List of personalities of the city of Marienbad

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Coat of arms of the city of Marienbad (Czech Mariánské Lázně )

The list of personalities of the city of Marienbad in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the city of Marienbad (in Czech Mariánské Lázně ). These are personalities who were born or died here, worked here, were honorary citizens or guests of the spa.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Marienbad, see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

  • Gilbert Helmer (1864–1944), Premonstratensian, from 1900 to 1944 abbot of the Teplá Monastery in western Bohemia

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Marienbad or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Marienbad is irrelevant.

  • Karl Zörkendörfer (1864–1945), doctor, balneologist, professor of medicine at the University of Prague and head of the balneological institute in Marienbad
  • Lotte Pirker (1877–1963), politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Austria, women's rights activist and writer
  • Ludwig Frank (1883–1945), politician (SdP, NSDAP)
  • Johannes Thummerer (1888–1921), librarian and writer
  • Alois Junker (1893–1967), politician (SDAP) and specialist teacher, from 1932 to 1934 member of the Lower Austrian state parliament, born in Auschowitz
  • Arno Arnold (1897–1963), sports medicine specialist, born in Glatzen
  • Werner Stark (1909–1985), sociologist
  • Friedrich Arnold (1912–1969), politician (CSU)
  • Otto Riehs (1921–2008), Wehrmacht soldier and holder of the Knight's Cross
  • Alfred Würl (1925–2005), artist and graphic designer
  • Ernst Hammerschmidt (1928–1993), Catholic theologian, orientalist and Ethiopist
  • Louis Rauwolf (1929–2003), caricaturist
  • Helmut Wenzl (1934–2018), physicist, professor of experimental physics at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen and director at the Institute for Solid State Research at the Jülich nuclear research facility, born in Auschowitz
  • Erhard Nowak (* 1935), choir director, composer, music writer. He was a music teacher at the Rhön-Gymnasium Bad Neustadt and other schools in Bad Neustadt an der Saale
  • Hans Rudolf Vaget (* 1938), Germanist
  • Randolf Menzel (* 1940), zoologist and neurobiologist
  • Ortwin Michl (* 1942), painter and art professor
  • Peter Hofmann (1944–2010), opera singer and rock musician
  • Herbert Honsowitz (* 1944), diplomat and ambassador
  • Ctibor Turba (* 1944), actor, pantomime, playwright, director and educator
  • Rudolf Peterke (* 1945), politician (CSU)
  • Alexander Cejka (* 1970), professional golfer
  • Petr Vlček (* 1973), football player
  • Michaela Janoušková (* 1992), handball player

Personalities associated with the city

  • Karl Joseph Heidler von Heilborn (1792–1866), first spa doctor in Marienbad, a friend of Goethe
  • Joseph Labitzky (1802–1881), conductor and dance composer, began his career around 1825 in Marienbad
  • Jonél Kalinczuk (1856–1934), doctor and writer, spa doctor from 1889 to 1934
  • Max Loewy (1875–1948), psychiatrist and neurologist, survivor of the Holocaust
  • Ada Sari (1886–1968), opera singer, stayed between 1929 and 1965 frequently in Marienbad
  • (Eugen) Johannes Riemann (1888–1959), actor, worked at the theater in Marienbad before 1914
  • Hansi Knoteck (1914–2014), film actress, made her stage debut in Marienbad around 1930
  • Vladimír Páral (* 1932), contemporary writer, has lived in Marienbad since the 1990s

People who died in Marienbad

Georg Viktor Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Famous spa guests

Goethe monument in front of the city museum
Goethe with Ulrike von Levetzow on the Marienbad Goethe hiking trail not far from the forest spring

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon