List of personalities from the city of Penig
The list of personalities in the city of Penig contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Penig . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born in Penig or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Penig see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1841 Heinrich August Wilhelm Bermann, pastor primus and superintendent
- 1875 Ernst August Magnus Meischner (1821-1892), lawyer and liberal politician (German Progressive Party)
- 1889 Heinrich August Julius Vogel
- 1889 Christian Hermann Zöllner (1812–1892), Dr. med.
- 1895 Johann August Schmidt, Gotthold Terpe
- 1895 Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Penig or what is now part of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Penig is irrelevant.
Personalities of the early modern period
- Daniel Suttinger (1640–1690), engineer and cartographer
- Johann Gottlieb Görner (1697–1778), composer and organist
- Johann Valentin Görner (1702–1762), baroque composer
- Gottlob August Baumgarten-Crusius (1752-1816), Protestant theologian, government and consistorial councilor in Merseburg
- Friedrich Traugott Hase (1754–1823), writer and poet, Saxon secret cabinet secretary or war councilor and vineyard owner, born in Niedersteinbach
19th century personalities
- Johann Ferdinand Dienemann (1780 – approx. 1838), publisher, editor of the Bonaventure Night Watch
- Julius von Plänckner (1791–1858), soldier and cartographer
- Gustav Franz Käferstein (1797–1881), paper miller, landowner and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Karl von Hase (1800–1890), professor of theology, Grand Ducal Saxon real privy councilor
- Robert Heinrich Hiecke (1805–1861), philologist and educator
- Johann Georg Günther (1808–1872), journalist, politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Friedrich Eduard Bilz (1842–1922), naturopath, creator of the Bilz-Brause, known as Sinalco , born in Arnsdorf
- Gustav Hey (1847–1916), Slavist , onomastics and settlement researcher
- Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915), classical archaeologist
- Julius Vogel (1862–1927), art historian
20th century personalities
- Carl Lange (1884–1956), painter
- Leopold Wächtler (1896–1988), graphic artist
- Susanne Fahrrad-Großmann , née Eulitz (1901–1971), politician (SPD)
- Frithjof Rüde , pseudonym: Ferdinand Terpe (1905–1970), actor and director
- Hanna Maria Drack (1913–1988), poet and writer
- Harry Pfeifer (1929–2008), physicist
- Siegfried Deficiencies (* 1937), civil engineer, university professor and founding managing director of the planning company Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit (PBDE)
- Werner Vogel (* 1952), physicist
- Petra Uhlig (* 1954), handball player
- Stefan Richter aka Trettmann (* 1973), rapper and singer
Personalities related to the city
- Count Wolf II von Schönburg-Penig (1532–1581), owner of the Peniger Palaces and Rochsburg Castle
- Count Wolf III. von Schönburg-Penig (1556–1612), owner of the Peniger castles and of Rochsburg castles and Wechselburg castles
- Count Christian von Schönburg-Penig (1598–1664), owner of Wechselburg Palace
- August Siegfried von Schönburg-Fordglauchau (1596–1631), died after the Battle of Breitenfeld (September 7, 1631) as a result of an injury in 1631 in Penig
- Johann Gottfried Stecher (1718–1776), carpenter and sculptor, died in Penig
- Ferdinand Traugott Flinsch (1792–1849) took over the paper mill in 1834 and was the founder of machine paper production in Penig
- Magnus Meischner (1821-1892), lawyer and liberal politician (German Progressive Party), MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Kurt Pietzsch (1884–1964), for many years director and chief geologist of the Freiberg State Geological Service and professor, died in Penig
- Gustav Adolf Weigand (1893–1956), 1st mayor in Penig after the Second World War (from 1945 to 1953), died in Penig
- Konrad Wagner (1932–1996), football player, was a player-coach in Penig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. med. Christian Hermann Zöllner . In: Peniger Official Journal , No. 12/2004, page 28.
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Röber : "(Castle) Penig" u. "(Castle) Rochsburg", In: Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, chap. “Castles and Palaces” p. 33 and P. 34
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Röber : "(Castle) Penig" u. "(Castle) Rochsburg", In: Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, chap. “Castles and Palaces” p. 33 and P. 34
- ↑ Wolf-Dieter Röber : "(Castle) Wechselburg", In: Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the museum and art collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, chap. "Castles and palaces" p. 36
- ↑ Ernst-Günter Lattka : "The territory in Kreigszeiten", In: Author collective, u. a. Helmut Bräuer, Robby Joachim Götze, Steffen Winkler and Wolf-Dieter Röber : The Schönburger, economy, politics, culture . Brochure for the special exhibition of the same name 1990–91 in the Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau 1990, p. 74