List of personalities of the city of Quedlinburg

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Coat of arms of the city of Quedlinburg

This list includes personalities related to the city ​​of Quedlinburg .

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Quedlinburg. For the mention here, it is irrelevant whether the people later had their sphere of activity in Quedlinburg or not. Many have become known elsewhere. They are listed chronologically according to their year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

View of the GutsMuths monument (2006)

Other personalities

All the personalities of the city of Quedlinburg, whose work is closely linked to the city and the monastery, are recorded here. Famous personalities who had a short stay in Quedlinburg are also included here.

  • Eberhard I. von Hildrizhausen († January 6, 1112 in Quedlinburg) was Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt from 1099 (?) To 1112
  • Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), lived in the Augustinian monastery in Quedlinburg
  • Heinrich Julius von Wietersheim (1585–1645), master court master in Quedlinburg
  • Johann Agricola (1590–1668), doctor and alchemist, probably a student at the Quedlinburg high school
  • Christian Scriver (1629–1693), theologian and hymn poet
  • Andreas Werckmeister (1645–1706), musician and music theorist , introduced the well-tempered tuning for keyboard instruments and attended school in Quedlinburg
  • Friedrich Weise (1649–1735), clergyman, theologian and university professor, was the court preacher in Quedlinburg
  • Johann Philipp Bendeler (1654–1709), organist and organ theorist
  • Tobias Eckhard (1662–1737), pedagogue, theologian and philologist
  • Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714), German theologian, a. a. in Quedlinburg, founder of modern church historiography
  • Johann Albert Fabricius (1668–1736), classical philologist and bibliographer, studied in Quedlinburg
  • Johann Arnold Zeitfuchs (1671–1742), German chronicler and theologian, at the Quedlinburg high school
  • Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731–1793), discoverer of the tardigrade, was a pastor in Quedlinburg
  • Johann August Hermes (1736–1822), Protestant theologian and clergyman, court preacher, inspector of the grammar school and superintendent in Quedlinburg
  • Johann Jakob Rambach (1737–1818), Lutheran theologian, 1765–1773 rector of the Quedlinburg high school
  • Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), scientist, discoverer of the element uranium , completed part of his apprenticeship in Quedlinburg (Adler and Rats pharmacy)
  • Friedrich Andreas Stroth (1750–1785), classical philologist and theologian, rector of the high school in Quedlinburg
  • Carl Eduard Adolph Petzold (1815-1891), garden designer, expanded Brühl (Quedlinburg) in 1866
  • Friedrich von Schmidt (1825–1891), architect a. a. the St. Mathildis Church
  • George Adalbert von Mülverstedt (1825–1914), archivist and historian, who discovered the Quedlinburg Itala fragments
  • Friedrich Schünemann-Pott (1826–1891), free thinker and theologian, 1849–1851 theologian in Quedlinburg
  • Albert Fischer (1829–1896), Protestant pastor in Quedlinburg
  • Wilhelm Rahmsdorf (1843–1917) served as a cuirassier in a Quedlinburg regiment. Because of his extraordinary bravery at the Battle of Mars-la-Tour , he was depicted as a standard bearer on the Quedlinburg Victory Monument .
  • Otto Schmeil (1860–1943), biologist and educator, attended the royal preparation institute in Quedlinburg from 1874 to 1877
  • Ludwig Kühle (1869–1946) beet grower, director of Gebrüder Dippe AG, 1908–1933 chairman of the Society for the Promotion of German Plant Breeding (GFP)
  • Ernst Gruson (1869–1962), military, lived in Quedlinburg after he left
  • Alwin Brandes (1866–1949), SPD politician and union leader, attended school in Quedlinburg
  • Walther Grosse (1880–1943), civil servant and regional historian, accessor in Quedlinburg.
  • Hans-Georg von Jagow (1880–1945), German officer lieutenant general, district president of Magdeburg, commander of the 2nd battalion of the 12th Infantry Regiment in Quedlinburg
  • Kurt Johnen (1884–1965), German pianist, music teacher and music writer, founder of the State Conservatory in Quedlinburg
  • Bruno Erich Alfred Freyberg (1892–1945), lawyer, NSDAP politician and SS group leader, lawyer and local group leader in Quedlinburg
  • Max Schewe (1896–1951), painter and graphic artist, worked in Quedlinburg from 1942–1950 and created important graphics of cityscapes
  • Herrmann Mostar (1901–1973), famous writer, received his training as a primary school teacher in Quedlinburg
  • Heinz Rühmann (1902–1994), actor, completed his basic training as a defensive pilot at Quarmbeck Air Base
  • Martin Schwantes (1904–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism, graduate (1918–1924) of the preparatory institute and the teachers' college
  • Gustav Becker (1905–1970) breeding researcher, 1935–1945 head of the scientific department of the Dippe brothers, 1947 founder of the Institute for Plant Breeding
  • Eva Pauly (1905–1989) flower grower (73 varieties, especially Levkojen ), from 1939–1945 at the Rudolf Schreiber & Sons company and from 1947 at the Institute for Plant Breeding
  • Dietrich Wilde (1909–1984), lawyer, criminal defense attorney in the trials against the Hitler assassins
  • Astrid Krebsbach / Hobohm / Horn (1913–1995), well-known German table tennis player
  • Friedrich Fabig (1916–1986) vegetable breeder (72 varieties, tomato "Harzfeuer F1"), Rudolf Schreiber company and, from 1947, the Institute for Plant Breeding
  • Hans-Joachim Preil (1923–1999), actor, was engaged at the Quedlinburg Theater
  • Gerhardt Erich Alleweldt (1927–2005), viticulture expert and grape variety breeder, 1992–1995 provisional director of the Federal Institute for Breeding Research in Quedlinburg.
  • Eckart Friedrichson (1930–1976), actor ("Meister Nadelöhr"), took acting lessons in Quedlinburg (1948–1950)
  • Anne Dessau (* 1934), actress and writer, played theater in Quedlinburg
  • Dieter Hallervorden (* 1935), actor and theater director, lived in Quedlinburg as a child during the Second World War
  • Ezard Haussmann (1935-2010), German actor, father of the director Leander Haussmann
  • Waldemar Cierpinski (* 1950), Olympic champion, runs a sports shop in Quedlinburg
  • Jens-Paul Wollenberg (* 1952), German singer, poet and lecturer; Post carrier in Quedlinburg
  • Christian Amling (1953–2019), German physicist, writer, city councilor in Quedlinburg and gallery owner
  • Tom Peuckert (* 1962), author, theater director, documentary filmmaker and radio play writer, worked as an assistant director at the Quedlinburg Municipal Theaters

Honorary citizen

Numerous personalities were made honorary citizens of the city of Quedlinburg, also based on political events. During the Nazi era, Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) and Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) on June 1, 1937, were made honorary citizens of the city on April 20, 1933 . After the end of the Second World War, the honor was withdrawn from both of them. The city of Quedlinburg has granted the following people honorary citizenship. They are listed in the order in which they were awarded:

Current honorary citizen

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.haben-haben.de/Trauerbeispiel/Bernhard-Brinksmeier
  2. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/quedlinburg/auszeichnung-fuer-brinksmeier,20641064,18629622.html
  3. ↑ Ceremony (pdf; 183 kB)
  4. ↑ Awarded on September 15, 2013, report by the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
  5. ↑ City of Quedlinburg awards honorary citizenship to the head of the JKI predecessor institution Dr. Neumann , in: Website of the Julius Kühn Institute Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants (JKI) of October 9, 2019, accessed on April 2, 2020.
  6. ↑ Petra Korn: New Year's Reception Three Citizens Are Honored , in: MZ-Online from January 9, 2019, partially (Paywall) viewed on April 2, 2020.