List of personalities of the city of Halberstadt
This list contains personalities from the city of Halberstadt .
Honorary citizen
- 1816: Wilhelm Anton von Klewiz , civil governor
- 1832: Christian Friedrich Bernhard Augustin, chief preacher
- 1837: Stelzer, President of the Higher Regional Court
- 1894: Otto Fürst von Bismarck , former Chancellor
- 1906: Fincke, secret medical council
- 1917: Paul von Hindenburg , Field Marshal General
- 1948: Paul Weber , Lord Mayor of Halberstadt, District President of Magdeburg
- 1989: Heinz Fricke, university professor
- 1994: Walter Bolze , architect and head of the reconstruction of the cathedral after the Second World War
- 1998: Izchak Auerbach, last Jew born in Halberstadt before the Second World War
- 2001: Johann Peter Hinz , artist and politician
- 2003: Werner Hartmann , local history researcher
- 2006: Ursel Sommer, religious sister and volunteer supervisor of those in need
- 2017: Alexander Kluge , filmmaker, television producer, writer, screenwriter and doctor of law
sons and daughters of the town
The following overview contains personalities born in Halberstadt with a Wikipedia entry:
Year of birth | Surname | Year of death | job |
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around 1200 | Albrecht of Halberstadt | ? | poet |
1523 | Christoph Herdesian | 1585 | Lawyer and Protestant theologian |
1553 | Henning Grosse | 1621 | Bookseller and publisher in Leipzig, "forefather" of the Leipzig book trade |
1570 | Henning Scheunemann | 1615 | Doctor and alchemist |
1607 | Konrad Barthels | 1662 | Lutheran theologian |
1632 | Heinrich Ammersbach | 1691 | Protestant pastor and writer |
around 1639 | Jost Liebmann | 1702 | Merchant, court factor |
1661 | Moses Benjamin Wulff | 1729 | Merchant, court factor in Berlin and Dessau |
1685 | Leonhard Christoph Rühl | 1741 | Educator, preacher and author |
1687 | Alexander David | 1765 | Braunschweig chamber agent |
1692 | Johann Heinrich Pott | 1777 | Chemist and pharmacist |
1714 | Friedrich Gottfried Abel | 1794 | Medic and writer |
1717 | Johann Melchior Goeze | 1786 | Lutheran theologian |
1718 | David Klaus | 1793 | Cowherd and philosopher |
1721 | Johann Julius von Hecht | 1792 | Prussian privy councilor and minister in the Lower Saxony Reichskreis |
1732 | Karl Friedrich of Dacheröden | 1809 | Lawyer |
1749 | Johann Gotthelf Leberecht Abel | 1822 | Doctor and art collector |
1768 | Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke | 1818 | Polymath |
1771 | Gottfried Konrad Hecht | 1837 | Official and Botanist |
1775 | Ernst Georg Julius Hecht | 1840 | jurist |
1782 | Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer | 1854 | biologist |
1783 | Job from Witzleben | 1837 | Prussian Lieutenant General and Minister of War |
1784 | Eugen von Hirschfeld | 1811 | Prussian and Spanish officer |
1790 | Moritz von Hirschfeld | 1859 | Prussian general |
1793 | Friedrich Lucanus | 1872 | Pharmacist, art lover and restorer |
1794 | Albrecht von Alvensleben | 1858 | Prussian Finance Minister |
1800 | Hans Herwarth von Bittenfeld | 1881 | Prussian general |
1802 | Friedrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld | 1884 | Prussian general |
1805 | Adolf Reubke | 1875 | Organ builder |
1806 | Gustav Kramer | 1888 | philologist |
1809 | Ferdinand Heine | 1894 | ornithologist |
1813 | Wilhelm Hertzberg | 1879 | Philologist and translator |
1819 | Hermann Hoffbauer | 1884 | Merchant, industrialist and founder |
1820 | Esriel Hildesheimer | 1899 | Founder of Orthodox Judaism |
1831 | Hermann of Lucanus | 1908 | Prussian State Councilor and Head of the Secret Civil Cabinet |
1832 | Max Hirsch | 1905 | Publishing house bookseller, co-founder of the trade unions, social politician and writer |
1834 | Gustav Ebe | 1916 | Architect and art historian |
1835 | Adolf Stoecker | 1909 | Protestant theologian and anti-Semitic politician |
1835 | Heinrich Claus | 1892 | architect |
1840 | Ferdinand Heine | 1920 | Plant breeder and ornithologist |
1842 | August Heine | 1919 | Politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag |
1842 | Carl Haber | 1895 | Co-founder of a consumer association, a credit union and the large purchasing company Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG) Hamburg |
1844 | Friedrich Carl Peltz | 1914 | Architect and construction officer |
1847 | Adolf Lepp | 1906 | Writer and poet |
1848 | Carl Eitz | 1924 | Acoustician and music teacher |
1852 | Bodo will | 1932 | Landscape painter |
1856 |
Clara Blüthgen née Clara Kilburger |
1934 | Writer |
1857 | Johannes Kriebitzsch | 1938 | Glass painter |
1857 | Hermann Seeger | 1945 | painter |
1865 |
Lily Braun née Amalie von Kretschmann |
1916 | Writer, SPD politician, women's rights activist |
1865 | Hermann Passow | 1919 | Chemist |
1869 | Eduard Peters | 1948 | Prehistoric |
1870 | Frithjof von Hammerstein-Gesmold | 1944 | Lieutenant General |
1872 |
Hans Basil born as Hans Meyer |
after 1914 | Theater actor and opera singer |
1872 | Kurt Klamroth | 1947 | Entrepreneur |
1875 | Gustav Müller | 1946 | Politician (SPD - USPD - KPD), MdR |
1875 | Paul Weber | 1958 | Social democrat, Mayor of Halberstadt 1920–1930, District President of the Prussian administrative district of Magdeburg |
1876 |
Minna Bollmann née Minna Zacharias |
1935 | Politician (SPD), first female member of a German national parliament, “front woman” of the Halberstadt workers' movement |
1876 | Alfred Berg | 1945 | Educator and writer |
1879 | Hans Nordmann | 1957 | Railway engineer |
1884 | Otto Witte | 1963 | Politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag, President of the Hessian state parliament |
1884 | Richard Brademann | 1965 | Architect and railway construction officer, planner of numerous train stations and buildings for the Berlin S-Bahn |
1888 |
Yitzhak Baer born as Fritz Baer |
1980 | Jewish historian and author |
1888 |
Kurt Pfaffenberg |
1971 | Teacher and palynologist |
1889 | Gerhard Stumme | 1934 | District Administrator in Weißensee and Nordhausen |
1890 | Gertrud Baer | 1981 | Women's rights activist and peace activist |
1891 | Helmuth Weidling | 1955 | General in World War II |
1896 | Albert Heinz | 1945 | Politician (NSDAP) and SA leader |
1898 | Hans Georg Klamroth | 1944 | Confident and involved in the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 |
1898 | Wilhelm Pramme | 1965 | painter |
1898 | Bert Brennecke | 1970 | writer |
1900 | Martin Bormann | 1945 | Head of the party chancellery of the NSDAP |
1902 | Georg Jungclas | 1975 | Politician |
1902 | Albert Bormann | 1989 | Head of Hitler's private law firm |
1902 | Friedrich Greil | 2003 | Head of German-language programs at NHK, Japan |
1903 | Gerhart Heine | 1974 | Businessman and politician |
1903 | Alfred Pape | after 1948 | Politician (NSDAP) and SA leader |
1907 | Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer | 1990 | Architect and university professor |
1911 | Gerd Springorum | 1995 | Politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
1912 | Jürgen Bennecke | 2002 | General and former NATO Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces Central Europe |
1913 | Günter Kallinich | 2012 | Pharmacy historian |
1914 | Christa Johannsen | 1981 | Writer |
1914 | Kurt Böhner | 2007 | Prehistoric and medieval archaeologist |
1914 | Hans-Wolfram Knaak | 1941 | Officer in the resistance against National Socialism |
1924 | Jakob Hirsch | 2018 | Israeli lawyer, former State Secretary to the State Controller and General Director of Bank Leumi. Active in German-Israeli relations. |
1925 | Gert Schliephake | 2007 | Zoologist and university professor |
1927 | Gabriel Bach | Israeli lawyer, deputy Chief prosecutor in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, judge at the Supreme Court of Israel, representative of the State of Israel at UN conferences | |
1928 | Wolfgang Herbst | 1995 | Historian and museologist |
1930 | Günter Hartmann | Politician (NDPD) | |
1930 | Jürgen Feindt | 1978 | Dancers and actors |
1931 | Hans-Joachim Liesecke | 2019 | University professor for green space construction |
1932 | Alexander Kluge | Filmmaker, writer and television writer | |
1933 | Sabine Klamroth | Lawyer and Author | |
1934 | Wolfgang Schaefer | 2003 | Politician (SPD) |
1934 | Hans Speth | 2016 | Soccer player and soccer coach |
1936 | Hans Becker | 2017 | geographer |
1936 | Peter Gente | 2014 | publisher |
1937 | Renate Chotjewitz-Häfner | 2008 | Author, translator and publicist |
1937 | Alexandra Kluge | 2017 | Doctor and actress |
1938 |
Wibke Bruhns née Klamroth |
2019 | Journalist and author, first female news anchor for ZDF |
1939 | Hans-Georg Losert | Glazier, glass painter and glass restorer | |
1940 | Dorothea Chryst | Opera singer | |
1941 | Joachim Wahnschaffe | Politician (SPD) | |
1941 | Karin Beyer | Female swimmer | |
1943 | Wilhelm Rimpau | doctor | |
1944 | Hans-Werner Springorum | Orthopedist and surgeon | |
1945 | Roland of Hunnius | Politician (FDP) | |
1946 | Karl-Heinz Richter | sculptor | |
1947 | Volker Grobe | Writer in Cologne dialect | |
1948 | Jürgen Sparwasser | Footballer, goalscorer World Cup 1974 BRD - GDR | |
1948 | Hans Engel | Handball player | |
1949 | Lutz Lindemann | Soccer player and coach | |
1951 | Detlef Eckert | Politician (The Left) | |
1953 | Jochen Danneberg | Ski jumper and ski jumping coach | |
1954 | Christoph Weihe | Sculptor and stonemason | |
1956 | Claudia Wunderlich | Handball player | |
1957 | Volker Caysa | 2017 | philosopher |
1960 | Anke Lautenbach | 2012 | Singer, lecturer and professor of musicology |
1962 | Edwina Koch-Kupfer | Politician, member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt | |
1962 | Frank Lieberam | Soccer player and coach | |
1963 |
Cornelia Ullrich née Feuerbach |
Track and field athlete | |
1963 | Jens Ramme | Soccer goalkeeper | |
1967 | Detlef Kirchhoff | Rowers | |
1979 | Yvonne Cernota | 2004 | Bobsledder |
1984 | Felix Michael Lehrmann | drummer | |
1987 | Linda Hesse | singer | |
1988 | Georg Fleischhauer | Track and field athlete | |
1995 | Maximilian Rossmann | Soccer player |
Personalities who worked on site (in chronological order)
- Suidger von Morsleben and Hornburg (1005-1047), cathedral canon in Halberstadt, later Pope
- Balthasar von Neuenstadt († 1516), Provost of Halberstadt
- Johannes Scheyring (Ziering) (1454–1516), theologian , rector of the University of Leipzig, was canon in Halberstadt from 1494 until his death
- Peter von Boetticher (1525–1585), reformer , Graeflich-Hohnstein Chancellor and from 1568 Abbey Chancellor of Halberstadt
- Christof von Britzke (1535–1610), governor of Halberstadt
- Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1564–1613), from 1589 administrator of the Halberstadt diocese
- Simon Bingelhelm (approx. 1565–1600), serious criminal
- Matthias von Oppen (approx. 1565–1621), important economist and church politician , dean of the Halberstadt cathedral chapter
- Justus Oldekop (1597–1667), lawyer , diplomat , Protestant, champion against witch trials , worked in Halberstadt
- Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1599–1626), general, called the great Halberstädter , from 1616 administrator of the Halberstadt diocese
- Andreas Werckmeister (1645–1706), musician and music theorist , introduced the well-tempered tuning for keyboard instruments and from 1696 worked as the organist of the Martinikirche in Halberstadt
- Issachar Berend Lehmann (1661–1730), court Jew of August the Strong
- Jacob Friedrich Reimmann (1668–1743), polyhistor and enlightener, founder of modern German literary studies, from 1692 rector at the Martinischule in Halberstadt
- Caspar Abel (1676–1763), theologian and historian, high school principal in Halberstadt
- Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel (1687–1721), "country and people deceiver"
- Christian Gottfried Struensee (1717–1782), Rector of the Stephaneum High School
- Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719–1803), founder of the Halberstadt poets' circle
- Johann Benjamin Michaelis (1746–1772), poet, lived and worked in Halberstadt during the last years of his life
- Gottlob Nathanael Fischer (1748–1800), pedagogue, theologian and writer, rector of the Martieums and the cathedral school Stephaneum as well as member of the local group of poets and the literary society
- Johann August Ernst Graf von Alvensleben (1758–1827), 1796–1810 last cathedral dean in Halberstadt and Braunschweig Minister of State
- Heinrich Gottlieb Zerrenner (1750–1811), Protestant theologian and writer, general superintendent of Halberstadt
- Georg Carl Adolph Hasenpflug (1802–1858), German painter, lived in Halberstadt from 1830 and died here
- Wilhelm Schatz (1802–1867), botanist and philologist, was a teacher and botanist in Halberstadt, wrote a chronicle for Halberstadt
- Adolf Krummacher (1824–1884), hymn poet , from 1853 to 1872 cathedral preacher in Halberstadt
- Carl Kehr (1830–1885), elementary school teacher and educational writer, from 1872 to 1884 head of the seminar in Halberstadt
- Dieter Reichling , professor and senior teacher at the Royal High School (editor of the Doctrinale by Alexander de Villa-Dei )
- Paul Schmook (1860–1921), lawyer and mayor
- Friedrich Heine (1863–1929), German entrepreneur and founder of the sausage and canning factory (" Halberstädter Würstchen ")
- Hans Marckwald (1874–1933), journalist, SPD politician (SPD)
- Kurt Löwenstein (1885–1939), politician (SPD) and educator
- Franz Moericke (1885–1956), German politician (SPD, KPD, SED)
- Prince Rangsit von Chainad (1885–1951), attended high school in Halberstadt
- Georg Schilling (1886–1952), director of the provincial deaf-mute institution Halberstadt, German politician (center), member of the Prussian State Council
- Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963) was engaged at the Halberstädter Theater in the 1920/21 season
- Walter Martin (1901–1985), actor and director
- Georg Jungclas (1902–1975), German politician (SPD, KPD)
- Theo Lingen (1903–1978), played in 1923 at the Halberstädter Theater
- Wilhelm Kamlah (1905–1976), historian , theologian , musician , philosopher , attended high school in Halberstadt
- Paulus Skopp (1905–1999), SPD politician, long-time Lord Mayor of Speyer, member of the state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Hans Auenmüller (1926–1991), conductor
- Adolf Siebrecht (1937–2019), prehistoric, museum director in Halberstadt
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of honorary citizens on Halberstadt's website , (last accessed on January 11, 2014)
- ↑ https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/halberstadt/haben-wuerdigung-ehrenbuerger-in-bester-gesellschaft