List of personalities of the city of Frankfurt (Oder)

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This list contains personalities who were born in the city of Frankfurt (Oder) or who worked there.

Honorary citizen

Born in Frankfurt (Oder)

15th to 17th centuries

18th century

19th century

20th century

  • Konrad Wachsmann (1901 in Frankfurt - 1980), architect and architectural theorist, grave in the main cemetery in Frankfurt
  • Adolf Schröter (1904 in Frankfurt - 1997), portrait and landscape painter, printmaker and art teacher
  • Hans Joachim Zingel (1904 in Frankfurt - 1978 in Cologne), harpist and musicologist
  • Lothar von Heinemann (1905 in Frankfurt), Major General of the Air Force in the German Armed Forces
  • Walter Korsing (1905 in Frankfurt - 1933 in Frankfurt), social democrat, member of the Reichsbanner, shot by SA man Otto Burkert in Frankfurt after unsuccessful torture
  • Kurt Schmalz (1906 in Frankfurt - 1964), politician (NSDAP)
  • Paul-Gerhard Blochwitz ( 1907-1990 ), Attorney General
  • Wolf-Hartmut Friedrich (1907 in Frankfurt - 2000), classical philologist
  • Herbert Böhme (1907 in Frankfurt - 1971), poet, writer and publicist
  • Georg Kuhn (1907–1982), lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
  • Hans-Ulrich Geschke , (1907 in Frankfurt - unknown), lawyer, SS-Oberführer, Gestapo officer involved in the Holocaust
  • Wolf von Möllendorff (1908 in Frankfurt - 1992), architect and publicist
  • Rudolf Brandt (1909 in Frankfurt - 1948), SS-Standartenführer and personal advisor to Heinrich Himmler and Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of the Interior
  • Peter Orlowski (1911–1993), District Administrator in Jarotschin
  • Brigitte Krüger (1913 in Frankfurt - 1974 in Bonn), Germany's first foreign correspondent after the Second World War
  • Martha Haake (1915 in Frankfurt - unknown), guard and nurse in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
  • Gerhard Neumann (1917 in Frankfurt - 1997), engineer, developer of the General Electric J79 and chief manager of General Electric
  • Eckard Reiss (* 1941 in Frankfurt), telecommunications mechanic and local researcher
  • Manfred Wuttich (1941 in Frankfurt - 2018), football player
  • Klaus Köste (1943 in Frankfurt - 2012), apparatus gymnast
  • Dieter Wilhelmi (* 1943 in Frankfurt), politician, member of the Bremen citizenship
  • Christian Pfeiffer (* 1944), criminologist
  • Frank Hörnigk (1944 in Frankfurt - 2016), literary scholar
  • Kristian Schultze (1945 in Frankfurt - 2011), composer, arranger, keyboard player and music producer
  • Dieter Brandes (1946 in Frankfurt - 1966), killed on the Berlin Wall
  • Karin Wolff (1940s – 2018), translator from Polish into German, born and died in Frankfurt
  • Karl-Heinz Schröter (* 1954 in Frankfurt (Oder)), German politician, Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg
  • Alexei Gordejew (* 1955 in Frankfurt), Russian politician, Russian Minister of Agriculture, Governor of the Voronezh Oblast
  • Frank Hammer (* 1955 in Frankfurt), poet and politician
  • Bernd Wagner (* 1955 in Frankfurt), criminalist and expert on right-wing extremism and right-wing radicalism
  • Reinhard Kloschinski (* 1955), soccer player
  • Andrij Taran (* 1955 in Frankfurt), Soviet and Ukrainian military and Ukrainian defense minister
  • Martin Wilke (* 1957 in Frankfurt), former Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (2010-2018)
  • Thomas Koppe (* 1958 in Frankfurt), anatomist and university professor
  • Manuela Schwesig (* 1974 in Frankfurt), since 2013 Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
  • Daniel Stendel (* 1974 in Frankfurt), soccer player
  • Marcel Rath (* 1975 in Frankfurt), soccer player
  • Christina Morina (* 1976), historian and university professor
  • Manja Schüle (* 1976 in Frankfurt), politician
  • Claudia Hiersche (* 1977 in Frankfurt), actress and TV presenter
  • Bettie Ballhaus (* 1978 in Frankfurt), TV presenter, photo model and performance artist in the erotic sector
  • Franziska Giffey (* 1978 in Frankfurt), politician, since 2018 Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
  • Sebastian Köber (* 1979 in Frankfurt), boxer, bronze medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games,
  • Finch Asozial (born April 13, 1990 in Frankfurt as Nils Wehowsky, German rap musician and battlerap artist)

