List of personalities from the city of Ústí nad Labem

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Coat of arms of the city of Ústí nad Labem

This list includes people born in Ústí nad Labem / Aussig as well as those who worked in the city but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Ústí nad Labem (Aussig). They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Ústí nad Labem (Aussig) is irrelevant here.

To 1900

1901 to 1950

From 1951

Worked in place

  • Franz Allers (1905–1995), theater conductor from 1933 to 1938
  • Maria Andergast (1912–1995), German actress
  • Jiří Bartoška (* 1947), Czech actor, performed in the local theater for a long time
  • Rúni Brattaberg (* 1966), Faroese opera singer
  • Friedrich Burmeister (1888–1968), Minister for Post and Telecommunications in the GDR
  • Ernst Gustav Doerell (1832–1877), in Aussig since 1860; Romantic painter
  • Pavel Dostál (1943–2005), Czech politician and Minister of Culture of the country from 1998 until his death
  • Willibald Gatter (1896–1973), Sudeten German automotive engineer and manufacturer, temporarily active in aircraft construction, politician; Designer of the gate car, the first real "people's car"
  • Gustav Haensel (1841–1923), entrepreneur, city councilor and honorary citizen of Pirna
  • Emil Juliš (1920–2006), Czech poet and artist
  • James Krüss (1926–1997), German poet and writer
  • Heinrich Lumpe , founder of the "Nature and Bird Protection Park" in Krásné Březno (Schönpriesen)
  • Bohumil Němeček (1938-2010), boxer, 1960 Olympic light welterweight champion, 1967 European welterweight champion
  • Vladimír Páral (* 1932), one of the most successful contemporary Czech writers
  • Ignaz Petschek (1857–1934), entrepreneur and patron
  • Leopold Pölzl , dissident and mayor of the city
  • Josef Reiner (1863–1931), painter
  • Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German Romantic painter
  • Martin Scherber (1907–1974), German music teacher and composer
  • Christoph Schindler (clergyman) (1596–1669), German lawyer and clergyman, local deacon
  • Gretl Schörg (1914–2006), Austrian operetta singer and actress
  • Adalbert Seifriz (1902–1990), German politician (CDU / West)
  • Rita Streich (1920–1987), one of the most important German coloratura sopranos of the post-war period
  • Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944), composer, conductor and pianist
  • Franz Josef Umlauft (1883–1960), head of the Aussig City Archives since 1920, district curator at the National Monument Protection Office since 1922, founder of the "Central Office for Sudeten German Family Research", founder of the "German Association for Homeland Research and Homeland Education in the Czechoslovak Republic"