List of personalities from Litoměřice

Coat of arms of the city of Litoměřice (German Leitmeritz )

The list of personalities of the city Litoměřice in the Czech Republic displays people who in the history of the town Litoměřice (German Leitmeritz have played) an important role. These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city or were born here or who worked here.

For the personalities from the settlements incorporated into Litoměřice, see the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

• Franz Freiherr von Schmück (1797–1862), kk Privy Councilor, administrative officer and politician, including President of the Bucovina region, then President of the Moravian-Silesian Higher Regional Court

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Litoměřice or in today's parts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Litoměřice is irrelevant.

Medieval and early modern personalities

Václav Praupner

• Hilary von Leitmeritz (1412 / 13–1468), administrator of the Archdiocese of Prague and papal legate
• Gottfried Hofer von Lobenstein (1665–1732), Catholic clergyman and vicar general of the diocese of Leitmeritz and dean of the cathedral in Leitmeritz
• Wenzel Marx (1711–1773), Franciscan (OFM) and sculptor
• Václav Josef Bartoloměj Praupner (1745–1807), composer
• Antonio Rosetti (Rös [s] ler) (1750–1792), composer

19th century personalities

Josef Alois Jüstel (1844)

• Andreas Chrysogen Eichler (1762–1841), writer
• Josef Alois Jüstel (1765–1858), statesman, theologian and pulpit speaker
• Johann Josef Bernt (1770–1842), physician
• Johann Wilhelm Ridler (1772–1834), librarian and editor
• Joseph Georg Meinert (1773–1844), folk song collector, cultural historian and philosopher
• Wenzel Pilsak Edler von Wellenau (1779–1855), general and chief director of the fire rifle factory in Vienna and Steyr
• Wenzel Babinsky (1796–1879), robber
• Joseph Emanuel Hilscher (1806–1837), poet and soldier
• Alfred Knotz (1844–1906), politician and lawyer
• Carl Czepelak (1852-1893), lawyer and painter
• Franz Křepek (1855–1936), Mayor of Leitmeritz 1933–1936

20th century personalities

Eberhard Mayerhoffer from Vedropolje (1896)

Jiří Macháček (2007)

• Franz Čižek (1865–1946), painter and art teacher
• Eberhard Stephan Maria Mayerhoffer von Vedropolje (1870–1914), officer, teacher at the corps officer's school and military writer with Hungarian nobility
• Bruno Kreuter (1871–1938), First Mayor of Rosenheim in a politically difficult time, during the revolution of 1918/19 and the beginning of the global economic crisis in 1929
• Alfred Kubin (1877–1959), writer, graphic artist and book illustrator
• Rudolf Walter (1885–1950), actor and film producer
• Walter Tschuppik (1889–1955), journalist
• Willy Winterstein (1895–1965), cameraman
• Anton Profes (1896–1976), hit song and film composer
• Eduard Klug (1901 – after 1945), concentration camp doctor and SS Hauptsturmführer
• Emil van Tongel (1902–1981), politician (GDVP, NSDAP, VdU, FPÖ), member of the National Council
• Kurt Honolka (1913–1988), musicologist, journalist, music and theater critic
• Walter Kutschera (1914–1998), politician (GB / BHE)
• Josef Pacher (1919–2007), forest scientist
• Peter Lerche (1928–2016), German legal scholar
• Kurt Turba (1929–2007), journalist and politician (SED)
• Johann Georg Reißmüller (1932–2018), journalist and co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Karl Überla (* 1935), epidemiologist, professor at the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
• Udo Arnold (* 1940), historian and university professor
• Dietrich Mattausch (* 1940), actor
• Marianne Rosenbaum (1940–1999), film director and screenwriter
• Albert Christian Sellner (* 1945), publicist, editor, literary agent and antiquarian
• Rudolf Buchbinder (* 1946), pianist
• Jaroslav Brabec (1949–2018), shot putter
• Zdeněk Pecka (* 1954), rower who won two Olympic bronze medals
• Jaromír Honzák (* 1959), jazz bassist
• Jiří Macháček (* 1966), actor, singer and songwriter
• Jiří Růžek (* 1967), photographer
• Petr Házl (* 1971), handball player
• Milan Hnilička (* 1973), ice hockey goalkeeper and sports magician
• René Andrle (* 1974), racing cyclist
• Radek Hamr (* 1974), ice hockey player and coach
• Milan Berka (* 1978), handball player
• Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová (* 1978), track and field athlete
• Petr Přikryl (* 1978), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Martin Škoula (* 1979), ice hockey player

