List of personalities of the city of Schlettau
The list of personalities of the city of Schlettau contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Schlettau in the Erzgebirge district . These are personalities who were honorary citizens of Schlettau or who were born or died in Schlettau and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Schlettau, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Bernhard Greifenhagen, manufacturer and founder of a foundation in Schlettau
- Ferdinand Edelmann, manufacturer in Schlettau
- 2006: Hans Walther
sons and daughters of the town
- Michael Wendler (1610–1671), moral philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- Christian Demelius (1643–1711), composer
- Georg Christoph Kreyziger (1695–1758), bookseller and regional historian, was born in today's district of Dörfel
- Heinrich Heitzig (1849–1905), trader, politician (NLP), Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Werner Vogelsang (1895–1947), NSDAP member of the Reichstag and leader of the Erzgebirgsverein
- Herbert Strienitz (* 1921), trade unionist
- Karlheinz Stoll (1927–1992), Protestant theologian, pastor and bishop, born in Dörfel
- Peter Schnell (* 1941), civil engineer and railway manager, who worked as an author after retiring
- Arnold Fritzsch (* 1951), composer, singer, lyricist and producer
- Klaus Siebert (1955–2016), biathlete and biathlon trainer
Personalities associated with the city
- Christoph Rudolph von Carlowitz (1656–1723), royal Polish and electoral Saxon chief forest and game master in the Ore Mountains, owner of today's Reuther House in Schlettau
- Johann Traugott Lohse (1760–1836), pioneer in Saxon church and factory construction
- Johann Gottlieb Ziehnert (1785–1856), Protestant theologian and writer, died in Schlettau
- Widar Ziehnert (1814–1839), poet and collector of sagas
- Oskar Johannes Mehl (1875–1972), theologian, worked here as pastor from 1925 to 1936
- Carl Lindeberg (1876–1961), Swedish painter, illustrator and commercial artist working in Germany, who received his training as a graphic artist in Schlettau
- Steffen Flath (* 1957), politician (CDU), 1994–2014 MdL Saxony, worked for several years at the Agrochemical Center in Schlettau