Magdeburg - People

People

• Alfons Bach, industrial designer
• Jessica Böhrs, German actress and singer, known for being in the movie Eurotrip
• Richard Falckenberg (Friedrich Otto) (1851–1920), a German philosophy historian, born here.
• Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), mayor and inventor of the Magdeburg hemispheres. The Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg is named after him
• Carl Gustav Friedrich Hasselbach (1809–1882), mayor and member of the Prussian House of Lords
• Antje Harvey- Olympic biathlon athlete
• Georg Kaiser (1878–1945), writer
• Stefan Kretzschmar, retired professional handball player and Olympic medallist
• Johann Carl Simon Morgenstern (1770–1852), the philologist who coined the term Bildungsroman
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), German biologist, won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995
• Richard Oelze (1900–1980), painter
• Erich Ollenhauer (1901–1963), leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1952-1963.
• Menahem Pressler (born 1923), Pianist
• Ernst Reuter (1889–1953), mayor of Magdeburg 1931-1933, then mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953.
• Margarete Schön (1895–1985), stage and film actress
• Kurt Singer, a philosopher
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), an American patriot
• Christoph Christian Sturm (1740–1786), German preacher and author, who wrote the majority of his devotional works here
• Bruno Taut (1880–1938), city architect 1921-1923, completed two housing projects in Magdeburg
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), composer
• Klaus Thunemann (born 1937), bassoon professor
• Tokio Hotel, German Rock band, originated here
• Henning von Tresckow (1901–1944), Major General in the German Wehrmacht, active in the military resistance
• Camillo Walzel (1829–1895) librettist and theatre director, who wrote under the pseudonym F Zell
• Dejan Zavec, Slovenian welterweight boxer, IBF Welterweight Champion