List of personalities of the city of Neustrelitz
mayor
The following personalities were mayors or mayors of the city of Neustrelitz :
- Johann Christian (Wilhelm) Verpoorten (1721–1792) - around 1780 one (of two) mayors
- Otto Heipertz (1884–1954) - Mayor from 1920 to 1933
- Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor (1902–1972) - Lord Mayor from November 1 to December 31, 1945
- Edith Böttcher (1921-2010) - Mayor from 1969 to 1978
- Rainer Günther (* 1948) - SPD , mayor from 1994 to 2003
- Andreas Grund - independent , mayor since 2003
Honorary citizen
Neustrelitz has 20 honorary citizens, including
- Annalize Wagner (1903–1986), local history researcher, founder of the Karbe-Wagner archive - awarded in 1973
- Daniel Sanders (1819–1897), linguist - awarded 1992 (posthumously)
- Kurt Winkelmann (1932–1996), theologian, state superintendent - awarded on June 9, 1992
- Arnold Zarft (1930–2009), Pastor - awarded on November 9, 2004
sons and daughters of the town
Born before 1900
- Adolph Friedrich von Scheve (1752–1837), lawyer with the Prussian state government in Berlin
- Adolf Horn (1759–1823), administrative lawyer, archivist and diplomat
- Adolph Scharenberg (1766-1852), painter
- Carl Eggers (1787–1863), painter
- Friedrich Horn (1790–1840), lawyer and archivist
- Adolf Goetze (1792–1868), educator and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
- Karl Horn (1794–1879), co-founder of the original fraternity in Jena
- Bernhard Horwitz (1807–1885), chess master
- Carl Albert von Kamptz (1808–1870), administrative lawyer and diplomat
- Ludwig von Kamptz (1810–1884), government official and member of parliament
- Friederike Tomasini (1810–1886), singer
- Carl Prinz zu Solms-Braunfels (1812–1875), Austro-Hungarian Lieutenant Field Marshal and founder of the New Braunfels settlement in Texas
- Georg Höhn (1812–1879), landscape painter
- Alexander von Malschitzki (1814–1876), judge and member of parliament
- Georg Kannengießer (1814–1900), painter and art professor
- Albert Wolff (1815-1892), sculptor
- Hermann Lingnau (1815–1885), postal reformer
- Bernhard Ernst von Bülow (1815–1879), Minister of State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1862–1868
- Césaire Villatte (1816–1895), Romance philologist and lexicographer
- Theodor Scharenberg (1820–1899), notary
- Friedrich Scharenberg (1821–1901), forester
- Wilhelm Riefstahl (1827–1888), painter
- Wilhelm von Kardorff (1828–1907), politician and entrepreneur
- Georg Kruse (1830–1908), actor
- Wilhelm von Kankelwitz (1831-1892), engineer
- Martin Prehn (1831–1899), engineer
- Hermann Ohl (1836–1914), clergyman, educator and author
- Carl Piper (1837-1919), judge, consistorial president
- Karl Schroeder (1838-1887), gynecologist
- Fritz Scharenberg (1846–1916), District Court Judge
- Karl Kraepelin d. J. (1848–1915), biologist, founder of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg
- Gerhard von Buchka (1851–1935), member of the Reichstag and colonial politician
- Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), psychiatrist
- Carl Cohn (1857–1931), Senator in Hamburg, politician (DDP)
- Kuno von Pentz (1857–1936), architect and construction officer in Prussia
- Otto Portzehl (1860–1945), educator
- Karl Horn (1869–1942), senior pastor in Hamburg
- Hans Kundt (1869–1939), German-Bolivian general in World War I and in the Chaco War
- Marie Kundt (1870–1932), photographer, teacher and director of the Photography School of the Lette-Verein Berlin
- Hans Schwaar (1870–1946), ministerial official in Mecklenburg
- Viktor Praefcke (1872–1962), medical officer, most recently admiral doctor in the Navy
- Konrad Hustaedt (1874–1948), architect
- Carl-August von Bülow (1876–1946), administrative lawyer, district administrator in Schwerin
- Carl Friedrich Roewer (1881–1963), pedagogue, arachnologist and museum director
- Otto Piper (1882–1946), lawyer and politician (DVP)
- Friedrich Behn (1883–1970), historian and archaeologist
Born after 1900
- Annalize Wagner (1903–1986), local history researcher, founder of the Karbe-Wagner archive
- Franz Rademacher (1906–1973), diplomat, head of the “Judenreferat” in the Foreign Office
- Heinrich-Walter Bronsart von Schellendorff (1906–1944), major general in World War II
- Hermann Stech (1907–1992), general director of Mecklenburgische Versicherung
- Jesco von Puttkamer (1919–1987), publicist
- Ann-Charlott Settgast (1921–1988), writer
- Wolfgang Heipertz (1922–2013), surgeon, orthopedist
- Peter Schiff (1923–2014), actor and voice actor
- Klaus Steilmann (1929–2009), entrepreneur
- Axel Fenner (* 1935), pediatrician
- Klaus Dirschauer (* 1936), theologian and author
- Klaus Gehrke (* 1939), actor
- Herbert Wagner (* 1948), politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Dresden 1990–2001
- Angelika Milster (* 1951), singer
- Gunther Gerlach (* 1952), sculptor
- Jürgen Roßmann (* 1954), mathematician and university professor
- Thomas Böttger (* 1957), composer and pianist
- Andreas Grund (* 1960), Mayor of Neustrelitz
- Rainer Ernst (* 1961), footballer
- Ulf Hoffmann (* 1961), gymnast
- Jana Jürß (* 1970), writer
- Andreas Dittmer (* 1972), Olympic champion in canoe racing
- Charly Hübner (* 1972), actor
- Olaf Winter (* 1973), Olympic champion in canoe racing
- Jacqueline Svilarov (* 1975), actress
- Katja Heinrich (* 1975), actress
- Anna Kovalchuk (* 1977), Russian actress
- Mark Frank (* 1977), javelin thrower
- Rico Gatzke (* 1978), pianist
- Silvio Witt (* 1978), Lord Mayor of Neubrandenburg
Personalities who worked in Neustrelitz
- Christoph Julius Löwe (around 1690 – around 1752), master builder, garden architect
- Egmont von Chasot (1716–1797), favorite, director of the court orchestra
- Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800), concertmaster in Neustrelitz, founder of the Sing-Akademie in Berlin
- Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827) Italian violinist, composer and classical conductor
- Friedrich Wilhelm Dunckelberg (1773–1844), master builder, worked as a chamber engineer in Neustrelitz since 1801
- Andreas (Heinrich Johann Carl) Kämpffer (1784–1846), superintendent, director of the Carolinum grammar school
- Johann Friedrich Bahrdt (1789–1847), poet, playwright and editor of the magazine "Wendischer Bote", until 1831 provisional in Neustrelitz
- Carl Ernst Laue (1790–1860), court musician and instrument maker, hosted Heinrich Schliemann from 1833–1836
- Charlotte von Hobe (1792–1852), writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel (1796–1869), shaped the townscape of Neustrelitz as an architect from 1821 to 1869
- Karl August Görner (1806–1884), director of the court theater
- Adolf Glaßbrenner (1810–1876), satirist
- Karl Kraepelin d. Ä. (1817–1832), opera singer, Reuter reciter
- Carl Peters (1818–1891), organ builder
- Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), famous archaeologist, went to school in Neustrelitz from 1833–1836
- Fedor von Rauch (1822–1892), travel and court stable master of Grand Duke Georg von Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1852 to 1860, later chief stable master of the German emperors
- Jacob Hamburger (1826–1911), rabbi
- Barnim Grüneberg (1828–1907), organ builder in Stettin, built a large organ for the town church in 1893 and was therefore (formally) appointed court organ builder of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921), composer of the late Romantic period
- Hans Witte (1867–1945), historian, archive director
- Gerhard Tolzien (1870–1946), regional bishop
- Paul von Bongardt (1871–1957), director of the State Theater 1928–1932
- Gustav Hass (1872–1932), naval officer, most recently rear admiral of the Reichsmarine
- Jesco von Puttkamer (1876–1959), soldier, major general a. D.
- Walter Karbe (1877–1956), local history researcher, namesake of the Karbe-Wagner archive
- Roderich Hustaedt (1878–1958), lawyer, Minister of State
- Walter Gotsmann (1891–1961), painter and conservationist
- Bernhard Schwentner (1891–1944), Catholic pastor
- Carl August Endler (1893–1957), historian, archive director
- Albert Krietsch (1897–1989), musician, teacher, cantor
- Gerd Tolzien (1902–1992), journalist and writer
- Gerhard Bosinski (1911–1985), German Protestant theologian, was state superintendent in Neustrelitz from 1959
- Herbert Jobst (1915–1990), writer
- Lisa Jobst (1920–2005), poet
- Jupp Weindich (1932–2013), artistic director of the Friedrich Wolf Theater 1968–1991
- Gerd Gombert (1935–1993), painter
- Ibrahim Böhme (1944–1999), politician, worked briefly as a dramaturge at the Neustrelitz Theater in the late 1970s
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary citizenship has only existed in the city since 1882. at www.annalise-wagner-stiftung.de