List of personalities of the city of Greiz

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The list of personalities of the city of Greiz contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Thuringian city ​​of Greiz . These are personalities who are honorary citizens or bearers of the citizens' medal of Greiz, who were born or died here and who worked in Greiz.

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

Honorary citizen

  • 1895: Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
  • 1949: Georg Wille (1869–1958), cellist
  • 1973: Walter Kopp (1898–1973), Member of the Greiz City Council from 1925 to 1933 and Greiz Mayor from 1945 to 1950
  • 1992: Ulf Merbold (* 1941), astronaut
  • 1995: Reiner Kunze (* 1933), writer and literary translator

Bearer of the citizen medal of the city of Greiz

sons and daughters of the town

Until 1850

1851 to 1900

  • Manfred Wittich (1851–1902), writer, journalist and literary historian
  • Carl Röder (1854–1922), sculptor
  • Paul Dietel (1860-1947), mycologist
  • Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862–1914), composer
  • Max Kiesling (1866–1930), cellist, member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1892 to 1924, born in Pohlitz
  • William Oberländer (1869–1946), lawyer and politician
  • Felix Günther (1871–1952), industrialist
  • Curt Teich (1877–1974), American postcard king
  • Heinrich XXIV. (1878–1927), Prince Reuss older line, Count and Lord of Plauen, Lord of Greiz, Kranichfeld, Gera, Schleiz and Lobenstein
  • Alfred Oelßner (1879–1962), KPD and SED functionary
  • Alfred Stier (1880–1967), composer and music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony
  • Ulrich von der Trenck (1883–1958), actor
  • Caroline Reuss zu Greiz (1884–1905), by marriage Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Kurt Finkenwirth (1885–1943), lawyer, political scientist and economist, company lawyer, association functionary, member of parliament, author and chief executive
  • Paul Wilhelm (1886–1965), painter
  • Horst von Cornberg (1886–1943), Prussian district administrator
  • Princess Hermine Reuss older line (1887–1947), wife of Johann Georg von Schönaich-Carolath and most recently of Wilhelm II , formerly German Emperor
  • Friedrich Richard Schneider (1887–1962), historian and university professor
  • Friedrich Sander (1889–1971), psychologist and professor at the University of Jena and the University of Bonn
  • Willibald Scholz (1889–1971), psychiatrist and neuropathologist
  • Ulrich Fleck (1890–1990), psychiatrist and neurologist
  • Arno Barth (1893–1949), local politician (SPD / SED) and lawyer, most recently President of the Higher Regional Court
  • Helene Overlach (1894–1983), politician (KPD)
  • Max Schütz (1894–1961), politician (KPD)
  • Ida Fischer (1895–1984), clerk, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, local and state politician (SPD / USPD / KPD / KPO / SED)
  • Otto Gillen (1899–1986), art historian, journalist, essayist and poet
  • Fritz Kunst (1899–1979), communist resistance fighter, local SED politician

1901 to 1950

From 1951

Personalities associated with the city

  • Christian Leonhard Leucht (1645–1716), lawyer, Russian councilor in Greiz
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758), musician and composer, cantor in Greiz from 1719 to 1721
  • Heinrich Gottfried Zopff (1692–1755), physician, died here
  • Anton Sebastian von Struve (1729–1802), diplomat in the service of the Russian Empire, died here
  • Friedrich Traugott Wettengel (1750–1824), Bohemian Lutheran theologian, died here
  • Johann Gottlieb Stemler (1788–1856), doctor and politician, died here
  • Reinhard Diedrich Cremer (1821–1884), businessman, died here
  • Leo Fürbringer (1843–1923), at times city clerk for Greiz
  • Gustav Schreck (1849–1918), music teacher, attended the Greiz teachers' seminar from 1863 to 1867
  • Heinrich Botho Scheube (1853–1923), physician and university professor, pioneer of Ainu research, died here
  • Oskar von Cornberg (1855–1928), lawyer, most recently President of the Court Chamber, died here
  • Gottfried Doehler (1863–1943), from 1921 first administrator of the State Copper Engraving Collection in Greiz
  • Walter Ackermann (1889–1978), pedagogue, teacher at the advanced school in Greiz
  • Kurt von Westernhagen (1891–1945), an officer, was shot by the Nazis after trying to save the Greizer bridges
  • Karen Fredersdorf (1892–1985), actress, at the theater in Greiz from 1917 to 1922
  • Albert Wilhelm Kukowka (1894–1977), doctor, balneologist, investigated the development of cancer and was professor of medicine and director of the district hospital
  • Paul Fischer (1894–1979), sailor, local and state politician (Spartakusbund / USPD / KPD / KPO) and owner of the publishing house, died here
  • Lucie Neupert , formerly Lucie Fischer (1896–1978), member of the Landtag of the People's State of Reuss (USPD) and the State of Thuringia (SPD)
  • Erich Baumgarten (1905–?), Master hairdresser, politician (NDPD)
  • Hans Tiessler (1905–1951), lawyer and politician, attended grammar school in Greiz
  • Richard Groschopp (1906–1996), director, went to school in Greiz
  • Erich Rother (1908–1983), painter, died in Greiz
  • Elly-Viola Nahmmacher (1913–2000), sculptor and religious inspirer, holder of the citizen medal of the city of Greiz in gold (1993)
  • Harald Jopt (1924–2016), actor, worked at the Greizer Theater, among others
  • Käthe Reichel (1926–2012), actress, worked at the Greizer Theater, among others
  • Alfred Struwe (1927–1998), actor, worked at the Greizer Theater, among others
  • Reimar Johannes Baur (* 1928), actor, worked at the Greizer Theater, among others
  • Walter Schmidt (* 1930), historian, professor in Berlin, expert on Silesia; 1949 Abitur in Greiz (today's Ulf-Merbold-Gymnasium)
  • Barbara Adolph (* 1931), actress, worked at the Greizer Theater, among others
  • Reiner Kunze (* 1933), writer, lived temporarily in Greiz, since 1995 an honorary citizen
  • Dietrich Alexander (1934–1999), philosopher, went to school in Greiz
  • Dieter Franke (1934–1982), actor, worked at the Greizer Theater, among others
  • Horst Seemann (1937–2000), actor, worked at the Greiz Theater, among others, and went to school in Greiz
  • Andreas Klotsch (* 1937), writer and translator, lived in Schönbach from 1951 to 1957
  • Peter Bräutigam (1941–2005), photographer, Thuringian state guild master and deputy federal guild master of the photography guild, died here
  • Uwe Grüning (* 1942), writer and politician (CDU), lived in Greiz from 1981 to 1988
  • Ibrahim Böhme (1944–1999), Wende-politician (SDP, SPD), manager in the post office, head of the cultural association in Greiz, Stasi informers
  • Gunther von Hagens (* 1945), anatomist, grew up in Greiz
  • Gerd Bonk (1951-2014), weightlifter
  • Volker Müller (* 1952), journalist, lives in Greiz
  • Arnold Vaatz (* 1955), politician (CDU), graduated from high school in Greiz
  • Dieter Hausold (* 1955), politician (Left Party), went to school in Greiz and completed his apprenticeship as a fitter and warehouse clerk there
  • Ulrich Junghanns (* 1956), politician (CDU), Deputy Prime Minister of Brandenburg (2007–2008), from 1979 to 1982 member of the district council in Greiz
  • Michael Rudolf (1961–2007), author, lived and died in Greiz
  • Matthias Grünert (* 1973), cantor of the Dresden Frauenkirche; between 2000 and 2004 cantor of the city church in Greiz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the 40th anniversary of Walter Kopp's death in Vogtlandspiegel
  2. ↑ Reiner Kunze honorary citizen of Greiz on nd of 12 June 1995