List of personalities of the city of Delitzsch
Over the centuries of its history , Delitzsch was theplace of birth, work and death of numerous important personalities. The following overviews contain personalities who were granted honorary citizenship by Delitzsch, who were born in Delitzsch or who had many connections with the city.
The tables do not claim to be complete.
Honorary citizen
The award of honorary citizenship in the city of Delitzsch is regulated today according to § 26 of the Saxon municipal code (SächsGemO). For the first time, Saxon municipalities were able to appoint honorary citizens to the Kingdom of Saxony on the basis of the new constitution for the Kingdom of Saxony of September 4, 1831 .
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| Surname | born | in | died | in | annotation | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otto von Bismarck | 1815 | Schönhausen | 1898 | Friedrichsruh | Prime Minister of Prussia (1862–1890) and Chancellor of the North German Confederation (1867–1871) | 1895 |
| Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | 1795 | Delitzsch | 1876 | Berlin | September 7, 1868 | |
| Wilhelm von Rauchhaupt | 1828 | Trebnitz | 1894 | Storkwitz | Prussian manor owner , civil servant and conservative politician | 1888 |
| Adolf Hitler | 1889 | Braunau am Inn | 1945 | Berlin | In the public city council meeting on November 24, 2011, the city council made a joint symbolic declaration of intent not to be bound by the former honorary citizenship | April 11, 1933 |
sons and daughters of the town
The following overview contains nationwide known people born in Delitzsch, regardless of whether they later had their sphere of activity in Delitzsch, listed chronologically according to the year of birth.
Erasmus Schmidt (1570–1637)
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876)
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883)
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| Surname | born | died | in | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas Brandis | before 1450 | after 1500 | probably Lübeck | Printer and typographer of the incunable period |
| Marcus Brandis | around 1455 | after 1500 | Magdeburg | Book printer in Merseburg and Leipzig |
| Moritz Brandis | around 1455 | after 1504 | Magdeburg | Book printer in Leipzig and Magdeburg |
| Matthew Brandis | around 1455 | after 1512 | Copenhagen | Book printer in Lübeck and Denmark |
| Otto von Grünrade | 1545 | 1613 | Heidelberg | Theologian and Protestant Reformed church politician |
| Erasmus Schmidt | 1570 | 1637 | Wittenberg | Mathematician and philologist |
| Augustin Shrub | 1612 | 1674 | regensburg | Legal scholar and diplomat |
| Christian Saalbach | 1653 | 1713 | Greifswald | University professor and poet |
| Johann Samuel Luppe | 1685 | 1742 | Delitzsch | Protestant theologian and Superintendent von Jessen |
| Ernst Friedrich Pfotenhauer | 1771 | 1843 | Halle (Saale) | Legal scholar |
| Friedrich August Kanne | 1778 | 1833 | Vienna | Composer and music writer |
| Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | 1795 | 1876 | Berlin | Zoologist, geologist and founder of microbiology & micropalaeontology |
| Carl August Ehrenberg | 1801 | 1849 | Berlin | Botanist and plant collector |
| Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch | 1808 | 1883 | Potsdam | Politician and founder of the German craftsmen's cooperative system |
| Clementine helmet | 1825 | 1896 | Berlin | Author of children and young people |
| Franz Pfordte | 1840 | 1917 | Hamburg | Restaurant owner, head chef and restaurant director of the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg |
| Bernhard Foerster | 1843 | 1889 | San Bernardino | High school teacher, cultural critic and husband of Elisabeth Nietzsche |
| Paul Forster | 1844 | 1925 | Berlin | Publicist and Politician |
| Paul Walther Fürbringer | 1849 | 1930 | Berlin | Mediciners |
| Theodor Duimchen | 1853 | 1908 | Berlin | writer |
| Walter Tiemann | 1876 | 1951 | Leipzig | Book artist and graphic artist |
| Hermann Haussmann | 1879 | 1958 | Rottweil | Lawyer, public prosecutor, district president of Stralsund and founding rector of the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer |
| Max Brüning | 1887 | 1968 | Lindau | New object painter. |
| Erich Bauer | 1890 | 1970 | Lemgo | Student historian and lawyer |
| Anna Zammert | 1898 | 1982 | ibid | Politician and union official |
| Helmut Schreyer | 1912 | 1984 | São Paulo | Telecommunications specialist, inventor and professor at the Technical University of the Brazilian Army in Rio de Janeiro |
| Eberhard Ruhmer | 1917 | 1996 | ibid | Art historian and curator |
| Horst Heinrich | 1921 | unknown | - | Politician, member of the People's Chamber of the GDR |
| Wolfgang Geisler | 1930 | - | - | Architect and university professor |
| Frijo Müller-Belecke | 1932 | 2008 | Hemmoor | sculptor |
| Manfred Kage | 1935 | 2019 | Tübingen | Chemist and photographer |
| Hans Funk | 1936 | - | - | Local researcher and publicist |
| Hans-Christian Reiche | 1944 | - | - | Officer in the NVA and last chief of the land forces of the NVA |
| Norbert Denef | 1949 | - | - | Chairman of netzwerkB |
| Michael Czupalla | 1950 | - | - | Politician and district administrator |
| Joachim Fritsche | 1951 | - | - | Soccer player in the GDR upper league; played in the GDR national team from 1973 to 1977 |
| Lutz Mack | 1952 | - | - | Apparatus gymnast; won bronze in 1976 and silver in 1980 at the Summer Olympics |
| Siegfried Mehnert | 1963 | - | - | former boxer and today's coach of boxers at Karlsruher SC |
| Kai Emanuel | 1968 | - | - | North Saxon district administrator since August 1, 2015 |
| Max Emanuel | 1994 | - | - | Handball player |
Personalities who have worked on site
The following overview contains people who lived and worked in Delitzsch or are otherwise connected to the city, but were not born here. The persons are listed chronologically according to the year of birth.
| Surname | born | in | died | in | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm I (Meissen) | 1343 | Dresden | 1407 | Grimma | Margrave of Meissen |
| Hieronymus Tilesius | 1529 | Löwenberg / Silesia | 1566 | Mühlhausen / Thuringia | Lutheran theologian and reformer, Superintendent Delitzsch from 1555 to 1557 |
| Abraham Suarinus | 1563 | Schkeuditz | 1615 | Altenburg / Thuringia | Lutheran theologian and Superintendent Delitzsch from 1600 to 1610 |
| Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg | 1634 | Copenhagen | 1701 | Delitzsch | Duchess of the Electoral Saxon Principality of Secondary Education in Saxony-Merseburg (1650–1701) |
| Henriette Charlotte of Nassau-Idstein | 1693 | Idstein | 1734 | Delitzsch | Duchess of the Electoral Saxon Principality of Secondary Education Saxony-Merseburg (1711–1734) |
| Friedrich Carl von Pöllnitz | 1768 | Leipzig | 1843 | Dresden | Electoral Saxon-Polish High Court Marshal |
| Johann Friedrich child | 1768 | Leipzig | 1843 | Dresden | writer |
| Theodor Fritsch | 1852 | Leipzig | 1933 | Gautzsch | Publicist and publisher |
| Max Alfred Brumme | 1891 | Leipzig | 1967 | Braunschweig | Sculptor and painter |
| Peter-Michael Diestel | 1952 | Prora | - | - | Lawyer and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the GDR |
| Manfred Wilde | 1962 | Wolfen | - | - | Art historian and mayor of the city since 2008 |
| Cathrin Moeller | 1963 | Dusseldorf | - | - | Social and theater pedagogue |
| Katrin Huss | 1969 | Wolfen | - | - | Journalist and television presenter |
| Dirk Nürnberger | 1970 | Leipzig | - | - | Long distance runner |
| Lars Kaufmann | 1982 | Goerlitz | - | - | Handball player; played for 1. SV Concordia Delitzsch from 1999 to 2005 |
| Silvio Heinevetter | 1984 | Bad Langensalza | - | - | German handball goalkeeper; played for 1. SV Concordia Delitzsch from 2002 to 2005 |
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Römer [i-fabrik GmbH]: Personalities. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 1, 2017 ; accessed on February 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
