List of personalities of the city of Oberhof
The list of personalities of the city of Oberhof contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city of Oberhof in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen . These are personalities who were honorary citizens, were born or died here, worked in Oberhof or trained as athletes.
Honorary citizen
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Oberhof. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Oberhof is irrelevant.
19th century personalities
- Leopold Hofmann (1864–1926), court baker, confectioner and bobsledder
20th century personalities
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Bodo Berheide (1994)
- Kurt Weidner (1907 – after 1978), dancer and actor on stage and television
- Hans Marr (1914-1942), ski jumper
- Bodo Berheide (* 1944), artist and sculptor
Personalities who died in Oberhof
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- Johann Friedrich Joel (1792–1852), legendary landlord of the Schmücke am Rennsteig inn and humorist, was considered an original and student friend, which is why the Schmücke became a preferred venue for student get-togethers for decades.
- Kurt Witthauer (1865–1911), internist, was the first to clinically test, scientifically describe and publish the effects of aspirin.
- Frieda von Oppeln (1866–1945), author
- Willy Kurth (1881–1963), art historian and professor of art history
- Margit Schumann (1952–2017), luge rider
Athletes who train in Oberhof
- Biathlon : Arnd Peiffer , Erik Lesser , Benedikt Doll
- Bobsleigh : Kevin Kuske , Martin Putze , Alexander Rödiger
- Cross-country skiing : Victoria Carl and Thomas Wick
Athletes who trained in Oberhof
- Biathlon: Andrea Henkel , Herbert Wiegand , Katrin Apel , Sabrina Buchholz , Sven Fischer , Frank Luck , Peter Sendel , Frank Ullrich , Kati Wilhelm , Alexander Wolf , Christoph Stephan , Daniel Böhm and Franziska Hildebrandt
- Cross-country skiing: Tobias Angerer , Jens Filbrich , Manuela Henkel and Axel Teichmann
- Bobsleigh: Susi Erdmann , Wolfgang Hoppe , Andre Lange , Meinhard Nehmer and Roland Wetzig
- Nordic combination: Ronny Ackermann , Marko Baacke and Tino Edelmann
- Luge: Jana Bode , Jan Behrendt , Susi Erdmann , Bernhard Glass , Uwe Handrich , Norbert Hahn , Silke Kraushaar-Pielach , Jens Müller , Ute Oberhoffner , Margit Schumann and Melitta Sollmann
- Ski jumping: Hans-Georg Aschenbach , Stephan Hocke , Gerd Siegmund , Jörg Ritzerfeld , Julian Musiol , and Andreas Wank
Other personalities associated with the city
- Alexander Lion (1870–1962), founder of the German scout movement, worked as a doctor in Oberhof in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Sandra Hüller (* 1978), actress, spent her early childhood in Oberhof.