Worked in Frankfurt (Oder)

A.

B.

  • Ottilie Baader (1847-1925), women's rights activist and socialist, middle school student in Frankfurt
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788), composer and organist, student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Heinrich Karl Ludwig Bardeleben (1775 - 1852), lawyer and politician, 1813 leader of the Frankfurter Landwehr contingent, Frankfurt local politician and highly deserved of urban historical research
  • Steve Baumgärtel (* 1984), handball player, local board member of Lorsch (Hesse)
  • Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714 - 1762), philosopher, professor at the University of Frankfurt
  • Johann Christoph Bekmann (1641-1717), polymath, student and professor at the University of Frankfurt
  • Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), poet, high school student at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Frankfurt
  • Carl August Wilhelm Berends (1759 - 1826), physician, student and professor at the University of Frankfurt
  • Ludwig Berger (1777 - 1839) composer, pianist and piano teacher; Schoolchildren and students in Frankfurt
  • Marsilius de Berlin (before 1253 - after 1253), Schulze and judge of the city of Berlin, testified to the document of Margrave Johann I of Brandenburg, in which he granted the city of Frankfurt (Oder) the city rights of Berlin
  • Judah Bergmann (1874-1956), rabbi in Frankfurt after 1906-1908
  • Saul Berlin (1740 - 1794), rabbi in Frankfurt from 1768 to 1780
  • Gerhard Bersu (1889 - 1964), prehistorian, grew up in Frankfurt and graduated from high school here
  • Heribert Beissel (* 1933), conductor, 2001-2006 general music director of the Brandenburg State Orchestra in Frankfurt
  • Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856 - 1921), Reich Chancellor, 1880 lawyer at the Frankfurt District Court, 1882 member of the Frankfurt District Government
  • Udo Beyer (* 1955), athlete, Olympic champion, high school graduate from 1969–1973 and athlete in Frankfurt
  • Johannes Blankenfeld (1471 - 1527), theologian, professor and rector at the University of Frankfurt
  • Theodor Blätterbauer (1823 - 1906), painter, graphic artist and drawing teacher at the Liegnitz Knight Academy; Student in Frankfurt
  • Paul-Gerhard Blochwitz ( 1907-1990 ), Attorney General
  • Paul Blumenthal (1843-1930 in Frankfurt), composer and musicologist
  • Leopold von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1752 - 1785 in Frankfurt), Prussian general, drowned in Frankfurt while trying to rescue people trapped by the Oder flood
  • Friedrich August Wilhelm von Brause (1769 - 1836 in Frankfurt), Prussian infantry general, division commander, honorary citizen of Frankfurt
  • Johann Brunnemann (1608 - 1672 in Frankfurt), lawyer
  • Walter Butler (around 1600 - 1634); 1631 defender of the Frankfurt north gate against the Swedes

C.

D.

  • Adolf Damaschke (1865 - 1935), land reformer and social politician, founded settlement society and tenant cooperatives in Frankfurt
  • Joachim Georg Darjes (1714 - 1791 in Frankfurt), lawyer, philosopher, economist, enlightener and Lutheran theologian, professor at the University of Frankfurt
  • Friedrich Dagobert Deetz (1812–1871), 1864–1871 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt
  • Wolfgang Denda (* 1939), 1990–1992 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt

E.

