List of personalities of the city of Groitzsch

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

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

Honorary citizen

• 1895 Prince Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor

sons and daughters of the town

• Wiprecht von Groitzsch (around 1050–1124), came from the Altmark and exchanged his inherited rule Balsamgau for Castle Groitzsch in 1070 , and participated in several campaigns
• Heinrich von Groitzsch (around 1090–1135), Count von Groitzsch, second son of Wiprecht
• Bertha von Groitzsch († 1144), daughter of Count Wiprecht, inherited the Gau Zwickau and was an ardent advocate of Christianity
• Ambrosius Reuden (1543–1615), orientalist and Lutheran theologian
• Johann August Bach (1721–1758), legal historian, born in Hohendorf
• Adolf Theodor Hermann Fritzsche (1818–1878), classical philologist and son of pastor Johannes Dorotheus Fritzsche
• Gustav Adolf Gebauer (1830–1890), educator
• Albert Balduin Penndorf (1873–1941 in Ruppertsgrün near Werdau) economist and business school teacher
• Richard Ludwig (1822–1909), member of the Reichstag and Landtag
• Robert Jahn (1874–1953), teacher and local researcher in the Saxon mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area
• Franz Barth (1886–1951), politician, member of the National Socialist German Reichstag
• Hans Bemmann (1922–2003), writer, studied medicine in Vienna , breakthrough in 1983 with the fairy tale novel Stone and Flute
• Richard Reding (* 1932), surgeon
• Ralf Krempel (1935–2005), inventor of the Krempel code
• Hellfried Heilfort (* 1955), former German marksman, won the Olympic silver medal with the small-bore rifle in 1980

Personalities associated with the city

• Ulrike von Levetzow (1804–1899), Goethe's last love, born in Leipzig and baptized in the Gatzener church
• Albin Jahn, council registrar and local chronicle of the city of Groitzsch, was honored with a memorial stone in the cemetery in 1996 (father of Robert Jahn )
• Waldemar Geest (1879–1944), aircraft designer, the “Möwe” aircraft he developed contributed a lot to the development of German aviation before the First World War, died in Groitzsch