List of personalities of the city of Varnsdorf

Coat of arms of the city of Varnsdorf (German Warnsdorf )

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

Honorary citizen

Bjarnat Krawc (around 1922)

• Bjarnat Krawc , German Bernhard Schneider, also known the doubling of the surname as Krawc-Schneider, (1861-1948), Sorbian composer, choir conductor, music teacher and editor of music literature

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Varnsdorf or Warnsdorf. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity here is irrelevant.

Medieval and early modern personalities

Maximilian Rudolf von Schleinitz (1772)

• Hans von Warnsdorf († after 1489), governor of the County of Glatz
• Maximilian Rudolf von Schleinitz (1606–1675), Bishop of Leitmeritz

19th century personalities

• Joseph Schubert (1754–1837), violinist, violist and composer
• Johann Vinzenz Reim (1796–1858), draftsman and engraver
• Vincenz Pilz (1816–1896), sculptor
• Gustav Robert Groß (1823–1890), politician and industrialist
• Julius Dörfel (1834–1901), architect
• Maria Magdalena Hampel (1839 – after 1876), teacher of calligraphy, music and painting in Dresden and inventor of a disc hand for writing cramps
• Franz de Paula (1849–1911), stage actor and director

20th century personalities

Mizzi Günther (1918)

Evelyn Opela (2007)

• Mizzi Günther (1879–1961), opera and operetta singer (soprano) and theater actress
• Reinhold Klaus (1881–1963), painter, graphic artist and stained glass painter
• Heinrich Brandler (1881–1967), communist politician
• Reinhold Klaus (1881–1963), painter, graphic artist and stained glass painter
• Hans Richter-Damm (1881–1937), painter
• Erich Czech (1890–1966), journalist
• Rudolf Gertler (1893–1960), politician (GB / BHE)
• Friedrich Bürger (1899–1972), politician (NSDAP) and SA standard leader
• Julius Kunert (1900–1993), textile industrialist
• Rudolf Wittig (1900–1978), sculptor
• Friedrich Eisenkolb (1901–1967), metallurgist
• Robert Maresch (1903–1989), politician (GB / BHE, GDP, SPD)
• Gernot Zippe (1917–2008), physicist and inventor of a gas centrifuge
• Peter Kien (1919–1944), Jewish artist and poet
• Heinrich Pleticha (1924-2010), writer
• Giselbert Hoke (1927-2015), artist
• Peter H. Feist (1928–2015), art historian
• Hans Ludwig (* 1929), gynecologist, writer
• Leoš Suchařípa (1932–2005), actor, translator and theater theorist
• Walter Jaroschka (1932–2008), archivist and general director of the Bavarian State Archives
• Karl Richter (* 1936), philologist and literary scholar
• Wilfried Weigner (1936–2006), marksman
• Peter Hilsch (* 1938), historian who is particularly concerned with the history of the Bohemian lands in the Middle Ages
• Winfried Pilz (1940–2019), Catholic priest and songwriter
• Roswitha März , b. Klaus (* 1940), mathematician and professor of numerical mathematics
• Hans Jürgen Tschiedel (* 1941), classical philologist
• Ursula Staack (* 1943), actress, diseuse and cabaret artist
• Evelyn Opela (* 1945), actress
• Milan Hrabal (* 1954), writer
• Kristina Kaiserová (* 1956), historian

21st century personalities

• Jan Beneš (* 1982), football player
• Martin Cikl (* 1987), ski jumper

People who died in Varnsdorf (Warnsdorf)

• Ambros Opitz (1846–1907), theologian and publisher
• Bjarnat Krawc (1861–1948), Sorbian composer and conductor, lived in Varnsdorf from 1945

People related to the city

Peter Weiss (1982)

• Rudolf Sternad (1880–1945), miniature painter and lithographer, worked in the Warnsdorf lithographic institute
• Anton Konrad Zippe (1889–1964), educator and politician, graduated from the technical school for weaving and drawing in Warnsdorf
• Peter Weiss (1916–1982), writer, painter and experimental filmmaker, lived in Varnsdorf from 1936 to 1937
• Jan Wornar (1934–1999), Sorbian writer, attended school in Varnsdorf
• Hanka Faßke (1935–2002), Sorbian folklorist and Slavist, attended grammar school in Varnsdorf
• Jurij Koch (* 1936), Sorbian writer, attended high school in Varnsdorf
• Zbyněk Busta (* 1967), former Czech soccer player and soccer coach at SK Slovan Varnsdorf since 2008
• Josef Obajdin (* 1970), football player, joined SK Slovan Varnsdorf in 2005
• Karel Urbánek (1972–2007), football player, with SK Slovan Varnsdorf from 2001
• Lukáš Kohout (* 1983), fraudster, impostor and politician, grew up in Varnsdorf and attended a special school
• Ladislav Grubhoffer (* 1984), soccer player, with SK Slovan Varnsdorf from 2006 to 2010
• Karel Vrabec (* 1984), football player, with SK Slovan Varnsdorf from 2008 to 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Champion 1974 and 1976