  • Jakob Ebert , (1549 - 1614), professor of theology at the University of Frankfurt
  • Johann Eichorn (1524 - 1583), printer, founded the university print shop in Frankfurt in 1549

F.

  • Paul Feldner (1874 in Lossow - 1941 in Frankfurt), Social Democrat and trade unionist, died in 1941 of late effects of torture by the SA during the Frankfurt Blood Week in June 1933
  • Wolfgang Figulus (around 1525–1589), composer, cantor and music theorist, pupil in Frankfurt around 1540–1545
  • Finch Asozial , bourgeois Nils Wehowsky (1990), German musician. Master of the legendary Ostalgie .
  • Emil Flaminius (1807-1893), German architect and Prussian building officer, town planning officer from 1838 to 1852, government and senior building officer in Frankfurt from 1853 to 1867; 1840 to 1842 builder of the city theater
  • Johannes Fleischer the Younger (1582-1608), one of the first Germans in North America, first doctor and academically trained botanist in English North America, student in Frankfurt
  • Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming (1667-1728), Electoral Saxon Minister and Field Marshal, student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Werner Forßmann ( 1904-1979 ), physician, Nobel Prize winner, around 1930 deputy head of a private gynecological clinic in Frankfurt
  • Johann Heinrich Freytag (1760–1840), German lawyer and mayor of Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Gero Friedrich (1900 - 1946), 1943 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt

G

H

  • Adolf von Hahnke (1873-1936), 1904-1907 deputy district administrator and police director in Frankfurt
  • Johann Philipp Hagen (1734 - 1792), surgeon, obstetrician and university professor, spent his youth in Frankfurt and learned the barber trade there
  • Monika Helbing (* 1953), RAF member, went into hiding in the GDR and lived in Frankfurt
  • Uwe Hobler (* 1957), politician, lives in Frankfurt
  • Samson Hochfeld (1871-1921) rabbi and scholar; 1897 to 1903 rabbi in Frankfurt
  • Curt Höppner (1887–1966), German civil engineer, architect. 1931/1932 director of the Frankfurt building trade school
  • Samuel Holdheim (1806–1860) rabbi, chief rabbi in Frankfurt from 1836 to 1840
  • Gustaf Horn (1592 - 1657), Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War, commanded half of the Swedish troops that moved on Frankfurt in May 1631
  • Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859), natural scientist, student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835), scholar and statesman, student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Ulrich von Hutten (1488 - 1523), humanist, student at the University of Frankfurt

I.

  • Knut Ipsen (* 1935), lawyer, 1991–1993 founding rector of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt

J

K

  • Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm von Kemnitz (1826-1900), lawyer, 1871-1894 mayor of Frankfurt
  • Martin Kießling (1879 - 1944), town planner and architect, built the Paulinenhof garden city settlement and buildings for the East German Railway Directorate in Frankfurt
  • Hugo Kinne ( 1882-1948 ), 1925-1933 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt
  • Gerhard Klauß (* 1944) General Director of the State Circus of the GDR, lives in Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Klabund (Alfred Henschke) (1890-1928), poet, high school student in Frankfurt
  • Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715 - 1759 in Frankfurt), poet, representative of the Enlightenment, fatally wounded in the battle of Kunersdorf
  • Henry-Martin Klemt (* 1960), German journalist and writer, lives in Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Hempo von dem Knesebeck (1595 - 1656), court master in Anhalt, 1608–1701 at the high school in Frankfurt
  • Martin Friedrich Knoblauch (1714 - 1791), urban planning inspector in Frankfurt, built the Kleisthaus, Heilig-Geist-Hospital, Georgenhospital and Lienauhaus
  • Torsten Koch (* 1960), boxer, 1985 Vice European Champion, lives in Frankfurt
  • Erdmannus Kopernikus († 1573 in Frankfurt), composer, lawyer and rector of the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt
  • Fritz Krause (1925 - 2012), 1965–1990 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt
  • Carl Krone Sr. , Father of the circus director Carl Krone , thus founder of the well-known Krone dynasty, died during a guest performance in Frankfurt, grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery
  • Johann Georg Krünitz (1728 - 1796), encyclopaedist, lexicographer, scientist and doctor; Student and resident doctor in Frankfurt
  • Wilhelm Traugott Krug (1770–1842), philosopher, 1801–1805 professor at the University of Frankfurt
  • Walther Kühn (1892-1962), politician, 1926-1931 government councilor in Frankfurt

L.

  • Gregor Lange (1540 - 1587), composer, 1574 to 1579 cantor at the Marienkirche in Frankfurt, student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Klaus Lederer (* 1974), politician, student in Frankfurt until 1988
  • Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (1781–1853), 1816–1837 Lord Mayor of Frankfurt
  • Peter Joseph Lenné (1789 - 1866), garden architect, designer of the Lenné Park named after him
  • Wilhelm Adolf Lette (1799 - 1868), civil servant lawyer in Frankfurt, delegate in the North German Reichstag for the constituency of Frankfurt / Oder 3
  • Michael Martin Lienau (1786 - 1861 in Frankfurt), businessman and local politician, founder of the Lienau Park named after him

M.

  • Johannes Magirus (1615–1697), physician, mathematician and university professor
  • Tobias Magirus (1586–1652), philosopher, went to school in Frankfurt, attended the university and became a professor there
  • Henry Maske (* 1964), boxer, lived in Frankfurt, honorary citizen in Frankfurt
  • Winfried Mausolf (* 1940), photographer in Frankfurt
  • Ignaz Maybaum ( 1897-1976 ); 1928–1936 rabbi in Frankfurt
  • Garlieb Helwig Merkel (1769 - 1850), publicist and writer, did his doctorate between 1797 and 1799 in Frankfurt
  • Ernesto Graf Montecuccoli (1582 - 1633), military, 1631 commander of the imperial occupation of Frankfurt, expelled from the Frankfurt and Swedes
  • Ferdinand von Münchhausen (1810 - 1882), from 1862 to 1867 district president of the Frankfurt administrative district in Frankfurt
  • Thomas Müntzer (around 1490-1525), pastor and leader in the Peasants' War, student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Andreas Musculus (1514 - 1581), professor at the University of Frankfurt

N

  • Konrad Naumann (1928-1992), politician, 1952-1957 first secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Frankfurt
  • Hans Joachim Nauschütz (1940 - 2003 in Frankfurt), author and publicist
  • Wilhelm Neumann (1904-1996), civil engineer
  • Friedrich Nicolai (1733 - 1811), writer, publisher and bookseller, regional historian, apprenticeship in book trade in Frankfurt

O

  • Konrad Engelbert Oelsner (1764 - 1828), political journalist, 1781–1787 student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Martin Opitz (1597 - 1639), poet, diplomat and scholar, student at the University of Frankfurt

P

  • Martin Patzelt (* 1947), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (2002–2010)
  • Alfred Piper (1814–1892), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1852–1864)
  • Urban Pierius (1546–1616), Protestant theologian, professor of philosophy and theology at Frankfurt University
  • Victor von Podbielski (1892–1945), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1943–1945)
  • Wolfgang Pohl (* 1953), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1992–2002)
  • Michael Praetorius (1571–1621), composer, music theorist and publisher, student and organist in Frankfurt
  • Matthäus Gottfried Purmann (1648–1711), a doctor, carried out the first human blood transfusion on German soil in Frankfurt

Q

  • Erhard von Queis (around 1490 - 1529), Bishop of Pomesanien, pioneer of the Reformation in Prussia, from 1506 student at the University of Frankfurt

R.

  • Leopold von Ranke , (1795 - 1886), historian, 1818–1825 high school teacher in Frankfurt
  • Georg Richter (1853-1925), German lawyer and Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1903-1917)

S.

  • Georg Sabinus (1508-1560 in Frankfurt), professor of poetry and eloquence, historian at the University of Frankfurt
  • Martin Salomonski (1881-1944), 1910-1924 rabbi in Frankfurt
  • Wilhelm Sauer (1831-1916 in Frankfurt), organ builder, founder of the Frankfurt organ building company
  • Friedrich Ernst Scheller (1791 - 1869 in Frankfurt), lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • Friedrich Schmeisser (1785 - 1869), mathematician, philosopher, teacher in Frankfurt, head of the committee for the design of the Lennépark

T

  • Romy Tarangul (* 1987 in Frankfurt), judoka
  • Joseph ben Meir Theomim (1727 - 1792 in Frankfurt), rabbi and rabbi in Frankfurt
  • Ludwig Gustav von Thile (1781 - 1852 in Frankfurt), General and Minister of State, participant in the Wars of Liberation
  • Christian Thomasius (1655 - 1728), did his doctorate at the University of Frankfurt
  • Werner Titel (1931-1971), Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management of the GDR, agricultural worker and chairman of the district association of the Democratic Peasant Party of Germany in Frankfurt
  • Paul Trautmann (1881-1929), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1917-1925)
  • Gotthilf Treuer (1632-1711 in Frankfurt), poet, poet and archaeologist

W.

  • Theodor Warnatsch (1820–1894), Catholic pastor in Frankfurt, initiated the establishment of the Holy Cross Church
  • Hermann Weingärtner (1864 - 1919 in Frankfurt), landlord, Olympic champion at the 1st Olympic Games in 1896, operator of the men's bathing establishment on the Ziegenwerder in Frankfurt, drowned while attempting to rescue him
  • Ronny Weller (* 1969), weightlifter, student in Frankfurt
  • Arnold Wesenfeld (1664–1727), professor and rector of the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt, from 1719 first mayor of the city
  • Ernst von Wildenbruch (1845–1909), poet and writer, trainee lawyer in Frankfurt
  • Jodocus Willich (actually Wilcke) (1501 - 1552 in Frankfurt), universal scholar of the Renaissance, student and professor at the university, buried in the Marienkirche
  • Martin Willich (pastor) (1583–1633) Lutheran theologian; Student in Frankfurt
  • Konrad Wimpina (1460–1531), theologian, first rector of the University in Frankfurt in 1505
  • Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944), military, anti-fascist resistance activist, stationed several times in Frankfurt
  • Bernhard Wündisch (* 1948), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (1990)
  • Christian Ernst Wünsch (1744–1828), last rector of the University of Frankfurt (Oder)

Z

  • Heinrich Anselm von Ziegler and Kliphausen (1663–1697), novelist and historiographer, 1680–1684 student at the University of Frankfurt
  • Hans Joachim von Zieten (1699 - 1786), military, ensign in the Prussian Regiment No. 24 "von Schwendy" stationed in Frankfurt.
  • Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929), graphic artist, painter, photographer, around 1881 military service as a grenadier with the Leib Grenadier Regiment, first Brandenburg No. 8, in Frankfurt
  • Rudolf Ewald Zingel (1876-1944) musician, composer and music teacher; From 1899 to 1907 chief organist of the municipal churches and director of the Singing Academy in Frankfurt
  • Heinrich Zschokke (1771 - 1848), publicist, educator, politician and poet, friend of Heinrich von Kleist, student and private lecturer at the University of Frankfurt

Individual evidence

  1. Hellmuth Wolff. In: catalogus-professorum-halensis.de. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Märkische Oderzeitung / Frankfurter Stadtbote, 3./4. September 2005, p. 15
  3. Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel : From student to professor in the Märkische Oderzeitung from January 18, 2010, p. 16