List of sons and daughters of the city of Zwickau

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This list contains personalities who were born in Zwickau . They are listed chronologically according to the year of birth. The overview contains people who were born within the Zwickau urban area in its current area.

Until 1800

  • around 1432, Martin Römer , † April 5, 1483, merchant, mine owner, knight, governor of Zwickau and the Erzgebirge district
  • 1460, Erasmus Stella (own Johannes Stüler), † April 2, 1521, doctor, mayor and historian
  • around 1472, Peter Breuer , late Gothic carver
  • 1486, Hermann Mühlpfordt (Mühlpfort), † August 20, 1534 in Zwickau, (old Higher Hieronymus Mehlpfordt) cloth merchant and mayor of Zwickau, Schneeberger Silbergewerke, Electoral Privy Council; great service in introducing the Reformation
  • 1492, Stephan Roth , † July 8, 1546, scholar, studied in Leipzig and Wittenberge, 1525–1527 rector of the Francisceum Zerbst , town clerk, translator of Reformation writings; Rector, councilor and chancellor of the city, founder of the Zwickau school of poets and one of the best libraries of the Reformation era in the Zwickau council school library
  • before 1500, Nikolaus Storch , † after 1536 Munich, cloth weaver and lay preacher (Zwickau prophets)
  • 1500, Janus Cornarius , † March 16, 1558, philologist and physician
  • 1501, Gregor Haloander , † September 7, 1531, lawyer
  • around 1510, Joachim Greff , † November 11th? 1552, educator and Protestant theologian
  • around 1519, Christoph Baldauf , † beginning of May 1580, educator
  • around 1520, Georg Thym , † December 21, 1560, educator, poet and author
  • around 1530, Jakob Krause , † May 9, 1585, bookbinder
  • 1532, David Köler , also: Colerus, Cholerus, Koler, † July 25, 1565, musician, organist, cantor, composer
  • 1544, August 24, Wolfgang Mühlpfordt , † April 19, 1574 in Zwickau, called the limping; City clerk, captain in Jena, councilor in Zwickau
  • 1559, Johannes Fleck , † July 30, 1628, pastor
  • 1584, May 3, Franz Kess , † before 1650, educator
  • 1612, March 29, Christian Daum , † December 15, 1687, philologist and historian
  • 1638, November 30, Joachim Feller , † April 5, 1691, professor of poetry and eloquence, poet and librarian; Pietist
  • 1674, July 22, Jacob Leupold , † January 12, 1727, mechanic and instrument maker
  • around 1680, Martin Gotthelf Löscher , † November 3, 1735, physicist
  • 1692, Wilhelm Bärensprung , † August 3, 1761, printer
  • 1712, June 9, Gottlob Christian Klügel , † November 18, 1794, lawyer
  • 1717, November 28, Georg Körner , † May 3, 1772, pastor, linguist and chronicler
  • 1741, Johann Gottfried Krebs , † January 5, 1814, cantor, organist and composer
  • 1744, Christian Friedrich Nürnberger , † February 26, 1795, doctor and botanist
  • 1755, January 20, Johannes Aloysius Martyni-Laguna , † April 19, 1824, private scholar
  • 1757, September 16, Alexander Ferdinand von Mellentin , † February 16, 1823, Major General of Saxony
  • 1795, February 18, Karl Ernst Richter , † April 8, 1876, publicist and member of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Saxony
  • 1800, July 18, Georg Heinrich Wolf von Arnim , † October 9, 1855, ironworks and mining entrepreneur

19th century

1801 to 1850

  • 1810, June 8, Robert Schumann , † July 29, 1856, composer
  • 1826, April 27, Friedrich Immisch , † February 22, 1892, medical doctor
  • 1828, September 7, Ernst Julius Meier , † October 6, 1898, Protestant theologian
  • 1835, September 4, Bernhard Freiherr von Hausen , † December 31, 1893, politician, official and district chief in Zwickau
  • 1838, March 5, Karl Friedrich Ebert , † March 22, manor owner and politician (German Conservative Party)
  • 1838, July 22nd, Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel , † October 26th, 1915, architect
  • 1838, December 23, Carl Wolf , † January 30, 1915, industrialist, founder of the Friemann & Wolf mine lamp works in Zwickau
  • 1839, July 6, Dietrich Carl von Carlowitz , † May 26, 1890, manor owner and politician (German Conservative Party)
  • 1843, June 1, Auguste Wilbrandt-Baudius , † March 30, 1937, actress
  • 1845, March 1, 1845, Ernst Voigt , † February 21, 1886, lawyer and politician
  • 1847, June 29th, Paul Flechsig , psychiatrist, neuroscientist and professor
  • 1848, January 12, Julius Seifert , † March 31, 1909, politician (SPD)
  • 1850, August 18, Otto Bauer , † October 23, 1916, politician, mayor of several cities

1851 to 1900

  • 1852, January 3, Georg Beuchelt , † August 17, 1913, politician
  • 1853, August 28, Paul Meyer , † after 1913, manor owner and politician
  • 1854, June 9, Hermann Arthur Thost , † December 23, 1937, ENT doctor, Dominus praeses of the Academic Club in Hamburg
  • 1855, July 28, Kurt Sorge , † September 9, 1928, industrialist and politician (DVP)
  • 1856, April 1, August Siegel , † October 2, 1936, miners' leader and trade unionist; one of the three imperial delegates.
  • 1859, December 17, Ernst Kühn , † November 5, 1943, architect
  • 1861, May 15, Friedrich Paul Fikentscher , † February 4, 1924, entrepreneur, commercial judge and local politician
  • 1861, December 6, Adolf Gustav Seifert , † November 20, 1920, member of the consumer cooperative and managing director of GEG
  • 1863, December 11, Heinrich Schurtz , † May 2, 1903, ethnologist and historian
  • 1864, April 9, Eduard Flechsig , † December 1, 1944, art historian and museum official
  • 1865, May 30, Carl Schiffner , † September 16, 1945, metallurgist and university professor
  • 1866, April 22, Wilhelm Jahn , † December 21, 1924, General
  • 1869, October 6, Heinrich Böhmer , † March 25, 1927, Protestant church historian
  • 1869, October 18, Georg Weicker , † 1957, classical archaeologist and classical philologist
  • 1870, March 21, Heinrich Waentig , † December 22, 1943, political economist and politician (SPD)
  • 1871, October 4, Gustav Nötzold , † November 27, 1939, dialect poet
  • 1872, March 13, Johannes Hertel , † October 27, 1955, Indologist
  • 1872, November 15, Hans Dominik , † December 9, 1945, writer, journalist and engineer
  • 1874, June 28, Albert Pietzsch , † June 13, 1957, industrialist, supporter and functionary of the NSDAP
  • 1874, June 29, Georg Göhler , † March 4, 1954, conductor, music critic and composer
  • 1875, July 5th, Willibald Eisert , † 1950, dialect poet of the Ore Mountains
  • 1876, May 7, Max Deutschbein , † April 15, 1949, English studies and professor
  • 1876, October 4, Georg Barth † May 15, 1947, lawyer and politician (DNVP)
  • 1877, March 15, Kurt Weckel , † July 18, 1956, politician (USPD, SPD)
  • 1887, April 22, Hans Kreller , † February 14, 1958, legal historian and papyrologist
  • 1880, August 10, Wilhelm H. Schulz , † October 30, 1951, institute director TU Clausthal
  • 1880, October 8, Fritz Bleyl , † August 19, 1966, architect and painter
  • 1881, June 25, Hellmuth von Mücke , † July 30, 1957, officer, politician (NSDAP) and writer
  • 1881, December 31, Max Pechstein , † June 29, 1955, painter and graphic artist
  • 1882, March 22, Balder Olden , † October 24, 1949, writer
  • 1882, October 28, Heinz Zimmermann , † June 20, 1968, Austrian politician
  • 1883, September 21, Ernst Brändel , † October 12, 1947, Nazi functionary
  • 1883, October 15, Kurt Arnold Findeisen , † November 18, 1963, writer
  • 1884, September 7, Erich Wagler , † August 29, 1951, ichthyologist
  • 1884, September 28, Martin Buchwald , † after May 1945, Reich judge
  • 1886, June 30, Georg Bauer , † December 16, 1952, railroad worker
  • 1886, October 27, Amandus Haase , † February 18, 1947, prehistory researcher
  • 1887, February 28, Wilhelm Hermann Jost , † August 15, 1948, architect
  • 1887, April 22, Hans Kreller , † February 14, 1958, legal historian and papyrologist
  • 1887, August 4, Martin Erich Philipp , † November 1, 1978, painter and graphic artist
  • 1887, November 13, Paul Samson-Körner , † August 25, 1942, boxer
  • 1888, January 18, Hugo Kroemer , † January 20, 1971, Austrian pianist
  • 1888, September 20, Paul Drechsler , † July 31, 1953, politician (NSDAP)
  • 1889, April 8, Paul Berger , † March 30, 1949, sculptor
  • 1889, August 14, Ernst Otto Schimmel , † April 26, 1930, Lord Mayor of Glauchau
  • 1889, December 7th, Hugo Weber , † after 1932, economist and politician (Economic Party, DNVP)
  • 1890, October 7, Hans Fliege , † January 29, 1976, professor and Nazi functionary
  • 1890, December 16, Hermann Schüttauf , † February 25, 1967, garden and landscape architect
  • 1891, September 9, Paul Schmidt-Roller , † November 8, 1963, artist
  • 1892, February 26, Ottomar Otto , † May 3, 1945, Kriminalrat and SS-Sturmbannführer
  • 1893, May 18, Hans Migotsch , † November 17, 1978, Works Council Chairman and Plant Director
  • 1893, November 4, Wilhelm Meisel , † September 7, 1974, naval officer and chief of the naval command
  • 1894, July 20, Emil Vogel , † October 1, 1985, officer, most recently general of the mountain troops
  • 1894, October 11, Herbert Schönfeld , † December 4, 1979, pediatrician and writer
  • 1894, October 15, Albert Albin Funk , † April 27, 1933, politician and member of the Reichstag
  • 1896, December 23, Gertrud Schubart-Fikentscher , † March 24, 1985, lawyer and university professor
  • 1899, March 25, Walter Hentschel , † December 22, 1970, art historian
  • 1899, July 16, Harry Wilde , † February 22, 1978, journalist and writer
  • 1899, December 25, Gerhard Kreyssig , † October 14, 1982, politician (SPD)
  • 1900, December 6, Gerhard Küntscher , † December 17, 1972, surgeon
  • 1900, December 19, Carl Schneider , † May 16, 1977, theologian

20th century

1901 to 1910

  • 1901, October 13, Walther Hertzsch , † 1975, agricultural scientist and botanist
  • 1902, November 15, Herbert Junghanns , † February 24, 1986, surgeon
  • 1903, January 21, Herbert Schneider , † March 5, 1970, architect
  • 1903, June 4, Karl Hennig , † July 8, 1992, Protestant theologian
  • 1903, June 15, Andreas Thierfelder , † April 15, 1986, classical philologist
  • 1904, April 18, Ernst Gerber , † March 16, 1976, politician
  • 1904, May 30, Doris Schachner , † April 1, 1988, mineralogist and honorary senator of RWTH Aachen University
  • 1904, June 5, Hermann Klemm , † June 10, 1983, theologian and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • 1904, November 12, Friedrich Berner , † March 2, 1945, Nazi medic
  • 1905, June 6, Herbert Thiele , † 1973, painter and graphic artist
  • 1906, June 24, Alfred Spindler , † October 5, 1975, politician
  • 1907, February 10, Otto Mende , † June 26, 1944, resistance fighter against National Socialism and victim of fascism
  • 1907, May 6, Rolf Trexler , † June 15, 1985, puppeteer
  • 1908, June 8, Johannes Ignaz Kohler , † October 7, 1994, painter and graphic artist
  • 1908, August 20, Hans CW Hartmuth , † September 29, 1983, entrepreneur
  • 1910, February 7, Hans Grimm , † April 1, 1995, doctor and anthropologist

