List of personalities of the city of Wernigerode

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Coat of arms of the city of Wernigerode

Honorary citizen

  • 1833: August Wilhelm Stiehler , counts government and police advisor
  • 1836: Hübener (first name unknown), bailiff at Veckenstedt
  • 1871: Gustav Eduard von Hindersin , general in the imperial headquarters
  • 1887: Adolph Friedrich , Medical Councilor, on the occasion of his 50th doctorate anniversary
  • 1863: Hermann Forcke, pharmacist, gave the city a piece of land in 1891 to set up an educational institution for neglected children
  • Adolf Hitler (officially deleted in 1991)
  • 1977: Otto Gerlach, veteran worker
  • 1985: Werner Toerne, 1st secretary of the SED district leadership
  • 2013: Michael Ermrich , former district administrator

sons and daughters of the town

Christian Heinrich Delius
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Heinrich Gottlieb Zerrenner
Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Gustav Eduard von Hindersin
Eckart Friedrichson as master needle eye
Guido Fulst
Nils Petersen

The following people were born in Wernigerode or the current districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Wernigerode is irrelevant.

Medieval personalities

Personalities of the early modern period

19th century personalities

20th century personalities

21st century personalities

Other personalities associated with Wernigerode

Johann Georg von Langen
Julius Karl Arndt
Ernst Förstemann
Adolf Krummacher
Gustav Lange
Prince Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
Justus von Olshausen
Walter von Eberhardt
Curt Stage
Wilhelm Schmidt
Alkmar von Alvensleben
Franz Vettel
Alois Pisnik
Jo Jastram
Matthias Puhle
Rainer Ehrt at work
Evelyn Edler

The following people are also connected to the city of Wernigerode, but they were not born in Wernigerode:

