List of personalities from the city of Zwönitz
The list of personalities of the city of Zwönitz contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon city of Zwönitz in the Erzgebirge district . These are personalities who were or are still honorary citizens of Zwönitz or who were born or died in Zwönitz and today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Zwönitz, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
- 1963: Paul Kunze (1874–1968), teacher and local researcher
- Bruno Gebhardt (1894–1975), decorative painter and collector of rarities
- Lothar Graupner (1928–2006), head of the model construction station
- Johann Josef Hensgens (1906–1996), pharmacist in the Löwen pharmacy
- Oswald Schott (1920–2009), teacher
- 2002: Klaus Walther (* 1937), writer
- 2008: Uwe Schneider (* 1943), local politician (Mayor of Zwönitz 1990–2008) and author
- 2014: Klaus Dittmann (* 1943), long-time chairman of the Zwönitzer HSV 1928 eV
- Norbert Krätzig, long-time district nature conservation officer
sons and daughters of the town
- Matthes Enderlein vom Burgstadl (1493–1556), Saxon mountain master
- Esaias von Pufendorf (1628–1689), diplomat in the Swedish and Danish services (born in Dorfchemnitz)
- Samuel von Pufendorf (1632–1694), natural law philosopher and historian (born in Dorfchemnitz)
- Erland Koch (1867–1945), German marksman and bronze medalist at the Summer Olympics
- Hermann Löscher (1888–1967), historian
- Arthur Bauer (1895–1959), businessman and alpinist (born in Niederzwönitz)
- Kurt Prager (1901–1969), dialect poet (born in Niederzwönitz)
- Max Gebhardt (1904–1993), track and field athlete, Olympic participant in 1936 (born in Niederzwönitz)
- Gottfried Neubert (1926–1983), church musician and composer
- Karl Seidel (* 1930), GDR ambassador and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR, who was involved in negotiating the basic treaty
- Wolfgang Böhm (* 1936), agricultural scientist (born in Brünlos)
- Horst Böttger (* 1937), chess composer
- Joachim Meischner (* 1946), biathlete
Personalities associated with the city
- Friedrich Hermann Löscher (1860–1944) was the parish priest for almost half a century. He was best known as a local writer and chairman of the Erzgebirgsverein .
- Herbert Stoll (1905–1962), dialect poet
- Klaus Walther (* 1937), literary scholar and writer
- Helmut Bräuer (* 1938), archivist and historian, 1959–1971 teacher of history and geography at the Karl Marx Oberschule
- Uwe Schneider (* 1943), local politician (Mayor of Zwönitz 1990–2008) and author
- Harald Schindler (* 1953), local history researcher, head of the Gebhardt collection of rarities
- Michael Wetzel (* 1975), historian
- Swen Enderlein (1978-2004), enduro athlete
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zwönitzer Wochenblatt 28 (2017) , edition 23 November, p. 8.