List of personalities from the University of Greifswald

The Alma Mater Gryphiswaldensis (founded 1456) in Greifswald , Germany .

This list of personalities at the University of Greifswald contains well-known former and current students and employees who have been hired at the University of Greifswald from 1456 to the present day .

Nobel Prize Winner

Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), Nobel Prize for Medicine 1939/1947
Johannes Stark (1874–1957), Nobel Prize in Physics 1919

University professor

→ See: University professor at the University of Greifswald (approx. 1000 entries)

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Felix Hausdorff , fractal mathematics
Werner Rothmaler , Plant System
Serge von Bubnoff , geology
Kurt Ruchholz , geology
Günter Möbus , geology
Hans Beyer , Organic Chemistry
Ehrenfried Bulka , Organic Chemistry
Michael Succow , Geobotany , Right Livelihood Award recipient (1997)
Friedrich Loeffler , virology
Michael Hecker , micro and molecular biologist

Former students

politics and society

Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), publicist and politician

Prince Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909

Philipp Amthor , member of the Bundestag
Ernst Moritz Arndt , writer, revolutionary and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
Bruno Benthien , GDR Minister
Hans Bentzien , GDR Minister
Georg Beseler , member of the Prussian manor house
Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
Ehrenfried Boege , General of the Infantry, bearer of the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross
Joachim von Bonin , member of the Prussian House of Representatives
Bernhard von Bülow , Chancellor of the Reich
Adolf Flecken , member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
Hans Freyer , representative of the Conservative Revolution
Albrecht Giese , Hanseatic merchant
Alfred Gomolka , Prime Minister , Member of the European Parliament
Otto Haußleiter , political scientist and administrative officer
Ernst Hilzheimer , co-founder of the LDPD in Mecklenburg, honorary citizen of the Hanseatic city of Rostock .
Andreas von Ihlenfeld , officer in the 30 Years War
Arthur König , Lord Mayor of Greifswald from 2001 to 2015
Georg Kuhlmann , religious socialist, Confident
Gerhard Krüger , Nazi functionary, leader of the German student body
Erich Mix , politician and member of the Hessian state parliament
Julius Moses , member of the Reichstag
Karsten Neumann , state data protection officer for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Christian Level , Minister for Energy, Infrastructure and Digitization Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Sebastian Pflugbeil , GDR Minister
Heike Polzin , member of the state parliament, finance minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Sebastian Ratjen , dentist and member of the state parliament
Peter Ritter , member of the state parliament
Ute Schildt , member of the state parliament
Beate Schlupp , member of the state parliament
Franz Seldte , NSDAP politician and Reich Minister of Labor
Wilhelm Steputat , politician and member of the Reichstag since 1913
Guido von Usedom , Prussian diplomat
Otto Wenzel , journalist, cooperative director, founding member of the Reich Association of the German Press
Leo Wohleb , President of the former German state of Baden

Science and culture

Johannes Bugenhagen , portrayed by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä.

Early self-portrait of the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), who received his first drawing lessons from the Greifswald university building and drawing master Johann Gottfried Quistorp .

Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) is one of the most influential naturalists of the 20th century.

Anna Christina Ehrenfried von Balthasar (1737–1808), Baccalaurea of the Arts and Philosophy
Herbert Bellmer , educator and writer
Hermann Wolfgang Beyer , theologian and archaeologist
Theodor Billroth , important surgeon
Hermann Bonnus , reformer and superintendent of Lübeck
Hellmut JF Bredereck , German chemist and founder
Gerrit Brösel , German university professor, author of the bestseller "Wöhe"
Johannes Bugenhagen , important reformer and confidante of Martin Luther
Hans Bunge , German studies, art studies, theater history
Joachim Christian Coch († 1713), legal scholar in Swedish Pomerania and judge at the Wismar Tribunal
Arnold Dannenmann , founder and long-time president of the Christian Youth Village Association in Germany (CJD)
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach , physician and surgeon
Hans Jürgen Eggers , prehistorian
Caspar David Friedrich , painter
Andreas Habichhorst , theologian
Otto Hintze , historian and history professor, important social historian
Ulrich von Hutten , humanist and imperial knight
Kurt Ihlenfeld , pastor and writer
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , educator and gymnast
Nils Jörn , Hanseatic historian
Alexander Koenig , biology
Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , pastor, professor and poet
Ferdinand Krüger , Westphalian dialect poet (Low German)
Klaus Lankheit , professor of art history, important expert on Franz Marc
Widukind Lenz , human geneticist
Bengt Lidner , Swedish writer
Hermann Löns , poet
Andreas von Maltzahn , theologian, Mecklenburg regional bishop
Oskar Manigk , painter
Ernst Mayr , zoologist and evolution theorist
Otto Gottlieb Mohnike , doctor
Gottlieb Mohnike , theologian, translator, philologist and founder of Scandinavian studies
Gabriele Mucchi , Italian painter
Joachim Daniel Andreas Müller , Swedish horticultural teacher and writer
Gustav Nachtigal , Africa explorer
Felix Oberländer , professor at the TU Dresden, founder of modern urology.
Carl Pauli , important researcher of the Etruscan language
Christiern Pedersen , Danish humanist and writer
Christoph Redecker (1652–1704), German legal scholar, university professor and mayor of Rostock
Lampert Hinrich Röhl (1724–1790), mathematician and astronomer
David Runge , theologian
Ludwik Rydygier , West Prussian-Polish surgeon
Roderich Schmidt , historian
Johannes Schmidt-Wodder , politician and representative of the German minority in Denmark
Walter Serner , essayist, writer and Dadaist
Georg Stiernhielm , "Father of Swedish Poetry"
August Thienemann , zoologist and ecologist
Werner Tübke , painter and graphic artist
Ernst Wilm , pastor and church leader
Ulrich Wutzke , geologist
Gustav Wyneken , reform pedagogue
Thorsten Zwinger , painter
Karl Wellnitz , mathematician
Bruno Satori-Neumann , theater scholar
Georg Zivier , writer and journalist

Honorary doctors

→ See: Honorary doctorates from the University of Greifswald (approx. 120 entries)

Faculty of Theology

1599 Bartholomäus Battus (1571–1637), theologian
1824 Gottlieb Mohnike (1781–1841), theologian and founder of Scandinavian studies
1917 Johannes Luther (1861–1954), librarian and Luther researcher
1928 Ulrich Hildebrandt (1870–1940), church musician
1989 Manfred Stolpe (1936–2019), Prime Minister and former Federal Minister. D.
1990 Roderich Schmidt (1925–2011), historian
2001 Eberhard Jüngel (* 1934), systematic theologian
2004 Erich Gräßer (1927–2017), New Testament scholar
2006 William Wolff (1927–2020), German-British journalist and state rabbi
2006 Piotr Gaś (* 1959), theologian
2016 Antje Jackelén (* 1955), theologian