List of personalities of the city of Žatec

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Coat of arms of the city of Žatec (German Saaz )

The list of personalities from the town of Žatec in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the town of Žatec ( Saaz in German ). These are personalities who have been honorary citizens or mayors, were born here or have worked here.

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Žatec (Saaz). Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Žatec is irrelevant.

Personalities of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period

  • Paulus de Zaacz (also Paul Žateczky), Czech Pavel ze Žatce (* around 1450–1517), theologian, rector of Charles University in Prague and administrator of the utraquist church from 1500 to 1517
  • Wilhelm Illing (1648–?), Jesuit priest, missionary in Mexico
  • Johann Karl Vetter (* around 1690–1742), sculptor in Saaz, see [1]
  • Franz Müller (1695–1753), royal court painter in Prague
  • Franz Kermer (around 1710–1786), Bohemian builder
  • Franz Dietelbach, (1722–1790), porcelain painter (enamel painter)
  • Josef Kohaut (1738–1777 [?]), Composer and lutenist
  • Karel Rafael Ungar (1744–1807), priest and literary historian

19th century personalities

Karl Fanta
Franz Max Broudre

20th century personalities

  • Anton Gnirs (1873–1933), archaeologist, prehistorian and monument conservator
  • Otto Th. W. Stein (1877–1958), draftsman and painter
  • Wilhelm Wostry (1877–1951), historian
  • Leo Baerwald (1883–1970), rabbi
  • Karl Lehrmann (1887–1957), architect and university professor
  • Otto Stein (1893–1942), Indologist and ancient historian
  • Rudolf Quoika (1897–1972), musicologist
  • Julius Gellner (1899–1983), director, was senior theater director and deputy director of the Münchner Kammerspiele in the Schauspielhaus from 1924 to 1933
  • Adolf Strauss (1902–1944), composer
  • Karl Souradny (1904–1973), architect who gained importance in the GDR through his work on Stalinallee and its sports buildings
  • Maria Treben (1907–1991), alternative medicine
  • Josef Rabas (1908–2003), Roman Catholic priest, papal honorary prelate , professor of religious education
  • Karel Reiner (1910–1979), composer
  • Helmut Slapnicka (1916–2006), lawyer, university professor for Eastern European constitutional law in Graz and Vienna, as a legal historian member of the Collegium Carolinum (institute), research center for the history of the Bohemian countries in Munich, specialist journalist
  • Peter Eduard Glaser (1923–2014), American scientist and aerospace engineer
  • Karl Zeidler (1923–1962), lawyer, professor of constitutional and administrative law
  • Wolfgang Kaunzner (1928–2017), mathematician
  • Walter Krüttner (* 1929), filmmaker, screenwriter and with his company Cineropa-Filmproduktion, producer
  • Werner Nachtigall (* 1934), zoologist and biologist
  • Ingemar König (* 1938), ancient historian
  • Reiner Künzl (* 1938), veterinarian, as a medical officer veterinarian in the Bundeswehr
  • Franz Zeithammer (1939–2019), trade fair, tourism and culture manager
  • Peter Dietl (1941–1999), politician (SED / Linke Liste-PDS), was a member of the Thuringian state parliament in the 1st electoral term 1990–1994 and the 2nd electoral term 1994–1999 and deputy chairman of the parliamentary group
  • Walter Cikan (* 1944), music producer and music therapist
  • Andreas Kalckhoff (* 1944), historian and publicist
  • Sigrun Paas (* 1944), art historian
  • Harald Rauchfuss (* 1945), poet doctor
  • Petr Kotvald (* 1959), singer
  • Mirek Kaufman (* 1963), painter
  • Jan Svěrák (* 1965), film director, actor and screenwriter

People connected to the city

Memorial stele for Johannes von Saaz in the monastery garden
  • Johannes von Saaz , worked here from around 1373 as town clerk , notary and ( school principal ), later as protonotary in the New Town of Prague. In 1401 he wrote one of the most important German-language prose poems of the late Middle Ages: Der Ackermann von Böhmen . In October 2011, a memorial stele with a portrait bust of Johannes von Saaz was erected in the monastery garden (Capuchin Garden) .
  • Maxmilián Hošťálek z Javořice (Maximilian Hostalek von Javorice) (1564–1621), Czech politician and mayor of Saaz since 1610, sentenced to death as a participant in the Estates uprising in Prague and publicly executed on June 21, 1621 in the Old Town Square in Prague.
  • Peter Ritter von Schönfeld (1784–1857), publisher and printer in Saaz, the first printing company in the Saaz district , 1826 owner of a bookshop, 1830 a lending library, 1839–1845 publisher of the first periodical publication, the Allgemeine Anzeiger der k. District town of Saaz
  • Franz Bruder (Broudre) (1786–1861), co-founder of the hop growing association, property owner, founder as well as captain and commander of the rifle house, owner of the “Goldener Engel” inn in Saaz
  • Hubert Titlbach (1813–1890), physician, mayor of the city of Saaz and member of the state parliament
  • Theodor Karl Hassmann (1825–1894), lawyer and politician, was a member of the Bohemian Landtag and the Imperial Council and mayor of Saaz
  • Adolf Seifert (1826–1910), as a doctor and local researcher, he was one of the founders of the Saaz Hop Association. In the 1870s he was an influential member of the Liberal Party in Saaz local politics. As an archivist, he headed the Saaz City Archives from 1903 to 1905 and wrote several books on the city's history.
  • Abraham Salomon Frank (1838–1917), rabbi in Saaz from 1867 to 1872
  • Franz Max Broudre (1852–1907) JUDr., Lawyer, deputy mayor, district chairman (local politician), in 1907 the city park was named after him: Dr. Broudre Park
  • Eduard Glaser (1855–1908), explorer, orientalist and archaeologist, member of the Jewish community in Saaz
  • Hermann Josef Schneider (1862–1921), composer, conductor and music publisher, who became known for his march compositions, died in Saaz
  • Anton Karl Wüst (1863–1932), politician of the German National Party (DnP), died in Saaz
  • Ludwig Engl (1872–1936), teacher, curator and chronicler of the city of Saaz from 1914 to 1936, his collection is in the Natural History Museum in Vienna .
  • Rudolf Dietl (1892–1976), politician (NSDAP), citizen school teacher in Saaz
  • Johann Hoffmann (1908–1974), football player, played for DSV Saaz from 1932

