List of personalities of the city of Erfurt

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Coat of arms of the city of Erfurt

This article lists personalities who were born in Erfurt or who worked there particularly.

Honorary citizen

On February 8, 1946, the Erfurt City Council declared the honorary citizenship granted to the then Reich Chancellor Hitler and the Prussian Prime Minister Göring in 1937, as well as the honorary citizenship granted to Gauleiter Sauckel and Reich Interior Minister Frick in 1937 null and void.

At the end of 1989, the Erfurt City Council decided to withdraw the honorary citizenship granted to Günter Mittag , a member of the Politburo of the SED during the GDR era .

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Erfurt:

Until 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1925

  • Adolf Mans (1901–1972), former political prisoner of the Buchenwald concentration camp and employee of the National Memorial and Memorial (NMG) Buchenwald
  • Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979), General of the Wehrmacht and first President of the German Federal Intelligence Service
  • Werner Wächter (1902–1946), politician (NSDAP) and party functionary
  • Siegfried Trommsdorff (1902–1975), politician in the Soviet Zone and state chairman of the CDU Thuringia
  • Werner Veidt (1903–1992), actor and author
  • Wolfgang Pohle (1903–1971), industrialist and politician
  • Heinz-Hugo John (1904–1944), politician (NSDAP), soldier
  • Rudolf Ruscheweyh (1905–1954), Dutch-Liechtenstein arms dealer, secret service employee and party donor
  • Kurt Huhnholz (1906–1987), politician (NSDAP)
  • Hans Werner Rothe (1906 – ≈1985), businessman, author, paleontologist and fossil collector
  • Margaretha Reichardt (1907–1984), textile designer and Bauhaus student
  • Hans Hess (1908–1975), German-British shoe manufacturer and art historian
  • Heinrich Schonder (born July 23, 1910 - † June 28, 1943), corvette captain of the Navy, submarine commander, bearer of the Knight's Cross (see Wikipedia)
  • Hans Günther (1910–1945), police officer, SS-Sturmbannführer and head of the "Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague"
  • Hellmut Stauch (1910–1970), German-South African architect and sailor
  • Kurt Kunert (1911–1996), flautist and composer
  • Rolf Becker (1912–1984), teacher and poet
  • Rolf Günther (1913–1945), SS-Sturmbannführer, Adolf Eichmann's deputy
  • Wilhelm Schröder (1913–1967), Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR
  • Richard Felix Kaszemeik (1914–1944) was a member of the German Peace Society and was sentenced to death for refusing to do military service
  • Wolfgang Kummer (1914–1988), bobsledder
  • Lorenz Drehmann (1915–1992), academic librarian, chairman of the Erfurt Heimattreue eV association, honorary citizen of Erfurt
  • Käthe Menzel-Jordan (* 1916), architect and church restorer
  • Heinz Bormann (1918–8 February 1989 in Schönebeck), East German fashion designer and textile manufacturer
  • Gerhard Becker (1919–1973), composer, arranger and conductor
  • Klaus Friedland (1920–2010), historian, archivist and librarian
  • Horst Jahresling (1922–2013), artist, painter, graphic artist, architecture restorer, art pedagogue, university professor and bell designer and scribe
  • Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Islamic scholar
  • Fritz B. Busch (1922–2010), journalist and book author
  • Helmut Nordhaus (1922–2014), football player
  • Ralph J. Boettner (1923–1982), actor, director and screenwriter
  • Günther Krause (1923–2012), conférencier and entertainer
  • Hermann Reinholz (1924–1967), lawyer and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • Rolf Henniger (1925–2015), actor and director
  • Jürgen Joedicke (1925–2015), architecture professor
  • Jochen Müller (1925–1985), football player
  • Franklin Pühn (* 1925), sculptor
  • Wolf Schneider (* 1925), journalist, non-fiction author and language critic

