List of personalities of the city of Klingenthal
The list of personalities of the city of Klingenthal contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Klingenthal . These are personalities who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Klingenthal, see the corresponding local articles.
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Wilhelm Rudolph Glier (1793–1873), instrument maker
- Christian Gottlob Meinel (1812–1891), elementary school teacher, politician and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Edmund Meinel (1864–1943), manufacturer
- Richard Grimm-Sachsenberg (1873–1952), painter, etcher and engraver from Untersachsenberg
- Friedrich Meinel (before 1877–1911), toy manufacturer and mail order company operating worldwide
- Max Hess (1878–1975), musician, (solo) horn player and Schlaraffe ( Schlaraffia )
- Fritz Rauda (1879–1945), architecture professor
- Otto Ludwig (* 1880- † unknown), instrument maker and musician
- Ernst Uebel (1882–1959), composer and musician
- Max Schlosser (1894–1968), politician and city councilor
- Karl Möckel (1901–1948), SS Oberführer
- Walter Glaß (1905–1981), Nordic combined athlete
- Werner Schmiedel (1906–1946), electrical engineer, entrepreneur and National Socialist functionary, born in Zwota
- Kurt Körner (1912–1940 / 1945), ski jumper
- Hanns-Albert Steger (1923–2015), cultural anthropologist
- Gerhard Mattner (1924–1976), politician (DBD)
- Hermann Levinson (1924–2013), biologist and physiologist
- Wolfgang Eger (1928–2005), historian, archivist and author
- Harry Glaß (1930–1997), ski jumper
- Enno Röder (1935–2019), cross-country skier
- Anna Unger (* 1944), former cross-country skier
- Wolfgang Eßbach (* 1944), sociology professor
- Bernd Karwofsky (* 1945), former German ski jumper
- Claus Asendorf (* 1946), former judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Ralph Pöhland (1946–2011), skier ( Nordic combined )
- Karlheinz Steinmüller (* 1950), graduate physicist and science fiction author
- Rolf Biebl (* 1951), sculptor and painter
- Rolf Keil (* 1955), politician (CDU) and since 2015 district administrator of the Vogtland district
- Uwe Dotzauer (* 1959), skier (Nordic combined)
- Rolf Thomas Lorenz (* 1959), composer and music teacher
- Marlies Rostock (* 1960), cross-country skier
- André Köhler (* 1965), former soccer player
- Heike Wezel (* 1968), former cross-country skier
Personalities associated with the city
- Christoph Carl von Boxberg (1629–1699), mountain ridge and mountain captain in the Neustadt and Vogtland districts
- Julius Berthold (1845–1934), machine manufacturer
- Christa Meinel (1938–2017), ski racer
- Karl-Heinz Schmidt (1938–2016), pastor (1984 to 1999 in Klingenthal) and dialect author
- Eberhard Diepgen (* 1941), was evacuated to Klingenthal as a child during the Second World War
- Kurt Demmler (1943–2009), songwriter and lyricist, lived in the village from 1956
- Heinz Wosipiwo (* 1951), trainer at the state performance center in Klingenthal
- Birgit Klaubert (* 1954), politician (Die Linke)
- Klaus Ostwald (* 1958), ski flying world champion 1983
- Remo Lederer (* 1968), ski jumper
- Enrico Bräunig (* 1971), politician (SPD), 2010–2012 mayor of the city of Klingenthal
- Nico Müller (* 1982), opera singer and singing teacher