List of personalities from 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
- Sebald Heyden (1499–1561), cantor, rector and poet (" O man, weep your sin great ")
- Christian Leinberger (1706–1770), painter, etcher, plasterer, engineer and geometer
- Johann Gottlieb Gonne (1713–1758), lawyer and university professor
- Johann Baron von Kalb (1721–1780), German-American general during the American Revolution
- Johann Jacob Sartorius (1730–1790), rector of the Illustre Erlangense grammar school and deacon of the Old Town Church
- Georg Besenbeck (1731–1762), vice principal at the Illustre Erlangense grammar school and deacon of the Old Town Church
- Sophie Caroline Marie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1737–1817) last margravine in Erlangen
- Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff (1744–1785), poet
- Johann Rautenstrauch (1746–1801), Austrian satirist of the Enlightenment and court agent
- Matthias Gottfried Eichler (1748–1821), draftsman and engraver
- Albrecht von Seckendorff (1748–1834), politician, diplomat and civil servant
- Conrad Geiger (1751–1808), painter
- Johann Albrecht Bauriedel (1753–1803), German lawyer, theologian and preacher
- Heinrich Friedrich Isenflamm (1771–1828), physician and university professor
- Christian Friedrich Harleß (1773-1853), physician
- Gottfried Fleischmann (1777–1850), physician and university professor
- Burkhard Wilhelm Seiler (1779–1843), physician
- Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger (1779–1857), physicist and chemist
- August Friedrich Schweigger (1783–1821), naturalist
- Karl Ludwig Häberlin (1784–1858), lawyer and novelist
- Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854), physicist
- Friedrich von Ammon (1791–1855), Lutheran theologian
- Friedrich Adolf Klüber (1791 / 93–1858), Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf and Minister of State in Baden
- Martin Ohm (1792–1872), mathematician
- Karl Heinrich Rau (1792–1870), political economist, agricultural scientist
- Julie Countess von Egloffstein (1792–1869), court lady, painter and draftsman
- Johann Christian Auernhammer (= Christian Wallis) (born November 29, 1793 in Erlangen; † April 21, 1862 in Neustadt), epigram writer and schoolboy
- Karl Friedrich German von Hänlein (1794–1866), lawyer, Württemberg civil servant
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), natural scientist, botanist, explorer and ethnographer
- Julius Abegg (1796–1868), criminal lawyer
- Ernst von Haselberg (1796–1854), doctor and Prussian government and medical councilor
- Friedrich Ortloff (1797–1868), author, lawyer, professor and president of the Higher Appeal Court in Jena
1801 to 1850
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany (1807–1876), Protestant theologian, historian and writer
- Christian Wilhelm von Glück (1810–1866), librarian and historian
- Franz Ludwig Fick (1813–1858), anatomist
- David Morgenstern (1814–1882), politician and tin foil manufacturer
- Johann Heinrich August Ebrard (1818–1888), Protestant theologian
- Carl Haag (1820–1915), painter
- Ludwig Rau (1821–1892), doctor, agriculture teacher and director of the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy
- Hans Ulrich Vitalis Pfaff (1824–1872), mathematician
- Hermann von Schelling (1824–1908), lawyer and politician
- Friedrich Pfaff (1825–1886), geologist
- Heinrich August Papellier (1834–1894), mayor, member of the Reichstag and Landtag
- Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), economist
- Wilhelm Fleischmann (1837–1920), agricultural chemist
- Hermann Wagner (1840–1929), geographer and cartographer
- Theodor Renaud (1844–1910), pastor and writer
- Thomas Carl Ritter von Müller (1845–1933), District President
- Ottilie Bayer (1848–1913), writer
- Friedrich Delitzsch (1850–1922), Assyriologist
- Friedrich Clemens Ebrard (1850–1935), Reformed theologian and librarian
- Emil Kränzlein (1850–1936), factory owner, secret councilor and honorary citizen
- Philipp Samhammer (1850–1913), doll manufacturer and member of the German Reichstag
1851 to 1900
- Otto Harnack (1857–1914), Goethe researcher, playwright and poet
- Theodor Kipp (1862–1931), lawyer
- Ernst Kraus (1863–1941), hero tenor
- Hermann Heineke (1873–1922), surgeon and university professor
- Friedrich Hauck (1882–1954), Protestant clergyman and university professor
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935), mathematician
- Theodor Dombart (1884–1969), architect, university professor and local history researcher
- Fritz Noether (1884–1941), mathematician
- Karl May (1884–1961), artist
- Hans Albert Dietrich (1886–1963), gynecologist and university professor
- Robert Falckenberg (1889–1944), lawyer and judge at the People's Court
- Wilhelm Fraenger (1890–1964), art historian
- Eilhard Wiedemann (1891–1950), forest scientist
- Ernst Penzoldt (1892–1955), writer, draftsman, sculptor and caricaturist
- Ernst Georg Deuerlein (1893–1978), regional historian of Franconia
- Elly Maldaque (1893–1930), teacher in Regensburg
- Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981), meteorologist
- Julius Braun (1895–1962), Lieutenant General
- Ernst Leichtenstern (1895–1945), politician
- Max Rehm (1896–1992), lawyer and historian
- Christian Wrede (1896–1971), sculptor
- Hans Kreßel (1898–1985), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and theologian
- Kurt von Raumer (1900–1982), modern historian
- Jakob Faulhaber (1900–1942), executed communist resistance fighter for the Nazi regime
1901 to 1930
- Michael Poeschke (1901–1959), politician
- Walther Rehm (1901–1963), literary scholar
- Heinrich Kirchner (1902–1984), sculptor
- Rudolf Fleischmann (1903–2002), physicist
- Otto Englberger (1905–1977), architect
- Karl Hetz (1906–1985), Government Building Councilor , Major in the Wehrmacht, Vice President of the National Committee Free Germany (NKFD)
- Gottfried Andreas Herrmann (1907–2002), painter
- Peter Zink (1907–2004), trade unionist and politician
- Hans-Joachim Schoeps (1909–1980), religious historian, religious philosopher and professor
- André Pirson (1910–2004), botanist, researcher and university professor
- Otto Grau (1913–1981), academic painter and graphic artist
- Fritz Scheller (1914–1997), racing cyclist
- Helmut Zahn (1916–2004), chemist
- Gerhard Heiland (1917–2005), physicist
- Walter Bachmann (1919–2011), physician
- Wilfried Guth (1919–2009), bank manager
- Rudolf Großner (1920–2000), author and editor
- Alfred Schmeller (1920–1990), German-Austrian art historian, journalist and museum director
- Theo M. Loch (1921-1987), journalist
- Götz Schregle (* 1923), Arabist
- Wilfried Beck-Erlang (1924–2002), architect
- Michael Burk (* 1924), cabaret artist and writer
- Helmut Keppler (1924–2019), artist, painter and graphic designer
- Kurt E. Ludwig (1924–1995), actor, dubbing writer, dialogue director and dubbing actor
- Herbert Martius (1924–2009), painter, graphic artist, enamel artist
- Hans König (1925–2007), author and dialect poet
- Oskar Koller (1925–2004), painter
- Klaus Dehler (1926–2005), doctor and politician
- Adolf Lippold (1926–2005), ancient historian
- Erhard Königsreuther (1927–2009), artist, known as "Pinsl", Erlanger original and "King of the Mountain"
- Ernst Hoffmann (1928–2016), composer, trombonist, conductor, arranger and music teacher
- Hans Stretz (1928–1997), boxer
- Rudi Büttner (1929–2014), songwriter and presenter
- Klaus Scholder (1930–1985), professor of Protestant church history in Tübingen
1931 to 1960
- Günther Reinhardt (* 1933), forensic doctor, psychiatrist and university professor
- Wolfgang H. Berger (1937–2017), German-American oceanographer, geologist and micropalaeontologist
- Hans-Martin Barth (* 1939), Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- Dieter Gackstetter (1939–2017), director, theater director, choreographer and actor
- Heinrich von Pierer (* 1941), Siemens CEO and Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Hermann F. Sailer (* 1943), oral and maxillofacial surgeon
- Thomas Würtenberger (* 1943), constitutional lawyer
- Achim Bröger (* 1944), author of books for children and young people
- Klaus Buckup (1945–2010), orthopedic surgeon and trauma surgeon
- Regine Elsässer (* 1946), translator and founder of the foundation
- Reinhard Greger (* 1946), lawyer and university professor
- Karl-Dieter Grüske (* 1946), economist
- Waldemar Bacik (* 1947), speedway driver
- Michael Welker (* 1947), Protestant theologian
- Steffen Kuchenreuther (1947–2013), cinema operator and film producer, organizer of the German film award
- Michael Gerhardt (* 1948), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- Thomas Hanschke (* 1949), mathematician and President of the Clausthal University of Technology
- Karl Meiler (1949–2014), tennis player and coach
- Eva Berger (* 1951), historian and former museum director
- Edith Düsing (* 1951), philosopher
- Uta Heinrich (* 1951), politician and lawyer
- Klaus Karl-Kraus (* 1951), cabaret artist
- Anne Luise Müller (* 1951), architect and urban planner
- Winni Wittkopp (* 1951), actor
- Michael Engelhardt (* 1952), painter
- Ingeborg Kolodzeike (* 1952), politician
- Peter March (* 1952), historian
- Klaus Treuheit (* 1953), pianist, composer
- Beate Wanke (* 1953), actress
- Karlheinz Brandenburg (* 1954), electrical engineer, one of the fathers of the MP3 audio codec
- Rainer Glas (* 1954), jazz bassist
- Ernst Hauck (* 1954), lawyer
- Christoph Lanzendörfer (* 1954), internist and book author
- Thomas Rauscher (* 1955), lawyer and professor at the University of Leipzig
- Susanne Wahl (* 1955), writer
- Andreas C. Wankum (* 1955), entrepreneur and politician (CDU)
- Reinhold Ziegler (1955–2017), writer and journalist
- Martin Herrmann (* 1956), biologist
- Wolf-Rainer Lowack (* 1956), BASF Human Resources Manager, Managing Director of the Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region GmbH
- Harald Popp (* 1956), electrical engineer
- Johannes Thimme (1956–1985), RAF member
- Jan Esche (* 1957), publicist and author
- Rainer Rubbert (* 1957), composer
- Wolfgang Schoberth (* 1958), Protestant theologian
- Klaus Täuber (* 1958), soccer player and coach
- Günter Hofbauer (* 1959), vehicle developer and designer of special vehicles
- Wolfgang Günther (* 1960), journalist and television trainer
1961 to 1970
- Günter Güttler (* 1961), soccer player and coach
- Verena Krieger (* 1961), politician
- Lothar Matthäus (* 1961), soccer player and coach
- Elisabeth Wischeropp (* 1961), artist and sculptor
- Dieter Krause (* 1962), engineer and university professor
- Charlie Bauerfeind (* 1963), music producer
- Kerstin Krieglstein (* 1963), neuroscientist
- Doris Matthäus (* 1963), graphic designer and game illustrator
- Martin Voßwinkel (* 1963), artist
- Carina von Enzenberg (* 1964), translator
- Johannes Fink (* 1964), jazz bassist
- Klaus Knoesel (* 1964), director
- Michael Kohlhase (* 1964), computer scientist and professor
