List of personalities of the city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal
The list of personalities of the city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal contains people who played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal (separated into the two cities of Hohenstein and Ernstthal until 1898 ). These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Hohenstein-Ernstthal or who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Hohenstein-Ernstthal see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen of the city of Hohenstein
- 1893: William Bruno Zeißig, city councilor, knight
- April 1, 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
Honorary citizen of the city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal
- Moritz Robert Patz
- Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), Field Marshal General and President
- Johann Karl Gruber, commercial judge, knight, memorial stone for him on the Pfaffenberg
- Eduard Oskar Jackel
- Conrad Anton Clauss
- Hermann Säuberlich
- Edwin Redlob
- Bernhard Anger
- Wilhelm Herrmann
- Oskar Jackel
- 1993 Werner Legère (1912–1998), writer
- 2002 Georg Schindler, painter and graphic artist
Sons and daughters of the city of Hohenstein
- Christoph Gottlieb Schröter (1699–1782), composer, born in Hohenstein
- Christian Ernst Wünsch (1744–1828), mathematician and physicist, born in Hohenstein
- Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz (1772–1838), historian, born in Ernstthal
- Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780–1860), natural scientist and philosopher
- Wilhelm Pfotenhauer (1812–1877), Lord Mayor of Dresden 1853–1877, 1st Vice-President of the 1st Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament
- Karl May (1842–1912), writer, born in Ernstthal
- Friedrich Reinhold Postelt (1853–1917), managing director of the consumer, building and savings association “Produktion” eGmbH, supervisory board of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH (GEG), and social democrat, born in Hohenstein
- Emma Pollmer (1856–1917), wife of Karl May, born in Hohenstein
- Erich Wolfgang Degner (1858–1908), music teacher, choir director and composer, born in Hohenstein
- Hermann Otto (1863–1941), writer, journalist, artist and mining entrepreneur, born in Hohenstein
- Johannes Weißenborn (1878–1937), ethnologist and museum official
- Paul Heide (1879–1973), politician and trade unionist
- Walter Zwingenberger (1880–1963), local politician, Lord Mayor of Zittau
- Hans Wolfgang Reinhard (1888–1950), officer, most recently general of the infantry in World War II
- Walter Reber (1891–1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Wilhelm Keilhaus (1898–1977), SS officer and SS brigade leader and major general of the Waffen SS
- Georg Arthur Oedemann (1901–?), Writer
- Richard Fritzsche (1910–1976), journalist and local history researcher
- Werner Legère (1912–1998), writer
- Kurt Hoppe (1919–1988), politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
- Herbert Reichel (1920–1977), textile entrepreneur
- Maria Lindenmeier (1923–2016), born Maria Zwingenberger, politician (SPD)
- Günther Kretzschmar (1929–1986), composer
- Wolfgang "Büchse" Winkler (* 1935), jazz drummer
- Karl Döring (* 1937), manager, was Deputy Minister of the GDR for ore mining, metallurgy and potash from 1979 to 1985
- Joachim Schimpke (* 1944), badminton player and master of sports
- Reinhard Keller (* 1945), politician, was a member of the DSU until 1993, after which he acted without a party
- Tom Krey (* 1947), painter, grandson of Fritz Meißner, textile manufacturer Hüttengrund
- Regina Röhner (* 1952), writer
- Hans-Uwe Pilz (* 1958), soccer player and coach
- Gunda Röstel (* 1962), politician
Personalities who are or were connected to the city
- Christian Gotthilf Tag (1735–1811), cantor and composer in Hohenstein
- Samuel Friedrich Strauch (1788–1860), organist and cantor in Ernstthal, became known as the teacher of Karl May
- Carl Friedrich Reichel (1800–1860), owner of the Mohren pharmacy around 1834
- Hans Zesewitz (1888–1976), teacher, city archivist and Karl May researcher
- Arno Wetzel (1890–1977), zoologist and university professor, teacher at the local vocational school
- Hubert Schmidt-Gigo (1919–2004), officer, conférencier, parodist, radio and television presenter and motorsport reporter, grew up as Hubert Schmidt in Hohenstein-Ernsthhal
- Heinz Tetzner (1920–2007), painter and graphic artist
- Horst Häupl (1931–2020), composer and music school director
- Christian Heermann (1936–2017), Karl May biographer, writer and publicist, from 1993 to 2013 chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Karl May House in Hohenstein-Ernstthal
- Hans-Dieter Steinmetz (* 1951), author, publicist and Karl May researcher, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at Karl May House Hohenstein-Ernstthal
- Norbert Kertscher (* 1954), politician (SED / PDS), 1989 first secretary of the SED district leadership in Karl-Marx-Stadt
- Rainer Klis (1955–2017), writer and from 1991 to 2016 operator of a bookshop in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, where he lives
- Michael Sonntag (* 1978), writer and cultural scientist
- Hubert Schmidt-Gigo (1919–2004), officer, conférencier, parodist, radio and television presenter and motorsport reporter