page_title: Köthen (Anhalt)
section_title: Notable personalities born in Köthen
hierarchical_section_title: Köthen (Anhalt) / Notable personalities born in Köthen
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), German composer
context_page_description: Köthen (Anhalt) is a city in Germany. It is the capital of the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, about 30 km north of Halle.
  Köthen is the location of the main campus and the administrative centre of the regional university, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences/Hochschule Anhalt which is especially strong in information technology. The city is conveniently located at the hub of the Magdeburg–Leipzig, Dessau–Köthen and Köthen–Aschersleben railways.
  Köthen is situated in a fertile area with rich black soil suitable to the cultivation of sugar-beets. Industry includes high-tech engineering, manufacture of cranes, as well as chemicals, printing, and foodstuffs.
  In English, German place-name is often spelt anachronistically as Cöthen, a practice that has become standard in the literature relating to the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach, who resided and worked there from 1717 to 1723.
context_section_description: Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), composer
  Hans Hermann Behr (1818–1904), physician and entomologist
  Hans-Ulrich Brand (born 1930), a former member of the Bundestag
  Roland Brückner (born 1955), gymnast
  Wilhelm Albert von Brunn (1911–1988), archaeologist
  Hans Elwenspoek (1910–1989), actor
  Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer (1727–1787), architect
  Nicolaus Gallus (1516–1570), Protestant reformer
  Gisela Agnes (1669–1740), princess consort of Anhalt-Köthen, regent in lieu of her son Leopold, 1704-1715
  Robert Friedrich Goetze (1881–1940), architect
  Werner Haase (1900–1950), Hitler's personal physician
  Angelika Hartmann (1829–1917), a reformist educationist of the late 19th and early 20th century
  August Klughardt (1847–1902), composer and conductor
  Georg Krause (1849–1927), founder of the influential journal of chemical science, „Chemiker-Zeitung“
  Leopold (1694–1728), prince of Anhalt-Köthen, employer of J.S. Bach
  Ludwig I (1579–1650), prince of Anhalt-Köthen, co-founder of the Fruitbearing Society
  Julius Naue (1835–1907), painter and archeologist
  Michael Naumann (born 1941), journalist, German federal Secretary of culture (1998–2001)
  Christian Prokop (born 1978), handball player and coach, Heinz Prokop's son
  Heinz Prokop (born 1952), handball player and coach
  Walter Rauff (1906–1984), NSDAP-politician and participant of the Nazi eugenics crimes
  Eduard von Rindfleisch (1836–1908), pathologist
  Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1625–1709), physician, grandfather of Claude Adrien Helvétius
  Gerhard Thielcke (1931–2007), ornithologist
  Leberecht Uhlich (1799–1872), theologian
  Manfred Wekwerth (1929–2014), theatre and film director
  Wolfgang (1492–1566), prince of Anhalt-Köthen, Protestant reformer of the principalities of Anhalt
  Karin Ritter (born 1954), television personality
  Norman Krüger (born 1985), television personality
  Andy Ritter (born 1986), television personality
  Christopher Kaufmann (born 1987), television personality
  Jasmin Ritter (born 2000), television personality
  Marius (born 2001), cute Catholic counter-reformer
caption: Carl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough, 1777
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