August Lampadius (1772–1842), metallurgist, chemist Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), Mineralogist, creator of the Mohssche Härteskala Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797–1873), geologist Novalis (1772–1801), poet Max Roscher (1888–1940), politician, Reichstag deputy Bernd Schröder (born 1942), football coach Clara Schumann (1819–1896), pianist Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753), organ builders Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner (1840–1895), geologist Christian Heinrich Spiess (1755–1799), actor, playwright and author, co-founder of the Gothic novel Emil von Sydow (1812–1873), officer, geographer and cartographer André Tanneberger (born 1973), known as ATB, trance DJ Jakob Ullmann (born 1958), composer and university lecturer Robert Volkmann (1815–1883), composer Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), geologist Bernhard von Cotta (1808–1879), geologist Kunz von Kaufungen (1410–1455), abductor of the Saxon Princes Albrecht and Ernst, executed in Freiberg Eberhard Wächtler (1929–2010), economic historian Julius Weisbach (1806–1871), mathematician and engineer Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817), co-founder of the modern geoscience Jacobo Benjamin Wiesner (1758–1842), metallurgist, expand the mining practices to Latin America, economic supporter of Colombian independence Clemens Winkler (1838–1904), chemist, discoverer of germanium Johann Heinrich Zedler (1706–1751), bookseller and publisher Gustav Zeuner (1828–1907), engineer External links Official website Notes and references Cziborra, Pascal. KZ Freiberg. Geheime Schwangerschaft. Lorbeer Verlag. Bielefeld. 2008. External links Towns in the Ore Mountains Mittelsachsen Mining communities in Germany