  • Anthonius von Werthern († 1513), between 1498 and 1502 marshal of the Stolberg count and bailiff
  • Wilhelm Reiffenstein (* around 1482 - 1538), count rent master and humanist
  • Tilemann Plathner (1490–1551), first superintendent of the counties of Stolberg and Wernigerode
  • Dietrich von Gadenstedt (1511–1586), city governor of Wernigerode, Count of Stolberg
  • Georg Thym (around 1520 - 1560/61), pedagogue, poet and author, 1550–1558 Ludimagister at the Lyceum Wernigerode
  • Mette Fliß († 1583), inhabitant of Drübeck who was burned in the course of the witch hunt.
  • Katharina Bernburg († 1597), victim of the witch hunt in Wernigerode from Rohrsheim
  • Andreas Schoppe (around 1538–1614), Lutheran theologian, writer of edification and chronicler
  • Wolf Ernst zu Stolberg (1546–1606), regent of the County of Wernigerode, died at Wernigerode Castle
  • Simon Bingelhelm (1565–1600), notorious criminal who was also up to mischief in Wernigerode
  • Johannes Fortmann (1576–1654), Protestant theologian and poet, died in Wernigerode
  • Daniel Mönchmeier (1582–1635), educator and Protestant theologian, rector of the Lyceum in Wernigerode
  • Philipp Ernst Förster (1618–1658), court and judicial councilor and office director of the Counts of Stolberg
  • Ludwig Günther Martini (1647–1719), lawyer and office director of the Counts of Stolberg
  • Heinrich Georg Neuss (1654–1716), hymn poet and pastor in Wernigerode
  • Christoph Adam Jäger von Jägersberg (1684–1759), court master and hymn poet
  • Eustasius Friedrich Schütze (1688–1758), theologian in Altona , from 1715 to 1738 school principal in Wernigerode
  • Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1691–1771), ruling count and promoter of urban development
  • Johann Friedrich Penther (1693–1749), master builder and architectural theorist, creator of the gnomons for Wernigerode
  • Johann Ludwig Konrad Allendorf (1693–1773), teacher and hymn poet, pastor in Wernigerode 1750–1755
  • Julius Leopold von Caprivi (1695–1768), archivist and historian, great-grandfather of the German Chancellor
  • Anton Heinrich Walbaum (1696–1753), Hofrat and Pietist from Saxony-Saalfeld, lived in Wernigerode from 1746–1753
  • Johann Heinrich Peters (1697–1754), stone sculptor, ran a sculptor's workshop here from 1729 to 1738
  • Johann Georg von Langen (1699–1776), Graflich-Stolberg-Wernigerödischer forestry and chief hunter master
  • Johann Friedrich Heintzmann (1716–1764), count builder, he built a. a. today's Robert Koch Institute
  • Hans Dietrich von Zanthier (1717–1778), Countess-Stolberg chief forest and hunter master
  • Johann Gottlob Lehmann (1719–1767), mineralogist and geologist, director of the mining authority in Hasserode
  • Georg Ludwig von Hardenberg (1720–1786), Protestant cathedral dean and hymnologist, user of the count's library
  • Christoph Gottfried Jacobi (1724–1789), Protestant theologian and song writer, worked here as vice rector and librarian
  • Johann Friedrich Schmid (1729–1811), court preacher and superintendent of the County of Wernigerode
  • Heinrich Christian von Selchow (1732–1795), lawyer, was educated in Wernigerode
  • Friedrich Joseph Wilhelm Schröder (1733–1778), doctor and university professor, attended the lyceum here
  • Hermann Daniel Hermes (1734–1807), Protestant theologian, attended the lyceum here
  • Heinrich Ernst Raßmann (1734–1812), teacher and librarian.
  • Emanuel Schultze (1740–1809), Protestant missionary who was ordained in Wernigerode and father of the 6th Governor of Pennsylvania
  • Johann Christoph Kunze (1744–1807), Pietist and Protestant missionary, who was ordained in Wernigerode
  • Lorenz Benzler (1747–1817), writer and librarian to Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
  • Christian Wilhelm Gericke (1748–1803), Pietist and Protestant missionary, who was ordained in Wernigerode
  • Johann Michael Sailer (1751-1832), Catholic. Theologian u. later bishop of Regensburg, lived temporarily with the count
  • Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (1753–1823), French officer, mathematician and politician, lived temporarily in Wernigerode, where he used the count's library for his scientific works
  • Johann Andreas Christian Löhr (1764–1823), Protestant theologian and writer, grew up in Wernigerode and attended the Lyceum here
  • Ludwig Stock (1778–1861), head of the Magdeburg Provincial Archives, spent his twilight years in Wernigerode
  • Friedrich Joachim Philipp von Suckow (1789–1854), poet and narrator. Founder and Editor of “Sundine” magazine
  • Ernst Julius Philipp Thiele (1791-before 1874), court printer, publisher and Schulze
  • Eduard Nehse (1794 – after 1855), registry of the municipal magistrate in Wernigerode, from 1834 Brocken landlord and head of a meteorological station on the summit of the Brocken