1926 to 1950

1951 to 1975

From 1976

Other personalities related to Erfurt

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

Born until 1900

  • Bonifatius (* around 673 in Crediton, Wessex, Great Britain; † June 5, 754/55 in Dokkum, West Friesland), Benedictine monk, founder of the Diocese of Erfurt and "Apostle of the Germans"
  • Meister Eckhart (* around 1260 in Tambach or in Hochheim; † 1327/28 in Cologne or Avignon), one of the most important theologians and mystics of the Christian Middle Ages
  • Amplonius Rating de Berka (* 1363/64 in Rheinberg am Niederrhein; † 1435 in Cologne), scientist, doctor, founder of the Bibliotheca Amploniana , which is considered to be the largest still preserved manuscript collection of a medieval scholar (today part of the university library )
  • Johannes de Indagine (* 1415 in Hattendorf near Stadthagen; † 1475 in Erfurt), prior of the Erfurt Charterhouse , reform theologian and author of theological writings
  • Martin Luther (born November 10, 1483 Eisleben, † February 18, 1546 in Eisleben), reformer, studied in Erfurt and entered 1505 in the Augustinian monastery one
  • Jodokus Heß (* 1484 in Geislingen an der Steige; † September 23 or November 3, 1539 in Erfurt), prior of the Erfurt Charterhouse, writer
  • Eobanus Hessus (born January 6, 1488 in Halgehausen † October 4, 1540 in Marburg), Protestant humanist and neo-Latin poet
  • Adam Ries (born March 27, 1492 in Staffelstein, † March 30, 1559 in Annaberg), arithmetic master
  • Cornelius Gobelius (born November 7, 1570 in Bruttig; † June 5 or 7, 1611 in Heiligenstadt), provost of the Church BMV and auxiliary bishop
  • Johann Matthäus Meyfart (born November 9, 1590 in Jena; † January 1642 in Erfurt), Protestant theologian, pastor at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt, hymn book poet ( Jerusalem, you high-rise city ) and opponent of torture in witch trials
  • Ludwig Compenius (* around 1603 in Halle (Saale); † February 11, 1671 in Erfurt), organ and harpsichord builder
  • Christoph Bach (born April 29, 1613 in Wechmar, † September 22, 1661 in Arnstadt), brother of Johann and Heinrich Bach and grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Johann Pachelbel (* August 1653 in Nuremberg; † March 3, 1706 ibid), composer, organist at the Predigerkirche
  • Joachim Justus Breithaupt (born February 17, 1658 in Northeim; † March 16, 1732 in Bergen Monastery near Magdeburg), Lutheran theologian, homileticist and hymn poet
  • Ernst Christoph Barchewitz (* 1687 in Groß-Sömmerda; † 1758 Erfurt) commanding officer of the Dutch East India Company, author
  • Andreas Gordon (born June 15, 1712 in Cofforach, Scotland; † August 22, 1751 in Erfurt), Scottish theologian, philosopher, physicist and Benedectine monk.
  • Isidorus Keppler (born November 13, 1715 in Dingelstädt, † August 22, 1792 in Erfurt), Roman Catholic theology professor
  • Johann Anton Lucius (* 1742; † 1810), founder of the company named after him in Erfurt, which existed until 1945
  • Johann Christian Lossius (* 1743 in Liebstedt, † 1813 in Erfurt), taught as a philosopher in Erfurt. Among other things, author of one of the most knowledgeable philosophical dictionaries, published in Erfurt in 1803 under the title New philosophical general real dictionary .
  • Johann Christian Gotthard (* around 1760 in Westhausen near Gotha; † June 8, 1813 in Erfurt), school inspector, academician and professor at the University of Erfurt
  • Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz (born January 1, 1763 in Brieg; † February 3, 1836 at Gut Zölling, Freystadt district), Prussian general of the cavalry (" Liberator Wittenbergs "), commander of the Erfurt Citadel (1814) and honorary doctorate from the University of Erfurt ( 1814)
  • Ernst Ludwig Wilhelm von Dacheröden (born November 11, 1764 in Minden; † January 30, 1806 in Zeitz), cathedral dean in Naumburg; grew up shortly after the birth in Erfurt
  • Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Thon (born November 3, 1773 in Kaltennordheim, † June 4, 1844 in Erfurt), author, lived his last years in Erfurt
  • Franz Spitzner (born October 31, 1787 in Trebitz, † July 2, 1841 in Wittenberg), classical philologist, 1820/24 senior teacher at the Ratsgymnasium
  • Goswin Krackrügge (born September 26, 1803 in Soest, † November 18, 1881 in Kassel), city councilor, revolutionary 1848/49
  • Ernst Benary (born November 10, 1819 in Kassel, † February 19, 1893 in Erfurt), gardener, seed producer and merchant and plant breeder
  • Hermann Kickton (1847–1915), City Planning Officer in Erfurt from 1888 to 1914
  • Hermann Schmidt (born June 16, 1851 in Dedesdorf, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg; † February 28, 1921 in Erfurt), lawyer and Lord Mayor of Erfurt from 1895 to 1919
  • Friedrich Zange (born September 3, 1846 in Neuhaus, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, † March 18, 1931 in Erfurt), rector of the Heinrich-Mann-Gymnasium Erfurt and Protestant theologian
  • Karl von Eine (born January 1, 1853 in Herzberg am Harz, † April 7, 1934 in Mülheim an der Ruhr), Prussian officer, most recently Royal Prussian Colonel General
  • Hermann Paul Reisshaus (born September 29, 1855 in Burg near Magdeburg, † September 5, 1921 in Schwarzburg), German politician (SPD) and member of the Bundestag
  • August Possecker (born April 19, 1860 in Marbach near Erfurt, † November 19, 1936 in Erfurt), fossil collector
  • Henry Pels (born June 6, 1865 in Hamburg, † April 1, 1931 in Berlin), entrepreneur, founder of 'Umformtechnik Erfurt'
  • Georg Kossenhaschen (born August 28, 1868 in Oldenburg, † April 2, 1931 in Magdeburg); Hotelier, owner of the hotels Erfurter Hof and Haus Kossenhaschen , among others
  • Max Brockert (* 1870 in Einberg near Coburg, † 1962 in Erfurt), architect
  • Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (born August 3, 1874 in Breslau, † August 4, 1942 in Groß Buchholz near Perleberg), director and actor, was engaged several times at the Erfurt City Theater in the 1920s
  • Alfred Machol (born January 24, 1875 in Edelsheim, † January 18, 1937 in Naumburg), professor of surgery, on his initiative and with his intensive participation, the new surgical clinic inaugurated in 1928 at the Erfurt Municipal Hospital was established
  • Richard Wetz (born February 26, 1875 in Gleiwitz, Silesia; † January 16, 1935 in Erfurt), composer, conductor, music teacher and music writer, 1906–1925 head of the Erfurt Music Association, 1934–1935 municipal music officer
  • Ferdinand Sauerbruch (born July 3, 1875 in Barmen, today a district of Wuppertal; † July 2, 1951 in Berlin), surgeon (his scientific career began in Erfurt)
  • Johannes Klass (* 1879 in Reutlingen; † 1936 in Erfurt), architect, chief building officer in Erfurt, designed many public buildings, but also residential areas
  • Ludwig Boegl (born August 10, 1880 in Neumarkt / Upper Palatinate; † December 27, 1952 in Erfurt), city councilor in Erfurt, under whose aegis a large number of buildings in the city were built in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Alfred Jansa (born July 16, 1884 in Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, † December 20, 1963 in Vienna), Chief of the General Staff of the Austrian Armed Forces, was exiled to Erfurt after the annexation of Austria and lived there until 1946
  • Marie Elise Kayser (born November 28, 1885 in Görlitz; † September 6, 1950 in Erfurt), pediatrician and founder of the human milk collection centers in Germany
  • Friedrich Heinze (born April 4, 1889 in Erfurt, † January 5, 1945 in Weimar), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, executed with the guillotine in the courtyard of the Weimar Regional Court
  • Margot Benary-Isbert (born December 2, 1889 in Saarbrücken, † May 27, 1979 in Santa Barbara / California), writer who lived in Erfurt from 1917 to 1945 (with interruptions)
  • Egbert Schwarz (born June 22, 1890 in Kemmern near Riga; † December 23, 1966 in Erfurt), professor of surgery, founding rector of the Medical Academy Erfurt (MAE) 1954–1959
  • Selmar Bühling (born July 21, 1895 in Haferungen; † May 31, 1977 in Berlin / West), lawyer in Erfurt, regional court director in West Berlin, chairman of the Erfurt home loyalty association from 1960 to 1977

Born after 1900

  • Gerhard Gloege (born December 24, 1901 in Crossen an der Oder; † April 15, 1970 in Bonn) was one of the most important German Protestant theologians of the 20th century and the first post-war provost of Erfurt
  • Heinz Heise (born March 29, 1902 in Hanover; † November 5, 1974 in Hanover), publisher and founder of the Heinz-Heise-Verlag. 1924–1938 worked in leading positions at the Mitteldeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft in Erfurt.
  • Kurt Schröder (born July 23, 1902 in Duisburg, † September 27, 1979 in Erfurt), professor of ear, nose and throat medicine, rector of the MAE 1963–1965
  • Hermann Becker (born April 8, 1905 in Plauen / Vogtland; † August 18, 1981 in West Berlin), LDP politician in Erfurt and Thuringia from 1945. 1948–1950 imprisonment in SBZ / GDR, then forced labor in Vorkuta until 1955. Rehabilitation 1993.
  • August Sundermann (born October 21, 1907 in Hochwiesen / Westphalia; † October 13, 1994 in Erfurt), professor of internal medicine, rector of the MAE 1965–1970
  • Hugo Aufderbeck (born March 23, 1909 in Hellefeld; † January 17, 1981 in Erfurt), Catholic theologian and bishop in the GDR
  • Otto Knöpfer (born March 13, 1911 in Arnstadt; † May 22, 1993 in Erfurt), painter and chairman of the Association of Visual Artists in the Erfurt district
  • Harry Güthert (born March 1, 1912 in Graz / Austria; † February 4, 1989 in Erfurt), Professor of Pathology, Rector of MAE 1959–1963
  • Johann Cilenšek (born December 4, 1913 in Großdubrau; † December 14, 1998 in Erfurt), composer and music teacher, living in Erfurt from 1945–1998
  • Rosemarie Albrecht (born March 19, 1915 in Kobe / Japan; † January 7, 2008 in Jena), Prof. Dr. med., chief physician at the ENT clinic of the municipal hospitals, then at the Medical Academy Erfurt (1952–1957). She played a major role in the construction of the new ENT clinic from 1955.
  • Helmut Patzer (born May 30, 1919 in Jena-Lichtenhein; † November 24, 2009 in Erfurt), professor of paediatrics, rector of the MAE 1970–1973
  • Werner Usbeck (born February 25, 1920 in Steinbach-Hallenberg; † December 10, 2007 in Erfurt), professor of surgery, rector of the MAE 1973–1985
  • Günther Panzram (born December 23, 1923 in Artern; † October 30, 2014 in Erfurt), internist, diabetologist, director of the Medical Polyclinic of the Medical Academy Erfurt
  • Fritz Markwardt (born December 3, 1924 in Magdeburg, † September 10, 2011 in Erfurt), Professor of Pharmacology at the Medical Academy in Erfurt
  • Walter Künzel (born November 2, 1928 in Königgrätz / Czechoslovakia), professor of preventive dentistry, rector of the MAE 1990–1993
  • Siegfried Herrmann (born November 7, 1932 in Unterschönau; † February 14, 2017 in Erfurt), track and field athlete, Olympic participant and trainer
  • Dietrich Taube (born November 19, 1932 in Walzen / Upper Silesia), 1991 to 2002 General Manager of the Erfurt Theater
  • Georg Greißinger (born February 13, 1934 - † April 6, 2012 in Steinhude), lawyer
  • Rudolf Zießler (born August 7, 1934 in Rodewisch; † December 17, 2015), art historian, monument conservator, state curator of Thuringia 1991–1999
  • Günter Vogel (born December 11, 1934 in Pößneck; † January 4, 2011 in Erfurt), doctor and professor at the Medical Academy Erfurt (internal medicine; haemostaseology)
  • Karl-Hans Arndt (born December 19, 1935 in Wittenberg, † July 25, 2012 in Erfurt), sports physician, district sports doctor in Erfurt, medical officer in Erfurt, professor
  • Georg Sterzinsky (born February 9, 1936 in Warlack, Heilsberg district, East Prussia; † June 30, 2011 in Berlin), Archbishop of Berlin, studied in Erfurt and was vicar general in the Episcopal Office of Erfurt-Meiningen from 1981 to 1989
  • Roland Matthes (born November 17, 1950 in Pößneck; † December 20, 2019 in Wertheim), as an athlete at SC Turbine Erfurt, the most successful back swimmer of all time to this day
  • Johanna Schaller , later Johanna Klier (born September 13, 1952 in Artern), athlete and Olympic champion from SC Turbine Erfurt
  • Harald Dörig (born January 8, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main), 2000 to 2018 judge at the Federal Administrative Court, 2002 chairman of the sponsoring association of the Gutenberg-Gymnasium
  • Gerald Grusser (born July 5, 1956) is General Manager of the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Honorary Consul of Sweden and Honorary Professor at the University of Erfurt.
  • Detlef Macha (born December 13, 1958 in Greiz; † September 2, 1994 in Coburg), racing cyclist and trainer (SC Turbine Erfurt), five-time world champion in track cycling.
  • Alexander Thumfart (* 1959 in Middle Franconia), city councilor in Erfurt and political scientist at the University of Erfurt
  • Vicki Vomit (born July 9, 1963 in Trusetal), musician and comedian
  • Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (born September 7, 1966 in Sondershausen), speed skater
  • Marcus Urban (born August 4, 1971 in Weimar), football player; played for FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
  • Eva Padberg (born January 27, 1980 in Bad Frankenhausen), photo model; lives in Erfurt
  • Joon Wolfsberg (born March 8, 1992), musician, singer-songwriter

literature

  • Gerhard Herz (2017): The honorary citizens of Erfurt. In: City and History. Journal for Erfurt , No. 66 (02/2017), pp. 14–15.