List of personalities of the city of Bautzen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of the city of Bautzen

The following personalities are connected to the city ​​of Bautzen .

sons and daughters of the town

Until 1800

1801 to 1900

From 1901

Also:

  • Silbermond band members
    • Stefanie Kloß (* 1984), singer
    • Andreas Nowak (* 1982), drummer
    • Johannes Stolle (* 1982), bassist
    • Thomas Stolle (* 1983), guitarist

Other personalities associated with the city

The bailiffs of Upper Lusatia had their official seat on the Ortenburg and administered the Upper Lusatia from there .

The noble family Baudissin is named after the city of Bautzen.

For prominent prisoners in Bautzen prisons, see Bautzen I and Bautzen II .

The following people also lived, worked or died in Bautzen for a while:

  • Karl Benjamin Acoluth (1726–1800), lawyer and writer
  • Alvin Anger (1859–1924), architect (including Bremen City Library, 1893), professor of shadow theory, perspective and architecture at the Dresden School of Applied Arts (1911: New Textbook of Perspective ), lived in the health resort Hartha ; Architect of the "Villa Weigang" in Bautzen in 1902/03
  • Peter Bamm (Curt Emmerich), 1897–1975, native Rhinelander, ship's doctor and writer; was a high school student in Bautzen from 1905 to 1914. His book The Invisible Flag was one of the bestsellers on the German book market during the post-war years.
  • Jurij Brězan (1916–2006), Sorbian writer, attended grammar school in Bautzen (today Philipp Melanchthon grammar school) from 1928, essential sections of his novel “Der Gymnasiast” report on his school days in the district town; lived in Bautzen's Westvorstadt for a long time
  • Matthäus Crocinus (1580–1654), painter, Bohemian exile
  • Gottfried Finckelthaus (1614–1648), Baroque songwriter, died in Bautzen
  • Johannes Franke (1545–1617), doctor and early botanist, spent the last years of his life in Bautzen
  • Johann Gottlieb Frenzel (1715–1780), lawyer, historian and philosopher
  • Arndt Ginzel (* 1972), journalist, grew up in Bautzen
  • Gunzelin von Kuckenburg (965-1017), Margrave of Meissen; participated in the siege of Budusin Castle and prevented the city from burning down
  • Hermann I. (Meißen) , 1007-1038 Count in Bautzen, Margrave of Meißen, Margrave of Upper Lusatia, Count in Hassegau
  • Lutz Hillmann (* 1959), actor, director and director of the German-Sorbian People's Theater
  • Artur Immisch (1902–1949), pianist and composer
  • Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), first German in space; studied for four years at the Bautzen Officers College , a branch of the Officers College in Kamenz
  • Judith of Bohemia (1070–1108), daughter of King Vratislav II of Bohemia; died in Bautzen
  • Detlef Kobjela (1944-2018), Sorbian composer
  • Friedrich Krause-Osten (1884–1966), painter, lived in Bautzen from 1923 to 1966
  • Volker Kreß (* 1939), Superintendent in Bautzen from 1979 to 1989, from 1994 to 2004 Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Lutheran Church. Regional Church of Saxony
  • Johann Kreuter (around 1549–1599), painter
  • Petrus Legge (1882–1951), Bishop of the Diocese of Meissen
  • Johann Leisentrit (1527–1586) Apostolic Administrator of Upper Lusatia, hymn book editor, keeper of Catholicism in Lusatia after the Reformation
  • Pawoł Nedo ; (Eng. Paul Nedo) (1908–1984), educator and ethnologist of Sorbian nationality, school councilor in Bautzen and chairman of the Domowina
  • Paulus Niavis (1460–1514), humanist, educator, writer
  • Friedrich Olbricht (1888–1944), involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler, attended the Bautzener Gymnasium (today Philipp-Melanchthon-Gymnasium) until 1907
  • Johann Samuel Petri (1738–1808), cantor and composer
  • Wilhelm von Polenz (1861–1903), poet, novelist and novelist
  • Christian Wilhelm Pöppelmann (1701–1782), Chief Postmaster in Dresden (1729–34) and Bautzen (1734–81)
  • Leopold Schefer (1784–1862), poet and composer
  • Karl Gottfried Siebelis (1769–1843), classical philologist and teacher; Rector of the Bautzener Gymnasium (today Philipp-Melanchthon-Gymnasium)
  • Artur Speck (1877–1960), civil engineer; significantly involved in the planning and construction of the Kronprinzenbrücke
  • Agnes Stavenhagen (1860–1945), soprano and chamber singer ; died in Bautzen-Westvorstadt (Seidau)
  • Horst Weisse (1919–1993), wood carver, sculptor and poet; worked in and for Bautzen from 1960 until the end of his life
  • Johann Gottfried Zeiske (1686–1756), educator

Honorary citizen of the city of Bautzen

The city of Bautzen has granted the following people honorary citizenship.

  • 1895: Hermann von Salza and Lichtenau (1829–1915), baron, district chief of Bautzen
  • 1895: Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
  • Gertrud Bobek (1898–2000), politician (KPD / SED), former state secretary and deputy GDR minister for popular education 1954 to 1958, honorary citizenship expired
  • 2002: Helga Schwarz, music teacher, choir director and committed citizen
  • 2002: Siegfried Seifert (1936–2013), former head of the Bautzen Cathedral Treasury and committed citizen
  • 2006: Herbert Flügel , local researcher, author (“Dogebliebm und oagepackt, poems of an Upper Lusatian”) and committed citizen
  • 2007: Jan Buck (1922–2019), an important contemporary Sorbian painter with 40 years of focus in Bautzen
  • 2019: Christian Schramm (* 1952), longtime mayor and lord mayor of Bautzen

See also

swell

  • Bautzen city archive: From Budissin to Bautzen, Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2002, ISBN 3-929091-91-7