List of personalities of the health resort Oberwiesenthal
The list of personalities of the health resort Oberwiesenthal contains people who have played a lasting role in the history of the Saxon health resort Oberwiesenthal . These are personalities who are honorary citizens of the city, who were born here or in today's districts or who worked here.
For the personalities from the localities incorporated into Kurort Oberwiesenthal, see the corresponding local articles.
Honorary citizen
The following people were granted honorary citizenship of Oberwiesenthal:
- 1994: Jens Weißflog (* 1964), ski jumper, three-time Olympic champion, hotelier in Oberwiesenthal
- 1995: Joachim Kunze (1925–2013), teacher and local writer
- 2002: Ulrich Wehling (* 1952), Nordic combined, three-time Olympic champion
- 2006: Sylke Otto (* 1969), luge athlete, two times Olympic champion
- 2017: Eric Frenzel (* 1988), Nordic combined athlete, Olympic champion and five-time overall World Cup winner
sons and daughters of the town
- David Faßmann (1685–1744), writer, historiographer and publicist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Prüfer (1818–1888), politician, member of the Saxon state parliament
- Guido Breitfeld (1831–1894), entrepreneur and member of the Saxon state parliament, born in Unterwiesenthal
- Carl Hertelt (1837–1921), painter and master carver
- Paul Otto Apian-Bennewitz (1847–1892), organist and teacher, founder of the Markneukirchen Musical Instrument Museum
- William Wauer (1866–1962), artist, director, educator
- Hans Siegert (1868–1941), folklorist and local poet, born in Hammerunterwiesenthal
- Joachim Müller (1906–1986), Germanist
- Rudolf Uhlig (1909–2003), painter, graphic artist and church musician
- Irmgard Uhlig (1910–2011), mountaineer and painter
- Heinz Schmiedel (1927–1978), dancer and choreographer
- Klaus Schuhmann (1935–2020), Germanist
- Peter Kretschmer (1938–2017), researcher, inventor and food technologist
- Renate Dannhauer-Borges (* 1939), cross-country skier
- Joachim Winterlich (* 1942), ski jumping trainer and former Nordic combined athlete
- Ulrich Gressieker (1945–1990), voice actor and actor
- Christine Philipp (* 1947), cross-country skier
- Klaus-Dieter Neubert (* 1949), rower
- Klaus Bartl (* 1950), politician - Die Linke
- Dietrich Kampf (* 1953), ski jumper
- Albrecht Böttcher (* 1954), mathematician
- Barbara Petzold (* 1955), cross-country skier
- Silke Braun-Schwager (* 1969), German-Swiss cross-country skier
Personalities associated with the city
- Johann Georg Gottschald (1691 or 1692–1749), hammer mill owner in Wittigsthal, Breitenbach and Schlössel
- August Ferdinand Axt (1796–1855), Protestant clergyman and member of the Saxon state parliament
- Eduin Bauer (1816–1892), pastor and author
- Rudolf von Borries (1863–1932), officer, most recently major general of the Reichswehr and military writer
- Martin Hammitzsch (1878–1945), architect, was found dead in the state forest
- Hans Knospe (1899–1999), photographer from Sellin, ran a photo house in the village
- Horst Gäbler (1921–2014), weather warden on the Fichtelberg
- Gotthard Trommler (1931–2014), Nordic ski trainer
- Hannelore Riedel (* 1937), ski racer
- Ernst Scherzer (* 1937), ski racer
- Christa Meinel (1938–2017), ski racer
- Eberhard Riedel (* 1938), ski racer
- Heinz Nestler (* 1938), Nordic ski trainer
- Thomas Köhler (* 1940), luge rider
- Christine Nestler (* 1940), cross-country skier
- Eric Frenzel (* 1988), Nordic combined athlete
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary citizen of the city of Kurort Oberwiesenthal , accessed on February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Eric Frenzel becomes an honorary citizen of the Oberwiesenthal health resort. blick.de, August 6, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 .