List of personalities of the city of Stade
This list shows the personalities with reference to the Hanseatic city of Stade .
sons and daughters of the town
To 1900
- Leopold Hackelmann (around 1563 - 1619), legal scholar
- Johann Diecmann (1647–1720), educator and Lutheran theologian
- Aurora von Königsmarck (1662–1728), mistress of August the Strong, provess of the Quedlinburg monastery
- Amalie Wilhelmine von Königsmarck (around 1663 - 1740), sister of Aurora von Königsmarck
- Peter von Sivers (1674–1740), Russian naval officer
- Friedrich Ludwig von Berlepsch (1749–1818), high official in the Electorate of Hanover
- Johann von Schlütter (1749–1827), lawyer and Stade office director
- Johann Friedrich Ernst Albrecht (1752–1814), writer, physician
- Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil (1771-1853), educator, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
- Andreas von Schlütter (1781–1863), Royal Hanoverian major general
- Franz von Borries (1785–1858), manor owner, politician, government official and honorary citizen of the city of Minden
- Johann Andreas Wehner (1785–1860), member of the Assembly of Estates of the Kingdom of Hanover
- Friedrich Wilhelm Heise (1791–1862), lawyer, Privy Councilor and Landdrost of the Landdrostei Stade
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil (1792–1869), lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Wilhelm Heinrich Jobelmann (1800–1878), city historian and founder of a regulated vocational school system in Stade
- August Karl von Goeben (1816–1880), Prussian general
- Johann Andreas Gülzau (1817–1891), Baptist clergyman
- Louis von Engelbrechten (1818-1893), lawyer
- Ernst Krause (1859–1942), medical officer and botanist
- Justus Strandes (1859–1930), overseas merchant and politician
- Heinrich Gisbert Voigt (1860–1933), historian
- Ludwig Krause (1863–1924), archivist and local history researcher
- Franz Cornelsen (1868–1951), government official and member of parliament
- Wilhelm Hagedorn (1868–1930), officer, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Theodore Barkhausen (1869–1959), deaconess and longstanding director of the Auguste Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem
- Paul Diercke (1874–1937), cartographer and follower of the Diercke World Atlas started by his father
- Gustav Wyneken (1875–1964), reform pedagogue
- Otto Palandt (1877–1951), lawyer, author of a standard commentary on the BGB
- Max von Bahrfeldt (1880–1964), administrative lawyer, district president of Königsberg
- Theodor Herrmann (1881–1926), painter, draftsman and graphic artist of Impressionism and Art Nouveau
- Nicolaus von Borstel (1885–1963), politician (SPD)
- Hans von Borstel (1888–1962), politician (KPD)
- Willy Andreessen (1895–?), National Socialist functionary and Gauamtsleiter of the NSBO
- Hans Bruns (1895–1971), Protestant theologian
From 1901
- Günther Groenhoff (1908–1932), glider pioneer
- Karl Kersten (1909–1992), prehistorian and museum director
- Marta Damkowski (1911–1979), resistance fighter against National Socialism and politician
- Ulrich de Maizière (1912–2006), general and creator of the “Inner Leadership” in the Bundeswehr
- Günter Fehring (1928–2020), archaeologist
- Hartwig Brandt (1936–2017), historian and university professor
- Eberhard von Koerber (1938–2017), manager
- Volker Krey (* 1940), lawyer, professor of criminal law at the University of Trier and judge at the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz
- Stefan Aust (* 1946), journalist, editor-in-chief of the news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to 2008
- Frank Ropers (* 1946), Vice Admiral ret. D. the Bundeswehr
- Roswitha Strauss (* 1946), politician (CDU)
- Jan-Uwe Rogge (* 1947), author, educational advisor and columnist
- Ina Busch (* 1950), art historian
- Rolf Hollander (* 1951), businessman and CEO of CeWe Color Holding AG
- Rainer Sass (* 1954), TV chef, presenter, cookbook author
- Carsten Eggers (* 1957), sculptor and painter
- Horst Becker (* 1958), politician
- Karl-Hinrich Manzke (* 1958), Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Schaumburg-Lippe
- Ulf Riebesell (* 1959), marine biologist
- Ditmar skull (* 1960), photographer, photo teacher, university professor and author
- Helmut Dammann-Tamke (* 1961), politician (CDU)
- Angela Denoke (born 1961), opera singer
- Bettina Hauenschild (* 1964), actress
- Dirk Dammann (* 1967), played in the Bundesliga soccer team of FC St. Pauli
- Matthias Haß (* 1967), politician (CDU)
- Dirk Steffens (* 1967), presenter, journalist and animal filmmaker
- Sabine Völkers (* 1967), illustrator
- Stephan Bauer (* 1968), cabaret artist
- Klaus-Jürgen Heitmann (* 1968), industrial engineer
- Patrick Döring (* 1973), politician (FDP)
- Marcus Kück (* 1973), basketball player
- Andrasch Starke (* 1974), jockey, winner of the German gallop derby
- Peter Ording (* 1976), rower
- Falko Hönisch (* 1977), opera and concert singer and local politician (SPD)
- Hauke Hilz (* 1977), politician (FDP) and university professor
- Kai Seefried (* 1978), politician (CDU)
- Stefan Konarske (* 1980), actor
- Juliette Schoppmann (* 1980), singer
- David Grottschreiber (* 1982), jazz musician
- Tabea Kemme (* 1991), soccer player
- Marnon Busch (* 1994), soccer player
- Simone Hartseil (* 1997), top model
Associated with Stade
- Albert von Stade (13th century) was abbot of the Marienkloster zu Stade.
- Otto Casmann (1562–1607) was rector of the Athenaeum. He appeared as an opponent of Aristotelian philosophy and natural science.
- Johann Henrich Voigt (1613–1691) lived as an astronomer, mathematician and calendar writer in Stade.
- Otto Wilhelm Graf von Königsmarck (1639–1688) grew up in Stade.
- Arp Schnitger (before 1648–1719) established his world fame as an organ builder in Stade between 1677 and 1682.
- Vincent Lübeck (1654–1740), organist and composer, worked in Stade between 1674 and 1702.
- Tobias Eckhard (1662–1737) worked as rector in Stade.
- Johann Hermann von Elswich (1684–1721) was a pastor in Stade.
- Johann Wilhelm Hönert (1723–1790) was a pastor and church historian.
- Carl Nicolaus Adler (1737-1816) was a German lawyer and mayor of the city of Stade.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), German writer and physicist.
- Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1748–1806) worked as an organ builder in Stade from 1781 to 1806.
- Johann Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy (1781–1858) was an organ builder in Stade.
- Carl Diercke (1842–1913), author of the Diercke World Atlas , worked in Stade from 1873 to 1885.
- Friedrich Peltz (1844–1914), architect, from 1900 to 1912 head of the building construction department of the Royal Government in Stade.
- Gustav Stille (1845–1920), German physician and writer
- Max Ferdinand von Bahrfeldt (1856–1936), Prussian general, local history researcher and numismatist.
- Magnus Schwantje (1877–1959), writer, pacifist and animal rights activist
- Heinrich Ahrens (1905–1977) was rector and councilor in Stade.
- Elisabeth Flickenschildt (1905–1977), actress, one and a half years before her death she moved to Guderhandviertel and died in Stade.
- Franz Cornelsen (1908–1989), publisher and founder of Cornelsen Verlag
- Gerhard Grimpe (1928–1985) was a music teacher and orchestra leader in Stade.
- Wolfgang Schwenk (1931–2011), Member of the Bundestag constituency Stade - Rotenburg I
- Gerd Bahr (* 1933), teacher and Low German author, lives in the village of Bützfleth
- Dietrich Stobbe (1938–2011) the former governing mayor of Berlin graduated from high school in 1958 at the Athenaeum Stade .
- Jürgen Bohmbach (* 1944), historian and city archivist
- Serkan Tören (* 1972), the FDP politician, graduated from the Vincent-Lübeck-Gymnasium in 1992 .
- Hasnain Kazim (* 1974), journalist, Spiegel South Asia correspondent, author of the book "Grünkohl und Curry", set in Stade, winner of the CNN Journalist Award 2009
- Linda Fröhlich (* 1979), professional basketball player (WNBA, USA; German national team)