(Major) of the Waffen SS during World War II Ludwig Elsbett (1913–2003), inventor of the Elsbett Engine, studied engineering in Bad Frankenhausen Robert H. Foerderer (1860-1903), U.S. Congressman Reimund Neugebauer (born 1953), engineer and university teacher Eva Padberg (born 1980), fashion model, born 27 January 1980 in Bad Frankenhausen. Dieter Rex (1936–2002), painter and designer Doris Schade (1924–2012), actress, born in Frankenhausen (born 1928 in Esperstedt), choreographer of modern dance theater Selmar Schonland (1860–1940), botanist and a founder of Rhodes University, born in Bad Frankenhausen Nils Schumann (born 1978), track and field athlete and Olympic 800 m champion Harald Vollmar (born 1947), marksman and multiple Olympic medalist Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905–1946), war criminal, commander of the Dachau concentration camp, studied electrical engineering in Bad Frankenhausen (1860–1920), the first social democratic president of a German parliament Christa Wolf (1929–2011), novelist, finished school in Bad Frankenhausen (born 1928), writer and publisher Twin town Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Hesse, Germany since 1990. References Literature Deutscher Städteatlas; Band: IV; 2 Teilband. Acta Collegii Historiae Urbanae Societatis Historicorum Internationalis - Serie C. Im Auftrag des Kuratoriums für vergleichende Städtegeschichte e. V. und mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, hrsg. von Heinz Stoob, Wilfried Ehbrecht, Jürgen Lafrenz und Peter Johannek. Stadtmappe Bad Frankenhausen, Author: Heinz Stoob. ; Dortmund-Altenbeken, 1989. External links 1525 Memorial - Panorama Museum Kyffhäuserkreis Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Spa towns in Germany 9th-century establishments in Europe Populated places established in the 9th century