List of sons and daughters of the city of Gera

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This list aims to enumerate all persons represented in Wikipedia who were born in the city of Gera (including the districts that were later incorporated). It is irrelevant whether these people later had their sphere of activity in Gera. They are listed chronologically by date of birth.

Coat of arms of the city of Gera

Until 1800

Christoph Gottlieb Steinbeck

1801 to 1900

Heinrich Gustav Beck
Otto Dix (right)
  • Emma Allestein (* 1810; † June 1, 1873 in Gera), writer
  • Franz Hirt (born February 20, 1811 - † March 4, 1882 in Gera), judge and politician
  • Hermann Weißenborn (born September 24, 1813; † January 16, 1886 in Erfurt), classical philologist, historian and librarian
  • Karl Friedrich Scheibe (born August 26, 1812; † October 27, 1869 in Dresden), classical philologist and headmaster
  • Hermann Theodor Haustein (born May 3, 1814, † April 21, 1873 in Zwickau), lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament and the Saxon state parliament
  • Livia Frege (born June 13, 1818 - † August 22, 1891 in Abtnaundorf), soprano
  • Lothar Streit (born February 6, 1823 - † June 2, 1898 in Zwickau), politician, Lord Mayor of Zwickau
  • Werner von Strauch (born May 16, 1825, † September 25, 1898 in Weimar), forest master in Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Robert Fischer (born July 19, 1829 - † February 4, 1905 in Gera), Mayor of Geras from 1877 to 1881
  • Richard Adelbert Lipsius (born February 14, 1830 - † August 19, 1892 in Jena), Protestant theologian
  • Ernst Hugo Berger (born October 6, 1836, † September 27, 1904 in Leipzig), classical philologist and historical geographer
  • Leo Fürbringer (born September 21, 1843 - † September 29, 1923 in Emden), Lord Mayor of Emden
  • Alma Hütter-Krause (born December 21, 1844; December 9, 1885 in Liegnitz), opera singer
  • Heinrich Gustav Beck (born April 11, 1854 - † January 9, 1933 in Dresden), Prime Minister of Saxony 1914-18
  • Richard Tschammer (born January 6, 1860; † December 11, 1929 in Leipzig), architect
  • Otto Lummer (born July 17, 1860; † July 5, 1925 in Breslau), physicist
  • Heinrich Günther-Gera (civil: Heinrich Paul Günther , born September 15, 1864, † 1941 in Berlin), sculptor and university lecturer
  • Otto Erler (born August 4, 1872 - † October 8, 1943 in Dresden), playwright
  • Fritz Amann (born November 11, 1878; † May 25, 1969 in Naumburg / Saale), painter
  • Paul Grümmer (born February 26, 1879 - † October 30, 1965 in Zug), cellist
  • Kurt Plarre (born March 27, 1881; † April 26, 1945 in Berlin-Dahlem), civil engineer
  • Ewald Stübler (born August 13, 1881 - † January 5, 1945 in Weimar, executed with the guillotine), communist resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
  • Karl Mahler (born January 25, 1887; † 1966), politician (FDP), 1951–55 Senator for Building and Housing in Berlin (-West)
  • Paul Hundius (born February 2, 1889 - † September 16, 1918 in the Strait of Dover), submarine commander of the First World War, namesake of the submarine flotilla "Hundius"
  • Willy Völker (born December 20, 1889, † 1972 in Jena), football player
  • Otto Dix (born December 2, 1891 in Untermhaus, † July 25, 1969 in Singen am Hohentwiel), painter and graphic artist, main exponent of the New Objectivity art movement, honorary citizen of the city of Gera
  • Ernst Thape (born May 29, 1892 in Kleinaga; † July 25, 1985 in Hanover), politician, 1945 to 1948 Vice-President of the Province of Saxony and the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Fritz Polack (born October 22, 1892, † April 6, 1956 in England), Lieutenant General in World War II
  • Rudolf Paul (born July 30, 1893; † February 28, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main), politician, 1945–47 President of Thuringia
  • Fritz Zalisz (born October 17, 1893; † December 13, 1971 in Holzhausen); Painter, graphic artist, sculptor and poet
  • Kurt Günther (born December 1, 1893; † February 12, 1955 in Stadtroda); painter
  • Kurt Günther (born October 31, 1896; † April 3, 1947 in Jamlitz); Politician (NSDAP)
  • Walter Claus-Oehler (born May 7, 1897 - † November 8, 1941 in Paris), football player
  • Hermann Schulze (born April 4, 1897 in Gera-Untermhaus; † September 11, 1967 in Gera), politician (KPD, SPD, SED)
  • Kurt Berthel (born July 9, 1897, † January 18, 1960 in Karl-Marx-Stadt), politician, Lord Mayor of Chemnitz and Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • Friedrich Giessner (born August 18, 1898, † May 31, 1976 in Ilfeld), communist politician, after the Second World War mayor of Gera, later mayor of Nordhausen
  • Otto Trillitzsch (born October 16, 1898, † April 15, 1974 in Dresden), journalist
  • Helene Fleischer (born June 11, 1899 in Leumnitz, † June 26, 1941 in Stadtroda), politician (KPD), member of the Reichstag
  • Helene Rosenhainer (born June 12, 1899 in Leumnitz, † March 19, 1983 in Gera), politician (KPD), member of the state parliament and city councilor
  • Herbert Frister (born February 7, 1899; † 1979), employee, fighter against the Kapp Putsch, local and state politician (SPD / USPD / SED)
  • Erich Preiser (born August 29, 1900 - † August 16, 1967 in Munich), economist

