List of personalities of the city of Freiberg
This is a list of personalities from the city of Freiberg .
Honorary citizen
- 1871: Gustav Adolph Theodor Ettmüller (1808–1881), doctor
- 1881: Moritz Tränckner (1813–1881), city councilor
- 1894: Heinrich Gerlach (1828–1899), printer, historian and politician
- 1902: Kurt Merbach (1839–1912), Hüttenmann and politician
- 1929: Werner Hofmann (1878–1939), director of the Freiberg porcelain factory
- 1949: Karl Kegel (1876–1959), mining engineer
- 1961: Arthur Ladwig (1889–1970), director of the Freiberg hospitals
- 1961: Erich Rammler (1901–1986), fuel technician
- 1965: Anton Lissner (1885–1970), chemist
- 1975: Georgi Danilowitsch Koschmjak (1909–1987), Soviet commander of Freiberg
- 1979: Helmut Härtig (1902–1997), mining scientist
- 2000: Günter Blobel (1936–2018), biochemist, Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine 1999
- 2001: Werner Freiesleben (1929–2013), chemist
- 2008: Gottfried Kohl (1921–2012), sculptor
- 2009: Peter Woditsch , entrepreneur
- 2014: Michael Federmann (* 1943), investor
- 2017: Heinrich Douffet (1934–2017), monument conservator and politician (posthumous)
- 2019: Reinhard Schmidt (* 1946), President of the Saxon Mining Authority
- 2020: Knut Neumann (* 1949), former chairman of the historical Freiberg miners' union
sons and daughters of the town
A.
- Reno Achenbach (1961-2010), football player
- Hansjörg Albrecht (* 1972), conductor, organist and harpsichordist
- André Alder (* 1968), artist
- August Ferdinand Anacker (1790–1854), composer
- Thomas Arnold (* 1971), actor
B.
- Günter Bartusch (1943–1971), motorcycle racing driver
- Dorle Baumann (* 1947), politician (SPD)
- Julius Becker (1811–1859), composer, music theorist and author of musical novels
- Friederike Beckert (1775–1839), writer
- Manfred Beckert (1926–2007), professor of welding technology, rector of the Magdeburg University of Technology
- Hermann Behr (own. Friedrich Hermann Behr) (1792–1848), Protestant theologian
- Elisabeth Eleonore Bernhardi (1768–1849), writer
- Mike Bezdicek (* 1968), handball player
- Bruno Bieligk (1889–1969), politician (SPD)
- Fritz Bieligk (1893–1967), journalist, politician (SPD)
- Heike Bittner (* 1963), screenwriter, director and film producer
- Karl August Blöde (1773–1820), secret finance councilor, scientist and author as well as the namesake of the Blödit crystal
- Bernhard Blüher (1864–1938), politician (Mayor of Freiberg and Lord Mayor of Dresden), honorary citizen of Freiberg
- Helmut Böhme (1902–1945), politician (NSDAP)
- Albert Borchers (1864–1929), Saxon mining captain
- Ina Borrmann (effective from 1997), film director and screenwriter
- Johann Friedrich Gottlob von Brause (1763–1820) pastor primarius and superintendent von Freiberg 1800–20
- Hermann Theodor Breithaupt (1820–1885), geologist, patriot and engineer
- Hans Brinkmann (* 1956), writer, journalist and art critic
- Hans Buchheim (1922–2016), political scientist
- Albrecht Buttolo (* 1947), mechanical engineer, Dr.-Ing., Former Saxon interior minister
D.
- Ernst Gustav Doerell (1832–1877), romantic painter
E.
- Rolf Emmrich (1910–1974), internist and university professor
- Fritz Erler (1899–1992), surgeon and orthopedist
- René Erler (* 1983), actor
F.
- Franziskus Faber (1542–1593), medic, humanist
- Eckart Förster (1920–1999), child and youth psychiatrist
- David Franke (* 1980), organist of the St. Wenzel town church in Naumburg (Saale) since 2008
- Johann Carl Freiesleben (1774–1846), chief miner
- Heinz Fülfe (1920–1994), draftsman, puppeteer and ventriloquist
G
- Gunther Galinsky (1938–2019), German mining engineer and photographer
- Cerstin Gammelin (* 1965), German journalist
- Bernd Göbel (* 1942), sculptor and art professor, works a. A .: Fortunabrunnen, Freiberg Petersstraße, monument “The young Bach” in Arnstadt
- Sigrid Göhler (* 1942), actress
- Rolf Göpfert (1903–1994), architect, artist and Dresden architecture professor
- Caroline Gülke (* 1982), figure skater
H
- Hans Adolph von Hartitzsch (1778–1857), Rittmeister, manor owner and politician, MdL
- Nikolaus Hausmann (1479–1538), theologian and reformer in the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau
- Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843–1917), geodesist, mathematician, the Helmert transformation is named after him and the chi-square distribution is ascribed to him
- Carl Wilhelm Hering (1790–1871), Protestant pastor and chronicler
- Volkmar Herre (* 1943), photographer
- Martin Herrmann (1899–1975), dialect poet
- Johann Eduard Heuchler (1801–1879), architect and builder
- Christian August Siegfried Hoffmann (1760–1813), mineralogist
- Ewald Alexander Hoffmann (1838–1899), Privy Councilor and General Director of the Royal Saxon State Railways
- Paul Hoffmann (1863–1928), shoemaker, seaman and Hamburg parliamentarian and senator
- Ida Hofmann (1864–1926), pianist, music teacher and author
J
- Eduard Johnson (1840–1903), local history researcher and editor for the Vogtländischer Anzeiger
K
- Holger Koch (* 1955), painter and graphic artist
- Gottfried Kohl (1921–2012), sculptor and honorary citizen
- Robert Kohl (1813–1881), theologian, superintendent at the St. Nikolai Church in Chemnitz
- Alexander Wilhelm Köhler (1756–1832), German mining lawyer and mayor of the city of Freiberg
- Sven Köhler (* 1966), soccer player and soccer coach
- Johann Gottfried Kraus (1680–1739), legal scholar
- Udo Kroschwald (* 1955), actor
L.
- Christian Liebe (1654–1708), composer
- Walter Ernst von Lingelsheim (1901–1962), politician
- Ingeborg Lüscher (* 1936), artist
M.
- Franz Maidburg (around 1480 - around 1535), sculptor
- Albert Maucher (1907–1981), geologist
- Kurt Merbach (1839–1912), Hüttenmann, politician and honorary citizen
- Moritz von Sachsen (1521–1553), Duke and Elector of Saxony
- Ernst Müller (1894–1972), historian, Leipzig city archivist and LDPD politician
- Christian Münch (* 1951), conductor and composer
N
- Paul Neff (1853-1934), mayor of St. Johann (Saar) , instrumental in the founding city Saarbrücken involved
- Curt Adolph Netto (1847–1909), metallurgist
- Dagmar Neukirch (* 1972), politician (SPD), MdL
- Günter Neumann (1920–2005), philologist and Indo-Europeanist
O
- Carl Eugenius Pabst von Ohain (1718–1784), Saxon mineralogist, mining captain and curator of the Bergakademie
P
- Philipp Pentke (* 1985), soccer player
- Paul Peuker (* 1987), jazz musician
R.
- Albert Richter (1909–2007), forest scientist
S.
- Artur Sansoni (1886–1971), Italian-German sculptor, director of a granite sculpture school in Wunsiedel
- Jürgen Sarrazin (1936–2019), banker
- Wolfgang Schaller (1582–1626), medic
- Harald Schicha (* 1943), nuclear medicine specialist
- Hannes Schmalfuß (1893–1967), writer
- Karl Schmidtchen (1858–1923), consumer cooperative and member of the first board of directors of the Central Association of German Consumers' Associations (ZdK), newly founded in 1903
- Friedrich August Schneider (1799–1855), artillery officer and battle painter
- Abraham von Schönberg (1640–1711), chief miner
- Klaus Rudolf Schubert (* 1939), physicist
- Markus Schubert (* 1998), soccer player
- Peter Segler (* 1964), author, editor and publisher
- Sieglind Spieler (* 1934), writer and poet
- Christian Heinrich Spieß (1755–1799), actor, playwright and author, co-founder of the horror novel
- Erhard Stenzel (* 1925), Wehrmacht deserter and the last living German Resistance fighter
- Claus-Dieter Steyer (1956–2015), journalist
- Jörg Stübner (1965–2019), soccer player
- Konrad Sturmhoefel (1858–1916), Saxon historian
- Emil von Sydow (1812–1873), officer, geographer and cartographer
- Oskar von Sydow (1811–1886), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, teacher and writer
T
- André Tanneberger (* 1973), successful DJ
- Christiane Thiel (* 1968), author
U
- Jakob Ullmann (* 1958), composer and university professor
V
- Nicolaus Voigtel (1658–1713), geometer, mountain official and author
- Brian Völkner (* 1992), actor
W.
- Marcus Wächtler (* 1979), writer
- Maximilian Weiß (* 1988), handball player
- Apollonia von Wiedebach (1470–1526), founder
- Clemens Winkler (1838–1904), chemist, discoverer of germanium
- Horst Wolf (1917–1988), President of the German Judo Association of the GDR, judo trainer , sports scientist
Personalities who have worked in the place
- Dietrich von Freiberg , also: Theodoricus Teutonicus de Vriberg; Master Dietrich (around 1240 to after 1311), monk, theologian, philosopher, mystic
- Heinrich the Illustrious (1218–1288), Margrave of Meissen
- Otto the Rich (1125–1190), Margrave of Meissen
A.
- Ignaz Auer (1846–1907), politician
B.
- August Bebel (1840–1913), politician
- Richard Beck (1858-1919), geologist
- Werner Beck (1907–1994), engineer
- Friedrich Constantin Freiherr von Beust (1806-1891), mineralogist, geologist
- Otto Beutler (1853–1926), lawyer, politician (Mayor of Freiberg and Meerane, Lord Mayor of Dresden)
- Volker Beyer (* 1951), painter and sculptor
- Georg Bilkenroth (1898–1982), process engineer
- Paul Blechschmidt (1907–1961), teacher, worker, district administrator, officer
- Fritz Bleyl (1880–1966), architect, expressionist painter
- Günter Blobel (1936–2018), biologist, physician, Nobel laureate, promoter of the reconstruction of neo-historical buildings in Saxony
- Ottomar Blüher (1824–1891), lawyer and politician, MdL
- Kwasi Boakye (1827–1904), from Ashanti , Dutch mining engineer , student in Freiberg (also: Boachi)
- August Breithaupt (1791–1873), mineralogist
- Christian Friedrich Brendel (1776–1861), engineer
- Reinhold Brückmann (1823–1863), mathematician
- Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist
- Friedrich Gottlieb von Busse (1756–1835), mathematician, professor at the Bergakademie, mining commissioner, councilor and city senator
C.
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier (1738–1805), geologist
- Hans Carl von Carlowitz (1645–1714), Saxon chief miner
D.
- Christoph Demantius (1567–1643), composer
- Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz (1843–1922), publisher
- Heinrich Douffet (1934–2017), geologist, monument conservator, local politician
E.
- Sabine Ebert (* 1958), author
- Otto Emicke (1891–1970), metallurgist
- Hans-Heinz Emons (* 1930), chemist, "Disciplinary Rector" appointed by the SED
- Theodor Erhard (1839-1919), electrophysicist
- Gustav Adolph Theodor Ettmüller (1808–1881), district doctor, mountain and smelter physicist, honorary citizen of Freiberg
F.
- Otto Emil Fritzsche (1877–1962), engineer
- Gotthold Frotscher (1897–1967), music historian
G
- Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (1713–1795), metallurgist and mineralogist
- Christoph Gottlob Grundig (1707–1780), theologian, mineralogist and publicist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), natural scientist
H
- Helmut Härtig (1902–1997), mining scientist
- Werner Hartenstein (1879–1947), Lord Mayor 1924–1945
- Günter Heinz (* 1954), mathematician, composer, musician, composed a. a. “Freiberg Glockenandacht” 2006
- Johann Friedrich Henckel (1678–1744), doctor, mineralogist, metallurgist and chemist
- Otto Leonhard Heubner (1812-1893), politician
- Johann Eduard Heuchler (1801–1879), architect and draftsman
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), natural scientist and explorer
- Julius Ambrosius Hülße (1812–1876), mathematician and technician
- Richard Hunger (1911–1957), geologist
J
- Herbert Jobst (1915–1990), writer, Hauer , Fördermann and Steiger
K
- Karl-Hermann Kandler (* 1937), theologian
- Karl Kegel (1876–1959), mining engineer
- Helmut Kirchberg (1906–1983), mining scientist
- Peter Klimanek (1935–2010), physicist
- Philipp Koch (around 1470–1536), sculptor , possibly creator of the cathedral apostles in Freiberg Cathedral
- Cornelius Kohl (1907–2006), superintendent and student pastor, important in the conflict between the SED and Christian students
- Franz Kögler (1882–1939), civil engineer
- Theodor Körner (1791–1813), poet, freedom fighter
- Maja Krumnacker (* 1931), materials scientist
- Carl Amandus Kühn (1783–1848), geologist
L.
- Wilhelm August Lampadius (1772–1842), metallurgist, chemist
- Alfred Lange (1906–1968), metallurgist
- Werner Lauterbach (1930–2012), local history researcher, folklorist, publicist and author
- Adolf Ledebur (1837–1906), metallurgist
- Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905), landscape painter
- Karl Edwin Leuthold (1847–1891), lawyer, mining lawyer
- Friedrich Leutwein (1911–1974), mineralogist
- Harry Liedtke (1882–1945), actor
- Karl Lohmann (* 1939), economist
- Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow (1711–1765), Russian poet and polymath
- Paul Ludewig (1885–1927), physicist
M.
- Walter Mannchen (1905–1972), chemist and university professor at the Bergakademie Freiberg
- Eduard Maurer (1886–1969), chemist and metallurgist, worked at the Bergakademie Freiberg from 1925–1945
- Rudolf Meinhold (1911–1999), petroleum geologist
- Otto Meißer (1899–1966), geophysicist, rector (1957–1959) of the Bergakademie Freiberg
- Johann Friedrich Mende (1743–1798), mechanical engineer, built a. a. probably the first ship lift in the world
- Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), mineralogist , creator of the Mohs hardness scale
- Andreas Möller (1598–1660), teacher, doctor and chronicler
- Thomas Müller, as a painter and graphic artist TM Rotschönberg (* 1961), chemist at the Bergakademie, painter and graphic artist at the same time
- Carl Munde (1805–1887), founder of a cold water sanatorium , language teacher in Dresden, author of numerous publications on water treatment
N
- Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797–1873), geologist
- Caroline Neuber ( die Neuberin ) (1697–1760), actress, founder of German theater
- Bernhard Neumann (1867–1953), chemist
- Novalis (1772-1801), poet
O
- Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff (1702–1773), master builder
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel (1720–1769), Saxon chief miner and co-founder of the Freiberg Mining Academy
P
- Erwin Papperitz (1857–1938), mathematician
- Martin Planer (around 1510–1582), mountain master
- Carl Friedrich Plattner (1800–1858), metallurgist and chemist
- Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia (1976), business economist, head of the Hohenzollern family
R.
- Erich Rammler (1901–1986), process engineer
- Ferdinand Reich (1799–1882), chemist, one of the discoverers of indium
- Werner Retzlaff (1890–1960), architect
- Fritz Reuter (1925–1994), geologist and university professor
- Hieronymus Theodor Richter (1824–1898), chemist, one of the discoverers of the Indium
- Paul Philipp Röber (1632–1696), Superintendent of Freiberg from 1671 to 1696
- Max Roscher (1888–1940), politician, member of the Reichstag
- Paul Rosin (1890–1967), heat technician, engineer and entrepreneur
- Balthasar Rösler (1605–1673), miner and excavator
- Dietrich Rotter (1929–1984), mining engineer
- Karl August Rüdiger (1793–1869), classical philologist and pedagogue, professor and rector at the Freiberg high school
- Ulrich Rülein von Calw (1465–1523), mathematician, mining scientist
S.
- Arnulf Schertel (1841–1902) chemist and professor of metallurgy
- Carl Schiffner (1865–1945), metallurgist and university professor
- Peter Schmidt (1939–1999), geoscientist and historian
- Reinhard Schmidt (* 1946), President of the Saxon Mining Authority
- Bernd Schröder (* 1942), football coach
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896), pianist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schwamkrug (1808–1880), senior art master
- Peter Segler (* 1964), author, editor and publisher, founder of the Zeitschrift für Gegenwartsliteratur Freiberg Reading Booklet
- Gottfried Sello (1913–1994), art historian, art critic, director
- Traugott August Seyffarth (1762–1831), Lutheran theologian
- Adam Siber (1516–1584), humanist and educator
- Wolfgang Siegel (1583–1644), Saxon mining authority administrator
- Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), organ builder
- Paul Speck (around 1500–1557), sculptor , stonemason , creator of Haus Obermarkt 17 with the mining relief
- Karl Spitzner (1876–1951), mining official
- Johann Gottfried Stecher (1718–1776), sculptor
- Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner (1840–1895), geologist
- Klaus Strzodka (1927–2005), mining engineer
- Otto Stutzer (1881–1936), geologist
T
- Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (1740–1819), chief miner
- Emil Treptow (1854–1935), mining scientist
U
- Paul Uhlich (1859–1905), Markscheider
- Heinz Uhlitzsch (1893–1971), iron and steel engineer
- Georg Unland (* 1953), former rector of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and finance minister of the Free State of Saxony
V
- Sylvia Voigt (* 1961), author
- Robert Volkmann (1815–1883), composer
- Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein (1757–1831), politician, reformer
- Friedrich Constantin Freiherr von Beust (1806–1891), mineralogist, chief miner and honorary citizen
- Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist
- Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), geologist
- Astrid von Friesen (* 1953), journalist, psychotherapist and author
- Sigismund August Wolfgang von Herder (1776–1838), geologist, chief miner
- Friedrich Anton Freiherr von Heynitz (1725–1802), founder of the mining academy, organizer of mining and metallurgy in Braunschweig, Saxony and Prussia
- Kunz von Kaufungen (1410–1455), kidnapper of the Saxon princes Albrecht and Ernst, executed in Freiberg
- Gottfried Pabst von Ohain (1656–1729), Electoral Saxon wardein , marquee and pioneer of Meissen porcelain production
- Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (1740–1819), Saxon chief miner, friend of Goethe
W.
- Eberhard Wächtler (1929–2010), economic historian
- Otfried Wagenbreth (1927–2017), geologist and mining historian
- Georg Heinrich Wahle (1854–1934), legal scholar
- Max Weidig (1879–1912), metallurgical engineer
- Julius Weisbach (1806–1871), mathematician and engineer
- Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), co-founder of modern geosciences
- Hans Witten (also Meister HW ) (around 1470 to after 1522), sculptor , creator of the tulip pulpit
- Joachim Wrana (1909–1986), university lecturer for electrical engineering
Z
- Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706 to 1751), bookseller and publisher
- Gustav Zeuner (1828–1907), engineer
- Wolf Martin Zimmermann († 1739), smelter, who went to Russia in 1701 to build up the iron and steel industry in the Urals
City originals
- Alfred Mende (1886–1975), roofer, showman, modeler, mining expert
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary citizenship for Knut Neumann in: Freie Presse from July 22, 2020