List of personalities of the city of Netzschkau

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

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

sons and daughters of the town

  • Hugo Gottfried Opitz (1846–1916), lawyer and conservative politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
  • Hermann Petzold (1870–1927), weaver and managing director of consumer cooperative companies, born in Lambzig
  • Martin Groß (1901–1945), politician (NSDAP), born in Foschenroda
  • Kurt Geipel (1902–1944), watercolor painter and designer
  • Hugo Hartung (1902–1972), writer and radio play author
  • Peter Beyer (* 1938), historian and archivist
  • Waltraud Kaufmann (* 1942), track and field athlete and Olympic participant, born in Brockau
  • Hanns-Ulrich Meisel (* 1943), German chemist, pastor and politician (Neues Forum, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
  • Thomas Hailer (1945–2014), actor and voice actor

Personalities associated with the city

  • Carol Bose (1596–1657), Electoral Saxon colonel and governor of the offices of Zwickau, Werdau and Stollberg, manor owner in Netzschkau
  • Friedrich Wilhelm August Carl Graf von Bose (1753–1809), Royal Saxon Cabinet Minister, Real Privy Councilor as well as Oberhofmarschall, manor in Netzschkau
  • Heinrich Graf von Schönburg (1794–1881), manor owner in Netzschkau and member of the state parliament of the Kingdom of Saxony
  • Paul Pohle (1869–1943), educator and geographer, author of the Heimat-Atlas for Reichenbach, Mylau, Netzschkau and the surrounding area
  • Siegfried Böhm (1928–1980), politician and SED functionary, grew up in Netzschkau and went to school here
  • Dietmar Schicke (* 1942), former politician (LDPD / FDP), from 1967 to 1985 he worked as a teacher and specialist advisor in Netzschkau
  • Petra Steps (* 1959), editor, author, journalist, philosopher and university educator, lives in the Lambzig district
  • Klaus-Peter Neitzke (* 1967), mechanical engineer and professor for automation systems at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, from 1984 to 1987 learned the trade of machine and system fitter in the refrigeration engineering department in Lower Saxony and the Netzschkauer machine factory NEMA
  • Thomas Weiß, silver medal winner Paralympics 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Weiß still likes to ski down the slopes. In: Freie Presse , Plauen edition of March 8, 2010.