List of personalities from the town of Nejdek

The list of personalities of the city of Nejdek (German Neudek ) in the Czech Republic contains people who have played an important role in the history of the city. These are personalities who were born here, worked here or who were granted honorary citizenship.

Honorary citizen

• Karl Kunzmann (1842–1918), manufacturer of the lace factory Anton Gottschald & Comp. , Mayor of Neudek, district chairman
• Josef Pilz (1870–1941), specialist teacher, civic school director, archivist and local history researcher

sons and daughters of the town

• Erasmus Zettel (around 1560–1614), mayor and miner, administrator and captain of Neudek
• Katharina von Redern (around 1560–1617), Bohemian nobleman
• Hans Rappolt (1563–?), Trades, mayor, administrator and hammer administrator of Neudek
• Erasmus Pecher (1606–1669), citizen and mountain master of Neudek
• Peter Elster (1637–1704), entrepreneur, owner of the blue paint factory and rebel leader in the peasant uprising of 1680
• Hans Adam Siegel (1638–1679), forester and forester, taker of tin tithes, clerk and organist in plates
• Georg Bernhard Stutzig (1642–1711), bailiff and rebel leader in the peasant uprising of 1680
• Hans Georg Pöhner (1657–1738), councilor and mayor of Neudek, founder of the Trinity and plague column there .
• Ignaz Sichelbarth (1708–1780), Jesuit, missionary and painter, worked as a painter at the Chinese imperial court
• Anton Ullmann (1732–1807), miner, geometer and chemist
• Wenzel Linck (1736–1797), Jesuit and missionary in Baja California, Mexico
• Kaspar Ullmann (1767–1853), mountain foreman, geometer, surveyor, kk branch taker and instrument maker.
• Franz Waldöstl (1793–1871), city judge, school supervisor and rifle captain of Neudek
• Franz Ullmann (1800–1864), union shift supervisor, mountain manager and last Neudek miner
• Anna Countess von der Asseburg (1830–1905), owner of the Neudek estate with Tüppelsgrün and the Bělohrad estate
• Wenzel Kuhn (1854–1933), Austrian politician of the Christian Social Party (CSP)
• Friedrich Graf von der Asseburg (1861–1940), Prussian major and chamberlain, owner of Falkenstein Castle in the Harz Mountains
• Klara Krall born Neudert (1889–1943), Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Karl Sladek (1899–1982), actor, opera singer and theater director
• Rudolf Schreiber (1907–1954), university and city archives director in Praha (Prague) and Speyer
• Heinz Kurt Henisch (1922–2006), scientist, physicist, photographer and author
• Vladimír Ráž (1923–2000), Czech actor. He appeared in over 60 films and television shows between 1947 and 2000
• Heinz Metlitzky (* 1927), ZDF foreign correspondent
• Hermann Lorenz (1928–2001), prison officer in the GDR and its last executioner
• Dieter Janik (* 1939), Professor of Romance Philology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Ingo Krati (* 1945), cameraman and filmmaker

People related to the city

• Lorenz Schlick (around 1495–1583) Bohemian nobleman, lord of Neudek
• Christoph Schürer (1500–1560), scientist and glassmaker at the Eulenhütte
• Friedrich Colonna Freiherr von Fels (around 1575–1614), Bohemian nobleman, lord of Neudek
• Hermann Graf Czernin von Chudenitz (1576–1651), Bohemian diplomat and soldier, owner of the Neudek estate
• Valentin Löwe (1572–1630), theologian, clergyman and pastor, from 1599 to 1624 pastor in Neudek
• Anna Barbara Colonna Freiin von Fels (1583–1625), Bohemian nobleman, mistress of Neudek
• Georg Putz (around 1586–1635), Czernin captain of the Neudek rule
• Georg Haslauer von Haslau († 1661), Bohemian nobleman, lord of Thierbach
• Balthasar Siegel († 1663), clerk and captain of Neudek
• Lorenz Leiboldt (1597–1671), city judge, mayor and manorial administrator
• Humprecht Johann Graf Czernin von Chudenitz (1628–1682), Bohemian diplomat and builder, owner of the Neudek estate
• Johann Putz (around 1631–1697), border customs collector, town treasurer and town bailiff in Platten
• Maximilian Danhammer († 1708), sacristan, last sentenced to death and publicly executed in Neudek
• Adam Ludwig von Hartig (1710–1736), gentleman on Gießhübel, Neudek, Schöbernitz and Priesnitz
• Joseph Kunzmann (1814–1873), kk lace and white goods manufacturer in Vienna.
• Wenzel Wolfert (1820–1877), stagecoach, postillion in Karlsbad , grew up in Neudek
• Johann Heinrich Volkmann (1842–1916), Bremen merchant and partner in the North German wool combing & worsted spinning mill
• Richard Gottlieb Wilhelm Ritter von Doderer (1876–1955), Austrian industrialist, central director of Eisenwerke AG Rothau-Neudek
• Adolf Härtl (1926–1976), German politician (SPD)