List of personalities of the city of Hainichen

Coat of arms of the city of Hainichen

The list of personalities of the city of Hainichen contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city ​​of Hainichen in the district of central Saxony . These are personalities who are honorary citizens or who were born here or who worked here.

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

Honorary citizen

The honorary citizenship received:

• 1893: Friedrich Gottlob Keller (1816–1895), inventor
• April 1, 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Hainichen or what is today the districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Hainichen is irrelevant.

Medieval and early modern personalities

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, portrait by Anton Graff

• Michael Meurer (1475–1537), theologian and reformer
• Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (1713–1795), metallurgist and mineralogist
• Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769), important poet of the Enlightenment

19th century personalities

Friedrich Gottlob Keller

• Carl Friedrich Mosch (1784-1859), mineralogist and writer
• Friedrich Gottlob Lehmann (1805–1869), textile manufacturer and Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Emil Kreller (1811–1882), manor owner and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Carl Friedrich Metzler (1813–1867), lawyer, mayor and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Friedrich Gottlob Keller (1816–1895), inventor in the field of paper production
• Carl Gustav Leonhardt (1845–1903), Saxon textile manufacturer
• Alfred Naumann (1847–1917), photographer
• Theodor Distel (1849–1912), archivist

20th century personalities

Konrad Zdarsa (2009)

• Johannes Uhlig (1869 – after 1936), romantic painter
• Max Freund (1879–1980), American German studies specialist and university professor
• Alfred Etienne (1885–1960), lawyer and politician
• Eva Schumann (1889–1973), translator
• Ingolf Kuntze (1890–1952), actor and director
• Georg Morgenstern (1892–1975), philosopher and university professor
• Albert Sixtus (1892–1960), author of books for children and young people
• Curt Wach (1906–1974), politician (KPD / SED), Chairman of the Potsdam District Council and Minister for Trade and Supply of the GDR, born in Gersdorf
• Peter Coryllis (1909-1997), writer
• Werner Lauterbach (1930–2012), local history researcher, folklorist, publicist and author, born in Cunnersdorf
• Manfred Fricke (1936–2009), President of the TU Berlin, scientist and expert on aviation technology
• Berthold Lindner (* 1937), commercial artist and designer
• Rainer Simon (* 1941), film director and screenwriter
• Günter Hofmann (1944–2008), painter and graphic artist
• Konrad Zdarsa (* 1944), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Augsburg
• Karin Oehme (* 1946), actress
• Dietmar Riemann (* 1950), photographer and author
• Peter Cwielag (* 1951), actor and theater director
• Radjo Monk (* 1959), poet and video artist
• Andreas Altmann (* 1963), writer

Personalities associated with the city

• Johann Gottfried Stecher (1718–1776), wood sculptor
• Ernst Wilhelm Richter (1802–1874), school director in Hainichen, cantor and writer
• Wolfram Lindner (1941–2010), co-founder of the cycling section of BSG Motor Hainichen, later a successful trainer
• Kerstin Becker (* 1969), writer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Basement fountain. City of Hainichen, accessed on July 23, 2019 . 
2. ^ Entry in Art in the GDR