mayor

Wenceslaus Kopřiwa, Mayor of Saaz and honorary citizen of the city
  • Nikolaus Artemisius (Czernobyl) († February 24, 1556), Primate of Saaz 1528 to 1531
  • Johann Woczehaur († 1563), Primate 1533
  • Wenzel Arpin von Dorndorf († February 1, 1583), primate from 1564 to 1573
  • Paulus Horaždowinus († 1588), Primate 1573 to 1581 and 1585 to 1588
  • Johann Nepressius († 1612), primate from 1607 to 1609
  • Maxmilián Hošťálek z Javořice (1564–1621), primator from 1609 to 1618 and 1620 to 1621
  • Johann Przibramsky von Palmfels († 1646), primator from 1632 to 1636
  • Johann Georg Pock von Palmfels († August 20, 1676), primator from 1649 to 1653
  • Adam Konias († November 7, 1676), primator from 1664 to 1672
  • Wilhelm Campanus (1615–1676), primator from 1673 to 1675
  • Johann Daniel Nathaniel Nahliczek († January 3, 1691), primator from 1675 to 1679
  • Johann Karl Hoßmann von Mannsfeld († February 10, 1708), primator from 1680 to 1708
  • Georg Ernst Anton Schaffer († February 12, 1712), primator from 1708 to 1712
  • Mathias Friedrich Rebitzer († February 11, 1742), 1709–1712 Syndicus, 1712–1738 primate, 1737–1742 royal judge and imperial drink tax collector, 1742 senior senator
  • Johann Ferdinand Kujer († 1753), primator from 1737 to 1742
  • Karl Ungar († December 22, 1764), primator from 1760 to 1764
  • Johann Josef Pecelius († February 17, 1770), senator from 1739 to 1764 and primator from 1764 to 1770
  • Franz Karl Schickedantz († January 27, 1803), primator from 1772 to 1787
  • Joseph Hermann (1739–1819) from 1803 to 1816
  • Wenceslaus Kopřiwa (1781–1838) from 1816 to 1828
  • Josef Hoffmann from 1828 to 1840
  • Josef Adam († December 10, 1861) from 1840 to 1845
  • Franz Gellinek († September 27, 1887) from 1845 to 1850
  • Karl Petrowitz († September 9, 1869) from 1850 to 1855
  • Theodor Ritter von Schönfeld (1816–1879) from 1855 to 1861 and 1876 to 1879
  • Theodor Hassmann (1825–1894) from 1861 to 1876
  • Hubert Titlbach (1813–1890) from 1879 to 1887
  • Constantin Ritter von Schönfeld (1844–1921) from 1887 to 1898
  • Karl Wostry (1853–1929) from 1900 to 1918
  • Anton Musch (1879–1932) from 1918
  • Rudolf von Schönfeld (1876–1940) from 1924 to 1938
  • Alois Kaiser (1894–1986) from 1938 to 1942
  • Erich Knoblauch from 2007 to 2010
  • Zdeňka Hamousová since 2010

literature

  • Wenzel Katzerowsky: The primators of the city of Saaz . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in the Sudetenland . Volume 10, Prague 1872, pp. 37-43 and pp. 66-74.
  • Wenzel Katzerowsky: Necrology of the city of Saaz from 1500–1887 . Saaz 1888.
  • Karl Tutte: The political district of Saaz . Saaz 1904, p. 627.
  • Adolf Seifert: The city of Saaz in the 19th century . Saaz 1902, p. 387.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calendar of the Aussiger Region (Czech) accessed on August 1, 2015
  2. ↑ BLKÖ Müller, Franz accessed on January 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Rathay biography ( memento of October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ The East was his concern - Prelate Rabes (PDF) accessed on January 23, 2016
  5. ^ Helmut Slapnicka in the German biography
  6. ^ Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected persons from the former government district of Eger. Volume 2. Bayreuth 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 205 with titles of the works and other literature
  7. ^ Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected persons from the former government district of Eger. Volume 2 Männedorf / ZH 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , p. 339
  8. ↑ Peter Ritter von Schönfeld: Allgemeine Anzeiger der k. Saaz district town, 1839, No. 1 , accessed on December 4, 2015.
  9. ^ Rifle house in Saaz - Regional Museum Žatec (Czech) accessed on May 2, 2017
  10. ↑ Ludwig Engl - Regional Museum Žatec (Czech) accessed on September 20, 2015
  11. ↑ digi.landesbibliothek.at Die Juden und Judengemeinden in Böhmen, p. 579 ff.
  12. ↑ according to the entry in the death register of Saaz February 1742
  13. ↑ according to death register entry Saaz Februario 1770
  14. ^ Elisabeth Lebensaft, Ch. Mentschl:  Schönfeld, Rudolf von (1876–1940), politician and officer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 78.