List of personalities of the city of Weimar

This list includes personalities whose lives are closely connected to the city of Weimar or who worked there.

Honorary citizen of the city of Weimar

Memorial stone in Weimar for Friedrich Caspar von Geismar, Weimar's first honorary citizen

Since 1814, Weimar has conferred honorary citizenship on the following people who are deserving of the city (as of November 2013; without withdrawals):

1814: Friedrich Caspar von Geismar ; 1824: Johannes Daniel Falk ; 1825: Julius August Walther Goethe ; 1839: Karl Wilhelm von Fritsch ; 1842: Johann Gottfried Zunkel ; 1848: Karl Friedrich Horn ; 1857: James Patrick of Parry ; 1857: Ludwig Schaller ; 1857: Ernst Rietschel ; 1857: Hanns Gasser ; 1857: Ferdinand von Miller ; 1860: Franz Liszt ; 1865: Karl August Schwerdgeburth ; 1866: Wilhelm Bock ; 1867: Gottlob Töpfer ; 1868: Christian Bernhard von Watzdorf ; 1869: Friedrich Preller ; 1874: Hugo Fries ; 1875: Adolf von Donndorf ; 1876: Gustav Thon ; 1878: Robert Härtel ; 1902: Bruno Schwabe ; 1910: Louis Döllstädt ; 1917: Wilhelm Heller ; 1917: Paul von Hindenburg ; 1925: Richard Strauss ; 1926: Eduard Scheidemantel ; 1930: Martin Donndorf ; 1937: Walter Felix Mueller ; 1944: Anton Kippenberg ; 1944: Paul Schultze-Naumburg ; 1946: Rudolf Paul ; 1949: Thomas Mann ; 1949: Heinrich Lilienfein ; 1952: August Frölich ; 1953: Hermann Abendroth ; 1958: Henry Manhès ; 1959: Louis Fürnberg ; 1961: Bruno Apitz ; 1965: Ivan Kolesnichenko ; 1973: Luitpold Steidle ; 1979: Walter Bartel ; 1991: Erich Kranz ; 1994: Jutta Hecker ; 1998: Hans Eberhardt ; 2007: Helmut Schröer ; 2009: Bertrand Herz ; 2011: Ottomar Rothmann

Alphabetical overview of names

The following list of personalities who are at least temporarily in direct connection with the city of Weimar with their life and / or work does not claim to be complete.

A.

Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann (1791–1835), politician and writer
Alfred Ahner (1890–1973), German painter and draftsman
Sascha Anderson (* 1953), writer and former employee of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR
Anna Amalia (1739-1807), duchess
Augusta (1811–1890), German Empress and Queen of Prussia
Carl August (1757–1828), Grand Duke
Johannes Aurifaber (around 1519–1575), theologian, reformer
Josef Albers (1888–1976), painter
Carl Alexander (1818–1901), Grand Duke
Bruno Apitz (1900–1979), writer
Hans Arp (1886–1966), German-French painter, sculptor and poet of Dadaism and Surrealism (also studied in Weimar)

B.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), composer, harpsichordist
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (1715–1739), organist
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), composer, organist, conductor
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), composer, organist
Johannes Baltzer (* 1933), lawyer
Curt von Bardeleben (1861–1924), chess player, journalist
Adolf Bartels (1862–1945), writer, literary critic
Karl Bär (1901–1946), grassland scientist
Ugi Battenberg (1879–1957), painter (studied in Weimar)
August Baudert (1860–1942), politician
Gerhard Baumgärtel (1931–1997), politician
Waldemar von Baußnern (1866–1931), composer, music teacher
Ludwig Bechstein (1801–1860), writer, collector of legends
Max Beckmann (1884–1950), painter, graphic artist, sculptor and author (attended the Weimar art school)
Minna Beckmann-Tube (1881–1964), painter and opera singer, 1st wife of Max Beckmann
Marcus Behmer (1879–1958), book artist, illustrator
Fritz Behr (1881–1974), Lord Mayor
Wolfgang Benkert (* 1951), soccer goalkeeper
Fritz Bennewitz (1926–1995), director
Golo Berg (* 1968), conductor
Sibylle Berg (* 1962), writer
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), landgrave, general
Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747–1822), publisher, patron
Anna Paleness (* 1987), soccer player
Johann Jacob Böber (1746–1820), teacher, real budget counselor, naturalist, explorer, entomologist and botanist
Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), painter
Wilhelm Bode (1862–1922), writer, Goethe period researcher
Alfred Bohl (1909–1989), German actor and voice actor
Paul von Bojanowski (1834–1915), library director, councilor
Julian Börner (* 1991), soccer player
Karl August Böttiger (1760–1835), philologist, archaeologist
Stefan Brandt (* 1976), cultural manager
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (1830–1913), composer, pianist, theater manager
Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl (1757–1806), doctor and professor at the University of Marburg
Adolf Brütt (1855–1939), sculptor
Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), painter, war correspondent in the Navy, writer, art collector
Axel Buether (* 1967), media scientist, perceptual psychologist and architect
Heinrich Reichsgraf von Bünau (1697–1762), historian, politician, diplomat
Franz Burchart (1503–1560), scholar, politician

C.

Johann Cilenšek (1913–1998), composer, music teacher
Bernhard Conrad (* 1981), actor
Peter Cornelius (1824–1874), composer, poet
Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray (1775–1845), architect
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), painter
Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586), painter

D.

Johann Traugott Leberecht Danz (1769–1851), Lutheran church historian and theologian
Werner Deetjen (1877–1939), library director
Ernst Devrient (1873–1948), state archivist and genealogist
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712–1774), painter, engraver
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) actress and singer (studied in Weimar)
Artur Dinter (1876–1948), author, first regional leader [Gauleiter] in Thuringia
Dirk Donath (* 1961), architect, university professor
Adolf von Donndorf (1835–1916), sculptor, founder of the Donndorf Museum in Weimar
Felix Draeseke (1835–1913), composer, worked in Weimar between 1852 and 1862
Stefanie Dreyer (* 1982), musician
Ruprecht Düll (1931–2014), botanist

E.

Hans Eberling (1905–1982), wood sculptor, SAJ functionary, party secretary (SPD), trade union secretary (FDGB) and party secretary (SED)
Willy Eberling (1902–1974), party functionary (SPD / KPD / SED) and chairman of the Thuringian State Commission for State Control
Carl Eberwein (1786–1868), conductor
Johannes Eccard (1553–1611), singer of the court orchestra
Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854), poet, friend of Goethe
Arne Effenberger (* 1942), archaeologist
Leonhard von und zu Egloffstein (1815–1900), major general
Paul Walter Ehrhardt (1872–1959), painter
Gottlieb Elster (1867–1917), sculptor
Ella Endlich (* 1984), singer
Richard Engelmann (1868–1966), stone sculptor, professor
Otto Erler (1872–1943), playwright
Andreas Ernemann (* 1947), lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
Paul Ernst (1866–1933), writer, journalist
Ernst August I (1688–1748), Grand Duke
Eroc (* 1951), musician and music producer
Christian Ewald (* 1949), graphic artist and publisher ( Katzengraben-Presse )

F.

Johannes Daniel Falk (1768–1826), theologian
Marga Faulstich (1915–1998), chemist
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), painter
Carl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808), art connoisseur, librarian to Duchess Anna Amalia
Peter Finger (* 1954), guitarist
Fritz Fink (1893–1945), bookseller, publisher, writer
Curt Fischer (1901 - after 1945), politician (NSDAP)
Evelyn Fischer (* 1964), singer and presenter
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846–1935), Friedrich Nietzsche's sister
Peter Franz (* 1941), author
Ute Freudenberg (* 1956), singer
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), painter
Louis Fürnberg (1909–1957), poet

G

Uzi Gal (Gotthard Glas) (1923–2002), weapons technician
Lutz Gebhardt (* 1952), publisher
Hans-Friedrich Geist (1901–1978), German draftsman, author and art teacher
Wilhelm Gerhard (1780–1858), businessman, dramaturge and poet
August Gotthilf Gernhard (1771–1845), educator and philologist
Ernst Christian August von Gersdorff (1781–1852), diplomat
Ottmar Gerster (1897–1969), composer, music teacher
Luise von Göchhausen (1752–1807), lady-in-waiting
Matthias Goerne (* 1967), singer
August von Goethe (1789–1830), son of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christiane von Goethe (1765–1816), wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), poet, natural scientist, politician
Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872), wife of August von Goethe
Helmut Göschel (* 1944), politician, member of the state parliament in Baden-Württemberg from 1987 to 2006
Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg (1827–1908), organist
Auguste Götze (1840–1908), actress, singer and writer
Alfred Götze (1865–1948), prehistoric
Johann Nikolaus Conrad Götze (1791–1861), music director and composer in Weimar
Hans Gerhard Gräf (1864–1942), Goethe researcher
Johann Ernst Greding (1676–1748), Protestant theologian and hymn poet
Max Greil (1877–1939), German educator, educational reformer, Thuringian minister of education (USPD / SPD)
Walter Gropius (1883–1969), architect
Rudolf Gabriel von Gross (1822–1907), lawyer, politician and publicist
Julius Grosse (1828–1902), writer, theater critic
Gertrud Grunow (1870–1944), singer, pianist
Gerhard Gundermann (1955–1998), songwriter
Marie Gutheil-Schoder (1874–1935), opera singer

H

Georg Haar (1887–1945), founder, notary
Theodor Hackspan (1607–1659), orientalist, theologian and university professor
Ernst Hardt (1876–1947), poet, theater director
Johann Gottfried Hasse (1759–1806), theologian, orientalist and university professor
Reinhard Hauke (* 1953), bishop
Friedrich Hebbel (1813–1863), poet
Jutta Hecker (1904–2002), author
Emil Heerwagen (1857–1935), organ builder
Walter Hege (1893–1955), photographer, painter
Manfred Heine (1932–2019), actor, director and educator
Louis Held (1851–1927), photo and film pioneer, reportage photographer
Wolfgang Held (1930–2014), writer
Matthias Henkel (* 1962), actor
Gustav Herbst (1809–1881), geometer, geologist and fossil collector, master of the chair of a Masonic lodge in Weimar
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), philosopher, poet
Emil Herfurth (1887–1951), politician, writer
Martin Hermann (* 1949), mathematician and university professor
Monika Hetterle (* 1940), actress
Otto Hetzer (1846–1911), carpenter, inventor and entrepreneur
Karl Eduard Heusner (1843–1891), Vice Admiral of the Imperial German Navy and State Secretary of the Imperial Navy Office; died in Weimar
Nicolaus-Johannes Heyse (* 1974), stage designer, costume designer and graphic artist
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (1893–1965), painter, "colored light musician"
Johann Friedrich Hirt (1719–1783), theologian and orientalist
Johann Wilhelm Hoffmann (1777–1859), publisher and bookseller
Franz Hoffmann-Fallersleben (1855–1927), painter
Ludwig von Hofmann (1861–1945), painter
Robert Hohlbaum (1886–1955), writer, library director
Wolfgang Hohlbein (* 1953), writer
Helmut Holtzhauer (1912–1973), functionary, museologist, author and editor
John Horrocks (1816-1881), writer, sport fisherman
Klaus Hortschansky (1935–2016), musicologist and university professor
Dominique Horwitz (* 1957), actor, singer
Ulrich Hoyer (1938–2020), philosopher
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762–1836), physician
Friedrich Hufeland (1774–1839), physician, including city physician in Weimar
Carl Hummel (1821–1906), painter, professor at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), composer, pianist, conductor
Andrea Hanna Hünniger (* 1984), writer, journalist
Johannes Hunnius (1852–1943), lawyer and politician, Saxony-Weimar-Eisenacher finance minister; worked for many years in the local council and city council of Weimar
Bettina Hürlimann (1909–1983), German-Swiss children's book author and publisher
Wolfram Huschke (* 1946), musicologist and university professor
Wolfram Huschke (* 1964), cellist
Franz Huth (1876–1970), painter

I.

