List of personalities of the city of Stollberg / Erzgeb.

The list of personalities of the city of Stollberg / Erzgeb. contains people who were involved in the history of the city of Stollberg / Erzgeb played a significant role. These are personalities who were born here, worked here or who were granted honorary citizenship.

Honorary citizen

• Karl Gustav Zumpe (1819–1900), lawyer and politician, MdL
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), state founder and politician, since April 1, 1895
• Carl von Bach (1847–1931), technician and scientist, since 1913

sons and daughters of the town

• Hans Irmisch (1526–1597), master builder
• Friedrich Ernst Kettner (1671–1722), Protestant theologian
• Rudolph Ackermann (1764–1834), German-British bookseller, lithographer and publisher
• Reinhold Klotz (1807–1870), philologist
• Bruno Kircheisen (1830–1902), organ builder
• Friedrich Eduard Eule (1831–1910), lawyer and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
• Carl von Bach (1847–1931), mechanical engineer
• Carl Küchler (1869–1945), travel writer, Nordic researcher
• Albert Paulig (1873–1933), silent film actor
• Kurt Berkner (1907–1938), member of the Merksteiner Group
• Fritz Herbert Bross (1910–1976), puppet maker and puppeteer
• Gottfried Gruner (1923–2011), sculptor
• Susanne Häber (1927–2015), politician (DBD)
• Frank Hirsch (1939–2006), conductor and music teacher, President of the Saxony Choir Association
• Klaus Hähnel (* 1941), music teacher and founder of the Gotha Children's Choir
• Klaus Hirsch (1941–2018), painter, graphic artist and designer
• Martin Morgner (* 1948), poet, dramaturge and historian
• Ulrich Schacht (1951–2018), writer
• Karl-Friedrich Zais (* 1951), politician (Die Linke)
• Jörg Weißflog (* 1956), soccer player, GDR national goalkeeper
• Steffi Scherzer (* 1957), ballet dancer (prima ballerina) and lecturer at the Zurich Dance Academy
• Joachim Kunz (* 1959), Olympic champion in weightlifting
• Mario Löffler (* 1963), politician (NPD)
• Ulf Mehlhorn (* 1968), football player
• Ronny Krappmann (* 1969), pop singer
• Mirko Reichel (* 1970), soccer player and coach
• Heiko Gerber (* 1972), soccer player
• Sven Beuckert (* 1973), soccer player
• Alexander Badrow (* 1973), politician (CDU) and Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund
• Ivonne Schönherr (* 1981), actress
• Max Neukirchner (* 1983), motorcycle racer
• Daniel Rupf (* 1986), soccer player
• Florian Bodenschatz (* 1989), racing cyclist
• Nicole Wötzel (* 1989), biathlete
• Sophie Weidauer (* 2002), soccer player

Personalities who have worked in the city

• Charles IV (1316–1378), Roman-German Emperor, stayed in Hoheneck Castle to hunt in 1365, and again in 1366 for sale
• Wolfgang Uhle (1512–1594), pastor ("plague pastor of Annaberg")
• Nikol List (1654–1699), robber, lived temporarily in Beutha and operated the “Grüne Tanne” inn in the neighboring village of Raum as a camouflage. In the entrance area of ​​the inn you can still find a notice board today
• Karl Gustav Zumpe (1819–1900), lawyer and politician, MdL
• Karl Uhlmann (1833–1902), master builder and politician (DFP), MdL
• Friedrich Straumer (1840–1900), educator, local writer and conservative politician, MdL
• Karl May (1842–1912), writer, was sentenced to three weeks in prison in Stollberg for “unauthorized exercise of an office”
• Georg Schmidt (1877–1941), politician, Saxon Minister of Economic Affairs during the Nazi era
• Ernst Venus (1880–1971), lawyer, temporarily governor and district administrator of Stollberg (1919–1926)
• Hans Löscher (actually Dr. Gustav Robert Löscher , 1881-1946), writer and pedagogue, at times director of the community and advanced training school in Stollberg
• Alfred Hofmann-Stollberg (1882–1962), painter and graphic artist, "Erzgebirge and Christmas painter " , from 1910 to 1929 teacher at the teachers' seminar in Stollberg
• Hans Jüchser (1894–1977), painter and graphic artist, attended the teachers' seminar (now grammar school) in Stollberg from 1910 to 1915
• Paul Konitzer (1894–1947), hygienist, social medicine specialist and health politician
• Horst Rößler (1925–2012), educator, cultural politician and local researcher
• Gerhard Zippel (1925–2007), 1st secretary of the SED district leadership in Stollberg from 1960 to 1981
• Werner Bahner (1927–2019), Romance scholar and philologist
• Elsbeth Lange (1928–2009), palynologist
• Peter Mauersberger (1928–2007), geophysicist and hydroecologist
• Karsten Rotte (1929–1997), gynecologist, radiation oncologist and university lecturer in Würzburg
• Edeltraud Eckert (1930–1955), writer, was imprisoned in Hoheneck
• Reiner Kunze (* 1933), writer and GDR dissident, graduated from high school in Stollberg in 1951
• Volkmar Hellfritzsch (* 1935), onomastics and educator
• Volker Kreß (* 1939), Lutheran theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony from 1994 to 2004, was at times pastor in Stollberg
• Teresa Weißbach (* 1981), actress, grew up in Stollberg