List of places in Germany named after people

This is a list of inhabited places in Germany which are named after people. The etymology is generally referenced in the article about the person or the place.

A

• Adelheidsdorf (state of Lower Saxony) – Queen Adelaide of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland (est. in 1831 in drained former Wietzenbruch swamp)
• Adolf-Wenz-Siedlung (State of Bavaria) - Adolf Wenz (1840-1927), businessman
• Adolphsdorf [nds] (state of Lower Saxony) – Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Viceroy of Hanover (est. 1800, incorporated into Grasberg in 1974.)^[1]
• Agathenburg (state of Lower Saxony) – Agathe von Leesten/Lehsten, wife of Bremen-Verden's general governor Hans Christoff von Königsmarck.^[2]
• Annaburg (state of Saxony-Anhalt) – Princess Anna of Denmark and Norway (1532–1585), electress consort of Augustus the Strong^[3]
• Augsburg (state of Bavaria) – Roman Caesar Augustus^[4]
• Augustdorf (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Simon August, Count of Lippe-Detmold (est. 1779, named after the count in 1789).
• Augustendorf (state of Lower Saxony) – Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, consort of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Viceroy of Hanover (est. 1827, incorporated into Gnarrenburg in 1974.)^[5]
• Augustusburg (state of Saxony) – Augustus, Elector of Saxony^[6]

B

• Bad Karlshafen (state of Hesse) – Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel^[7]
• Bad Wilhelmshöhe (in German) (state of Hesse) – William I, Elector of Hesse (a quarter of today's Kassel)^[8]
• Benediktbeuern (state of Bavaria) – Benedict of Nursia
• Borsigwalde (state of Berlin) – engineer August Borsig (est. 1898, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920.)^[9]
• Brunswick (state of Lower Saxony) – Bruno, Duke of Saxony^[10]

C

• Cäciliengroden (state of Lower Saxony) – Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807–1844), grand duchess consort to Grand Duke Frederick Augustus I of Oldenburg (est. 1844 and settled 1938/39, incorporated into Sande in Frisia)
• Carlsburg (state of Bremen) – Charles XI of Sweden (est. 1672, incorporated into Bremerhaven in 1827)
• Charlottenburg (state of Berlin) – Princess Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, queen consort of King Frederick I of Prussia (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)^[11]
• Christian-Albrechts-Koog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (since 1974 a part of Galmsbüll)
• Clemenshammer (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Clemens auf dem Hammer, purchaser of ironworks in 1580 (est. before 1580, incorporated into Remscheid in 1929)
• Cologne (state of North Rhine-Westphalia; German: Köln, Latin: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, CCAA) – Roman Emperor Claudius and Agrippina the Younger, empress consort (lit. Claudian colony and sacrificial altar of the Agrippinensians)^[12]
• Constance (state of Baden-Württemberg; German: Konstanz) – Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus

D

• Dorotheenstadt (state of Berlin) – Duchess Sophia Dorothea of Holstein, electress consort of Frederick William, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg (est. 1674, incorporated into Berlin on 1 January 1710)^[13]
• Dr.-Kurt-Fischer-Siedlung (State of Saxony) - Kurt Fischer (1900-1950), politician

E

• Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Elisabeth Sophie Desmercières, wife of Jean Henri Desmercières, financier of the polder and dike constructions
• Erichsburg (state of Lower Saxony) – Eric II, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, founded in the 16th century by his father Eric I, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, who named it after his son.
• Erkelenz (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Roman real proprietor Herculentiacus
• Ernst-Braune-Siedlung (state of Saxony) - Ernst Braune (1853-1942), social democratic politician
• Ernst-Thälmann-Siedlung (state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) - Ernst Thälmann

F

• Ferdinandshof (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia
• Findorf (state of Lower Saxony) – Jürgen Christian Findorff [de], Moor Commissioner in charge of drainage, cultivation and colonisation of moorlands (est. 1780, incorporated into Gnarrenburg in 1974)
• Franzburg (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – Francis, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg (Gifhorn line) (est. 1587 by Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania and named in honour of his father-in-law.)^[14]
• Friedrichsfelde (state of Berlin) – Prince-Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)^[15]
• Friedrichshafen (state of Baden-Württemberg) – King Frederick of Württemberg
• Friedrichshagen (state of Berlin) – King Frederick II, the "Great", of Prussia (est. 1753, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Friedrichshain (state in Berlin) – King Frederick II, the "Great", of Prussia
• Friedrichskoog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – King Frederick VII of Denmark
• Friedrichsruh (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Count Frederick Charles Augustus of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Sternberg and Schwalenberg (est. 1763)
• Friedrichstadt (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (est. 1621)
• Friedrichstadt (state of Berlin) – King Frederick I of Prussia (est. 1688, incorporated into Berlin on 1 January 1710)^[16]
• Friedrichsthal (state of Brandenburg) – King Frederick II, the "Great", of Prussia, now a component locality of Gartz
• Friedrichsthal (state of Brandenburg) – King Frederick I of Prussia, now a component locality of Oranienburg
• Friedrichsthal (state of Saarland) – Frederick Louis, Count of Nassau-Ottweiler (est. 1723)
• Friedrichswalde (state of Brandenburg) – King Frederick II, the "Great", of Prussia
• Friedrichswerder (state of Berlin) – Frederick William, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg (est. 1662, incorporated into Berlin on 1 January 1710)^[17]
• Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Minister-President Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke (in German) of Schleswig-Holstein
• Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stadt (state of Berlin) – King Frederick William III of Prussia (est. after 1710, a locality of Berlin from the beginning)^[18]

G

• Galmsbüll/Danish: Galmesbøl/North Frisian: Galmsbel (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Saint Gall (first mentioned in the 13th century)
• Georgensgmünd (state of Bavaria) – George the Martyr
• Georgenthal (state of Thuringia) – George the Martyr
• Georgsdorf (state of Lower Saxony) – George V of Hanover (est. 1775, named in 1890 in memory of the king)
• Georgsmarienhütte (state of Lower Saxony) – King George V of Hanover and Duchess Mary of Saxe-Altenburg, the queen consort
• Giesensdorf (state of Berlin) – a certain Ghiselbrecht, the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in the 13th century (incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Gustavsburg (state of Hesse) – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (est. 1632, merged into Ginsheim-Gustavsburg in 1808)
• Gropiusstadt (State of Berlin) - Walter Gropius

H

• Hedwigenkoog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden
• Heinrichswalde (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – Christoph Ludwig Henrici^[19]
• Hermsdorf (state of Berlin) – a certain Herman, the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) around 1200 (incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Hildesheim (state of Lower Saxony) – farmer Hildwin (landowner in the 10th century)^[20]

J

• Joachimsthal in Brandenburg (state of Brandenburg) – Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg^[21]
• Johanngeorgenstadt (state of Saxony) – John George I, Elector of Saxony
• Johannisthal (state of Berlin) – Johann Wilhelm Werner, councillor of the electoral chamber (financial department), (est. 18th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)^[22]
• Juliers (state of North Rhine-Westphalia; Latin: Iuliacum, German: Jülich) – Julius Caesar^[23]
• Jürgensgaard/Jørgensgård (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – George the Martyr (incorporated into Flensburg in 1900.)
• Jürgenstorf (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – a certain Jürgen, the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in the 13th century

K

• Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – German Emperor William I
• Karlsburg in Hither Pomerania (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – feudal landlord Carl von Bismarck
• Karlsruhe (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Margrave Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach^[24]
• Karolinenkoog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Princess Caroline of Denmark
• Kilianstädten (state of Hesse) – Irish Franconian apostle Saint Kilian (incorporated into today's Schöneck in Hesse in 1971)
• Kronprinzenkoog (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark
• Kaiserslautern (state of Rhineland-Palatinate) Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

