List of personalities from the city of Zschopau
The list of personalities of the city of Zschopau contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the city of Zschopau . These are personalities who have been granted honorary citizenship, who were born here or who worked here.
Honorary citizen
The city of Zschopau has awarded honorary citizenship to the following people who have made particular contributions to the city:
- Leberecht August Löwe (1800–1873), cantor
- Carl Wilhelm Gottschald (1801–1896), city councilor and manufacturer, awarded in 1861
- Eduard Aemil Mosen (1806-1884), pastor
- Jacob Georg Bodemer (1807–1888), spinning mill owner, awarded in 1859
- Christian Ferdinand Kunze (1810–1879), city councilor and postman
- Theophil Forker (1814–1895), chief magistrate
- Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Reich Chancellor, awarded in 1895
- Moritz Werner (1832–1913), city councilor and businessman
- August Israel (1836–1906), Director of the Teachers' College, awarded in 1894
- Hermann Otto Weber (1839–1913), judiciary, head of the city council, lawyer and notary, awarded in 1904
- Johann Georg Bodemer (1842–1916), spinning mill owner, awarded in 1909
- William Johannes Schulz (1874–1931), director of the cotton mill
sons and daughters of the town
- Johann Michael Fleischer (1711–1773), writer
- Christian Gotthelf Scheinpflug (1722–1770), composer and court conductor
- Kurt Alexander Winkler (1794–1862), chemist and metallurgist
- Traugott Gey (1796–1875), singer and stage actor
- Johann Georg Bodemer (1842–1916), entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Karl Schmidt-Hellerau (1873–1948), furniture manufacturer and social reformer
- Karl Kröner (1887–1972), painter
- Heinz Auerswald (1891–1974), painter
- Hans Sprung (1900–1982), motorcycle racer
- Ove Skafte Rasmussen (1909–1995), entrepreneur
- Gerhard Schramm (1923-2010), diplomat
- Reiner Werner (1932–2003), university professor, psychologist and manual therapist
- Manfred Glöckner (1936–2005), canoeist and trainer
- Bernd Uhlmann (* 1939), enduro athlete
- Karla Sachse (* 1950), artist
- Stefan Semmler (* 1952), rower
- Steffen Mauersberger (1953-2000), enduro athlete
- Johannes Gerlach (* 1954) physicist and politician
- Frank Uhlig (* 1955), soccer player
- Roland Wieser (* 1956), athlete
- Reinhard Klädtke (* 1960), enduro athlete
- Jens Scheffler (* 1960), enduro athlete
- Ulf Findeisen (* 1962), ski jumper
- Uwe Weber (* 1962), enduro athlete
- Angela Hobrig (* 1964) actress
- Jens Grüner (* 1965), enduro athlete
- Thomas Seifert (* 1965) Brigadier General of the Air Force
- Ute Wild (* 1965) married Nötzel , rower
- Claudia Künzel (* 1978), married Nystad , cross-country skier
- Karsten Volkmann (* 1978), racing cyclist
- Franziska Junge (* 1981) actress
- Marcus Burghardt (* 1983), racing cyclist
- David Füleki (* 1985), comic artist and non-fiction author
- Candy Bauer (* 1986), bobsledder
- Kenny Schmidt (* 1987), soccer player
- Axel Jungk (* 1991), skeleton pilot
- Rebekka Haase (* 1993), track and field athlete
- Florian Hansch (* 1995), soccer player
Personalities who have worked on site
- Cornelius von Rüxleben (1525–1590), land hunter master at Wildeck Castle
- Valentin Weigel (1533–1588), mystical-theosophical writer and natural philosopher, pastor in Zschopau
- Christian Liebe (1654–1708), composer
- Karl Stülpner (1762–1841), poacher and bon vivant
- Johann Jacob Bodemer (1762–1844), entrepreneur
- Ludwig Würkert (1800–1876), writer and revolutionary, pastor in Zschopau
- Jacob Georg Bodemer (1807–1888), entrepreneur and philanthropist
- August Israel (1836–1906), Pestalozzi researcher and director of the teachers' college
- Clara Eisner (1857–1933), took the name Zetkin after 1882 , socialist politician and women's rights activist, in 1879 private tutor to Johann Georg Bodemer
- Richard Seyfert (1862–1940), politician and director of the teachers' college
- Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen (1878–1964), Danish engineer and industrialist
- Hugo Ruppe (1879–1949), engineer and automobile pioneer
- Kurt Schumann (1885–1970), reform pedagogue and local researcher
- Hugo Weber (1889–1975), economist and politician
- Carl Hahn senior (1894–1961), German-Austrian automobile manufacturer and entrepreneur, sales manager at DKW, board member of Auto Union
- Hermann Weber (1896–1948), engineer, DKW chief designer
- August Prüssing (1896–1967), engineer, head of the DKW racing department
- Julius Bochmann (1901–1957), educator and philatelist, founder of the Bochmann catalogs for occasional stamps
- Hans Müller (1902–1968), engineer who specialized in two-stroke engines
- Arthur Geiss (1903–1982), motorcycle racing driver, DKW works driver
- Walfried Winkler (1904–1982), motorcycle racing driver, DKW works driver
- Bernd Rosemeyer (1909–1938), car and motorcycle racing driver, DKW works driver
- Ewald Kluge (1909–1964), motorcycle racing driver, DKW works driver
- Walter Kaaden (1919–1996), engineer, head of the MZ sports department
- Fips Fleischer (1923–2002), jazz and swing musician
- Siegfried Trommer (1938–2018), local politician, district administrator of the district of Zschopau
- Peter Uhlig (1940–1971), enduro athlete
- Werner Salevsky (1940–1991), motorcycle racing driver
- Dieter Krumpholz (1941–1966), motorcycle racing driver
- Harald Sturm (* 1956), enduro athlete
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Zschopau city administration - timetable , accessed on November 19, 2017.