List of personalities of the city of Osterode am Harz

The list of personalities in the city of Osterode am Harz contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Lower Saxony city ​​of Osterode am Harz . These are personalities who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Osterode am Harz, see the corresponding local articles.

sons and daughters of the town

• Ernst III. (IV.) Von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen-Herzberg (1518–1567), Duke of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen from the noble family of the Guelphs
• Andreas Cludius (1555–1624), legal scholar
• Lorenz Gieseler († 1684), doctor, author of medical writings and city physician in Braunschweig from 1657 until his death
• Christian Friedrich Knorr (1646–1704), Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and the Harz region
• Theophilus Andreas Hagemann (1661–1742), theologian
• Christian Philipp Spangenberg (1689–1778), mint official
• Johann Friedrich Mithoff (1747–1795), Lutheran theologian, court preacher and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and in the Harz region
• Johann Friedrich Kleuker (1749–1827), Protestant pastor and professor of theology
• August Christian Borheck (1751–1815), philologist, historian and university professor
• Heinrich Rudolph Brinkmann (1789–1878), German legal scholar and university professor
• Johann Georg Wilhelm Schachtrupp (1801–1864), white lead manufacturer
• Ernst Ludwig Große (1802–1871), poet and legal scholar
• Gustav Schilling (1805–1880), music writer and lexicographer, born in Schwiegershausen
• Hermann König (1814–1902), member of the Reichstag
• Louise Froebel (1815–1900), kindergarten teacher
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schöttler (1829–1895), entrepreneur and mechanical engineer, landowner, councilor and politician
• Fritz Jorns (1837–1910), member of the Reichstag (1893–1907), owner of the Osteroder Kupferhammers
• Otto Wernicke (1893–1965), actor
• Hildegarde Haslinger (1898–1976), doctor, stayed in Königsberg / Kaliningrad until 1948
• Alwin Boerst (1910–1944), “Stuka” pilot in the German Air Force in World War II and holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
• Ernst Preising (1911–2007), professor of botany and nature conservationist
• Heinz Grabowski (1920–1945), camp leader in the Rottleberode subcamp
• Jochen Ulrich (1944–2012), choreographer and dancer
• Renate Krößner (1945–2020), actress
• Volker Scherliess (* 1945), musicologist
• Friedmar Apel (1948–2018), literary scholar
• Rudolf Götz (* 1949), politician (CDU), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Rolf Töpperwien (* 1950), sports reporter
• Michael Mollenhauer (* 1951), Rear Admiral of the German Navy
• Christian Schwarzenholz (* 1951), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, later PDS), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
• Roland Hemeling (* 1953), Flotilla Admiral of the German Navy
• Peter Pauls (* 1953), journalist
• Michael Schmelich (* 1954), politician and cultural impresario
• Uwe Mackensen (1955–2019), soccer player and sports journalist
• Ulrich Schreiber (* 1956), geologist, professor and writer
• Frank Klose (1958–2015), travel and motorcycle journalist and non-fiction author
• Matthias Reich (* 1959), process engineer and professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
• Petra Emmerich-Kopatsch (* 1960), politician (SPD)
• Marco Bode (* 1969), national soccer player
• Peter Imhof (* 1973), moderator
• Viktor Schoner (* 1974), director
• Maximilian Baden (* 1989), karateka
• Süleyman Çelikyurt (* 1989), football player

Personalities associated with the place

• Tilman Riemenschneider (1460–1531), sculptor and carver, spent part of his childhood and youth here
• Andreas Gröber (1600 / 1610–1662), picture carver, lived and worked in Osterode from around 1630
• Bodo von Hodenberg (1604–1650), administrative officer and poet, died in Osterode
• Heinrich Wendt (1605–1683), mayor from 1647 to 1683
• Martin Chilian Stisser (1635–1707), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and on the Harz , died in Osterode
• Christian Ludwig Henneberg (1637–1675), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of Grubenhagen and on the Harz, died in Osterode
• Erich Melchior Lunde (1672–1726), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Grubenhagen and on the Harz, died in Osterode
• Friedrich August Wolf (1759–1824), rector of the city school from 1782 to 1783
• Karl Christian Daniel Baurschmidt (1762–1837), superintendent and palace preacher in the St. Jacobi Palace Church
• Georg Friedrich König (1781–1848), lawyer and political writer of the Vormärz
• Bernhard Baurschmidt (1839–1906), member of the Reichstag, high president in Breslau , mayor from 1869 to 1883
• Fritz Kochendörfer (1871–1942), German sculptor and entrepreneur
• Richard Gronau (1886–1964), painter
• Erich Straube (1887–1971), officer, most recently general of the infantry in World War II, died in Osterode
• Adolf Kahlen (1892–1959), politician (FDP), died in Osterode
• Adolf Krome (1900–1979), factory owner and businessman, politician (CDU), mayor, MdL
• Hanna Stephan (1902–1980), writer
• Heinz Radloff (1921–1998), politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament, died in Osterode
• Gottfried Schüler (1923–1999), artist, lived in Osterode
• Horst-Werner Nilges (* 1953/1954), early retirement, known as "Knöllchen-Horst"
• Ralf Nielbock (* 1954), geologist and operations manager of the Einhornhöhle near Scharzfeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The city of Osterode am Harz currently has no honorary citizens.