- Hans-Walter Rix (* 1964), astronomer and astrophysicist
- Juergen Teller (* 1964), photographer
- Andreas Thiel (* 1964), Provincial Roman archaeologist
- Jürgen Zangenberg (* 1964), Protestant New Testament scholar and archaeologist
- Martin Hofmann (1965–2018), computer scientist and university professor
- Holger Fleischer (* 1965), lawyer
- Albrecht Mayer (* 1965), oboist
- Martin Heidingsfelder (* 1965), former football player
- Katrin Müller-Hohenstein (* 1965), TV and radio presenter
- Martin Kleen (* 1965), crime writer
- Ludwig von Auer (* 1966), Professor of Economics
- Christoph Gröpl (* 1966), legal scholar
- Matthias Schwarzbach (* 1966), doctor and university professor
- Achim Beierlorzer (* 1967), football coach
- Jörg Gundel (* 1967), university professor and legal scholar
- Dorian Keilhack (* 1967), German-British pianist and conductor
- Bernhard König (* 1967), composer and radio play maker
- Arne Kopfermann (* 1967), Christian songwriter, musician and music producer
- Natascha Meuser (* 1967), architect, publisher and university professor
- Peter Müller alias Peter Kafka or Peter Pathos (* 1967), musician
- Björn Zikarsky (* 1967), swimmer
- Barbara Hahlweg (* 1968), TV presenter (today-Journal), daughter of Erlangen's Lord Mayor Dietmar Hahlweg (SPD, in office 1972-96)
- Nils Lehmann (* 1968), handball player and coach
- Susanne Leeb (* 1968), art historian and university professor
- Bernhard Seidenath (* 1968), politician
- Alexa Maria Surholt (* 1968), actress
- Martin Puchner (* 1969), literary scholar
- Jörg Brückner (* 1970), opera singer
- Stefanie Gregg (* 1970), author
- Jürgen Neudert (* 1970), jazz musician
From 1971
- Tolya Glaukos (* 1971), writer and artist
- Alexandra Henkel (* 1971), actress
- Markus Johannes Langer (* 1971), cantor and organist
- Stephan Puchner (* 1971), writer, screenwriter and director
- Michael Jordan (* 1972), artist and illustrator
- Per Leo (* 1972), historian and writer
- Daniel Rapp (* 1972), politician
- Jessica Witte-Winter (* 1972), radio and television presenter
- Marcus Grube (* 1973), dramaturge and director
- Doris Kunz (* 1974), Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in Tübingen
- Rainer Kurka (* 1974), sculptor
- Christiane Neudecker (* 1974), director and writer
- Christian Schloyer (* 1976), writer
- Tobias Bachmann (* 1977), writer
- Thomas Klupp (* 1977), writer and literary scholar
- Philipp W. Stockhammer (* 1977), prehistorian, archaeologist and university lecturer
- Peter Wackel (* 1977), singer and solo entertainer
- Dorothea Koniszewski (* 1979), actress
- Inka Meyer (* 1979), cabaret artist, author, actress and designer
- Björn Schlicke (* 1981), soccer player
- Flula Borg (* 1982), entertainer
- Andreas Lösel (* 1983), swimming athlete
- Lisa Bitter (* 1984), actress
- Daniel Stumpf (* 1985), handball player
- Alexander Stephan (* 1986), soccer goalkeeper
- Sara Walzik (* 1987), handball player
- Frederik Götz (* 1988), actor
- Andrea Schmitt (* 1988), actress
- Joachim Foerster (* 1989), actor
- Friedrich Paul Kühne (* 1989), slackliner
- Laura Kneidl (* 1990), author
- Marius Strangl (* 1990), soccer player
- Daniel Batz (* 1991), soccer goalkeeper
- Moritz Nebel (* 1991), soccer player
- Alexander Megos (* 1993), sport climber
- Alexander Piller (* 1993), football player
- Nadja Pries (* 1994), cyclist
- Stefan Maderer (* 1996), soccer player
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.
- 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
- List of honorary citizens of Erlangen
- List of well-known personalities of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg