List of personalities of the city of Glauchau

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Coat of arms of the city of Glauchau

The list of personalities of the city of Glauchau contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city ​​of Glauchau in the district of Zwickau . These are personalities who are honorary citizens or who have received the medal of honor from the city of Glauchau, who were born or died here or who worked in Glauchau.

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

Honorary citizen

Friedrich Wilhelm Pfotenhauer (around 1870)

Three streets commemorate Glauchau's honorary citizens: Martini- and Paul-Geipel-Straße in the central part of the city and Hans-Lorenz-Straße at the Leipziger Platz roundabout.

Winner of the Medal of Honor of the Great District Town of Glauchau

  • 2007: Günther Müller (1925–2020), conductor, music teacher and musicologist. In 1990 Günther Müller received the Robert Schumann Prize from the city of Zwickau.
  • 2009: Jürgen Klein, chairman of the Glauchau Kneipp association, Jürgen Klein
  • 2010: Manfred Hübsch , for his services in setting up and establishing the Saxony Study Academy in Glauchau
  • 2011: Klaus Klötzner, City Councilor of Glauchau (CDU), member of the supervisory board of Glauchau Holding GmbH, member of the technical and environmental committee of the city of Glauchau, chairman of the automobile and motorcycle club "Sachsenring", board member of ADAC Sachsen, district chairman of MIT and member of the tourism association Zwickau
  • 2015: Klaus Schiller, ophthalmologist for people in the Third World, especially Africa, member of the Lions Club Glauchau
  • 2017: Andreas Keller, chairman and founding member of the association “Die Schönburger” e. V. - first Saxon flag thrower
  • 2018: Bernhard Schareck , chairman of the "Gräflich Schönburgischen Schlosscompagnie" association

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Glauchau or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Glauchau is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

Georgius Agricola
Christian Samuel Barth (around 1780)

19th century personalities

Hilmar Knorr (around 1885)

20th century personalities

Paul Schnurrbusch (1911)
Leopold Wolf (1959)
Heike Friedrich (1986)
  • Richard Schumann (1864–1945), geodesist and astronomer
  • Paul Kersten (1865–1943), art bookbinder, university professor and author of numerous specialist publications
  • Otto Voss (1869–1959), ENT doctor and university professor
  • Magnus Haack (1869–1931), SPD politician and trade unionist
  • Max Günther (1871–1934), SPD politician and trade unionist
  • Ernst Lucke (1873 – after 1942), craftsman (wood turner) and politician (economic party)
  • Rudolph Schneider (1876–1933), economist, manager and politician (DVP)
  • Paul Hartenstein (1878–?), Actor, director and theater manager, born in Gesau
  • Curt Woyte (1879–?), Classical philologist and high school teacher
  • Max Ludwig (1882–1945), conductor, organist, choir director, composer and university professor
  • Frances Magnus (1882–1969), DVP politician
  • Paul Schnurrbusch (1884–1973), violinist and concertmaster at the Landestheater Darmstadt, born in Gesau
  • Friedrich Schaarschmidt (1892–1983), engineer, manager and entrepreneur
  • Erich Fraaß (1893–1974), painter
  • Alfred Stange (1894–1968), art historian
  • Leopold Wolf (1896–1974), chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Leipzig, born in Niederlungwitz
  • Fritz Schminke (1897–1971), entrepreneur and builder of the Schminke family
  • Marianne Meyfarth (1898 – before 1992), sculptor, porcelain painter and art teacher
  • Walter Delius (1899–1972), Protestant theologian and church historian
  • Martin Ritter (1905–2001), painter and graphic artist who is one of the expressive realism artists of the lost generation
  • Otto Wilhelm (1906–1975), engineer and professor of drive technology
  • Walter Schlesinger (1908–1984), historian of state and constitutional history
  • Gotthard Paulus (1912–1977), lawyer and university lecturer
  • Gerhard Flämig (1919–2011), SPD politician
  • Reinhard Walter Kaplan (* 1921), microbiologist
  • Gerd Enders (1924–2016), handball coach
  • Joachim Boessneck (1925–1991), archaeozoologist and historian of veterinary medicine
  • Gottfried Engelmann (1926–2006), economist and member of the Volkskammer 1971–1989
  • Ruth Knorr (1927–1978), book graphic artist
  • Joachim Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (1929–1998), hunting author, member of the Bundestag for the CDU 1990–1994
  • Gerhard Ebert (* 1930), journalist, theater scholar, theater critic and playwright.
  • Willy Holzmüller (* 1931), soccer player
  • Karl Clauss Dietel (* 1934), designer
  • Charlotte Bombal née Kempe (1935–2000), trade unionist (FDGB), chairwoman of the textile-clothing-leather industrial union and chairwoman of the FDGB's central revision committee
  • Bernhard Gentsch (1936–2016), historian, journalist and librarian
  • Wolfgang Haase (1936–2018), physical chemist and retired professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, born in Reinholdshain
  • Werner Engewald (* 1937), chemist (analytical chemistry)
  • Wolfgang Funke (1937–2009), writer
  • Dieter Erler (1939–1998), GDR soccer player
  • Peter Zacher (1939–2014), musicologist and journalist
  • Wilfried Täubner (1940–1994), architecture photographer, photo journalist, photo artist and gallery owner
  • Peter Büchner (* 1941), educational scientist and educational sociologist, who worked in research and teaching at the Philipps University of Marburg until 2007
  • Christine Spielberg (* 1941 in Niederlungwitz), track and field athlete
  • Gerhard Zachar (1945–1978), rock musician ( lift )
  • Fritz Böhme (1948–2013), sculptor
  • Andreas Scheibe (* 1951), former German sprinter who specialized in the 400 meter run and started for the GDR
  • Steffen Winkler (* 1952), director of the museum and the art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau
  • Thomas-Bernd Quaas (* 1952), manager and was CEO of Beiersdorf AG from 2005 to 2012
  • Joachim Schindler (* 1954), politician (SPD), former member of the Saxon state parliament and university professor
  • Christoph Scheurer (* 1956), politician (CDU), district administrator of the Zwickau district
  • Ines Springer (* 1956), politician (CDU) and member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2009
  • Erik Hunker (* 1960), non-party politician
  • Andreas Karl (* 1963), politician (NPD)
  • Robby Joachim Götze (* 1964), curator of the Hinterglauchau Castle art collection
  • Jörg Jacob (* 1964), writer
  • Gerry Woop (* 1968), political scientist and political official (PDS, since 2007 Die Linke)
  • Torsten May (* 1969), professional boxer
  • Heike Friedrich (* 1970), swimmer who competed for the GDR

21st century personalities

Annalena Breitenbach (2016)

Three street names are dedicated to these people: Agricolastraße, Schönburgstraße and Erich-Fraaß-Straße.

Personalities who died in Glauchau

Thomas Kurzhals (2011)

Personalities associated with the city

Heike Dähne (1979)
  • Christian Albert Schiffner (1792–1873), geographer, writer and lexicographer
  • Wilhelm Pfotenhauer (1812–1877), Glauchau mayor and later first lord mayor of Dresden
  • Heinrich-Carl Hedrich (1816–1900), founder of the Hedrich Column, from 1851 to 1858 unpaid city councilor and chairman of urban construction in Glauchau. During this time he developed plans for the first modern water pipeline in Glauchau. It is considered one of the first in Germany and was a model for the water pipes in cities such as Leipzig and Dresden.
  • Ottokar Dörffel (1818–1906), mayor of Glauchau, after his emigration mayor of Joinville, Brazil
  • Ernst Wilhelm Traugott Eckardt (1819–1892), chronicler of the city of Glauchau
  • Franz Heinrich Weißbach (1865–1944), ancient orientalist
  • Joachim Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (1873–1943), Count von Schönburg-Glauchau and Member of the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
  • Fritz Resch (1879–1956), important local historian, author of newspaper articles and books, a. a. 100 years of unified Glauchau (Glauchau, 1931)
  • Walter Flemming (1890–1947), lawyer, 1930–1945 Lord Mayor of Glauchau, initiator of the city and later castle museum
  • Albert Sixtus (1892–1960), author of books for children and young people
  • Friedrich von Zahn (1902–1993), ministerial official until 1943 with the Saxon administration in Glauchau
  • Johannes Feige (* 1931), painter, graphic artist, wood designer
  • Karl-Otto Stetter (* 1955), Mayor / Lord Mayor (1990–2008)
  • Heike Dähne-Kummerow (* 1961), swimmer and pharmacist
  • Alexander Graf von Schönburg-Glauchau (* 1969), journalist and writer as well as head of the Count's Glauchau branch of the Schönburg family

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 10 years ago - Granted honorary citizenship to Mr. Hans Lorenz
  2. ↑ Reported from the 98th (20th) meeting of the City Council on November 6, 2008
  3. ↑ Reported from the meeting of the city council on December 17, 2009
  4. ↑ News from Glauchau, 2011
  5. ↑ Review of the 2017 New Year's reception in the city of Glauchau
  6. ↑ Hof: Castle Company receives Medal of Honor. New Years Reception. Bernhard Schareck carries local history into the world. In: www.blick.de. January 12, 2018, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  7. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau, publisher: Enno Bünz, Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, Eckardt, Ernst in the register p. 147
  8. ↑ https://www.freipresse.de/zwickau/glauchau/verein-will-fritz-resch-wuerdigen-artikel9407768 ; accessed on July 16, 2020
  9. ^ Walter Schlesinger , edited by Thomas Lang: Contributions to the history of the city of Glauchau. Ed .: Enno Bünz. Thelem Verlag, Dresden 2010, information on Fritz Resch on p. 80. (bottom)
  10. ↑ Steffen Winkler: "In memory of Lord Mayor Dr.jur. Walter Flemming (1890-1947) - friend and sponsor of the Glauchau Museum", In: Series of publications, issue 10, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1994, pp. 73-79