List of personalities of the city of Olbernhau
The list of personalities in the city of Olbernhau contains people who played an important role in the history of the city of Olbernhau , located in the Saxon Ore Mountains . These are personalities who were born here or in the incorporated districts, who worked here or who were granted honorary citizenship.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Olbernhau, see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1991: Paul Roder (1902–1993), teacher, local chronicler from Olbernhau
- 2006: Werner Fischer, baker, local writer (born October 28, 1919 in Niederneuschönberg; † March 5, 2007 in Olbernhau)
- 2011: Ludwig Fink, Mayor of the twin town Stadtbergen
- 2019: Steffen Laub, Mayor of Olbernhau from 1990 to 2015
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Samuel Endler (1694–1762), composer, court conductor in Darmstadt
- Curt Adolph Dietrich von Schönberg (1749–1799), heir, feudal lord and court lord of Pfaffroda, born in Pfaffroda
- Karl Wilhelm Gebert (1811–1875), lawyer and politician, MdR, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Ewald von Kleist (1825–1877), politician, district administrator, member of the Reichstag and state parliament
- Moritz Brand (1844–1927), Saxon state executioner , born in Pfaffroda
- Hermann Kretzschmar (1848–1924), musicologist and writer
- Oskar Trinks (1873–1952), politician (SPD), member of the Baden state parliament, member of the Weimar National Assembly, born in Dörnthal
- Alfons Diener von Schönberg (1879–1936), family and local history researcher, owner of Schloss Pfaffroda with Dörnthal and district hunter, born in Pfaffroda
- Martin Frommhold (1880–1933), German lawyer, mayor and member of parliament, born in Dörnthal
- Kurt Schatter (1881–1962), elementary school teacher, social democratic resistance fighter against National Socialism, school clerk, member of the German People's Council and the People's Chamber of the GDR and VVN activist
- Gisela Wilke (1882–1958), castle actress in Vienna
- Bruno Müller (1883–1960), resistance fighter
- Friedrich Franz (1889–1969), engineer
- Karl-Ewald Fritzsch (1894–1974), folklorist and educator, born in Hallbach
- Gerhard Fischer (resistance fighter) (1896–1945), resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
- Karl Horn (1898–1977), member of the Reichstag (NSDAP), born in Rothenthal
- Werner Schingnitz (1899–1953), philosopher
- Bruno Biedermann (1904–1953), politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader, born in Dörnthal
- Heinz Wagner (1912–1994), Protestant theologian, 1945–1983 radio preacher first at “Sender Leipzig” and later at “Radio DDR”, 1961–1978 professor for practical theology at Leipzig University
- Siegfried Schönherr (1915–1989), veterinarian, member of the Berlin House of Representatives, born in Haselbach
- Johannes Nitsche (1925–2006), German-American mathematician
- Werner Kaden (* 1928), musicologist
- Hans-Jürgen Zobel (1928–2000), Protestant theologian, member of the state parliament, rector of the University of Greifswald
- Siegfried A. Weinhold (* 1930), expert and author
- Werner Spickenreuther (1930–2015), teacher and local researcher
- Siegfried Bräuer (1930–2018), Protestant theologian and historian, born in Oberneuschönberg
- Ludwig Eberlein (* 1931), engineer and university professor
- Klaus Hartung (* 1940), journalist and author
- Horst-Joachim Rahn (* 1944), business economist, pedagogue and specialist book author
- Heiner Sandig (* 1945), pastor, politician (CDU) and Saxon commissioner for foreigners, born in Niederneuschönberg
- Helga Seidler (* 1949), track and field athlete, born in Oberneuschönberg
- Joachim Käschel (* 1951), economist
- Heinz-Peter Haustein (* 1954), entrepreneur, politician (FDP) and Member of the Bundestag 2005–2013
- Lutz Martin (* 1954), Near Eastern archaeologist
- Andreas Martin (* 1956), chainsaw carver and district forester
- Michael Braun (* 1958), soccer player
- Hans Richter (* 1959), football player
- Gudrun Oltmanns (1959–2001), artist.
- Tino Günther (* 1962), politician (FDP)
Personalities related to Olbernhau and the districts
- Elias Pistorius (1590–1664), Lutheran theologian, preacher, pastor and rector in Olbernhau
- Adolph Lange (1815–1898), entrepreneur and politician, owner of the Grünthal copper hammer
- Oskar Schanz (1868–1920), lawyer and conservative politician, first mayor of Olbernhau, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Felix Mehlhorn (1891–1977), carpenter, carver and folk artist
- Erich Lang (1895–1940), local poet
- Engelbert Zaschka (1895–1955), chief engineer, inventor and helicopter pioneer; lived in Olbernhau at the beginning of the 1920s
- Willy Flößner (1898–1979), florist, died in Olbernhau
- Erwin Günther (1909–1974), speaker of the Erzgebirge dialect, lived in Olbernhau from 1956
- Hanns-Heinz Kasper (1925–1999), local politician, economic historian and museologist, researched the history of the Saigerhütte Grünthal
- Hermann Flade (1932–1980), political scientist and GDR oppositionist
Individual evidence
- ↑ olbernhau.de: Ehrenbürger - Mr. Werner Fischer , accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ olbernhau.de: Honorary Citizen - Dr. Ludwig Fink , accessed on August 17, 2018
- ↑ Olbernhau honors deserving citizens | Free press - Marienberg. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .