List of personalities of the city of Auerbach / Vogtl.
The list of personalities in the city of Auerbach / Vogtl. contains people who were involved in the history of the city of Auerbach / Vogtl. have played a sustainable role. These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the Auerbach / Vogtl. incorporated localities see also the corresponding local article.
Honorary citizen
- April 1, 1895 Prince Otto von Bismarck
- Günter Fischer (1943–2018), musician ( simultaneous )
sons and daughters of the town
- Johannes Förster (1576–1613), Lutheran theologian
- Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann (1789–1848), educator who served as a volunteer in the Lützow Freikorps during the Wars of Independence in 1813
- Carl Gotthelf Todt (1803–1852), politician, member of the provisional Saxon government in 1849
- Willmar Schwabe (1839–1917), pharmacist, promoter of homeopathy and founder of a pharmaceutical company
- Karl von Kirchbach (1847–1929), Royal Saxon Privy Councilor and General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways, cathedral dean in Meißen
- Hans von Kirchbach (1849–1928), Saxon Colonel General
- Maximilian Nößler (1860–1922), merchant and consul for Japan
- Ewald Meltzer (1869–1940), physician
- Arno Drescher (1882–1971), painter, graphic artist and typographer
- Ernst Schädlich (1884–1949), politician (SPD)
- Kurt Mende (1907–1944), politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
- Kurt Zimmermann (1909–1983), Head of Department XVI of the Ministry for State Security, which is responsible for guarding prisons
- Gottfried Neeße (1911–1987), legal scholar
- Dieter Matthes (1919–2012), biologist and zoologist
- Werner Berthold (1921–2017), librarian and Germanist
- Alexander Pestel (1925–2013), director at RIAS Berlin
- Gerhard Baumgärtel (1931–1997), politician, Lord Mayor of Weimar and Minister for Construction and Housing, born in Reumtengrün
- Karl-Wolfgang Tröger (* 1932), Protestant theologian and religious scholar
- Gert-Dietmar Klause (* 1945 in Reumtengrün), cross-country skier
- Peter Müller (* 1946), football player in the GDR league
- Clemens M. Strugalla (* 1950), sculptor
- Jürgen Petzold (* 1953), Member of the State Parliament (CDU)
Personalities who have worked in the place
- Friedrich Eduard Eule (1831–1910), lawyer and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Edmund Michael (1849–1920), teacher and mushroom expert
- Alfred Müller (folklorist) (1854–1935), secondary school director, author and folklorist
- Arno Hecht (1932–2014), pathologist, retired in Auerbach
- Karl-Heinz Bernhardt (* 1935), geophysicist, professor of meteorology, president of the Meteorological Society of the GDR from 1982 to 1990, Abitur in Auerbach 1953
- Johannes Graupner , Lord Mayor (CDU) of Auerbach from 1990 to 2008
- Manfred Deckert (* 1961), winner of the Four Hills Tournament and Lord Mayor of Auerbach