List of personalities of the city of Köthen (Anhalt)
The list of personalities of the city of Köthen (Anhalt) contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Köthen (Anhalt) . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Köthen (Anhalt) see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Albert von Goßler (1807–1869), administrative lawyer , Real Privy Councilor and Minister of State of Dessau , made an honorary citizen on November 29, 1853
- Salomon Herz (1791–1865), merchant , made an honorary citizen on August 18, 1863
- Louis Wittig , Privy Councilor of Commerce , made an honorary citizen on December 15, 1897
- Felix Friedheim (1845–1900), banker
- Karl Irmer (1831–1911), Commissioner and City Councilor , made an honorary citizen on January 8, 1909
- Hermann Trautmann (1842–1926), head of the city council , made an honorary citizen on December 15, 1910
- Valentin Iwanowitsch Bogdanow , first city commander of the Soviet military administration in Germany
- Hans Georg Schäfer , director of the Bach Festival , made an honorary citizen on January 18, 2011
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- Adolf von Anhalt-Zerbst (1458–1526), Roman Catholic Bishop of Merseburg
- Wolfgang (1492–1566), Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, reformer
- Nicolaus Gallus (1516–1570), reformer
- Bartholomäus Frenzel (* 1550; † late 16th century), neo-Latin poet
- Ludwig I (1579–1650), Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, founder of the Fruit-Bringing Society
- Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1630–1709), a doctor from Anhalt in The Hague, grandfather of Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Johann Heinrich Schmucker (1684–1756), theologian
- Andreas Frantz Pega († after 1702), publisher and printer in Glatz, court printer in Breslau
- Gisela Agnes (1669–1740), Princess of Anhalt-Köthen (born in the Kleinwülknitz district)
- Leopold (1694–1728), Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), composer
- Christiana Büsching , née Dilthey (1728–1777), poet
- Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer (1727–1787), architect
- Johann Georg Leberecht Richter (1763–1840), General Superintendent of Mitau
- Friederike Ellmenreich (1775–1845), actress and writer
- Ludwig von Below (1779-1859), Prussian lieutenant general
- Leberecht Uhlich (1799–1872), theologian
- Alfred von Behr (1812–1862), physician and politician
- Hermann Albert Daniel (1812–1871), geographer and hymnologist
- Hans Hermann Behr (1818–1904), physician and entomologist
- Angelika Hartmann (1829–1917), Froebel teacher , founder of kindergartens
- Julius Naue (1833–1907), painter and archaeologist
- Eduard von Rindfleisch (1836–1908), pathologist
- Gustav Fels (1842–1922), Mayor of Lehe (Bremerhaven)
- Franz Goeschke (1844–1912), botanist and employee of the Royal Prussian Pomological Institute in Prosaau
- Richard Cramer (1847–1906), civil engineer
- August Klughardt (1847–1902), composer and conductor
- Georg Krause (1849–1927), founder of the Chemiker-Zeitung
- Ernst Albert (1859–1936), stage actor and biologist
- Philipp Mühlenbein (1865–1951), District President in Anhalt
- Gerhard Heine (1867–1949), writer, pedagogue and literary historian
- Paul Schmidt (1868–1948), inventor of the dry battery
- Hermann Gocht (1869–1938), orthopedist
- Carl Herz (1877–1951), SPD politician
- Robert Friedrich Goetze (1881–1940), architect
- Richard Wittsack (1887–1952), speech scientist
- Max Henze (1899–1951), NSDAP politician
- Werner Haase (1900–1950), Hitler's personal physician
- Alfred Tokayer (1900–1943), composer
- Eduard von Boguslawski (1905–1999), crop scientist
- Walter Rauff (1906–1984), NSDAP and SS / SD member (gas truck development / euthanasia participation)
- Hans Elwenspoek (1910–1989), actor
- Harald Sioli (1910–2004), biologist and limnologist, founder of Amazon ecology
- Wilhelm Albert von Brunn (1911–1988), archaeologist
- Joachim Hietzig (1919–2012), founder of IMAG (International Trade Fair and Exhibition Company)
- Gerhard Schiedewitz (1925–2007), newspaper editor
- Joachim Bechtle-Bechtinger (* 1926), writer
- Manfred Wekwerth (1929–2014), theater director
- Hans-Ulrich Brand (* 1930), lawyer and politician (SPD)
- Gerhard Neumann (1930–2002), writer, theater director
- Gerhard Thielcke (1931–2007), ornithologist and environmentalist
- Michael Naumann (* 1941), journalist and publisher
- Axel Kuhn (* 1944), logistician
- Bernd Ettel (* 1949), architect
- Zabba Lindner (1949–2017), drummer and composer
- Eckhard-Bodo Elze (* 1951), local politician
- Heinz Prokop (* 1952), handball trainer and handball player
- Roland Brückner (* 1955), Turner
- Frank Meyer (* 1960), physician and specialist author
- René Röder (* 1962), soccer player
- Detlef Günther (* 1963), chemist and university professor at the ETH Zurich
- Nicki Pawlow (* 1964), writer
- Steffen Scheller (* 1969), Lord Mayor of Brandenburg an der Havel
- Jörg Bagdahn (* 1971), President of the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
- Nora Leschkowitz (* 1977), actress
- Christian Prokop (* 1978), coach of the German national handball team and handball player
- Torsten Krause (* 1981), politician, member of the Brandenburg State Parliament
- Martin Zwicker (* 1987), national hockey player
- Sarah Tkotsch (* 1988), actress
- Hannes Müller (* 2000), hockey player
Other personalities with a connection to the city
- Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682–1761), famous soloist in Bach's orchestra
- Susanne Albrecht (* 1951), former RAF terrorist, lived in Köthen from 1985 to 1987
- Johann Ludwig Konrad Allendorf (1693–1773), Lutheran theologian and song writer, was a preacher here from 1724 to 1755
- Anna Magdalena Bach (1701–1760), b. Wilcke, singer
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer and conductor
- Maria Barbara Bach (1684–1720), b. Bach, singer
- Gottfried Bandhauer (1790–1837), architect and civil engineer
- Pierre Jean Beckx (1795–1887), General of the Jesuit Order
- Gottlieb Göschke (1818–1898), first German strawberry grower
- Karl Begas (1845–1916), German sculptor
- Julie von Brandenburg (1793–1848), Duchess of Anhalt-Köthen
- Hans Bredow (1879–1959), German high frequency technician
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857), poet and writer, lived in Köthen from 1849–1855
- Aloysia von Eichendorff (1792–1855), wife of Joseph von Eichendorff, lived in Köthen from 1849–1855
- Gustav Flügel (1812–1900), composer, lived in Köthen from 1832 to 1838.
- Ferdinand (1769–1830), Duke of Anhalt-Köthen
- Fritz Friesleben (1892 - unknown), politician (NSDAP)
- Paul Albert Glaeser-Wilken (1874–1942), actor and director, appeared in guest roles at the Stadttheater Köthen in the 1920s
- Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), founder of homeopathy
- Heinrich (1778–1847), Duke of Anhalt-Köthen
- Franziska Hildebrand (* 1987), biathlete; World champion and Olympian
- Gottlieb Krause (1804–1888), historian and palace librarian
- Franz Krüger (1797–1857), German painter
- Ludwig I (1579–1650), Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- Arthur Lutze (1813–1870), homeopathic alternative practitioner
- Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857), ornithologist
- Max Ohland (1879 – after 1933), politician (SPD)
- Heinz Quermann (1921–2003), actor
- Wolfgang Ratke (1571–1635), pedagogue and didactic
- Heinrich Reinhardt (1868–1947), builder of the Köthen town hall
- Paul Rose (1900–1973), actor and theater manager, director of the Köthen City Theater 1946/47
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796), composer
- Enno Sander (1822–1912), German protagonist of the revolution of 1848 and pharmacist in the USA
- Johann Schlaginhaufen (around 1498–1560), reformer, first evangelical pastor of St. Jakob
- Gert Schliephake (1925–2007), German zoologist and university professor
- Catharina Amalia von Schlegel (1697 – after 1768), Pietist hymn poet
- Bernhard Sehring (1855–1941), builder of the Jakobskirchtowers
- Otto Siemen (1881–1966), engineer, inventor and manufacturer
- Augustin Reinhard Stricker (around 1680–1718 / 19), court conductor and composer
- Horst Tappert (1923–2008), actor
- Hermann Laundry (1850–1926), dialect poet and archivist
- Bernhard Wicki (1919–2000), Austrian actor
- Karlheinz Klimt (* 1934), biologist and ecologist as well as writer, puppeteer and barrel organ interpreter
