List of personalities of the city of Sokolov
The list of personalities of the town of Sokolov in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the town of Sokolov (until 1948 Falknov nad Ohří , German Falkenau an der Eger ). These are personalities who were born here or who worked here.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Sokolov. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Sokolov is irrelevant.
Personalities of the early modern period
Ignaz Liebel (1814)
- Benjamin Starck (1554–1634), Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor and superintendent in Mühlhausen
- Sylvester Kundmann (1597–1676), personal physician to Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony
- Wolfgang Wildfeuer (1611–1674), captain of the Falkenau and Littmitz rule
- Michael Franz Kanhäuser (1634–1701), organ builder
- Johann Gottfried Riedel (1690–1755), court painter, restorer, gallery inspector in Dresden
- Ignaz Liebel (1754–1820), philologist, writer and professor in Vienna
- Franz Böhm von Blumenheim (1766 – after 1827), grenadier captain of the Kuk army and major, who was ennobled in 1816 for his extraordinary courage and commitment.
19th century personalities
- Anton Fürnstein (1783–1841), nature poet, whose poems caught the attention of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Karl Joseph Heidler von Heilborn (1792–1866), spa doctor and sponsor of Marienbad and author of 25 specialist medical books
- Karl Heidler von Egeregg (1809–1887), professor of medicine at the Josefs Academy in Vienna, organized the Austrian military medical service as a general staff doctor
- August Schram (1843–1891), chemical entrepreneur and founder of the company “A. Schram ”in Prague, honorary citizen of the city
- Adolf Schram (1848–1927), chemical entrepreneur, owner of the company “A. Schram ”in Prague and an association official, honorary citizen of the city
- Heinrich Rietsch (1860–1927), musicologist and composer in Prague
- Simon Starck (1865–1939), Austrian politician without a club membership
20th century personalities
David Hruška (2015)
- Ernst Hammer (1884–1957), Lieutenant General in World War II
- Toni Schönecker (1893–1979), visual artist
- Franz Heidler (1898–1980), local history researcher and writer as well as folk song singer and collector
- Rudolf Kühnl (1902–1975), architect, retired government building officer. D., lecturer at the Hamburg Art Academy
- Gisbert Rittig (1904–1984), economist, taught at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and is considered an important public economy theorist in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Erich Auerbach (1911–1977), photographer for the Czech government-in-exile in London, after 1945 photographer of English artists and musicians
- Friedrich Eigler (* 1940), grammar school and university teacher, whose research focus is the historical geography of Bavaria
- Baldwin Zettl (* 1943), graphic artist, engraver and book illustrator, lives and works in Freiberg (Saxony)
- Štefan Füle (* 1962), diplomat, former independent minister for European affairs in the Fischer government, member of the European Commission Barroso II from 2010 to 2014.
- Libor Wälzer (* 1975), weightlifter
- Lenka Dienstbach-Wech (* 1976), oar oars
- David Hruška (* 1977), ice hockey player
- Jan Kaňka (* 1977), composer, trombonist and music teacher
- František Dřížďal (* 1978), football player
21st century personalities
Markéta Vondroušová (2017)
- Monika Michalko (* 1982), painter
- Lukáš Mensator (* 1984), ice hockey player
- Vladimír Darida (* 1990), football player
- Salim Javaid (* 1991), jazz musician
- Markéta Vondroušová (* 1999), tennis player
People connected to the city
- Sebastian Starck (1528–1586), first known Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Falkenau 1550–1555
- Johann Habermann (1516–1590), pastor in Falkenau
- Johann Albin Schlick , Count of Passaun and Weißkirchen, Lord of Falkenau and Duppau (1579–1640), was a representative of the Bohemian estates and supporter of the winter king Friedrich V of the Palatinate and the last Protestant owner of the Falkenau domain
- Johann Hartwig von Nostitz-Rieneck (1610–1683), Lord von Falkenau, highest chancellor of Bohemia, privy councilor
- Karl May (1842–1912), German writer, a memorial plaque was put up to commemorate his visit
- Franziskus von Paula Schönborn (1844–1899), cardinal and archbishop of Prague, died here
- Karl Frengl (1860–1919), lawyer and politician, worked as a lawyer in Falkenau
- Rudolf Wels (1882–1944), architect of the local miners' home
- Robert Lindenbaum (1898–1979), writer, from 1935 to 1945 commercial director of one of the largest coal mining companies in the Egerland in Falkenau
- Hans-Christoph Seebohm (1903–1967), Federal Minister of Transport, spent many years in Falkenau, where his parents lived, until 1945
- Ekkehard Geib (* 1909), administrative lawyer, district administrator and state secretary of Schleswig-Holstein, was district administrator in Falkenau during the Nazi era
- Samuel Fuller (1912–1997), American actor, screenwriter and director, shot his first film here with a 16 mm camera, the material of which is included in Emil Weiss' documentary Falkenau: The Impossible (about what happened in the Falkenau concentration camp during the Liberation 1945 by the Americans)
- Ernst Mosch (1925–1999), brass music composer and conductor of the original Egerland musicians