List of personalities of the city of Johanngeorgenstadt

The list of personalities of the city of Johanngeorgenstadt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Johanngeorgenstadt . These are personalities who were born here, worked here or who were granted honorary citizenship.

Honorary citizen

1665: Johann Löbel d. Ä. (1592–1666), first mayor, received exemption from taxes for his house from the Saxon elector
1680: Matthäus Allius (1632–1701), city judge, received electoral house privilege for services to the city
1865: Wilhelm Fischer (1796–1884), 1827–1835 mountain master in Johanngeorgenstadt, donated 300 thalers for the Haldensluster foundation
1868: Bernhard von Uhde, district director in Zwickau , tried to quickly repair the fire damage from 1867
1869: Friedrich Gustav Weidauer (1810–1897), Mayor of Schwarzenberg, helped rebuild the town hall
1869: Heinrich Moritz Reichelt (1813–1886) Markscheider in Schwarzenberg, founder of the baptismal font and mountain bell of the town church
1870: Ernst Adolph Theodor Degen (1782–1854), pharmacist and mayor, helped rebuild the city
1874: Conrad Eduard Löhr († 1890), Mayor of Bautzen , State Parliament Secretary, campaigned for the construction of the railway
1874: Heinrich Otto von Erdmannsdorf (1815–1888), Herr auf Schönfeld, member of the state parliament, supported the construction of the railway
1874: Otto Starke (1830–1884), member of the Second Chamber of Estates, promoter of railway construction from Schwarzenberg to Johanngeorgenstadt
1874: Karl Mehnert (1811–1885), commissioner and member of the state parliament, campaigned for the construction of the railway to Johanngeorgenstadt
1874: Carl Eduard Mannsfeld (1822–1874), court director in Schwarzenberg, member of the Second Chamber of Estates, promoter of railway construction
1874: Wilhelm Pfotenhauer (1812–1877), Lord Mayor of the City of Dresden, railway construction sponsor
1878: Christian Adolf Lenk (1801–1879), cantor, deacon and pastor, saved the church records when the town burned
1880: Léonçe Freiherr von Könneritz (1835–1890), Saxon finance minister, railway construction promoter
1880: Gustav Adolf Vodel (1831–1908), Privy Councilor and District Chief in Zwickau, supported the railway connection
1889: Karl August Seifert, city councilor and promoter of the school system
1895: Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor, supported the reconstruction after the fire in 1867
1901: Karl Anton Unger (1831–1909), factory owner in Dresden , donated money several times for the city and the women's association
1911: Otto Robert Georgi (1831–1918), Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig, founder of the miners widow's fund
1913: Walter Glaß (1874–1914), district judge, Landwehr captain, founder and chairman of the winter sports club
1918: Hermann Gerber, pensioner, donated money to support the poor in the First World War
1919: Carl Hugo Schönherr († 1925), factory owner in Leipzig, donated 1,000 marks for poor relief
1933: Guido Herberger (1859–1944), businessman, due to the promotion of ski jumping hill and gymnasium construction
2004: Christian Teller (1933–2008), chairman of the Erzgebirgszweigverein (until 2005) and local researcher
2004: Heiner Georgi (1923–2016), teacher and church worker
2006: De Randfichten , folk music group
2017: Heinz Eger , physician

sons and daughters of the town

Johann Gabriel Löbel (1635–1696), owner of glassworks and paint mills in Jugel, Hammerherr in Wittigsthal and Breitenbach
Abraham Löwel (1643–1702), owner of a glassworks and hammer mill
Johann Abraham Löwel (1674–1751), mountain tithe, mountain master and hammer master
Carl Gottlob Beck (1733–1802), moved to Nördlingen in 1763 and founded a publishing house (today: Verlag CH Beck )
Christian Hieronymus Lommer (1741–1787), Saxon mountain master and professor at the Freiberg Mining Academy
August Heinrich Gruner (1761–1848), postmaster and acquaintance of Goethe, saved the city from pillage in 1813
Christian Gottlob Wild (1785–1839), pastor, is considered the founder of dialect poetry in the Ore Mountains
Gustav Gündel (1794–1860), friend of Goethe, pastor and educator in the Frizzoni house in Bergamo (Italy)
Johann Gottlieb Schmidt (1801 – around 1860), painter
Eduard Wilhelm Breitfeld (1803–1873), Saxon entrepreneur (Nestler & Breitfeld), councilor and member of the state parliament
Oswald Lorenz (1806–1889), music teacher a. -writer, friend of Robert Schumann and editor of his music magazine
Karl Hermann Funkhänel (1808–1874), philologist and educator
Gotthold Meutzner (1809–1887), cantor and teacher at the lyceum in Schneeberg, from 1835 high school professor in Plauen
Arthur Gehlert (1833–1904), industrialist and politician
Ernst Georg August Baumgarten (1837–1884), chief forester, inventor of the steerable rigid airship
Eugen Kircheisen (1855–1913), sculptor in Braunschweig , created the warrior monument in 1895 and the Röder monument in 1901
Max Schreyer (1845–1922), Oberforstrat in Pulsnitz , poet of the song Dar Vuglbärbaam
Oskar Röder (1862–1954), secret medical advisor, clinic director of the veterinary medicine faculty in Leipzig
Rudolf Poller (1865–1930), miner and mining engineer
Emil Teubner (1877–1958), wood carver and sculptor, honorary citizen of Aue
Hans C. Otto (1879–1929), glove manufacturer
Carl Geyer (1880–1973), German-American musical instrument maker
Richard Truckenbrodt (1887–1961), teacher, received his doctorate in 1926 on Western Ore Mountains folklore
Hans Pfeiffer (1895–1968), communist politician, member of the Reichstag
Gustav Schäfer (1906–1991), 1936 Olympic rowing champion in single
Gerhard Neubert (1909–1993), SS-Unterscharführer and deployed as a medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp
Kurt Magritz (1909–1992), architect and graphic artist in Berlin
Paul Kraus (1917–1942), ski jumper
Gottfried Leonhardt (1919–2018), graphic artist and illustrator
Hans Eule (1923–1971), organ builder in Bautzen
Roland Fritzsch (1929–2012), forest scientist
Günter Schmidt (1929–2016), Major General of the MfS
Max Joachim Hänel (* 1929), civil engineer and writer
Helmut Ullmann (1930–1991), civil engineer and architect
Heinz Eger (* 1932), physician (radiologist) and professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau
Christian Teller (1933–2008), honorary citizen, chairman of the Erzgebirgszweigverein and local history researcher
Joachim Jaeger (* 1935), theologian and honorary citizen of Nordhausen
Gottfried Krauss (1936–2017), carpenter and wood carver
Rolf Henry Kunz (1939–2017), organist and conductor
Manfred Queck (1941–1977), ski jumper and Olympic participant in 1968
Helmut Langer (* 1945), designer and professor in the field of visual communication, author and lecturer
Wolfgang Möhrig-Marothi (* 1947), writer

People connected to the city

Christoph Löbel (1598–1651), entrepreneur, glassworks owner in Jugel
Veit Dietrich Wagner (1600–1668), governor, co-founder of the city
Caspar Wittich (1602–1673), Hammerherr in Breitenbach, Wittigsthal and Morgenröthe, died in Wittigsthal
Gabriel Hammerdörffer (1612–1683), pewter and mayor
Abraham Wenzel Löbel (1631–1707), first mountain master
Johann Bleyer (1639–1722), mayor and member of the state parliament
Benedict Drechsler (1651–1690), Saxon mountain surveyor and chemist
Paul Christoph Zeidler (1660–1729), mountain master
Christian Salomon Zeidler (1687–1754), mountain master and excavator
Christoph Andreas Zeidler (1689–1756), mountain master
Johann Georg Gottschald (1691 or 1692–1749), Hammerherr in Wittigsthal, Breitenbach and Schlössel
Christian Samuel Butz (1699–1775), mountain master and mountain sworn
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), visited the city in 1785, a memorial plaque commemorates
Carl Gottfried Haentze (1781–1858), operator of a hand wool combing plant in the village
Carl Gotthilf Nestler (1789–1864), Hammerherr, died in Wittigsthal
Anton Voß (1805 – before 1866), mountain master and member of the state parliament, embezzled considerable sums of money
Gustav Pasig (1833–1895), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and folk writer, was a deacon here
Albert Niethammer (1833–1908), paper manufacturer (Kübler & Niethammer) and national liberal politician, MdR, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
Levi Cohn (1836–1915), founder of the glove industry in Johanngeorgenstadt (1868)
Otto Zimmer (1866–1940), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag (Saxony)
Cornelius Schwanner (1884–1948), SS-Hauptscharführer, command leader of the Johanngeorgenstadt subcamp
Alfred Fellisch (1884–1973), politician (SPD, SED), from 1908 glove maker in Johanngeorgenstadt
Willi Weber (1914–1975), SED local politician, was Mayor from 1955 to 1957
Martin Viertel (1925–2005), writer, worked in the city until 1956
Herbert Queck (1925–2011), ski jumper and owner of the hill record on the Glück-Auf-Schanze.
Werner Sternkopf (1928–2015), legal scholar, mayor of the city from 1960 to 1966
Werner Bräunig (1934–1976), writer, worked in 1953 as a promoter at SDAG Wismut in the town
Lothar Düring (1940-2014), skier
Dieter Scharf (* 1943), ski jumper and sports instructor
Reinhard Heß (1945–2007) became the GDR youth champion in ski jumping in 1964 and trained numerous young ski jumpers during practice camps in the city
André Hennicke (* 1958), film actor, producer as well as screenwriter and novelist, grew up here
Manfred Deckert (* 1961), ski jumper and local politician
Jörg Brückner (* 1966), historian and archivist, grew up here
Thomas Abratis (* 1967), athlete (Nordic combined), from 1974 to 1979 member of SV Dynamo Johanngeorgenstadt
Guntram Kraus , ski jumper, grew up here
Sven Hannawald born Pöhler (* 1974), athlete (ski jumping), grew up here
Vicente Patíz (* 1976), guitarist
Gregor Meyer (* 1979), musician, grew up here as the son of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor
Björn Kircheisen (* 1983), athlete (Nordic Combined), Vice World Champion 2005, grew up here
Toni Englert (* 1988), athlete (Nordic combined), junior world champion 2006, grew up here
Sebastian Reuschel (* 1988), athlete (Nordic combined), grew up here