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NEUSTADT AN DER AISCH // Notable people

Born in Neustadt

• Elias Levita (1 469 in or !_Qs_!leil!_l; 1549 in Venice; in fact Eliyahu ben Asher Ha-Lev,), translator, humanist, Hebrew grammarian, Yiddish writer • Johannes Gramann (also: Poliander, 1487-1541 in Konigsberg), Protestant Reformer and poet of chants - - -- ·- -- -- • Lazarus Nurnberger (born 1499; died c. 1564 in Sevilla), merchant, in cooperation with Jacob and Hans ·cromberger founder of the Deutscher Amerikahandel • Johann Mutzel (1647-1717), master builder of several castles in emestinian principalities of Werner Dollinger in Saxony-Anhalt and Thurin~ (e.g. castle Ettersburg near yyeimar), in the principalities 1978 Schwarzbu_rg_-Sondershausen and Arn~adt, in Schlitz, and in Tann Rhq_12}; builder of the residence of Goethe in Weimar, of the Friedenskirche (church) in Jena and the Kreuzkirche (church) in Eisenach -- • Adolf Scherzer (1815-1864) , composer of the ~ erischer Defiliermc}!sch • Werner Dollinger (1918-2008), German politician (CSU), member of the (1953-1990), treasury secretary (1962- 1966), minister of postal services and telecommunication (1966-1969), mimster ofl~ansport (1982-1987) • Armin Schwarz (born 1963), German rally driver • J_ulian_Gressel (born 1993), football player • N.i._kl~s Stark (born 1995), football player

Honorary Citizens

• Paul von Hind~n_b_u_Eg (1847-1934), Generalfeldmarschall and President of the German Reich, since 30 March 1933 • Max Dolin er (1874-1959), Oberregierungsrat and Obermedizinalrat, documentarist of his country, since 26 March 1954 • W~ rner Dollinger (1918-2008), German politician (CSU), since 1 0 October 1978

People otherwise associated with Neustadt an der Aisch

• Albrecht Ill Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1414 in Tangermunde; died 1486 in Frankfurt£.Ma1aj, Prin ce-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, he also ruled the Principality of Ansbach • Kas ar Loner (born 1493 in Markt 5,_flbach; died 1546), Protestant Reformer in Hof • Peter Kolb (born 1675 in Dorflas, today district of Marktredwitz; died 1726 in Neustadt an der Aisc h), teacher and ethnologist -- • Jean Paul (born 1763 in Wunsiedel; died 1825 in Bayreuth; in fact Johann Paul Friedrich Richter);-author -- • Hans W. Gei~endorfer (born 1941 in Augsburg_), film director, author and producer • Guido Kno p (born 1948 in Treysa, today's town district of Schwalmstadt), historian, author and journalist - - • Liss Grone~ (born 1954 in Lan.9.enfeld), German politician (SPD), Member of the European Albrecht Achilles and his Parliament 1989-2009 second wife Anna