Amalie von Imhoff (1776–1831), writer
Johannes Itten (1888–1967), painter

J

Horst Jahresling (born February 25, 1922 in Erfurt; † February 4, 2013), German artist, painter, graphic artist, architecture restorer, art pedagogue, university teacher and bell designer and scribe, winner of the 1997 Weimar Prize
Christian Joseph Jagemann (1735–1804), scholar, court official
Karoline Jagemann (1777–1848), actress and singer, daughter of Christian Joseph and lover of Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe-Weimar
Ferdinand Jagemann (1780–1820), son of Christian Joseph, painter, created a. a. also portraits of Goethe
Nikolaus Jagenteufel (1526–1583), Lutheran theologian and educator
Denis Jäpel (* 1998), soccer player
Louis Jungmann (1832–1892), composer, pianist and music teacher

K

Hans-Dietrich Kahlke (1924–2017), archaeologist and paleontologist
Wolf von Kalckreuth (1887–1906), poet and translator
Heinz Peter Kämmerer (1927–2017), surgeon
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), painter
Harry Graf Kessler (1868–1937), patron of the arts, man of letters, diplomat
Elise von Keudell (1867–1962), senior teacher, bibliographer
Manfred Kiedorf (1936–2015), set designer, illustrator and miniaturist
Gustav Kiepenheuer (1880–1949), publisher and founder of the publishing house
Noa Kiepenheuer (1893–1971), publisher, editor
Martin Kirchner (* 1949), church lawyer and politician
Wulf Kirsten (* 1934), poet
Martin Gottlieb Klauer (1742–1801), court sculptor
Paul Klee (1879–1940), painter
Paula Edda Klein (* 1995), actress
Walther Klemm (1883–1957), painter, book illustrator, professor
Karl Ludwig von Knebel (1744–1834), court official
Max Koecher (1924–1990), mathematician, professor
Ernst Friedrich Köhler (1788–1851), court preacher and general superintendent
Johannes Ernst Köhler (1910–1990), organist
Reinhold Köhler (1830–1892), literary historian and librarian in Weimar
Hans-Georg Kolbe (1925–2005), ancient historian and epigraphist
Juliane Korén (1951–2018), actress
August von Kotzebue (1761-1819), playwright
Gisela Kraft (1936–2010), poet, writer, Islamic scholar
Günther Kraft (1907–1977), musicologist and university professor
Stephanie Krämer (* 1990), soccer player
Erich Kranz (1929–1999), Protestant pastor of the Jakobskirche (1977–1994) and honorary citizen of the city
Peter Detlef Krause (* 1964), politician
Robert Krausse (1834–1903), painter and watercolorist
Reinhard Krebs (* 1959), politician
Herbert Kroemer (* 1928), Nobel Laureate in Physics
Gottfried Heinrich Krohne (1703–1756), architect
Eckart Krumbholz (1937–1994), writer
Alfred von Kühne (1853–1945), Prussian general of the cavalry

L.

Fritz Lattke (1895–1980), painter
Wolf-Günter Leidel (* 1949), composer, university professor
Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904), painter
Gustav Lewin (1869–1938), music teacher, conductor, composer
August Lieber (1828–1850), painter and etcher
Christine Lieberknecht (* 1958), German CDU politician and Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia
Max Liebermann (1847–1935), painter and graphic artist of German impressionism
Maik Lippert (* 1966), author, first Weimar town clerk (2007/2008)
Franz Liszt (1811–1886), composer, pianist, conductor
Johann Christian Lobe (1797–1881), composer, music theorist
Herbert Lungwitz (1913–1992), sculptor
Martin Luther (1483–1546), theological author of the Reformation; stayed and preached frequently in Weimar between 1518 and 1540
Anke Lutz (* 1970), chess player

M.

Fritz Mackensen (1866–1953), painter
Hans von Mangoldt (1854–1925), Rector of RWTH Aachen University
Gerhard Marcks (1889–1981), sculptor
Giovanni Mardersteig (1892–1977), typographer, publisher, book designer
Georg Mardersteig (1864–1943), lawyer
Horst de Marées (1896–1988), German painter
Franz Markau (1881–1968), painter, professor
Friedrich Martin (1888–1931), city organist, music teacher
Manfred Matuschewski (* 1939), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Rudolf Quantity (1845–1912), high school teacher and classical philologist
Otto Michaelis (1875–1949), hymnologist, theologian and publicist
Paul Michaelis (1914–2005), painter, graphic artist
Babette Michel (* 1965), radio music journalist
Horst Michel (1904–1989), form and product designer, professor at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), poet
Johann Martin Mieding (1725–1782), court carpenter
Natalie von Milde (1850–1906), writer, women's rights activist
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), painter
Frank Möller (* 1970), judoka and trainer
Leonhard Moog (1882–1962), politician DDP, city councilor, Thuringian finance minister, founding member and chairman of the LDPD
Helene Morgner (1898–1980), married. Weissig, soprano
Johann Anton Möslein (1800–1854), grand ducal body hunter, district forester
Paul Möslein (1883–1968), economist, journalist, state parliament stenographer
Constanze Moser-Scandolo (* 1965), world champion in speed skating
Georg Muche (1895–1987), painter, graphic artist
Armin Müller (1928–2005), writer and painter
Friedrich von Müller (1779–1849), politician, friend of Goethe
Karl Gotthelf Müller (1717–1760), rhetorician, poet and Lutheran theologian
Carl Müllerhartung (1834–1908), music teacher
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Norwegian painter and graphic artist (also lived in Weimar from 1904 to 1906)
Ernst Friedemann von Münchhausen (1724–1784), politician, judge, briefly Prussian Minister of Justice
Johann Karl August Musäus (1735–1787), writer, literary critic

N

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), philosopher
Ernst Neufert (1900–1986), architect, building standardizer

O

Max Oehler (painter) (1881–1943), landscape painter
Max Oehler (1875-1946), Major a. D., Nietzsche archivist
Wolfgang von Oettingen (1859–1943), art historian and Germanist
Lorenz Oken (1779–1851), physician, natural scientist
Alexander Olbricht (1876–1942), painter
Hans Olde (1855–1917), painter
Johann Siegmund von Oppel (1730–1798), director of the Saxony-Weimar landscape fund
Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1794–1858), German classical philologist
Walter Ortlepp (1900–1971), SS brigade leader, police chief of Weimar, interior minister of Thuringia

P

Andreas Paeslack (* 1966), artist, author and editor
Otto Paetz (1914–2006), painter, graphic artist
Jean Paul (1763-1825), writer
Arnold Paulssen (1864–1942), politician
Hans Constantin Paulssen (1892–1984), industrialist
Maria Pavlovna (1786-1859), Grand Duchess
Detlef Pollack (* 1955), sociologist
Eberhard Ponndorf (1897–1980), politician (NSDAP)
Bernhard Porst (1857–1926), conductor and music teacher
Friedrich Preller the Elder (1804–1878), painter, professor at the Princely Free Drawing School
Friedrich Preller the Younger (1838–1901), landscape and marine painter

R.

Peter Raabe (1872–1945), conductor, musicologist
Wolfgang Ratke (also Ratichius) (1571–1635), educator and school reformer
Edwin Redslob (1884–1973), Reichskunstwart, Rector of the Free University of Berlin, writer
Johann Ernst Rentzsch (the Younger) (1693–1767), court painter
Carl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), philosopher
Christian Richter (1655–1722), master builder
Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer (1774–1845), philologist, senior librarian
Christian Rohlfs (1849–1938), painter of impressionism and especially expressionism
Johann Friedrich Röhr (1777–1848), theologian
Christian Romstet (1640–1721), engraver
Alexander Rost (1816–1875), writer
Herwarth Röttgen (* 1931), art historian
Georg Gottfried Rudolph (1778–1840), servant and private secretary to Friedrich Schiller

S.

Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946), NSDAP Gauleiter, war criminal
Dirk Schaal (* 1970), economic historian and university professor
Jakob Schaffner (1875–1944), writer
Karl Scheidemantel (1859–1923), opera singer
Ernst Ludwig Schellenberg (1883–1964), writer
Ernst Viktor Schellenberg (1827–1896), Privy Councilor
Peter Schenk (1938–2017), politician
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), poet, historian, philosopher
Carl Baily Norris von Schirach (1873–1948), director of the Grand Ducal Court Theater Weimar 1909–1918
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), Nazi politician, Reich youth leader
Kathrin Schirmer (1960–2017), pop singer and radio journalist
Hubert Schirneck (* 1962), writer
Johannes Schlaf (1862–1941), writer
Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943), painter, sculptor
Torsten Schlüter (* 1959), painter, author
Karl Ernst Schmid (1774–1852), legal scholar
Max Schmid-Burgk (1860–1925), art historian
Heinrich Schmidt (1779–1857), actor, theater director, director and writer
Karl Georg Schmidt (1904–1940), Nazi politician, Lord Mayor of Cologne and NSDAP regional economic advisor
Werner Schmidt (* 1914), painter
Michael Schneider (1909–1994), organist, choir director, music teacher and musicologist
Thilo Schoder (* 1888 in Weimar; † 1979), architect
Robert Schollemann (1912–2008), French racing car driver
Adele Schopenhauer (1797–1849), daughter of Johanna, sister of the philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), philosopher
Johanna Schopenhauer (1766–1838), writer, mother of Arthur Schopenhauer
Adelheid von Schorn (1841–1916), writer
Johannes von Schröter (1513–1593), German physician and first rector of the University of Jena
Martina Schröter (* 1960), rower, 1988 Olympic champion in double sculls
Christa Schuenke (* 1948), translator
Gottfried Schüler (1923–1999), painter
Wilhelm Heinrich Schultze (1724–1790), senior consistorial councilor and orphanage director
Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof (* 1939), author and general in the Bundeswehr
Daniel Schumann (* 1977), soccer player
Heinrich Leonhard Schurzfleisch (1664–1722), lawyer, historian and librarian
Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch (1641–1708), polyhistor, historian and librarian
Johann Gottlob Samuel Schwabe (1746–1835), teacher, school principal
Wilhelm Ernst Schwabe (1775–1851), military lawyer
Irmgard Schwanitz (1930–1992), architect, university professor for settlement planning, author, member of the German Building Academy in Berlin
Marie Seebach (1829–1897), actress
Annette Seemann (* 1959), writer
Egbert Seidel (* 1958), physician
Fritz Seidenstücker (1899–1987), art glazier, resistance fighter against National Socialism, district administrator of the Weimar district and senior state administrative employee (KPD / SED)
Arno Senfft (1864–1909), Imperial District Administrator of the West Carolines, Palau Islands and Mariana Islands
Emmy Sonnemann (1893–1973), actress
Agnes Stavenhagen (1860–1945), soprano and chamber singer
Luitpold Steidle (1898–1984), officer, minister, mayor
Charlotte von Stein (1742–1827), lady-in-waiting, friend of Goethe
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), anthroposophist, archive employee in Weimar
Paul Stolze (1874–1958), lawyer, ministerial official and finance minister
Walter Stranka (1920–1992), poet, radio play and television author
Richard Strauss (1864–1949), composer and conductor
Wilhelm Stumpf (1873–1926), illustrator and painter
Stephan Suschke (* 1958), theater director, artistic director and author

