List of personalities of the city of Staßfurt
The list of personalities of the city of Staßfurt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Staßfurt in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Staßfurt, who were born or died here and who worked in Staßfurt.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Staßfurt see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1895 Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
- 1922 by Leopoldshall Wilhelm Feit (1867–1956), chemist
- Walther Adam (1881–1964), industrialist, art collector
- Eberhard Köllner (* 1939), research cosmonaut of the GDR
sons and daughters of the town
- Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn (1661–1719), Prussian lieutenant general and commander of the Old Prussian cuirassier regiment K 3 and heir to Bahrendorf
- Michael Adolf Siebenhaar (1691–1751), painter and draftsman
- Hans Christoph Friedrich Graf von Hacke (1699–1754), Prussian general
- Karl Friedrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Willisen (1788–1873), Prussian lieutenant general
- Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Willisen (1790–1879), Prussian general and military writer
- Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Willisen (1798–1864), Prussian general and diplomat
- Friedrich Georg Pieschel (1819–1886), manor owner, local politician and member of parliament, born in Brumby
- Karl Hahn (1846–1899), German lawyer and politician
- Ernst Ehrhardt (1855–1944), government master builder, Bremen cathedral master builder
- Dedo Adolf Friedrich von Krosigk (1858–1932), administrative and court clerk and manor owner, born in Rathmannsdorf
- Hermann Volrath Hilprecht (1859–1925), German-American archaeologist and Assyriologist, born in Hohenerxleben
- Alexander Malchow (1862–1943), roofing felt manufacturer and politician
- Ludwig Wullstein (1864–1930), surgeon, born in Leopoldshall
- Victor Karl Theodor Michels (1866–1929), Germanist
- Paul Hakenholz (1872 – after 1942), architect and writer
- Albert Frank (1872–1965), chemist and entrepreneur
- Paul F. Linke (1876–1955), phenomenologist
- Rudolf Beyendorff (1876–1947), lawyer and local politician
- Walther Borsche (1877–1950), chemist, born in Leopoldshall
- Wilhelm Steinkopf (1879–1949), chemist
- Paul Trautmann (1881–1929), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) and Braunschweig
- Walther Adam (1881–1964), industrialist, art collector, born in Leopoldshall
- Johann Ludwig ("Lutz") Count Schwerin von Krosigk (1887–1977), lawyer, politician (NSDAP), finance minister, born in Rathmannsdorf
- Paul Illhardt (1888–1936), communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Willi Wallstab (1888–1956), politician (KPD / SED), born in Leopoldshall
- Rudolf Lehmann (1891–1984), historian and archivist
- Siegfried Hotzel (1894–1992), Protestant Wehrmacht priest, parish priest and author, born in Leopoldshall
- Gustav Rathje (1895–1947), film production manager
- Herbert Kunze (1895–1975), art historian and director of the Angermuseum in Erfurt
- Heinrich Hussmann (1899–1982), graphic artist
- Ulrich Alexander Middeldorf (1901–1983), art historian
- Alfred Kettig (1903–1951), politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, member of the Landtag of the Free State of Anhalt
- Friederike Pusch (1905–1980), psychiatrist and neurologist who was involved in medical crimes in the context of child euthanasia
- Hilde Schrader (1910–1966), swimmer
- Olof Ahlers (1913–1996), historian and archivist
- Gerhard Funke (1914–2006), philosopher
- Harald Scheerer (1920–2011), television presenter, professor emeritus for applied rhetoric, rhetoric seminar leader and book author
- Gustav Stein (1920–1998), politician (SPD)
- Ernst Laue (* 1922), author and hobby historian, born in Leopoldshall
- Eberhard Binder (1924–1998), book illustrator
- Christian Winner (1927–2012), phytomedicine and crop scientist
- Günther Noll (* 1927), music teacher and university professor
- Curt Grützmacher (1928–2010), art scholar
- Heinz Kruschel (1929–2011), writer
- Ingo Richter (* 1936), professor for pediatric oncology and hematology at the University of Rostock, co-founder of the SPD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Eberhard Gock (1937–2016), engineering scientist and professor at the Institute for Processing, Landfill Technology and Geomechanics at Clausthal University of Technology
- Eberhard Köllner (* 1939), research cosmonaut of the GDR
- Uwe Storch (1940–2017), mathematician, born in Leopoldshall
- Dieter Ahlert (* 1944), professor of business administration, especially distribution and trade at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster
- Rainer Popp (* 1946), writer, journalist and TV manager
- Raimund Sternal (* 1946), Roman Catholic clergyman, from 2005 to 2016 he was vicar general in the diocese of Magdeburg
- Regine Kahmann (* 1948), microbiologist
- Klaus D. Leciejewski (* 1948), publicist and entrepreneur
- Hans-Ulrich Kison (* 1950), botanist and conservationist
- Waltraud Dietsch , b. Birnbaum (* 1950), athlete
- Wolfgang Domhardt , b. Ernst (1951–2019), politician (SPD) and member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt
- Bernd Warkus , (1951–2020), xylophone virtuoso and entertainer
- Bettina Schmidt (1960–2019), luge athlete
- Heike Brehmer (* 1962), politician (CDU)
- Klaus-Rüdiger Mai (* 1963), dramaturge, director and writer
- Olaf Stelmecke (* 1964), poet as well as song and theater writer
- Michael Kirchschlager (* 1966), historian, author and publisher
- Steffi Schmidt (* 1968), volleyball player
- Jens Schöne (* 1970), contemporary historian and author
- Andreas Wecker (* 1970), gymnast and Olympic champion
- Ines Härtel (* 1972), German legal scholar and judge
- Sven Wagner (* 1974), Lord Mayor
- Cäthe (* 1982), singer
- Matthias Büttner (* 1983), politician of the alternative for Germany; since 2016 member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt
- Yves Grafenhorst (* 1984), handball player
- Mario Huhnstock (* 1986), handball player
- Lisa Izquierdo (* 1994), volleyball player
- Florian Krüger (* 1999), soccer player
Personalities associated with the city
- Adolph Frank (1834–1916), chemist, began processing potash salt into fertilizers for the first time in the world in 1861
- Georg Krause (1849–1927), spent his chemical internship in the laboratory of the potash plant and wrote the dissertation on the occurrence and use of 'Staßfurtite'
- Günther von Krosigk (1860–1938), admiral and chief of the East Asia Squadron, spent his old age and died in Brumby
- Magdalene von Tiling (1877–1974), senior teacher, religious educator, representative of conservative Protestantism of the 1920s
- Hermann Kasten (1885–1933), social democratic politician, died in Leopoldshall
- Ernst Fulda (1885–1960), mining clerk
- Hermann Kasten (1885–1933), politician (SPD), was mayor of Staßfurt until his murder
- Rudolf Michaelis (1902–1945), NSDAP member of the Reichstag, owned an engineering office in Leopoldshall
- Bernd Wolf (* 1955), politician (CDU), member of the Volkskammer and Thuringian state parliament; went to school in Staßfurt
- Daniel Rausch (* 1963), politician of the alternative for Germany, briefly vice-president of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt
- Tobias Rausch (* 1990), politician of the alternative for Germany, since 2016 member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt