List of personalities of the city of Oelsnitz / Vogtl.
The list of personalities in the city of Oelsnitz / Vogtl. contains people who are involved in the history of the Saxon city of Oelsnitz / Vogtl. have played a sustainable role. These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the Oelsnitz / Vogtl. incorporated localities see also the corresponding local article.
Honorary citizen
- Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815–1905), diplomat
- Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Chancellor of the Reich , awarded in April 1933, officially revoked by a Council resolution in 2003
- Peter-Emil Rupp (1930–2006), industrial manager, patron, 2003 for his services to the economic development of the city after reunification, honorary grave in Oelsnitz
- Eberhard Hertel (* 1938), popular singer and yodeler, in 2008 for his services to his hometown and the Vogtland culture
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Josua Löner (1535–1595), theologian
- Johann Rosenmüller (≈1619–1684), composer
- Johann Christian Engelschall (1675–1749), pastor and chronicler
- Johann David Steinmüller (1708–1767), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, Superintendent of Oelsnitz & Stiftssuperintendent Merseburg
- Johann Christian Themel (1709–1755), doctor and editor of one of the first magazines in the Saxon Ore Mountains
- Christian Friedrich Penzel (1737–1801), cantor and composer
- Carl Christian Jahn (1777–1854), Swiss classical philologist
- Carl Friedrich Keil (1807–1888), Protestant theologian with a focus on Old Testament exegesis, born in Lauterbach
- Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815–1905), orientalist and Prussian consul in Damascus (1849–1861)
- Oskar Schanz (1868–1920), lawyer and conservative politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Alfred Schanz (1868–1931), orthopedist in Dresden
- Paul Glasses (1871–1937), church musician, composer and church music director
- Rudolf Harzer (1899–1959), lawyer and president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Office of Saxony
- Alfred Roßner (1906–1943), entrepreneur and savior of the Jews
- Helmut Nitzsche (1914–2002), visual artist and glass painter
- Albin Schneider (1925–2014), lieutenant general and long-time head of the district authority of the German People's Police in Magdeburg
- Eberhard Korndörfer (1926–2020), Major General of the National People's Army, Commander of the Military Transport and Communications Section at the Dresden University of Transport
- Achim Kilian (1926–2002), business graduate and author. As a teenager, he was imprisoned in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg for several years. In later years he wrote comprehensive historical articles on the history of the POW camps and the Soviet special camps.
- Wolfgang Grid (1930–2018), legal scholar with a focus on social law and professor at the University of Bayreuth
- Wolfgang Fischer (* 1932), major general and head of the military district command in Halle of the National People's Army
- Eberhard Hertel (* 1938), popular singer and yodeler
- Dieter Müller (* 1941), politician (SED) and trade union official (FDGB)
- Siegfried Knüpfer (* 1941), railway engineer
- Heidemarie Härtl (1943–1993), poet
- Otto Zeitler (* 1944), politician of the CSU and member of the Bavarian State Parliament from 1978 to 2013, born in Görnitz
- Volker Schlott (* 1958), jazz musician, composer, lecturer
- Volker Eckert (1959–2007), serial killer
- Silvio Kuhnert (* 1969), cook, singer and music producer
- Ronny Weller (* 1969), most successful German weightlifter of the 1990s, Olympic champion in 1992, world champion in 1993, multiple European heavyweight champion
- Silvio Kuhnert (* 1969), singer of folk music and music producer. Known as "The Singing Innkeeper", he is also the master chef in the country hotel "Zum Grünen Baum" in Taltitz.
- Anett C. Oelschlägel ( pseudonym Anna Sperk, * 1974), ethnologist and novelist, specialist in southern Siberia
- René Hoppe (* 1976), bobsleigh athlete
- Stefanie Hertel (* 1979), singer of popular hits
- Sebastian Fischer (* 1981), CDU politician, member of the Saxon State Parliament since 2009
- Christian Gebhardt (* 1990), singer, presenter and entertainer
Personalities related to Oelsnitz / Vogtl.
- Paul Rebhun (1505–1545), poet and superintendent in Oelsnitz
- Dietrich Nitzsche (1934–2018), sculptor, professor
- Gunther Nitzsche (* 1936), Dr. agr., agricultural scientist, museum director
Individual evidence
- ^ André Paul: Archivist discovered brown eyesore , in: Sächsische Zeitung , March 4, 2003.