T

Otto von Taube (1879–1973), writer, translator
Friedrich Teuscher (1791–1865), private tutor, Protestant clergyman, writer and librettist
Klaus-Jürgen Teutschbein (* 1944), conductor, music teacher
Max Thalmann (1890–1944), painter and book illustrator
Thomas Thieme (* 1948), actor
Ludwig Alfons August von Thompson (1823–1904), captain of Saxony-Weimar, later royal Prussian major general and finally commander of the 38th infantry brigade
August Thon (1839–1912), legal scholar
Harry Thürk (1927–2005), writer
Johann Gottlob Töpfer (1791–1870), organist, composer and organ building theorist
Bernhard Trefflich (1924–2011), racing cyclist

U

Hermann Uhde-Bernays (1873–1965), Germanist and art historian
Martin Unrein (1901–1972), German officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
Marcus Urban (* 1971), former soccer player

V

Anton Varus (1557–1637), logician and physician
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957), architect, designer
Hans Vent (1934–2018), painter and graphic artist
Walther Victor (1895–1971), writer, publicist
Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (1787–1859), patriot, bookseller and publisher
Christian Gottlob von Voigt (1743–1819), politician
Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (1752–1821), geologist and mountain ridge
Christian August Vulpius (1762–1827), writer, brother-in-law of Goethe
Melchior Vulpius (around 1570 - 1615), city cantor in Weimar

W.

Maria Dorothea Wagner (1719–1792), painter and draftsman
Richard Wagner (1813–1883), composer, conductor, theater director
Hans Wahl (1885–1949), Germanist, Goethe researcher
Julius Wahle (1861–1940), literary scholar
Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748), organist and conductor
Heike Warnicke (* 1966), speed skater
Johann Georg Weber (1687–1753), general superintendent of Saxe-Weimar
Emil von Wedel (1886–1970), administrative officer
Maria von Wedel (1855–1913), writer
Dieter M. Weidenbach (* 1945), painter and graphic artist
Johann Christoph Gottlob Weise (1762–1840), botanist and author
Richard Wetz (1875–1935), composer, music teacher
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), poet
Ernst von Wildenbruch (1845–1909), poet
Hans Winkler (1919–2000), informal painter
Georg Wislicenus (1858–1927), naval officer and naval writer
Udo Wohlfeld , publicist
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792), composer, court conductor

Z

Holger Zaunstöck (* 1967), historian
Bernhard von Zech (1649–1720), politician
Carl Zeiss (1816–1888), founder of the Carl Zeiss Jena company
Hans Severus Ziegler (1893–1978), Nazi cultural politician
Gerd Zimmermann (* 1946), architect and university professor
Holger Zürch (* 1967), German journalist and book author

Individual evidence

↑ honorary citizen overview 2013. In: weimar.de, accessed on September 26, 2017 (PDF, 17 kB).
^ Gitta Günther : honorary citizen of the city of Weimar - a contribution to the city's history. Weimarer Verl.-Ges., Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-941830-10-3 (from the publisher's report: “In the period from 1814 to 2011, the city of Weimar awarded 61 people an award for which we now use the term Use “honorary citizenship.” This publication presents a woman and 50 men honored for their services to the city in short biographies. […] The first complete overview of Weimar's honorary citizens. […] ”).

Web links

Honorary citizen of the city of Weimar on weimar.de

[1] honorary citizen overview 2013. In: weimar.de, accessed on September 26, 2017 (PDF, 17 kB).

[2] Gitta Günther : honorary citizen of the city of Weimar - a contribution to the city's history. Weimarer Verl.-Ges., Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-941830-10-3 (from the publisher's report: “In the period from 1814 to 2011, the city of Weimar awarded 61 people an award for which we now use the term Use “honorary citizenship.” This publication presents a woman and 50 men honored for their services to the city in short biographies. […] The first complete overview of Weimar's honorary citizens. […] ”).