List of personalities of the city of Hettstedt
The list of personalities of the city of Hettstedt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Hettstedt in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who were born here or who worked in the city.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Hettstedt see also the corresponding local articles.
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Peter Andreas Müller (1744–1821), philosopher, Lutheran theologian and university professor
- Carl Christian Agthe (1762–1797), composer and organist
- Carl Wilhelm Ernst Heimbach (1765–1801), educator
- Karl Friedrich Richter (1776–1838), Lutheran theologian and writer
- Gottlieb Carl Haubner (1806–1882), veterinarian and university professor
- Hermann Kahle (1829–1887), educational writer, theologian and teacher
- Bruno Emil König (1833–1902), non-fiction author
- Hans Michaelson (1872–1954), avant-garde painter and “degenerate” artist in 1937
- Friedrich Kegel (1874–1948), mining engineer, collector and member of parliament. The mineral kegelite is named after him.
- Karl Weinrich (1887–1973), NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen
- Joachim Heinrichs (1889–1955), pastor born in Burgörner-Neudorf and member of the Confessing Church
- Richard Borowski (1894–1956), Minister in Lower Saxony
- Heribert Fütterer (1894–1963), officer, most recently General der Flieger in World War II
- Walter Trautmann (1906–1983), journalist and NSDAP district economic advisor in the Halle-Merseburg district
- Wolfgang Brockpähler (1929–2014), writer
- Günter Menger (1931–2015), officer. He was major general of the East German NVA and deputy head of the Technical Committee of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty.
- Horst Thieme (1931–1986), historian, Leipzig city archivist
- Alfred Schlya (* 1935), Honorary President of the German Chess Federation, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Thomas Keßler (* 1943), former diplomat, was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Melbourne from 2003 to 2008.
- Hans-Peter Sommer (* 1944), teacher, local politician (CDU) and district administrator
- Renate Hubig (* 1945), TV announcer for GDR television
- Gerhard Kern (* 1950), politician, 1990–1998 Member of the State Parliament (CDU)
- Roland Claus (* 1954), politician (SED / PDS / Die Linke), member of the GDR People's Chamber and the German Bundestag
- Jörg Hellmuth (* 1957), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag since 2013
People related to the city of Hettstedt
- August von Münchhausen (1788–1841), Prussian officer and district administrator
- Carl Wilhelm Mehliß (1806–1847), doctor, surgeon, anatomist, author of internationally known publications, since 1840 physicist in Hettstedt
- Gabriele Rommel (* 1953), Germanist and Novalis researcher, lived in Hettstedt
- Petra Wernicke (1953–2017), politician (CDU), 1991–1994 and 2002–2009 Minister for Agriculture and Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt