- Martin Chemnitz
Martin Chemnitz (November 9 1522 - April 8 1586) was an eminent second-generation Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Lutheran tradition he is known as "Alter Martinus," the "Second Martin": "Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset" ("If Martin [Chemnitz] had not come along, Martin [Luther] would hardly have survived") goes a common saying concerning him.
- Robin Szolkowy
Robin Szolkowy (born 17 July 1979 in Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) is an internationally ranked pair figure skater. He and his partner, Aljona Savchenko, are the current World pair bronze medalists and current European pair champions. The team lives and trains in eastern German city of Chemnitz, and is coached by former world pair champion Ingo Steuer.
- Ingo Steuer
Ingo Steuer (born November 1, 1966 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony, GDR/East Germany) is a German figure skater.
- Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt was a German painter, sculptor, and designer involved with the Bauhaus beginning in 1923, where her designs for practical metal objects formed an important part of the repertoire. Many of these designs including lamps, ashtrays and other household objects remain in production today. Brandt was born in Chemnitz and trained as a painter before joining the Weimar Bauhaus in 1923.
- Jutta Müller
Jutta Müller, born Jutta Lötzsch (December 13 1928) is a German former figure skater and one of the most successful figure skating coaches worldwide. Born in Chemnitz, Saxony, she became East German champion 1949 in double women pair skating. This category was invented due to the lack of men in Germany after World War II. Her partner was Irene Salzmann. In 1953 she won the bronze medal at the East German nationals ladies event.
- Mandy Wötzel
Mandy Wötzel is a German World Champion figure skater.
- Frank Bretschneider
Frank Bretschneider (born 1956) is a German electronic musician. He works primarily with sine waves and white noise as his source material. He also releases material under the name Komet. Bretschneider was born and raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in the former German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany). In 1984, inspired by science fiction radio plays and films, he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars.
- Sylke Otto
Sylke Otto (born July 7, 1969 in Chemnitz) is a German luger who competed from 1991 to 2007. Competing in three Winter Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's singles event in 2002 and 2006. Otto won twelve medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with six golds (Women's singles: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005; Mixed team: 2003, 2005), three silvers (Mixed team: 1997, 2000, 2001), and three bronzes (Women's singles: 1999, 2004; Mixed team: 1999).
- Rico Rex
Rico Rex (born October 5, 1976 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany) is a former German pair skater. With former partner Eva-Maria Fitze, he is the 2003 German national champion.
- Alexander Gazsi
Alexander Gazsi is a German ice dancer. His father is Hungarian and his mother German. He previously competed with Mandy Kästner, Julia Novikov, and Sandra Gissmann. He teamed up with Nelli Zhiganshina in 2005 and the two are the 2007 German national champions. They train in Moscow and Chemnitz. Their coach is Elena Kustarova. Alexander Gaszi is representing the club SC Berlin.
- Geroyche
Geroyche is an electronic music artist from Chemnitz (former Karl-Marx-Stadt), Germany. His style ranges from dark electronica to breakcore. He has vinyl releases on kool. POP, Lux Nigra, Suburban Trash Industries and Ventilator Tonträger and more CD-compilation appearances.
- Frank Rost
Frank Rost (born 30 June 1973) is a German professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Hamburger SV. Rost was born in Karl Marx Stadt (Chemnitz), Saxony. He comes from a famous family background; his father Peter won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in handball, and his mother Christina, also a handball player, won the silver at the 1976 Olympic Games and bronze at the 1980 Games. Rost was signed from Werder Bremen in 2002, …
- Heinz Winkler
Heinz Winkler (7 July 1910 - 25 June 1958) was an East German Christian Democratic politician. Winkler was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. He was trained as an architect. In 1938 he joined the Nazi Party. From 1941 to 1945 he was a Wehrmacht soldier. After the war he joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Soviet Occupation Zone in 1945. Until 1953 Winkler was the leader of a reconstruction bureau, responsible for the reconstruction of the city of Chemnitz.
