List of personalities of the city of Querfurt
The list of personalities of the city of Querfurt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city of Querfurt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Querfurt or who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Querfurt, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen of the city
- 1932: Johannes Schlaf (1862–1941), playwright, narrator and translator and important exponent of German naturalism
sons and daughters of the town
Memorial plaque on Karl August Gottlieb Sturm's birthplace
Memorial plaque on Johannes Schlaf's house
- Brun von Querfurt (around 974–1009), from the noble family of Querfurt, archbishop and missionary and the second Christian apostle and martyr among the pagan Prussians
- Bruno Seidel (around 1530–1591), physician, proverb collector and neo-Latin poet
- Daniel Friderici (1584–1638), composer and cantor, born in Kleineichstädt
- Andreas Merck (1595–1640), Protestant theologian and pastor
- Hans Georg von Osterhausen (1603 – unknown), Schleswig-Holstein court clerk and chef, born in Gatterstädt
- Johann Siegmund von Osterhausen (1613–1679), provost, court judge and court and liege lord of Osterhausen, born in Gatterstädt
- Johannes Andreas Olearius (1639–1684), Lutheran theologian
- Johann Eichentopf (1678–1769), instrument maker
- Johann Gottlieb Gonne (1713–1758), lawyer and professor at the University of Erlangen
- Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718–1790), Protestant pastor, natural scientist, pioneer of the washing machine and wood paper
- Johann Gottlieb Schäffer (1720–1795), doctor and natural scientist
- Moritz von Untzer (1765 – after 1821), Prussian administrative officer and district administrator of the districts of Hörde, Grafschaft Mark and the district of Bochum, Westphalia
- Christian Ludwig Krug von Nidda (1774–1851), Prussian district administrator born in Gatterstädt
- Friedrich Albert Franz Krug von Nidda (1776–1843), romantic poet born in Gatterstädt
- Gottlieb Heise (1785–1847), organ builder and founder of Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau GmbH
- Friedrich von Urlaub (1786–1874), Prussian major general
- Christian Friedrich Andreas Rohns (1787–1853), architect, born in what is now the Lodersleben district
- Woldemar von Trotha (1797-1859), Prussian lieutenant general
- Ferdinand Beyer (1803–1863), composer and pianist
- Karl August Gottlieb Sturm (1803–1886), cantor, chronicler
- Gustav Moritz Redslob (1804–1882), Hebraist, philologist, theologian, teacher
- Hermann von Trotha (1804–1891), Prussian general of the cavalry
- Otto Dambach (1831–1899), lawyer and professor
- Johannes Wislicenus (1835–1902), chemist, born in Kleineichstädt
- Moritz Immisch (1838–1903), watchmaker, electrical engineer and inventor, born in Niederschmoon
- Johannes Schlaf (1862–1941), playwright, narrator and translator
- Felix Muche-Ramholz (1868–1947), painter
- Otto Richter (1872–1927), SPD politician and pioneer of the building cooperative movement
- Felix Rötscher (1873–1944), university professor for mechanical engineering and materials science and rector of RWTH Aachen University
- Georg Muche (1895–1987), Bauhaus artist, painter and graphic artist
- Will Halle (1905–1969), humorous draftsman
- Walter Herrmann (1910–1987), physicist
- Ulrich Willerding (* 1932), botanist
- Hans-Joachim Rudolphi (1934–2009), legal scholar
- Cornelius Nägler (* 1936), member of the state parliament (CDU)
- Peter H. Seeburg (1944–2016), neurobiologist and biochemist
- Gina Pietsch (* 1946), singer and actress
- Peter Kunert (* 1949), politician (FDP), mayor from 1989 to 2015
- Christa Gießler (* 1954 in Ziegelroda), writer
- Dietmar Demuth (* 1955), soccer player and coach
- Eberhard Probst (* 1955), wrestler
- Ines Bibernell (* 1965), middle and long distance runner
- Silke Renk (* 1967), javelin thrower and Olympic champion
- Nicole Rotzsch (* 1976), politician (CDU), mayor 2015–2017
- Chris Fleischhauer (* 1982), TV presenter, journalist, Germany's first male lottery fair
- Jan Seyffarth (* 1986), automobile racing driver
Personalities associated with the city
- Konrad von Querfurt (around 1100–1142), of the noble free family of Querfurt, from 1134 to 1142 Archbishop of Magdeburg
- Konrad von Querfurt († 1202) (around 1160–1202), founded Karlstadt in 1198–1202
- Johannes Olearius (1611–1684), hymn poet and superintendent
- David Sigmund Büttner (1660–1719), Protestant clergyman and early geologist and paleontologist, 1690–1719 deacon at St. Lamperti
- Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1692 – between 1744 and 1748), German writer; settled in Querfurt in 1719 as a barber.
- Julius von Kirchmann (1802–1884), lawyer and politician, district court director in Querfurt
- Albrecht Heinrich von Schlieckmann (1835-1891), President of East Prussia and member of the Council of State, was District Administrator in Querfurt from 1864-1876
- Hans Schomburgk (1880–1967), Africa explorer and pioneer of German animal films
- Fritz Adam (1889–1945), SA chief and politician (NSDAP), from 1940 district administrator in Querfurt
- Axel Crewell (1896–1945), NSDAP district leader and district administrator
- Fips Asmussen (actually Rainer Pries; 1938-2020), comedian and solo entertainer, settled in Querfurt at the end of the 1990s.