1947 the factory buildings were stripped and the buildings were exploded. In 1944 and 1945 a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp was located on what today is Mathias-Erzberger-Straße. The camp fit 440 prisoners, who performed forced labour at HASAG. A subcamp of 1,200 women, mostly Jews, were likewise forced to support military production. Most of the prisoners did not survive a death march in 1945 after the closure of the camps. Next to these camps were 12 additional forced labor camps and prisoner of war camps, whose prisoners worked for the Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke GmbH (also known as "Mimo"). These latter camps belonged at the time to the district Pönitz. In 1999 Taucha was reassigned from the district Leipziger Land to Delitzsch district. In the course of the Saxon district reforms of 2008, Taucha became part of Nordsachsen. Sons and daughters of the town as well as prominent inhabitants Friedrich Adolf Ebert (1791–1834), librarian and bibliographer Alfred Lemmnitz (1905–1994), economist and politician (SED) Harry Merkel (1918–1995), racing driver and designer Horst Bittner (1927–2013), GDR diplomat Kessler-Zwillinge (born 1936), spent early childhood here and began ballet lessons References Nordsachsen