List of personalities of the city of Oelsnitz / Vogtl.

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Coat of arms 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

Eberhard Hertel
Stefanie Hertel
Sebastian Fischer
  • 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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Paul: Archivist discovered brown eyesore , in: Sächsische Zeitung , March 4, 2003.