List of personalities of the city of Lößnitz
The list of personalities of the city of Lößnitz contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Lößnitz in the Ore Mountains . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of Lößnitz or who were born or died in Lößnitz and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Lößnitz see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- April 1, 1895 Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Zechendorf (1580–1662), orientalist (Arabist) and educator
- Ernst Geßner (1826–1897), pioneer of the mechanical engineering industry in the Auer Valley
- Alfred Krauße (1829–1894), painter, copper and steel engraver
- August Eckardt (1871–1938), geologist, member of the Saxon state parliament from 1919 to 1933 and briefly its state parliament president in 1932/1933
- Max Greil (1877–1939), educator, school councilor, left-wing socialist education reformer and Thuringian minister of education (USPD / SPD)
- Walter Corneille Josef Kaiser (1884–1967), Protestant pastor , member of the Confessing Church (BK) and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
- Magdalena Schmidt (1885–1966), classical philologist and grammar school teacher, whose research focus was Augustan poetry
- Richard Meier (1888–1964), folk artist from the Saxon Ore Mountains
- Paul Roder (1902–1993), teacher and local history researcher, who worked as a local writer and museum director in Olbernhau
- Wilhelm Tempel (1905–1983), co-founder of the National Socialist German Student Union and lawyer
- Fritz Scheller (1909–1992), politician (SED)
- Wilhelm Landgraf (1913–1998), academic draftsman and sculptor
- Frieder Lang (* 1950), singer and singing professor, born in Affalter
Personalities associated with the city
- Gotthelf Friedrich Oesfeld (1735–1801), pastor (in Lößnitz 1769–1801) and chronicler
- Ernst August Geitner (1783–1852), chemist, doctor, botanist and inventor, opened a doctor's practice in the village in 1809
- Otto Prase (1874–1956), master painter, who made a name for himself especially in the field of color theory and founded a business in Lößnitz around 1933
- Käthe Knobloch (1904–2002), local politician and honorary citizen in Aue. died in Loessnitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ The city of Lößnitz currently has no honorary citizens.