List of personalities from the city of Annaberg-Buchholz

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Coat of arms of the city of Annaberg-Buchholz

The list of personalities in the city of Annaberg-Buchholz contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Annaberg-Buchholz and the formerly independent cities of Annaberg and Buchholz. These are personalities who were born in these cities, worked here or were granted honorary citizenship.

Honorary citizen

  • May 13, 1838: Christian Heinrich Schumann (1787–1858), mountain preacher, superintendent, founder of the Annaberg teachers' college
  • November 24, 1858: Theodor Philipp Zürcher (1793–1864), silk dyer, donated 30,000 marks to build the community school on today's Zürcherplatz in Annaberg
  • December 6, 1859: Gustav Heinrich von Biedermann (1789–1862), governor of the Upper Ore Mountains District, member of the 1st Chamber of Estates in Saxony
  • June 15, 1860: Gotthilf Ferdinand Döhner (1790–1864), superintendent of Freiberg, church and school council of the Zwickau district administration, official preacher in Freiberg
  • August 16, 1861: Carl Friedrich Reiche-Eisenstuck (1790–1864), Postmaster, Mayor of Annaberg, Go. Government Council
  • September 11, 1874: Georg Curt von Einsiedel (1823–1887), governor of Annaberg, district chief in Dresden, secret government councilor, department director in the Ministry of the Interior, member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation
  • October 5, 1874: Johann August Gräfe (1801–1876), Chief Master of the Trimmers, City Councilor, City Elder
  • November 9, 1880: Paul Theodor Schröter (1807–1882), trimmings master, city councilor since 1846, city councilor, hospital director
  • September 30, 1892: Moritz Julius Spieß (1820–1897), district school inspector in Annaberg and Chemnitz, local researcher, secondary school teacher, school director in Buchholz, district school board, archdeacon in Pirna, 1st honorary member of the Association for the History of Annaberg and the surrounding area
  • January 31, 1880: Johann August Scheibner (1810–1888), long-time mayor of Annaberg, Member of the State of Saxony (Kingdom of Saxony)
  • October 18, 1892: Gustav Hermann Köselitz (1822–1910), dye works owner and Vice Mayor of Annaberg, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), father of Heinrich Köselitz (Peter Gast) and Rudolf Köselitz
  • April 1, 1895: Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) - von Annaberg and von Buchholz
  • March 1, 1897: Victor Woldemar Laegel (1839–1904), banker at Ferdinand Lipfert Annaberg, city councilor
  • January 11, 1900: Emil Hugo Carl Böhme (1842–1904), lawyer and liberal politician, MdR, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
  • October 29, 1911: Ernst Oswald Schmidt (1839–1919), senior pastor, superintendent of Annaberg, church council
  • December 2, 1911: Bruno Julius August Matthes (1841–1925), businessman, city councilor, head of city council, justice of the peace
  • June 29, 1914: Karl Theodor Wilisch , (1886–1914) Mayor of Annaberg, member of the state parliament
  • March 1, 1922: Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Lipfert (1850–1923), banker, councilor, master of the chair of the Masonic lodge Annaberg
  • December 31, 1923: Ernst Roch (1862–1931), lithographer, city councilor, deputy mayor and Member of the State Parliament
  • November 19, 1928: Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), director of the Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-AG
  • February 17, 1933: Paul von Beneckendorf and von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Reich President, Field Marshal General
  • February 17, 1933: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) (honorary citizenship revoked)
  • September 26, 1958: Walter König (1878–1964) Professor of Color Chemistry and Dyeing Technology, Head of the Institute for Color and Textile Chemistry in Dresden
  • April 15, 1994: Carlfriedrich Claus (1930–1998), graphic artist and philosopher
  • November 11, 1997: Johannes Schönherr , known as Hammerhansel (1921–2007), long-time museum guide in Frohnauer Hammer, well-known Erzgebirge original
  • October 3, 2015: Thomas Fritzsche, Pastor i. R. the Evangelical Methodist community Annaberg-Buchholz
  • June 3, 2017: Arthur Handtmann (1927–2018), entrepreneur and founder of the Handtmann group of companies