  • Victor Aimé Huber (1800–1869), social reformer, co-founder of the cooperative system, last worked in Wernigerode and died here
  • Friedrich von Hagen (1801–1880), counts chief forest master, after whom the connecting road to Schierke was named
  • Ernst Helbig (1802–1866), resin painter, lived in Nöschenrode
  • Otto Linné Erdmann (1804–1869), chemist, managed the nickel works in Hasserode in 1826/27
  • Wilhelm Appuhn (1804–1882), Protestant theologian, † in Wernigerode
  • Count Botho zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1805–1881), historian and castle researcher
  • Gustav Albert John (1808– †), Protestant theologian, visited the Lyceum here and was the informator for Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
  • Julius von Bose (1809–1894), Prussian infantry general, died in Hasserode
  • Karl August Schapper (1815–1898), Protestant theologian and seminary director, retired in Wernigerode and died here
  • Friedrich Ladegast (1818–1905), organ builder, built the organ in the Johanniskirche
  • Wolfgang Friedrich Geß (1819–1891), Protestant theologian, spent his retirement in Wernigerode from 1884
  • Julius Karl Arndt (1820–1888), Protestant pastor and hymn poet
  • Gottlieb von Rosen (1822–1892), government councilor and senior civil servant from 1859 to 1876 in Wernigerode
  • Heinrich Pröhle (1822–1895), writer, lived in Wernigerode from 1854 to 1857
  • Ernst Förstemann (1822–1906), teacher as well as Graflich-Stolbergischer librarian and archivist
  • Carl Triebel (1823–1885), landscape and architecture painter and etcher
  • Adolf Krummacher (1824–1884), Protestant theologian and hymn poet, died in Wernigerode
  • Karl von Oven (1824–1907), councilor and district administrator, died in Wernigerode
  • Lina Walther (1824–1907), writer, spent the last years of her life here
  • Friedrich von Schmidt (1825–1891), architect and honorary citizen of the City of Vienna, the palace chapel was built according to his plans
  • Rudolph Elvers (1825–1891), District Administrator of the Wernigerode district
  • Heinrich Fintelmann (1825–1895), court gardener from the Count of Stolberg, later gardening inspector and horticultural teacher in Potsdam
  • Rudolph Neuß (1826–1892), Mayor of Wernigerode from 1872 to 1884
  • Count Theodor zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1827–1902), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
  • Gustav Lange (1830–1889), composer, last lived in Wernigerode
  • Robert Weber (1830–1890), landscape painter
  • Robert Radecke (1830–1911), composer, conductor and music teacher, died here
  • August von Lentze (1832–1920), Prussian officer, most recently general of the infantry, died in Wernigerode
  • Eduard Jacobs (1833–1919), princely librarian and archivist as well as historian
  • Johannes Karl Friedrich Hesekiel (1835–1918), evangelical theologian, spent his retirement in Wernigerode
  • Prince Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1837–1896), Vice Chancellor, head of the House of Stolberg-Wernigerode
  • Princess Anna zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1837–1907), wife of Prince Otto
  • Bernhard Baurschmidt (1839–1906), government official and member of the German Reichstag, died in Wernigerode
  • Gustav Krahmer (1839–1905), general and writer, died in Wernigerode
  • Gottlieb Leuchtenberger (1839–1914), educator and philosopher, died in Wernigerode
  • Constantin zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1843–1905), Upper President of the Province of Hanover, is remembered by the Constantinstein in the Tiergarten
  • Philipp von Bismarck (1844–1894), manor owner and member of parliament, died in Wernigerode
  • Hermann Richard Pott (1844–1903), doctor, died in Wernigerode
  • Friedrich Peltz (1844–1914), architect and Prussian building officer
  • Justus von Olshausen (1844–1924), legal scholar, senior Reich attorney and Senate President at the Imperial Court, died here
  • Mina Koch (1845–1924), composer, lived in Wernigerode from 1906 to 1923 and was buried here in 1924
  • Hans Grisebach (1848–1904), architect, based on his plans a. a. the Erbprinzenpalais, the Villa Hasert and the Gasthaus Steinerne Renne
  • Maximilian Nitze (1848–1906), urologist, inventor of the cystoscope, attended grammar school here until 1869
  • Gustav Kuntzsch (1848–1919), wood sculptor who founded his own company in Wernigerode
  • Hermann Sternheim (1849–1916), journalist, writer and theater director, lived here
  • Paul Nethe (1849–1926), General of the Infantry, died here
  • Ernst von Sommerfeld (1850–1917), Prussian major general, attended grammar school in Wernigerode
  • Heinrich Conrad Huch (1850–1931), publisher and founder of the Harz Club, monument not far from the Steinerne Renne
  • Adolf Brinkmann (1854–1923), local history researcher, teacher in Wernigerode
