page_title: Plauen
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Plauen / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Karikaturist E. O. Plauen 40 Jahre alt Am 18. März wird der bekannte Karikaturist Plauen 40 Jahre alt. Plauen gehört zu den besten politischen Karikaturisten Deutschlands und ist durch seine Karikaturenbücher "Vater und Sohn", sowie durch seine vornehmlich im "Reich" erschienenden politischen Karikaturen bekannt und beliebt geworden.
context_page_description: Plauen is a town in the Free State of Saxony, east-central Germany. It is the capital town of the district Vogtlandkreis. The town is situated near the border of Thuringia, Bavaria and the Czech Republic.
context_section_description: Heinrich von Plauen (1370–1429), Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
  Christoph Pezel (1539–1604), theologian
  Johann von Mayr. (1716–1759). Prussian general
  Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1786–1851), philologist
  Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868), botanist, zoologist and explorer
  Gustav Hartenstein (1808–1890), philosopher
  Charles Beyer (1813–1876), locomotive designer and engineer
  Emil Kautzsch (1841–1910), theologian
  Arwed Rossbach (1844–1902), architect in Leipzig
  Hermann Vogel (1854–1921), illustrator
  Kurt Helbig (1901–1975), weightlifter
  Friedrich Hielscher (1902–1990), religious philosopher, writer and resistance fighter against Nazism
  E.O. Plauen (1903–1944), cartoonist
  Paul Wessel (1904–1967), politician (SED)
  Egon Zill (1906–1974), Nazi SS commandant of the Flossenbürg concentration camp
  Werner Hartenstein (1908–1943), war-time commander of U-156, notable for the RMS Laconia (1921) incident
  Walter Ballhause (1911–1991), photographer
  Johannes Kuhn (born 1924), Protestant theologian
  Horst Dohlus (1925–2007), SED functionary
  Karl Richter (1926–1981), conductor, organist, and harpsichordist
  Hans Otte (1926–2007), composer and pianist
  Klaus Zoephel (1929–2017), composer and conductor
  Klaus Zink (born 1936), football player
  Angelika Bahmann (born 1952), Olympic champion and world champion in canoe slalom
  Kornelia Ender (born 1958), Olympic champion swimmer
  Andrea Stolletz (born 1963), handball goalkeeper
  Olaf Schubert (1967), comedian and musician
  Frank Meyer (born 1969), television presenter
  Martin Dulig (born 1974), politician (SPD)
  Christian Bahmann (born 1981), world champion in canoe slalom
  Christin Zenner (born 1991), swimmer
caption: E. O. Plauen 1943
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