List of personalities of the city of Ehrenfriedersdorf
The list of personalities of the city of Ehrenfriedersdorf contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Erzgebirgskreis . These are personalities who were or are still honorary citizens of Ehrenfriedersdorf or who were born or died in Ehrenfriedersdorf and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Ehrenfriedersdorf, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1895: Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
- Klaus Meinig, Mayor of Ehrenfriedersdorf a. D. (CDU)
- 2015: Frank Uhlig, Mayor of Ehrenfriedersdorf a. D. (SPD)
sons and daughters of the town
- Wolf Schaller (* before 1530 – after 1536), mining entrepreneur from the Ore Mountains
- Carl Ludwig Traugott Glaeser (1747–1797), composer and cantor at the town church in Weißenfels
- Christian Friedrich Schubert (1808–1874), teacher and politician
- Heinrich Moritz Neubert (1809–1881), local politician and local researcher, was mayor of Dresden from 1853 to 1875, which made him an honorary citizen
- Johann August Scheibner (1810–1888), politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Julius Theodor Zenker (1811–1884), orientalist, translator and private scholar
- Georg Fritz Weiß (1822–1893), opera singer, translator and actor
- Max Wenzel (1879–1946), dialect poet of the Ore Mountains
- Richard Naumann (1906–1978), judge and legal scholar
- Hans Weber (1941–1969), motor sportsman
- Wolf Röhner (* 1944), designer
- Günter Deckert (1950–2005), Nordic combined athlete
Personalities associated with the city
- Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Elder (1715–1792), rector and cantor in Ehrenfriedersdorf
- Anton Voß (1805 − before 1866), Saxon miner and member of the state parliament, was an auditor at the Ehrenfriedersdorf Mining Office
- Ottomar Blüher (1824–1891), lawyer and liberal politician (DFP), actuary at the Ehrenfriedersdorf City Court
- Karl August Rudolf Rüder (1852–1912), conservative politician, from 1882 to 1887 mayor of Ehrenfriedersdorf
- Max Niklas (1905–1935), local politician and opponent of National Socialism, represented the KPD in the city council of Ehrenfriedersdorf until it was banned in 1933
- Elisabeth Ahnert (1885–1966), artist, freelance in Ehrenfriedersdorf from 1945 until her death
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freie Presse , Annaberg edition of October 25, 2015