List of personalities of the city of Thum
The list of personalities of the city of Thum contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Thum in the Erzgebirgskreis . These are personalities who were born or died in Thum and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Thum see also the corresponding local articles.
sons and daughters of the town
- Tobias Clausnitzer (1619–1684), field preacher, pastor, church councilor, hymn poet
- Wilhelm Steinbach (1691–1752), pastor and chronicler
- Christian Friedrich Scheithauer (1771–1846), educator, astronomer
- Otto Atmanspacher (1861–1935), school teacher
- Richard Barth (1883–?), Educator , university professor of the German Christians and NSDAP member, born in today's Herold district
- Otto Reinhold (1899–1965), composer
- Karl Hans Pollmer (1911–1987), pastor, dialect poet and local researcher, born in today's Herold district
- Edgar Barth (1917–1965), racing car driver, born in today's Herold district
- Alfred Schönfelder (1924–2020), conductor and composer
- Theodora Büttner (* 1930), historian
- Rainer Geißler (* 1939), sociologist
- Günter Meyer (* 1940), director
- Siegfried Pater (1945–2015), journalist
- Jürgen Barth (* 1947), racing car driver
- Wolf R. Dombrowsky (* 1948), sociologist
- Christoph Schwind (* 1949), local politician, 2006–2012 Mayor of Weimar
- Rainer Einenkel (* 1954), Works Council Chairman of Adam Opel AG in Bochum and member of the Supervisory Board
Personalities associated with the city
- Friedrich von Sydow (1780–1845), officer and writer, lived in Thum from 1781 to 1793
- Isolde zur Lippe-Weißenfeld, widow of Georg Heinrich Wolf von Arnim (1800–1855), owner of the manor (1872–1881)
- Julius Theodor Zenker (1811–1884), orientalist, translator and private scholar, died here
- Heinrich Minckwitz (1819–1886), Saxon revolutionary, politician, owner of the manor (1858–1863)
- Armin zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (1825–1899), landowner, agricultural scientist and member of the Reichstag, owner of the manor (1863–1872)
- Johannes Pietzonka (1904–1989), teacher and local researcher, who is best known for his research on the Erzgebirge game shooter and folk hero Karl Stülpner.
- Walter Kaaden (1919–1996), engineer who perfected resonance charging in two-stroke engines
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Alfred Schmidt: Colorful pictures from days gone by. Contributions to the history of the Parochie Thum. Verlag Delitsch, Thum 1900 ( digitized version )