List of personalities of the city of Göttingen

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Coat of arms of the city of Göttingen

In the many centuries of its rich history, Göttingen was the place of birth, study, work and death of numerous important personalities.

Honorary citizen

The city of Göttingen has granted the following people honorary citizenship (the list is made chronologically according to the date of award):

  1. Baron Friedrich von Hövel (born April 16, 1766 at Gut Herbeck near Hagen; † November 8, 1826 in Münster) and Baron Wilhelmine von Hövel
    Prefect of the Westphalian department of Leine.
    Awarded on June 20, 1808.
    When Germany was reorganized by Napoleon Bonaparte , the Kingdom of Westphalia was created in 1807 based on the French model . In 1808, Baron von Hövel took over the management of the Leine department, the capital of which was Göttingen. During the Wars of Liberation, however , he then took part in the construction of the Prussian Landsturm .
  2. Joseph Piautaz (born July 5, 1774 in Cluse, Savoy, Kingdom of Sardinia, † September 9, 1825 in Berlin) and Pinette Piautaz
    Secretary General of the Westphalian Département Leine.
    Awarded on July 8, 1808.
  3. Prince Adolph Friedrich (born February 24, 1774 in London; † July 8, 1850 there)
    Son of King George III. from the United Kingdom, Field Marshal of the British Army
    Awarded on November 8, 1814
    Prince Adolph Friedrich studied at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Later he took part as an officer in the coalition wars against Napoléon.
  4. Count Joachim Lobo de Silveira and Countess Sophie de Silveira
    diplomat
    Awarded on April 22, 1816
    Count Lobo de Silveira was the Portuguese envoy in Berlin.
  5. Johann Friedrich Hausmann (born February 22, 1782 in Hanover, † December 26, 1859 in Göttingen)
    Mineralogist and geologist
    Awarded on June 24, 1816
  6. Arnold Heeren (born October 25, 1760 in Arbergen near Bremen; † March 6, 1842 in Göttingen) and Henriette Heeren
    historian
    Awarded on April 5, 1817
  7. Georg Christian Franz Wedemeyer and Julie Wedemeyer
    jurist
    Awarded on February 11, 1822
  8. David Julius Pott (born October 10, 1760 in Nettelrede, † October 18, 1838 in Göttingen) and his daughters Julie and Emilie Pott
    theologian
    Awarded on August 29, 1826
  9. Christian Friedrich Ruperti
    theologian
    Awarded on April 5, 1832
  10. Carl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt (born September 11, 1768 in Celle; † April 27, 1845 in Hanover)
    Lawyer, Royal Minister of State and Cabinet in Hanover
    Awarded on September 17, 1837
  11. Carl Wilhelm August von Stralenheim (born August 17, 1777 in Imbshausen, today a district of Northeim, † May 19, 1847 in Hanover)
    Lawyer, Royal Minister of State and Cabinet in Hanover
    Awarded on September 17, 1837
  12. Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt (* July 8, 1779 in Hanover; † February 16, 1858 ibid)
    Lawyer, Secret Cabinet Councilor in Hanover
    Awarded on September 17, 1837
    The 123-year personal union between England and Hanover ended in June 1837. King Ernst August I was the first ruler to rule the country from the city of Hanover.
  13. Johann Wilhelm Junker and Johanne Junker
    Merchant
    Awarded on February 23, 1846
  14. Friedrich Gottfried Rettig and Hulda Rettig
    theologian
    Awarded on April 22, 1848
  15. Carl Heinrich Miede (* 1788 in Nordhausen; † September 1, 1851 in Göttingen) and Johanne Dorothea Elisabeth Miede
    theologian
    Awarded on April 22, 1848
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauß (born April 30, 1777 in Braunschweig, † February 23, 1855 in Göttingen)
    Mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist
    Awarded on July 16, 1849
    Gauß studied at the University of Göttingen from 1795 to 1799. In 1807 he became professor and director of the observatory here. Carl Friedrich Gauß is considered one of the most important mathematicians of his time.
  17. Georg Friedrich Julius Hildebrandt
    theologian
    Awarded on January 9, 1850
  18. Friedrich Wöhler (born July 31, 1800 in Eschersheim near Frankfurt am Main, † September 23, 1882 in Göttingen)
    Chemist
    Awarded on July 31, 1857
    Friedrich Wöhler was Professor of Medicine, Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Göttingen from 1836 to 1882. Wöhler is considered a pioneer in organic chemistry.
  19. Karl Friedrich Christian Hoeck (born May 13, 1794 in Oelber on White Road, † January 13, 1877 in Göttingen)
    Classical philologist
    Awarded on August 23, 1865
  20. Prince Otto von Bismarck (born April 1, 1815 in Schönhausen (Elbe), Brandenburg; † July 30, 1898 in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein)
    Chancellor
    Awarded on March 15, 1877
    Otto von Bismarck was instrumental in founding the German Empire in 1871.
  21. Wilhelm Eduard Weber (born October 24, 1804 in Wittenberg, Saxony, † June 23, 1891 in Göttingen)
    physicist
    Awarded on August 26, 1886
    Weber was professor of physics at the University of Göttingen from 1831 to 1837, but lost his post as one of the Göttingen seven with whom he protested against the repeal of the Hanoverian constitution. After the March Revolution of 1848 he regained his post. Together with Gauss, he built the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833 .
  22. Gottlieb Planck (born June 24, 1824 in Göttingen; † May 20, 1910 there)
    jurist
    Awarded on January 1, 1898
  23. Paul von Hindenburg (born October 2, 1847 in Posen, † August 2, 1934 in Neudeck, East Prussia)
    Field Marshal General of the German Army, Reich President
    Awarded on October 2, 1917
    Paul von Hindenburg was considered a legendary military man who had been an officer since the 1860s. During the First World War he was celebrated as the "Held von Tannenberg " who prevented the occupation of East Prussia by Russian troops. In August 1916 he and General Ludendorff became chiefs of the Supreme Army Command .
  24. Georg Friedrich Calsow (born November 21, 1857 in Timmendorf on Poel, † February 12, 1931 in Göttingen)
    Lawyer, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
    Awarded on April 30, 1926
  25. Justus Theodor Valentiner (born August 9, 1869 in La Guaira, † May 26, 1952 in Göttingen)
    Lawyer, curator of the university
    Awarded on December 23, 1932
  26. Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, † April 30, 1945 in Berlin)
    "Führer" and Reich Chancellor
    Awarded on April 19, 1933; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
    Adolf Hitler was hailed as the leader of the National Socialist movement, which had set itself the goal of making Germany the dominant power in Europe at the expense of other states. The National Socialists murdered at least 6 million people in the Holocaust on the basis of their racial ideology. Over 50 million people died as a result of World War II triggered by Hitler.
  27. Bernhard Rust (born September 30, 1883 in Hanover; † May 8, 1945 in Berne, Oldenburg)
    Reich Minister for Science, Education and Public Education
    Awarded on May 2, 1934; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
    Rust was subject to the ideologization of the entire higher education system. The "leaders of the universities" (rectors) reported directly to him. The dismissal of all Jews and political opponents of the Nazis significantly weakened Germany's position in the natural sciences.
  28. Ludolf Haase (born January 6, 1898 in Hanover; † October 3, 1972)
    Mediciners
    Awarded on February 7, 1937; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
    Haase founded the local NSDAP association in Göttingen.
  29. Wilhelm Frick (born March 12, 1877 in Alsenz, Bavaria; † October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg)
    Reich Minister of the Interior
    Awarded on March 12, 1937; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
    As Minister of the Interior in the Nazi state, Wilhelm Frick was responsible for drafting the laws that were intended to undermine the Weimar Constitution and cement the National Socialist leadership. Among other things, the " Ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State " came from him. After the war he was found guilty and executed as part of the Nuremberg Trials for preparing a war of aggression, leading and participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
  30. Viktor Lutze (born December 28, 1890 in Bevergern; † May 2, 1943 near Potsdam)
    Chief of Staff of the SA, Upper President of the Province of Hanover
    Awarded on June 26, 1937; Freedom of citizenship revoked by resolution of the main committee on August 25, 1952
  31. Edward Schröder (born May 18, 1858 in Witzenhausen, † February 9, 1942 in Göttingen)
    Germanist
    Awarded on June 26, 1937
  32. Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen (* March 20, 1874 in Hildesheim, Province of Hanover; † March 16, 1945 in Windischleuba, Thuringia)
    Writer and poet
    Awarded on June 26, 1937
    Von Münchhausen was one of the most funded authors of the National Socialists, participated in racist cultural policy and repeatedly publicly declared his unreserved support for the Nazi regime. From 1898 to 1905 he published the Göttingen Musenalmanach several times.
  33. Erich Schmidt
    Lawyer and City Director
    Awarded on December 31, 1951
  34. Max Born (born December 11, 1882 in Breslau, Silesia, † January 5, 1970 in Göttingen)
    Mathematician and physicist
    Awarded on June 28, 1953
    Max Born was a professor in Göttingen from 1921 to 1933. Here he developed large parts of modern quantum mechanics . For Born's probability interpretation , he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 .
  35. Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 in Lublinitz, Silesia, † January 27, 1972 in New York City)
    mathematician
    Awarded on June 28, 1953
