List of personalities of the city of Rudolstadt

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The list of personalities of the city of Rudolstadt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city ​​of Rudolstadt . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of Rudolstadt or who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Rudolstadt, see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

  • 2016: Horst Fleischer, museum director

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with the city

  • Wolfgang Ratke (also Ratichius) (1571–1635), educator and school reformer, as persecuted person, accommodated by Anna-Sophia von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Georg Achatz Heher (1601–1667), lawyer and diplomat, from 1659 to 1667 Chancellor of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Johann Rothmaler (1601–1650), theologian and clergyman, from 1635 to 1650 general superintendent of Rudolstadt
  • Ahasverus Fritsch (1629–1701), composer and lawyer, active in Rudolstadt from 1657
  • Friedrich Barthol von Bielen (1653–1708), mining captain, councilor and bailiff of Leutenberg, chamber director in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714), composer, was court musician in Rudolstadt for 35 years
  • Johann Heinrich Buttstedt (1666–1727), composer, from 1691 court organist in Rudolstadt
  • Nicolaus Vetter (1666–1734), composer, from 1690 court organist in Rudolstadt
  • Johann Georg Abicht (1672–1740), theologian, attended grammar school in Rudolstadt
  • Johann Graf (1684–1750), composer, active in Rudolstadt from 1723
  • Johann Christoph Morgenstern (1697–1767), painter in Rudolstadt
  • Johann Nikolaus Tischer (1707–1774), composer, received his training in Rudolstadt
  • Georg Gebel (1709–1753), composer, active in Rudolstadt from 1746
  • Karl Adolph Kellers († 1762), wood sculptor and court sculptor in Rudolstadt.
  • Georg Christian Füchsel (1722–1773), geologist, lived and died in Rudolstadt
  • Christian Gotthelf Scheinpflug (1722–1770), composer, in Rudolstadt from 1745
  • Carl Christoph Eckner (1743–1807), 1773–1807 physician in Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), poet, often visited Rudolstadt because his wife Charlotte von Lengefeld comes from Rudolstadt; Schiller also met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for the first time in Rudolstadt
  • Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), philosopher, from 1794 member of a Masonic lodge in Rudolstadt
  • Traugott Maximilian Eberwein (1775–1831), composer, has worked at the Rudolstädter Hof since 1797 with interruptions
  • Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832), philosopher, lived in Rudolstadt in 1804/05
  • Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852), educator, worked for a long time in the Keilhau district
  • Albert Methfessel (1785–1869), composer, attended grammar school in Rudolstadt
  • Franz Junot (1785–1846), Mining Minister in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Carl Poppo Fröbel (1786–1824), teacher at the grammar school in Rudolstadt and owner of the court book printer
  • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher, was a guest at the “Zum Ritter” inn in 1813, where he completed his dissertation
  • Richard Wagner (1813–1883), as a young music director, made guest appearances in Rudolstadt for six weeks
  • Friedrich Adolf Richter (1846–1910), entrepreneur, founder of the anchor factory and manufacturer of the anchor stone building sets
  • Louis Müller-Unkel (1853–1938), glass technician, spent the evening of his life in Rudolstadt
  • Berthold Sigismund (1819–1864), doctor, pedagogue, writer, poet and politician, from 1850 teacher and professor at the grammar school in Rudolstadt, where he taught natural sciences, mathematics and English
  • Theodor Quentin (1851–1905), important church builder
  • Eduard Müller (1855–1912), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag (National Liberal Party)
  • Max Güntz (1861–1931), agricultural historian, graduated from high school in Rudolstadt
  • Rudolf Herzer (1878–1914), composer, lived in Rudolstadt
  • Franz Fürth (1880–1961), hotelier and politician
  • Karl Dietz (1890–1964), publisher, managing director of Greifenverlag in Rudolstadt
  • Alfred Unartikel (1890–1978), electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of the X-ray tube factory in Rudolstadt, inventor of the high-temperature-cooled rotating anode X-ray tube
  • Hans Fallada (1893–1947), writer, attended high school in Rudolstadt
  • Wilhelm Geißler (1895–1977), painter, lived in Rudolstadt between 1922 and 1929
  • Erich Hertzsch (1902–1995), theologian, graduated from high school in Rudolstadt
  • Walther Müller (1905–1979), physicist, worked for Siemens in Rudolstadt before the Second World War
  • Alexander Golling (1905–1989), actor, made his debut in Rudolstadt in 1924
  • Inge von Wangenheim (1912–1993), actress and writer, lived in Rudolstadt from 1961 to 1974
  • Johannes Wieke (1913–1982), actor, made his debut in Rudolstadt in 1937
  • Fritz Göhler (1926–2007), actor, worked at the Rudolstädter Theater
  • Bernhard Ilschner (1928–2006), physicist, attended high school in Rudolstadt
  • Peter Gülke (* 1934), musicologist, worked at the Rudolstadt Theater from 1959 to 1964
  • Matthias Biskupek (* 1950), writer, has lived and worked in Rudolstadt since 1973
  • Konstanze Lauterbach (* 1954), theater director, worked in Rudolstadt between 1987 and 1990
  • Martina Eitner-Acheampong (* 1960), actress, worked for a time at the Rudolstädter Theater
  • Olaf Rahardt (* 1965), painter, has been working in Rudolstadt since 1997
  • Beatrice Kaps-Zurmahr (* 1977), actress, has been with the Rudolstädter Theater since 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary citizen of Rudolstadt: Horst Fleischer