List of personalities of the city of Neubrandenburg
The list of personalities of the city of Neubrandenburg contains people who were born or lived and worked in Neubrandenburg . The list does not claim to be complete.
sons and daughters of the town
| Year of birth | Surname | Year of death | job |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1533 | Friedrich Hein | 1604 | Law scholar, university professor and mayor |
| 1732 | Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten | 1787 | Mathematician, university professor |
| 1759 | Sophie Westenholz | 1838 | Singer, pianist, composer |
| 1776 | Franz Christian Boll | 1818 | Protestant pastor at the Marien- and the Johanniskirche |
| 1783 | Wilhelm Ruscheweyh | 1844 | Drawing teacher, decorative painter, court decorator |
| 1785 | Karl Hartwig von Zieten | 1846 | Major, paleontologist and author |
| 1791 | Ernst Alban | 1856 | Ophthalmologist and machine builder |
| 1800 | Heinrich Roloff | 1885 | Piano maker (Roloff brothers, 1st generation) |
| 1801 | Ludwig Roloff | after 1864 | Piano maker (Roloff brothers, 1st generation) |
| 1801 | Friedrich Brückner | 1883 | Mayors and parliamentarians |
| 1805 | Franz Boll | 1875 | Protestant theologian, historian |
| 1810 | Wilhelm Ahlers | 1889 | Lawyer, mayor, animal rights activist |
| 1812 | Hermann Müller-Strübing | 1893 | Classical philologist |
| 1814 | Ludwig Brückner (the elder) | 1902 | Medic and historian |
| 1814 | Luise Mühlbach | 1873 | Writer |
| 1817 | Ernst Boll | 1868 | Naturalist, historian |
| 1818 | Moritz Füldner | 1873 | High school teacher, entomologist and botanist |
| 1823 | Viktor Siemerling | 1879 | Pharmacist, merchant and banker |
| 1837 | Carl Wendt | 1911 | Theologian and educator |
| 1839 | Heinrich Roloff | 1897 | Piano maker (Roloff brothers, 2nd generation) |
| 1841 | August Roloff | 1911 | Piano maker (Roloff brothers, 2nd generation) |
| 1844 | Ludwig Brückner (d. J.) | 1922 | Mediciners |
| 1844 | Bernhard Funk | 1911 | Mediciners and collectors |
| 1849 | Franz Boll | 1879 | Medic, professor in Rome |
| 1850 | Robert Schade | 1916 | Goldsmith and politician |
| 1852 | Richard Müller [-Goldegg] | 1932 | Administrative lawyer in the finance and customs administration |
| 1859 | Carl Teske | 1894 | Heraldist |
| 1863 | Wilhelm Jacobi | after 1921 | sculptor |
| 1866 | Carl Penzhorn | unknown | Politician (NSDAP) |
| 1867 | Theodor Leipart | 1947 | Trade unionists |
| 1871 | Hans Bechly | 1954 | Trade unionists |
| 1874 | Carl Anton Piper | 1938 | Writer, journalist and politician (DVP) |
| 1877 | Edwin Blanck | 1953 | Soil scientist |
| 1878 | Hans Wendt | 1922 | Low German writer |
| 1882 | Ernst Kühnel | 1964 | German art historian |
| 1883 | Wolfgang Scharenberg | 1969 | Lawyer and Notary |
| 1886 | Irmgard Unger-Brückner | 1976 | Writer, local history researcher |
| 1888 | Wilhelm Jaeger | 1979 | sculptor |
| 1889 | Rudolf Ahlers | 1954 | author |
| 1894 | Richard Dietrich | 1945 | Airplane designer and entrepreneur |
| 1898 | Erich Thilo | 1977 | Chemist |
| 1899 | Maria Koubenec | 1995 | Master tailor, local researcher |
| 1902 | Theodor Estermann | 1991 | British mathematician |
| 1902 | Albert Klaus | 1983 | writer |
| 1905 | Karl-Heinrich Barthel | after 1963 | Doctors and politicians (NSDAP, NDPD) |
| 1909 | Paul Joachimi | 1993 | Ministerial Director in Bonn |
| 1912 | Otto Ernst Remer | 1997 | Major general and right-wing extremist |
| 1912 | Otto Vitense | 1962 | Politician (CDU) |
| 1913 | Gerhard Koch | 1999 | Neurologist and geneticist, university professor |
| 1922 | Gerd Gerdes | 2014 | Agricultural scientist and local researcher |
| 1925 | Horst-Gosta Berling | 1997 | Pedagogue, school historian |
| 1934 | Gerhard Voss | Lutheran theologian, pastor and author | |
| 1935 | Sophie Behr | 2015 | Journalist, writer |
| 1937 | Eberhard Struck | Cardiac surgeon | |
| 1941 | Walter Hinghaus | photographer | |
| 1945 | Paul Schultz | 1963 | Fatalities at the Berlin Wall |
| 1946 | Siegfried Selke | 1966 | Fatalities on the inner-German border |
| 1948 | Dieter Lenz | Soccer player | |
| 1949 | Manfred Dachner | Member of Parliament (SPD) | |
| 1950 | Rainer Prachtl | Politician (CDU), MdL | |
| 1953 | Edda Klatte | Middle distance runner | |
| 1953 | Elke Klatte | Middle distance runner | |
| 1953 | Günter Rühs | Politician (CDU), MdL | |
| 1955 | Ute Christensen | actress | |
| 1956 | Anne Gollin | Writer | |
| 1956 | Rudiger helmet | Canoeist, Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980 | |
| 1961 | Cornelia Oschkenat | Track and field athlete and Olympian | |
| 1962 | Torsten Koplin | Politician (The Left) | |
| 1963 | Aram Radomski | Photographer and designer | |
| 1964 | Tobias Vogel | Soccer player | |
| 1966 | David C. Bunners | actor | |
| 1966 | Thomas Zereske | 2004 | Canoeist, Olympic champion |
| 1967 | Ulf Hielscher | Bobsleigh driver, 1995 world champion | |
| 1967 | Irina Popov | Television director | |
| 1967 | Jana Sorgers | two-time Olympic champion and nine-time world champion in rowing | |
| 1967 | Marco Zallmann | Soccer player | |
| 1969 | Katrin Krabbe | Track and field athlete, world athlete of the year 1991 | |
| 1969 | Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing | Member of the Bundestag (AfD) | |
| 1971 | Manuela Derr | Track and field athlete | |
| 1972 | Katrin Brockmann | actress | |
| 1972 | Mario Lau | Soccer player | |
| 1973 | Janette Kliewe | Handball player, handball trainer | |
| 1973 | Marcus Roloff | writer | |
| 1974 | Marco Hinz | Soccer player | |
| 1974 | Thilo Tautz | NDR moderator | |
| 1975 | Anja Dittmer | Triathlete | |
| 1977 | Katharina Schlender | Playwright | |
| 1980 | Tim Borowski | National soccer player | |
| 1981 | Stefan Holtz | Canoeists | |
| 1982 | Sebastian Zbik | Boxer, WBC world champion | |
| 1983 | Viola Odebrecht | Soccer player | |
| 1984 | Andrea Hoffmann | Singer, songwriter and musician | |
| 1985 | Anne Jochin | Handball player | |
| 1987 | Christian Blum | Track and field athlete | |
| 1987 | Martin Hollstein | Canoeist, Olympic champion 2008 | |
| 1988 | Tom Buschke | Soccer player | |
| 1989 | Tobias Jänicke | Soccer player | |
| 1989 | Carl Luis Zielke | Musician of the band Guaia Guaia | |
| 1989 | Elias Gottstein | Musician of the band Guaia Guaia | |
| 1991 | Lucas Albrecht | Soccer player | |
| 1998 | Lindy Ave | Track and field athlete | |
| 2000 | Oliver Daedlow | Soccer player |
Personalities who work or have worked locally
- Erasmus Alberus (around 1500 - 1553), Protestant theologian, reformer and poet
- Wilhelm Bahr (1821–1876), painter and photographer in Neubrandenburg
- Anke Behmer (* 1961), athlete at SC Neubrandenburg; was one of the world's best heptathletes at the beginning of the 1990s
- Johann Berckmann († 1560), Augustinian monk; first preacher of Luther's doctrine
- Sylvia Bretschneider (1960–2019), teacher; President of the State Parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Adolf (Friedrich Theodor) Brückner (1744–1823), physician, botanist and Low German writer, city physicist
- Ernst (Theodor Johann) Brückner (1746–1805), theologian, poet, member of the Göttinger Hains
- Christian Bunners (* 1934), Protestant theologian, author, 1965–75 pastor and provost in Neubrandenburg
- Johannes Chemnitzer (* 1929), first secretary of the SED district leadership in Neubrandenburg
- Otto Clorius (1869–1943), pastor and author
- Franka Dietzsch (* 1968), athlete from SC Neubrandenburg
- Andreas Dittmer (* 1972), canoeist, honorary citizen of Neubrandenburg
- Paul Dörwald (1859–1937), classical philologist, high school director in Neubrandenburg
- Georg Ewald (1926–1973), Minister, Secretary of the SED district leadership in Neubrandenburg
- Gerd Frick (* 1948), painter and graphic artist
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), painter; stayed several times to visit relatives in Neubrandenburg and drew here
- Joachim Goldbach (1929–2008), 1972–1979 Chief of Military District V of the NVA (Neubrandenburg)
- Hans-Joachim Griephan (* 1937), journalist, publisher, 1994–2004 councilor in the city council of Neubrandenburg
- Iris Grund (* 1933), city architect of Neubrandenburg from 1970 to 1990
- Karl von Hahn (1782–1857), called "Theatergraf"; lived temporarily in Neubrandenburg
- Ida Hahn-Hahn (1805–1880), writer; lived temporarily in Neubrandenburg
- Carl Horn (1794–1879), Protestant theologian, co-founder of the Jena Urburschenschaft; spent his old age here
- Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852), father of the German gymnastics and sports movement ("Turnvater"); was a private tutor in Neubrandenburg
- Paul Krüger (* 1950), Lord Mayor 2001–2015, former Federal Minister
- Astrid Kumbernuss (* 1970), athlete from SC Neubrandenburg
- Bernhard Latomus (around 1560 - 1613), educator and historian, rector in Neubrandenburg
- Margarete Neumann (1917–2002), writer; lived in Neubrandenburg
- Ulrich von Oertzen (1840–1923), lawyer, MdR; attended the Neubrandenburg high school
- Otto Piper (1841–1921), lawyer, castle researcher; attended grammar school in Neubrandenburg from 1851 to 1862
- Herbord von Raven († before 1287), builder of the town and first town mayor
- Brigitte Reimann (1933–1973), writer; lived in Neubrandenburg from 1968 to 1973
- Bernhard Reinhold (1824–1892), painter; lived in Neubrandenburg from 1856 to 1858
- Fritz Reuter (1810–1874), Low German writer; lived in Neubrandenburg from 1856 to 1863
- Julie de Roquette (1763 – around 1827), poet near the Göttingen grove; lived in Neubrandenburg from 1793
- Gustav Rühberg (1875–1932), educator, politician; from 1902 was a teacher at the Neubrandenburg Citizens' School
- Fritz Scharenberg (1846–1916), lawyer, councilor
- Gerhard Schiedewitz (1925–2007), journalist, 1964–1989 editor-in-chief of the district newspaper "Freie Erde"
- Volker Schmidt (1942–2002), archaeologist, Rethra researcher
- Lutz Schumacher (* 1968), journalist and businessman, since 2007 managing director of Nordkurier, bestselling author
- Hermann Stech (1907–1992), lawyer, general director of Mecklenburgische Versicherung ; lived in Neubrandenburg
- Horst Stechbarth (1925–2016), 1964–1967 chief of the military district V (Neubrandenburg)
- Heinrich Tessenow (1876–1950), architect, lived in Neubrandenburg from 1923–1943
- Otto Vitense (the elder) (1880–1948), educator and historian; lived and worked in Neubrandenburg from 1909 to 1948
- Johann Heinrich Voss (1751–1826), poet and translator; went to school in Neubrandenburg
- Vinzenz Wanitschke (1932–2012), sculptor; went to school in Neubrandenburg
- Karl Wendt (1869–1942), pedagogue, city historian
- Gerhard Witten (* 1933), former German diplomat, attaché of the GDR in the PR China, counselor in Cuba and ambassador in Peru and Bolivia