List of personalities of the city of Nordhausen

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The list of personalities of the city of Nordhausen includes those people who were born in the area of ​​today's city of Nordhausen and are of importance in the encyclopedic sense. Those who have worked on site or have become honorary citizens are also named.

Honorary citizen

The honorary citizenship is the highest honoring of the city of Nordhausen. It is not associated with any special rights or special obligations. The city council decides on the award in a public session.

The city made its first honorary citizens in 1865 in “recognition of the services acquired through donation of well-known legacies to the city”. A total of 26 people were honored with it, eight of them after 1990. The honorary citizenships of Paul von Hindenburg (1917), Adolf Hitler (1933), Hans Himmler (1960), Friedrich Giessner (1973) and Erich Peter (1976) were granted on 29. August 1990 revoked by the city council.

  • ?: Eduard Wiprecht von Davier (1818–1895), district administrator in the Grafschaft Hohenstein district
  • 1865: Friedrich Jung (1801–?), Manufacturer
  • 1865: Gustav Plaut (1824–1908), banker
  • 1865: Jacob Plaut (1817–1901), banker
  • 1865: Moritz Plaut (1822–1910), banker
  • 1905: Franz Willecke (1835–1910), city councilor
  • 1917: Hermann Hanewacker (1845–1922), manufacturer and city councilor
  • 1918: Max Hoffmann (1869–1927), general and diplomat
  • 1920: Richard Wiese (1850–1936), businessman, partner in the iron wholesaler FW Wolffram
  • 1924: Carl Contag (1863–1934), Lord Mayor from 1899 to 1924
  • 1928: Otto Hertzer (1848–1929), manufacturer and city councilor
  • 1930: Hermann Stade (1850–1939), city councilor
  • 1969: Helmut Zinke (1930–2020), ammunition defuser
  • 1999: Jean Mialet (1920–2006), Mittelbau-Dora inmate committee
  • 2002: Ilsetraut Glock (1915–2013), artist and initiator of the Ilsetraut Glock Grabe Foundation
  • 2004: Andreas Lesser (* 1952), founder and board member of the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation
  • 2009: Joachim Jaeger (* 1935), Provost (retired)
  • 2010: Lothar de Maizière (* 1940), politician, last Prime Minister of the GDR (CDU)
  • 2013: Erika Schirmer (* 1926), writer
  • 2015: Günther Groh (1925–2015), artist
  • 2018: Christoph Lerchner (* 1934), pastor and superintendent

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Nordhausen. It is irrelevant whether you subsequently worked in Nordhausen.

A.

B.

Claudia Bechstein
(* 1978)

C.

Carl Contag
(1863-1934)

D.

E.

F.

Ariane Friedrich
(* 1984)

G

Wilhelm Gesenius
(1786–1842)

H

Rudolf Hagelstange
(1912–1984)

J

K

August Kramer
(1817–1885)

L.

M.

Lothar de Maizière
(* 1940)

N

P

  • Goerd Peschken (* 1931), architect and building researcher
  • Erich Peter (1919–1987), military, colonel general in the National People's Army (NVA) and long-time head of the GDR's border troops
  • Jacob Plaut (1817–1901), banker and honorary citizen of the city
  • Hermann Preysing (1866–1926), physician

Q

R.

Barbara Rinke
(* 1947)

S.

Cyriacus Spangenberg
(1528–1604)

T

Gottlieb Gerhard Titius
(1661–1714)

U

V

W.

Minna Wagner
(1840-1910)

Z

  • Jochen Zellmann (1943–2016), painter
  • Michael Zielonka (1942–2018), writer
  • Ernst Zörner (1895–1945), politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of Dresden, President of the Braunschweig State Parliament, Governor of the Lublin District

People connected to the city

Eduard Baltzer
(1814-1887)
Beatrix of Swabia
(1198-1212)
Max Hoffmann
(1869–1927)
Käthe Kollwitz
(1867–1945)
Carl Hans Lody
(1877-1914)
Johann Heinrich Michaelis
(1668–1738)
August Petermann
(1822–1878)
Heinrich Schnee
(1871–1949)
Albert Traeger
(1830–1912)
Klaus Zeh
(* 1952)

Well-known personalities are listed here who have spent part of their life in Nordhausen, worked locally or died in Nordhausen.

  • Arnold Albrecht (* 1950), Chairman of the Works Council, studied agricultural engineering in Nordhausen in 1973
  • Wilhelm Apel (1873–1960), politician (SPD), editor of the "Nordhäuser Volkszeitung"
  • Margarete Aurin (1897–1989), Montessori teacher, spent her youth in Nordhausen
  • Curt Baller (1880–1966), Lord Mayor from 1924 to 1933
  • Eduard Baltzer (1814–1887), reformer and democrat
  • Beatrix von Schwaben (1198–1212), Roman-German Empress, died in Nordhausen
  • Georg Henning Behrens (1662–1712), doctor and author, lived in Nordhausen from 1688
  • Manfred Bensing (1927–1996), lecturer at the teacher training institute in Nordhausen, SED district leadership in Nordhausen
  • Manfred Bornemann (1933–2012), geologist, attended high school in Nordhausen
  • Johann von Bötticher (1662–1728), mayor of Nordhausen
  • Carl Braunhofer (1799–1846), theater actor and director
  • Karl von Byla (1806-1852), administrative lawyer, 1834-1852 district administrator of the Nordhausen district
  • Johannes Clajus (1535–1592), pedagogue, theologian, 1570–1572 rector of the school in Nordhausen
  • Heinrich Compenius the Elder (1530? –1611), organ builder, organist and composer, lived in Nordhausen from 1580
  • Bernhard Dächsel (1823–1888), Counselor, lived temporarily in Nordhausen
  • Christian Demelius (1643–1711), composer, lived in Nordhausen from 1663
  • Günther Dickel (1927–1985), legal scholar, legal historian and canon lawyer, graduated from high school in 1946 in Nordhausen
  • Georg Friedrich Einicke (1710–1770), music director in Nordhausen from 1757 to 1770
  • Roland Erb (* 1943), writer, Abitur in Nordhausen
  • August von Eye (1825–1896), poet, philosopher, writer, historian and painter
  • Ursula Fischer (* 1952), politician (PDS), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, specialist training in Nordhausen
  • Hermann Freyberg (1898–1962), writer and film director, attended secondary school in Nordhausen
  • Hugo Gaudig (1860–1923), reform pedagogue and Leipzig school director; attended the Nordhäuser Gymnasium (1874–1879)
  • Dieter D. Genske (* 1956), geologist, civil engineer and university lecturer at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
  • Karl Ernst Georges (1806–1895), classical philologist and lexicographer, attended the Nordhausen grammar school
  • Johann Heinrich Haeberlin (1799–1866), Prussian court building officer, attended grammar school in Nordhausen
  • Otto von Harras (1440–1506), provost in Nordhausen
  • Oscar Hasse (1837–1898), physician, pioneer of blood transfusion, lived in Nordhausen from 1864 until his death
  • Wilm Herlyn (* 1945), political scientist and journalist, editor-in-chief of the German Press Agency (dpa), grew up in Nordhausen
  • Gottfried Herrmann (1808–1878), organist and composer, spent his youth in Nordhausen
  • Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse (1797–1855), classical philologist and linguist, attended the Nordhausen grammar school
  • Gisela Hilbrecht (* 1948), politician (SPD), educator, attended the Institute for Teacher Education (IfL) in Nordhausen from 1965 to 1968
  • Joachim Hildebrand (1623–1691), theologian, attended school in Nordhausen from 1640
  • Johanna Himmler (1894–1972), politician (KPD, SED), MdR, lived in Nordhausen from 1921 onwards
  • Wilhelm Hoffbauer (1812-1892), doctor, politician in the revolution of 1848/49 and later in the USA, practiced in Nordhausen
  • Max Hoffmann (1869–1927), general and diplomat, attended the Nordhausen grammar school
  • Wolfgang Ipolt (* 1954), pastor in Nordhausen
  • Joachim Jaeger (* 1935), Provost
  • Johann-Georg Jaeger (* 1965), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL, graduated from high school in Nordhausen in 1984
  • Christian Juckenack (* 1959), professor for land recycling at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences since 2000 and rector there from 2001 to 2004
