List of personalities of the city of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb.
The list of personalities of the city of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. contains people who were involved in the history of the city of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. 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 localities incorporated into Schwarzenberg see also the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- Friedrich Gustav Weidauer (1810–1897), Mayor of Schwarzenberg (1840–1881), MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Eduard Hermann Täger (1845–1918), Secret Forestry Councilor
- Friedrich Emil Krauß (1895–1977), inventor, socially minded entrepreneur, promoter of the city and the Ore Mountains
- Paul Korb (1904–2002), plumber and varnisher, victim of fascism
- Hans Brockhage (1925–2009), designer and sculptor
- Harry Schmidt (1927–2003), wood carver
- Rolf Rademann (* 1934), cantor at St. Georgen and church music director for the church district of Aue
sons and daughters of the town
- Martin Weigel (1555–1618), mine separator and chief miner from Saxony
- Christian Gottlieb Glöckner (1698–1780), Protestant pastor, preacher on the mount and superintendent
- Johann Carl Sigmund Haussdörffer (1714–1767), organ builder in Württemberg
- Christian Gottlob Klemm (1736–1802), playwright and editor of weeklies
- Paul Graupner (1861–1927), merchant and poet in the Ore Mountains dialect
- Alfred Leicht (1861–1946), philologist, secondary school teacher and local history researcher
- Ernst Kleinhempel (1862–1934), politician (NLP)
- Louis Krauss (1862–1927), industrialist and bathtub manufacturer; born in the new world
- Arthur Vogel (1868–1962), trader and publisher of picture postcards and song postcards at the Wilhelm Vogel art publisher
- Elisabeth Rethberg (1894–1976), singer
- Friedrich Emil Krauss (1895–1977), industrialist, bathtub and washing machine manufacturer; born in the new world
- Robert Bauer (1898–1965), NSDAP politician
- Paul Korb (1904–2002), KPD and SED functionary
- Hans Becher (1906–2004), local researcher and museum director in Schwarzenberg
- Kurt Weisflog (1906–1942), NSDAP politician, member of the Reichstag
- Paul Blechschmidt (1907–1961), teacher, politician and major general of the National People's Army of the GDR
- Herbert Clauß (1907–2005), folklorist and local history researcher
- Heinz Barth (1910 - after 1974), foreign correspondent
- Sigfrid Riedel (1918–2018), general of the NVA and chief of the main staff; born in the new world
- Gotthardt Graupner (1920–1993), politician (CDU), first chairman of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district executive of the CDU
- Helmut Schneller (1922–2010), cabaret writer
- Manfred Blechschmidt (1923–2015), native and dialect writer
- Hans Brockhage (1925–2009), designer and sculptor
- Karl Matko (* 1940), politician (CDU)
- Wolfgang Dehnel (* 1945), CDU politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Axel Köhler (* 1960), opera singer (countertenor) and director
Personalities associated with the city
- Christian Person (1594–1655), from 1643 to 1655 magistrate of the Schwarzenberg office
- Ludwig Günther Martini (1647–1719), lawyer in Schwarzenberg from 1672 to 1677, writer and later court official in Wernigerode
- Georg Friedrich Spitzner (1688–1764), from 1741 district administrator and commissioner in Schwarzenberg
- Johann Traugott Lindner (1777–1856), financial procurator and mayor of Schwarzenberg, chronicler
- Johann Heinrich August von Behr (1793–1871), politician in the Kingdom of Saxony, pastor in Schwarzenberg
- Johanne Amalie von Elterlein (1784–1865), native song poet
- Hermann Behr (1792–1848), pastor in Schwarzenberg, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Hermann Moritz Garten († 1862), lawyer and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Carl Eduard Mannsfeld (1822–1874), lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Guido Breitfeld (1831–1894), businessman and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Curt Rambach (1871–1930), dialect poet
- Friedrich Hänichen (1883–1962), lawyer and local politician
- Walter Fröbe (1889–1946), senior director of studies, founder and head of the city library, local researcher and author of several works on the history of the city of Schwarzenberg
- Georg Höhlig (1879–1960), painter
- Ernst Schneller (1890–1944), teacher in the city from 1919, later a KPD member of the Reichstag. His place of work, today's city school, bore his name for over 40 years.
- Ernst Scheffler (1891–1954), politician (KPD / SED)
- Harry von Craushaar (1891–1970), lawyer, NSDAP member, SS leader and from 1933 to 1939 official governor
- Hannes Schmalfuß (1893–1967), writer who founded a bookstore here
- Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), spent part of his childhood in Schwarzenberg, where his father owned the pharmacy on Obere Schloßstraße from 1901 to 1905
- Willy Irmisch (1898–1974), first mayor after the Second World War
- Otto Auerswald (1900–1962), chief inspector of the transport police and major general of the people's police, built the police in the city in 1945
- Magnus Dedek (1917–1955), Mayor of Schwarzenberg (East CDU) and President of the GDR Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Friedrich H. Hofmann (* 1934), philatelist and local history researcher
- Götz Altmann (* 1940), folklorist
- Eva Maria Schönfeld (* 1944), German politician (CDU), member of the Saxon state parliament
- Elvira Werner (* 1952), cultural scientist
- Ralf Alex Fichtner (* 1952), caricaturist, painter and author, born in Aue. Abitur in Schwarzenberg, lives there.
- Hans-Christoph Rademann (* 1965), choir conductor and university professor, grew up here.
- Ricco Groß (* 1970), multiple world champion and Olympic champion in biathlon, grew up here.
- Markus Beyer (1971–2018), boxer and ex-world champion in the super middleweight division, grew up here.
- Kai Kurzawa (* 1976), boxer and reigning IBF cruiserweight world champion, grew up here.
- Toni Kraus (* 1997), singer, songwriter and producer, attended high school here.