1901 to 1925

Georg Buschner
  • Gottfried Martin (born June 19, 1901; † October 20, 1972 in Bonn), philosopher
  • Ali Ghito (born January 11, 1905 in Gera-Zeulsdorf, † April 29, 1983 in Taos / USA), actress
  • Artur Baumann (born February 10, 1905 - † August 18, 1991 in Berlin), politician and trade unionist
  • Artur Schöneburg (born February 11, 1905 - † April 14, 1959), politician (SPD, later SED)
  • Heinz Wohlleben (born May 19, 1905 - † April 24, 1972 in Heilbronn), politician (NSDAP)
  • Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff (* December 7, 1905, † April 9, 2018 in Karlsruhe), Supercentenarian
  • Helmut Heyne (born April 27, 1906; † February 7, 2001 in Berlin), actor and voice actor
  • Lilly Jankelowitz (* May 7, 1907, † October 11, 1944 in Ravensbrück concentration camp), actress and singer
  • Fred Harthaus (born September 18, 1908 - March 1991), football player and coach
  • Karl-Heinrich Weise (born May 24, 1909 - April 15, 1990), mathematician
  • Bernhard Wehner (born December 15, 1909, † December 31, 1995 in Düsseldorf), SS-Hauptsturmführer, detective
  • Kurt Hornfischer (born January 1, 1910 - † January 18, 1958 in Nuremberg), wrestler
  • Elly-Viola Nahmmacher (* May 27, 1913; † May 5, 2000 in Kromsdorf near Weimar), sculptor
  • Nahum Golan (* 1915; † 1991 in Israel), Israeli brigadier general, from 1948 to 1950 commander of the Golani brigade
  • Fritz Weithas (born April 8, 1921; † February 8, 2007 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz), founder of the Fritz Weithas observatory in Neumarkt
  • Kurt Richter (born September 13, 1921 - October 24, 1981), SED functionary and MfS officer
  • Wilhelm Rau (born February 15, 1922 - † December 29, 1999 in Gera), Indologist
  • Helmut Koch (born April 30, 1922), politician (SED) and State Secretary
  • Helmut Scheffel (born February 7, 1925 - † July 17, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main), literary translator and columnist
  • Karl Weschke (born June 7, 1925 in Taubenpresismen, † February 20, 2005 in Hayle, Cornwall), painter, honorary citizen of the city of Gera
  • Georg Buschner (born December 26, 1925; † February 12, 2007 in Jena), soccer player and coach, coach of the GDR national soccer team from 1970 to 1981

