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
around 1200	Albrecht of Halberstadt	0 ?	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

1. ↑ List of honorary citizens on Halberstadt's website , (last accessed on January 11, 2014)
2. ↑ https://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/halberstadt/haben-wuerdigung-ehrenbuerger-in-bester-gesellschaft