List of personalities from the town of Oberharz am Brocken

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The list of personalities of the city of Oberharz am Brocken contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city ​​of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in the city of Oberharz am Brocken and the current districts or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into the town of Oberharz am Brocken, see the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen of the town of Benneckenstein (Harz)

  • Max Schmeling , From 1934 Benneckenstein was the training camp for the national teams in boxing, wrestling and weightlifting. On the occasion of the success of the German boxers at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Schmeling was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Benneckenstein on November 28, 1936 after defeating Joe Louis at the top of his fame. For years there was a friendly relationship between the Harz city and the box idol. After 1991 it was revitalized, and at Whitsun 1993 Max Schmeling visited Benneckenstein again.
  • Wilhelm Schmidt (1858–1924), building officer, humanist and inventor (approx. 1400 patents), lived in Benneckenstein since 1908. He brought the development of superheated steam technology for the steam engine to a breakthrough and received honorary citizenship in February 1917. Today a memorial in town commemorates him.

Sons and daughters of the town of Benneckenstein (Harz)

Sons and daughters of the Elbingerode district (Harz)

Sons and daughters of the Elend district (Harz)

Sons and daughters of the city district of Hasselfelde

Sons and daughters of the Königshütte district (Harz)

Sons and daughters of the Stiege district (Harz)

Sons and daughters of the Tanne district (Harz)

Sons and daughters of the Trautenstein district

Personalities who are associated with the district of Stadt Benneckenstein (Harz)

  • Berthold C. Haferland (1934–2011), lawyer and home clerk, head of the University of Applied Sciences for Justice
  • Wolfgang Vogler (1948–1974), lost his life in 1974 as a result of an attempt to escape

Personalities who are connected to the district of Elbingerode (Harz)

Personalities who are connected to the city district of Hasselfelde

Personalities associated with the Stiege district (Harz)

Personalities associated with the district of Tanne (Harz)

  • Johann Georg von Langen (1699–1776), master forestry and chief hunter. He worked from 1725 to 1729 and again around 1760 in the Tanne forest district. A section of the nature trail is named after him as "Johann Georg von Langen-Weg".
  • William von Seckendorff (1799–1863), Brunswick miner and mineralogist, lived in Tanne from 1825 to 1842.
  • Carl Preen (1824–1889), director of the Tanner ironworks. He is considered to be the savior of the ironworks, since a workers' production cooperative was founded under his leadership in 1870/71, which saved the Tanner Hütte from being closed.
  • Georg Stölting (1836–1901), school and seminar director in Wolfenbüttel and rector of the Calvörde community school
  • Hermann von Frankenberg (1865–1931), local poet and chairman of the Harz Club, set Tanne a literary monument in his poem of the same name. In 1929 a bridge in Tanne was named after him, which still exists today.
  • Käthe Papke (1872–1951), author and local poet, had her resin story, published in 1924, play by the forest assessor von Tanne in Tanne. In this homeland novel, true events from the 19th century are partly processed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are currently no honorary citizens for the town of Upper Harz am Brocken, which was newly formed in 2010.