List of personalities of the city of Chomutov

Coat of arms of the city of Chomutov (Komotau)

The list of personalities of the city of Chomutov contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Czech city ​​of Chomutov (German: Komotau ). These are honorary citizens and personalities who were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated after Chomutov see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

• Anton August Naaf (1850–1918), poet, writer and editor

sons and daughters of the town

1401-1900

• Matthäus Aurogallus (1490–1543), historian, linguist and Hebraist
• Johann Jacob von Weingarten (1629–1701), lawyer
• Franz Josef von Gerstner (1756–1832), German-Bohemian mathematician and physicist
• Raimund Stillfried von Rathenitz (1839–1911), Austrian officer, painter and photographer
• Franz Höfer von Feldsturm (1861–1918), field marshal lieutenant of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
• Josef Brechensbauer (1867–1945), Sudeten German pedagogue and local researcher
• Ludwig Knapp (1868–1925), Austrian gynecologist
• Franz Dörfel (1879–1959), Austrian economist
• Vincenz Berger (1883–1974), German gardening authority and plant breeder
• Oscar Klement (1897–1980), German lichenologist
• Robert Lindenbaum (1898–1979), Sudeten German writer
• Ernst Fischer (1899–1972), Austrian writer and politician ( KPÖ ), Minister of Education
• Hans Goldmann (1899–1991), Austrian-Swiss ophthalmologist and inventor

1901-1940

• Karl Viererbl (1903–1945), German journalist and politician
• Irma Rosenberg (1909–2000), German actress and political activist of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic
• Erich Heller (1911–1990), British essayist
• Erich Wagner (1912–1959), German-Austrian SS-Sturmbannführer and camp doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp
• Josef Borst (1917–1985), politician (KPTsch / SED)
• Ernst Hassler (* 1922), German writer
• Ernst Eichler (1925–2005), German ice hockey player and Vice President of the German Ice Hockey Federation
• Franz Emanuel Weinert (1930-2001), German psychologist
• Kurt Enz (1931–2004), German engineer, film technician and specialist journalist
• Ruth Maria Kubitschek (* 1931), German-Swiss actress
• Edwin Kratschmer (* 1931), German writer and literary scholar
• Horst Löb (1932–2016), German physicist
• Ferdinand Eisenberger (1937–2009), German urologist
• Horst Schuldes (1939–2015), German ice hockey player
• Baldur Kirchner (* 1939), German seminar leader for rhetoric, dialectics and ethics as well as honorary professor for business ethics
• Helmut Herles (* 1940), German journalist and publicist
• Rainer Holbe (* 1940), German television presenter and author
• Uschi Nerke (* 1944), German architect and television presenter (including Beat Club )

1945-2000

• Vlastimil Harapes (* 1946), actor, ballet dancer, director and choreographer
• Růžena Škodová-Davoodi (* 1948), chess and basketball player
• Zdeněk Beneš (* 1952), historian
• Vladimír Kýhos (* 1956), ice hockey player and coach
• Petr Klíma (born 1964), ice hockey player
• Miroslav Žižka (* 1964), military person
• Jaroslav Buchal (* 1974), ice hockey player
• Marek Hilšer (* 1976), doctor, university professor and activist
• Sharka Blue (* 1981), porn actress
• Jaroslav Hafenrichter (* 1990), ice hockey player
• Nikola Hofmanova (* 1991), Austrian tennis player
• Simona Baumrtová (* 1991), swimmer

Personalities associated with the city

• Ignaz Cornova (1740–1822), priest, historian, educator and poet
• Rudolf Lössl (1872–1915), politician (German Radical Party), high school professor and German studies specialist, died in Komotau
• Richard Gottlieb Wilhelm von Doderer (1876–1955), Austrian engineer and industrialist
• Wilhelm Cavallar von Grabensprung (1889–1957), Knight of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography Ludwig Knapp (accessed on January 27, 2018)