List of personalities from the city of Osterwieck
The list of personalities of the city of Osterwieck contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city of Osterwieck in the Harz district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in the city of Osterwieck and today's districts, or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into the city of Osterwieck, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1889: Hermann Bormann
- 1993: Theodor Gille
- 1993: Günter Pieper
- 1994: Günter Boog
- 1998: Willy Hahn
- 1998: Karl Hoffmeister
- 2000: Gerhard Reiche
- 2002: Detlef Schönfeld
- 2002: Inge Bothe
- 2003: Günter Seetge
- 2004: Günter Windel
- 2010: Wolfgang Göschl
- 2011: Jürgen Junker
sons and daughters of the town
- Sophie Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1561–1631), Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and by marriage Duchess of Pommern-Wolgast, born in Hesse
- Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig (1564–1613), postulated Bishop of Halberstadt, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, from 1582 to 1585 also administrator of the diocese of Minden. He ruled from 1589 until his death in 1613, was born in Hessen
- Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1567–1618), Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and by marriage first Countess of Holstein-Schauenburg and then Duchess of Braunschweig-Harburg, born in Hesse
- Philipp Sigismund von Braunschweig (1568–1623), Protestant Prince-Bishop of Verden and Osnabrück, born in Hesse
- Pascha Johann Friedrich Weitsch (1723–1803), landscape painter, born in Hesse
- Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (1769–1811), organist and composer in Leipzig
- Karl Friedrich Arend Scheller (1773–1843), writer and Low German language reformer, born in Hesse
- Friedrich Heinrich Leonhard Albert (1819–1864 / 1865), lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and Mayor of Quedlinburg
- Albert Karl Ernst Bormann (1819–1882), classical philologist, educator and rector in Stralsund and Magdeburg
- Friedrich Wilhelm Andreas John (1835–1912), member of the Reichstag
- Ernst von Gustedt (1845–1924), General Landscape Director of the Prussian Province of Saxony, born in Dardesheim
- August Knabe (1847–1940), Protestant church music teacher, composer and choir director
- Heinrich Christoph Friedrich Bosse (1848–1909), writer, born in Hesse
- Adolf Köcher (1848–1917), historian and university professor, born in Dardesheim
- Erich von Gustedt (1849–1928), Prussian major general, born in Dardesheim
- Hans Georg Karl Julius Wittekind Hermann Wilhelm Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (1860–1898), administrative officer, district administrator of the Peine district, born in Schauen
- Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Bohlmann (1865–1931), pianist, composer and music teacher
- Karl Heinrich von Schwartz (1872–1947), manor owner and court official, born in Hesse
- Walther Grosse (1880–1943), district judge, historian and chairman of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity , born in Schauen
- Wilhelm Hochgreve (1885–1968), author and reciter. The focus of his literary work is hunting romance and the representation of nature in his Harz homeland. Hochgreve is also known as the "Hermann Löns of the Harz".
- Karl Hoppe (1892–1973), Germanist and Wilhelm Raabe researcher
- Heinrich Hellige (1900–1950), trade unionist, resistance fighter against National Socialism and bank director
- Marlene Jantsch , née Ratzersdorfer, (1917–1994), Austrian doctor and medical historian with Slovak citizenship (1938–1945), from 1945 Austrian citizenship
- Gottfried Maron (1928–2010), Evangelical Lutheran theologian ( church historian ) and university professor
- Theo Gille (1918–2011), local history researcher
- Gerhard Reiche (1920–2014), archivist and genealogist
- Rudolf Schulze (1930–2015), Protestant theologian, student pastor and senior church councilor
- Wolfgang Rauls (* 1948), politician ( NDPD , FDP ) and 2005–2012 mayor of the city of Gommern , born in Rohrsheim
- Ulrich-Karl Engel (* 1950), politician and member of the state parliament (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) from 1990–1998
- Winfried Freudenberg (1956–1989), last victim of the Berlin Wall
Personalities associated with the city
- Samuel Huber (1547–1624), Swiss Lutheran theologian, died in Osterwieck with his son-in-law
- Gottlieb Bertrand (1775–1813), writer, spent the last years of his life in Osterwieck, where he worked as a watchmaker.
- Jürgen (1929–2000) and Klaus von Woyski (1931–2017), artists who lived in Osterwieck after 1945