List of personalities from the city of Eibenstock
The list of personalities of the city of Eibenstock contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Eibenstock in the Erzgebirge district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens or who were born or died there or who worked in Eibenstock or today's districts.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Eibenstock, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1895: Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Eibenstock or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Eibenstock is irrelevant.
Personalities of the early modern period
- Gabriel Siegel (1550 – after 1624), tin dealer and hammer master from the Erzgebirge
- Wolfgang Siegel (1583–1644), Saxon mining authority administrator
- Christian Wittich (1638–1716), entrepreneur, owned several hammer mills and the Oberjugel glassworks in the western Ore Mountains, born in Blauenthal
- Theophil Georgi (1674–1762), bookseller, publisher and bibliographer
- Johann Jacob Gottschald (1688–1759), theologian and hymn poet
- Johann Georg Gottschald (1691 / 1692–1749), entrepreneur, born in Wildenthal
19th century personalities
Hilmar Mückenberger (around 1900)
- Daniel Friedrich Hecht (1777–1833), mathematician and surveyor, born in Sosa
- Friedrich Kraner (1812–1863), classical philologist and high school teacher
- Gustav Moritz Franz (1816–1899), Protestant theologian, born in Sosa
- Meno Mühlig (1823–1873), genre and landscape painter
- Hermann Kleinhempel (1828–1883), local poet from the Ore Mountains
- Bernhard Mühlig (1829–1910), landscape, genre and animal painter
- Friedrich August Unger (1833–1893), doctor and co-founder of the Davos health resort
- Max Friedrich Kunze (1838–1921), forest scientist and founder of forest research
- Wilhelm Brink (1848–1912), politician
- Hans Hugo Carl Edler von Querfurth (1849–1931), entrepreneur and politician. In the Saxon state parliament he was together with Gottfried Opitz leader of the conservative parliamentary group, born in Wildenthal
- Hilmar Mückenberger (1855–1937), folk musician and dialect poet
- Ernst Paul Brink (1856–1922), Lord Mayor of Glauchau
- Paul Drews (1858–1912), theologian and university professor
- Luise Pasternak (1859–1927), writer
20th century personalities
Ludwig Güttler (2015)
Frank Vogel (2011)
- Alfred Tittel (1870–1937), Reich judge
- Paul Seibold (1871–1954), Prussian politician (SPD), member of the Bundestag and district administrator
- Erich Wedell (1888–1983), lawyer
- Werner Ehrig (1897–1981), officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
- Stephan Dietrich called Saafnlob (1898–1969), teacher and local poet from the Ore Mountains
- Rudolf Forberger (1910–1997), economic historian, born in Carlsfeld
- Rudolf Eyfrig (1911–2011), physicist and ionospheric researcher
- Fritz Steiner (1913–1977), actor, director and long-time director of the Dresden State Operetta
- Lisa Kretschmar (1918–1988), dancer and choreographer
- Ekkehard Grundmann (* 1921), onco-pathologist
- Karl-Heinz Schönfelder (1923–2018), Americanist and literary scholar, is considered to be the founder of American studies at the University of Leipzig
- Johannes Döhler (* 1926), politician (SED), born in Sosa
- Sieghart Dittmann (* 1934), epidemiologist and chess player
- Bernd Leistner (1939–2019), literary scholar and writer
- Ernst Einsiedel (* 1941), football player
- Ludwig Güttler (* 1943), trumpeter and conductor, is considered one of the world's leading trumpet virtuosos, born in Sosa
- Dietmar-Richard Unger (* 1944), singer and politician
- Wolfgang Unger (1948–2004), choirmaster
- Frank Vogel (* 1957), local politician (CDU) and acting district administrator of the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis, born in Sosa
Personalities who died in the city
- Melchior Siegel (1515–1588), Electoral Saxon tithe and tin smelter and co-owner of the hammer mill
- Hans Hutschenreuther (1575–1657), Ore Mountains hammer master and mountain expert
- Michael Gottschald (1597–1674), city judge, merchant and hammer owner
- Johann Paul Oettel (1699–1771), theologian, girl teacher and author of a chronicle by Eibenstock
- Christian Heinrich Hecht (1735–1801), pastor and chronicler
- Johann Christian Neuber (1736–1808), stone cutter and court jeweler in Dresden
- Friedrich Wilhelm Köhler (1740–1798), pastor and chronicler
- Ernst von Stein (1767–1787), hunting page at the court in Weimar and a young friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, died in Wildenthal
Personalities associated with the city
- Jacob Seeling (1568–1627), tithe and hammer mill owner in Blauen- and Wildenthal
- Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1644–1715), mining entrepreneur, founder of Carlsfeld
- Clara Angermann (1754 – after 1809), artist embroiderer
- Emil Cuno (1805-1859), lawyer and politician
- Karl Horn (1898–1977), draftsman, city councilor and member of the Reichstag (NSDAP)
- Enrico Oswald (* 1967), entrepreneur, ambassador for the Ore Mountains, grew up in Eibenstock