List of personalities from the city of Laucha an der Unstrut
The list of personalities from the city of Laucha an der Unstrut contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city of Laucha an der Unstrut . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of Laucha an der Unstrut or who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Laucha on the Unstrut, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen of the city
- Carl Stephan (1837–1927), Laucha chronicler
sons and daughters of the town
- Gottfried Möbius (1611–1664), doctor and professor of medicine
- Georg Möbius (1616–1697), theologian and historian
- Levin Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1738–1801), electoral Saxon secret councilor and heir, feudal lord and court lord on castle divisions and church divisions as well as Kleinliebenau, born in castle divisions
- Moritz Levin Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1774–1814), Saxon chamberlain, majorate on castle and church divisions, heir of Branderode and Netzschkau, born in Burgscheidungen
- Friedrich von Thiersch (1784–1860), philologist, born in Kirchscheidungen
- Benedikt Wolff (1786–1847), theologian and philosopher
- Bernhard Thiersch (1793–1855), educator, poet of the Prussian song, born in Kirchscheidungen
- Johann Gottfried Rode (1797–1857), musician and composer, born in Kirchscheidungen
- Carl Johannes Thomae (1840–1921), mathematician
- Carl Stephan (1837–1927), Laucha chronicler and honorary citizen
- Berthold Sigmund Schenkling (1865–1946), teacher and entomologist
- Karl Hermann Heise (1872–1939), anthroposophist and writer
- Max Weber (1922–2007), track and field athlete
- Erhard Albrecht (* 1925), philosopher, born in Kirchscheidungen
- Arnold Müller (* 1949), geologist and paleontologist
- Gunter Heise (* 1951), process engineer, until 2013 managing partner and spokesman for the management of Rotkäppchen-Mumm Sektkellereien GmbH in Freyburg (Unstrut)
- Judith Demba (* 1957), politician and co-founder of the Green Party in the GDR
Personalities associated with the city
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), poet and philosopher, was prepared in church divisions in 1857 by Pastor Gustav Adolf Oßwald, a close friend of the late Röcken pastor Carl Ludwig Nietzsche († 1849), for the entrance examination to the Pforta State School
- Hans am Ende (1864–1918), Impressionist painter and co-founder of the Worpswede artists' colony , son of the Kirchscheid pastor Christoph Gotthelf Alwin am Ende
- Shahak Shapira (* 1988), artist, writer, musician, comedian and satirist, lived temporarily in Laucha
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Koldewey: Wolff, Benedikt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 9.