List of personalities from the city of Liberec

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Coat of arms of Liberec

This list contains personalities born in Liberec (Reichenberg in Bohemia) as well as those who worked in this city but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

People born in the city

Until 1800

1801 to 1850

1851 to 1900

1901 to 1925

1926 to 1950

From 1951

Well-known residents of Liberec

  • Franz Liebieg (1799–1878), knight of Liebieg since 1867, baron von Liebieg since 1883, large Bohemian industrialist, co-founder of the Liebieg factory in Reichenberg, brother of Johann Liebieg.
  • Johann Liebieg (1802–1870), knight of Liebieg since 1867, baron von Liebieg since 1868, large Bohemian industrialist, co-founder of the Liebieg works in Reichenberg, owner of the castle and estate of Smirschitz with Horenoves in northeastern Bohemia.
  • Heinrich Tugendhold Stiepel (1822–1886), founder and publisher of the Reichenberger Zeitung in 1860; Edited by successors in Reichenberg until October 1938, continued after 1945 by expellees from Reichenberg in Bavaria.
  • Carl Kostka (1870–1957), Sudeten German politician, member of parliament and senator, Mayor of Reichenberg from 1929 to 1938
  • Adolf Loos (1870–1933), Austrian architect and architectural theorist
  • Josef Strasser (1870–1935), socialist politician
  • Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), famous Austrian car designer
  • Erich Gierach (1881–1943), Nazi Germanist and representative of the ethnic Sudeten German movement
  • Ferdinand Cavallar von Grabensprung (1886–1952), old Austrian officer and field pilot
  • Karl Jäger (1888–1959), SS standard leader and organizer of the Holocaust in Lithuania
  • Fidelio F. (Friedrich) Finke (1891–1968), German composer
  • Paul Hörbiger (1894–1981), Austrian actor
  • Emil Artin (1898–1962), Austrian mathematician
  • Alfred Frenzel (1899–1968), German SPD politician
  • Bruno Schier (1902–1984), exposed Sudeten German folk researcher
  • Eugen Lemberg (1903–1976), German-Bohemian sociologist
  • Paul Bleiß (1904–1996), German SPD politician
  • Hanns Erich Köhler (1905–1983), German graphic artist and caricaturist
  • Oswald Baer (1906–1941), painter of the New Objectivity
  • Rudolf Raschka (1907–1948), engineer, farmer and politician in the Greater German Empire
  • Oswald Schäfer (1908–1991), SS-Obersturmbannführer and criminal inspector
  • Viktor Staal (1909–1982), Austrian actor
  • Bernhard Baatz (1910–1978), SS-Obersturmbannführer
  • Josef Blösche (1912–1969), SS-Unterscharführer
  • Thomas Windisch (1914–2005), composer, architect, painter, poet and pianist
  • Willi Sitte (1921–2013), visual artist (especially painter) and was a cultural functionary in the GDR
  • Franziska Stömmer (1922–2004), Bavarian folk actress and character actress
  • Franz Peter Künzel (* 1925), translator of Czech and Slovak literature, editor and editor
  • Oldřich Daněk (1927–2000), playwright, writer, director and screenwriter
  • Horst Gehann (1928–2007), German concert organist, conductor, composer, harpsichordist and music publisher
  • Walter Künzel (* 1928), Professor of Preventive Dentistry and Rector Emeritus, Medical Academy Erfurt
  • Vladimír Páral (* 1932), Czech writer
  • Iva Hercíková (1935–2007), writer and dramaturge
  • Václav Koloušek (* 1976), football player
  • Jiří Štajner (* 1976), football player
  • Antonín Hájek (* 1987), ski jumper

Honorary citizen

  • Karl Ritter von Stremayr (1823–1904), Minister for Culture and Education in recognition of the establishment of the State Trade School and the Imperial and Royal Higher School

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eufrat in the Internet Movie Database (English)