List of personalities 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
- May 14, 1540; † June 21, 1614 in Görlitz - Bartholomäus Scultetus ; Mayor, magistrate, cartographer, astronomer and mathematician
- 1556; † March 25, 1620 in Himmelwitz - Johannes Nucius ; composer
- August 25, 1563; † before 1620 in Breslau - Thomas Fritsch ; Clergyman and composer
- April 23, 1699; † November 27, 1764 in Görlitz - Gottfried Geyser ; Lutheran theologian
- May 8, 1703; † July 9, 1755 in Karlsbad - Johann Gottlob Harrer ; Composer and Thomas Cantor
- May 17, 1732; † May 6, 1796 in Görlitz - Johann Carl Gehler ; Doctor, anatomist and mineralogist
- January 12, 1740; † June 15, 1808 in Kiel - Samuel Gottfried Geyser ; Pedagogue and Protestant theologian
- August 20, 1742; † March 24, 1803 in Eutritzsch - Christian Gottlieb Geyser ; Painter and engraver
- September 12, 1742; † August 16, 1823 in Riga - Johann Christoph Brotze ; Pedagogue and ethnographer
- August 29, 1753; † March 9, 1833 - Johann Friedrich Dietrich ; royal Saxon commissioner, bailiff and author
- January 28, 1767; † 1807 - Christian August Struve ; Doctor, pharmacy owner and poet
- October 8, 1767; † February 24, 1840 - Johann Gottlieb Schober , clergyman
- November 23, 1798; † March 14, 1884 in Görlitz - Robert Oettel ; Founder of German pedigree poultry breeding
- September 12, 1800; † February 15, 1875 in Görlitz - Friedrich von Uechtritz ; Poet and lawyer
19th century
- 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
- 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
- 1942 - Hans-Jürgen Kaesler , lawyer and politician
- November 14, 1942; † July 4, 2014 - Hanna von Hoerner , astrophysicist and entrepreneur
- 1943 - Christa-Louise Riedel , artist
- Jan. 10, 1943 - Friederike Aust , actress and voice actress
- March 2, 1943; † December 7, 2019 - Wolfgang Winkler , actor
- March 29, 1943; † August 2, 2017 - Nikolaus Müller-Lantzsch , virologist and university professor
- June 22, 1943 - Maria Nordman , sculptor and conceptual artist
- November 6, 1943 - Eberhard Knobloch , science historian
- November 21, 1943 - Ulrich Strunz , internist, author and triathlete
- 1944 - Harald Herrmann , lawyer and university professor
- 1944 - Wolfgang Siegfried Herrmann , psycholinguist and university professor
- October 9, 1944 - Gunther Scholz , director and author
- November 8, 1949 - Axel Noack , Protestant theologian and bishop
- January 25, 1951 - Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner , soccer player and coach
- Aug. 06 , 1951 - Volker Bandmann , politician (CDU) and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Oct. 14, 1951 - Udo Nagel , politician
- Jan. 15, 1952 - Sylvia Kabus , director, writer and journalist
- Nov. 03 , 1952 - Joachim Kaps , father of Susanne Kaps , actor and voice actor
- May 11, 1953 - Helma Orosz , politician (CDU) and Lord Mayor of Dresden
- Nov. 14, 1953 - Walter Thomas Heyn , guitarist, composer and music producer
- 1955 - Eberhard Kittler , motor journalist and automobile historian
- Mar. 01, 1955 - Klaus-Peter Schwarz , Philosopher and Poet
- May 02, 1956 - Bernd Lange , politician (CDU) and district administrator of the Görlitz district
- Jan. 27, 1958 - Jethro D. Founder , Actor, Writer, Director and Horseman
- Mar. 24, 1958 - Joachim Paulick , Local Politician and Lord Mayor
- Jun. 17, 1959 - Ulrike Richter , swimmer
- Jul. 18, 1959 - Stephan Loge , politician and district administrator of the Dahme-Spreewald district
1961 to 1980
- Feb. 24, 1961 - Juana-Maria von Jascheroff , actress
- Aug. 18, 1961 - Thomas R. Elßner , Catholic theologian
- Sep. 23, 1961 - Axel Noack , track and field athlete and Olympian
- June 19, 1962 - Thomas Jurk , politician (SPD)
- Jul. 28, 1962 - Torsten Gütschow , soccer player and coach
- Jul. 29, 1962 - Gerd Seifert , soccer player
- March 11, 1963 - Olaf Raschke , local politician (independent), Lord Mayor of Meissen since 2004
- 1964 - Frank Nitsche , artist
- 1966 - Torsten Hofmann , opera singer
- 1966 - Daniel Sambo-Richter , artist
- Jan. 07 , 1966 - Heiko Scholz , soccer player and coach
- Oct.10, 1967 - Thomas Ritter , Soccer Player
- Jan. 25, 1967 - Stephan Winkler , composer and conductor
- Jan. 31, 1968 - André Bauer , musical artist and stage actor
- Mar. 24, 1968 - Tobias Moser , biomedical scientist and Leibniz Prize winner
- 1969 - Markus Draper , artist
- Mar. 04 , 1969 - Matthias Kahle , rally driver
- Aug. 25, 1969 - Enrico Poitschke , racing cyclist
- Dec. 06 , 1972 - Holger Szymanski , politician (NPD) and former member of the state parliament of Saxony
- Mar. 05 , 1974 - Jens Jeremies , Soccer Player
- Sep. 12, 1974 - Stephan Rauhut , CDU politician, businessman and entrepreneur
- Nov. 21, 1974 - André Schulze , racing cyclist
- 1975 - Malte Mienert , psychologist, professor and author
- 1975 - Daniel Scholz , actor
- May 07, 1975 - Michael Kretschmer , politician (CDU), MdB, Prime Minister of Saxony
- Sept. 26, 1976 - Michael Ballack , Soccer Player
- May 22, 1977 - Torsten Nitsche , racing cyclist
- Nov. 04, 1977 - Toma Moon ( Thomas Barth ), record producer, composer and musician
- 1979 - Stefan Kießling , concert organist
- Feb. 07 , 1980 - Simon Beeck , radio and television presenter
- Aug. 19, 1980 - Thomas Richter , soccer goalkeeper
1981 to 2000
- Feb. 21, 1982 - Robert Kampka , football referee
- Feb. 25, 1982 - Lars Kaufmann , handball player
- Nov. 28, 1982 - Sebastian Wippel , Police Commissioner and Politician (AfD)
- 1986 - Ludwig Scheetz , politician (SPD)
- December 25, 1988 - Felix Bräuer , German-Sorbian church musician, organist and composer
- May 13, 1989 - Julia Rohde , weightlifter
- September 28, 1989 - Marcus Groß , canoeist
- 1990 - August Klar , cabaret artist and poetry slammer
- Mar. 03, 1997 - Nick Schwarz , actor, musician and YouTuber
- Feb. 22, 1998 - Maximilian Adam , ice hockey player
- Mar. 1, 2000 - Paul Horschig , soccer player
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
- Saint Hedwig von Andechs (also: Hedwig von Schlesien, Polish: Jadwiga Śląska; 1174–1243), Duchess of Silesia and patron saint of the city of Görlitz
- Johann von Görlitz (1370–1396), only Duke of Görlitz
- Johannes Ready (* ≈1400 in Jüterbog; † 1472 in Görlitz), Görlitz town clerk
- Georg Emmerich (1422–1507), businessman, mayor
- Conrad Pflüger (≈1450–1506 / 07), architect and master builder of the late Gothic, city architect in Görlitz
- Johannes Frauenburg (1430–1495), town clerk and later mayor
- Agnes Finger or Agnete Fingerin († ≈1514), pilgrim traveler and important woman in medieval Görlitz history
- Wendel Roskopf the Elder (1480–1549), council member, council builder, stonemason and builder of the Schönhof
- Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), mystic, philosopher and Christian theosophist
- Andreas Gryphius (1616–1664), poet and playwright of the Baroque; attended school in Görlitz
- Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651–1708), natural scientist at the beginning of the Enlightenment
- Christian Ludwig Boxberg (1670–1729), composer and organist, from 1702 at the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Görlitz.
- Christian Nicolaus Naumann (1720–1797), poet of the Anacreontics, the Enlightenment and the early Sturm und Drang
- Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804), composer, music writer and conductor
- Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755–1818), Polish general and national hero; was stationed in Görlitz for four years
- Hans Karl von Winterfeldt (1707–1757), Prussian general and general, s. also Winterfeldt barracks in Görlitz
- Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich Fielitz the Younger (1774–1813), city physician and editor of the "Vaterländische monthly magazine, initially for both Lusatia, for the year 1813"
- Karl Gottlieb Anton (1778–1861), classical philologist
- Minna Herzlieb (1789–1865), muse of Goethe and Herders; Died in the mental institution on Kahlbaumallee
19th century
- 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