List of personalities of the city of Oschersleben (Bode)

Coat of arms of the city of Oschersleben (Bode)

The list of personalities of the city of Oschersleben (Bode) contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city ​​of Oschersleben (Bode) . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Oschersleben (Bode) or who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Oschersleben (Bode) see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen of the city

• 1842: Julius Grosse, banker, factory and manor owner, honorary citizen for his services in Oschersleben
• Wilhelm Hohnemann, honorary citizen for selfless and longstanding work for charity
• Karl Schwanecke
• Hermann Behrens, factory owner
• Wilhelm Arnold Drews (1870–1938), lawyer and district administrator in the Oschersleben district

sons and daughters of the town

• Bruno Beccerus (1582–1609), educator and logician
• Ludwig Helf (1837–1918), Reich judge
• Wilhelm Seelmann (1849–1940), librarian, philologist and Germanist
• Ludwig von Windheim (1857–1935), administrative lawyer, senior president of the Hesse-Nassau provinces
• Konrad Keilhack (1858–1944), geologist
• Emil Seelmann-Eggebert (1859–1915), librarian and philologist
• Julius von Bernuth (1861–1957), major general
• Wilhelm F. Bode (1862–1922), teacher, activist of the abstinence movement and writer, born in Hornhausen
• Georg Wimmer (1865–1945), agricultural chemist
• Stefan von Kotze (1869–1909), writer
• Carl Rieseberg (1869–1950), politician (DNVP)
• Hans Peter von Kotze (1873–1915), administrative officer, district administrator of the Prussian district of Wanzleben, born in Klein Oschersleben
• Maximilian von der Asseburg-Neindorf (1874–1945), manor owner, administrative officer and member of parliament
• Nikolaus von Gerlach (1875–1955), district administrator in Bütow and Kolberg-Körlin
• Hans Ludolf von Kotze (1876–1952), administrative officer
• Wilhelm Ahrens (1878–1956), printer, health insurance officer and local politician (SPD) in Berlin, city ​​elder of Berlin
• Franz Henkel (1882–1959), Lord Mayor of Hanover, entrepreneur
• Georg Schilling (1886–1952), director of the Provincial Deaf-Mute Asylum Halberstadt, politician (center), member of the Prussian State Council
• Reinhold Koeppel (1887–1950), painter
• Hubert Geissel (1891–1938), police officer
• Helmut Bergmann (1898–1946), lawyer who worked as a diplomat in the Foreign Office during the Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism and was executed as a war criminal in Moscow in 1946
• Alwin Wipper (1902 – probably 1945), policeman and SS leader
• Wilhelm Hans Schönfeld (1903–1978), electrical engineer and as professor from 1954 to 1956 rector of the Technical University of Hanover
• Ernst Loof (1907–1956), engineer, racing driver, race director and entrepreneur, born in Neindorf
• Wilhelm Müller (1912–1990), socialist, resistance fighter, Buddhist
• Joachim Grauenhorst (1917–1998), journalist and painter
• Hans-Martin Schenke (1929–2002), Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar and Coptologist
• Wolfgang Wiefel (1929–1998), Protestant theologian and university professor
• Gerhard Linnemann (1930–2001), electrical engineer, rector of the TH Ilmenau
• Wolfgang Schaper (* 1934), cardiologist
• Volkmar Enderlein (* 1936), art historian and archaeologist
• Karsten Schmidt (* 1939), lawyer
• Rainer Langhans (* 1940), symbolic figure of the 1968 movement
• Reiner Krziskewitz (* 1942), politician (CDU)
• Christine Harbort (1949–2003), actress and director
• Klaus Buhlert (* 1950), composer, radio play director and radio play author
• Yo. Harbort (* 1951), sculptor
• Dieter Klenke (* 1952), Mayor of Oschersleben from 1993 to 2015
• Hans Walker (* 1953), District Administrator Bördekreis and District Administrator Börde
• Hans-Joachim Mewes (* 1954), politician (Die Linke), member of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 2006 to 2016
• Lutz Trümper (* 1955), Lord Mayor of Magdeburg
• Elisabeth Klaus (* 1955), sociologist and communication scientist, since 2003 professor in the communication science department at the University of Salzburg
• Jörg Kirbs (* 1957), engineer, professor, rector of the University of Merseburg
• Dietrich Weisel (* 1958), agricultural engineer, member of the People's Chamber of the GDR from 1986 to 1990
• Uwe Schrader (* 1959), politician (FDP) in Saxony-Anhalt
• Torsten Jeworrek (* 1961), mathematician, board member of Munich RE
• Ronald Mormann (* 1966), politician (SPD), member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt since 2017, of which he was a member from 2011 to 2016
• Ron Ringguth (* 1966), sports reporter
• Jens Gerlach (* 1970), soccer player, born in Beckendorf-Neindorf
• Martin Wierig (* 1987), discus thrower, born in Beckendorf-Neindorf

Personalities associated with the city

• Johann Thal (1542–1583), doctor and botanist. His official botanical author's abbreviation is "Thal", died in Peseckendorf
• Ernst Vollrad von Vieregge (1744–1816), Prussian major general; 1802 official governor in Oschersleben
• Friedrich Anton Harbort (1834–1866), Catholic theologian and pastor in Oschersleben from 1860 to 1866
• Ferdinand Brockes (1867–1927 in Oschersleben), Protestant superintendent
• Karl Kellner (teacher) (1890–1965), city chronicler
• Joachim Weinhold (1931–1962), fatality on the inner-German border, died in Oschersleben

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vivian Hömke: Kurt Masur is a candidate for an honorary title , In: Volksstimme of March 28, 2012