List of personalities from the city of Oederan

Coat of arms of the city of Oederan

The list of personalities of the city of Oederan contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city ​​of Oederan . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born in Oederan or who worked here.

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

Honorary citizen

• Richard Heyder (1884–1984), Nestor of Saxon Ornithology and editor of the work Die Vögel des Landes Sachsen

sons and daughters of the town

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

Personalities of the early modern period

• Valentin Schindler (1543–1604), philologist and orientalist
• Johann Klemm (around 1595 – around 1659), composer, organist and music publisher
• Gottfried Holtzmüller (1609–1659), Swedish-Weimar lieutenant colonel during the Thirty Years' War

19th century personalities

Minna Wagner

• Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler (1771–1850), entrepreneur in Saxony and Poland
• Christian Gottlob August Bergt (1772–1837), organist and composer
• Franz Heisterbergk (1799–1850), lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Ferdinand Moritz Heisterbergk (1802–1890), entrepreneur and politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Minna Wagner , née Wilhelmine Planer , (1809–1866), actress and first wife of Richard Wagner
• Louis Bernhard Rüling (1822–1896), Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor, court preacher and councilor of the Saxon Lutheran State Consistory
• Karl Gottlob Heymann (1825–1905), conservative politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), born in Frankenstein
• Konrad Fiedler (1841–1895), art theorist
• Theodor Heymann (1853–1936), entrepreneur and conservative politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), born in Frankenstein

20th century personalities

Rolf Richter

Igor Mitoraj

• Herbert Böhme (1879–1971), Superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in the church district of Meißen
• Richard Mandroschke (1887–1948), Oederaner original, poet, inventor
• Paul Cohrs (1897–1977), veterinarian and university lecturer in Leipzig and Hanover
• Willy Lange (1899 – after 1949), party functionary (SPD)
• Ilse Konell (1919–2012), literature patron
• Günther Wagenlehner (1923–2006), political scientist and journalist
• Martin Hoffmann (1930–2018), offered student resistance in the GDR, 2002 founder of the contemporary witness museum in Oederan, 2008 Federal Cross of Merit for his commitment to coming to terms with GDR injustice
• Helmut Klotz (* 1935), opera singer and choir director
• Rolf Richter (1941–1988), chess composer
• Igor Mitoraj (1944–2014), Polish sculptor
• Gernot Krasselt (* 1950), politician (CDU) and member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2009, born in Breitenau
• Wolfgang Kohlbach (* 1953), master dental technician and author

Personalities related to the city

• Johann Heinrich von Lindenau (1586–1615), manor owner in Niederschöna in the Electorate of Saxony, died in Börnichen
• Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff (1702–1773), master carpenter and master builder, rebuilt the Oederan town hall in 1753/1754
• Johann Georg Hager (1709–1777), educator and geographer, died in Oederan
• Carl Friedrich Metzler (1813–1867), lawyer, mayor in Oederan and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Moritz Lilie (1835–1904), writer, chronicler and journalist, also used the pseudonym ML v. Chemnitz, Moritz Rose and Woldemar Berndt, grew up in Oederan
• Moritz Brand (1844–1927), Saxon state executioner, died in Oederan
• Helene Weichardt , née Henkel, (1851–1880), writer, wrote under the pseudonym Ellen Lenneck, died in Görbersdorf
• Georg Pauli (1867–1949), teacher, temporarily teacher in Breitenau and founder of the Lausitzer Cyclist Association, which he founded in 1906 with members of the local cyclist association, from 1906 to 1920 he was chairman of the Lausitz cyclist association, then honorary chairman
• Johannes Uhlig (1899 – after 1989), botanist and teacher, wrote the 1927 article on the flora of Oederan and the surrounding area in the history of the city of Oederan
• Grete Salus (1910–1996), dance teacher, was one of the first contemporary witnesses to report on her experiences as a prisoner in the Oederan concentration camp in the Kabis sewing thread factory
• Rolf Kunze (1926–2010), teacher and wood carver, was involved in founding the Oederan Volkskunstschule in 1967 and played a key role in shaping the curriculum there
• Gernot Krasselt (* 1950), full-time mayor from 1990 to 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oederander city portrait: Dr. Richard Heyder
2. ↑ Grete Salus: An angel was not there. A life against the shadow of Auschwitz. Forum Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-931801-52-7 .
3. ↑ History of the Volkskunstschule Oederan ( Memento from May 5, 2008 in the web archive archive.today )