1911 to 1920

  • 1911, March 10th, Marianne Hütel , † June 25th 1983 in Zwickau, Ore Mountains native poet and dialect speaker
  • 1911, March 15, Wolfgang Ranft , † October 16, 2006, doctor and politician
  • 1912, Gershom Gustav Schocken , † 1990, son of Salman Schocken , publisher and editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily Haaretz in Tel Aviv
  • 1912, December 21, Erich Dietel , † June 1, 1991, football coach
  • 1913, February 25, Gert Fröbe , † September 5, 1988, actor in numerous film and stage roles
  • 1914, December 10, Wolfgang Brunecker , † June 26, 1992, actor
  • 1915, January 17, Heinz Klemm , † August 28, 1970 in Räckelwitz, journalist, editor and writer
  • 1915, April 28, Werner-Hans Schlegel , † June 7, 2003, painter and graphic artist
  • 1917, December 14, Eberhardt Hengst , † June 18, 1996, forest scientist
  • 1920, November 21, Walter Fritzsch , † October 15, 1997, soccer player and GDR league coach

1921 to 1930

  • 1921, April 14, Gerhard Schürer , † December 22, 2010, politician (SED)
  • 1921, April 24, Heinz Krügel , † October 27, 2008, soccer player, GDR national team and league coach
  • 1922, June 18, Helmut Schrätze , mineralogist and university professor
  • 1923, February 28, Horst Oettler , † December 6, 2007, football player
  • 1924, April 5, Manfred Fuchs , soccer player
  • 1924, July 3, Günter Schneider , † November 29, 2000, football player
  • 1925, January 30th, Maria Günther , rider, riding instructor, German champion in show jumping
  • 1925, April 21, Ehrhardt Bödecker , † December 6, 2016, banker
  • 1926, Erhard Weller , † after 1983, actor; was at the time the longest man in Europe with a height of 2.38 m
  • 1926, February 23, Edgar Klier , † June 8, 2015, painter and graphic artist
  • 1926, March 9, Hans-Heinrich Müller , agricultural historian
  • 1926, May 27, Lothar Piche , † March 8, 2018, politician (DSU)
  • 1927, July 7th, Heinz Satrapa , † March 2001, GDR national soccer player
  • 1927, September 27, Werner Fuchs , † January 11, 2016, archaeologist
  • 1928, February 25, Konrad Wünsche , † April 5, 2012, educator and author
  • 1928, May 7, Heinz Heitzer , † April 19, 1993, historian
  • 1928, September 10, Peter Mauersberger , † February 17, 2007, physicist and ecologist
  • 1928, October 2, Willy Tröger , † March 30, 2004, GDR national soccer player
  • 1928, October 7, Wolfgang Pintzka , † July 23, 2006, theater director
  • 1928, October 11, Inge Taubert , † December 10, 2009, historian
  • 1929, January 5, Gisela Meierkord , † June 11, 2017, founder
  • 1929, August 16, Ina-Maria Greverus , † April 11, 2017, folklorist and cultural anthropologist
  • 1929, September 4, Eberhardt Klemm , † June 7, 1991, musicologist
  • 1929, December 25, Christoph Brückner , † June 4, 2019, occupational physician
  • 1930, January 13, Waltraut Seitter , † November 15, 2007, astronomer
  • 1930, April 21, Rolf Rudolph , † January 12, 1963, historian
  • 1930, November 15, Herbert Häber , † April 10, 2020, politician (SED) and Western negotiator, member of the SED Central Committee
  • 1930, November 19, Hartmut Grossmann , † February 13, 2016, writer

1931 to 1940

1941 to 1950

1951 to 1960

1961 to 1970

From 1971

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxonia: "Museum for Saxon Fatherland Studies", fourth volume, Eduard Pietsch, Dresden, 1839
  2. ↑ Christian Adler in: Zwickauer Seiten, On the history of Zwickau's Jewish life and the Schocken department store empire ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Erhard Weller at the tallest man.com
  4. ↑ Autograph picture: Erhard Weller