List of personalities of the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
The list of personalities of the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. contains people in the history of the Saxon city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. have played a sustainable role. These are personalities who were born here or who worked here.
Honorary citizen
- 2003: Reiner Kunze (* 1933), writer
- 2017: Hans-Ludwig Richter (* 1952), 1990–2015 Mayor of Oelsnitz
sons and daughters of the town
- Robert Flechsig (1817-1892), balneologist
- Hermann Rudolph (1846–1924), architect and builder
- Albin Eichhorn (1854 - after 1913), violinist
- Alfred Haubold (1887–1969), General
- Gerhard Ludwig Binz (1895–1963), lawyer, writer and functionary (NSDAP)
- Willibald Mayerl (1896–1977), miner and painter
- Karl Otto Stegmann (1901–1930), motorcycle racing driver
- Ernst Baumann (1907–1993), teacher, music educator and composer
- Lothar Cohn (1908–1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Heinrich Hartmann (1914–2007), functionary (NSDAP), co-founder of the International Federation and artist
- Joachim Günther (1918–1976), transport scientist and university professor
- Walter Kirsche (1920–2008), anatomist, university professor, naturalist and environmentalist
- Gerhard Stein (1922–1987), GDR diplomat
- Georg Uhlmann , teacher and historian
- Siegfried Hübner (1923–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman and dogmatist
- Karl Vogel (1925-2004), politician (SED)
- Horst Rößler (1925–2012), local history researcher
- Walter Tuchscheerer (1929–1967), Marxist economist
- Otto Heilmann (* 1930), GDR diplomat
- Gert Bahner (* 1930–2019), conductor and from 1980 director of the Leipzig Opera
- Horst Liebe (* 1931), enduro athlete
- Reiner Kunze (* 1933), writer and GDR dissident
- Eberhard Kunz (* 1937), diplomat, former ambassador of the GDR, born in Neuwürschnitz
- Manfred Plobner (* 1938), politician (SPD)
- Wolfgang Engelmann (* 1942), politician (CDU)
- Harald Irmscher (* 1946), football coach
- Bernd Kunzmann (* 1952), physicist and politician (SPD)
Personalities related to Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
- Bernhard Turley (1831–1908), mining clerk
- Karl Albin Uhlmann (1833–1902), master builder and politician
- Emanuel von Seidl (1856–1919), architect
- Simon Schocken (1874–1929), department store owner
- Salman Schocken (1877–1959), businessman and publisher
- Erich Basarke (1878–1941), architect
- Michael Heuschneider (1888 - after 1936), politician (NSDAP)
- Marie Majerová (1882–1967), Czech writer and journalist
- Willy Wendler (1883 - after 1966), miner and KPD / SED cultural functionary
- Karl Spitzner (1876–1951), mining official
- Bruno Lippmann (1896–1978), teacher and local history researcher
- Bernhard Sturtzkopf (1900–1972), architect
- Adolf Hennecke (1905–1975), miner, FDGB and SED functionary
- Rolf Vogel (1922–2017), mining engineer
- Martin Decker (1925–2013), architect
- Paul Fuchs (* 1936), sculptor and sound artist
- Bernd Sikora (* 1940), architect, designer and book author
- Klaus Hirsch (1941–2018), painter and graphic artist
- Christoph Daum (* 1953), soccer coach, grew up here
- Andreas Steiner (* 1954), politician
- Erika Harbort (* 1954), sculptor and painter
- Udo Fankhänel (1965), football player
- Rico Anton (* 1977), politician (CDU)
- Lutricia Bock (* 1999), figure skater, German champion 2016
Mayor of the city of Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
- Chamber Councilor Richard Beck (1857–1924), parish council 1892–1924
- Dr. Ruthardt Schuhmann (1878–1943), Mayor 1924–1930
- Gustav Hermann (1872–1944), Mayor 1930–1935
- Theodor Fromm (1895–1962), mayor 1935–1945
- Karl Langbein (1885–1970), Mayor 1945
- Rudolf Schnabel (1900–1960), Mayor 1945–1949
- Fritz Junghans (1913–2009), Mayor 1950–1957
- Günter Peter (1927–2019), mayor 1957–1982
- Manfred Popp (1927–1999), Mayor 1982–1987
- Manfred Behrend (* 1955), Mayor 1987–1990
- Hans-Ludwig Richter (* 1952), Mayor 1990–2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Viola Gerhard: Hans-Ludwig Richter becomes an honorary citizen of Oelsnitz , in: Freie Presse , local edition Stollberg of November 30, 2017, p. 9.