List of personalities from the city of Mittweida
The list of personalities in the city of Mittweida contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Mittweida . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born in Mittweida or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Penig see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1877: Johannes Schilling (1828–1910), sculptor
- 1880: Carl August Sigismund Emmrich, city councilor and benefactor of the city
- 1882: Rudolf Heber (1806–1884), Dr. med.
- 1892: Carl Georg Weitzel (1843–1927), founder of the technical center
- 1893: Franz Louis Flößner (1824–1898), city councilor, deputy mayor and registrar
- 1895: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
- 1902: Martin Schneider (1839–1904), politician, member of the Reichstag, chairman of the trade court
- 1911: Louis Wilhelm Decker (1847–1915), city councilor, services to the industrial development of Mittweida
- 1966: Karl Graf (1899–1970), anti-fascist
- 1966: Fritz Tippmann (1900–1983), anti-fascist
- 1973: Hans Vogelsang (1892–1987), anti-fascist
- 1992: Erich Loest (1926–2013), writer
- 1998: Ingrid von Reyher (1908–2004), lecturer at Mittweida University
- 2000: Reinhard Schmidt (* 1937), Rector of the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Mittweida or the present-day districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Mittweida is irrelevant.
Personalities of the early modern period
- Wolffgang Wesener (1494–1557), mayor in Halle / Saale
- Georg Forberger (around 1543 – after 1604), editor and translator
- Jakob Lindner (1544–1606), educator
- Andreas von Schönberg (1565 / 1566–1587), electoral Saxon feudal man, born in Neuensorge
- Balthasar Stolberg (1640–1684), philologist
- Johann Heinrich Martius (1677–1756), literary scholar
- Christian Gotthold Hauffe (1725–1799), bookseller, publisher and novelist
- Christian Gottfried Hahmann (1739–1798), master builder of the Rococo, who mainly worked in Dresden and is now primarily known for his work on the Palais Cosel
- Friedrich Herrmann (1775–1819), pedagogue and publicist
19th century personalities
- Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner (1778–1828), Protestant theologian
- Gottfried August Freiherr von Lorenz (1776–1841), electoral Saxon, from 1806 royal Saxon governor and manor owner
- Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner (1778–1828), Protestant theologian
- August Junge (1821–1869), university professor for mathematics and the art of marrowing, born in Frankenau
- Heinrich Trübenbach (1823-1896), Protestant pastor and local chronicler in Kayna
- Daniel Reinhold Finsterbusch (1825–1902), teacher and composer
- Johannes Schilling (1828–1910), sculptor
- Martin Schneider (1839–1904), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Kurt Harter (1858–1936), politician ( Conservative State Association in Saxony , DNVP), born in Neudörfchen
20th century personalities
- Hans Stumme (1864–1936), orientalist and linguist known for his research on Semitic and other Afro-Asian languages
- Georg Pezold (1865–1943), sculptor
- Otto Petrenz (1878–1953), sculptor
- Ernst Max Landschreiber (1880–1961), painter, impressionist
- Ernst Pohlhausen (1890–1964), mathematician and university professor
- Rudolf Kneip (1899–1986), pedagogue, schoolmaster and alumni inspector in Eutin, Danzig and Ottingen, as well as author of literature on the movement of birds and hiking
- Erhard König (1900–1966), communist and official of the People's Police, born in Kockisch near Mittweida
- Kurt Martius (1903–1970), politician (NSDAP)
- Johannes Pietzonka (1904–1989), Stülpner researcher
- Rudolf Hasse (1906–1942), racing driver
- Paul Dittel (1907–1976?), Head of Office VII of the Reich Security Main Office and SS-Obersturmbannführer
- Otto Löscher (1910–1970), federal judge
- Herbert Gadsch (1913–2011), church musician and composer
- Erich Loest (1926–2013), writer
- Ulrich Blumenschein (* 1929), journalist
- Wolfgang Schwabenicky (* 1940), medieval archaeologist and building researcher
- Volker Zahn (* 1940), doctor and state-approved building biologist
- Wolfram Lindner (1941–2010), cycling coach, born in Lauenhain
- Peter Löw (* 1941), writer
- Peter Moreth (1941–2014), politician (LDPD), first president of the Treuhandanstalt
- Ralf Schwarzer (* 1943), psychologist and professor of psychology. Schwarzer researches health behavior and self-efficacy expectations in the field of health psychology
- Astrid Bless (1944–2009), actress and cabaret artist
- Volker Sklenar (* 1944), politician (CDU), long-time minister in Thuringia
- Karl Heinz Knepper (1945–2014), lyric tenor
- Henning Rischer (* 1945), historical researcher, author and editor of writings on the history of Pomerania
- Lothar Otto (* 1947), Rector of the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
- Folker Schramm (* 1947), music psychologist and music teacher, was director of the Osnabrück City Conservatory and then founding dean and director of the Institute for Music Education at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
- Klaus Spremann (* 1947), economist, is professor emeritus at the University of St. Gallen and academic director of a research institute in Singapore
- Joe Sachse (* 1948), jazz guitarist
- Jürgen Watzke (around 1952–1997), actor, theater director and radio play speaker
- Matthias Damm (* 1954), politician (CDU) and since August 2015 District Administrator of the Central Saxony district
- Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern (* 1956), process engineer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and holder of the chair for chemical process engineering at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- Holger Lippmann (* 1960), visual artist who is one of the pioneers of net art
- Falk Zenker (* 1967), guitarist, composer and sound artist
- Andreas Klöden (* 1975), racing cyclist
- Benjamin Brunn (* 1977), musician, producer of electronic music
- Antje Traue (* 1981), actress
Personalities related to the city
- Melchior Friebe , also Melchior Fribe (1629–1690), a medic, died in Mittweida
- Johann Gottfried Freiherr von Lorenz († 1792), merchant and trader, factory owner as well as chamber councilor and manor from Kleinmilkau, Podelwitz, Burkartshain, Mühlbach, Mockritz, Döschitz, Jeßnitz, Zöschau and Plotha bei Belgern, died in Mittweida
- Gotthelf Traugott Esaias Häntzschel (1779–1848), German businessman and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), Mayor of Mittweida
- Ernst Voigt (1845–1886), lawyer and politician (NLP), Mayor of Mittweida, MdL
- Alfred Udo Holzt (1859–1945), engineer, was director of the Mittweida technical center from 1892 to 1936
- August Horch (1868–1951), German mechanical engineer and founder of the automotive companies Horch and Audi, studied in Mittweida
- Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), an optician specializing in astronomical optics, worked for a time in Mittweida
- Moritz Viktor Oster (1881–1966), lawyer, from 1925 to 1946 administrative director at the Technikum Mittweida
- Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish humanist, ran an orphanage and welfare home at Neusorge Castle near Mittweida from 1924 to 1931 for children whose fathers died in Russian captivity
- Otto Spülbeck (1904–1970) was bishop of the Catholic diocese of Meissen from 1958 until his death. He took part in the Second Vatican Council and tried to implement its resolutions by means of a diocesan synod in his own diocese and died in Mittweida.
- Walter Bruch (1908–1990), pioneer of German television, studied in Mittweida
- Ingrid von Reyher (1908–2004), first female teacher at the Technikum Mittweida, named after the Ingrid von Reyher Prize
- Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997), mechanical engineer and inventor, studied in Mittweida
- Berndt Niethammer (1931–2005), manager and entrepreneur in the paper industry
- Michael Leutert (* 1974), politician (Die Linke), Abitur in Mittweida, Member of the Bundestag