  • Hans Rimpau (1854–1919), lawyer, manor owner and member of the Reichstag, worked for a time at the Wernigerode district court
  • Werner von Heynitz (1854–1928), Prussian lieutenant general, died in Wernigerode
  • Rudolf Prietze (1854–1933), Africa linguist, lived in Wernigerode from around 1920 until his death
  • Günther von Sydow (1855–1924), administrative and church official, died here
  • Günther von Hertzberg (1855–1937), from 1890/1891 to 1902 district administrator in Wernigerode
  • Walter Friedensburg (1855–1938), archivist and historian, died in Wernigerode
  • Rudolf Stammler (1856–1938), legal philosopher, died in Wernigerode
  • Wilhelm Schmidt (1858–1924), engineer and inventor
  • Karl von Stumpff (1858–1936), Prussian lieutenant general in World War I, retired here
  • Ewald Vogtherr (1859–1923), social democratic politician, lived as a writer in Wernigerode for several years
  • Ernst Ebeling (1859–1932), Lord Mayor of Dessau, retired in Wernigerode
  • Ernst von Eschwege (1859–1932), was from 1897 to 1929 chief forest master of Prince Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
  • Johannes Bürger (1860–1915), pharmacist, founder of the Ysat factory in Wernigerode
  • August Trautewein (1860–1932), politician (SPD), lived as a blacksmith in Wernigerode for two years
  • Fritz von Zehmen (1860–1942), major general in World War I, died here
  • Paul Blau (1861–1944), superintendent in Wernigerode
  • Walter von Eberhardt (1862–1944), Lieutenant General, died here
  • Oswald Bergener (1862–1945), writer, lived in Villa Hornstrasse 4 from 1936
  • Hermann Krukenberg (1863–1935), doctor and orthopedist
  • Georg Arndt (1863–1939), Protestant theologian, worked as a volunteer archivist for Prince Stolberg and retired in Wernigerode
  • Ernst Lohmann (1863–1941), administrative lawyer, princely chamber president
  • Paul Kilburger (1863–1951), princely builder and architect
  • Wilhelm Kobelt (1865–1927), member of the Reichstag and local politician in Magdeburg, died in Wernigerode
  • Paul Gennrich (1865–1946), theologian, from 1912 to 1917 general superintendent of the Evangelical Church in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony, died in Wernigerode
  • Curt Stage (1866–1931), Protestant theologian, died here
  • Hans Gregor (1866–1945), actor, director and theater manager, retired in Wernigerode
  • Kersten von Schenck (1868–1924), District Administrator, spent his twilight years in Wernigerode
  • Lothar Freiherr Hugo von Spitzemberg (1868–1930), Prussian district administrator in Wernigerode from 1903 to 1911
  • Paul Freye (1869–1958), horticultural architect and horticultural director, trained in the count's gardening
  • Dietrich Vorwerk (1870–1942), Protestant educator, pastor and religious writer, lived in Wernigerode from 1912 to 1915
  • Ernst Böhme (1871–1901), Protestant theologian
  • Otto Geißler (1872–1939), hydraulic engineer and university lecturer at the TH Hannover
  • Jakob Kroeker (1872–1948), Mission Director
  • Käthe Papke (1872–1951), writer who lived in Wernigerode
  • Alkmar von Alvensleben (1874–1946), senior medical advisor and director of the Magdeburg State Women's Clinic
  • Magdalene Countess zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (1875–1955), last abbess of the Drübeck Monastery
  • Curt von Ulrich (1876–1946), Upper President of the Province of Saxony , moved to Wernigerode after his retirement
  • Erich von Stosch (1877–1946), District Administrator of the Wernigerode district
  • Fritz Höger (1877–1949), architect, built the Westerntor station in 1936
  • Max Otten (1877–1962), doctor and one of the pioneers of occupational medicine
  • Kurt Tuch (1877–1963), painter, draftsman and lithographer of Expressionism, worked temporarily in Wernigerode
  • Paul Viktor Neugebauer (1878–1940), astronomer, died here
  • Karl Schapper (1879–1941), Catholic resistance fighter against National Socialism, attended high school in Wernigerode
  • Hans Holldack (1879–1950), agricultural technician, pioneer of technical soil cultivation and agricultural machinery apprenticeship, burial site in the central cemetery
  • Wilhelm Herse (1879–1965), archivist and librarian from 1919 to 1927
  • Walther Grosse (1880–1943), historian and 1st chairman of the Harz Association
  • Erhard Hübener (1881–1958), Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt from 1945 to 1949, spent his old age in Wernigerode
  • Otto Illies (1881–1959), landscape painter, lived in Wernigerode from 1924 until his death
  • Marie von Alemann (1881–1964), painter, lived and worked in Wernigerode since 1930
  • Adalbert Defner (1884–1969), Austrian landscape photographer, had a photo workshop in Wernigerode from 1919 to 1930
  • Hermann Paul Reichardt (1885–1962), local politician (SPD / SED), from 1945 to 1947 District Administrator of the Wernigerode district
  • Wilhelm von der Heyde (1885–1972), politician (SPD), attended school in Wernigerode
  • Ernst Pörner (1886–1965), secondary school teacher and local researcher
  • Christian Lahusen (1886–1975), composer, attended the princely high school in Wernigerode
  • Gustav Petri (1888–1945), Colonel, refused the order on April 10, 1945 to include Wernigerode in a combat zone and was therefore shot; is considered the "savior of Wernigerode"
  • Ernst Gall (1888–1958), art historian and monument conservator, graduated from grammar school in Wernigerode in 1907
  • Ulrich von Fresenius (1888–1962), mayor (NSDAP) of Wernigerode
  • Brigitte Freifrau von Rechenberg (1890–1967), writer who lived and published in Wernigerode for a while under the pseudonym Mrs. Brigitte
  • Friedrich Georg Freiherr von Rechenberg (1891–1966), writer, lived temporarily in Wernigerode
  • Ernst Loops (1891–1974), politician (SPD and Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig) and senator in Danzig
  • Wilhelm von Nathusius (1893–1952), mayor of Wiesbaden, attended the grammar school in Wernigerode from 1902 to 1912
  • Franz Vettel (1894–1965), farmer and plant breeder, died here
  • Erich Krüger (1897–1978), painter, worked in what is now the Benzingerode district
  • Max Baur (1898–1988), important photographer, opened a studio and publishing house in Wernigerode in 1928
  • Wilhelm Pramme (1898–1965), resin painter from Halberstadt, lived in Wernigerode
  • Jón Leifs (1899–1968), Icelandic composer, lived temporarily in Wernigerode
  • Ernst Lehnig (1899–1951), Lower Saxony politician (SPD) and member of the Braunschweig Parliament
  • Otto Paulmann (1899–1986), bookseller and publisher in Wernigerode from 1922 to 1952
  • Wedego Graf von Wedel (1899–1945), administrative officer, attended grammar school here
  • Kurt Wabbel (1901–1944), KPD city councilor in Halle (Saale) , was murdered in the Wernigerode concentration camp branch
  • Hermann Grossmann (1901–1948), SS-Obersturmführer and head of the Wernigerode branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp
  • Christian Opdenhoff (1902–1975), SA leader and speaker from November 1931 to August 1932, and NSDAP district leader from September 1932 to July 1933
  • Gertrud Sasse (1902–1994), 1946–1949 teacher, then director at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Oberschule
  • Heinrich Heffter (1903–1975), historian, attended grammar school in Wernigerode from 1912–1921, became the biographer of Prince Otto zu Stolberg
  • Johannes Harder (1903–1987), German-Russian writer, religious socialist, social scientist and university professor, founded a publishing house in Wernigerode in 1928
  • Eugen Klause (1903–1999), church musician and composer
  • Werner Krynitz (1904–1984), reciter
  • Elmar Profft (1905–1978), chemist and university professor, died in Wernigerode
  • Friedrich Sander (1905–1986), lawyer and later Lord Mayor of Hameln
  • Gustav Strahl (1906–1977), Mayor of Wernigerode from 1950 to 1962
  • Günther Baumgarten (1906–1989), chemist in the Ysat factory
  • Lotte Knabe (1907–1991), archivist, was involved in the development of the princely archive immediately after the Second World War
  • Heinz Rusch (1908–1965), editor-in-chief and publicist, died here
  • Harry Braun (1908–1979), dermatologist, died here
  • Arthur Grimm (1908 - after 1990), photographer, ran a photo studio in the Breiten Straße in the years after 1945
  • Hugo Launicke (1909–1975), politician (KPD / SED), from 1939 to 1945 concentration camp prisoner in Wernigerode
  • Hermann Meusel (1909–1997), botanist, head of the Brockengarten from 1951 to 1971
  • Otto Plachta (1911–1993), district route champion
  • Johannes Hamel (1911–2002), theologian, last lived in Wernigerode
  • Alois Pisnik (1911–2004), politician (KPÖ / SED), chose Wernigerode as a retirement home
  • Bert Heller (1912–1970), painter and rector of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, from 1946 to 1950 lecturer at the Wernigerode Art School
  • Karl-August Reckling (1915–1986), submarine commander and university professor, attended high school in Wernigerode
  • Diether Deneke (1918–2002), conservationist and SPD politician, attended elementary school in Wernigerode
  • Hans Querner (1921–2012), pioneer in the history of biology in Germany, lived in Wernigerode
  • Helmut Rische (1921–2013), physician, director of the Wernigerode division of the Robert Koch Institute
  • Gerhard Bombös (1922–1991), editor and publisher of the "Wernigeröder Zeitung"
  • Walter Böckmann (1923–2014), author, sociologist, psychologist, leadership theorist and logotherapist, grew up here
  • Ansgar Bethge (1924–2008), officer and inspector of the Navy from 1980 to 1985, attended the Fürst-Otto-Gymnasium
