List of personalities of the city of Marienberg

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Coat of arms of the city of Marienberg

The list of personalities from the city of Marienberg contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city ​​of Marienberg in the Erzgebirge district . These are personalities who are honorary citizens, who were born or died here or who worked in Marienberg and today's districts.

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

Honorary citizen

1964: Elfriede Spiegelhauer born. Uhlig (1934–2013), cross-country skier, honorary citizen of Pobershau

sons and daughters of the town

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

Personalities of the early modern period

Heinrich Leonhard Heubner

19th century personalities

Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann

20th century personalities

  • Hugo Rösch (1861–1933), publisher and editor
  • Emil Richard Wagner (1871–1950), composer
  • Grete Baldauf-Würkert (1878–1962), native writer from the Ore Mountains, who made a name for herself as a poet from the Flöhatal, was born in Sorgau
  • Emil Meinhold (1878–1955), racing cyclist and pacemaker, born in Pobershau
  • Hans Steinhoff (1882–1945), film director
  • Olga Körner (1887–1969), protagonist of the German labor movement, born in Rübenau
  • Erich Lang (1895–1940), native poet of the Saxon Ore Mountains, born in statute
  • Luise Pinc , b. Seifert (1895–1982), Ore Mountains dialect poet and singer, born in the statute
  • Horst Hunger (1902–1986), ministerial official, officer and federal judge
  • Erich Fürchtegott Heeger (1907–1959), crop scientist, director of an institute for special crops at the University of Leipzig, researched the scientific basis for the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants in Germany
  • Helmut Berger (1913–2010), mining engineer and university professor
  • Ilse van Heyst (1913–?), Writer and translator
  • Walter Kaaden (1919–1996), engineer and engine designer, born in Pobershau
  • Horst Heidrich (1920–1992), General Forester and Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management in the GDR, born in the statutes
  • Gerhard Pfeifer (1921–2003), dentist and university professor, born in the statutes
  • Werner Haupt (1923–2005), librarian and non-fiction author specializing in the German military in World War II
  • Alfred Kaden (1925–2015), forester and author as well as nature and homeland protector in the Saxon Ore Mountains, born and died in Kühnhaide
  • Gottfried Reichel (1925–2015), carver, born in Pobershau
  • Wolfgang Iser (1926–2007), English and literary scholar
  • Elfriede Spiegelhauer born Uhlig (1934–2013), cross-country skier, born in Pobershau and honorary citizen of Pobershau (1964)
  • Karlheinz Hengst (* 1934), onomastics
  • Gudrun Ritter (* 1936), actress
  • Gottfried Fischborn (1936–2020), author, professor of theater and literature
  • Wolfram Böhme (1937–2011), poet and Ore Mountain dialect poet, born in Zöblitz
  • Wolfgang Buschmann (* 1943), writer, born in Rittersberg
  • Lothar W. Kroh (* 1951), chemist and university professor
  • Ulrich Langer (* 1952), mathematician and university professor
  • Christfried Böttrich (* 1959), Lutheran theologian
  • Michael Rudolf (1961–2007), satirist, publisher and the "beard killer" in the "Barber of Bebra"
  • Ines Geißler (* 1963), Olympic swimming champion
  • Elia van Scirouvsky (* 1970), writer
  • Robert Ide (* 1975), journalist, author
  • Kristin Schütz (* 1975), politician (FDP)
  • Christoph Seifert (* 1977), motorcycle racer

21st century personalities

Marcel Schlosser (right, 2015)

Personalities who died in Marienberg

Death stone for Paul von Münch in the forest near Reitzenhain
  • Johannes Criginger (1521–1571), teacher, writer, created the first engraved map of Bohemia, Meissen and Thuringia in 1568
  • Paul von Münch (1641–1669), Saxon dragoon officer who was the victim of a spectacular murder in Reitzenhain. The death stone near Marienberg reminds of this.
  • Johann August Landvoigt (1715–1766), lawyer and flautist
  • Martin Tille (1883–1956), landscape painter
  • Oscar Schönherr (1903–1968), composer and musician

Personalities associated with the city

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (around 1810)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the GND