List of personalities of the city of Markranstädt
The list of personalities of the city of Markranstädt contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Markranstädt in the district of Leipzig . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of the city, who were born or died in Markranstädt and the present-day districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Markranstädt, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
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- 1859 Franz Eduard Weißbach, pastor
- 1874 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Held, cantor and teacher
- 1878 Johann Gottlob Klöden, master turner
- 1895 Prince Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
- 1896 Johann Karl Keil, mayor from 1890 to 1896
- 1898 Ernst Gottlieb Heine, master locksmith
- 1902 Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dünnebier, school director
- 1902 Johann Carl Friedrich Schmidt, member of the church council
- 1902 Luis Walter, founder of the tobacco finishing and dyeing works, Leipziger Straße 4
- 1916 Hugo Beyer, city estate owner and city councilor
- 1933 Paul von Hindenburg , President of the Reich
- 1933 Albin Schirmer, mayor from 1909 to 1933
- 1950 Paul Georgi, cabinet maker, school caretaker and city councilor
- 1977 Rudi Glöckner , referee
- 2000 Günther Kluge, industrial clerk and local researcher
sons and daughters of the town
- Claus Narr (before 1486 - after 1530), court jester at the Wettin court
- Viktor Böhmert (1829–1918), journalist, free trader, economist and statistician, born in Quesitz
- Viktor Schumann (1841–1913), physicist who discovered vacuum ultraviolet radiation
- Karl Emil Kirchner (1845–1899), Saxon officer, most recently lieutenant general, born on the Quesitz manor
- Martin Lämmel (* 1849; date of death unknown), copperplate engraver, painter, graphic artist and wood engraver, born in Kulkwitz
- Max Kirmsse (1877–1946), teacher at the Kalmenhof , historian, politician
- Arthur Sämisch (1878-1940), politician (SPD / USPD / KPD), was a member of the Prussian State Assembly (1919-1921), member of the Central Revision Commission and Reich auditor of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
- Otto Most (1881–1971), politician (DVP)
- Max Strötzel (1885–1945), politician
- Kurt Schiering (1886–1918), painter and graphic artist
- Victor Lange (1908–1996), German-American German and English studies specialist
- Heino Weiprecht (1912–1988), politician (SED) and State Secretary of the GDR
- Rudolf Helmer (1914–2007), resistance fighter against National Socialism and diplomat, was the GDR's ambassador to Hungary
- Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt (1915–2014), general and CDU politician
- Rolf Kauka (1917–2000), comic book publisher
- Werner Schmidt (1926–2012), politician (CDU) and member of the Saxon state parliament, born in Quesitz
- Horst Kaminsky (1927–2019), former politician (SED) and President of the State Bank of the GDR
- Günter Hennig (* 1928), former publishing director, he ran the SED-owned Dietz Verlag
- Rudi Glöckner (1929–1999), football referee
- Almut Brömmel (* 1935), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
- Dieter Fischer (1936–2016), football player
- Monika Werner (* 1938), former politician (SED), she was mayor of Hennigsdorf and member of the GDR State Council
- Wolfram Löwe (* 1945), football player
- Bernd Trunzer (1947–2018), football player
- Wolfgang Altmann (* 1952), soccer player
- Jürgen Richter (* 1953), badminton player
- Jens Bühligen (* 1966), local politician (CDU) and mayor of the city of Merseburg in Saxony-Anhalt since 2008
- Bettina Schieferdecker (* 1968), former gymnast, her home club was SC Leipzig
- Jürgen Kasek (* 1980), politician, from 2014 to 2018 he was state board spokesman for the Saxon state association of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen
- Marian (Oli) Unger (* 1983), former German soccer goalkeeper and today's goalkeeping coach
Personalities associated with the city
- Hugo Ruppe (1879–1949), founder of the Markranstädter automobile factory MAF
- Karl Hans Drechsel (1904–1946), 1934/35 Mayor (NSDAP)
- Heinz Kucharski (1919–2000), Indologist and a central figure in the Hamburg branch of the White Rose, died in Markranstädt
- Uwe Ferl (* 1958), former soccer player and today's soccer coach, played from 1994 to 1995 for the Spiel- und Sportverein Markranstädt e. V.
- Tom Geißler (* 1983), former soccer player, played for SSV Markranstädt from 2015 to 2016
- Toni Jurascheck (* 1986), soccer player, plays for FC Union Mühlhausen and from 2008 to 2009 for SSV Markranstädt
literature
- Heinrich Engelbert Schwartze: Leipziger Land-Chronik (third part, 1st chapter: Von Marck-Rannstaedt), 2006, Leipzig, PRO LEIPZIG - Verlag, ISBN 3-936508-23-2 .