List of personalities of the city of Tachov

The list of personalities of the city of Tachov in the Czech Republic contains people who played an important role in the history of the city of Tachov (German Tachau ). These are personalities who were born or died here or who worked here.

Honorary citizen

• Franz Rumpler (1848–1922), genre painter

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Tachov or Tachau or the current districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity here is irrelevant.

Medieval and early modern personalities

Johann Franz Ritter Loew von Erlsfeld (1711)

• Georg I. Engel , abbot of the Waldsassen monastery from 1494 to 1512
• George III Agmann († 1547,), from 1531 to 1537 abbot of the Waldsassen monastery
• Johann Franz Ritter Loew von Erlsfeld (1648–1725), doctor and lawyer, was raised to the nobility by Emperor Leopold I in 1685 with the title Knight of Erlsfeld
• Johann Kugler SJ (1654–1721), joined the Jesuit order in 1672 , teacher of philosophy, theology, canon law and humanities , catechist , long-time dean of the theological faculty in Prague and then the universities of Olomouc and Wroclaw
• Elias Dollhopf (1703–1773), fresco painter and mayor of Schlaggenwald
• Anton Gartner (1721–1771), organ builder
• Franz Adam Gartner (1739–1785?), Organ builder
• Vinzenz Gartner (1748–1820), organ builder
• Heinrich Schödl (1777–1838), miniature painter

19th century personalities

• Joseph Gartner (1778–1832), organ builder
• Josef Gartner (1796–1863), organ builder
• Karl Joseph Kreutzberg (1802–1870), economist
• Franz Xaver Knapp (1809–1883), painter, illustrator and piano teacher
• Simon Heller (1843–1922), teacher for the blind

20th century personalities

Peter Kurzck (2008)

• Franz Rumpler (1848–1922), genre painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
• Eduard Koerner (1863–1933), politician and lawyer, was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and member of the Bohemian State Parliament
• Maximilian Schornstein (1870–1949), theologian
• Ernst Swoboda (1879–1950), lawyer and university professor
• Rudolf Böttger (1887–1973), painter
• Josef Kugler (1896–1958), conductor and choir director
• Josef Dobner (1898–1972), sculptor
• John Hans Adler (1912–1980), economist
• Peter Kurzck (1943–2013), writer
• Adolf Spotka (* 1943), industrial engineer and politician (CDU), MdL Saxony-Anhalt
• Günter Neubauer von Knobelsdorff (* 1944), painter, graphic artist and photographer
• Rainer Roth (* 1944), social scientist

People who died in Tachov (Tachau)

Alfred III. to Windisch-Grätz (around 1910)

• Alfred II. Josef Nikolaus Guntram Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1819–1876), career officer and large landowner
• Alfred (III.) August Karl Maria Wolfgang Erwin Prince of Windisch-Graetz, Baron von Waldstein and im Thal (1851–1927), Austrian politician and Imperial and Royal Prime Minister. In addition, he was hereditary stable master in the Duchy of Styria and a civil servant in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

People related to the city

• Sigismund Scherertz (1584–1639), clergyman and writer, school principal and pastor on site
• Johann Philipp Husmann Baron of Namedy and Riolsburg († 1651), Imperial Colonel at the time of the Thirty Years' War, bought the city in 1623
• Adam Philipp Losy von Losinthal (1705–1781), statesman, musician and general building director, owner of the Tachau estate

Individual evidence

1. ^ Simon Heller in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna