List of personalities from the city of Welzow

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Welzow personalities are citizens who have worked for the city with their commitment.

  • 16th century, Hans Gorgk (von der Welcze) . First record of a Welzow citizen in the Spremberger city ​​book
    In the oldest Spremberger city book, a citizen named Hans Gorgk von der Welcze was named for the first time on December 12th, 1547 together with the Spremberger councilors and the mayor Hatula from Gosda.
  • Gottlieb Richter (1793–1875), soldier, room polisher
    Fought in the Prussian Landwehr during the Battle of Leipzig
  • Johann Christian Schenk (1850–1867), landowner
    Managed the Welzower estate for the longest uninterrupted period. Opened a small , manual coal mine on the estate in 1860 .
  • Christian Greschow (1862–1942), owner of
    a book printer. On October 1, 1908, he opened a book printer, book and paper shop. The first Welzower Anzeiger newspaper appeared on October 2, 1909, and became a trademark in the decades to come.
  • Carl Rathsburg (1866–1914), glassworks
    owner In 1907 he became co-owner of the Germania-Hütte, founded in 1891, in which up to 230 employees manufactured lamp glass for gas and kerosene lights, Fasson cylinders, lampshades and weather lamp glasses. He earned great merit through considerable donations.
  • Hermann Schneider (1873–1951), Deputy
    Principal Was appointed candidate for education office on November 1, 1893 by a resolution of the royal government and thus became the first teacher in the Welze manor. The Old Prussian Evangelical Upper Church Council had given him the title of cantor on August 6, 1914. In 1934 he compiled the first Welzow chronicle.
  • Max Thomas (1875–1923), glassworks owner ,
    decided in 1910 to take over the ailing company Neue Kristallglashüttenwerke, GmbH Neuwelzow and from January 1, 1911 to found the Lausitzer Glashüttenwerke Thomas & Co. The company had specialized in the production of glass beakers and lighting glass with glass grinding, gilding and painting. He gained a high reputation through the creation of houses, gardens and generous donations.
  • Karl Otto Theodor Steudel (1875–1939), master builder
    Studied architecture at the Zittau building trade school and founded the first construction business on April 1, 1896 in the up-and-coming Welzow. The company for civil engineering, concrete and reinforced concrete construction - steam saw and planing works built houses and schools, a hotel, the town hall, the Protestant church, the swimming pool and buildings in Spremberg , Neupetershain , Borna and in the Lautawerk near Hoyerswerda in Welzow . In 1909 he was appointed 1st chairman of the Welzow volunteer fire department.
  • Walter Hanschkatz (1879–1948), pastor
    Worked from 1907 as assistant preacher and from 1910 to 1935 as pastor in Welzow, then in Finsterwalde. He was sentenced to death for degrading military strength - but the sentence was not carried out.
  • 1878, Richard Gebhardt , † 1954, master builder In
    1922 the land register entry was made for his steam sawmill and construction business for all structural and civil engineering work and reinforced concrete work. Many single and multi-family houses, the fire station on the market square, the administration building of Eintracht AG, the Scala-Lichtspiele and the cemetery chapel on the Alt-Welzower cemetery were built using clinker brick.
  • 1883, Paul Brunzlow , † 1974, technician and
    plumber Paul Brunzlow had made a special contribution in 1909 with the copper work, the installation of the ball and the tower cross on the roof of the Welzower Kreuzkirche. In 1928 he became chief fire chief of the volunteer fire department. He played the organ, and as the director of the “Germania” male choir, he ensured well-attended concert evenings every year.
  • 1887, Karl Albert Friedrich Sawall (nickname Fritz), † 1971, master carpenter
    Warb since 1938 with the advertisement: “Production of all building joinery work, delivery of complete home furnishings, individual pieces of furniture, Sophas, chaise longues , mattresses. Large stock of finished coffins and death equipment. ”He was an active member of the Welzower workers gymnastics club, the poultry club, the choral society“ Frohsinn ”and, after 1945, the folk choir. He found his ideals in membership of the SPD. From 1919 he led the social democratic parliamentary group.
  • 1894, Josef Greguletz , † 1960, technical director
    Started in 1920 at "Eintracht" (Clara pit) and was transferred to the Welzow central workshop in 1924. His efforts focused on the specialization of the maintenance of machines and equipment in the lignite industry . From 1928 he organized exemplary vocational training. In 1946 he was confirmed as operations manager and later as technical director of the Welzow central workshop, which at times had over 1,000 employees.
  • 1900, Hermann Lindemann , † 1964, Pastor
    Studied theology at the University of Breslau and came to Welzow in 1947 in the course of the evacuations of World War II. He was particularly interested in the farmers and their living conditions as well as the problems of glassmakers and miners. The Protestant kindergartens received great support from him. He was seen by the authorities as a critical pastor .
  • 1901, Waldemar Boslau , † 1988, business owner
    Worked from 1915 as clerk in the construction business Theodor Steudel and at the age of 20 decided to open his own retail store with his 17-year-old sister for “groceries, coffee, tobacco products, household and kitchen appliances” . In his free time he was an active firefighter from 1925, and in 1933 he became Oberführer of the Welzow volunteer fire department.
  • 1902, Alfred Scholz , † 1928, train driver in the mining industry and popular worker sportsman, was slain by SA men during a strike.
  • March 7, 1904 Dr.-Ing. Walter Hellström , † June 22, 1971, Technical Director
    Head of the construction of the special mining company for lignite drilling and shaft construction (BuS Welzow), which became legally independent in 1959. His personal merits were in the development of the shaft sinking using the freeze filter ring method and the suction flush drilling method for the construction of drainage shafts up to 3.2 m diameter. He was a member of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon).
  • 1910, Dr. Susanne Grieger , † 1979, medical councilor
    counted with Dr. Oskar Krause (1873–1930) and Dr. Herbert Senst (1901–1987) one of the most respected medical personalities in Welzow. She studied medicine in Innsbruck , Munich and Rostock and gynecology in Heidelberg. As a general practitioner, company doctor and in maternal counseling from 1946 to 1979, with her unselfish nature, she gained the greatest trust among the population.
  • 1913, Karl Mrose , † 1981, weightlifter. He trained as a
    locksmith in the Welzow central workshop and later worked in the “Alfred Scholz” briquette factory. He became a member of the company sports community Aktivist Welzow, heavy athletics section. He achieved 1938 district and in the following years four GDR best performances in the light heavyweight division. In 1952 he became regional champion Brandenburg in the middle heavyweight division.
  • 1915, Kurt Mattner , † 1999, director of the Welzow cultural
    ensemble. His life belonged to artistic folk art. He worked in the “Alfred Scholz” lignite works in Welzow and from 1952 in the Kausche briquette factory and in 1965 was appointed director of the “Alfred Scholz” cultural center in Welzow. As a “cultural engine”, he took over the commercial organization, planned countless events and organized individual artistic training.
  • 1915, Herbert Jobst , † 1990, writer, his main work is the novel tetralogy The dramatic life path of Adam Probst .
  • 1916, Bernhard Wilms , † 1994, writer
    Enlisted in the Air Force in 1939 . The Second World War led him to the airmen of the Welzow ambulance readiness. While working at the front, he was shot down over the Mediterranean Sea and began writing in Italian hospitals and in the reserve hospital in Spremberg. In his book "Flötenblas" (1978) in particular, you can experience an impressive part of his life from 1945 to 1951 in and around Welzow. He married Ella Wehr from Welzow here and then lived in Saarland .
  • 1919, Erich Rinas , † 2003, mayor
    Learned the profession of carpenter with the Welzow master builder Theodor Steudel. There he later worked as a plant manager. His work in the town hall began in 1965 when he was actively involved in building the Tettau water pipeline from Klein-Partwitz to the Welzow waterworks. He held the office in 1965 as deputy and from 1966 to 1980 as mayor. In the longest term of office of a Welzow mayor, he stood up for the well-being of his citizens and the progressive development of his place of residence.
  • 1921, Reinhard Lehser , † 1978, football player stood
    next to Felix Fiekas, Albert Kerstan, Hans Löwa, Kurt Nevoigt, Hans Sallmann and Horst Uhsemann at the forefront of Welzow football. He was in the Brandenburg national team four times and, at the age of 30, was a center forward as Welzow's most popular athlete. On May 25, 1945 he was a founding member of SV Borussia 09 Welzow . He worked as a section and technical director. At the urging of his sports friends in Welzow, he worked in the central workshop in Welzow from 1949.
  • 1924, Bernhard Franke , † 1976, master photographer
    Took over management of the company in April 1945 in the third generation at the age of 21 and passed the master's examination in photography in Weimar in 1948 . He worked tirelessly, procuring photo accessories to better equip his studio and materials for making photos. Even in the years when the number of orders for passport, portrait, wedding and children's pictures increased, each photo was carefully and meticulously post-processed.
  • 1944, Karl-Heinz Krüger , † 1997, pastor
    Learned to be a mechanic in Finsterwalde. In 1964 he studied Protestant theology at the Paulinum Preacher School in Berlin , was ordained in 1970 in the Klosterkirche in Cottbus, in 1971 appointed pastor of the parishes of Proschim , Haidemühl and Lieske in the parish of Spremberg and in 1989 as a vacancy administrator for the free pastoral position in Welzow and in 1990 by the parish councilor Pastor of Welzow elected. He was a member of the lignite committee and city councilor.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Schneider: Hans Gorgk from the wolf area . Dresden 2005 (brochure)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Joachim Schneider: 25 Welzower personalities . Dresden 2006 (brochure)
  3. ^ Rainer Bookhagen: The Protestant child care and the inner mission in the time of National Socialism. Retreat into the room of the church. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, ISBN 3-525-55730-2 , p. 557 ( digitized version ); Rainer Ernst: Pastor openly against the Nazis. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. December 6, 2008 (with picture, digitized version  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lr-online.de  
  4. ↑ Bernhard Wilms: Flötenblas . Bläschke, Darmstadt 1978 (novel)
  5. ↑ Bernhard Wilms: The man from Bari (novel)
  6. ↑ Bernhard Wilms: The Grotto of Maria Grande (novel)
  7. ↑ Bernhard Wilms: Napoleon's Treasure Ship (novel)