List of personalities of the city of Torgau

Coat of arms of the city of Torgau

The list of personalities of the city of Torgau contains people who played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Torgau , who were honorary citizens of Torgau or who were born here or who worked here. Also attached is a list of the city's mayors prior to 1600.

For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Torgau, see also the corresponding local articles.

Honorary citizen

1995: William Robertson (USA) and Alexander Silwaschko (Russia)

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Torgau or what is today the districts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Torgau is irrelevant.

Born before 1800

Christine of Saxony (1461–1521), by marriage Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein
Friedrich the Wise (1463–1525), Elector of Saxony (1486–1525)
Friedrich von Sachsen (1473–1510), 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1498–1510)
Matthäus Beskau (* around 1480–1533), Catholic theologian and legal scholar
Wolfgang Reissenbusch (around 1480–1540), humanist, legal scholar and theologian
Nikolaus von Amsdorf (1483–1565), theologian and reformer
Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), Elector of Saxony (1532–1547), Duke of Saxony (1547–1554)
Josias Marcus (1524–1599), legal scholar and civil servant
Johann Friedrich II. The Middle (1529–1595), Duke of Saxony
Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar (1530–1573), Duke of Sachsen-Weimar
Leonhart Schröter (1532–1601), Lutheran cantor and composer
Jacob Horst (1537–1600), medic
Johann Friedrich III., The Younger (1538–1565), Duke of Saxony
Andreas Schato (1539–1603), mathematician, physicist and physician
Hans Daubmann (1545–1573), printer
Paul Zwilling (1547–1581), neo-Latin epic poet
Martin Winter (1553–1595), poet and logician
Hieronymus Nymmann (1554–1594), medic
Erasmus Unruh (1576–1628), legal scholar
Gregor Horstius (1578–1636), physician and anatomist at the University of Giessen, founded in 1607
Zacchaeus Faber the Younger (1583–1632), Lutheran theologian and hymn poet
Jakob Müller (1594–1637), human medicine and mathematician, taught in 1618 as a full professor of mathematics in Giessen and in 1625 as a full professor of medicine in Marburg
Johann Philipp von Sachsen-Altenburg (1597–1639), from the house of the Ernestine Wettins, was the first self-ruling Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg
Friedrich von Sachsen-Altenburg (1599–1625), from the house of the Ernestine Wettins, was Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg and Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Altenburg (1600–1632), from the house of the Ernestine Wettins, was Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg and Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
Dorothea von Sachsen-Altenburg (1601–1675), Wettin princess from the house of the Ernestines and by marriage Duchess of Sachsen-Eisenach
Sebastian wirdig (1613–1687), physician and professor of physics and medicine in Dorpat
Paul Schröter (1614–1679), German doctor, city physician, city councilor and mayor of Torgau
Johannes Meisner (1615–1681), Lutheran theologian
Michael Heinrich Krause (1651–1729), Protestant theologian
Christian Gottfried Stentzel (1698–1748), physician
Theodor Lingke (1720–1801), Protestant theologian
Johann Christian Friedrich Flemming (1745–1811), organ builder who worked in Saxony in the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century
Karl Christian Erdmann von Le Coq (1767–1830), Saxon lieutenant general and commanding general of the army
Traugott Wilhelm Gustav Benedict (1785–1862), surgeon
Karl Adolf Maximilian Edler von der Planitz (1793-1858), Royal Saxon Major General, born in Kranichau
Moritz Seeburg (1794–1851), lawyer and city councilor in Leipzig

Born in the 19th century

Wilhelm Haan (1801–1884), Protestant theologian, educator and author
Otto Wagner (1803–1861), landscape and architecture painter
Carl Eduard Niese (1804–1882), Protestant theologian
Hermann Nicolai (1811–1881), architect and university professor
Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823-1886), zoologist
Emil von Wienskowski (1826–1900), Prussian lieutenant general
Karl Friedrich Biltz (1830–1901), literary scholar, playwright and theater critic
Hans Lachenberger (1831-1891), composer
Alexander Heßler (1833–1900), opera singer (baritone), theater actor, director and director
Albert Conrad (1837–1887), painter and sculptor
Georg von Siemens (1839–1901), founding director of Deutsche Bank, second nephew of Werner von Siemens
Wilhelm von Holleben (1840–1912), Lieutenant General
Olga Meissner (1844–1895), landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
Konrad Roßberg (1846–1921), philologist
Louis Heinrici (1847 – probably 1930), industrialist and manufacturer
Paul Oettinger (1848–1934), professional soldier and military writer
Hubert Maximilian Ermisch (1850–1932), archivist and historian
August von Mackensen (1859–1865), Prussian field marshal, officer, adjutant to Kaiser Wilhelm II
Paul Johannes von Funck (1851–1913), Prussian civil servant, police director, district administrator and district president of Köslin
Erich Kling (1854–1892), officer and explorer
Oltwig von Kamptz (1857–1921), officer and commander of the imperial protection force for Cameroon
Ernst Girschner (1860–1914), teacher and entomologist
Oskar Berger (1862-1934), gymnastics teacher and functionary, was chairman of the German gymnastics association from 1919 to 1929
Karl Münscher (1871–1936), classical philologist who worked as a professor in Münster from 1909, published important studies on Greek rhetoric and the metrics of Greek tragedians
Viktor Schilling (1883–1960), internist and hematologist
Leonhard Köppe (1884–1969), ophthalmologist and university teacher
Herbert Becker (1887–1974), officer and lieutenant general in the police
Wilhelm Ritterbusch (1892–1981), political functionary (NSDAP), was among other things General Commissioner for special use in the Netherlands during the Second World War
Horst W. Baerensprung (1893–1952), lawyer and police chief of the Braunschweig Police Department
Götz von Selle (1893–1956), librarian and historian in Königsberg
Albrecht Focke (1896–1967), officer in the Wehrmacht
Ruth Zechlin (1899–1966), non-fiction author and professor for handicraft education

Born in the 20th century

Kurt Schmid-Ehmen (1901–1968), sculptor
Martin Weise (1903–1943), KPD politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism (Red Orchestra)
Paul Grimm (1907–1993), medieval archaeologist
Werner Haarnagel (1907–1984), archaeologist and geographer
Erich Constein (1912–1991), painter, sculptor and graphic artist
Adolf-Henning Frucht (1913–1993), doctor, physiologist and spy
Karl-Heinz Schlueter (1920–1995), pianist
Rudolf Magnitzke (1927–2018), Major General of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic
Horst Klengel (1933–2019), ancient orientalist
Heinz Erbstößer (* 1940), track and field athlete
Horsta Krum (* 1941), publicist and former Evangelical Reformed pastor
Regine Kühn (* 1941), screenwriter
Rainer Poser (* 1941), boxer
Jochen Kirchhoff (* 1944), author
Wolf Roth (* 1944), actor
Peter Goedel (* 1945), director
Dagmar Kirste (* 1946), two-time canoe slalom world champion
Peter Selzer (* 1946), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
Wolfgang Friedrich (* 1947), sculptor
Frank Schumann (* 1951), publisher and publicist
Wolfgang Klotz (* 1951), apparatus gymnast
Rudolf Weiner (* 1951), surgeon and university professor
Jürgen Dannenberg (* 1952), local politician of the Left Party and district administrator of the Wittenberg district
Frank Kupfer (* 1962), CDU politician
Henrik Poller (* 1962), former member of the state parliament (Alliance 90 parliamentary group)
Matthias Moder (* 1963), track and field athlete
Jens Müller (* 1965), luge athlete and three-time Olympic participant
Jürgen Maresch (* 1966), politician and former member of the Die Linke party, was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament from 2009 to 2014
Olaf Marschall (* 1966), former national soccer player
Christoph Winkler (* 1967), choreographer, developed more than 20 dance pieces as a freelance artist in Berlin
Sabine Kuhlmann (* 1970), political and administrative scientist as well as deputy chairwoman of the National Regulatory Control Council
Guido Rennert (* 1973), clarinetist, composer and arranger
Greta Galisch de Palma (* 1976), actress
Marian Wendt (* 1985), administrative lawyer, member of the German Bundestag (CDU)
Kai Kazmirek (* 1991), track and field athlete

Personalities associated with the city

Johannes Kentmann

Hahnemann House

Sophie Duchess of Mecklenburg (1481–1503), Duchess of Mecklenburg and by marriage Duchess of Saxony, died in Torgau
Martin Luther (1483–1546), reformer, consecrated the castle church in 1544 as the first new Protestant church
Claus Narr (before 1486 – after 1530), court jester at Hartenfels Castle
Katharina von Mecklenburg (1487–1561), Duchess of Saxony, daughter of Duke Magnus of Mecklenburg, married Duke Heinrich the Pious of Saxony in Freiberg in 1512, and died in Torgau.
Johann Walter (1496–1570), composer, cantor and friend of Luther
Katharina von Bora (1499–1552), "The Lutherin"
Nikolaus Gromann (around 1500–1566), master builder of the Renaissance, builder of the Torgau Castle Church
Nickel Hoffmann (around 1510–1592), stonemason and sculptor
Johannes Kentmann (1518–1574), physician and natural scientist, city physician in Torgau
Mento Gogreve (around 1541 – after 1588), theologian and pedagogue, superintendent in Torgau
Joachim Kreich, pharmacist in Torgau, founded a botanical garden in 1543 , which the Moser family of pharmacists continued until it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War in 1637. Kreich was one of only four German tomato owners .
Sigismund Ulrici (late 17th century – 1758), builder and cartographer, died in Torgau
Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), founder of homeopathy
Louis Marie de Narbonne-Lara (1755–1813), French general and diplomat, 1813 governor of Torgau
Gustav von Rauch (1774–1841), Prussian general of the infantry and general inspector of the Prussian fortresses, later Minister of War
Wilhelm von Beczwarzowski (1862–1932), company commander of the 4th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 72, later a Prussian general
Paul Herrmann (1866–1930), professor at Mackensen-Gymnasium (today's Johann-Walter-Gymnasium)
Emil Laube (1868–1939), painter
Gustav Hagemann (1891–1982), painter and Lapland researcher

Mayor of the city of Torgau (until 1600)

(The list follows Martin Granzin.)

1359: Hermannus
1377-1386: Voldcke (Vondicke, Vondecke), Hans
1400: foredeck, Matthias
1410: Schreiber, Peter, also 1414
1430: Metzsch, Nickel, also 1452
1434: Dommitzsch, Matthias, also 1439, 1454
1470: Freiberg, Nickel, also 1478
1480: von Dommitzsch, Nickel, also 1481
1482: Gantzsch, Andreas
1484: Becker, Peter
1494: Schollis, Michel
1497: Donat, Valentin; also 1500, 1502, 1521, † 1528
1500: Stoltze, Andreas; also 1501
1503: Ruppitzsch, Peter, also 1504, † before 1530
1507: Muschwitz, Mathes, also 1508, 1510, 1513; † before 1526
1510: Moller, Eucharius, also 1512, + probably before 1520
1512: Sangner, Kaspar, also 1514
1520: Hetzer, Klaus, also 1523, 1526
1520: Köppe, Erasmus, also 1522, 1525, 1533, 1536, 1542, 1545, 1548
1521: Donat, Valentin
1524: Schedel, Jobst, also 1527
1531: Willsener, Jacob, also 1534, 1536, 1537, 1540, 1543
1532: Kelhaymer, Georg, also 1535
1546: Spaltholz, Andreas, also 1549, 1552
1550: Proschwitz, Martin, also 1554, 1557, 1560, 1563
1553: Schulz, Andreas, also 1556, 1559, 1562, 1565, 1571
1555: Weinbeer, Georg, also 1558, 1561, 1564
1574: Trautmann, Nickel, also 1577, 1580, 1583
1579: Horst, Gregor, also 1582, 1585, 1591
1581: Hopf, Johann, also 1590
1592: Bullenheim, Caspar, also 1595, 1601
1593: Pfreundt, Johann
1594: Ringenhain, Gregor, also 1600

Individual evidence

^ Honorary citizen of Torgau
↑ August von Mackensen . In: Wikipedia . June 16, 2020 ( wikipedia.org [accessed July 16, 2020]).
↑ Jacqueline Kretzschmar: An excerpt from the history of the Mohren pharmacy. In: wellvia.de, accessed on January 6, 2017.
↑ Edith Schowalter: Plant stories from home. No. 25. In: br.de, accessed on January 6, 2017.
↑ Barbara Wittor: pharmacy, botany, agriculture in the 16th century. In: deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de, accessed on January 6, 2017.
↑ Martin Granzin: The mayors of the city of Torgau until 1600. In: Ekkehard. Bulletin of German Genealogical Evenings. 15./16./17. Vol. (1940/1942), ZDB -ID 223727-1 , p. 44.

[1] Honorary citizen of Torgau

[2] August von Mackensen . In: Wikipedia . June 16, 2020 ( wikipedia.org [accessed July 16, 2020]).

[3] Jacqueline Kretzschmar: An excerpt from the history of the Mohren pharmacy. In: wellvia.de, accessed on January 6, 2017.

[4] Edith Schowalter: Plant stories from home. No. 25. In: br.de, accessed on January 6, 2017.

[5] Barbara Wittor: pharmacy, botany, agriculture in the 16th century. In: deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de, accessed on January 6, 2017.

[6] Martin Granzin: The mayors of the city of Torgau until 1600. In: Ekkehard. Bulletin of German Genealogical Evenings. 15./16./17. Vol. (1940/1942), ZDB -ID 223727-1 , p. 44.