page_title: Bad Bramstedt
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Bad Bramstedt / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Auguste Gräfin zu Stolberg (1753-1835), seit 1783 verheiratet mit dem Andreas Peter Graf Bernstorff. Ölgemälde von Jens Juel. Diese Schwester der Goethe befreundeten Grafen Stolberg wandte sich, vom "Werther" ergriffen, an den Dichter, der ihr, ohne dass beide sich je sahen, die für sein Inneres aufschlussreichsten Briefe (bis 1782) schrieb. Ihren Bekehrungsversuch beantwortete Goethe mit einem seiner herrlichsten Briefe. Sie wurde durch ihren regen Briefwechsel mit dem Dichter und Denker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bekannt und ging als Goethes Gustchen in die Literaturgeschichte ein.
context_page_description: Bad Bramstedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 40 km north of Hamburg. It is famous for its statue of Roland and its rheumatism clinic.
context_section_description: Oskar Alexander (1881–1942), founder of the rheumatism clinic in Bad Bramstedt. Murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for being of Jewish descent.
  Fabian Boll (born 1979), German footballer and Kriminaloberkommissar (police official)
  William Crane (1902–1979), surgeon general of the Bundeswehr; died in Bad Bramstedt
  Arved Fuchs, born 1953 in Bad Bramstedt, adventurer, first person to reach both the North and South Pole within one year and by foot.
  Rolf Koschorrek (born 1956), German politician (CDU)
  Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019), fashion designer, born in Hamburg, but went to school in Bad Bramstedt.
  Siegfried Liebschner (1935–2006), Baptist theologian, born in Bad Bramstedt
  Charles I.D. Looff (1852–1918), "father" of the amusement parks in America, builder of many roundabouts and the pier of Santa Monica
  Johanna Mestorf (1828–1909), first female museum director in Germany and first woman in Prussia to hold the title of professor, born in Bad Bramstedt
  Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780–1850), astronomer.
  Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1753–1835), corresponded with Goethe as Gustchen
  Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1715–1819), poet, lawyer and translator
  Kurt Gustav Wilckens (1886–1923), militant German anarchist.
caption: Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg
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