List of personalities of the city of Freital

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The following personalities were born in the city of Freital or one of its predecessor communities or had their sphere of activity in this city; they are sorted according to their date of birth. The honorary citizens of the city are also listed in the order in which they were awarded the title.

Honorary citizen

As the highest honor of the city of Freital, seven people have been made honorary citizens since 1951 - most recently in 2004 :

  • 1951: Karl Hanusch (born May 9, 1881 in Niederhäslich, † November 19, 1969 in Dresden), painter and graphic artist
  • 1967: Marianne Bruns (born August 31, 1897 in Leipzig; † January 1, 1994 in Dresden), writer
  • 1967: Eva Schumann (née Feine), (born January 8, 1889 in Hainichen; † December 3, 1973 in Freital), translator and writer
  • 1984: Erich Dittrich , resistance fighter and chairman of the workers' housing association
  • 1988: Hellmuth Heinz (born August 31, 1904 in Potschappel; † December 15, 1994 in Freital), resistance fighter and museologist
  • 1994: Friedrich Pappermann (born February 2, 1909 in Dresden; † August 28, 1995 in Dresden), art collector and donor
  • 2004: Gottfried Bammes (born April 26, 1920 in Potschappel; † May 14, 2007), painter

Sons and daughters of the city and its predecessors

To 1900

Johannes Schirmer, SPD politician
  • Andreas Tamitius (born August 13, 1633 in Döhlen, † 1700 in Dresden), organ builder
  • Johann Benjamin Thomae (born January 23, 1682 in Pesterwitz, † March 8, 1751 in Dresden), sculptor, carver, modeler
  • Justus Christian Thorschmidt (born February 23, 1688 in Somsdorf; † July 10, 1750 in Annaburg), pastor and historian
  • Carl August Martin (born July 17, 1808 in Deuben, † 1848 in Dresden), court post office secretary, politician
  • Georg Irrgang (born March 31, 1860 in Kleinnaundorf; † 1939), journalist and writer
  • Emil Adolf Bergmann (born April 26, 1861 in Potschappel; † September 2, 1931 in Dresden), spiritualist ( Horpenit ), entrepreneur
  • Friedrich Adolf Geißler (born October 4, 1868 in Döhlen, † April 12, 1931 in Dresden), music critic, writer
  • Oskar Böhme (born February 24, 1870 in Potschappel, † October 1938 in Orenburg), trumpet virtuoso and composer
  • Max Däbritz (born August 4, 1874 in Zauckerode, † April 8, 1947 in Dresden), founder of the Horpenites , spiritualist, entrepreneur
  • Adolph Nägel (born December 16, 1875 in Döhlen, † September 17, 1939 in Dresden), professor of piston engineering, rector of the TH Dresden
  • Johannes Schirmer (born June 8, 1877 in Deuben, † November 21, 1950 in Pillnitz), MdR (1st – 6th and 8th periods, constituency Dresden-Bautzen), USPD politician, from September 1922 SPD politician
  • Ernst Paul Weise (* 1880 in Niederhäslich, † 1981 in Berlin), commercial artist
  • Karl Hanusch (born May 9, 1881 in Niederhäslich, † November 19, 1969 in Dresden), painter and graphic artist
  • Gustav Adolf Schaffer (born November 14, 1881 in Niederhäslich, † June 28, 1937 in Chemnitz), painter
  • Emil Zimmermann (born February 27, 1885 in Deuben, † January 22, 1966 in Radebeul), politician (SPD, USPD and SED ), member of the Oldenburg State Parliament
  • Walter Wilhelm (born March 5, 1886; † unknown, after 1945), Saxon Minister of Economics
  • Otto Schleinitz (born May 5, 1886 in Kleinnaundorf; † December 20, 1951 in Freital), politician (SPD)
  • Adolf Kurt Uhlig (born May 15, 1888 in Coßmannsdorf; † March 7, 1958 in Frankfurt / Main), teacher, MdR (6th – 8th Reichstag) constituency 30 (Chemnitz-Zwickau), SPD politician
  • Hermann Lange (born June 2, 1890 in Niederhäslich, † December 3, 1939 in Burgk), painter and graphic artist
  • Georg Bellmann (born October 13, 1891 in Somsdorf; † 1946) politician ( DVP ), member of the Reichstag
  • Max Militzer (born January 23, 1894 - † December 2, 1971 in Bautzen), botanist
  • Margarete Hahn (born November 5, 1898 in Potschappel, † August 19, 1981 in Dresden), trade unionist

1901 to 1950

Max Manfred Queißer, cultural sociologist and painter
Ina-Maria Federowski, singer
  • Felix Bauer (born May 27, 1903 in Deuben, † February 25, 1976 in Freital), ornithologist
  • Walter Henke (born January 10, 1905 in Niederpesterwitz, † March 10, 1991 in Freital), chess composer
  • Gerhard Possner (born May 6, 1909 in Niederhermsdorf; † October 20, 1944 in Munich), member or supporter of the resistance group around Franz Zielasko
  • Hans Petzsch (born March 27, 1910 in Pesterwitz, † October 10, 1974 in Halle (Saale)), zoologist and zoo director
  • Charlotte Kroll (born March 6, 1922 - † December 13, 2016), concentration camp prisoner and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • Helmut Weihrauch (born November 8, 1922 - † November 20, 2006), politician (SED), deputy minister
  • Max Manfred Queißer (born February 15, 1927 in Freital; † May 4, 2016 in Radebeul), cultural sociologist and painter
  • Helmut Otto (born April 6, 1927), historian
  • Gerhard Patzig (born September 4, 1927 - † July 29, 2009), art dealer and painter
  • Hans Glauche (born February 7, 1928 - † August 9, 1981), actor at the Dresdner Herkuleskeule
  • Achim Schmidtchen (born April 25, 1928 in Wurgwitz; † December 18, 1997 in Dresden), actor
  • Hans Schuster (born December 4, 1928 - September 19, 2009), sports scientist and university lecturer
  • Hans Rohleder (born May 22, 1929 in Freital; † January 21, 2011 in Schkeuditz), physicist
  • Rolf Opitz (born August 3, 1929 in Weißig; † May 11, 2006), politician (SED)
  • Joachim Klapczynski (born September 15, 1929 - † September 10, 2006 in Sanne), politician of the LDPD and mayor of Eisenach
  • Hans Zukunft (born September 16, 1929), officer in the National People's Army
  • Harry Pietzsch (born December 9, 1929 - September 9, 2003), film and theater actor at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
  • Siegbert Löschau (born December 13, 1929 in Weißig; † September 6, 2014), politician (SED), Minister for the Chemical Industry of the GDR
  • Ulrich Heber (born October 25, 1930; † June 12, 2016), Professor of Botany at the University of Würzburg
  • Lothar Fischer (* 1932), art historian and writer
  • Wolfgang Preissler (* 1932), musician and composer
  • Lothar Englert (born July 18, 1933 in Hainsberg; † October 3, 2015 in Schwedt / Oder), engineer and politician (SPD)
  • Detlef Gojowy (born October 7, 1934 - † October 12, 2008 in Remagen), musicologist
  • Dieter Johannes Bellmann (born November 4, 1934 - † December 9, 1997 in Leipzig), Arabist
  • Hans-Jörg Schramm (born July 7, 1935 - † October 20, 2015), politician (CDU)
  • Frank Müller-Römer (born March 24, 1936 in Hainsberg), media expert and Egyptologist
  • Siegfried Mühle (born April 23, 1937), military scientist and genealogist, Friedrich Engels Prize winner
  • Günter Trepte (born February 25, 1938 - † December 30, 2014), university professor and member of the state parliament
  • Peter Fritzsche (born May 30, 1938), sculptor and sculptor
  • Klaus Zieschang (* 1939), sports scientist and university professor
  • Cornelius Schnauber (born April 18, 1939 - February 21, 2014 in Los Angeles), literary scholar, author
  • Peter "Mampe" Ludewig (born July 22, 1941), musician, singer and percussionist in the rock band Electra
  • Knut Richter (born May 31, 1943), economist
  • Klaus Emmerich (born August 10, 1943), television and theater director as well as screenwriter and actor
  • Bernd Schubert (born May 14, 1945), athletics trainer
  • Rainer Bach (born March 13, 1946 - December 31, 2019), caricaturist, graphic artist, illustrator and cartoonist
  • Helmar Federowski (born May 3, 1946), musician
  • Andreas Wilhelm (born February 3, 1947 in Hainsberg), conductor and pianist
  • Wolfgang Petrovsky (born June 4, 1947 in Hainsberg), painter and graphic artist
  • Ina-Maria Federowski (born September 28, 1949 - † July 13, 2017 in Berlin), singer
  • Werther Lohse (born May 17, 1950), rock musician

From 1951

Kerstin Tzscherlich, volleyball player
Tom Starke, soccer player

Personalities who have worked on site

EFW Lindig
Heinrich Zille, painting by Erich Büttner (black and white photo of the painting)
  • Carl Wilhelm von Oppel (born March 3, 1767 in Freiberg, † November 22, 1833 in Dresden), royal Saxon civil servant, member of the state parliament, Bergrat
  • Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Lindig (born August 23, 1779 in Groß Kamsdorf; † March 4, 1852 in Zauckerode), mining pioneer and inventor of coal washing
  • Adolf Theodor Roscher (born January 20, 1782 in Großenhain, † January 20, 1861 in Döhlen), founder of the Döhlen glass factory
  • Gottfried Reichard (born March 26, 1786 in Braunschweig, † March 27, 1844 in Döhlen), chemist and balloonist
  • Wilhelmine Reichard (born April 2, 1788 in Braunschweig, † February 23, 1848 in Dresden), first German balloonist
  • Carl Friedrich August Freiherr Dathe von Burgk (born April 29, 1791 in Dresden, † July 26, 1872 in Dresden), industrialist, coal baron
  • Carl Gottlieb Thieme (born September 12, 1823 in Niederjahna, † March 18, 1888 in Potschappel), porcelain manufacturer ( Dresden porcelain )
  • Heinrich Zille (born January 10, 1858 in Dresden, † August 9, 1929 in Berlin), lived in Potschappel in 1865
  • Karl Schmidtchen (born November 26, 1858 in Oberzug near Freiberg; † November 15, 1923), managing director of the Consumverein Potschappel, 1903 member of the first board of the Central Association of German Consumers
  • Ernst Robert Rudelt (born January 21, 1860 in Leisnig; † February 15, 1935 in Dresden), Deubens community leader and member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Hermann Wolf (born May 13, 1861 in Großwaltersdorf; † January 29, 1939 in Freital), German teacher and natural healer, founder of a natural healing association in Plauenschen Grund
  • Alphons Schneegans (born December 12, 1867 in Strasbourg; † June 27, 1946 in Freital), architect, involved in the architecture manual
  • Wolfgang Schumann (born August 22, 1887 in Dresden, † April 22, 1964 in Freital), journalist, writer
  • Fritz Puder (* 1891; † 1951), puppet player in Deuben
  • Willy Franz Gerber (born April 21, 1895 in Dresden; † May 9, 1980 in Freital), Superintendent in Chemnitz, Protestant Oberlandeskirchenrat
  • Carl Pouva (born November 21, 1903, † January 16, 1989 in Freital), entrepreneur, camera manufacturer in Freital
  • Richard Hofmann (born February 8, 1906 in Meerane; † May 5, 1983 in Freital), football player at Dresdner SC, national player 1927–1933, sports official
  • Ernst Baumann (born March 25, 1907 in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb .; † October 7, 1993), director of the folk music school
  • Rolf Becker (born March 6, 1929 in Dresden; † March 4, 2008 in Pesterwitz), folk artist, "Knete-Becker"
  • Ralf Thomas (born July 31, 1932 in Wurzen; † September 17, 2018), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, publicist, author, historian and local politician (CDU), city councilor in Freital
  • Georg Bartholomay (* 1937; † March 28, 2000 in Freital), garden expert in Freital, head of the Freital-Hainsberg garden center
  • Klaus-Peter Arnold (* 1939), art historian, head of the Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in Dresden
  • Rudolf Polley (* 1943), member of the city council and district administrator of the Freital district
  • Olaf Stoy (born June 20, 1959 in Dippoldiswalde), porcelain artist and author
  • Stephan Loge (born July 18, 1959 in Görlitz), politician (SPD), second mayor and mayor candidate in Freital

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dresden porcelain