sons and daughters of the town

Until 1800

1801 to 1900

From 1901

Other personalities

  • Bruno Berlet (1825–1892), educator and travel writer for the Ore Mountains
  • Carl Böhme (1842–1904), lawyer and liberal politician, MdR, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
  • Leo Bönhoff (1872–1943), pastor in Annaberg, connoisseur and publicist of the history of settlement in the Ore Mountains
  • Karl Wilhelm Bräuer (1830–1914), district veterinarian in Annaberg; earned services in veterinary medicine, introduced the Simmental cattle in the Ore Mountains
  • Lotte Buschan (1917–1994), singer at the Annaberger Theater
  • Ulrich Rülein von Calw (1465–1523), humanist, doctor, mining scientist, mathematician, geodesist and astrologer
  • Karl Crüwell (1845–1899), businessman and national liberal politician, Member of the Bundestag, chairman of the theater building association
  • Hieronymus Dathe (1667–1707), Lutheran theologian
  • Carl Theodor Dietzsch (1819–1857), politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, city councilor in Annaberg
  • Tobias Dressel (1635–1717), organ builder and city judge in Buchholz
  • Adolph Ferdinand Duflos (1802–1889), Prussian Privy Councilor, founder of the Pharmaceutical Institute in Breslau, father of pharmacists
  • Gottfried Fähse (1764–1831), classical philologist and teacher
  • Emil Finck (1856–1922), senior teacher, founder and first director of the Antiquities and Ore Mountains Museum, savior of the Frohnau hammer.
  • Gustav Moritz Franz (1816–1899), first rector of the royal Saxon teachers' college and superintendent, co-editor of the Protestant national hymn book
  • George the Bearded (1471–1539), Duke, founder of the city of Annaberg
  • Nina Hagen (* 1955), singer, actress; spent her childhood here as her mother was "banned" from Berlin
  • Heinrich Harms zum Spreckel (1874–1931), physician and local researcher
  • Hermann Theodor Haustein (1814–1873), lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
  • Jacob Haylmann (around 1475 - 1525) in Annaberg, master builder; completed the St. Anne's Church
  • Hans Hesse , (verifiable between 1497 and 1539), important late Gothic painter; created the famous picture on the back of the mountain altar (around 1520) in St. Anne's Church, the Wolfgang altar in Buchholz and the altarpiece by Arnsfeld
  • Antonius Heusler (1500 - around 1561), Renaissance painter in Annaberg, Schumann's epitaph - the first pictorial representation of St. Anne's Church
  • Nikolaus Jagenteufel (1526–1583), superintendent in Annaberg
  • Heinrich Theodor Koch (1822–1898), lawyer and mayor in Buchholz, MdR, MdL
  • Anton Kohl (1886–1967), director, 1933/34 director of the Grenzlandtheater Obererzgebirge
  • Toni Koy (1896–1990), goldsmith, artist in the processing of amber, her works are represented in important museums, Toni Koy lived and worked from 1945 to 1990 in Annaberg-Buchholz. She died on June 14, 1990 in a nursing home in Annaberg-Buchholz.
  • Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch (1772–1834), was superintendent from 1816 to 1834 in Annaberg
  • Karl Martin (1893–?), Politician (NSDAP), MdR, city councilor, deputy mayor, local group and sub-district leader
  • Ludwig Günther Martini (1647–1719), from 1677 lawyer, lawyer and mayor in Annaberg
  • Christian Meltzer (1655–1733), was pastor in Buchholz for forty-six years and wrote an important Buchholz chronicle
  • Rudolf Nicolai (1885–1970), reform pedagogue, creator and long-time chairman of the German school camp movement.
  • Martin Pansa (1580–1626), city doctor in Annaberg
  • Johann Heinrich Conrad Querfurth (1747–1817), businessman, senator and mayor of Annaberg
  • Kilian Rebentrost (1582–1661), Lutheran clergyman and preacher on the mount in Annaberg
  • Adam Ries (1492–1552), mining official, arithmetic master ("after Adam Riese") and Cossist
  • Johannes Rivius (1500–1553), educator and theologian; worked as a teacher in Annaberg, among others
  • Moritz Heinrich Rosenhauer (1803–1888), Protestant pastor (1856–1880 in Buchholz) and politician
  • Christian Friedrich Schubert (1808–1874), politician
  • Ernst Schwerdtner (1845–1923), high school councilor and director of the teachers' college in Annaberg
  • Adam Siber (1516–1584), humanist and educator
  • Steffen Siebert (* 1974), former German ski jumper
  • Jürgen Stabe (1938–2015), theologian, superintendent of the Ephorie Annaberg-Buchholz
  • Richard Truckenbrodt (1887–1961), ethnologist and high school teacher
  • Wolfgang Uhle (around 1510 - 1594), plague pastor in Annaberg
  • Walter Uhlig (1925–2006), singer (tenor) at the Annaberger Theater
  • Helmut Unger (1923–2016), local history researcher
  • Werner Vogelsang (1895–1947), NSDAP district leader
  • Ernst Voigt (1845–1886), lawyer and politician (NLP), Mayor of Annaberg, MdL Kingdom of Saxony
  • Emil Richard Wagner (1871–1950), composer, church music director in Buchholz
  • Volkmar Weiss (* 1944), geneticist, social historian and genealogist; lived in Annaberg throughout his school years until he graduated from high school

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on Christian Heinrich Schumann in Stadtwiki Dresden
  2. ↑ Bettina Müller: Works by Toni Koy, goldsmith in Königsberg - with picture gallery - - Portal Ahnenspuren. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .