list contains personalities who are connected to the small Saxon town of Eilenburg in the district of North Saxony . The list does not claim to be complete.

sons and daughters of the town

Surname	born	in	died	in	Remarks
Franz Abbot	1819	Eilenburg	1885	Wiesbaden	Composer and conductor
Helmut Bartenstein	1914	Eilenburg	2010	Celle	Micropaleontologist and petroleum geologist
Kerstin Bednarsky	1960	Eilenburg			Politician ( SED , Die Linke )
Kurt Bennewitz	1902	Eilenburg	1945		Communist, resistance fighter at the time of National Socialism
Adolf Berendes	1848	Eilenburg	1932	Leipzig	Reich judge
Karl Eduard von Bülow	1803	Gut Berg before Eilenburg	1853	Oetlishausen Castle	Novellist, comes from the same line as Vicco von Bülow
Else Buschheuer	1965	Eilenburg			TV presenter (including ProSieben , MDR ), journalist (including Sat.1 , RTL ) and book author (daughter of Peter Knoll )
Emil Capitaine	1861	Eilenburg	1907	?	Engine designer, inventor and entrepreneur
Heinrich Degenkolb	1832	Eilenburg	1909	Thusis	Law scholar and university professor
Busso Carl Heinrich von Dieskau	1725	Gut Berg before Eilenburg	1791	?	Princely-Anhalt court marshal and manor owner
Friedrich August von Dieskau	1732	Gut Berg before Eilenburg	1792	Prague	imperial-royal major general
Bernd Caspar Dietrich	1957	Eilenburg			Sand painter and art professor
Dietrich Gotthard Eckard	1696	Eilenburg	1760		jurist
August Fritzsche	1816	Eilenburg	1902	Eilenburg	Members of the cooperative
Peter Frommig	1946	Eilenburg			Artist, writer and poet
Conrad Geissler	1825	Eilenburg	1897	Eilenburg	Organ builder
Sighard Gille	1941	Eilenburg			Painter, photographer and art professor
Friedrich Wilhelm Goetze	1856	Gut Berg before Eilenburg	1924	Burscheid	Inventor and manufacturer of engine seals
Ulrike Graessler	1987	Eilenburg			Ski jumper
Wilfried Groebner	1949	Eilenburg			Soccer player, Olympic champion 1976
Carl Gottfried Haentze	1781	Eilenburg	1858	Schedewitz	Entrepreneur
Hermann Hartmann	1863	Eilenburg	1923	Leipzig	Doctor, founder of the Hartmannbund
Harald Heinke	1955	Eilenburg			Judoka
Gustav Höcker	1832	Eilenburg	1911	Wroclaw	writer
Oskar Höcker	1840	Eilenburg	1894	Berlin	Actor and narrator
Otto Kaiser	1913	Eilenburg	1996	Bergisch Gladbach	SS-Oberscharführer and Blockführer in Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Peter Knoll	1940	Eilenburg			Physicist, professor of geophysics and entrepreneur (father of Else Buschheuer )
Alexander King	1966	Eilenburg			Figure skater
Ute Kostrzewa	1961	Eilenburg			Volleyball player
Viktor Ferdinand von Kranold	1838	Eilenburg	1922	Berlin	President of the Royal Railway Directorate Berlin
Karina Kraushaar	1971	Eilenburg	2015	Hamburg	actress
Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig	1770	Eilenburg	1839	Dresden	Medic, botanist and musicologist
Rudolf Küster	1955	Eilenburg	2012	kassel	Strength athletes
Karl Ludwig from Le Coq	1754	Eilenburg	1829	Berlin	Prussian major general and cartographer
Norman Liebold	1976	Eilenburg			Artist and actor
Oswald Lübeck	1883	Kospa near Eilenburg	1935	Thiessow	photographer
Paul Michel	1877	Eilenburg	1938	Berlin	architect
Karl August Möbius	1825	Eilenburg	1908	Berlin	Zoologist and ecologist
Nargaroth					German metal band from Eilenburg
Karl Neumann	1916	Eilenburg	1985	Bike paths	Youth book author
Carl Ludwig Nietzsche	1813	Eilenburg	1849	Skirts	Protestant clergyman, father of Friedrich Nietzsche
Paul Platen	1890	Eilenburg	1964	Leipzig	Geographer and local historian
Hans Plischke	1890	Eilenburg	1972	Goettingen	Ethnologist
Volker Pohlenz	1956	Eilenburg			painter
Andreas Poach	1515	Eilenburg	1585	Utenbach	Lutheran theologian and reformer
Gustav Raute	1859	Eilenburg	1946	Eilenburg	Politician ( SPD , USPD ), MdR
Richard Riegel	1900	Eilenburg	1982		Politician ( KPD )
Martin Rinckart	1586	Eilenburg	1649	Eilenburg	Poet, Protestant theologian and church musician
Stefan Ronneburg	1989	Eilenburg			Soccer player
Johannes Scheffler	1879	Eilenburg	1944	Dresden	Economist and business economist
André Schinkel	1972	Eilenburg			Writer and archaeologist
Wilhelm Gotthelf Ernst Seyfferth	1774	Eilenburg	1832	Leipzig	Banker, father of Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth
Marco Thomas	1972	Eilenburg			Clarinetist, professor for clarinet at the University of the Arts Bremen
Adam Tülsner	1592	Eilenburg	1661	Dresden	poet
Gerhard Vetter	1918	Eilenburg	1971	Wustrow	photographer
Fritz Walter	1916	Eilenburg	2009	?	Forest economist
Georg alarm clock	1566	Eilenburg	1633	Wittenberg	Medic and physicist
Christian Ernst White	1833	Eilenburg	1890	Schkeuditz	Geologist , mineralogist and phytopalaeontologist
Hugo Wilkens	1888	Eilenburg	1955	?	Painter and graphic artist
Georg Friedrich Hammer	1694	Eilenburg	1751	Rabenau	theologian

Personalities associated with the city

Surname	born	in	died	in	Comments and reference to Eilenburg
Roland Becker	1940	Leipzig			German politician ( CDU ) gas station owner in Eilenburg
Joachim Grech	1900	Predel	1945	Dussoi , Belluno Province	Protestant theologian worked as a medic in Eilenburg during World War II
Alfred Belian	1873	Jodepoenen , East Prussia	1946	Berlin	Politician, President of the Union of Imperial Cities First Mayor of Eilenburg (1904–1933)
Anton Bernhardi	1813	Süptitz	1889	Eilenburg	Politician, doctor, factory owner and inventor of the artificial sand-lime brick as a building material for living and working in Eilenburg
Johann Jacob Bodemer	1762	Calw	1844	Dresden	In 1803 the entrepreneur founded a calico factory in Eilenburg
Hans-Joachim Böttcher	1947	Over there			Home author of the Eilenburg region
Wilhelm Büchting	1864	Nordhausen	1923	Eilenburg	Protestant theologian superintendent in Eilenburg, founder of the Eilenburg city museum
Robert Burkhardt	1874	Rutha	1954	Ückeritz	Local history researcher teacher in Eilenburg
Walter Caro	1909	Berlin	1988	West Berlin	Chemist worked in the Eilenburg celluloid plant
Caspar Cruciger the Elder	1504	Leipzig	1548	Wittenberg	Protestant theologian and reformer married Apollina Günterode for the second time at Eilenburg Castle at Easter 1536 ; Martin Luther gave the wedding sermon
Dedo I of Wettin	1010	?	1075	?	Graf auf der Eilenburg , Margrave of Lusatia
Dedo III from Wettin	around 1121	?	1190	?	Graf auf der Eilenburg , Margrave of Lusatia
Carl Degenkolb	1796	Plauen	1862	Rottwerndorf	Entrepreneur, councilor , member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and pioneer in the creation of an employee representative owner of the Kattunfabrik Bodemer & Co
Eugen Ludwig Hannibal von Delitz	1820	Berlin	1888	Potsdam	Prussian major general worked as a topographer in Eilenburg
Georg von Derfflinger	1606	Neuhofen an der Krems	1695	Gusow-Platkow	Swedish lieutenant colonel took Eilenburg with his troops in 1639
Dietrich I. von Wettin	around 990	?	1034	?	Graf auf der Eilenburg , Margrave of Lusatia
Dietrich I. von Landsberg and Eilenburg	1118	?	1185	?	Graf auf der Eilenburg , Margrave of Lusatia
Ernst Dobers	1892	Poses	1945	?	Biologist, anthropologist and anti-Semitic propagandist Head of the teacher training institute in Eilenburg (1942–1945)
Eduard Moritz Doerk	1792	Insterburg	1867	Halle (Saale)	Lawyer and member of the Prussian National Assembly Criminal Director in Eilenburg (1833–1837)
Friedrich Engelhorn	1821	Mannheim	1902	Mannheim	Entrepreneur Chairman of the supervisory board of the Eilenburg chemical factory
Alexander Florstedt	1863	Hedersleben	1929	Arnswalde	The hunter and hunting writer passed his exams in Eilenburg
Friedrich I of Wettin	around 960	?	1017	Eilenburg	Owner of the Civitas Eilenburg
Joachim Fritsche	1951	Delitzsch			Footballer coach of FC Eilenburg
Heinrich Germer	1900	Magdeburg	1952	Magdeburg	SED politicians attended the Eilenburg teacher training college
Paul Gerhardt	1607	Graefenhainichen	1676	Luebben (Spreewald)	Evangelical Lutheran theologian, hymn poet, son of Dorothea Starcke, Eilenburg (daughter of Eilenburg superintendent Caspar Starcke )
Albrecht Giersch	1880	Langendreer	1946	Ludenscheid	The writer lived in Eilenburg for a long time
Samuel Hahnemann	1755	Meissen	1843	Paris	The founder of homeopathy practiced as a doctor in Eilenburg
Friedrich Haufe	1899	Leipzig	1970	Leipzig	Protestant theologian district catechist in Eilenburg (1946–1952)
Heinrich I of Eilenburg	around 1070	?	1103	?	Count on the Eilenburg , Margrave of Lusatia and of Meissen
Heinrich II of Eilenburg	1103	?	1123	?	Count on the Eilenburg , Margrave of Lusatia and of Meissen
Adam Herold	1659	Dresden	1711	Eilenburg	Pedagogue and Protestant theologian superintendent in Eilenburg
Johann von Heydeck	1500	?	1554	Eilenburg	Wuerttemberg and electoral Saxon General Amtshauptmann in Eilenburg
Ursula Hirschfeld	1953	Apolda			Linguist and Germanist lives in Eilenburg
Hans-Joachim Hoffmann	1929	Bunzlau	1994	Berlin	Minister for Culture of the GDR worked for the Eilenburg SED district leadership
Nikolaus Hunnius	1585	Marburg	1643	Bremen	Theologian Superintendent in Eilenburg
Paul Jenisch	1551	Annaberg	1612	Dresden	Pedagogue, Lutheran theologian superintendent in Eilenburg
Johann Georg I of Wettin	1585	Dresden	1656	Dresden	Prince led peace negotiations in Eilenburg during the Thirty Years' War
Eduard Jost	1837	trier	1902	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse	Author wrote The Daughter of the Town Clerk of Eilenburg (1895)
Thomas Keindorf	1958	Halle (Saale)			Politician ( CDU ) and chimney sweep vocational school teacher in Eilenburg
Konrad II of Wettin	1159	?	1210	?	Count on the Eilenburg , Margrave of Meissen
Karsten Kruschel	1959	Havelberg			German writer did his basic military service in Eilenburg
Manfred Kuschmann	1950	Coswig (Anhalt)	2002	Hall	Athlete set a GDR record in 1974 in the 25 km run in Eilenburg
Frank Kutzsch	1956	?			Strength athletes active in Eilenburg
Otto Quirin Lancelle	1885	Xanten	1941	Krāslava	The officer and major general lived in Eilenburg
Georg August Langguth	1711	Leipzig	1782	Lutherstadt Wittenberg	Medic attended the school in Eilenburg
Otto Lemke	1877	Parlin	1945	Berlin	Architect, city ​​architect and city planner in Eilenburg
Friedrich Leyser	1587	Braunschweig	1645	Eilenburg	Theologian, court preacher in Dresden, superintendent in Eilenburg
Johann Friedrich von Lindenau	1694	?	?	?	Court and Appeal Council in Dresden, manor owner in the Eilenburg office
Christian Ludwig Liscow	1701	Wittenburg	1760	Gut Berg before Eilenburg	Satirist spent his twilight years at Gut Berg
