List of personalities of the city of Znojmo

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

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Znojmo or Znojmo or the present-day parts of the city. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity here is irrelevant.

Medieval and early modern personalities

• Stanislaus von Znaim (around 1360–1414), theologian and philosopher, rector of the Charles University and teacher of Jan Hus
• Simon Schneeweiß († 1545), Protestant theologian and reformer

19th century personalities

Charles Sealsfield

Karl Schürl

• Vinzenz Rosenzweig von Schwannau (1791–1865), diplomat and orientalist, became known as a translator of oriental literature
• Charles Sealsfield , actually Karl Anton Postl (1793–1864), Austrian and American priest, Protestant pastor and writer, born in Poppitz (Popice)
• Ferdinand Carl Boeheim (1794–1835), historian
• Joseph Wilhelm Freiherr von Eminger (1801–1858), politician
• Franz Barbarini (1804–1873), landscape painter, engraver and etcher
• Alois Boczek (1817–1876), Austrian tax officer, journalist and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• Julius Feifalik (1833–1862), Germanist and Slavist
• Fritz Franz Maier (1844–1926), ship designer
• Eugen Heinrich Schmitt (1851–1916), philosopher and publicist
• Hugo Schindelka (1853–1913), veterinarian
• Hermine von Janda (1854–1925), landscape and flower painter
• Theodor Charlemont (1859–1938), sculptor
• Karl Schürl (1866–1924), politician of the German National Party

20th century personalities

Gustav Hummer (around 1925)

Oskar Teufel (around 1920)

Wolfgang Jilly (2014)

• Gustav Kaitan (1871 – after 1922), opera singer, theater actor (baritone, later tenor), singing teacher, theater director and orchestra conductor
• Hugo Lederer (1871–1940), sculptor
• Alexander Pock (1871–1950), genre and military painter
• Hermann Hanatschek (1873–1963), painter who is best known for his portraits
• Sigmund Strauss (1875–1942), physicist, engineer and inventor and expellee under National Socialism
• Oskar Scheuer (1876–1941), dermatologist and student historian
• Anton Bulgari (1877–1934), sign painter for the Poschach brewery and revolutionary
• Gustav Hummer (1877–1959), politician, pharmacist and writer, was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and a member of the Provisional National Assembly
• Oskar Teufel (1880–1946), politician of the German National Party
• Richard Meister (1881–1964), classical philologist and pedagogue, rector of the University of Vienna and president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Gustav Siege (1881–1947), actor and theater director
• Heinrich Zita (1882–1951), sculptor and medalist, born in Essekle (Nesachleby)
• Leo Tschermak (1882–1969), forest scientist, rector of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna , president of the Austrian Forest Association
• Erich Spengler (1886–1962), geologist
• Angela Rohr born Müllner (1890–1985), doctor and writer
• Felix Bornemann (1894–1990), National Socialist politician, member of the DNSAP , SdP and the NSDAP , from December 1938 member of the Reichstag
• Alexander Mahr (1896–1972), economist and professor for economics at the University of Vienna, born in Poppitz (Popice)
• Oskar Franz Dvořák (1899–1969), painter
• Rudolf Adolph (1900–1984), writer
• Helene Legradi , also known by her first married name Helene Sokal (1903–1990), lawyer and communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Alfred Kottek (1906–1943), politician (NSDAP)
• Herbert Felix (1908–1973), entrepreneur (founder of AB Felix in Sweden and Felix Austria in Austria)
• Herbert Wessely (1908–1998), engraver, writer, winner of the South Moravian Culture Prize
• Charly Jellen (1909–1934), Austrian automobile racing driver and entrepreneur
• Otto Skritek (1909–1998), politician (SPÖ)
• Theo Albert Stadler (1910–1984), politician (NSDAP)
• Fritz Racek (1911–1975), musicologist, librarian and composer
• Mario Wandruszka , until 1919 Wandruszka von Wanstetten (1911–2004), Romance studies and linguist
• Emil Kotrba (1912–1983), painter
• Herta Soswinski (1917-2004), Holocaust survivor
• Franz Kießling (1918–1979), poet
• Lothar Eckhart (1918–1990), Provincial Roman archaeologist
• Bruno Kaukal (* 1920), heraldist, winner of the Prof. Josef Freising Prize
• Gerard Radnitzky (1921–2006), Professor of Philosophy of Science
• Hellmut Bornemann (* 1922), South Moravian Culture Prize winner 1992 and author
• Ingeborg Eichler (1923–2008), pharmacologist, was a member of the Austrian prescription compulsory commission as well as the Austrian drug approval commission from 1953
• Josef Horák (1931–2005), bass clarinetist
• Kurt W. Schönherr (1931–2013), economist and educator
• Wilhemine Busch (* 1934), Member of the Burgenland State Parliament (ÖVP)
• Lotte Hartmann-Kottek-Schroeder (* 1937), teaching therapist in Gestalt therapy
• Wolfgang Jilly (* 1940), diplomat and hotelier
• Heinz Brandl (* 1940), civil engineer specializing in geotechnics, professor emeritus at the Vienna University of Technology
• Dieter Antoni (* 1942), civil servant and politician (SPÖ), was a member of the Austrian National Council between 1990 and 2002
• Johann Herzog (* 1943), politician (FPÖ), was a non-executive city councilor in Vienna from 2006 and a member of the Vienna provincial government
• Peter Trenk-Hinterberger (* 1943), lawyer, legal scholar and full university professor
• Jan Leitner (* 1953), long jumper
• Julie Jurištová (* 1955), actress
• Petr Rosol (* 1964), ice hockey player and ice hockey coach
• Petr Rajnoha (* 1974), organist

21st century personalities

Jan Lattner (2015)

Jiří Orság (2016)

• Martin Hudec (* 1982), football player
• Květoslav Svoboda (* 1982), swimmer
• Michal Ordoš (* 1983), football player
• Tomáš Cihlář (* 1987), football player
• Jakub Sklenář (* 1988), ice hockey player
• Jan Lattner (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Jiří Orság (* 1989), weightlifter

People who died in Znojmo (Znaim)

Emperor Sigismund

Prokop Diviš

• Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368–1437), Elector of Brandenburg from 1378 to 1388 and from 1411 to 1415, King of Hungary and Croatia since 1387, King of the Romans since 1411, King of Bohemia since 1419 and Emperor of the Romans from 1433 to to his death
• Thomas Stoltzer (around 1475–1526), ​​Renaissance composer
• Jeremias Homberger (1529–1595), Lutheran theologian
• Johann Georg Greisel , also Johannes Georg Greisel (17th century − 1684), doctor
• Georg Anton Heintz (1698–1759), Baroque sculptor
• Moritz Adolf Karl von Sachsen-Zeitz-Neustadt (1702–1759), titular archbishop and bishop of Königgrätz and bishop of Leitmeritz, canon in Cologne and since 1713 Duke of Sachsen-Zeitz zu Pegau and Neustadt, died in Pöltenberg
• Prokop Diviš (1698–1765), scholar and inventor, prior in Louka Monastery, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, died as a pastor in what is now the Přímětice district
• Josef Silberbauer († 1805), organ builder who worked in northern Lower Austria and southern Moravia in the last third of the 18th century
• Ignaz Reinold (1777–1848), organ builder
• Josef Kranz (1901–1968), architect

People related to the city

• Sebestian Freytag z Čepiroh (1533–1585), tutor of Rudolf II. (HRR) , abbot in Louka Monastery, brought the famous cucumbers to Znojmo
• Klemens Maria Hofbauer (1751–1820), patron saint of Vienna, completed his apprenticeship as a baker here
• Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), natural scientist; Father of genetics , teacher at the Znojmo high school from 1849–1851
• Carl Wilhelm Christian Ritter von Doderer (1825–1900), Austrian architect and professor, taught and researched for several years at the Genie Academy in Znojmo
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), writer, lived for a few years in what is now the Louka district
• Theodor von Hörmann (1840–1895), landscape painter, created here a. a. his picture of Znojmo in the snow
• Elisabeth Marie Auguste of Bavaria (1874–1957), Princess of Bavaria, granddaughter of Franz Joseph I.
• Armand Weiser (1887–1933), architect, realized several buildings and renovations (Villa Weinberger) in Znojmo
• Erwin Zajicek (1890–1976), activist politician, since 1930 specialist teacher at the German community school
• Anton Bruder (1898–1983), painter, graphic artist, worked as an art teacher in Znojmo from 1927 to 1944
• Willi Forst (1903–1980), actor, director and producer, worked as a choir player at the Stadttheater in his early years
• Peter Alexander (1926–2011), singer and actor, passed his Matura here
• Siegfried Ludwig (1926–2013), Governor of Lower Austria, graduated from the high school in Znojmo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon
2. ^ Leo Tschermak in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
3. ^ Entry in the culture database South Moravia
4. ^ Entry in the culture database South Moravia
5. ↑ Kudělková, Lenka - Vídeňský architect Armand Weiser v meziválečném Znojmě. Kudělková, Lenka. In: Generosum labor nutrit. Sborník k poctě Bohumila Samka / Brno: Národní památkový ústav, územní odborné pracoviště v Brně, 2010 pp. 82–96.
6. ↑ Hellmut Bornemann : Znaim: City on the Thaya. Living past . Amalthea Signum Verlag: Vienna, 2007 ISBN 978-3-85002-599-7 , p. 117 m. Fig. (Painting: Znaim an der Thaya )