List of personalities of the city of Bad Schmiedeberg

The list of personalities of the city of Bad Schmiedeberg contains people who played a lasting role in the history of the city of Bad Schmiedeberg (until 1925: Schmiedeberg ) in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt . These are personalities who are honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Bad Schmiedeberg and the incorporated localities and today's districts.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bad Schmiedeberg, see the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

• 2009: Siegfried Scholz, retired spa director D.

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Bad Schmiedeberg or the incorporated localities or today's districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Bad Schmiedeberg is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

• Johann Hildebrand, also Hildebrandt (1614–1684), composer and writer, born in Pretzsch
• Johann Nicolaus Anton (1737–1813), Lutheran theologian

19th century personalities

Friedrich Wieck (around 1830)

• Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873), musician and music teacher and father of the pianist Clara Schumann , born in Pretzsch
• Franz Spitzner (1787–1841), classical philologist and teacher, born in Trebitz
• Friedrich Meurer (1792–1866), pharmacologist and physician, born in Pretzsch
• Moritz Meurer (1806–1877), Lutheran theologian and church historian, born in Pretzsch
• Ottilia Ludwig (1813–1900), writer, born in Söllichau
• Julius Wilhelm Otto Richter , pseudonym: Otto von Golmen (1839–1924), educator. As a high school teacher in Eisleben, Fürstenwalde, Wriezen and most recently in Berlin, he wrote numerous non-fiction books for school and home and several historical novels. He was born in Pretzsch.
• Karl Theodor Müller (1840–1909), hydraulic engineer and most recently Rheinstrom construction director, born in Pretzsch
• Emil Zschimmer (1842–1917), landscape painter, "Painter of the Düben Heath", born in Großwig, ​​a street was named after him

20th century personalities

• Ernst Theumer (1890–1978), Austrian politician ( SPÖ )
• Paul Opitz (1897 – after 1967), civil servant
• Otto-Friedrich Gandert (1898–1983), classical scholar, born in Söllichau
• Hanns Gläser (1903–1977), forest scientist, born in Söllichau
• Heinrich Schütz (1906–1986), concentration camp doctor
• Wolfgang Köppe (1926–2018), artist
• Hubert Matthes (1929–2018), landscape architect, born in Söllichau
• Jörg Damme (* 1959), marksman, born in Pretzsch
• Karsten Polky (* 1964), wrestler

Personalities who died in the city

Eleanor of Saxony-Eisenach (1692)

Richard Schumann (1856)

• Bernhard von Miltitz (around 1570–1626), military, traveler and diplomat, died in Pretzsch
• Wolff Christoph von Arnim (1607–1668), chamberlain of the Electorate of Saxony, secret and war council and lieutenant general. He was the governor of Leipzig and Grimma, supreme commander of the fortresses of Pleißenburg and Wittenberg, and died in Pretzsch
• Georg David Ziegra (1653–1724), Protestant theologian
• Eleonore Erdmuthe L (o) uise v. Saxony-Eisenach, related Margravine v. Brandenburg-Ansbach (1662–1696), 1662/64 Electress v. Saxony, died in Pretzsch Castle
• Christiane Eberhardine von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671–1727), Electress of Saxony and from 1697 titular queen of Poland, is in the city church “St. Nicholas ”buried
• Johann Ernst Spitzner (1731–1805), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, economist and beekeeper, died in Trebitz
• Richard Schumann (1837–1897), Protestant clergyman and parliamentarian

Personalities associated with the city

• Hans Heinrich von Bräuneck (1684–1743), royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain and hunting squire as well as chief forest master in Torgau and game master in Söllichau
• Oskar Benecke (1874–1957 / 60), local history researcher and local chronicle, nature conservationist and archive manager, from 1914 to 1936 primary school principal in Bad Schmiedeberg
• Otto Karstädt (1876–1947), school theorist, from 1909 to 1913 elementary school principal in Bad Schmiedeberg
• Eduard Alfred Lehmann-Wittenberg (1889–1952), painter, worked in Bad Schmiedeberg
• Erwin Strittmatter (1912–1994), writer, worked in a baker's shop in Pretzsch in the 1930s
• Heinz Grahneis (1915–2007), a doctor, set up the first medical center in Bad Schmiedeberg
• Johannes Kwaschik (* 1948), theologian and politician (SPD), pastor in Bad Schmiedeberg from 1979 to 1986 and Lord Mayor of Schwerin from 1990 to 2002
• Jens Büchner (1969–2018), pop singer, lived in Bad Schmiedeberg