List of personalities of the city of Markneukirchen

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The list of personalities of the town of Markneukirchen contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon town of Markneukirchen in the Vogtland district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens or who were born or died there or who worked in Markneukirchen or today's districts.

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

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Markneukirchen or what is today the districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Markneukirchen is irrelevant.

Personalities of the early modern period

  • Jacob Weller (1602–1664), court preacher at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden

19th century personalities

Oskar Friedrich (around 1900)

20th century personalities

Oscar Schuster (around 1910)
Richard Jacob (around 1935)
Werner Pöllmann , 2012
  • August Meinel (1868–1961), violin maker
  • Oscar Schuster (1873–1917), doctor, writer, pioneer of Saxon mountaineering
  • Richard Jacob (1877–1960), one of the most important German guitar makers of the 20th century
  • Friedrich Weller (1889–1980), philologist and indologist
  • Friedrich Glier (1891–1953), teacher, organist, composer and collector of Vogtland melodies
  • Walter Hoyer (1893 – unknown), literary theorist, translator and author. The senior director of studies was head of the Reichsschule des Deutschen Buchhandels and later library director in Leipzig.
  • Erich Wild (1895–1964), local history researcher, a street was named after him
  • Hans Herbert Grimm (1896–1950), teacher and author
  • Martin Jordan (1897–1945), NSDAP member of the Reichstag
  • Ernst Ihbe (1913–1992), racing cyclist, was Olympic champion in 1936 with a tandem
  • Herbert Jordan (1919–1991), internist and balneologist
  • Helmar Meinel (* 1928), journalist and satirist, born in Wernitzgrün
  • Gotthard Graubner (1930–2013), painter, professor of painting at the Hamburg Art Academy and the Düsseldorf Art Academy , member of the German Academy of the Arts, born in Erlbach
  • Wilfried Möckel (1932–2020), dentist and general practitioner
  • Wolfgang Uebel (* 1932), master violin maker, born in Wohlhausen
  • Roland Zimmer (1933–1993), music teacher and professor of guitar at the "Franz Liszt" Music Academy in Weimar
  • Erhard Fietz (1934–2007), musician, composer and teacher
  • Ursula Kulscher (* 1936), photographer and politician (CDU) and former member of the Saxon state parliament, born in Wohlhausen
  • Rudolf Böhm (* 1941), sculptor and blacksmith
  • Claus Kreul (* 1944), football player in the GDR upper league for FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and Wismut Aue, later coach of various GDR upper division teams, born in Erlbach
  • Kurt Grahl (* 1947), church musician and composer
  • Berndt Mueller (* 1950), theoretical physicist who deals with theoretical nuclear physics
  • Werner Pöllmann (* 1953), German educator and local researcher

Personalities who died in the city or the districts

  • Paul Otto Apian-Bennewitz (1847-1892), organist and teacher at the college for instrument makers in Markneukirchen, founded the Markneukirchen Musical Instrument Museum
  • Rudolf Herold (1893–1982), music teacher and composer (165 works), died in Erlbach

Personalities associated with the city

Carsten Rentzing (2017)
  • Julius Mosen (1803–1867), poet and writer, lyricist of the Andreas Hofer song , a street was named after him, and the Mosenhaus is also striking
  • Max B. Martin (1875–1938), entrepreneur at the Deutsche Signal-Instrumentenfabrik
  • Friedrich Arthur Uebel (1888–1963), woodwind instrument maker. As F. Arthur Uebel, he founded his own workshop in Markneukirchen, having previously learned clarinet making from Oskar Oehler in Berlin, and working closely with him until his death in 1936.
  • Friedrich Glier (1891–1953), teacher, organist, composer and collector of local melodies, a street was named after him
  • Peter Harlan (1898–1966), musician, musical instrument maker and manufacturer
  • Carsten Rentzing (* 1967), 2010–2015 pastor in Markneukirchen, from 2015 to 2019 regional bishop of the Evangelical Church of Saxony

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The honorary citizen is celebrated. In: The fight for freedom, Dresden city edition. April 25, 1932, p. 4 , accessed on November 12, 2019 (reproduced on the website of the Hannah Arendt Institute ).