List of personalities from the city of Erlangen

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Coat of arms of the city of Erlangen

This list contains personalities born in Erlangen as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Erlangen without being born there. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Erlangen

Until 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1930

1931 to 1960

1961 to 1970

From 1971

Personalities who have worked on site

Quite a number of well-known people lived in Erlangen in a more or less important position for at least a while. Many of them came to study or to do an apprenticeship.

Memorial plaque on Emil Fischer's house (Hauptstrasse 26)
  • Max Anderlohr (1884–1961), electrical engineer
  • Johann Nicolaus Apel (1757–1823), German author, doctor of philosophy
  • Philipp Bayer (1791–1832), a doctor, founded the first birth house in Erlangen in 1828
  • Theo Benesch (1899–1954), politician (NSDAP), city councilor in Erlangen from 1927 to 1933
  • Walter Christaller (1893–1969), German geographer and founder of the theory of central places .
  • Josef Felder (1900–2000), SPD politician, sat in the German Bundestag for the Erlangen constituency from 1957 to 1969. A path in the Röthelheimpark is named after him.
  • Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872), philosopher, doctorate (1828) in Erlangen, from 1829 to 1832 private lecturer, lectures on logic and the history of philosophy, 1830 anonymous publication of “Thoughts on Death and Immortality”.
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher, representative of German idealism. Professor in Erlangen from May to September 1805.
  • Johann Christian Fick (1763–1821), historian, geographer and English specialist. Professor in Erlangen.
  • Emil Fischer (1852–1919), chemist, Nobel Prize winner , lived and worked in Erlangen from 1882 to 1885
  • Max Gebbert (1856–1907), founder of Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall
  • Hans Geiger (1882–1945), inventor of the Geiger counter. From 1902 studies of physics and mathematics in Erlangen, doctorate in 1906.
  • Dieter Haack (* 1934), former Federal Minister D., represented the Erlangen constituency from 1969 to 1990 in the German Bundestag
  • Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), founder of homeopathy , received his doctorate in Erlangen in 1779.
  • Hildegard Hamm-Brücher (1921–2016), politician (formerly FDP), member of the Bavarian State Parliament elected in the 1970s in Erlangen and Central Franconia, and then from 1976 to 1990 member of the Bundestag (constituency candidate in Erlangen in federal elections)
  • Karl von Hegel (1813–1901), historian, was appointed to the newly founded chair for history at the University of Erlangen in 1856, and from 1870 onwards he became its prorector.
  • Werner Heider (* 1930), composer, pianist, conductor
  • Joachim Herrmann (* 1956), politician (CSU), Bavarian State Minister of the Interior, representative of the Erlangen-Stadt constituency in the state parliament
  • Karl-Heinz Hiersemann (1944–1998), longtime SPD opposition leader and vice-president in the Bavarian state parliament as well as lawyer and city councilor in Erlangen
  • Johann Friedrich Hunger (1800–1837), German legal scholar and university professor
  • Caspar Jakob Huth (1711–1760), Protestant theologian and university professor
  • Johann Konrad Irmischer (1797–1857), Protestant theologian and librarian at the university library
  • Jacob Friedrich Isenflamm (1726–1793), anatomist and university professor
  • Martin Jellinghaus (* 1944), bronze medalist with the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, fifth in the 400 meter individual race
  • Hermann Jordan (1878–1922), Protestant clergyman and university professor
  • Bernhard Klaus (1913–2008), theologian and university professor
  • Felix Klein (1849–1925), mathematics professor. In his inaugural lecture he formulated the Erlangen program .
  • August Köhler (1835–1897), Protestant theologian and university professor
  • Christian Krafft (1784–1845), theologian in Erlangen, forerunner of the revivalist Protestant Erlangen theology .
  • Johann Friedrich Küttlinger (1778–1851), forensic doctor and botanist
  • Paul Lorenzen (1915-1994), philosopher, taught in Erlangen from 1962. Reasoned with Wilhelm Kamlah the Erlanger Constructivism .
  • Heinrich Marquardsen (1826–1897), legal scholar and politician.
  • Inge Meidinger-Geise (1923–2007), writer
  • Gottlieb Ernst August Mehmel (1761–1840), German philosopher
  • Günter Ollenschläger (* 1951), head of the Medical Center for Quality in Medicine from 1995 to 2014 , studied medicine in Erlangen.
  • August Graf von Platen (1796–1835), poet, came to Erlangen in 1819 to study. The Platenhäuschen and the Platenstrasse on the Burgberg remind of him.
  • Wolfgang Heinrich Puchta (1769–1845), legal scholar and judge, first judge at the Erlangen Regional Court
  • Dinah Radtke (* 1947), German translator and co-founder of the Center for Self-Determined Lives for the Disabled (ZSL) in Erlangen
  • Johann Paul Reinhard (1722–1779), history professor and historian
  • Johann Christoph Rudolph (1792–1792), lawyer and professor at the University of Erlangen
  • Friedrich Rückert (1788–1866), writer; from 1826 professor of oriental languages ​​and literatures in Erlangen. His two favorite children , whose deaths he laments in the Kindertodtenlieder , are buried in the Neustädter Friedhof. The Friedrich Rückert School at Ohmplatz has been named after him since 1954.
  • Karl Ludwig Sand (1795–1820), student and fraternity member who murdered the poet August von Kotzebue in 1819 and thus triggered the Karlsbad resolutions , studied theology in Erlangen.
  • Adolf Schinnerer (1876–1949), late impressionist painter and graphic artist, lived around 1930 for a few years in Tennenlohe, which is now incorporated
  • Hans Schwerte (actually Hans Ernst Schneider) (1909–1999), literary scholar who hit the headlines in the 1990s because of his hushed up past as an SS man
  • Georg Friedrich Seiler (1733–1807), university professor and superintendent
  • Elke Sommer (actually Elke Schletz) (* 1940), actress
  • Hannah Stockbauer (* 1982), three-time world champion in swimming (400 m, 800 m, 1500 m). Sponge for the SSG Erlangen.
  • Georg Albrecht Stübner (1680–1723 in Bayreuth), poet, pastor and professor
  • Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim (1690–1753), governor, president of the judiciary and builder of the Stutterheim Palace
  • Simon Gabriel Suckow , university professor for mathematics and physics, prorector
  • Heinrich Welker (1912–1981), physics professor, discovered the semiconductor properties of III-V compounds as the starting point for the development of microelectronic circuits.
  • Arno Bulitta (1921–1995), physician, deputy mayor and expellee and local politician as well as holder of the Federal Cross of Merit

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scherz and Ernst in epigrammatic form by Johann Christian Auernhammer (Christian Wallis). 3rd edition Neustadt ad Aisch 1940; 4th edition 1954.
  2. ↑ Max Döllner (1950), p. 665.