  • Birgit Keller (* 1959), politician (SED / PDS / Die Linke), State Minister, President of the Thuringian State Parliament since 2019
  • Andreas Ludwig Christoph Kettembeil (1768–1840), lawyer and newspaper editor
  • Christian Gotthard Kettembeil (1773–1850), businessman and theater manager
  • Johannes Kleinspehn (1880–1944), politician (SPD), editor of the people's newspaper in Nordhausen
  • Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), graphic artist and sculptor, lived in Nordhausen from 1943 to 1944
  • Katja Konschak (* 1978), triathlete, lives in Nordhausen
  • Friedrich Karl Kraft (1786–1866), philologist and lexicographer, appointed rector of the grammar school in Nordhausen in 1820
  • Friedrich Traugott Kützing (1807-1893), pharmacist, teacher and botanist, lived in Nordhausen since 1835, Kützing monument (1906) at the enclosure
  • Albert Kuntz (1896–1945), politician (KPD), died in the Mittelbau concentration camp,
  • Carl Hans Lody (1877–1914), naval officer and German spy in World War I, grew up in Nordhausen
  • Erich Walter Lotz (1895–1966), politician (SPD), teacher
  • Heinrich Maius (1545–1607), Protestant theologian, teacher and rector in Nordhausen
  • Lüder Mencke (1658–1726), scholar and lawyer, attended school in Nordhausen
  • Michael Meyenburg (1491–1555), mayor
  • Herbert Meyer (1899–1984), Lord Mayor (1943–1945),
  • Johann Heinrich Michaelis (1668–1738), Protestant theologian and philologist, attended school in Nordhausen
  • Friedrich Moldenhauer (1797–1866), chemist and mineralogist, attended school and pharmacy assistant in Nordhausen
  • Katja Mitteldorf (* 1985), politician (Die Linke), MdL, lives in Nordhausen
  • Curt Mücke (1885–1940), painter and graphic artist
  • August Mühling (1786–1847), composer and organist, lived in Nordhausen from 1809 to 1823
  • Thekla Naveau (1822–1871), educator, women's rights activist, children's book author
  • Michael Neander (1525–1595), educator, teacher in Nordhausen
  • Walter Nicolai (1873–1947), secret service officer, lived in Nordhausen from 1929
  • Christoph Nix (* 1954), lawyer, 1994 director at the Nordhausen Theater
  • Karl Oettle (1926–2009), economist, attended school in Nordhausen
  • Anton Otto (1505–1588), theologian and pastor, from 1543 to 1568 in Nordhausen
  • Alfred Overmann (1866–1946), historian, archivist, director of the Nordhausen Municipal Museum from 1913 to 1923
  • Günter Parche (* 1954), assassin, lives in a retirement home in Nordhausen
  • Uwe Patzig (* 1948), former politician (CDU), has lived in Nordhausen since the 1970s
  • Nicki Pawlow (* 1964), writer
  • August Petermann (1822–1878), cartographer and geographer, spent his youth in Nordhausen
  • Ludwig Christian Pezolt (1712 - after 1776), physician and city doctor of Nordhausen
  • Friedrich Pietzker (1844–1916), teacher at the Royal High School, textbook author and mathematician
  • Gerhard Pflüger (1907–1991), conductor, 1935 to 1938 musical chief in Nordhausen
  • Ferdinand Pleßner (1824–1895), civil engineer and entrepreneur, graduated from high school in Nordhausen
  • Andreas Poach (1516–1585), theologian and reformer, pastor in Nordhausen from 1546 to 1550
  • Friedrich Polack (1835–1915), educator, rector 1871 to 1876 rector in Nordhausen
  • Marie von Rabatinsky (1842–?), Opera singer, lived in Nordhausen
  • Philipp Rappaport (1879–1955), architect and town planner, family lived in Nordhausen from 1894
  • Johannes Rathje (1879–1956), journalist for the Nordhäuser Zeitung
  • Lothar Rechtacek (1943–2013), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
  • Otto Reckstat (1898–1983), strike leader during the workers' uprising on June 17, 1953 in Nordhausen
  • Hans Reinicke (1483–1538), foreman and friend of Martin Luther, spent the last years of his life in Nordhausen
  • Adolf Rettelbusch (1858–1934), painter, attended school in Nordhausen
  • Eike Reuter (1938–2005), church musician, 1962 to 1975 cantor in Nordhausen
  • Lorenz Rhodomann (1546–1606), educator, theologian, historian and philologist, in 1557 he attended school in Nordhausen
  • Louis von Rothmaler (1814–1884), Prussian general, attended high school in Nordhausen
  • Annette Sawade (* 1953), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
  • Johanna Schaller (* 1952), Olympic champion in hurdles, grew up in Nordhausen and began her athletic career at BSG Lok Nordhausen
  • Erika Schirmer (* 1926), writer, has lived in Nordhausen since 1948
  • Erich Schmidt-Kestner (1877–1941), sculptor, died in Nordhausen
  • Heinrich Schnee (1871–1949), governor of German East Africa, attended high school in Nordhausen
  • Hans Ehrenreich von Schöning (1648–1710), Prussian major general of the cavalry, died in Nordhausen
  • Christoph Gottlieb Schröter (1699–1782), composer, from 1732 organist at the Nikolaikirche
  • Kurt Schustehrus (1856–1913), local politician, mayor from 1892 to 1899
  • Fritz Schwager (1913–1966), politician (KPÖ, SPÖ, KPD, SED), inmate of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, KPD district leadership in Nordhausen
  • Moritz Ludwig Seyffert (1809–1872), philologist and educator
  • Hans Silberborth (1887–1949), historian and city archivist, author of the "History of the Free Imperial City of Nordhausen" (1927)
  • Gustav Sintenis (1879–1931), banker, attended high school in Nordhausen
  • Johann Spangenberg (1484–1550), theologian and reformer, pastor in Nordhausen
  • Andreas Starck (1552–1611), physician and university professor, from 1559 to 1560 he attended school in Nordhausen
  • Walter Steinecke (1888–1975), politician (NSDAP), MdR, artist, attended secondary school in Nordhausen
  • Heinz Sting (1904–1976), politician (NSDAP), lawyer, Lord Mayor from 1933 to 1935
  • Ludwig Storch (1803–1881), poet and writer, attended high school in Nordhausen, founded a kindergarten in Nordhausen in 1850
  • Paul Erich Sturm (1891–1964), philosopher and theologian, attended high school in Nordhausen
  • Berthold Suhle (1837–1904), classical philologist and chess player, high school teacher in Nordhausen, died here
  • Johannes Thal (1542–1583), doctor and botanist, in 1581 he became city physician in Nordhausen
  • Albert Traeger (1830–1912), writer, politician, lawyer, lived in Nordhausen from 1875 to 1891
  • Lars Tietje (* 1967), director at the Nordhausen Theater since 2004
  • Gustav Trittel (1865–1929), educator, MdR, 1905 to 1911 high school teacher in Nordhausen
  • Traugott Karl August Vogt (1762–1807), physician and university professor, in 1777 he attended the Lyceum in Nordhausen
  • Neithardt Völker (* 1933), politician (SPD), MdL, graduated from high school in Nordhausen in 1951
  • Ingo Wachtel (1912–1990), typesetter, newspaper sales manager and party official (SPD / SED), lived in Nordhausen
  • Jörg Wagner (* 1969), business economist, President of the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences since 2004
  • Andreas Werckmeister (1645–1706), musician, attended school in Nordhausen
  • Viktor Wesselak (* 1965), engineering scientist at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
  • Paul Wojtkowski (1892–1960), politician (SPD, USPD, KPD, SED), 1953 to 1960 district administrator of the Nordhausen district
  • Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824), classical philologist and classical scholar, attended high school in Nordhausen
  • Stefan Zahradnik (* 1969), economist at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences
  • Klaus Zeh (* 1952), politician (CDU), State Minister, Lord Mayor of Nordhausen 2012–2017

See also

literature

  • Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhausen personalities from eleven centuries . Horb am Neckar, Geiger, 2009. ISBN 9783865953360

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (ed.): Nordhäuser news. Südharzer Heimatblätter . 3.1999, p. 1.