List of personalities of the city of Kassel

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Coat of arms of the city of Kassel

This list contains  persons born in Kassel (officially Cassel until 1926 ) as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Kassel without being born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Kassel

By 1700

  • Valerius Cordus (1515–1544), botanist, doctor, pharmacologist and naturalist
  • Hans Wilhelm Kirchhof (1525–1605), poet
  • Anna (1529–1591), Princess of Hesse and Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken
  • Wilhelm IV. (1532–1592), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  • Barbara (1536–1597), Princess of Hesse, Countess of Württemberg-Mömpelgard and Countess of Waldeck
  • Ludwig IV (1537–1604), Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg
  • Elisabeth (1539–1582), Princess of Hesse and Electress of the Palatinate
  • Christine (1543–1604), Princess of Hesse and Duchess of Holstein-Gottorf
  • Georg I (1547–1596), Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg (1553–1616), progenitor of the barons of Cornberg
  • Anna Maria (1567–1626), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken
  • Hedwig (1569–1644), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Princess of Schaumburg
  • Moritz (1572–1632), regent of Hessen-Kassel
  • Christine (1578–1658), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Duchess of Saxony-Eisenach
  • Otto (1594–1617), Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel and administrator of Hersfeld
  • Elisabeth (1596–1625), Duchess of Mecklenburg
  • Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1600–1657), engineer and city architect
  • Wilhelm V (1602–1637), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  • Agnes (1606–1650), Princess of Hessen-Kassel and Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Hermann IV. (1607–1658), Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
  • Regner Badenhausen (1610–1686), lawyer and chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel
  • Magdalene (1611–1671), princess of Hessen-Kassel and former countess of Salm-Reifferscheid
  • Sophie (1615–1670), Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Friedrich (1617–1655), Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
  • Sebastian Curtius (1620–1684), reformed clergyman, theologian and university professor
  • Ernst I (1623–1693), Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
  • Charlotte von Hessen-Kassel (1627–1686), Electress of the Palatinate
  • William VI. (1629–1663), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  • Johann Balthasar von Hoffmann (1639–1705), lawyer and Drost of Count zur Lippe-Brake
  • Heinrich Majus (1632–1696), medic and physicist
  • Andreas Cleyer (1634–1697), businessman, botanist, medic and Japan researcher
  • Hermann Zoll (1643–1725), lawyer
  • Wilhelm I (1648–1725), Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg
  • Charlotte Amalie (1650–1714), Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Queen of Denmark
  • Wilhelm VII (1651–1670), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  • Philipp (1655–1721), Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
  • Johann Jakob Chuno (1661–1715), royal councilor and archivist
  • Elisabeth Henriette of Hessen-Kassel (1661–1683), Electoral Princess of Brandenburg
  • Christoph Ludwig Motz (1665–1742), Hessian-Bremen colonel
  • Charlotte (1672–1738), Princess of Hessen-Homburg and Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
  • Hedwig Luise (1675–1760), Princess of Hessen-Homburg and Countess von Schlieben
  • Friedrich (1676–1751), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and King of Sweden
  • Sophie Charlotte (1678–1749), Duchess of Mecklenburg
  • Wilhelm VIII (1682–1760), Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
  • Philippine Elisabeth Cäsar (1686–1744), wife of Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen
  • Johann Philipp Heinius (1688–1775), philosopher
  • Marie Luise (1688–1765), Princess of Nassau-Dietz and Princess of Orange
  • Hesse Goldschmidt (1689 / 90–1733), merchant
  • Georg (1691–1755), Prince of Hesse-Kassel and General
  • Charles du Ry (1692–1757), court architect

18th century

1701 to 1750

1751 to 1800

19th century

1801 to 1825

1826 to 1850

1851 to 1875

1876 ​​to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1910

1911 to 1920

1921 to 1930

1931 to 1940

1941 to 1950

1951 to 1960

1961 to 1970

1971 to 1980

From 1981

People who worked in Kassel

People who worked in Kassel at least temporarily but were not born there:

To 1900

  • Jost Bürgi , born February 28, 1558 in Toggenburg; † January 31, 1632 in Kassel, astronomer
  • Heinrich Schütz , born October 8, 1585 in Köstritz; † November 6, 1672 in Dresden, composer
  • Theophilus Neuberger , born May 5, 1593 in Jena; † January 9, 1656 in Kassel, reformed theologian and clergyman, long-time court preacher and superintendent of Kassel
  • Paul du Ry , * 1640 in Paris; † 1714 in Kassel, builder and engineer
  • Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus , born March 21, 1646 in Marburg; † April 2, 1719 in Kassel, 1695–1719 Chancellor of the landgrave government of Hesse-Kassel
  • Philipp Otto Vietor , born March 24, 1646 in Rinteln; † January 1, 1718 in Kassel, reformed theologian and superintendent
  • Denis Papin , born August 22, 1647 in Blois; † 1712 (?), Physicist
  • Johann Tennhardt , born June 2, 1661 in Dobergast; † 1720 in Kassel, inspired visionary
  • Leonhard Heinrich Ludwig Georg von Canngießer , born May 22, 1716 in Wetzlar; † May 29, 1772 in Kassel, President of the Higher Appeal Court, head of the Oberpostdirektion
  • Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit , born August 18, 1720 in Pyrmont; † August 2, 1791 in Kassel, Protestant theologian, clergyman and university professor at the Collegium Carlinum
  • Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder , born October 3, 1722 in Haina; † August 22, 1789 in Kassel, painter (called "the Kasseler")
  • Johann Heinrich Müntz , * 1727 in Mülhausen in Alsace, † 1798 in Kassel, garden architect
  • Johann Wilhelm Christian Gustav Casparson , born September 7, 1729 in Gießen, † September 3, 1802 in Kassel, writer, historian and university professor in Kassel, member of the founding board of directors of the Friedrichsgymnasium and Hessian council
  • Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger , born November 28, 1742 in Haina; † December 22, 1808 in Kassel, painter and engraver
  • Ludwig Daniel Heyd , born February 7, 1743 in Hellingen; † 1801 in Kassel, court sculptor
  • Wilhelm Böttner , born February 24, 1752 in Ziegenhain; † November 24, 1805 in Kassel, painter and director of the Kassel Art Academy
  • Philipp Jacob Piderit * August 20, 1753 in Marburg, † May 2, 1817 in Kassel, personal physician to Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel
  • Johann Georg Adam Forster , born November 27, 1754 in Nassenhuben near Danzig; † January 10, 1794 in Paris, naturalist
  • Dorothea Viehmann , born November 8, 1755 in Kirchbauna; † November 17, 1815 in Kassel, market woman and storyteller
  • Hans Adolph Friedrich von Eschstruth , born January 28, 1756 in Homberg (Efze); † April 30, 1792 in Kassel, court judge, music writer and composer
  • Franz Karl Schleicher , born February 5, 1756 in Rinteln; † January 23, 1815 in Kassel, war scientist and geodesist, military teacher, surveyor inspector and academician in Kassel
  • Philippine Engelhard , born October 21, 1756 in Nuremberg; † September 28, 1831 in Blankenburg, poet
  • Georg Christian Carl Henschel , born April 24, 1759 in Giessen; † June 2, 1835 in Kassel, founder of the Henschel works
  • Salomon Friedrich Merkel , born February 13, 1760 in Schmalkalden; † February 21, 1823 in Kassel, notary and defense lawyer
  • Christian Friedrich von Cochenhausen , born December 17, 1769 in Eschwege; † March 8, 1839 in Kassel, Minister of War and Lieutenant General under Elector Wilhelm II.
  • Joseph Antoine Morio , born January 16, 1771 in Chantelle; † December 25, 1811 in Kassel, General, Count and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Westphalia; was murdered in Kassel
  • Wilhelmine Halberstadt , born January 24, 1776 in Korbach; † March 11, 1841 in Kassel, teacher and writer
  • Elard Johannes Kulenkamp , born November 30, 1777 in Witzenhausen; † June 15, 1851 in Kassel, judge at the Higher Appeal Court in Kassel
  • Louis Spohr , born April 5, 1784 in Braunschweig; † October 22, 1859 in Kassel, composer
  • Jérôme Bonaparte , born November 15, 1784 in Ajaccio; † June 24, 1860 in the Château de Vilgénis, Massy; ruled his kingdom of Westphalia between 1807 and 1813 from Kassel and founded the first parliament on German soil here
  • Jacob Grimm , born January 4, 1785 in Hanau; † September 20, 1863 in Berlin, literary scholar
  • Wilhelm Grimm , born February 24, 1786 in Hanau; † December 16, 1859 in Berlin, literary scholar
  • Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring , born January 28, 1755 in Thorn; † March 2, 1830 in Frankfurt am Main, doctor, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor
  • Ludwig Grimm , born March 14, 1790 in Hanau; † April 4, 1863 in Kassel, painter and engraver
  • Karl Carvacchi , born August 23, 1791 in Braunsberg; † May 10, 1869 in Kassel, administrative officer, historian, entrepreneur and member of the Schönfelder Kreis
  • Karl Schomburg , born October 11, 1791 in Grebenstein; † July 4, 1841 in Mihla, Mayor of Kassel
  • Maximilian von Ditfurth , born May 10, 1806 in Munich; † August 8, 1861 in Marburg, Elector of Hesse officer and military historian, member of the Electorate of Hesse assembly of estates; first honorary citizen of the city of Kassel
  • Ernst Koch , born June 3, 1807 in Singlis near Borken (Hesse); † November 24, 1858 in Luxembourg, writer
  • Sigmund Aschrott , born June 14, 1826 in Hochheim am Main; † May 5, 1915 in Berlin, industrialist, developed the Kassel Vorderen West
  • Philipp Bickel , born September 29, 1829 in Weinheim; † November 9, 1914 in Kassel, writer, Baptist theologian and publicist
  • Marie Calm * April 3, 1832 in Bad Arolsen; † February 22, 1887 in Kassel, writer, pedagogue and women's rights activist
  • Ludwig Mohr , born February 10, 1833 in Homberg an der Efze; † July 13, 1900 in Wehlheiden, writer and historian
  • Karl Begas , born November 23, 1845 in Berlin; † February 21, 1916 Köthen, sculptor and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
  • Hermann Schelenz , born April 9, 1848 in Kempen, Province of Posen; † September 28, 1922 in Kassel, pharmacist, industrialist and pharmaceutical historian
  • Heinrich Salzmann , born February 3, 1851 in Spangenberg; † November 3, 1915 in Kassel, factory owner, founder of Salzmann & Comp. and builder of the garden city of Salzmannshausen
  • Julie von Kästner , born September 26, 1852 in Riga; † February 13, 1937 in Kassel, educator, women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the city council of Kassel
  • Elisabeth Ganslandt , b. Hasse, born May 21, 1856 in Weißenfels; † December 9, 1945 in Einbeck, women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the city council of Kassel
  • Max Lieberg , born July 22, 1856 in Wolfhagen; † August 10, 1912 in Kassel, painter
  • Wilhelm II. , Born January 27, 1859 in Berlin; † June 4, 1941 in Doorn, Netherlands, last German Emperor; attended the Kassel high school from 1874 to 1877 and spent the summer months from 1891 to 1918 in his residence at Wilhelmshöhe Palace
  • Gustav Mahler , born July 7, 1860 in Kalischt, Bohemia; † May 18, 1911 in Vienna, composer and conductor; as Kapellmeister in Kassel from 1883 to 1885
  • Wilhelm Speck , born July 7, 1861 in Großalmerode; † March 31, 1925 in Bad Wilhelmshöhe, pastor, poet and writer
  • Johanna Vogt , born June 16, 1862 in Elberfeld; † March 12, 1944 in Berlin, suffragette and from 1919 the first woman on the city council of Kassel
  • Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia , born August 14, 1862 in Berlin; † April 20, 1929 in Hemmelmark; Attendance at the Kassel high school
  • Elisabeth Consbruch , born January 7, 1863 in Altenkirchen (Westerwald); † May 20, 1938 in Kassel, teacher and women's rights activist and in 1919 one of the first six women elected to the city council of Kassel.
  • Rudolf Schwander , born December 23, 1868 in Colmar, Alsace; † December 25, 1950 in Oberursel, Taunus, social reformer and politician
  • Karl Heldmann , born September 19, 1869 in Viermünden; † March 12, 1943 in Kassel, historian and pacifist
  • Albert Wiegel , born December 7, 1869 in Ziegenhagen; † October 22, 1943 in Kassel, glass artist
  • Paul Heidelbach , born February 28, 1870 in Düsseldorf; † February 13, 1954 in Kassel, writer, city archivist and librarian, well-known Kassel dialect poet
  • Richard Hauschildt , born November 12, 1876 in Hamburg; † December 6, 1934 in Kassel, politician
  • August Fricke (politician) , born November 7, 1880 in Segeste; † July 29, 1965, politician and educator
  • Hermann Schaff , born December 2, 1883 in Langenstein; † June 2, 1959; Co-founder of the CJZ-Kassel
  • Siegmund Weltlinger , born March 29, 1886 in Hamburg; † May 18, 1974 in Berlin, politician, grew up in Kassel
  • Karl Weinrich , born December 2, 1887 in Molmeck; † July 22, 1973 in Hausen (Hesse), from 1928 to 1943 NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen
  • Roland Freisler * October 30, 1893 in Celle; † February 3, 1945 in Berlin, lawyer and later President of the “People's Court”; opened a law firm in Kassel in 1924, where he was also a city councilor
  • Ludwig Schneider , born December 20, 1893 in Obermöllrich; † February 26, 1977 in Kassel, politician, judge and lawyer
  • Gerhard Fieseler , born April 15, 1896 in Glesch; † September 1, 1987 in Kassel, founder of the Gerhard Fieseler works, aircraft designer and fighter pilot
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , also FW Murnau, * December 28, 1888 as Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe in Bielefeld; † March 11, 1931 in Santa Barbara, California, film director; School time in Kassel

From 1901

  • Rudolf Caracciola , born January 30, 1901 in Remagen; † September 28, 1959 in Kassel, automobile racing driver; Participant in the Kassel Mountain Prize in the 1920s
  • Richard Roosen , born October 13, 1901 in Hamburg; † March 2, 1980 in Kassel, mechanical engineer and director at the Henschel works in Kassel
  • Karl Vötterle , born April 12, 1903 in Augsburg; † October 29, 1975 in Kassel, founder of the Kassler Bärenreiter publishing house
  • Karl Gerland , born July 14, 1905 in Gottsbüren; † 1945 on the Eastern Front, NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen
  • Samuel Beckett , born April 13, 1906 in Dublin; † December 22, 1989 in Paris, Nobel Prize for Literature; numerous extended stays with the family of his cousin from 1928 to 1932, in the novel he Dream of Fair to Middling Women processed
  • Adam von Trott zu Solz , born August 9, 1909 in Potsdam; † August 26, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, diplomat and resistance fighter in the Third Reich
  • Lauritz Lauritzen , born January 20, 1910 in Plön; † June 5, 1980 in Bad Honnef, Mayor of Kassel (1954–1963)
  • Hedwig Grimm , born February 20, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main; † September 8, 2003 in Kassel, rose expert
  • Wernt Grimm , * 1912; † March 8, 2000 in Kassel, rose expert
  • Otto Heinrich Kühner , born March 10, 1921 in Nimburg, † October 18, 1996 in Kassel, German writer
  • Christine Brückner , born December 10, 1921 in Schmillinghausen near Arolsen, † December 21, 1996 in Kassel, writer, lived with her husband Otto Heinrich Kühner in Kassel.
  • Lucius Burckhardt , born March 12, 1925 in Davos; † August 26, 2003 in Basel, founder of promenadology
  • Karl Oskar Blase , born March 24, 1925 in Cologne; † December 27, 2016 in Kassel, graphic designer and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
  • Hans Georg Hillmann , born October 25, 1925 in Nieder-Mois, Silesia; † May 4, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, graphic designer and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
  • Wolfgang Zucht , born January 30, 1929 in Berlin; † September 17, 2015 in Kassel, publisher and publicist; together with his wife Helga Weber (* 1935), who was born in Kassel, founder and operator of the anarcho-pacifist publishing house Weber & Zucht based in Kassel
  • Josef Klik , born January 30, 1935 in Kottiken; † April 8, 2020 in Petersberg, athlete and multiple German champion
  • Hans Haacke , born August 12, 1936 in Cologne, artist; studied and worked in Kassel from 1956 to 1960
  • Jörg Schönbohm , born September 2, 1937 in Neu-Golm; † February 7, 2019 in Kleinmachnow, politicians and military; lived in Kassel as a child and teenager
  • Rolf Schwendter , born August 13, 1939 in Vienna; † July 21, 2013 in Kassel, writer and social scientist, professor at the University of Kassel
  • Otto Sander , born June 30, 1941 in Hanover; † September 12, 2013 in Berlin, actor; Grew up in Kassel and completed general university entrance qualification
  • Hannes Wader , born June 23, 1942 in Bethel near Bielefeld, songwriter and singer; has lived in Kassel since 2008
  • Antje Vollmer , born May 31, 1943 in Lübbecke, Vice-President of the German Bundestag (1994-2005)
  • Gerd Loßdörfer , born October 7, 1943 in Nordhausen, athlete
  • Horst Ebert , born October 10, 1943 in Schrecksbach, † October 12, 2014 in Kassel, musician (The Petards)
  • Michael Buthe , born August 1, 1944 in Sonthofen, † November 15, 1994 in Bad Godesberg, painter and sculptor; studied in Kassel
  • Horst Hoheisel , born December 6, 1944 in Posen, artist, lives in Kassel
  • Adolf Winkelmann , born April 10, 1946 in Hallenberg, director and founder of the Kassel film collective
  • Urs Lüthi , born September 10, 1947 in Kriens, Switzerland, artist and professor at the Kassel Art Academy
  • Kazuo Katase , * 1947 in Shizuoka, artist; has lived in Kassel since 1975
  • Bernd Wippich , born January 13, 1950 in Hof (Saale), † March 31, 2004 in Klagenfurt, musician (Randy Pie, The Petards)
  • Martin Kippenberger , born February 25, 1953 in Dortmund; † March 7, 1997 in Vienna, artist and lecturer at the Kassel Art School
  • Kornelia Scholz , * 1953 in Eberstadt; † May 2, 1991 in Regensburg, musician (yes)
  • Hans Dieter Tylle , born March 24, 1954 in Bayreuth, artist; lives and works u. a. in Kassel
  • Bernhard Lauer , * 1954 in Britten, Museum Director Brothers Grimm Museum Kassel
  • Jürgen O. Olbrich , born November 25, 1955 in Bielefeld, artist
  • Andreas Jürgens , born November 14, 1956 in Salzgitter, green politician and member of the Hessian state parliament
  • Stephan Balkenhol , born February 10, 1957 in Fritzlar, wood sculptor; Grew up in Kassel, graduated from Friedrichsgymnasium
  • Murat Günak , born August 9, 1957 in Istanbul, head of the Volkswagen design department from 2004 to January 2007; studied in Kassel
  • Barbara Rudnik , born July 27, 1958 in Wehbach; † May 23, 2009 in Wolfratshausen, actress; grew up in Kassel
  • Matthias Altenburg , born December 14, 1958 in Fulda, writer (under the name Jan Seghers author of detective novels); went to school in Kassel
  • Hamid Baroudi , born February 20, 1960 in Tiaret, Algeria, musician
  • Dieter Hecking , born September 12, 1964 in Castrop-Rauxel, soccer player and trainer; played in Kassel from 1985 to 1990
  • Markus "Zimbl" Zimmer , born October 7, 1964 in Eschwege; † June 18, 2006 in Kassel, musician (The Bates)
  • Hartmut El Kurdi , born October 15, 1964 in Amman, writer and theater maker; grew up in Kassel
  • Lothar Sippel , born May 9, 1965 in Göttingen, soccer player and coach, played in Kassel from 1985 to 1989
  • Christina Lux , born May 26, 1965 in Karlsruhe, musician
  • Thomas Stellmach , born July 21, 1965 in Straubing, Oscar winner
  • Brezel Göring , * 1967 in Wolfhagen, musician (Stereo Total); lived in Kassel from 1985 to 1988
  • Jens Kloppmann , * 1969 in Witten, artist; studied in Kassel
  • Anant Kumar , born September 28, 1969 in Katihar / Bihar, German writer of Indian origin; lives in Kassel
  • Michael Spörke * July 14, 1972 in Eisenach, political scientist, writer and disability politician
  • Aljoscha Stadelmann * 1974 in Wuppertal, actor; Abitur in Kassel, 1999 to 2001 engagement at the state theater in Kassel
  • Katharina Wackernagel , born October 15, 1978 in Freiburg im Breisgau, actress; spent her school days in Kassel from 1983 to 1996
  • Lucy Redler , born August 17, 1979 in Hann. Münden, politician (SAV); grew up in Kassel
  • Nicole Maisch , born April 20, 1981 in Hanau, green politician and member of the German Bundestag
  • Carl Jakob Haupt , born December 18, 1984 in Hofgeismar, † April 19, 2019 in Bad Saarow; Blogger; grew up and student in Kassel

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