List of prominent residents of the city of Zwickau
This list names the names of important personalities who were not born in Zwickau (→ main article: list of sons and daughters of the city of Zwickau ), but who lived and worked there and who had a decisive influence on the city and its genius loci through their work . Some of them have even been honored as honorary citizens of the city (→ main article: List of honorary citizens of Zwickau ) or have made the name of the city of Zwickau known far beyond the city limits through their work.
Among them are the later mayors of the city who initiated or helped determine key points in urban development, important scientists and engineers, artists, writers, politicians, entrepreneurs and pastors: people whose work is inextricably linked with the city and who are part of the history of it City are.
Born in the 11th to 18th centuries
- Bertha von Groitzsch (* 2nd half of the 11th century; † May 16, 1144), German monastery founder, the certificate of consecration of the St. Mary's Church, which she founded, is considered the oldest mention of the city
- Hans Hesse (before 1479 – after 1539), panel and glass painter in the Saxon region, friendship with Peter Breuer , around 1500 to 1506, own Zwickau workshop
- Johann Schönsperger the Younger (around 1480–1543), bookkeeper , printer and publisher
- Michael Heuffner (1483–1511), German painter and sculptor , lived and died in Zwickau, creator of the Holy Sepulcher in St. Mary's Church
- Martin Luther (1483–1546), German reformer , dedicated his work from 1520 to the mayor of Zwickau , Hermann Mühlpfordt, “ From the freedom of a Christian ”, and at the request of the Zwickau council in the spring of 1522, he spent several weeks in the city for theological disputes, formative on the other hand in the dispute with the early Christian Zwickau prophets
- Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525), Protestant theologian and revolutionary during the Peasant War , pastor in Zwickau
- Paul Speck (* unknown - 1557), important stonemason and sculptor between the late Gothic and Renaissance periods
- Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scientist , humanist and doctor , is also known as the father of mineralogy , rector of the Zwickau council school
- Stephan Wild (1495–1550), German physician
- Paul Rebhun (1505–1546), Lutheran pastor , educator and playwright of the 16th century
- Johann Zechendorf (1580–1662), German philologist and educator
- Karl von Bose (1596–1657), Zwickau governor , in his time the richest nobleman in Saxony, lieutenant colonel in the Saxon army, in 1649 the elector awarded him the title of governor from Emperor Ferdinand III. in the imperial counts charged
- Balthasar Balduin (1605-1652) was Superintendent of Zwickau from 1638 to 1648
- Friederike Caroline Neuber , called: die Neuberin (1697–1760), actress and founder of the new German theater
- Johann Gottfried Weller (1712–1780), superintendent and historian
- Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780), German composer and organist , student of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Friedrich Wilhelm kauffer (1786–1851), councilor at the court of appeal
- Karl August Rüdiger (1793–1869), classical philologist and pedagogue, teacher in Zwickau
- Friedrich Christian Fikentscher (1799–1864), chemist , glass manufacturer, member of the Saxon state parliament
Born in the 19th century
- Robert Blum (1807–1848), German politician , protagonist of the March Revolution of 1848
- Karl Emanuel Klitzsch (1812–1889), composer, organizer of the first and second Schumann festivals in 1847 and 1860
- Hermann Theodor Haustein (1814–1873), German lawyer and politician, member of the Saxon state parliament
- Samuel Schlobig (1816–1887), doctor, founder of the Zwickauer Johannisbad, built in the classical style
- Hermann Rönsch (1821–1888), theologian and linguist
- Lothar Streit (1823–1898), lawyer, mayor, lord mayor, honorary citizen of Zwickau, directed urban development during the early days of the company
- Adolph Temper (1827–1905), German lawyer and politician (NLP), lawyer at the Zwickau Regional Court
- Karl May (1842–1912), writer , inmate from 1865 to 1868 and administrator of the institution library in Osterstein Castle
- Albin Zumpe (1843–1873), architect
- Adolf Lepp (1847–1906), German writer and poet
- Louis Heinrici (1847–1930), German industrialist, inventor and manufacturer
- Fritz von Uhde (1848–1911), Saxon cavalry officer, military attaché and impressionist painter
- Heinrich Heitzig (1849–1905), businessman and city councilor in Zwickau, politician of the National Liberal Party
- Michael Ernst Bär (1855–1923), entrepreneur , businessman and free-spirited politician, member of the Saxon state parliament and city councilor in Zwickau
- Martin Kreisig (1856–1940), educator, founder of the Zwickau Robert Schumann Museum and the Robert Schumann Society, Zwickau honorary citizen
- Ernst Ahnert (1859–1944), important stenographer, including Bismarck's speeches and table discussions and the peace negotiations in Versailles (1919); Ahnert was a student and teacher at the Zwickau secondary school; as a member of the Saxon Stenographic Institute in Dresden (1901–1924), he had a decisive influence on the development of shorthand in Germany.
- Heinrich Braun (1862–1934), professor of surgery at the University of Leipzig , from 1906 head of the royal hospital in Zwickau, protagonist of the functionally and architecturally exemplary new Zwickau hospital, which was opened in Zwickau-Marienthal in 1921 and from 1934 “ Heinrich-Braun -Hospital "was called
- August Hermann Lange (1867–1922), mechanical engineer , senior engineer and operations director at Audi Automobilwerke Zwickau
- August Horch (1868–1951), mechanical engineer, founder of August Horch & Cie Motorwagenwerke Zwickau and Audi Automobilwerke Zwickau
- Hans Soph (1869–1954), German composer, Ore Mountains dialect poet and handicraft porcelain painter
- Otto Clemen (1871–1946), Protestant theologian , educator, historian and librarian , director of the Zwickau council school library
- Salman Schocken (1877–1959), Jewish merchant and publisher , founded the Schocken department stores together with his brother Simon Schocken ( I. Schocken Sons Zwickau )
- Paul Schmidt-Roller (1891–1963), painter, lecturer at the Zwickau School of Painting and Drawing (MuZ), Max Pechstein Prize winner
- Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956) was the museum director in Zwickau from 1925 to 1930
- Erwin Pollini (1899–1988), composer with Jewish roots, from 1935 to 1942 and from 1946 to 1964 director of the Lindenhof Orchestra in Zwickau
- Fritz Fiedler (1899–1972) engine designer (V8 and V12) at Horch
Born in the 20th century
- Robert Eberan von Eberhorst (1902–1982), from 1937 chief designer of the Auto-Union racing department at Horch- Werken, from 1941 professor for automotive engineering and light engine technology at the TH Dresden
- Albert Hennig (1907–1998), German artist from the Bauhaus tradition
- Inge Meysel (1910–2004), German actress, made her debut in Zwickau in 1930 (first performance of Penzoldt's Etienne and Luise )
- Tatjana Lietz (1916–2001), German painter, art teacher, 1998 honorary citizen of the city
- Peter Brückner (1922–1982), German social scientist
- Gerhard Zwerenz (1925–2015), German writer
- Paul Eberhard Kreisel (1931–2011), church musician and composer
- Frieder Gadesmann (1943–2014), Protestant theologian and educationalist
- Günther Fischer (* 1944) is a German jazz pianist , woodwind player, band leader and composer
- Bernd-Lutz Lange (* 1944), German cabaret artist and book author
- Edmund Käbisch (* 1944), German theologian, pastor at the Zwickau Mariendom
- Yo. Harbort (* 1951), German sculptor
- Matthias Eisenberg (* 1956), cantor and organist at the Luther, Moritz and Johanniskirche in Zwickau
- Constanze John (* 1959), German author, collected "Legends from Zwickau" and wrote "Zwickau - A Children's City Guide"
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Zwickau pages ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cf. u. a. The theologian: Thomas Müntzer and the Zwickau prophets: In the footsteps of Christ, followed by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon (online edition No. 10)
- ↑ Hans Sauer: Ernst Ahnert - an important representative of the shorthand movement, and his early years in Zwickau. In: Cygnea. Series of publications by the Zwickau City Archives . Issue 14 (2016), pp. 45–55.
- ↑ Christoph Jünke : A radical left-liberal thinker . In: New Germany . December 5, 2015, ISSN 0323-3375 , p. 18-19 .