    Richard Courant was a professor in Göttingen from 1922 to 1933. After he had to flee the National Socialists because of his origins, he built the mathematics research center at New York University , which is now one of the most respected institutes for applied mathematics.
  36. James Franck (born August 26, 1882 in Hamburg, † May 21, 1964 in Göttingen)
    physicist
    Awarded on June 28, 1953
    James Franck was a professor in Göttingen from 1920 to 1933. For the Franck-Hertz experiment , he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925 . In 1933 he resigned his professorship and finally went to Chicago. Here he came into contact with the Manhattan Project , but tried to prevent the atomic bomb from being dropped on Japan with the Franck Report .
  37. Herman Nohl (October 7, 1879 in Berlin; † September 27, 1960 in Göttingen)
    Pedagogue and Philosopher
    Awarded on June 28, 1953
    Herman Nohl was a professor in Göttingen from 1919 to 1937. After the war he helped rebuild the school system and the university in Göttingen, where he became dean of his department.
  38. Harry Lambach
    Master carpenter
    Awarded on June 28, 1953
  39. August Reuper
    Telegraph inspector
    Awarded on June 28, 1953
  40. Rudolf Stich
    Mediciners
    Awarded on July 18, 1955
  41. Fritz Ulrici
    pharmacist
    Awarded on July 18, 1955
  42. Hermann Föge (born February 25, 1878 in Schleswig, † October 21, 1963 in Göttingen)
    Lawyer and Lord Mayor of Göttingen
    Awarded on March 1, 1957
  43. Fritz Wittorf
    Carpenter and enforcement officer
    Awarded on March 1, 1957
  44. Heinrich Ische
    Printers and typesetters
    Awarded on March 1, 1957
  45. Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main; † July 28, 1968 in Göttingen)
    Chemist
    Awarded on March 8, 1959
    Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of nuclear fission . But he was also one of the Göttingen eighteen people who resolutely opposed the military use of nuclear fission.
  46. Bruno Karl August Jung (born April 2, 1886 in Essen, † December 13, 1966 in Göttingen)
    Lawyer and Lord Mayor of Göttingen
    Awarded on April 2, 1961
  47. Konrat Ziegler (born January 12, 1884 in Breslau, Silesia, † January 8, 1974 in Göttingen)
    classical philologist
    Awarded on March 7, 1969
    Konrat Ziegler held lectures in Breslau and Greifswald from 1910 to 1933. During the Nazi era, he helped Jewish acquaintances several times to escape persecution by the Nazis. In 1958 he became chairman of the newly founded Göttingen Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. Posthumously in 2000 he was honored with the title “ Righteous Among the Nations ”.
  48. Walter Meyerhoff (born September 25, 1890 in Duderstadt, † August 20, 1977 in Göttingen)
    President of the Göttingen Regional Court and Lord Mayor of the City of Göttingen; Long-standing chairman of the Göttingen Handel Society .
    Awarded on September 25, 1970
  49. Else Wagner
    Kindergarten teacher
    Awarded on July 4, 1973
  50. Willy Michel
    Merchant
    Awarded on March 8, 1974
  51. Paul Riemer
    Union secretary
    Awarded on March 8, 1974
  52. Gottfried Jungmichel (born May 1, 1902 in Spantekow, † February 2, 1981 in Göttingen)
    Physician and Lord Mayor of Göttingen (1956–1966)
    Awarded on April 30, 1977
  53. Ulrike von Heynitz
    politician
    Awarded on March 15, 1980
    Ulrike von Heynitz was councilor of the FDP parliamentary group for 18 years .
  54. Heinrich Düker (November 24, 1898 in Dassel, Hanover Province; † November 2, 1986 in Saarbrücken)
    Psychologist and Lord Mayor of Göttingen (1946–1947)
    Awarded on May 3, 1985
  55. Hugo Donder
    Merchant
    Awarded on October 28, 1986
  56. Hannah Vogt (born March 3, 1910 in Berlin-Charlottenburg; † February 13, 1994 in Göttingen)
    Writer
    Awarded on March 14, 1987
  57. Franz Wieacker (born August 5, 1908 in Stargard, Pomerania; † February 17, 1994 in Göttingen)
    Lawyer and legal historian
    Awarded on November 14, 1990
  58. Horst Sartorius (1910 - July 16, 1998)
    Merchant
    Awarded on January 23, 1991
  59. Else Bräutigam (January 3, 1931 - March 24, 2001)
    Awarded on September 11, 1991
  60. Artur Levi (born August 28, 1922 in Munich, † May 27, 2007 in Göttingen)
    University professor and Lord Mayor of Göttingen (1973–1981, 1986–1991)
    Awarded on November 23, 1993
    Levi had to go into exile in London in 1937 and from 1941 participated in the resistance against the Nazi regime. In 1946 he returned to Göttingen and taught political science and social studies at the University of Education from 1961 to 1985.
  61. August Schütte (1921--14 September 2007)
    Promoter of popular sport, honorary chairman of the ASC 1846 Göttingen
    Awarded on May 21, 1996
  62. Manfred Eigen (born May 9, 1927 in Bochum; † February 6, 2019 in Göttingen)
    Biophysicist and physical chemist
    Awarded on August 9, 2002
    In 1957 Eigen became director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen . He and two of his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions .

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Göttingen. For the mention here, it is irrelevant whether the people later had their sphere of activity in Göttingen or not. Many have become known elsewhere. The list arranged by year of birth does not claim to be complete.

Until 1800

1801 to 1900

1901 to 1925

1926 to 1950

1951 to 1975

From 1976

Members of the University of Göttingen

The following have studied or taught at the University of Göttingen :

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  • Georg Nolte - Law (international lawyer) - (o. Prof. 1999-2004)

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  • Zhu De - Philosophy - Student (1922–1925) - Co-founder and Marshal of the People's Army of China

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  • Eduard Kaufmann - medicine, pathologist. Anatomy, - o. Prof. from 1907 to 1928
  • Heinz Kirchhoff - Medicine - Full Professor 1954–1973
  • Robert Koch - Medicine, studies and doctorate in Göttingen - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1905
  • Rolf Koschorrek - Dentistry, studies and doctorate in Göttingen - Member of the Bundestag
  • Hans Adolf Krebs - studied medicine - Nobel Prize for Medicine 1953 (together with Lipmann )

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  • Thomas Young - Medicine, Physics, Linguistics (PhD in Medicine)

Other personalities related to Göttingen

Well-known personalities are listed here who have spent part of their life in Göttingen or who died in Göttingen. Please only enter personalities here who are not already listed as members of the university. The list is sorted by time.

  • Emperor Heinrich II. , Died on July 13, 1024 in the Palatinate of Grona
  • Theodor Berckelmann (born November 9, 1576 in Neustadt am Rübenberge, † July 30, 1645 in Göttingen) was a Lutheran theologian, Latin poet and general superintendent in Göttingen from 1630 to 1645.
  • Ernst August Spangenberg (born October 21, 1689 in Barbis; † September 24, 1784 in Göttingen), lawyer and mayor of the city of Göttingen
  • Johann Gottfried Zinn (born December 4, 1727 in Schwabach in the Margraviate of Ansbach; † April 6, 1759 in Göttingen), doctor and botanist
  • Gottfried August Bürger (born December 31, 1747 in Molmerswende in the Eastern Harz, † June 8, 1794 in Göttingen), German poet
  • Johann Heinrich Voss (born February 20, 1751 in Sommerstorf; † March 29, 1826 in Heidelberg), German poet and translator of famous classics
  • Jean Louis Burckhardt (born November 24, 1784 in Lausanne, † October 15, 1817 in Cairo), traveler to the Orient
  • Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns (born November 28, 1787 in Lodersleben near Querfurt, † February 25, 1853 in Göttingen), architect and building contractor
  • Heinrich Heine (born December 13, 1797 in Düsseldorf, † February 17, 1856 in Paris), one of the most important German poets and journalists of the 19th century.
  • Rudolf Hermann Lotze (born May 21, 1817 in Bautzen, † July 1, 1881 in Berlin), philosopher and psychologist
  • Gustav von Meyern-Hohenberg (born September 10, 1820 in Calvörde, † March 1, 1878 in Konstanz); he was a lawyer, artistic director and playwright.
  • Hans Breymann (born April 12, 1850 in Bernburg (Saale), † June 28, 1903 in Göttingen); he was an architect.
  • Theodor Melior (born March 18, 1853 in Schotten, † April 17, 1940 in Göttingen); the later general of the infantry moved his retirement home from Lübeck to Göttingen during the First World War .
  • Lou Andreas-Salomé (born February 12, 1861 in St. Petersburg, † February 5, 1937 in Göttingen), writer and psychoanalyst
  • Emil Mehle (born March 25, 1868 in Grünstadt; † 1960 in Göttingen), local entrepreneur, manufacturer of files and office registry items
  • Gustav Wyneken (born March 19, 1875 in Stade, † December 8, 1964 in Göttingen), German reform pedagogue
  • Karl Julius Walther Lietzmann (born August 7, 1880 in Drossen, † July 12, 1959 in Göttingen), mathematician , pedagogue and influential maths didactic .
  • Martin Lindow (born September 26, 1880 in Zachan in the former West Pomerania; † January 11, 1967 in Göttingen), astronomer, headed the University Observatory in Münster from 1930 to 1944 and then lived in Göttingen
  • Wilhelm Keitel (born Sept. 22, 1882 in Helmscherode; † Oct. 16, 1946 in Nuremberg), Field Marshal General, head of the OKW ; Attended school and A-levels in Göttingen
  • Zhu De (December 1886 - July 6, 1976), politician
  • Richard Becker (born December 3, 1887 in Hamburg, † March 16, 1955 in Bad Schwalbach ), German physicist
  • Heinz Hilpert (born March 1, 1890 in Berlin, † November 25, 1967 in Göttingen), German theater director
  • Elinor Hubert (born May 11, 1900 in Breslau; † January 25, 1973 in Cologne), doctor and politician (SPD)
  • Rudolf Otto Wiemer (March 24, 1905 Friedrichroda; † June 5, 1998 Göttingen), German poet, puppeteer and teacher
  • Heinz Erhardt (born February 20, 1909 in Riga; † June 5, 1979 in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet; made some films in Göttingen, a. a. The drivers, of course .
  • Hartmut von Hentig (born September 23, 1925 in Posen), German pedagogue and publicist
  • Hans Achim Gussone (born January 7, 1926 in Schneidemühl (today Piła, Poland); † December 9, 1997 in Göttingen), German forest scientist, headed the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute from 1978 to 1991 and also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Göttingen.
