List of personalities of the city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal

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Coat of arms of the city of Hohenstein-Ernstthal (from 1898)

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

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

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Individual evidence

  1. The honorary citizen Georg Schindler