  • Wolfgang Schoor (1926–2007), composer, retired in Wernigerode
  • Horst Schönemann (1927–2002), director, worked at the Wernigerode City Theater in 1947/48
  • Zoraida Morales (1927-2004), Cuban soprano, lived from 1969 to 1978 as a singing teacher in Wernigerode
  • Jo Jastram (1928–2011), sculptor, winner of the 1999 Culture Prize of the City of Wernigerode
  • Martin Kilian (1928–2014), bobsleigh athlete, sports official, from 1962 to 1990 mayor (SED)
  • Friedrich Krell (* 1928), from 1951 to 1996 director of the radio youth choir Wernigerode
  • Georg Harder (1929–1985), lived in Wernigerode from 1946, was a teacher at the SED district party school Drei-Annen-Hohne from 1952–1956
  • Manfred Oelsner (1932–2002), local historian
  • Klaus Lüderssen (1932–2016), grew up in Wernigerode, legal scholar, teacher of criminal law, legal sociologist and author
  • Rolf Schneider (* 1932), writer, grew up in Wernigerode
  • Gerd Ilte (1933–2016), teacher, gallery owner (Efeuhaus) and art award winner from Wernigerode
  • Erwin Harz (1934-2017), music teacher and local politician (SPD)
  • Hans-Dieter Riechel (1934–2014), biathlete, died in Wernigerode
  • Klaus Miesner (1935–1989), handball player and trainer, died in Wernigerode
  • Armin Holicki (1936–2008), finance scientist and local politician for Die Linke
  • Herbert Teubner (* 1937), mayor (CDU) from 1990 to 1991
  • Horst-Dieter Weyrauch (* 1936), Mayor (CDU) from 1991 to 1994
  • Bernd Wolff (* 1939), writer, worked as a teacher in Wernigerode
  • Uwe Wegener (* 1941), Scientific Director of the Harz National Park (until 2004)
  • Bernd Göbel (* 1942), sculptor, created the group of figures in the Veckenstedter Weg memorial and the fountain on Nikolaiplatz
  • Karl Born (* 1943), economist and manager, from 2000 to 2006 professor at the Harz University of Applied Sciences
  • Ludwig Hoffmann (* 1943), Mayor (SPD) from 1994 to 2008
  • Hans-Bert Matoul (* 1945), soccer player, played for FC Einheit Wernigerode
  • Wolfgang Witte (* 1945), microbiologist, head of the Robert Koch Institute in Wernigerode
  • Jürgen Hainz (1950–1972), fatality on the inner-German border
  • Konrad Breitenborn (* 1950), museologist and historian, works in Wernigerode
  • Hans-Ulrich Kison (* 1950), biologist and deputy head of the Harz National Park
  • Bernhard Zimmermann (computer scientist) (* 1952), dean at the Harz University of Applied Sciences
  • Michael Ermrich (* 1953), District Administrator, Harz Club Chairman, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways
  • Gisela Burkhardt-Holicki (* 1953), economist at the Harz University of Applied Sciences
  • Gerti Töpfer (* 1953), politician (CDU), Mayor of the major district town of Riesa from 2003 to May 2014
  • Axel Tyll (* 1953), national soccer player, played for FC Einheit Wernigerode after his time with 1. FC Magdeburg
  • Andreas Pusch (* 1955), forest scientist and nature conservationist, head of the Harz National Park
  • Friedhart Knolle (* 1955), geologist and conservationist
  • Matthias Puhle (* 1955), historian, from 2007 to 2012 board member of the "Stiftung Schloß Wernigerode"
  • Angela Gorr (* 1957), politician (CDU), chairwoman of the CDU branch in Wernigerode
  • Peter Gaffert (* 1960), Lord Mayor (independent) since 2008
  • Rainer Ehrt (* 1960), painter, graphic artist, illustrator and cartoonist, attended school in Wernigerode
  • Thomas Brezinka (* 1961), Austrian conductor, conducted the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra from 1990 to 1993
  • Frank Ruch (* 1961), Lord Mayor of Quedlinburg, attended the Agarfachschule in Wernigerode
  • Claudia Look-Hirnschal (1962–2018), presenter and editor, member of the radio youth choir
  • Christian Fitzner (* 1962), music director, conductor, works in the city and its surroundings
  • Uwe Lagatz (* 1962), educator and historian, 2008 Culture Prize winner from the city of Wernigerode
  • Dietmar Schütze (* 1962), with the BSG unit Wernigerode until 1982, then moved to BFC Dynamo
  • Thomas Gaevert (* 1964), journalist and freelance author, worked here as a typesetter and holiday supervisor
  • Folker Roland (* 1964), business economist, rector of the Harz University of Applied Sciences
  • Thorsten Schmidt (* 1965), publisher in Wernigerode since 1990
  • Jörg Brückner (* 1966), historian and archivist
  • Bastienne Voss (* 1968), actress, singer and author, attended school in Wernigerode
  • Reiko Füting (* 1970), composer, was a member of the radio youth choir Wernigerode
  • Evelyn Edler (* 1981), politician, member of the state parliament from 2011 to 2016 (Die Linke)
  • Christopher Grotheer (* 1992), skeleton athlete

literature

  • Christian Friedrich Kesslin: Messages from writers and artists in the county of Wernigerode from 1074 to 1855. Bänsch brothers, Magdeburg 1856.