List of personalities of the city of Chemnitz

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Coat of arms of the city of Chemnitz

This is a list of personalities from the city of Chemnitz .

sons and daughters of the town

The following overview contains people who were born within the city area of ​​Chemnitz (in its current extent):

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Honorary citizen

The following overview contains people who have received honorary citizenship from the city of Chemnitz . The list is based on the date of award; before 1945 the list is still incomplete.

  • Peter Otto Clauß (1787–1872), owner of a calico printing plant in Chemnitz, politician, Member of the State of Saxony (Kingdom of Saxony),
  • Christian Friedrich Wehner (1775–1862), Mayor of Chemnitz
  • Jacob Georg Bodemer (1807–1888), Zschopau spinning mill owner and library donor
  • Léonçe von Könneritz (1835–1890), manor owner, lawyer and politician, Saxon finance minister
  • Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
  • Johann von Zimmermann (1820–1901), locksmith, factory manager, inventor and entrepreneur, founder of the German machine tool industry
  • 1877: Robert Vetters (1825–1895), city councilor and mayor of Chemnitz
  • 1880: Rudolph Stadler (1825–1906), city councilor and mayor of Chemnitz
  • 1906: Anton Ohorn (1846–1924), councilor, teacher, poet and writer
  • 1907: Heinrich Gustav Beck (1854–1933), Lord Mayor of Chemnitz, Saxon Minister of Culture and Chairman of the Saxon Ministry as a whole
  • 1911: Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1841–1917), textile entrepreneur in Lunzenau, patron of the arts, secret councilor of commerce
  • 1930, March 10: Johannes Huebschmann (1867–1930), lawyer, politician and from 1917 to 1930 Lord Mayor of Chemnitz
  • 1933: Adolf Hitler , Reich Chancellor
  • 1946, November 21: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884–1976), painter and graphic artist
  • 1949, April 13: Richard Scheibe (1879–1964), sculptor
  • 1950, August 29: Martha Schrag (1870–1957), painter and graphic artist
  • 1961, October 9: Anastas Hovhannessi Mikojan (1895–1978), First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
  • 1971, April 27th: Semyon Nikolayevich Voloschtschuk , General Secretary of the SDAG WISMUT
  • 1974, August 29: Max Müller (1899–1977), retired Lord Mayor D.
  • 1974, October 4th: Nikolai Wassilijewitsch Bannikow , First Secretary of the Irkutsk Regional Committee
  • 1976, January 22: Hans Riesner (1902–1976), City School Councilor and City Councilor for Culture
  • 1978, September 25: Valery Bykowski (1934–2019), Soviet cosmonaut
  • 1978, September 25: Sigmund Jähn (1937–2019), cosmonaut (first German in space)
  • 1982, February 17: Wilhelm Rudolph (1889–1982), painter
  • 1983, May 9: Elisabeth Wetzel (1907–1994), Association of Antifascist Resistance Fighters
  • 1988, January 7: Paul Kurzbach (1902–1997), composer
  • 1988, December 22nd: Katarina Witt (* 1965), figure skater
  • 1990, October 3: Christoph Magirius (* 1937), pastor of the St. Andreas parish
  • 1991, September 25: Klaus Bungert (1926–2006), retired Lord Mayor D. von Düsseldorf (twin city of Chemnitz)
  • 1992, February 6: Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007), returned in 2001 because an exhibition of his controversial war drawings failed
  • 1994, June 9: Carl Hahn junior (* 1926), former chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen AG
  • 2001, October 2: Stefan Heym (1913–2001), writer
  • 2004, November 22: Folker Weißgerber (1941–2007), former Group Board Member for Production and Logistics at Volkswagen AG
  • 2007, May 16: Siegmund Rotstein (1925–2020), long-time chairman of the Jewish community in Chemnitz
  • 2008, December 12th: Jutta Müller (* 1928), figure skater and figure skating coach
  • 2016, November 4th: Dr. Peter Seifert (* 1941), former Lord Mayor of Chemnitz (1993–2006)
  • 2017, January 25: Justin Sonder (* 1925), concentration camp survivor
  • 2018, April 20: Ingrid Mössinger (* around 1940), General Director of the Chemnitz Art Collections

Other personalities

The following people were not born in Chemnitz, but they worked in Chemnitz:

See also

Individual evidence

  1. http://saebi.isgv.de/biografie/Hildegard_Krahmer_%281912-1985%29
  2. Overview of the Lord Mayors of Hanau , website of the city of Hanau (as of November 15, 2016); Retrieved February 20, 2017
  3. Decision B-030/2017. In: stadt-chemnitz.de. January 25, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  4. Awarded honorary citizenship of the city of Chemnitz to Dr. hc Ingrid Mössinger