List of personalities of the city of Schöningen
The list of personalities of the city of Schöningen contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Lower Saxony city of Schöningen in the Helmstedt district . These are personalities who were born or died here or who worked in Schöningen or in today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Schöningen, see the corresponding local articles.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Schöningen or what is today the districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Schöningen is irrelevant.
Medieval and early modern personalities
- Willigis (* approx. 940; † 1011), Archbishop of Mainz
- Brandes , patrician family and patron of Julius University comes from Schöningen
- Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz (1607–1671), Lutheran theologian
- Christoph Joachim Bucholtz (1607–1679), German legal scholar and mayor of Hameln
- Sigismund Andreas Cuno (1675–1747), German educator and local history researcher
- Rudolf August Nolte (1703–1752), lawyer and historian
- Theodor Christoph Grotrian (1755–1829), general superintendent in Holzminden and publisher
- Dietrich Joachim Theodor Cunze (1760–1822), rector of the Anna-Sophianeum and pastor
19th century personalities
- Friedrich Grotrian (1803–1860), instrument maker
- Bernhard Ornstein (1809-1896), physician, general practitioner in Greece
- Wilhelm Lefeldt (1813–1913), engineer, inventor and mechanical engineer
- Hermann Münchmeyer the Elder (1815–1909), merchant, banker and consul of Haiti
- Heinrich Wilhelm Appel (1850–1923), merchant and factory owner, who achieved world renown at the beginning of the 20th century with the production of an improved German “mayonnaise” for the name Appel
- Rudolf Sachtleben (1856–1917), chemist and entrepreneur (compare also Sachtleben chemistry )
- Bruno Schrader (1861–1926), pianist, composer and music writer
20th century personalities
Hermann Klaue (around 1940)
- Gustav Philipp Hermann Brandes (1862–1941), zoologist, with special merits as a parasitologist, university teacher and zoo director in Halle and later in Dresden
- Wilhelm August Pfitzinger (1864–1939), chemist, discovered the Pfitzinger reaction named after him in 1886
- Alfred Forke (1867–1944), sinologist
- Kurt Strümpell (1872–1947), colonial officer and Africa researcher
- Paul Fanger (1889–1945), naval officer, most recently admiral in World War II
- Otto Rodewald (1891–1960), painter and graphic artist
- Alfred Tack (1898–1970), politician
- Johannes Hamel (1911–2002), Protestant theologian and doctor of the church
- Hermann Klaue (1912–2001), engineer and inventor
- Helga Pilarczyk (1925–2011), opera singer (soprano)
- Henning Piper (1931–2012), judge at the Dresden Higher Regional Court, honorary professor
- Horst Voigt (* 1933), Lower Saxony politician (SPD)
- Udo Köneke (* 1938), Lower Saxony politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Rolf-Dieter Backhauß (* 1941), politician (SPD)
- Jürgen Baumert (* 1941), educational researcher
- Ilse Stiewitt (* 1943), social economist and politician (SPD)
- Reimar Oltmanns (* 1949), journalist and book author
- Peter Hayduk (* 1953), former football player (striker) and today's coach
Personalities associated with the city
Catherine of Brandenburg, Princess of Transylvania
- Sophia Jagiellonica (1522–1575), actually Zofia Jagiellonka, Polish princess from the Jagiellonian family, from 1556 by marriage to the Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- Katharina von Brandenburg (1602–1644), Princess of Brandenburg and by marriage successively Princess of Transylvania and Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg, from 1629 to 1630 Princess of Transylvania, but again renounced the regency
- Joachim Johann Mader (1626–1680), historian and educator, was rector of the grammar school from 1651 to 1680
- Philipp Ludwig Probst (1633–1718), basic scholar, princely prime minister of Brunswick-Lüneburg, chancellor and state syndic, and heir to Wendhausen, Schöningen and Riddagshausen
- Sigismund Andreas Cuno (1675–1747), headmaster of the grammar school and local researcher
- Johann Friedrich Nolte (1694–1754), headmaster of the grammar school and philologist
- William Carl Adam Freiherr von Seckendorff (1799–1863), mining clerk, mineralogist and saline director in Schöningen
- Walther Franz (1880–1956), naval officer, most recently vice admiral in World War II
- Ludwig Klingemann (1887–1942), bricklayer and labor leader of the USPD and the SPD in Vorsfelde during the Weimar Republic
- Wilhelm (Willy) Schulte (1904–1948), politician (SPD)
- Alfred Schliestedt (1921–1963), educator and politician (SPD)
- Fritz Bäther (1928–1979), politician (SPD)
- Carl Guesmer (1929–2009), poet and librarian
- Conrad Velensek (* 1942), European boxing champion
- Hartmut Thieme (* 1947), prehistoric archaeologist who worked for the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. His specialty was the Paleolithic. In 1994 he discovered the Paleolithic Schöningen spears during excavations in the Schöningen open-cast lignite mine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Lehrmann: Helmstedter and Räbker Book and Paper History , Lehrte 1994, ISBN 978-3-9803642-0-1 (p. 11ff.).