  • Günter Grass (born October 16, 1927 in Danzig; † April 13, 2015 in Lübeck), writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
  • Joop Bergsma (born February 1, 1928 in Rotterdam; † July 8, 2011 in Harsum), from 1976 to 1986 Catholic pastor and dean in Göttingen
  • Walter Kempowski (born April 29, 1929 in Rostock ; † October 5, 2007 in Rotenburg (Wümme)), writer; studied pedagogy in Göttingen
  • Friedhelm Farthmann (born November 25, 1930 in Bad Oeynhausen), politician (SPD), former. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia and SPD -Fraktionsvorsitzender, longstanding member of the SPD Federal Executive Committee, member of the Konigsberg fraternity Gothia Göttingen
  • Barbara , actually Monique Andrée Serf (born June 9, 1930 in Paris, † November 25, 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), chanson singer; u. a. Singer of the Göttingen chanson
  • Reinhard Döhl (born September 16, 1934 in Wattenscheid; † May 29, 2004 in Stuttgart), literary and media scholar, author and artist
  • Inge Wettig-Danielmeier (born October 1, 1936 in Heilbronn), Federal Treasurer of the SPD
  • Robert Gernhardt (born December 13, 1937 in Tallinn, † June 30, 2006 in Frankfurt am Main), poet; grew up in Göttingen and went to school here.
  • FW Bernstein (born March 4, 1938 in Göppingen; † December 20, 2018 in Berlin), writer, was an art teacher in Göttingen
  • Götz George (born July 23, 1938 in Berlin; † June 19, 2016 in Hamburg), actor; many years at the Deutsches Theater
  • Jobst Plog (born February 26, 1941 in Hanover), NDR director; studied u. a. in Göttingen Jura
  • Bruno Ganz (born March 22, 1941 in Zurich; † February 16, 2019 in Wädenswil), Swiss actor ; began his career at the Junge Theater .
  • Wolfgang Bittner (born July 29, 1941 in Gleiwitz / Upper Silesia), lawyer and writer
  • Bert Sakmann (born June 12, 1942 in Stuttgart), physician; Nobel Prize 1991, the work on this was done in Göttingen.
  • Evelyn Hamann (born August 6, 1942 in Hamburg; † October 28, 2007 in Hamburg ), actress
  • Wolf-Michael Catenhusen (born July 13, 1945 in Höxter; † April 30, 2019 in Berlin), Member of the Bundestag a. D. and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education
  • Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (born July 26, 1951 in Minden), Federal Minister of Justice
  • Thomas Oppermann (born April 27, 1954 in Freckenhorst), former State Minister D., Member of the Bundestag
  • Dieter Bohlen (born February 7, 1954 in Berne, Lower Saxony), musician and producer, studied business administration in Göttingen
  • Eckhard Gorka (born May 24, 1955 in Braunschweig), since 2007 state superintendent in the Hildesheim-Göttingen district
  • Matthias Reim (born November 26, 1957 in Korbach, Hessen), pop musician
  • Christian Schrader (* 1959 in Wolfenbüttel), legal scholar, judge and university professor, doctorate in Göttingen, City Council of Göttingen, member of the board of directors and member of the credit committee of Sparkasse Göttingen
  • Lou Richter (born September 10, 1960 in Einbeck), television presenter; Abitur in Göttingen
  • Gunnar Fehlau (* 1973 in Dortmund), specialist journalist and book author, runs the Göttingen-based pressienst-fahrrad (pd-f).
  • Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre (born January 27, 1975 in Bremen), author; Abitur in Göttingen.
  • Dennie Klose (born March 28, 1979 in Einbeck), television presenter; Studied in Göttingen.
  • Florian Reichert (born February 10, 1982 in Hanover), long-distance and ultra-marathon runner; Studied in Göttingen, teacher at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium
  • Robert Kulawick (born February 1, 1986 in Berlin), basketball player; Studied in Göttingen

Mayor or Lord Mayor since 1809

For the period before 1809: List of the mayors of Göttingen .

  • 1809–1831: Conrad Julius Hieronymus Tuckermann, Maire, later mayor
  • 1811–1813: Caspar Christian Campen, Maire
  • 1813–1817: Johann Friedrich Christoph Hesse, mayor
  • 1831–1851: Georg Christoph Ernst Ebell, Mayor, Magistrate Director and Lord Mayor
  • 1851–1852: Georg Ferdinand Friedrich Insinger, Mayor and Georg Friedrich Morrien, Mayor
  • 1852–1858: Ferdinand Heinrich Ludwig Oesterley, Mayor
  • 1858–1867: Adolf Eberhardt, mayor
  • 1867–1870: Georg Heinrich August Wunderlich, mayor
  • 1870–1893: Georg Merkel , mayor from 1885 mayor
  • 1893–1926: Georg Friedrich Calsow , Lord Mayor
  • 1926–1938: Bruno Karl August Jung , Lord Mayor
  • 1938–1945: Albert Gnade , Lord Mayor
  • 1945–1946: Erich Schmidt , (independent), Acting Mayor
  • 1946, January to November: Hermann Föge (FDP), Lord Mayor
  • 1946–1947: Heinrich Düker (SPD), Lord Mayor
  • 1947–1948: Franz Arnholdt (SPD), Lord Mayor
  • 1948–1956: Hermann Föge (FDP), Lord Mayor
  • 1956–1966: Gottfried Jungmichel (FDP), Lord Mayor
  • 1966–1973: Walter Leßner (SPD), Lord Mayor
  • 1973–1981: Artur Levi (SPD), Lord Mayor
  • 1981–1982: Joachim Kummer (CDU), Lord Mayor
  • 1982–1986: Gerd Rinck (CDU), Lord Mayor
  • 1986–1991: Artur Levi (SPD), Lord Mayor (2nd term of office)
  • 1991–2000: Rainer Kallmann SPD, Lord Mayor
  • 2000–2006: Jürgen Danielowski , (CDU), Lord Mayor
  • 2006–2014: Wolfgang Meyer (SPD), Lord Mayor
  • since 2014: Rolf-Georg Köhler (SPD), Lord Mayor

City directors 1946–2001

  • 1946–1948: Erich Schmidt
  • 1948: Helmut Kuß , city director in the function of senior city director
  • 1948–1949: Hans Otto Glahn
  • 1949–1952: Erich Schmidt
  • 1952–1959: Helmut Kuß, City Director, later City Director (2nd term)
  • 1959–1968: Erich Heinrich Biederbeck
  • 1968–1980: Kurt Busch
  • 1980–1987: Rolf Vieten
  • 1987–1988: Eberhard Nickel, City Director in the role of Senior City Director
  • 1988–2000: Hermann Schierwater

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stadtarchiv.goettingen.de/texte/ehrenbuerger.htm
  2. ↑ Stine Marg , Katharina Trittel, Bonnie Pülm: White coat and brown shirt: The Göttingen physician Rudolf Stich in a kaleidoscope , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014
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