List of personalities of the city of Frohburg
The list of personalities from the city of Frohburg contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Frohburg in the Leipzig district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in Frohburg and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Frohburg, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Ernest Schmitt (1855–1928), Royal Saxon Councilor of Commerce, founder of the textile printing company in Frohburg, a plaque on the cemetery commemorates him
- 1939 Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949), composer, conductor and author of political and theoretical writings
- 1953: Otto Nuschke (1883–1957), politician and CDU chairman in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR
sons and daughters of the town
- Christian Friedrich Bauer (1696–1752), Protestant theologian, born in Hopfgarten
- Wilhelm Gottfried Bauer (1779–1853), portrait painter
- Haubold von Einsiedel (1792–1867) manor owner, member of parliament and district administrator, born in Prießnitz
- Friedrich Adolf Voigt (1857–1939), classical philologist and high school teacher.
- Louis Schlegel (1858–1929), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag, member of the state parliament in Württemberg, born in Terpitz
- Johannes Schmidt (1861 in the district of Greifenhain –1926) classical philologist and grammar school teacher.
- Otto Richter (1873 – after 1944), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Johannes Mühler (1876–1952), cliché maker, professional and press photographer
- Otto Nuschke (1883–1957), politician and CDU chairman in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR
- Johannes Leipoldt (1900–1974), historian, museologist, field name researcher
- Guntram Vesper (* 1941), writer, his novel Frohburg received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2016 and the Erich Loest Prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2017
- Richard Schröder (* 1943), theologian and philosopher
- Norbert Warnatzsch (* 1947 in the Nenkersdorf district), swimming coach
- Christoph Poland (* 1949), politician (CDU) and member of the German Bundestag
- Jochen Rudi (* 1949), businessman and former president of 1. FC Dynamo Dresden.
- Reinhard Wosniak (1953–2020), writer
- Rainer Müller (* 1966), historian and civil rights
Personalities associated with the city
- Kunz von Kauffungen (* 1410 in Kauffungen; † 1455 in Freiberg), Saxon nobleman, initiator of the Altenburg prince robbery , is said to have lived in Wolftitz Castle from 1552 to 1555
- Friedrich Carl von Pöllnitz (* 1682 in Zeitz; † 1760 at Gut Benndorf), landowner on Benndorf, electoral-Polish high court marshal and lover of Duchess Henriette Charlotte of Saxony-Merseburg , as well as cathedral dean of Meissen.
- Georg Heinrich Barth (* 1703 in Glaucha; † 1786), Pator in Frohburg
- Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus von Hardenberg (* 1738 in Oberwiederstedt, † 1814 in Weißenfels), Saline director of the Electoral Saxony. He was the father of the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) and inherited the manor Frohburg
- Siegfried Leberecht Crusius (1738–1824), bookseller and publisher
- Wilhelm Crusius (1790–1858), farmer and agricultural reformer in Saxony
- Johann Paul von Falkenstein (* 1801 in Pegau, † 1882 in Dresden), conservative Saxon lawyer, administrative officer and politician, had a country estate in Frohburg
- Werner Stein (* 1855 in Braunschweig; † 1930 in Streitwald), sculptor, had his retirement home in Streitwald near Frohburg
- Friedrich Krug von Nidda and von Falkenstein (* 1860 in Dresden, † 1934 in Frohburg), administrative lawyer and politician (DNVP) in Saxony, Frohburg Castle was his ancestral home
- Hans Pfitzner (* 1869 in Moscow; † 1949 in Salzburg), composer, conductor and author of political and theoretical writings
- Kurt Feuerriegel (* 1880 in Meißen; † 1961 in Frohburg), one of the most important art ceramists of the 20th century in Saxony, had his ceramic workshop in Frohburg
- Ernst Julius Vesper (* 1866 in Reinsberg near Freiberg, † 1956 in Frohburg), wrote his veterinary dissertation in 1924 on Borna disease in horses; veterinarian for many years in Frohburg and the surrounding area, grandfather of the writer Guntram Vesper
- Conrad Felixmüller (* 1897 in Dresden; † 1977 in Berlin-Zehlendorf), painter, lived in Tautenhain from 1944 to 1967 and created the gallery paintings for the church there in 1951/52
- Fritz-Karl Bartnig (* 1926 in Dirschken; † 1988) politician (CDU)
- Georg-Ludwig von Breitenbuch (* 1971), politician (CDU), MdL, board member of the agricultural cooperative Kohrener Land eG, lives in Kohren-Sahlis