List of personalities of the city of Mühlhausen / Thuringia

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Coat of arms of the city of Mühlhausen / Thuringia

Honorary citizen of the city

see list of honorary citizens of Mühlhausen / Thuringia

sons and daughters of the town

To 1900

From 1901

Other personalities

Bach monument in front of the Blasiikirche
  • Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), Reformation leader of the peasants in the Peasants' War in 1525; lived in Mühlhausen at the time of the war, where he was beheaded
  • Nikolaus Prugener (1494–1553), theologian; worked in Mühlhausen
  • Johann Mantel II (1495–1542), theologian and reformer; worked for some time in Mühlhausen
  • Justus Menius (1499–1558), reformer, pastor in the Blasius Church
  • Sebastian Boetius (1515–1573), Protestant theologian, pastor in Mühlhausen
  • Hieronymus Wolf (1516–1580), humanist, founder of Byzantine Studies; worked in Mühlhausen between 1543 and 1545
  • Johann Stössel (1524–1576), theologian and reformer, superintendent of Mühlhausen
  • Sebastian Starck (1528–1586), theologian and superintendent of Mühlhausen
  • Hieronymus Tilesius (1529–1566), theologian, superintendent and reformer of Mühlhausen
  • Joachim a Burck (1546–1610), composer; from 1566 active in the Blasius Church in Mühlhausen
  • Georg Andreas Fabricius (1589–1645), scholar, head of the Mühlhausen grammar school between 1626 and 1633
  • Benjamin Scharff (1651–1702), German doctor, 1687 to 1689 rector at the school in Mühlhausen
  • Johann Friedrich Wender (1655–1729), organ builder; had his workshop in Mühlhausen
  • Johann Jakob Lungershausen (1665–1729), theologian, superintendent, school inspector and consistorial councilor in Mühlhausen
  • Johann Georg Schröter (1683–1747), organ builder; spent the last year of his life in Mühlhausen, where he also died
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), lived in Mühlhausen between 1707 and 1708
  • Benjamin Gottlieb Gerlach (1698–1756), was a German educator and author and lived in Mühlhausen from 1730 to 1738
  • Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715–1739), organist; worked in Mühlhausen between 1735 and 1736
  • Johann Friedrich Schulze (1793–1858), organ builder; worked in Mühlhausen for a few years
  • Friedrich Louis Simon (1800–1877), architect and student of Schinkel; lived and died in Mühlhausen
  • Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), chemist and physicist; worked in Mühlhausen for a few years
  • Karl Wilhelm Osterwald (1820–1887), educator and writer; from 1865 rector of the Mühlhausen grammar school
  • Bernhard Ziehn (1845–1912), music theorist; worked for several years as a teacher in Mühlhausen
  • Anton Ohorn (1846–1924), writer; lived in Mühlhausen between 1872 and 1874
  • Hermann Iseke (1856–1907), Eichsfeld local poet; went to school in Mühlhausen
  • August Lentze (1860–1945), politician; Mayor of Mühlhausen between 1894 and 1898
  • Heinrich Nebelsieck (1861–1950), 1895–1903 pastor of St. Mary's Church in Mühlhausen
  • Albert Steinrück (1872–1929), actor; temporarily active at the Mühlhausen Theater
  • Georg Raeschke (1884–1963), surgeon, gynecologist and obstetrician in Mühlhausen
  • Otto Model (1884–1964), lawyer and publicist; lived in Mühlhausen for a long time
  • Karl Hermann (1885–1973), politician (USPD, SPD, SED); Mayor of Mühlhausen between 1948 and 1950
  • Hannes Stelzer (1910–1944), actor; worked at the Mühlhausen Theater
  • Walter Werneburg (1922–1999), painter; completed his training between 1936 and 1939 in Mühlhausen
  • Günter Vogler (* 1933), historian, co-founder of the Thomas Müntzer Society in Mühlhausen
  • Dieter Fechner (* 1936), non-fiction author; has lived in Mühlhausen since 1946
  • Jost Glase (1936–1990), writer and university professor, lived in Mühlhausen from 1968 until his death
  • Eckhard Ohl (1947-2006), politician (SPD); worked in Mühlhausen