List of personalities of the city of Schönebeck (Elbe)

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The list of personalities of the city of Schönebeck (Elbe) contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Schönebeck (Elbe) in the Salzland district in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Schönebeck and the incorporated localities and current districts.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Schönebeck (Elbe) see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Schönebeck (Elbe) or the incorporated localities or the current districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Schönebeck (Elbe) is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

19th century personalities

Karl Leopold Fabian
Walter Hermann von Heineke
Max Matthes
  • August Wilhelm Neuber (born March 3, 1781 in Groß Salze; † January 22, 1849 in Aabenraa), doctor, poet and philosopher
  • Karl Leopold Fabian (November 12, 1782 - March 14, 1855), Director of the Salt Office
  • Friedrich Ludwig Sander (born October 6, 1783 in Frohse; † May 9, 1846), mountain master
  • Ludwig Ferdinand Timme (born June 30, 1830 in Groß Salze; † August 1, 1888 in Colmar), administrative lawyer and Prussian district administrator in the districts of Prüm (1858–1859) and Bernkastel (1861), from 1880 to 1888 he served as district president in District of Upper Alsace
  • Walter Hermann von Heineke (born May 17, 1834; † April 28, 1901 in Erlangen), surgeon
  • Hugo Bode (born July 26, 1851 in Groß Salze; † January 14, 1937), crop scientist
  • Max Matthes (born February 7, 1865 in Groß Salze; † March 26, 1930 in Meran), university professor for internal medicine
  • Richard Eberlein (born October 16, 1869 in Groß Salze; † December 10, 1921 in Berlin), veterinarian, zoologist, doctor and university professor in Berlin
  • Wilhelm Hellge (born December 30, 1878 - † October 31, 1947), local politician (SPD / SED) and trade unionist.

20th century personalities

Lieselotte Hachmann (1956)
Anne Rose Katz (1992)
Marco Herszel (2007)
  • Heinrich Kirchheim (born April 6, 1882 in Groß Salze, † December 14, 1973 in Lüdenscheid), officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
  • Willi Wolff (born April 16, 1883; † 1947 in the USA), songwriter, screenwriter, film director and film producer
  • Annemarie Heise (born May 31, 1886 in Groß Salze; † March 24, 1937), painter and graphic artist
  • Karl Jänicke (born April 8, 1888 - † July 5, 1935 in Halle), a worker, was charged as a former member of the Reichsbanner in 1934 on charges of murdering an SA member, sentenced to death despite the dubious evidence and executed in 1935
  • Franz Vollbring (born September 25, 1889 - † August 8, 1959), local politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Gustav Bebermeyer (born October 16, 1890 in Salzelmen; † June 19, 1975 in Tübingen), Germanist and folklorist, was a professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • Katharina Heise (born May 3, 1891 in Groß Salze; † October 5, 1964 in Halle (Saale)), sculptor and painter
  • Heinrich Ernst Boeters (born January 17, 1893, † December 5, 1945 in Greifswald), Protestant theologian and senior consistorial advisor in the church province of Pomerania
  • Gerhard Buhtz (born February 24, 1896; † June 26, 1944 near Minsk), forensic doctor and university lecturer
  • Hermann Behme (born March 10, 1900, † 1969 in Gießen), politician and member of the NSDAP Reichstag
  • Kurt Wagenführ (born February 13, 1903; † April 5, 1987 in Gauting, Obb.), Media journalist and founder and first director of the "Institute for Broadcasting and Television Broadcasting"
  • Hermann Milius (born April 10, 1903; † July 16, 1979 in Magdeburg), handball official and president of the GDR handball association
  • Ehrhard Voigt (born July 28, 1905; † November 22, 2004 in Hamburg), geologist and paleontologist
  • Alfred Dieck (born April 4, 1906; † January 7, 1989 in Bremen), researcher of prehistory and moor corpses
  • Willi König (born February 25, 1907 - † July 28, 1983), Member of the State Parliament and Lord Mayor of Schönebeck (SED)
  • Herbert Stockmann (born May 15, 1913; † November 12, 1947 in Halle (Saale)), painter and graphic artist
  • Gerhard Enger (born November 22, 1915), politician (NDPD), was mayor of Quedlinburg and deputy chairman of the council of the Halle district
  • Katharina Scholz-Wanckel (born March 18, 1916; † May 12, 2009 in Hamburg), painter who mainly used the techniques of woodcut, aquatint and oil pastel
  • Paul Theile (born February 25, 1919 in Groß Salze; † June 4, 2006 in Hanover), local historian, school principal, local researcher and author of several writings on the history of Kronsberg and the Hanoverian district of Bemerode
  • Lieselotte Hachmann (born June 27, 1919 - † May 1, 1989 in Kaltenkirchen), founder of the Indo-German Society (DIG) and its first president
  • Hans Naumilkat (born December 9, 1919 - February 13, 1994 in Berlin), composer and music educator
  • Werner Guse (born July 18, 1922, † November 2, 1977 in Magdeburg), politician (SED), was temporarily second secretary of the SED district leadership in Magdeburg
  • S. Fischer-Fabian (born September 22, 1922 in Groß Salze; † November 16, 2011 in Berg), non-fiction author and journalist
  • Anne Rose Katz (born August 9, 1923 - December 31, 2011), journalist, writer and screenwriter
  • Dario Malkowski (born June 14, 1926 - December 13, 2017), sculptor and ceramist
  • Willi Schröder (born July 15, 1927 - † May 8, 2012 in Jena), sports scientist and sports historian at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena
  • Hans Dietrich Lindstedt (born April 21, 1929 - April 10, 2008 in Chemnitz), writer and journalist
  • Werner Tübke (born July 30, 1929 - † May 27, 2004 in Leipzig), painter
  • Harry Dahl (born August 7, 1929), Colonel of the Ministry for State Security and officer in the People's Police of the German Democratic Republic
  • Martin Wetzel (born December 17, 1929, † September 11, 2008 in Halle (Saale)), sculptor and graphic artist
  • Kurt Czekalla (born September 30, 1930), marksman
  • Erik Neutsch (born June 21, 1931 - † August 20, 2013 in Halle (Saale)), writer
  • Herbert Rasenberger (born April 13, 1932 - April 5, 2019), local history researcher and author
  • Hans Haberhauffe (born February 6, 1933, † February 11, 2015 in Berlin), handball player and handball and soccer coach
  • Hans Herrfurth (* 1935), philologist and translator
  • Brigitte Troeger (born January 6, 1941; † November 15, 2017 in Gummersbach), teacher and writer
  • Hans Fricke (born July 28, 1941), biologist and documentary filmmaker
  • Ed Stuhler (born February 27, 1945 - † May 18, 2018), publicist, text and book author
  • Karl-Joachim Blume (born March 19, 1946), farmer and former politician (DBD), was a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
  • Ernst Gerlach (born March 19, 1947), handball player
  • Helmut Qual (born May 26, 1947), politician
  • Ernst Gerlach (born March 19, 1947), handball player
  • Olaf Wegewitz (born October 2, 1949), draftsman and painter
  • Sylvia Retzke (* October 21, 1950 - March 28, 2016), local politician (SED), was Lord Mayor of the city of Dessau and a member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
  • Liane Michaelis (born April 23, 1953), handball player
  • Frank Wahle (born October 26, 1953), graphic artist
  • Wolfgang Steinbach (born September 21, 1954), football player
  • Peter Rotter (born August 14, 1955), politician (CDU) and member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Reiner Heise (born September 8, 1956), actor
  • Volker Lüderitz (born March 30, 1959), university professor, former member of the state parliament
  • Holger Behrendt (born January 29, 1964), artistic gymnast
  • Markus Scheibel (born October 30, 1964), soccer referee
  • Thorsten Schmidt (born September 8, 1965), publisher, publicist and photographer
  • David Gill (born March 2, 1966), administrative lawyer, former head of the Federal President's Office at Joachim Gauck
  • Michael Kamp (* 1966), historian and author of non-fiction books, especially biographies and company histories
  • Thomas Wünsch (born June 16, 1969), lawyer and politician (SPD), was State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt from 2012 to 2016 and has been State Secretary of the Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitization of the State of Saxony since 2016 -Stop
  • Jan Freese (* 1973), stage designer
  • Andreas Wels (born January 1, 1975), water diver
  • Jan Kralitschka (born July 16, 1976), model, lawyer and television actor, became known through the television show The Bachelor
  • Marco Herszel (born June 2, 1979), canoeist

