List of personalities of the city of Görlitz

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Coat of arms of the city of Görlitz

In the centuries of its history , Görlitz was thebirthplace, place of work and death of numerous important personalities.

Well-known people born in Görlitz

The following overview contains nationwide known people born in Görlitz, regardless of whether they later had their sphere of activity in Görlitz, listed chronologically according to the year of birth.

Until 1800

Oettel monument in Görlitz

19th century

Lithograph by Friedrich von Uechtritz
  • May 6, 1804; † April 1, 1870 in Görlitz - Johann Carl Otto Jancke , librarian
  • June 18, 1805; † May 7, 1876 in Görlitz - David Richter , researcher, builder of numerous astronomical models and devices
  • May 12, 1807; † 1883 in Görlitz - Gustav Kießler , master bricklayer and building contractor; involved in the construction of the Görlitz theater, the first Görlitz train station and the Neisse viaduct
  • May 7, 1823; † August 12, 1856 in Görlitz - Theodor Neumann , local historian and magazine editor
  • September 5, 1827; † October 4, 1910 in Potsdam - Constantin Richter , senior official in the Reichsmarineamt
  • September 22, 1835; † June 1, 1916 in Dresden - Rudolf Heyn , architect and university professor, rector of the Dresden University of Technology
  • March 2, 1843; † August 7, 1922 in Breslau - Richard Foerster , classical philologist, archaeologist and art historian
  • August 22, 1848; † January 14, 1922 in Belgrade - Pavle Jurišić Šturm (actually Paulus Eugen Sturm), Field Marshal General in the Kingdom of Serbia
  • July 31, 1855; † August 11, 1943 in Lübeck - Wilhelm Ohnesorge , teacher and researcher
  • August 22, 1856; † October 15, 1936 in Mehlem (today part of Bonn) - Karl Friedrich Küstner , astronomer
  • July 8, 1857; † June 29, 1940 in Hanover - Bruno Krusch , historian and archivist
  • December 6, 1857; † February 9, 1945 in Berlin - Alfred Ludwig Wieruszowski , lawyer of Jewish origin, President of the Senate at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and professor at the University of Cologne
  • November 25, 1858; † December 15, 1926 in Baltimore - Paul Haupt , German-American Assyriologist and Bible researcher
  • July 18, 1859; † December 30, 1930 in Görlitz - Friedrich Paul Gerhard Röhr , architect
  • September 9, 1864; † June 5, 1913 in Heidelberg - Georg Paul Max Dittrich , chemist and university professor
  • January 10, 1867; † July 1, 1941 in Markkleeberg - Paul Rehme , lawyer and university professor
  • March 8, 1869; † May 3, 1939 in Berlin - Paul Krusch , geologist
  • June 23, 1869; † 1942 in Lund / Sweden - Albert Blau , specialist in ear, nose and throat diseases
  • December 2, 1869; † January 12, 1947 in Birmingham / England - Jonas Cohn , philosopher and educator
  • February 21, 1871; † January 7, 1926 in Berlin - Paul Cassirer , publisher and gallery owner
  • July 6, 1872; † April 2, 1932 in Görlitz - Georg Foertsch , publisher, editor-in-chief and publicist
  • May 16, 1874; † January 20, 1941 in Göttingen - Max Reich , physicist
  • December 21, 1876; † December 3, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp - Fritz Lamm , lawyer
  • July 26, 1879; † August 13, 1945 in Görlitz - Alfred Fehler , Lord Mayor
  • August 9, 1879; † February 4, 1946 in Berlin - Erich Flatau , local politician and trade unionist
  • November 12, 1879; June 26, 1970 in Munich - Wilhelm Schubert , officer
  • April 19, 1880; † June 30, 1946 in Dresden - Siegfried Berndt , graphic artist and painter
  • May 14, 1880; † November 28, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau - Elsbeth Ebertin , astrologer, graphologist and writer
  • August 15, 1881; † August 26, 1956 in Illinois - Alfred Wagenknecht , American Marxist politician.
  • January 30, 1883; † June 11, 1933 in Vienna - Hildegard Burjan , Austrian social politician and the founder of the Caritas Socialis sister community
  • June 14, 1885; † July 11, 1969 in Soest - Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze , Protestant theologian, pioneer of the peace movement
  • November 28, 1885; † September 6, 1950 in Erfurt - Marie Elise Kayser , founder of the human milk collection points
  • April 13, 1887; † January 14, 1949 in Stuttgart - Georg Elsner , Saxon Minister for Labor and Welfare
  • February 6, 1889; † January 7, 1960 in Berlin - Hans Bellée , archivist and historian
  • February 16, 1890; † May 21, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee - Kurt Steffelbauer , trade unionist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • October 2, 1893; † February 4, 1972 in Düsseldorf - Walther Düvert , Lieutenant General in World War II
  • March 26, 1894; † June 16, 1969 in Dresden - Arthur Ullrich , member of the Reichstag and anti-fascist
  • January 7, 1897; † May 1, 1960 in Bühl (Baden) - Ewald Hoinkis , photographer
  • June 19, 1898; † 14 October 1956 in Bonn - Benno von Arent , architect and in the era of National Socialism Reichsbühnenbildner
  • July 28, 1899; † approx. 1980 - Kurt Eimann , SS-Obersturmbannführer and war criminal
  • March 22, 1900; † June 15, 1970 in Berlin - Arthur Pohl , set designer, director and screenwriter
  • August 17, 1900; † April 24, 1974 in Braunschweig - Arno Keil , actor and director

20th century

1901 to 1920

Werner Finck
  • January 9, 1901; died March 28, 1947 in Bern, Switzerland - Ilse Salberg , photographer, art patron and entrepreneur
  • January 24, 1902; † July 26, 1977 in Princeton, USA - Oskar Morgenstern , Austrian economist
  • May 2, 1902; † July 31, 1978 in Munich - Werner Finck , cabaret artist, actor and writer
  • May 5, 1902; † October 21, 1989 in West Berlin - Carl-Albert Maria Brüll , lawyer
  • July 31, 1903; † February 1, 1944 in Warsaw - Albrecht Eitner , lawyer and notary, defense officer
  • May 23, 1904; † April 19, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau - Heinz Loßnitzer , meteorologist
  • August 7, 1905; † October 8, 1982 - Karl Würzburg , resistance fighter and honorary citizen
  • October 8, 1905; † February 1990 - Günther Bornkamm , theologian (New Testament scholar)
  • February 7, 1907; † February 16, 1996 - Willy Gumprecht , photographer
  • February 6, 1908; † July 15, 1980 in Munich - Georg Hurdalek , screenwriter and film director
  • October 13, 1908; † December 27, 1980 in Hamburg - Fritz Schröder-Jahn , radio play director, actor and speaker
  • January 6, 1909; † February 14, 1996 in Wiesbaden - Martin Jente , journalist, actor and television producer
  • May 8, 1910; † June 3, 2004 in Jerusalem - Else Levi-Mühsam , daughter of Paul Mühsam , director of the Dr.-Erich-Bloch-und-Lebenheim-Bibliothek (Judaica) of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Konstanz
  • May 20, 1910; † January 28, 2002 in Heidelberg - Herbert Hirche , architect, furniture and product designer
  • March 11, 1912; † January 5, 1984 in Bonn - Hanns-Gero von Lindeiner called von Wildau , forester, hunter, diplomat and politician
  • September 21, 1912; † December 7, 1992 in Teltow - Herbert Hoffmann , politician, member of the Thuringian state parliament and the People's Chamber of the GDR
  • September 17, 1913; † February 6, 1995 in Vienna - Mira Lobe , Austrian children's book author
  • December 14, 1913; † April 8, 1993 in Berlin - Fritz Bernhard , physicist
  • April 17, 1917; † March 25, 2002 in Zempin on Usedom - Kurt Heinz Sieger , painter and graphic artist
  • April 15, 1919; † January 7, 2003 in Esslingen am Neckar - Sebastian von Hoerner , astrophysicist and radio astronomer
  • August 19, 1920; † January 6, 1982 in Berlin-Pankow - Siegfried Seibt , actor and voice actor

1921 to 1940

  • August 16, 1921; † December 4, 2010 in Berlin - Christa Cremer , painter, graphic artist, sculptor and ceramicist
  • June 10, 1922 - Annemarie Hahn , author and art historian, born Annemarie Holz
  • September 9, 1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt , physicist and Nobel Prize winner
  • February 22, 1923; † April 8, 2009 in Greifswald - Günter Möbus , geologist
  • April 23, 1923; † February 3, 2006 in Bad Oeynhausen - Reinhart Koselleck , historian
  • June 2, 1923; † 2003 - Peter Hirche , writer and radio play author
  • August 20, 1926 † 1995 in Rostock - Gerhard Grümmer , biologist, writer and editor
  • October 6, 1926; † January 4, 2001 in Madeira - Erika Wisselinck , feminist journalist and publicist
  • July 8, 1927; † May 2, 2008 in Hanover - Alexander May , actor, screenwriter, director and producer
  • October 15, 1927; † August 9, 2016 in Ravensburg - Wolfgang Marcus , university professor and politician
  • January 25, 1929; † October 2, 2018 in Mannheim - Jochen Brauer , jazz and entertainment musician
  • February 7, 1929 - Günter Kootz , pianist and university professor
  • May 15, 1929; † November 11, 2008 in Berlin - Dieter Schubert , writer
  • June 13, 1929; † August 29, 2019 - Gero Gandert , film scholar
  • November 21, 1929 - Dettmar Cramer , journalist and director of Deutschlandfunk
  • February 15, 1930; † January 8, 2019 - Georg Zur , Catholic Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio in Austria
  • April 25, 1931; † January 17, 2018 in Görlitz - Peter Schicketanz , Protestant theologian
  • March 17, 1936; † December 21, 2011 in Berlin - Jürgen Hentsch , actor
  • January 24, 1938 - Dieter Hartmann , athlete
  • September 23, 1938 - Doris Herrmann , politician
  • December 31, 1938 - Robert B. Heimann , mineralogist and materials scientist
  • October 23, 1939 - Klaus Bittner , rower
  • November 12, 1939 in Biesnitz - Peter Hohberger , sculptor
  • October 29, 1940 - Rolf Karbaum , retired Lord Mayor D. of the city

1941 to 1960

Helma Orosz

1961 to 1980

Thomas Jurk

1981 to 2000

Personalities associated with the city

Overview of people who lived and worked in Görlitz or are otherwise connected to the city, but were not born here. The persons are listed chronologically according to the year of birth.

Until 1800

Jakob Boehme

19th century

Bust of Johannes Wüsten on the Dr. Kahlbaum-Allee and Johannes-Wüsten-Straße
  • Johann Christoph Lüders (1803–1872), industrialist, industrial pioneer and local politician; Founder of wagon construction in Görlitz
  • Ludwig Ferdinand Wilhelmy (1812–1864), scientist and founder of the Schuster & Wilhelmy colored glass works in Görlitz
  • Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828–1899), psychiatrist; Founder of the sanatorium for epileptics on Obermühlberg
  • Paul von Gersdorf (1835-1915), Catholic Apostolic Community Bishop (angel)
  • Maria Albrecht (1850–1923), writer
  • Robert Koldewey (1855–1925), architect, archaeologist and founder of modern historical building research; Teacher at the building trade school in Görlitz
  • Otto Strasbourg (1862–1941), textile merchant; Builder of the Strasbourg Passage
  • Georg Friedrich Carl Rörig (1864–1941), agricultural scientist, agricultural zoologist and pioneer of bird protection
  • Conrad Heese (1872–1945), lawyer and councilor; his diary about the end of the war in 1945 was published
  • Otto Mueller (1874–1930), expressionist painter and lithographer; spent his youth in Görlitz
  • Paul Taubadel (1875–1937), politician (SPD) and editor at the Görlitzer Volkszeitung
  • Erna von Dobschütz (1876–1963), portrait painter
  • Emil Jannings (1884–1950), actor; grew up in Görlitz, among others
  • Johannes Wüsten (1896–1943), artist and writer; Head of the Görlitz engraving school, which revived Albrecht Dürer's technique

20th century

  • Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), writer; attended school in Görlitz
  • Alfred Schönfelder (1924–2020), music director at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater from 1955 to 1971
  • Wolfgang Böhmer (* 1936), politician (CDU), physician and Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt (2002 to 2011); Senior physician in the Görlitz women's clinic
  • Hans-Joachim Ketelsen (* 1945), opera singer; grew up in Görlitz
  • Stefan Plenkers (* 1945), painter and graphic artist; spent childhood and school in Görlitz
  • Hermann Goltz (1946–2010), theologian and Eastern church scholar; grew up in Görlitz and was a member of the board of trustees of the Evangelical Culture Foundation Görlitz
  • Bernhard Kremser (* 1954), sculptor, designer, graphic artist and actor; lives in Görlitz

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