List of personalities of the city of Geithain

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The list of personalities of the city of Geithain contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city ​​of Geithain in the Leipzig district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in Geithain and today's districts or who worked here.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Geithain see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

  • Louis Petermann (born August 13, 1870, † March 22, 1964), school director in Geithain
  • September 1995 Virginia Vanderbilt, granddaughter of industrialist and school founder Paul Guenther

sons and daughters of the town

  • Nikolaus von Bibra (Nicolaus de Gyten) (* 1st quarter of the 13th century - after 1307), capitular of the Bibra collegiate church, wrote the Occultus Erfordensis from 1281, an important source for the history of Erfurt in the late 13th century. His place of birth is controversial. He writes about himself: " You who are from Geithain ".
  • Melchior von Ossa (1506–1557), lawyer and cameralist, born in Ossa
  • Atlas Crusius (1606–1679), Mayor of Chemnitz
  • Benjamin Hederich (1675–1748), lexicon and textbook author
  • Christian Tobias Damm (1699–1778), linguist who was school director in 1730 and deputy headmaster at the Köllnisches Gymnasium in 1742
  • Christian Gottlieb Berger (1764–1829), superintendent in Eisleben
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Berger (1844–1911), conservative politician, born in Seifersdorf
  • Reinhard Vollhardt (1858–1926), composer and cantor, born in Seifersdorf
  • Paul Guenther (1860–1932), American industrialist of German descent, emigrated to the USA in 1890, largest stocking manufacturer in the USA in 1910, factories a. a. in Dover, New Jersey, gave his hometown Geithain a school in 1925, which has been named after him since 1925, with interruptions from 1976 to 1990.
  • Richard Lange (1887–1963), politician (KPD), was a member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Walter Risse (1892–1965), officer, most recently lieutenant general in World War II
  • Henning Frenzel (* 1942), former national soccer player in the GDR
  • Peter Hentschel (* 1944), former cyclist, born in Kolka
  • Wolfgang Packhäuser (* 1951), actor
  • Roland Hammer (* 1952), former soccer player in the GDR league for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and BSG Chemie Böhlen

Personalities associated with the city

  • Sigfried Möckel (1923–1987), politician of the LDPD, from 1961 to 1974 mayor of Eisenach, previously from 1952 to 1953 employed by the council of the Geithain district
  • Dietmar Laue (* 1940), doctor and politician (CDU) and former member of the Saxon state parliament, was the mayor of the CDU in Geithain from 1975 to 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New board of directors at the Heimatverein Geithain. Retrieved May 5, 2019.