List of personalities of the city of Teuchern

The list of personalities of the city of Teuchern contains people who have played a sustainable role in the history of the unified municipality of the city of Teuchern in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Teuchern, who were born or died here and who worked in Teuchern.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Teuchern, see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

Herbert Karnstedt (1924-2014), member of the Teuchern City Council, impressed with his outstanding commitment and author of the Teuchern song

sons and daughters of the town

Anton Zimmermann (*? In Teuchern, † 1545 in Osterfeld ), Protestant theologian
Reinhard Keizer (1674–1739), composer
Johann Christian Schieferdecker (1679–1732), organist and composer
Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729), composer and music theorist, born in Krössuln
Carl Heinrich von Peistel (1704–1782), hymnographer and pietist, born in Nödlitz
August Heinrich Ferdinand von Funcke (1787–1827), Prussian district administrator of the Weißenfels district and member of the first provincial parliament of the province of Saxony
Heinrich August von Helldorff (1794–1862), Prussian major general, born in Nödlitz
Hugo Bach (1859–1940), spa doctor and playwright
Hermann Harnisch (1883–1951), politician (SPD, SED)
Ernst Walkowski (1931–2011), diplomat
Wolfgang Blatt (* 1932), soccer player, born in Wildschütz
Dietrich Weise (* 1934), soccer coach, born in Gröben, learned the ABC of soccer in Teuchern
Ulrich Goerdten (* 1935), writer, small publisher and librarian
Liane Lang (1935–2020), politician (SED), was Lord Mayor of Halle-Neustadt from 1970 to 1990
Peter “hung in” Meyer (* 1940), keyboard player and saxophonist of the Puhdys, born in Wildschütz
Jürgen Pahl (* 1956), footballer, a. a. Eintracht Frankfurt

Personalities associated with the city

Ekkehard II (around 985-1046), was a count in the Teuchern district
Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758), composer, spent some time with Teuchern chaplain Gottfried Wegerig after the death of his father in 1700
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), poet and moral philosopher, stayed temporarily at Bonau moated castle from 1757–1764 before the turmoil of the Seven Years' War
Friedrich August Harnisch (1826–1903), educator, founded the private teacher training institute Teuchern in 1856 and worked from 1856 to 1897 as first teacher and from 1874 as rector of Teuchern elementary school
Ferdinand Heine junior (1840–1920), seed breeder, ornithologist, owner of the Teuchern manor from July 1, 1907 until his death
Hugo Launicke (1909–1975), resistance fighter against National Socialism, KPD and SED politician, was a member of the sub-district leadership of the KJVD in Teuchern from 1929 to 1931
Rüdiger Erben (* 1967), politician (SPD), parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, ran for the mayor's office of Teuchern in 2010

Individual evidence

^ Official Journal of the Unified Community of the City of Teuchern from July 25, 2014
^ Markwart Herzog: ZIMMERMANN, Anton. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1581-1587. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

[1] Official Journal of the Unified Community of the City of Teuchern from July 25, 2014

[2] Markwart Herzog: ZIMMERMANN, Anton. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1581-1587. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )