List of personalities of the city of Zittau

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of the city of Zittau

This list includes personalities , mayors and honorary citizens of the city ​​of Zittau .

Daughters and sons of the city

Until 1800

1801 to 1900

From 1901

People connected to the city

People who worked in Zittau

  • Christoph Demantius (1567–1643), composer (church music); Cantor in Zittau
  • Andreas Emmenius (around 1571/72 - 1632), doctor and city physicist, son of Gallus Emmenius
  • Stephan Pilarick (1615–1693), Hungarian philosopher, Protestant theologian, exile ; First found asylum in the six towns in 1673, in 1674 became the first evangelical preacher in the newly founded exile town of Neu-Salza, today Neusalza-Spremberg
  • Christian Heinrich Reichel (1734–1807), educator and translator
  • Ferdinand Heinrich Lachmann (1770–1848), vice principal of the grammar school in Zittau (1825–1840)
  • August Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolph (1771–1826), Rector of the Gymnasium zu Zittau (1798–1823)
  • Friedrich Lindemann (1792–1854), educator and philologist; active in Zittau from 1823
  • Hermann Lotze (1817–1881), philosopher; spent his youth in Zittau
  • Oskar Friedrich (1832–1915), educator and author; from 1867 to 1902 in Zittau
  • Albert Tottmann (1837–1917), composer
  • Alfons Adolph (1853–1934), photographer, invented the picture postcard with holiday motifs; founded the first Oberlausitz collotype with high-speed printing and steam operation in Zittau in 1881
  • Karl Thiessen (1867–1945), composer, pianist and music writer; active in Zittau from 1897
  • Georg Zottmayr (1869–1941), singer and composer; made his debut at the Zittauer Theater
  • Curt Heinke (1890–1934), grammar school teacher and local geologist, founder of the Geological Museum of Local History in South Lusatia, chairman of the Natural Science Society in Zittau and first chairman of the Lusatia Association of Humboldt, advanced training and mountain associations in Upper Lusatia; active in Zittau from 1917
  • Theodor Korselt (1891–1943) lawyer, local researcher and victim of National Socialism; lived in Zittau from 1911 to 1914
  • Gerhard Richter (* 1932), painter, sculptor and photographer; attended the higher commercial school in Zittau and was trained there from 1949 to 1951 as a font, stage and advertising painter
  • Rüdiger Götze (1942–2017), actor, director and artistic director; worked at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater for over 20 years
  • Mario D. Richardt (* 1976), TV presenter; lived in Zittau from 1997 to 2005

People who died in Zittau

mayor

Important mayors before 1800

All mayors since 1800

Memorial plaque to Mayor Wilhelm Külz at the Zittau town hall
  • Christian Gottlieb Bergmann (1734–1822), mayor from 1800 to 1804
  • Karl Traugott Weise (1760–1832), mayor 1804
  • Karl Gottlieb Behrnauer (1765–1831), mayor from 1804 to 1810
  • Ernst Friedrich Haupt (1774–1843), mayor from 1810 to 1832
  • Ernst Wilhelm Friedrich Just (1773–1858), Mayor from 1832 to 1856
  • Daniel Ludwig Haberkorn (1811–1901), mayor from 1857 to 1885
  • Hermann Johannes Oertel (1840–1916), Lord Mayor from 1886 to 1912
  • Wilhelm Külz (1875–1948), Lord Mayor from 1912 to 1923
  • Walter Zwingenberger (1880–1963), Lord Mayor from 1923 to 1944
  • Paul Bartneck (1902–1960), mayor from 1945
  • Otto Wegerdt (1902–?), Mayor from 1945
  • Max Richter (1897–1968), mayor from 1945 to 1946
  • Horst Siegemund (1904–?), Mayor from 1946 to 1947
  • Hans Wilhelm Bender (1910–1992), mayor from 1947 to 1950
  • Fritz Donath (1896–1967), mayor from 1950 to 1951 and from 1957 to 1961
  • Max Zentsch (1904–1972), mayor from 1951 to 1957
  • Paul Gründel (1887–1969), mayor from 1961 to 1965
  • Hans Sperlich (1925–2019), mayor from 1965 to 1972
  • Werner Schnuppe (* 1942), mayor from 1972 to 1977
  • Christian Kappl (1942 - 2013), mayor from 1977 to 1981
  • Dieter Wenzel (* 1944), mayor from 1982 to 1985
  • Hans-Peter Reitz (* 1947), mayor from 1985 to 1989
  • Hans-Georg Kießling (1936–2006), Mayor 1990
  • Jürgen Kloß (* 1941), Mayor from 1990 to 2001 (Lord Mayor 1996-2001)
  • Arnd Voigt (1950-2020), Lord Mayor from 2001 to 2015
  • Thomas Zenker (* 1975), Lord Mayor since 2015

Honorary citizen

  • 1832
  • 1834
    • Eduard van der Beeck , businessman, city councilor until 1833, court lord on Dallwitz and Debritzgen
    • Karl Julius Klemm (1804–1888), Pastor Primarius at St. John's Church, previously a deacon in Borna
  • 1839 Christian Adolph Pescheck (1787–1859), theologian, historical researcher and author of the two-volume standard work “Handbuch zur Geschichte von Zittau” (1834/37), founder of the Zittau Museum of Antiquities
  • 1841 Adolph Georg Wilhelm Leopold Göphardt (* 1789), lieutenant colonel, commander of the 1st battalion of the garrison
  • 1845 Karl Friedrich Neubert (1792–1878), pharmacist and owner of the city pharmacy (from 1852), administrator of the school fund, member of the citizens' committee, city councilor and city councilor
  • 1847 Christian Gottlieb Hofmann (* 1798), dye works owner, head of the city council
  • 1857 Christian Ehrenfried Püschel (* 1790), city councilor
  • 1861
    • Philipp Ferdinand Adolph Just (1783–1868), senior attorney, senator, knight of the Albrecht Order, the city became a universal heir to his property
    • Eduard von Könneritz (1802–1875), councilor, board member of the Royal Saxon District Directorate Bautzen (1844–1861), honorary citizen also in Bautzen, Kamenz, Löbau and Dresden
  • 1864 Christian Gottlob Oehme (* 1793), city elder; Friedrich August Schramm (1801–1883), master carpenter, city councilor
  • 1865 Carl Friedrich Becker , button maker, city councilor
  • 1867 Paul Freiherr von Gutschmidt (1822–1904), district director in Bautzen (1867–1872), honorary citizen also in Bautzen, Löbau and Kamenz
  • 1871
    • Carl Gottlieb Döring (1807–1871), lawyer, chairman of the city council, member of the secondary and high school commission in Zittau
    • Daniel Ferdinand Ludwig Haberkorn (1811–1901), mayor, privy councilor, member of parliament, 1875–1892 President of the 2nd Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament, he earned services for the construction of numerous buildings along the city ring
  • 1872
    • Gotthelf Lange (1796–1872), forest manager, emeritus city councilor
    • Ernst Friedrich Apelt (1798–1875), rentier, city councilor
  • 1875 Wilhelm Adolph Opitz (1801–1884), attorney, city council chairman, member of the board of directors of the Löbau-Zittauer and Zittau-Reichenberger railway company, royal Saxon finance council
  • 1879
    • Heinrich Julius Kämmel (1813–1881), teacher and director at the grammar school, cultural historian, wrote several educational and cultural-historical works, during the revolution of 1848/49 he was a member of the 1st Saxon constituency in the Frankfurt National Assembly and later the Saxon Landtag in Dresden, held the post of "poor man" in Zittau
    • Moritz August Gelbke , businessman, city councilor; Ludwig Otto Ginsberg (1815–1893), businessman, councilor, city councilor, member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Science in Görlitz
  • 1882
    • Oskar Julius Grohmann (1808–1885), city tax clerk, founder of the "Zittauer Nachrichten", which he edited between 1833 and 1863, organizer of numerous Zittau school festivals (since 1867)
    • Karl Wilhelm Kühn (1817–1888), chief town clerk
  • 1883 Heinrich Woldemar von Beust , head of the district in Bautzen (1872–1883)
  • 1893
  • 1895 Hermann von Salza and Lichtenau (1829–1915), Baron, Royal Saxon Real Privy Councilor, District Chief of Bautzen, later President of the Royal Saxon Chamber of Accounts, member of the North German Reichstag and the Saxon State Parliament
  • 1906 Joachim Caspar Anton Richard von Schlieben (1848–1908), governor of Zittau, secret councilor, later also district chief von Bautzen and Saxon minister of education, a promoter of the school system
  • 1908 Louis Heinrich Buddeberg (1836–1925), member of the German Reichstag, first fire director in Zittau, under his leadership the Zittau volunteer fire brigade was established
  • 1917 Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934), officer, politician
  • 1926 Adolf Zücker (1866–1931), factory owner, city councilor
  • 1928 Franz Könitzer (1858–1933), factory owner, city councilor, head of the Zittau volunteer fire department
  • 1933
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor (honorary citizenship declared null and void in 1990)
Martin Mutschmann (1879–1947), Reich governor in Saxony (honorary citizenship declared null and void in 1990)
  • 1961 Ernst Reinhard Zimmermann (1875–1964), ENT doctor, medical adviser
  • 1974 Erich Kindermann (1903–1985), worker functionary, holder of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold
  • 1982 Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977), Russian-Soviet writer, 1914–1918 civil internee in Zittau (appointed posthumously)
  • 1995 Gerhard Gruner (1916–2007), specialist in paediatrics, head of the Zittau children's clinic, senior medical adviser, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
  • 2004
    • Gottfried Kiesow (1931–2011), German conservationist, particularly involved in the urban redevelopment of Zittau
    • Mechthild Flury-Lemberg (* 1929), Swiss textile restorer, merits in the restoration of the Great Zittau Lent Cloth
  • 2008 Franz Knippenberg (* 1939), sponsor of the Zittau cultural and museum landscape from Düsseldorf
  • 2010 Gerhard Gebauer (1926–2017), Lord Mayor of the twin town Villingen-Schwenningen

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Snoek: Christian Ehrenfried Burckhardt (1744-1821); Precious metal smith from Zittau - Freemason in Leiden (Holland) , in: Zittauer Geschichtsblätter NF 2.3 / 4 (1995) 60-62.
  2. ^ Bernhard Friedrich Voigt : New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Year 5, 1827, Voigt, Ilmenau 1829, Volume 1, pp. 482–485, No. 164 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ on Max Sievert see Swedish Wikipedia
  4. ^ According to Tonkünstlerlexikon von Frank / Altmann , Heinrichshofen's Verlag Wilhelmshaven 15th edition, 1936, p. 637: * July 31, 1837 in Zittau; † February 26, 1917 in Leipzig