Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871 until 1890, is an "honorary citizen" of Bad Arolsen. Sons and daughters of the town 1556, Philipp Nicolai, song-poet and Reformer, in Mengeringhausen (died 1608 in Hamburg) 1620, Prince Georg Friedrich von Waldeck (died 1692 in Bad Arolsen) 1740, Ernst Eichner, composer (died 1777 in Potsdam) 1743, Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1812), Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1747, George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1813), Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1767, Johann Stieglitz, doctor (died 1840 in Hanover) 1777, Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (died 1857 in Dresden); The Museum in Bad Arolsen looks after his memorial. 1805, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, painter, noted as a muralist, (died 1874 in Munich). 1822, Friedrich Kaulbach, painter (died 1903 in Hanover) 1831, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1893), Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1838, Walther Herwig, founder of German high-sea fishing (died 1912) 1858, Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Queen and 1890-1898 Regent of the Netherlands (Dutch King William III's second wife; died 1934 in The Hague) 1861, August Bier, surgeon, in Helsen (died 1949 in (near Beeskow)) 1865. Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1946), Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1873, , orthopaedics professor 1896, Josias Erbprinz von Waldeck-Pyrmont, SS Obergruppenführer (died 1967 in Bad Arolsen) 1936, Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, residing prince and chief of the House of Waldeck References External links Nazi-era archive available at US Holocaust Museum Slate report on archive's opening Towns in Hesse Spa towns in Germany Waldeck-Frankenberg Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont The Holocaust in Germany