List of personalities of the city of Dippoldiswalde

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Coat of arms of the city of Dippoldiswalde

The list of personalities of the city of Dippoldiswalde contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city ​​of Dippoldiswalde . 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 Dippoldiswalde, see the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

  • 1855: City judge Haase
  • 1878: Councilman Fischer
  • 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
  • 1916: Oberkirchenrat Hempel, father of Johannes Hempel
  • 1918: Konrad Knebel , senior teacher and local researcher
  • 2001: Erhard Unger, local history researcher
  • 2005: Dietrich Haselwander, President of the Association of the Saxon Metal and Electrical Industry (VSME)
  • 2007: Horst Bellmann (born September 19, 1938 - † September 6, 2012), Mayor of the city of Dippoldiswalde i. R.
  • 2009: Günter Groß (* 1938), engineer and museum director i. R.

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Dippoldiswalde or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Dippoldiswalde is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

19th century personalities

20th century personalities

  • Martin Klimmer (1873–1943), veterinarian and professor at the University of Leipzig
  • Emil Lohse (1885–1949), pedagogue, art historian, folklorist, museum director, draftsman, painter and silhouette artist, born in Schmiedeberg
  • Alfred Hesse (1904–1988), painter, graphic artist and mural designer, member of the artist group “Das Ufer - Gruppe 1947 Dresden Artists”, from 1957 lecturer for wall painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, 1965 to 1970 professor for wall painting
  • Heinz Zickler (born March 25, 1920 in Schmiedeberg), classical trumpeter, organist and church musician
  • Gottfried Schmiedel (born August 24, 1920 in Schmiedeberg; † November 11, 1987 in Dresden), music critic and publicist
  • Klaus Röhrborn (* 1938), orientalist and Turkologist
  • Klaus the violinist , b. Klaus von Wrochem (* 1940), musician and songwriter
  • Ulrich von Wrochem (* 1944), violist
  • Michael Schünke (* 1950), doctor, anatomist and professor emeritus
  • Petra Gorr (* 1955), actress
  • Achim Zimmermann (* 1958), conductor
  • Olaf Stoy (* 1959), porcelain artist and author
  • Jens Steinigen (* 1966), biathlete
  • Diana Sartor (* 1970), skeleton skier, became European and world champion in skeleton in 2004

21st century personalities

Personalities related to the city

  • Christian Schwartz (1645–1684), electoral Saxon vice wine master and distinguished citizen and painter in the royal seat of Dresden, died in Reichstädt
  • Johann Conrad Knauth (1662–1732), historian and rector of the Kreuzschule in Dresden, grew up as a pastor's son in Dippoldiswalde
  • Karl Traugott Stöckel (1804–1881), organ builder, ran an organ building workshop in Dippoldiswalde
  • Ernst Steyer (1842–1900), landowner in Reinholdshain, conservative politician, MdL
  • Maximilian Mehnert (1861–1941), politician, member of the Saxon state parliament from 1915 to 1918
  • Erwin Pollack (1863–1915), classical philologist and high school teacher, grew up in Dippolsdiswalde
  • Karl Brück (1869–1945), major general in the Reichswehr, died in Dippoldiswalde
  • Max Lossow , governor in Dippoldiswalde from 1898 to 1903
  • Leonhard Adelt (1881–1945), bookseller, writer and journalist, died in Dippoldiswalde of injuries sustained in the air raid on Dresden
  • Adolf Arnhold (1884–1950), German-Brazilian banker, lived on the Berreuth manor until he emigrated from the German Empire in 1936
  • Willy Jahn (1898–1973), painter and graphic artist, whose works belong to the collection of the Dippoldiswalde Tanner, City and District Museum
  • Hans Georg Freund (1905–1942), politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag, from 1935 district leader of the NSDAP in Dippoldiswalde
  • Egon Körner (1908–1986), architect, built the Catholic Church of St. Konrad in Dippoldiswalde from 1957 to 1959
  • Werner Richter (1918–2004), racing cyclist, worked in Dippoldiswalde in the 1930s
  • Günther Witteck (* 1928), politician (SED), chairman of the Dresden District Council, FDJ functionary from 1947 to 1948, most recently second secretary of the FDJ district leadership in Dippoldiswalde
  • Georg Weinhold (1934–2013), auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Dresden-Meißen, first auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Meißen since the Reformation, parish vicar from 1968 and pastor in Dippoldiswalde from 1971
  • Eberhard Wolf (* 1938), academic draftsman and sculptor, grew up in Obercarsdorf
  • Bernd Bankroth (1941–1991), painter, graphic artist, photographer and ceramist
  • Bernd Greif (* 1943), local politician (CDU), from 1990 to 1994 district administrator of the Dippoldiswalde district and from 1994 to 2008 district administrator of the Weißeritz district
  • Frank Schmidt (* 1943), politician (CDU), member of the Volkskammer and Member of the Bundestag, from 1987 research engineer with a teaching position for automation technologies at the engineering school for the food industry in Dippoldiswalde
  • Holker Lehmann (* 1957), biathlete from the GDR, lived in Dippoldiswalde
  • Andrea Dombois (* 1958), politician (CDU) and Vice-President of the Saxon State Parliament, from 1986 to 1990 district manager of the CDU Dippoldiswalde
  • René Gerth (* 1972), former biathlete; lives today in Dippoldiswalde
  • Tom Barth (* 1990), biathlete, starts for the TuS Dippoldiswalde 1992 e. V.
  • Grit Otto (* 1990), biathlete, started for the TUS Dippoldiswalde 1992 e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary citizen of Dippoldiswalde
  2. ↑ Hermine Möbius in Stadtwiki Dresden