List of personalities of the city of Ilsenburg (Harz)
The list of personalities of the city of Ilsenburg (Harz) contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Ilsenburg (Harz) in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of the city, who were born here or in today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Ilsenburg (Harz) see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1990 - Dr. med. Thilo Blick (awarded posthumously)
- 1991 - Hermann Greifeld , Harz native poet
- 2002 - Hans Riefenstahl, local researcher
sons and daughters of the town
- Peter Engelbrecht jun. (1558 / 59–1618), lawyer and chronicler of the Ilsenburg monastery
- Count Ernst zu Stolberg (1650–1710), regent of the County of Wernigerode
- Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1663–1727), orientalist
- Christian Ludwig Hartmann von Landwüst (1773–1844), Prussian and then Stolberg-Wernerödischer chief forest master
- Christoph Friedrich Jasche (1780–1871), natural scientist, born in Drübeck, died in Ilsenburg
- Otto von Hagen (1817–1880), forester
- Robert Riefenstahl (1823–1903), landscape painter
- Heinrich Mooshake (1836–1914), farmer, company founder, wholesale merchant, banker and manor owner
- August Trümpelmann (1837–1915), theologian and writer
- Hugo Crola (1841–1910), portrait, genre and history painter at the Düsseldorf School of Painting and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy
- Paul Carus (1852–1919), German-American publisher, writer and philosopher
- Walter Schott (1861–1938), sculptor
- Otto Roth (1863–1944), surgeon and anesthesia pioneer
- Georg Günther (1869–1945), German-Austrian industrial manager
- Walter Schliephacke (1877–1955), late Romantic painter
- Bernhard Lambrecht (1897–1971), confectioner, textbook author and founder of the Federal College for the Confectionery Trade in Wolfenbüttel
- Hermann Greifeld (1901–1991), Harz native poet
- Dieter Bührle (1921–2012), entrepreneur
- Rudi Lüttge (1922–2016), track and field athlete
- Gisela Fuchs (* 1928), Operations Director of VEB “Progress” Magdeburg and member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
- Werner Rahn (* 1939), naval officer (captain at sea a. D.), military historian, head of the military history research office
- Walter Eggert (1940–2017), luge rider
- Uwe Nehler (* 1946), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 1990 to 2002
- Reinhard Bredow (* 1947), luge rider
Personalities associated with the city
- Burchard von Veltheim (* around 1028, † 1088), cleric and as Burchard II. Bishop of Halberstadt, died in the Ilsenburg monastery
- Peter Engelbrecht the Elder Ä. (1528–1598), manager of a smelter and monastery administrator
- Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg (1593–1672), founder of the older main line of the Count's House of Stolberg
- Christoph Lamberg (1626–1680), court preacher and councilor of the Stolberg family, died in Ilsenburg
- Jakob Bierbrauer (1673–1749), clergyman and Bergrat, died in Ilsenburg, after him the Jacobsbruch am Brocken is named
- Hans Dietrich von Zanthier (1717–1778), head forester, gave private forest lessons in the village
- Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743-1815), Braunschweiger professor, took 1,775 of Ilsenburg one of the first height measurements of the Brocken ago
- Johann Christian Ruberg (1746–1807), smelter, inventor in the field of metallurgy
- Christoph Friedrich Jasche (1780–1871), natural scientist
- Count Botho zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1805–1881), historian and castle researcher, died in Ilsenburg Castle (Bothobau)
- Georg Heinrich Crola (1804–1879) and Elisabeth Concordia Crola (1809–1878), charitable artist couple
- Eduard Schott (1808–1895), metallurgist and art caster, discoverer of the crystallization process
- Friedrich von Hassel (1833–1890), Prussian lieutenant general, died here
- Eleonore Reuss (1835–1903), hymn poet
- Adolf Ledebur (1837–1906), metallurgist, discoverer of the Ledeburit
- Ludwig Kotelmann (1839–1908), Protestant theologian, teacher, ophthalmologist and medical historian
- Hermann Lietz (1868–1919), reform pedagogue and founder of the German rural education homes for boys
- Alfred Stier (1880–1967), composer and music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony
- Heinz Quitt (* 1928), forest engineer and nature conservationist in Saxony-Anhalt, was the head of the Ilsenburg Forest District
- Harald Bauer (* 1949), physicist and politician (CDU), was a city councilor in Ilsenburg
- Eduard Schreiber (* 1939), film director and author, grew up near Ilsenburg
- André Lüderitz (* 1958), politician (Die Linke), member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 2006 to 2016
- Peggy Wolf (* 1971), journalist and author, grew up here
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are detailed biographies of several personalities of the city of Ilsenburg in the following commemorative publication: City of Ilsenburg (Hrsg.): 995–1995 1000 years of Ilsenburg / Harz, published by the city of Ilsenburg on the occasion of the 1000 year celebration , Ilsenburg (Harz), 1995.