Zwickau
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Zwickau is a town in Saxony, Germany, it is the capital of the district of Zwickau. Zwickau is situated in a valley at the foot of the Erzgebirge mountains and is within the Saxon triangle, an area including Leipzig-Halle, Dresden and Chemnitz. The town has approximately 100,000 inhabitants, but has a regional catchment area of over 480,000 people. From 1834 until 1952 Zwickau was the seat of the government of the south-western region of Saxony.
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Born Before 1900
- Martin Roman, (1432–1483), merchant, mine owner, knight,
- Nicholas Storch, (before 1500–after 1536), weaver and lay preacher (Zwickau Prophets)
- Janus Cornarius, (c. 1500–1558), philologist and physicians
- Gregor Haloander, (1501–1531), jurist
- David Köler, (1532–1565), musician, organist, choirmaster, composer
- Jacob Leupold, (1674–1727), German mechanic and instrument maker
- Robert Schumann, (1810–1856) composer of the romantic era
- Carl Wolf, (1838–1915), German industrialist, founder of the miner's lamp works Friemann & Wolf in Zwickau
- Kurt Sorge, (1855–1928), German industrialist and politician (DVP)
- Heinrich Schurtz, (1863–1903), German ethnologist and historian
- August Horch, (1868–1952), automotive engineer, honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Braunschweig
- Heinrich Waentig, (1870–1943), German economist and politician (SPD)
- Hans Dominik, (1872–1945), German writer, journalist and engineer
- Fritz Bleyl, (1880–1966) expressionist painter and architect
- Max Pechstein, (1881–1955) expressionist painter
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Born after 1900
- Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, (1902–1982) Austrian automotive engineer, constructor of the 1938 Auto Union racing car Typ D
- Gershom Schocken (1912–1990), Israeli journalist and politician
- Gert Fröbe, (1913–1988), actor in numerous film and stage roles
- Gerhard Schürer, (1921–2010), German politician (SED)
- Rolf Hädrich, (1931–2000), German film director and screenwriter
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf, (born 1940), Second Counselor in the First Presidency The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lived here following World War II
- Harald Fritzsch, (born 1943), German theoretical physicist (quantum theory)
- Volkmar Weiss, (born 1944), German geneticists, social historian and genealogist
- Jürgen Croy, (born 1946), Goalkeeper (football) at former BSG Sachsenring Zwickau, elected GDR Footballer of the Year in 1972, 1976, and 1978
- Christoph Bergner, (born 1948), German politician (CDU), 1993-1994 Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
- Eckart Viehweg, (1948–2010), German mathematician
- Hagen von Ortloff, (born 1949), German TV-journalist (Eisenbahn-Romantik)
- Werner Schulz, (born 1950), German politician (Alliance '90 / The Greens)
- Christoph Daum, (born 1953), football player and coach
- Lutz Dombrowski, (born 1959), German athlete and Olympic champion
- Lars Riedel, (born 1967), German discus thrower, a multiple world champion and Olympic champion in Atlanta in 1996
- Olaf Schubert, (born 1967), comedian and musician
- Sven Günther, (born 1974), German footballer
- Cathleen Martini, (born 1982), world champion in bobsleigh in 2011
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