- Irmtraud Morgner
Irmtraud Elfriede Morgner (August 22 1933 - May 6 1990) was an East German feminist writer. Her 1974 montage novel "Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura" has been translated into English, with the title "The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos". Morgner was born in Chemnitz and died in Berlin.
- Alexander König
Alexander König is a German former figure skater.
- Kati Winkler
Kati Winkler (born January 16 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz)) is a German figure skater and specialized in ice dancing. Kati Winkler was a team in ice dancing with René Lohse. They won the bronze medla at the World championships in ice dancing in 2004. This was the greatest success for the German icedancers since 1973, the time of Angelika Buck/Erich Buck. They were also the first German icedance pairs which qualified for the Grand Prix final.
- Gustav Zeuner
Gustav Anton Zeuner (30 November 1828 - 17 October 1907) was a German physicist, engineer and epistemologist, considered the founder of technical thermodynamics and of the Dresden School of Thermodynamics.
- Aliona Savchenko
Aliona Savchenko (originally Ukrainian "Олена Савченко/Olena Savtchenko"; German spelling: "Aljona Savchenko"; born 19 January 1984 in Kiev, Ukraine) is an internationally ranked Ukrainian pair figure skater who now skates for Germany and has obtained German citizenship. She currently represents the Chemnitzer EC. Savchenko's partner since 2003 has been Robin Szolkowy. The team has won the German National pair title four consecutive times.
- Nico Motchebon
Nico Motchebon (born November 11, 1969 in Berlin) is a Germany 800 m runner. His personal best of 1:43.91s was set on July 31, 1996 in the 800 m final at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he finished fifth. Motchebon won bronze medals at the 1993 and 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He also set a temporary European indoor record over 800 m in 1995. His 600m indoor personal best still stands as the indoor 600m world record.
- Anja Mittag
Anja Mittag (born May 16, 1985 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany) is a German international women's footballer, who currently plays for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam.
- Klaus Wunderlich
Klaus Wunderlich (June 18, 1931 - died October 28, 1997) was a German musician. Wunderlich was born in Chemnitz and died in Engen. Wunderlich played the Hammond organ during his early career but later switched to Wersi organs with which he created his own electronic sound. He was open to different music styles and played classic, operetta, musical as well as popular music. He sold more than 20 million records all over the world and received 13 golden albums.
- Kristin Wieczorek
Kristin Wieczorek is a German figure skater. She is the 2007 German national champion. Her younger brother Denis Wieczorek competes internationally on the junior level. Kristin Wieczorek began to skate with the age of five in Erfurt. There she was coached by Ilona Schindler. Currently she represented the club USG Chemnitz. Her coach was here some time Anett Pötzsch. Since summer 2007 she trains with her coach Michael Huth. Her biggest succes was the German title 2007.
- Horst Sindermann
Horst Sindermann (September 5, 1915 - April 20, 1990) was Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (GDR) from 1973 to 1976. Born in Dresden, he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, and spent the Second World War imprisoned. After the war he was a newspaper editor and leader of the Chemnitz and Leipzig branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was a member of the Volkskammer from 1963 to 1969, and its president from 1976 to 1989.
- Volker Roth
Volker Roth (born February 1, 1942 in Chemnitz) is a retired football referee from Germany. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
- Axel Noack
Axel Noack is a former German race walker. Noack traveled to the U.S. to attend high school at Henry B. Plant High School. On 21 June 1987 in Chemnitz he achieved a new world best time in 20 km walk with 1:19.12 hours.
- Axel Noack
Axel Noack is a former German race walker. On 21 June 1987 in Chemnitz he achieved a new world best time in 20 km walk with 1:19.12 hours.
- Christian Gottlob Neefe
Christian Gottlob Neefe (5 February 1748 - 28 January, 1798) was a German opera composer and conductor. Neefe was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. Educated at the University of Leipzig, he was a pupil of Johann Adam Hiller, under whose guidance he wrote his first comic operas. He later became court organist in Bonn and was a teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven. He helped Beethoven produce some of his first works.
- Georg Fabricius
Georg Fabricius, born Georg Goldschmidt (April 23 1516 - July 17, 1571), was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.
- Anett Pötzsch
Anett Pötzsch is a German figure skater. Pötzsch was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, GDR (today renamed Chemnitz, Germany) in 1960. She represented the GDR (East Germany) in the ladies events at international championships and in 1980 became the Olympic Champion, as well as world champion in 1978 and 1980. She also won the European title four times, from 1977 to 1980. Her coach was Jutta Müller. Pötzsch was married to Axel Witt, the brother of Katarina Witt.
- Peter von Zahn
Peter von Zahn was a German author, film maker, and journalist. Born in Chemnitz as a son of an officer, he grew up in Dresden and studied law, history, and philosophy. He was drafted at the beginning of World War II. After the war, he was one of the founders of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). For three years, he managed the NWDR Studio in Düsseldorf where he introduced anglo-saxon style journalism with self-critical irony.
- Helmut Schelsky
Helmut Schelsky, (14 October 1912 - 24 February 1984), was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.
- Christian Gottlob Heyne
Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library. He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony. His father was a poor weaver, and his education was paid for by his godfather. In 1748 he entered the University of Leipzig, where he was often short of the necessaries of life. He was in despair by the time he obtained a position as tutor in the family of a French merchant in Leipzig, …
- Marian Kretschmer
Marian Kretschmer (* 1983 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz) is a German comics artist and illustrator. One of his most famous works is the comics series "Blue Evolution". He also works as painter, graphic designer and photographer. In 2002 Marian Kretschmer founded the "THENEXTART" society that provides a stage for young artists from Chemnitz to introduce their works to the general public.
- John Kluge
John Werner Kluge (born September 21, 1914) is an entrepreneur who was born in Chemnitz, Germany, best known as a television industry mogul in the United States. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from Columbia University in 1937.
- Gabriele Seyfert
Gabriele ("Gaby") Seyfert (born November 23, 1948 in Chemnitz) is a former German figure skater.
- Evelyn Großmann
Evelyn Großmann is a German figure skater. She was representing first East Germany (GDR) and later Germany after the German reunification in 1990. Evelyn Großmann was practicing in Chemnitz in Saxony. Her coach was Jutta Müller. Evelyn Großmann became European champion in 1990 and won at the Europeans 1991 a silver medal. In 1993 she changed the club and the coach. She was than skating for the ERC Dresden but was practicing in Oberstdorf.
- Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs, German botanist, was born in Breslau, Silesia. At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, and on leaving school he became, in 1851, private assistant to the physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje at Prague. In 1856 he graduated as doctor of philosophy, and then adopted a botanical career, establishing himself as "Privatdozent" for plant physiology in the University of Prague.
- Sonja Morgenstern
Sonja Morgenstern is a German figure skater and figure skating coach. Morgenstern was coached by Jutta Müller in Chemnitz and represented the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt club and East Germany (GDR). In 1966 she won the Spartakiade in figure skating. Two years later she participated in the Winter Olympics. Her biggest success was winning the bronze medal at the European Championships in 1972. In the same year, she placed sixth at the Winter Olympics.
- Sabine Baeß
Sabine Baeß, married Marbach, (born March 15 1961 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany/GDR/East Germany) is a German figure skater. Sabine Baeß became with her skating partner Tassilo Thierbach 1982 World and European champion in pair figure skating, followed by another European title in 1983. The pair trained in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz), skated for the club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and was coached by Irene Salzmann.
- Wilhelm Normann
Wilhelm Normann (January 16, 1870, Petershagen - May 1, 1939, Chemnitz) (sometimes also spelled "Norman") was a German chemist who introduced the hydrogenation of fats in 1901, creating what later became known as trans fats. This invention, protected by German patent 139,457 in 1902 had a profound influence on the production of margarine and so-called vegetable shortening.