List of personalities of the city of Bischofswerda

The list of personalities of the city of Bischofswerda contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Bischofswerda . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Bischofswerda see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

1891: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
1911: Heinrich Gräfe (1857–1917), wine wholesaler, head of city council and anti-Semitic member of the Reichstag 1893–1917
August 6, 1917: Ernst Richard Huste (1856–1926), businessman and city councilor

sons and daughters of the town

Christian Adolph Klotz, around 1770

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, around 1780

Arthur Biram, 1928

Carmen Rohrbach, 2013

Georg Winckler († 1527), reformer and hymn poet
Christian Heckel († 1705), etcher and engraver, chronicler
Christian Heckel (1676–1744), teacher and organist, musician, poet and publisher
Christian Adolph Klotz (1738–1771), philologist
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740–1792), Protestant theologian and writer in the Age of Enlightenment
Georg Fesser (1741–1792), court pharmacist
Benjamin Ferdinand Herrmann (1757–1837), Lutheran clergyman in Markersdorf
Friedrich August Süßmilch (1770–1854), magistrate
Robert Heller (1812–1871), writer
Walther Hesse (1846–1911), physician and microbiologist
Max Neumeister (1849–1929), born in Kleindrebnitz, director of the Tharandt Forestry Academy
Friedrich Louis Hesse (1849–1906), dentist
Heinrich Gräfe (1857–1917), flower manufacturer, wine merchant and member of the German Reichstag
Johannes Fürchtegott Pache (1857–1897), composer, conductor and cantor of international repute
Carl Bruno Max Steglich (1857–1929), born in Kleindrebnitz, agricultural scientist
Hermann Friedrich Vetter (1859–1928), born in Großdrebnitz, pianist and music teacher
Max Kumbier (1867–1937), ministerial official
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt (1875–1941), author of the Grail Message: In the light of the truth on which the Grail Movement is based. He was a self-proclaimed messiah.
Hans Volkmann (1875–1946), musicologist and teacher
Arthur Biram (1878–1967), Israeli philosopher, philologist and educator, founder and first director of the Reali-Schule in Haifa
Walther Hille (1894–1945), lawyer, police officer and SS leader
Margaret Leischner (1907–1970), textile designer and university professor
Hans Kettner (1919–2011), politician (SPD) and district mayor of Schöneberg
Dietrich Zühlke (1925–1983), geographer
Günther Wyschofsky (* 1929), economic functionary, longstanding Minister for the Chemical Industry of the GDR
Theodor Seidel (* 1931), lawyer, presiding judge at the Berlin Regional Court
Friedrich Reinhard Schmidt (* 1937), engineer and philosopher, rector of the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences 1990–2000
Ulrich Griebel (* 1942), dramaturge and radio play author
Kurt Neumann (* 1945), politician (SPD / PDS / Die Linke)
Carmen Rohrbach (* 1948), biologist and travel writer
Frank Hocker (* 1956), guitarist and singer
Lutz Hillmann (* 1959), theater actor, director and director
Ulrich Oehme (* 1960), insurance broker and politician (AfD)
Andreas Erler (* 1961), politician (CDU)

Personalities related to Bischofswerda

Benno von Meißen (1010–1106), Bishop of Meißen
Frank Fiedler (1930–2018), teacher and local history researcher
Hanns Georgi (1901–1989), painter, head of a teacher training institute
Carl August Lohse (1895–1965), an important painter of German Expressionism after the First World War
Karl Wilhelm Mittag (1813–1864), city chronicler
Hellmuth Muntschick (1910–1943), expressionist woodcut artist and painter
Michael Pusch († 1657), archdeacon and historian
Christian Richter (1625–1684), master builder and councilor mason
Osmar Schindler (1867–1927), painter, professor at the Dresden Art Academy
Karl Hermann Steudtner (1855–1940), teacher and local researcher
Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer (1775–1842), court architect, led the reconstruction after the town fire of 1813

Individual evidence

↑ The life data of Christian Heckel after the entry in the Saxon biography
↑ Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 158.
↑ Georg Fesser's life data after the entry in the Saxon biography
↑ Friedrich August Süßmilch , b. on August 19, 1770, died on May 3, 1854. , pp. 121-138, in: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin . Volume 32. Edited by CG Th. Neumann. Görlitz 1855: self-published by the company and commissioned by the bookstore of G. Heinze & Comp. ( Nekrolog in Google Book Search)
↑ Residential and commercial building with a green inner courtyard in the center of Bischofswerda (cultural monument) Address: Pfarrgasse 8
^ Wikisource: Michael Pusch ; GND 10421936X ; Publications by and about Michael Pusch in VD 17 .
↑ On the 150th birthday of Karl Hermann Steudtner (1855–1940)

[1] The life data of Christian Heckel after the entry in the Saxon biography

[WdH|40|158-2] Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, p. 158.

[3] Georg Fesser's life data after the entry in the Saxon biography

[4] Friedrich August Süßmilch , b. on August 19, 1770, died on May 3, 1854. , pp. 121-138, in: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin . Volume 32. Edited by CG Th. Neumann. Görlitz 1855: self-published by the company and commissioned by the bookstore of G. Heinze & Comp. ( Nekrolog in Google Book Search)

[5] Residential and commercial building with a green inner courtyard in the center of Bischofswerda (cultural monument) Address: Pfarrgasse 8

[6] Wikisource: Michael Pusch ; GND 10421936X ; Publications by and about Michael Pusch in VD 17 .

[7] On the 150th birthday of Karl Hermann Steudtner (1855–1940)