List of personalities of the city of Sandersdorf-Brehna
The list of personalities of the city of Sandersdorf-Brehna contains people who played a lasting role in the history of the Saxony-Anhalt city of Sandersdorf-Brehna , which was created in 2009 through the merger of the communities of Brehna, Glebitzsch, Petersroda, Roitzsch and Sandersdorf. These are personalities who are honorary citizens of Sandersdorf-Brehna or who were born here or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Sandersdorf-Brehna see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen of the Sandersdorf district
- November 14, 2008: Wolfgang Thiel, mayor of the municipality of Sandersdorf from 1990 to 2008
Sons and daughters of the Brehna district with Carlsfeld
- Kurt Kummer (1894–1966), ministerial official for the settlement sector and association functionary of the timber industry
- Rolf Quinque (* 1927), trumpet virtuoso
- Heinz Elzner (1928–2019), soccer player and coach
- Ingelore Pilwousek (1933–2014), political scientist
- Thomas Kind (* 1966), politician (Die Linke), from 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament
- Volker Olenicak (* 1966), politician (AfD), member of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament since 2016
- Lars-Jörn Zimmer (* 1970), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament, chairman of the Sachsen-Anhalt tourism association. V.
- Kathrin Eipert (* in the 20th century), saxophonist, born in Carlsfeld
Sons and daughters of the Sandersdorf district with Heideloh and Ramsin
- Johann Georg Berlich (1625–1675), local politician and manor owner, mayor of Chemnitz
- Johann Gottfried Schnabel (1692–1744 / 1748), Enlightenment writer
- Johannes Göderitz (1888–1978), architect, town planner, construction clerk and university professor, born in Ramsin
- Kurt Waitzmann (1905–1985), actor and voice actor
- Dieter Engelhardt (* 1938), soccer player, born in Heideloh
- Horst Jankhöfer (* 1942), national handball player and coach
- Erhard Mosert (* 1950), soccer player, born in Ramsin
- Werner Peter (* 1950), football player
Personalities associated with the Brehna district
- Gero Graf von Brehna (around 1020-1089), son of Margrave Dietrich I of Lausitz († 1034) and Mathilde, daughter of Margrave Ekkehard I of Meißen.
- Friedrich I. von Brehna (around 1126–1182), Count von Brehna and descended from the aristocratic Wettin family, founder of the Counts of Brehna
- Otto I. von Brehna († 1203), Count of Brehna, Gommern and Jessen (1182–1203), died in Brehna
- Friedrich II of Brehna and Wettin († 1221), Count of Brehna and Wettin
- Katharina von Bora (1499–1552), from 1504 to educate in the Augustinian choir women's monastery in Brehna, later wife of Martin Luther
- Julius Schaller (1810–1868), professor of philosophy and writer, ancient Hegelians, died in Carlsfeld
- Carl Schäfer (1844–1908), architect and university professor, died in Carlsfeld
Personalities associated with the Sandersdorf district
- Paul Othma (1905–1969), spokesman for the workers' uprisings of June 17, 1953 , lived in Sandersdorf until his death
Individual evidence
- ↑ The town charter of Brehna was transferred to the newly formed community Sandersdorf-Brehna.