21st century personalities

Kamil Kreps (2009)

• Kamil Kreps (* 1984), ice hockey player
• Jiří Motl (* 1984), handball player
• Michal Birner (* 1986), ice hockey player

Personalities associated with the city

Karel Hynek Mácha

Ludwig Schlesinger (around 1880)

• Ernst Adalbert von Harrach (1598–1667), Prague bishop and cardinal, established the diocese of Leitmeritz in 1655
• Giulio Broggio (1628–1718), architect and builder of Italian or Swiss origin, died here
• Gustav Adolf Graf von Fahrensbach (1629–1689), lien holder of the offices of Schwedt and Vierraden in the Mark Brandenburg and later owner of the lordship of Neuschloß and Tschischkowitz in Bohemia, buried with his wife in Leitmeritz
• Katharina von Altenbockum (1680–1743), mistress of the Polish king and Saxon elector Augustus the Strong, at whose instigation she was made imperial princess as princess of Teschen, is buried in Leitmeritz
• Anton Adalbert Hnogek (1799–1866), theologian and clergyman, student and professor in the city
• Vincent Alexander Bochdalek (1801–1883), anatomist, discovered a number of anatomical structures and malformations that today bear his name, died here
• Joseph Augustin Ginzel (1804–1876), theologian, politician and author, died in Leitmeritz
• Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836), romantic poet, died here
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ladislaus Tarnowski (1811–1847), writer and journalist, lived temporarily in Leitmeritz
• Ferdinand von Arlt (1812–1887), surgeon and ophthalmologist, attended high school in Leitmeritz
• Moritz Thausing (1838–1884), art historian, died here
• Ludwig Schlesinger (1838–1899), historian and politician, died here
• Ferdinand Blumentritt (1853–1913), ethnographer, teacher and high school director in Leitmeritz
• Gustav Leutelt (1860–1947), poet and writer, attended the Leitmeritz teacher training college
• Josef Schlegel (1869–1955), politician of the Christian Social Party, attended grammar school in Leitmeritz
• Armin Berg (1883–1956), cabaret artist, composer, pianist, writer and actor, worked as a comedian at the municipal theater
• Heinrich Jöckel (1898–1946), SS-Hauptsturmführer, who was executed here for the mistreatment and murder of prisoners
• Paul Illing (1904–1984), National Socialist functionary, district administrator of the Leitmeritz district 1939–1945
• Karl Rahm (1907–1947), SS-Obersturmführer and camp commandant of the ghetto, executed in Litoměřice
• Ludvík Kundera (1920–2010), writer, obtained his Matura in 1938 at the Leitmeritzer grammar school
• Martin Löwenberg (1925–2018), victim of Nazi persecution and forced labor in the Leitmeritz satellite camp
• Jan Grimm (1943–2012), painter and spirit rector in his adopted home Litoměřice
• František Václav Lobkowicz (* 1948), bishop of the Ostrava-Opava diocese, attended the seminary here

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life dates according to Gregor K. Stasch: The Frauenberger Kreuzweg and its sculptor Wenzel Marx (1711–1773). Vonderau Museum and Imhof Verlag, Fulda 2016; Order affiliation according to Erwin Sturm: From the Buchenland II. List of artists and legends. Verlag Parzeller, Fulda 2002, p. 47.
2. ↑ Short biography (Czech)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.