1926 to 1950

Rainer Ortleb
  • Karl-Heinz Rothin (born March 10, 1927 - † August 8, 2016), actor
  • Lothar Meister II (born July 6, 1928 - † February 23, 2019 in Chemnitz), cyclist
  • Gerd K. Müller (born September 7, 1929 - † March 7, 2012 in Leipzig), biologist
  • Heinz Pommer (born March 24, 1929 - † November 24, 2004), major general of the MfS
  • Klaus Henninger (born June 17, 1929 - January 13, 2011), politician (CSU), district administrator in Lindau (Lake Constance)
  • Karl-Heinz Pollok (born August 22, 1929 - † July 24, 2003 in Passau), Slavic philologist and founding president of the University of Passau
  • Lothar Streblow (born October 10, 1929), writer, author of books for young people
  • Max Frankel (born April 3, 1930), journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor-in-chief of the New York Times
  • Ursula Arnold (born March 10, 1929; † May 24, 2012 in Berlin), photographer and camerawoman
  • Bringfried Müller (born January 28, 1931 in Langenberg; † April 10, 2016), football player and coach
  • Harri Weber (born December 17, 1931 - March 7, 1988), FDGB functionary
  • Joachim Elm (born September 9, 1931; † May 6, 2012 in Berlin), GDR diplomat; Counselor to Finland (1973–1974) and the USA (1974–1977), Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand; Fiji and Vanuatu (1982–1989)
  • Raidar Müller-Elmau (born December 3, 1933, † February 14, 2003 in Munich), actor
  • Karoline Müller (December 10, 1935; † September 4, 2019 in Berlin), gallery owner and curator
  • Karin Hübner (born September 16, 1936 - † July 25, 2006 in Munich), actress
  • Walter Vitt (born October 2, 1936), journalist, art writer and exhibition curator
  • Wolfgang Kiessling (born September 7, 1937), founder of Loro Parque on Tenerife
  • Jürgen Simon (born January 10, 1938; † October 26, 2003 in Quirla), cyclist
  • Helga Königsdorf (born July 13, 1938 - † May 4, 2014 in Berlin), mathematician and writer
  • Christoph Elschenbroich (born April 28, 1939), chemist
  • Nicolas Lansky (born August 12, 1939 - October 5, 2008), actor
  • Thilo von Trotha (born May 19, 1940), speechwriter
  • Hans-Georg Mehlhorn (born June 22, 1940; † November 17, 2011 in St. Gallen), creativity teacher
  • Wolf-Dieter Ebersbach (born August 25, 1940), television journalist and presenter ( Das Rasthaus )
  • Dietrich Schubert (born April 24, 1941), art historian
  • Volker Bräutigam (born June 21, 1941), publicist
  • Gerlinde Mehlhorn (* 1942), creativity teacher
  • Volker Bernd Burkhardt alias Mark Ellis (born October 14, 1943), pop singer, music publisher, lawyer and notary
  • Hans Georg Junginger (born November 4, 1943), politician (SPD), former MdL Baden-Württemberg
  • Rainer Ortleb (born June 5, 1944), politician (FDP), 1990–1991 Federal Minister for Special Tasks and 1991–1994 Federal Minister for Education and Science
  • Udo Haschke (born June 16, 1944, † March 4, 2009 in Jena), politician (CDU), member of the Volkskammer and Bundestag
  • Michael Krapp (born November 22, 1944), politician (CDU), 1999–2004 Minister of Education in Thuringia
  • Thilo Sarrazin (born February 12, 1945), politician (SPD), 2002–2009 Senator for Finance in Berlin, 2009–2010 member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
  • Hermann Goltz (born April 1, 1946; † December 9, 2010 in Halle / Saale), theologian
  • Dagmar Deutschendorf (born November 4, 1949), politician (Greens)
  • Ralf Rauch (born May 12, 1950), politician, Mayor of Gera 1994–2006
  • Gerhard Hoppe (born August 3, 1950), football player

1951 to 1975

Wolfgang Tiefensee
Olaf Ludwig
Andreas Dresen
  • Brigitte Jahr (born May 19, 1951), politician (SPD), former MdL Saxony-Anhalt
  • Klaus Weise (born December 9, 1951), theater director, artistic director and author
  • Margitta Pufe (born September 10, 1952), track and field athlete
  • Silvia Morawetz (* 1954), translator, a. a. by Anne Sexton, Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Bloom, Paul Harding
  • Ulrich Werner Grimm (born January 19, 1954), journalist and author
  • Birgit Pohl (born April 22, 1954), multiple Paralympics winner and world champion in the sports of disabled sports / athletics (shot put, discus and javelin throw)
  • Jost Heyder (born October 5, 1954), artist
  • Wolfgang Tiefensee (born January 4, 1955), politician (SPD), Thuringian Minister for Economics and Science in the Ramelow cabinet, 2005–2009 Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development, previously Lord Mayor of Leipzig
  • Viola Hahn (born May 4, 1956 in Gera), politician, 2012–2018 Lord Mayor of Gera
  • Ulrich Junghanns (born May 25, 1956), politician (CDU), former Minister of Economic Affairs and CDU chairman of Brandenburg
  • Gabriele Fuß (born November 30, 1956), speed skating trainer
  • Siegbert Schmeißer (born March 24, 1957), cyclist
  • Marlies Göhr (born March 21, 1958), athlete, Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980 with 4 × 100 m relay, world record holder over 100 meters
  • Petra Feibert (born June 11, 1958; † July 18, 2010 in Pirmasens), chess player
  • Gerald Mortag (born November 8, 1958), track cyclist and cycling trainer
  • Martina Schweinsburg (born December 22, 1958), politician (CDU), district administrator in Greiz
  • Volkmar Vogel (born January 18, 1959), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
  • Rolf Schwanitz (born April 2, 1959), politician (SPD), 1998–2005 Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery, 2005–2009 Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Health
  • Wieland Rose (born May 17, 1959; † December 30, 2007 in Erfurt), member of the CDU state parliament in Thuringia
  • Andreas Tretner (born May 26, 1959), translator
  • Olaf Ludwig (born April 13, 1960), cyclist, Olympic champion 1988, honorary citizen of the city of Gera
  • Hubert Schirneck (born November 28, 1962), writer
  • Ulrike Lorenz (* 1963), art historian
  • Lutz Seiler (born June 8, 1963), writer, director of the Peter Huchel House in Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam
  • Andreas Dresen (born August 16, 1963), film director
  • Heike Drechsler (born December 16, 1964), track and field athlete, Olympic champion in 1992 and 2000, honorary citizen of the city of Gera
  • Sylvio Hoffmann (born January 25, 1964), football player
  • Jens Heppner (born December 23, 1964), racing cyclist
  • Thomas M. Müller (born October 15, 1966), graphic designer and illustrator
  • Jörg Hauschild (* 1967), film editor and composer
  • Christian Frank (born September 12, 1968), conductor, composer and pianist
  • Erik Buchholz (born July 19, 1969), artist
  • Andreas Arnstedt (born August 31, 1969), actor
  • Skadi Krause (* 1970), political scientist, university lecturer and author
  • André Steiner (born February 8, 1970), rower, Olympic champion 1996
  • Mike Huster (born October 7, 1972), politician (Die Linke), MdL Thuringia
  • Sabine Kühlich (born February 1, 1973), jazz singer
  • Hanka Kupfernagel (born March 19, 1974), racing cyclist
  • Aleks Scholz (* 1975), astronomer and author

From 1976

Anja Siegesmund

See also