List of personalities of the city of Römhild
The list of personalities of the city of Römhild contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city of Römhild in the Hildburghausen district . These are personalities who are honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Römhild and today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated after Römhild, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1891 (presumably): Christian Heurich (1842–1945), brewery owner in Washington, DC
- 1929: Alfred Götze (1865–1948), prehistorian, founder and director of the Steinsburg Museum. Prof.-Götze-Straße in Römhild commemorates him.
- 1930: Pierre Mavrogordato (1870–1948), collector of antiquities, founder of the Waldhaus settlement near Römhild
- 1931: Ernst Hönn (1866–1944), a doctor in Römhild for 53 years, Dr.-Ernst-Hönn-Straße is named after him
- 1947: Carl Kade, pharmacist and local researcher, founder of the Steinsburgfreunde community
- 1957: Karl Höfer, senior teacher since 1904, rector 1925 / 26–1945, local researcher
- 1987: Siegfried Gramann, potter, who expanded his family business Töpferhof Gramann / VEB Töpferhof Römhild into Europe's largest free-hand pottery.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Römhild or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Römhild is irrelevant.
Personalities of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period
- Adam Steinschaber (documented from 1478, exact life dates unknown), first printer in Geneva, born in Haina
- Hans Hut (1490–1527), Baptist
- Lucas Maius (1522–1598), Protestant theologian and playwright
- Johannes May (1592–1671), doctor and city physician in Römhild and Coburg
- Johann Rebhan (1604–1689), lawyer and theologian, professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Strasbourg
- Nicolaus Seeber (1680–1739), organ builder, composer and Latin teacher
19th century personalities
Christoph Hartung (1833)
- Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Heusinger (1766–1837), teacher and philosopher
- Christoph Hartung (1779–1853), doctor and pioneer of homeopathy
- Ernst Friedrich Berger (1814–1853), landowner and botanist
- Wilhelm Kircher (1831–1901), mayor, member of the Reichstag and Landtag
- Karl Ludwig (1839–1901), landscape painter
- Max Saalmüller (1832–1890), Prussian lieutenant colonel and lepidopterist
- Louis Stoetzer (1842–1906), Prussian general
- Christian Heurich (1842–1945), brewery owner in Washington DC and philanthropist, born in Haina
20th century personalities
- Ernst Höfer (1879–1931), member of the state parliament in the Free State of Saxony-Meiningen and the State of Thuringia, where Minister of State and agricultural politician
- Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern (1882–1946), doctor and creator of the Bedheim Palace paleontological museum
- Fritz Fink (1893–1945), writer, bookseller, antiquarian
- Otto Graf (1896–1977), actor and theater director
- Walter Hönn (1906–1980), doctor and local researcher
- Wolfgang Hage (* 1935), church historian
- Hans Scheuerecker (* 1951), painter and graphic artist
- Werner-Siegwart Schippel (* 1951), Member of the Brandenburg State Parliament
- Volka Stoi (* 1970), politician, party leader ( APPD )
Personalities who died in Römhild
- Elisabeth von Brandenburg (1474–1507), by marriage Countess von Henneberg
- Severus Christoph Olpius (1623–1673), moral philosopher, superintendent in Römhild
- Duke Heinrich von Sachsen-Römhild (1650–1710)
- Pierre Mavrogordato (1870–1948), antique collector, founder of the Waldhaus settlement near Römhild
- Herta Amm (1924–1950), victim of the GDR dictatorship
Personalities associated with the city
- Philipp von Henneberg (1430–1487), Archbishop of Bamberg
- Berthold von Henneberg (1441–1504), Archbishop of Kurmainz
- Appolonia by Henneberg-Römhild (1500 / 1501–1548)
- Johann Georg Conradi (1645–1699), composer, organist and conductor, worked temporarily in Römhild
- Marie Elisabeth of Hessen-Darmstadt (1656–1715), Duchess of Saxony-Römhild, died here
- Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674–1748)
- Johann Kaspar Wetzel (1691–1755), Protestant theologian, hymnologist and hymn poet
- Johann Peter Uz (1720–1796), poet
- August Wilhelm Döbner (1805–1871), architect of historicism, renovated the town church
- Fritz Fink (1893–1945), writer, bookseller, antiquarian and local history researcher, spent his childhood here
- Karl Hamann (1903–1973), politician
- Helga Rühle von Lilienstern (1912–2013), graphic artist and historian
- Harald Gerlach (1940–2001), writer, spent his childhood here and is buried here