Martin Luther	1483	Eisleben	1546	Eisleben	Theologian, originator and teacher of the Reformation preached several times in Eilenburg, it is said that he described the city as a blessed pit and considered moving his old home to the city
Oskar Johannes Mehl	1875	Braunschweig	1972	Herzberg (Elster)	Protestant theologian and author spent his twilight years in Eilenburg
Wilhelm Ferdinand Mitscherlich	1826		1895		Industrial founder of the Eilenburg city park
Georg Müller	1868	Elsterwerda	1945	Leipzig	Judge district judge in Eilenburg
Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche	1756	Bibra	1826	Eilenburg	Theologian, grandfather of Friedrich Nietzsche's superintendent in Eilenburg
Basil Petritz	1647	Grossenhain	1715	Dresden	Kreuzkantor in Dresden Cantor in Eilenburg
Joachim Prague	1937	Dessau			FDJ and SED functionaries First secretary of the FDJ district leadership Eilenburg (1964–1969)
Giselher Quast	1951	?			Dome preacher in Magdeburg Cathedral pastor in Eilenburg
Hans-Christian Reiche	1944	Delitzsch			Officer of the National People's Army , last chief of the land forces of the NVA company commander and main subject teacher at the Eilenburg NCO School
Eike von Repgow	around 1185	Repgow	1233	?	Author of the Sachsenspiegel a stay in the county of Eilenburg in 1224 was mentioned in a document
Johann Gottfried Richter	1763	Taucha	1829	Eilenburg	Journalist and translator, private scholar in Eilenburg
Michael Röhr	1945	Magdeborn			Statistician teacher in Eilenburg
Ewald Sauer	1881	Iron	1957	Dillenburg	Politician ( DNVP ) Managing Director of the Association of Evangelical National Workers' Associations in Central Germany in Eilenburg (1918)
Johann Schelle	1648	Geising	1701	Leipzig	Baroque composer , Thomaskantor Cantor in Eilenburg
Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf	1600	Gottorf	1631	Eilenburg	Princely adventurer in the Thirty Years' War , second son of Johann Adolf (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf) died in Eilenburg after the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631
Roland Scholl	1865	Zurich	1945	Eilenburg	Swiss chemist
Victor Seifert	1870	Dobling	1953	Berlin	Sculptor created the Franz-Abt-Monument on today's Dr.-Külz-Ring (1912)
Paul Bacon	?	?	1557	?	Sculptor and stonemason made the epitaph by Johann von Heydeck in Eilenburg (around 1554)
Udo Steinke	1942	Litzmannstadt	1999	Munich	Writer spent childhood and youth in Eilenburg
Michael consecration	1961	Halle (Saale)	2012	Leipzig	Sculptor created the Eilenburger Marktbrunnen (2000)
Franz Weineck	1839	Nebra	1921	Roda	High school director and local researcher teacher in Eilenburg (1867–1872)
Friedrich Weissler	1891	Koenigshütte	1937	Sachsenhausen concentration camp	Lawyer, Christian resistance fighter under National Socialism, trainee lawyer at the Eilenburg District Court
Nikolaus Widemar	?	?	?	?	The publisher published Reformation publications by Thomas Müntzer , Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon in Eilenburg
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow	1663	Leipzig	1712	Halle (Saale)	Composer of the baroque town piper in Eilenburg
Christoph Heinrich Zeibich	1677	Mölbis	1748	Wittenberg	Lutheran theologian superintendent in Eilenburg
Gabriel Zwilling	1487	Annaberg	1558	Torgau	Lutheran theologian appeared as a Reformation preacher in Eilenburg

Individual evidence

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