List of personalities of the city of Großenhain

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Coat of arms of the city of Großenhain

The following overview contains well-known personalities who were born in the Saxon town of Großenhain or who are connected to Großenhain.

sons and daughters of the town

The following personalities were born in Großenhain:

15.-16. century

  • Caspar Borner (around 1492–1547), Lutheran theologian, humanist, reformer and rector of the University of Leipzig
  • Valentin Weigel (1533–1588), Protestant theologian and philosopher
  • Sigismund Badehorn (1585–1626), Lutheran theologian, professor at the University of Leipzig and superintendent in Grimma

17th century

18th century

19th century

  • Ernst Heinrich Pfeilschmidt (1809–1894), Protestant pastor at the Annenkirche Dresden and writer
  • Franz Dietrich (1810–1883), Protestant theologian and orientalist
  • Eduin Bauer (1816–1892), pastor and author
  • Gustav Fedor Zschille (1819–1888), cloth manufacturer
  • Richard von Meerheimb (1825–1896), officer and writer
  • Heinrich Ernst Stötzner (1832–1910), educator
  • Richard Richter (1839–1901), educator
  • Camillo Ehregott Zschille (1847–1910), draftsman
  • Richard Zschille (1847–1903), cloth manufacturer, art collector and benefactor
  • August Kaden (1850–1913), cigar manufacturer, publisher, SPD politician, member of the German Reichstag and member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Victor Alexander von Otto (1852–1912), lawyer, politician, Saxon Minister of Justice and Prime Minister of Saxony
  • Friedrich Geyer (1853–1937), politician of the SPD, USPD and KPD, member of the German Reichstag, member of the Saxon state parliament and Saxon finance minister
  • Ernst Nitzschke (1855–1924), SPD politician and member of the German Reichstag
  • Paul Schumann (1855–1927), art historian and co-founder of the Dürerbund
  • Paul Harzer (1857–1932), astronomer
  • Georg Buchwald (1859–1947), Lutheran theologian
  • Hermann Käppler (1863–1926), Müller, SPD politician, member of the state parliament of Saxony-Altenburg and member of the German Reichstag
  • Max Geißler (1868–1945), author and literary scholar
  • Arthur Hedrich (1870–1937), folk singer, vocal comedian (bassist)
  • William Müller (1871–1913), architect
  • Johann Jaenichen (1873–1945), German sculptor
  • Kurt Lindner sr. (1877–1966), entrepreneur in the electrical engineering industry
  • Agnes Susanne Scheurmann (1881–1974), painter and graphic artist
  • Reinhard Buchwald (1884–1983), literary and cultural historian and co-founder of the German adult education center movement
  • Max Müller (1885–1960), painter and graphic artist
  • Rudolf Zocher (1887–1976), philosopher and university professor
  • Fritz Geyer (1888–1966), lawyer, politician of the USPD, SPD and SED, government official, head of the office of the President of the Council of Ministers of the GDR
  • Kurt Globig (1895–1972), painter
  • Carlo Mierendorff (1897–1943), SPD politician, member of the German Reichstag and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Franz Bänsch (1899–1961), Oblate of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and prison chaplain
  • Walter Neul (* 1899), politician of the NSDAP, member of the Saxon state parliament and member of the German Reichstag

20th century

  • Gerhart Gunderam (1904–1992), non-fiction author and chess theorist
  • Johanna Kunath (1904–1993), diet nurse, pioneer of the profession of dietician
  • Kurt Eggert (1909–1997), teacher, local historian and painter
  • Walter Klöditz (1911–1994), SPD politician and Lord Mayor of Braunschweig
  • Richard Hönicke (1921–2000), painter
  • Werner Kirst (1924–2012), handball player, handball trainer and university lecturer
  • Helmut H. Schaefer (1925–2005), mathematician, professor at the University of Halle (Saale), at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, at the California Institute of Technology and at other US universities
  • Georg Otto (* 1928), co-founder of the political party Die Grünen and founder of the quarterly magazine "Alternatives"
  • Wolfgang Herrmann (* 1939), politician (SED)
  • Eberhard Schneider (* 1941), political scientist
  • Cornelia Zanger (* 1953), economist, professor at the University of Kiel, at the RWTH Aachen and at the TU Chemnitz
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  • Roger Baptist (* 1966), also known as Rummelsnuff, musician and bodybuilder
  • Mario Beger (* 1966), politician (AfD) and member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Lutz Jenke (* 1967), badminton player
  • André Wendt (* 1971), politician (AfD)
  • Ingo Senftleben (* 1974), politician, chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament and state chairman of the CDU Brandenburg
  • Stefan Jänke (* 1975), composer, church musician and choir director
  • Ulrike Almut Sandig (* 1979), writer
  • Robin Hoffmann (* 1984), musician and composer

Other personalities associated with the city

Karl Benjamin Preusker

17th century

  • Gottfried Meisner (1618–1690), Protestant theologian at the University of Wittenberg and superintendent in Jessen and Großenhain
  • Benjamin Hederich (1675–1748), rector in Großenhain, lexicon and textbook author
  • Adam Friedrich Zürner (1679–1742), Protestant pastor in the district of Skassa, cartographer and installation manager of the Saxon postal mile columns

18th century

  • Johann Gottfried Pilarik (1705–1764), Protestant pastor, hymn poet, superintendent in Liebenwerda and Großenhain
  • August Friedrich Ernst Langbein (1757–1835), writer, worked at times in the Grossenhain judicial office
  • Karl Benjamin Preusker (1786–1871), rent clerk in Großenhain, archaeologist, librarian and founder of Germany's first public library in Großenhain
  • Carl Wilhelm Hering (1790–1871), Protestant theologian, superintendent in Großenhain and local researcher

19th century

  • William Hering (1812–1897), Protestant pastor in Strauch and member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Paul Glasses (1871–1937), church musician, composer and church music director in Großenhain
  • Horst von Minckwitz (1877–1956), military aviator and construction manager of the Großenhain aviation station
  • Alfred Fellisch (1884–1973), politician of the SPD and SED, Saxon State Minister, Prime Minister of Saxony and Governor of Grossenhain

20th century

  • Rudolf Bernhardt (1904 – after 1970), lawyer, Mayor of Großenhain from 1933 to 1945
  • Herbert Gadsch (1913–2011), church musician, composer and church music director in Großenhain
  • Heino (* 1938), bourgeois Heinz Georg Kramm , pop singer, spent part of his childhood in Großenhain
  • Chris Doerk (* 1942), pop singer, was trained as a commercial applicant in Großenhain
  • Corinna Harfouch (* 1954), actress, spent her childhood in Großenhain, graduated from high school there and gained her first acting experience at the city's pioneering theater
  • Tom Sello (* 1957), publicist and GDR oppositionist, grew up in Großenhain
  • Kerstin Lauterbach (* 1959), member of the state parliament and city councilor (DIE LINKE)
  • Corinna Köhler (* 1964), nurse, politician of the SPD, member of the Saxon state parliament, graduated from high school in Großenhain
  • Sebastian Fischer (* 1981), Member of the State Parliament (CDU)
  • Josephin Hönicke (* 1989), inline speed skater
  • Lisa Kaluzni (* 1989), inline speed skater

Honorary citizen

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johanna Kunath. In: Rhein-Neckar-Wiki.de. June 29, 2018, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Important personalities - City of Grossenhain. (No longer available online.) In: Großenhain.de. Grossenhain city administration , 2011, archived from the original on April 2, 2012 ; Retrieved September 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grossenhain.de