List of personalities from the city of Seesen
The list of personalities from the town of Seesen contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the town of Seesen in Lower Saxony . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Seesen or who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Seesen, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- December 1, 1863: Wilhelm Pockels (1832–1904), Lord Mayor of Braunschweig.
- 1888: William Steinway , born Wilhelm Steinweg (1835–1896), German-American piano maker, businessman and philanthropist
- 2005: Elisabeth Paetz-Kalich (* 1925), artist, mother of the Sehusafest
Sons and daughters of the place
- Johann Sötefleisch the Elder (1552–1620), Lutheran theologian
- Hermann Toppius (1612–1675), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, general superintendent of Holzminden and abbot of Amelungsborn
- Karl Bege (1768–1849), lawyer and historian
- Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken (1791–1862), Bergrat, later Ministerialrat for Mining and Metallurgy in Bernburg, mineralogist and chemist
- Karl Wilhelm Sack (1792–1870), district court registrar and local historian, who became famous for his numerous works on the history of the city of Braunschweig
- Ferdinand Spohr (1792–1831), violinist and chamber musician in Vienna and Kassel
- Eduard Schott (1808–1895), steelworks inspector and art caster in Ilsenburg , inventor of the crystallization process
- Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz (1809–1877), Prussian general
- Theodor Steinweg (1825–1889), piano maker and collector of musical instruments
- Julius Reinecke (1830–1914), member of the Reichstag and Landtag
- Wilhelm Roßmann (1832–1885), Protestant theologian, art historian, prince educator and author
- Friedrich Lilly (1835–1906), Brunswick architect, court building advisor and lecturer in agricultural architecture and structural engineering
- Emil Wohlwill (1835–1912), chemist and science historian
- Gustav Stutzer (1839–1921), Protestant theologian and author
- Hermann Menge (1841–1939), classical philologist, dictionary editor, author of two revision courses and an esteemed Bible translation
- Anna Wohlwill (1841–1919), educator
- Adolf Wohlwill (1843–1916), historian
- Max Gutkind (1847–1931), banker
- Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848–1890), cellist, composer and university professor
- Adolf Ginsberg (1856–1883), painter
- Paul Prüssing (1861–1914), chemist and cement manufacturer
- Franz Schönemann (1868–1953), lawyer, landowner and politician, was mayor of the city of Helmstedt from 1898 to 1919 and from 1920 to 1922 a member of the Braunschweig regional assembly
- Otto Freise (1872–1952), Bremen businessman and factory director
- Max Peters (1878–1934), District Administrator in Lyck
- Victor von Alten (1880–1967), German officer and National Socialist functionary in the Reich Labor Service
- Emil Mechau (1882–1945), designer and cinema pioneer, a street in Seesen is named after him
- Reinhart Kraatz (1925–1996), geologist and paleontologist, was considered one of the leading experts on Homo heidelbergensis (man from the wall)
- Arne Krüger (1929–2010), restaurateur, publisher and non-fiction author
- Peter Kopischke (* 1942), Lower Saxony politician (SPD) and former member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Herbert Hartung (* 1947), politician (CDU), was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt from 2006 to 2016, born in Kirchberg
- Rolf Froböse (* 1949), chemist, science journalist and book author
- Udo Tworuschka (* 1949), religious scholar
- Klaus Baumgart (* 1951), children's book author and university professor
- Sabine Töpperwien (* 1960), sports journalist
- Editha Westmann (* 1963), politician (CDU), member of the Lower Saxony state parliament since 2003
- Linda Breitlauch (* 1966), media scientist and university lecturer
- Franziska Busch (* 1985), ice hockey player
Other personalities associated with the place
Wilhelm Busch sculpture in Seesen
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken (1729–1806), lawyer and judicial officer in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, died in Seesen
- Israel Jacobson (1768–1828), who founded what was initially a Jewish school here in 1801 , which soon also took in Christian children (this school later became the Seesen Jacobson Gymnasium ). Jacobson is considered to be the founder of Reform Judaism .
- Friedrich Wilhelm Grabau (1783–1839), merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, died while passing through and was buried in Seesen
- Louis Spohr (1784-1859), violin virtuoso and composer, who spent his childhood from 1786 to 1796 within the walls of the Vorharzstadt
- Heinrich Engelhardt Steinweg / Henry E. Steinway (1797–1871), built his first piano in Seesen in 1836 and founded the world-famous piano manufacturer " Steinway & Sons " in the USA
- Immanuel Wohlwill (1799–1847), educator and Jewish publicist, died in Seesen
- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), the 1898-1908 his last years in the unincorporated village Mechtshausen spent
- Heinrich Sieburg and Rudolf Züchner as founders of the first canning factory in Seesen in 1886 on Bismarckstrasse. The first cans were mass-produced in 1890. Today the company under the name is Crown Food cans Germany GmbH, Plant Seesen , continued
- Günther Nebelung (1896–1970), lawyer and Senate President at the People's Court, died in Seesen
- Heinz Fiebig (1897–1964), officer, most recently major general in World War II, died in Seesen
- Siegfried Großmann (* 1938) is a Baptist pastor, was president of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches and author of theological books
- Rudolf Albrecht (1942–2015), Protestant pastor and representative of the church peace movement in the GDR, buried in Seesen