L

• Leopoldshafen (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden (originally Schröck, first mentioned in 1160, renamed on 4 June 1833)
• Leopoldshagen (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (est. 1748, named 1752)
• Leopoldshöhe (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Leopold II, Prince of Lippe
• Leverkusen (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – pharmacist Carl Leverkus
• Ludwigsau (state of Hesse) – Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse
• Ludwigsburg (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg
• Ludwigsfelde (state of Brandenburg) – Ernst Ludwig von der Gröben (1703–1773), president of the chamber (financial department) of Kurmark
• Ludwigshafen upon Lake Constance (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden
• Ludwigshafen upon Rhine (state of Rhineland-Palatinate) – King Louis I of Bavaria
• Ludwigshöhe in the Palatinate (state of Rhineland-Paltinate) – King Louis I of Bavaria^[25]
• Ludwigshöhe in Rhenish Hesse (state of Rhineland-Paltinate) – Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse
• Ludwigslust (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – Duke Christian Louis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• Ludwigsstadt (state of Bavaria) – a certain Ludewich, bailiff in 1269
• Luisenstadt (state of Berlin) – Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King Frederick William III of Prussia (est. 16th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 January 1710)^[26]
• Luisenthal (state of Thuringia) – Louise Dorothy of Saxe-Meiningen, duchess consort of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

M

• Mariendorf (state of Berlin) – Mary of Nazareth (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Marienfelde (state of Berlin) – Mary of Nazareth (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Maxau (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Prince Maximilian of Baden (son of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden)
• Maxdorf (state of Rhineland-Palatinate) – King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (est. mid-18th century, named after the king in 1819)
• Maxhafen (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Maximilian Frederick of Königsegg-Rothenfels, prince-archbishop-elector of Cologne, duke of Westphalia and prince-bishop of Münster (est. c. 1771, incorporated into Wettringen in the Münsterland)
• Maxhütte (state of Bavaria) – Maximilian II Joseph of Bavaria
• Maximiliansau (state of Rhineland-Palatinate) – Maximilian II Joseph of Bavaria (1858 a locality of Pfortz was named after the king, in 1938 the name of the locality was adopted for entire Pfortz, incorporated into the city of Wörth upon Rhine in 1979)
• Moritzburg (state of Saxony) – Maurice, Elector of Saxony

N

• Neuhardenberg (state of Brandenburg) – chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg^[27]
• Neu Sankt Jürgen (state of Lower Saxony) – George the Martyr (incorporated into Worpswede in 1974)
• Nikolassee (state of Berlin) – Bishop Nicolas of Myra, (est. 1901, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)^[28]
• Nikolskoë (state of Berlin) – Tzar Nicholas I of Russia, (est. 1819, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)^[29]
• Nordgeorgsfehn (state of Lower Saxony) – George IV of Hanover and the United Kingdom (est. 1825, incorporated into Uplengen in 1973)

O

• Oederquart (state of Lower Saxony) – a certain Oderick, the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in the 12th century^[30]
• Oranienbaum (state of Saxony-Anhalt) – Princess Henriette Catherina of Orange-Nassau, princess consort of John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
• Oranienburg (state of Brandenburg) – Princess Luise Henriette of Orange-Nassau, electress consort of Frederick William, the "Great Elector" of Brandenburg^[31]
• Ottobrunn (state of Bavaria) – Othon, King of the Hellenes
• Otto-Suhr-Siedlung (State of Berlin) - Otto Suhr (1894-1957), Mayor of Berlin

P

• Paulinenaue (state of Brandenburg) – Pauline von Bardeleben (1811–1884), bride of the patrimonial landlord Friedrich Wilhelm von Knoblauch (1798–1852)
• Philippinenburg (state of Hesse) – Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, second wife of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (est. 1778, incorporated into Wolfhagen in 1971)
• Philippinendorf (state of Hesse) – Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, second wife of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (est. 1778, incorporated into Wolfhagen in 1971)
• Philippinenthal (state of Hesse) – Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, second wife of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (est. 1778, incorporated into Wolfhagen in 1971)
• Philippsburg (state of Baden-Württemberg) – Prince-Bishop Philipp Christoph von Sötern, Prince-Bishopric of Speyer
• Philippsthal upon Werra (state of Hesse) – Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
• Pirmasens (state of Rhineland-Palatinate) – monk Pirminius

R

• Ratzeburg (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Prince Ratibor (11th century)
• Reinickendorf (state of Berlin) – a certain Reineke, the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in the 13th century (incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Reußenköge (state of Schleswig-Holstein) – Count Heinrich XLIII of Reuß-Schleiz-Köstritz and his wife Louise, who financed the polders
• Rixdorf (state of Berlin) – a certain Richard, the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in 1360 (incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Röntgental (state of Brandenburg) – physicist Wilhelm Röntgen, inventor of the X-ray^[32]

S

• Saarlouis (state of Saarland) – King Louis XIV of France
• Sankt Augustin (state of North Rhine-Westphalia) – Augustine of Hippo
• Sankt Pauli (state of Hamburg) – (Saul) Paul of Tarsos
• Schmargendorf (state of Berlin; antiq. (de)s Margreven Dorp, Smargendorp, lit. the Margrave's Village) – Margrave John I of Brandenburg, (est. in the 13th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Schrötersdorf (state of Lower Saxony) – astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter (est. 1805, incorporated into Lilienthal in 1974)
• Siemensstadt (state of Berlin) – engineer Werner von Siemens (est. 1899, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Südgeorgsfehn (state of Lower Saxony) – George IV of Hanover and the United Kingdom (est. 1825, incorporated into Uplengen in 1973)

T

• Trier (state of Rhineland-Palatinate; Latin: Augusta Treverorum) – Augustus (lit. City of Augustus in the lands of the Treveri people)^[33]

U

• Ulrichshusen (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – feudal landlord Ulrich von Moltzan (now a part of Schwinkendorf)

V

• Veitshöchheim (state of Bavaria) – Vitus
• Viereck (state of Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania) – Adam Otto von Viereck [de], Prussian state minister in charge of colonists in the monarchy (est. in 1748, renamed in 1751)

W

• Waldensberg (state of Hesse) – merchant Peter Waldo, precursor of the Protestant Reformers (est. 1699, incorporated into Wächtersbach in 1971)
• Wedding (state of Berlin) – feudal landlord Rudolf de Weddinge (est. 13th century, incorporated into Berlin in 1861)
• Wilhelmsburg (state of Hamburg) – Duke George William of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Lüneburg (est. 1672, incorporated into Harburg-Wilhelmsburg in 1927)
• Wilhelmsdorf in Middle Franconia (state of Bavaria) – George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
• Wilhelmsdorf upon Saale (state of Thuringia) – a certain Wilhelm, probably the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in the 14th century
• Wilhelmsdorf in Württemberg (state of Baden-Württemberg) – King William I of Württemberg
• Wilhelmshaven (state of Lower Saxony) – King William I of Prussia, later also German Emperor (lit. William's harbour)
• Wilmersdorf (state of Berlin) – a certain Wilhelm, probably the locator (in German) (chief settler, who gathered interested colonists) in the 13th century (incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)
• Wittenau (state of Berlin) – mayor Peter Witte [de], (est. 14th century, incorporated into Berlin on 1 October 1920)^[34]

Z

• Zeppelinheim (state of Hesse) – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (est. 1 January 1938, incorporated into Neu-Isenburg in 1977.)^[35]

Former names

• Horst-Wessel-Stadt (locality of Berlin) was the name of Berlin-Friedrichshain from 1933 to 1945 – Horst Wessel^[36]
• Karl-Marx-Stadt (state of Saxony) was the name of Chemnitz from 1953 to 1990 – Karl Marx^[37]
• Katharinenthal (state of Hesse) was the name of Wilhelmsthal from 1807 to 1813 – Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia^[38]
• Maczków (state of Lower Saxony) was the name of Haren upon Ems between 4 June 1945 and 10 September 1948 – Stanisław Maczek^[39]
• Marxwalde (state of Brandenburg) was the name of Neuhardenberg from 1949 to 1990 – Karl Marx^[27][37]
• Napoléonshöhe (state of Hesse) was the name of Bad Wilhelmshöhe (a quarter of today's Cassel) – Napoléon Bonaparte^[40]
• Pottsfehn (state of Lower Saxony) was the name of Hüllenerfehn (since 1973 a part of Ihlow in East Frisia) – Rudolf Pott, founder^[41]
• Stalinstadt (state of Brandenburg) was the name of Eisenhüttenstadt from 1953 to 1961 – Joseph Stalin^[37][42]