21st century personalities

Philipp Weber (2018)
Lisa Stock (2016)

Personalities who died in the city

Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider
Heinrich Mentzel
  • Franz Heinrich Höltich (born March 14, 1643 in Bergedorf; † August 8, 1676 in Groß Salze), syndic of Groß-Salze
  • Johann Paul Stecher (born February 12, 1662 in Erdmannsdorf; † September 21, 1737), bailiff and mining factor in Rothenburg (Saale), Berlin upper mill inspector, leaseholder of the salt works in Schönebeck, founder and leaseholder of the royal salt works in Halle (Saale), domain councilor , Heir, feudal lord and court lord on Beuchlitz and Schlettau
  • Johann Wilhelm Tolberg (born October 24, 1762 in Iserlohn, † September 17, 1831 in Schönebeck), physician
  • Carl Samuel Hermann (born January 20, 1765 in Königerode / Harz; † September 1, 1846 in Schönebeck), pharmacist, entrepreneur and councilor
  • Franz Xaver Chwatal (born June 19, 1808 in Rumburg; † June 24, 1879 in Elmen), Bohemian composer and music teacher
  • Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider (born June 26, 1809 in Sudenburg near Magdeburg, † February 9, 1889 in Schönebeck), botanist, lawyer and local politician
  • Heinrich Mentzel (born July 14, 1838; † February 23, 1901 in Schönebeck), mining official and salt office director of the Schönebeck salt works
  • Wilhelm Schulze (born December 22, 1886 in Westerhüsen, † October 11, 1971 in Schönebeck), local researcher and local politician
  • Emil Schwantner (* 1890 in Königshan / Bohemia; † 1956 in Schönebeck), academic sculptor
  • Bernhard Jansa (born May 17, 1901 in Leipzig; † March 3, 1967 in Schönebeck), Protestant pastor and pastor
  • Hans Helmbrecht (born October 3, 1922 in Jernau (Silesia), † April 14, 1998 in Schönebeck), sculptor

Personalities associated with the city

  • Karl Ludolf Friedrich Lachmann (born October 22, 1756 in Mieste, Altmark, † February 28, 1823 in Braunschweig), theologian and educator, was a field preacher in Schönebeck
  • Gustav Flügel (born July 2, 1812 in Nienburg / Saale, † August 15, 1900 in Stettin), composer, director of the choral society and music teacher
  • Gottfried Adolf Kinau (born January 4, 1814 in Winningen near Aschersleben, † January 9, 1887 in Suhl), pastor and astronomer. Teacher at the local boys' school
  • Ernst Friedrich Althans (born November 22, 1828 in Sayn, † November 30, 1899 in Berlin), Prussian mining official, director of the Schönebeck saltworks
  • Albert Fischer (born April 18, 1829 in Ziesar, † April 27, 1896 in Lemsdorf), Protestant pastor and hymnologist, teacher at the local girls' school
  • Otto Kresse (born January 6, 1886 in Felgeleben; † March 12, 1933 there), local politician (SPD) and trade unionist, was elected to the three-party committee in 1920 that was responsible for the local leadership of the fight against the Kapp putschists in Schönebeck
  • Józef Szajna (born March 13, 1922 in Rzeszów; † June 24, 2008 in Warsaw), Polish actor and theater manager, 1944–45 prisoner in the Schönebeck concentration camp
  • Roland Ducke (born November 19, 1934 in Bensen; † June 26, 2005 in Jena), footballer, grew up here
  • Hans-Joachim Geffert (born January 9, 1935 in Rathenow; † March 13, 2019 in Schönebeck), writer and local researcher, author of books about Schönebeck and the Schönebeck district
  • Elisabeth Eichholz (born November 12, 1939 in Wolmirstedt), cyclist, was a teacher here until 1998
  • Peter Ducke (born October 14, 1941 in Bensen), footballer, grew up here
  • Gunnar Schellenberger (born January 12, 1960 in Karl-Marx-Stadt), politician (CDU), member of the CDU district executive committee Schönebeck
  • Petra Grimm-Benne (born April 27, 1962 in Wuppertal), politician (SPD), city councilor in Schönebeck, from 2002 to 2016 she was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 125 years of Emil Schwantner: A misunderstood artist