List of personalities from the city of Geyer
The list of personalities of the city of Geyer contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Geyer in the Ore Mountains . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of the city, who were born here or who worked and died in Geyer.
sons and daughters of the town
The following overview contains people who were born in the city of Geyer:
- Johann Ehrenhold Ullmann (1779–1831), Saxon mountain ridge and Polish mining captain
- Carl Wilhelm Blüher (1790–1857), lawyer and politician
- Hermann Theodor Haustein (1814–1873), lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Ottomar Blüher (1824–1891), lawyer and politician, MdL
- Karl Demmler (1841–1930), politician (SPD), MdL
- Maximilian Weigel (1881 – after 1950), lawyer, politician ( DDP , LDPD ) and dialect poet of the Ore Mountains
- Walter Fröbe (1889–1946), local history researcher
- Kuno Klötzer (1922–2011), soccer player and coach
- Manfred Pollmer (1922–2000), dialect poet and local researcher
- Gerhard Weigert (* 1924), trade unionist and Lower Saxony politician of the SPD
- Helmar Junghans (1931–2010), theologian and church historian
- Karl Thierfelder (* 1933), athlete
- Christine Nestler (* 1940), cross-country skier
- Lothar Handschack (* 1948), lawyer and city councilor in Geyer, member of the first freely elected people 's chamber of the GDR, Member of the Bundestag
- Terence Weber (* 1996), Nordic combined athlete
Honorary citizen
The following overview contains people who have received honorary citizenship from the city of Geyer . The list is based on the date of award; before 1945 the list is still incomplete.
- 1895 Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), founder and first chancellor of the German Empire
- 1924 Karl Demmler (1841–1930), leading social democratic politician in Geyer
- 2018 Eric Frenzel (* 1988), Nordic combined athlete
Other personalities
The following people were not born in Geyer, but they worked in Geyer:
- Adam Ries (1492–1559), arithmetic master, worked from 1533–1539 as a tithe in the mining office in Geyer
- Hieronymus Lotter (1497–1580), first chief architect of Augustusburg Palace , died on July 22, 1580 in Geyer ("Lotterhof")
- Evan Evans (1765–1844), British mechanical engineer, builder of the Siebenhöfen spinning mill,
- Eli Evans (1805–1882), entrepreneur in Siebenhöfen and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- Gustav Zschierlich (1837–1925), owner of a paint factory in Geyer and a conservative politician, Member of the State Parliament
- Karl Demmler (1841–1930), social democratic politician
- Hermann Lungwitz (1845–1927), senior teacher in Geyer and local history researcher
Individual evidence
- ↑ luka: Eric Frenzel made an honorary citizen . In: Free Press, Zwickauer Zeitung . May 5, 2018, p. 21 .