page_title: Hof, Bavaria
section_title: Sons and daughters of the town
hierarchical_section_title: Hof, Bavaria / Notable people / Sons and daughters of the town
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Major Otto Hermann von Lossow
context_page_description: Hof is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald upland regions.
  The town has 47,296 inhabitants, the surrounding district an additional 95,000.
  The town of Hof is enclosed by, but does not belong to the Bavarian district of Hof; it is nonetheless the district's administrative seat.
  The town's most important work of art, the Hofer altar, dates from about 1465 and is exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich today. The Heidenreich organ in the parish church of St. Michaelis, completed in 1834, is considered one of Bavaria's finest.
  Hof is known for two local "delicacies", namely Schnitz, a kind of hotpot, and sausages boiled in a portable, coal-fired brass cauldron, which are sold in the streets by the sausage man. There is also a particularly strong beer, which is available only on the first Monday after Trinity Sunday. This tradition dates back to the establishment of the town militia which forced all shooters to take part in a special shooting training each year.
context_section_description: Nikolaus Decius (1485-after 1546), monk, minister, cantor, hymns poet and Prussian reformer.
  Johann Christian Reinhart (1761-1847), painter, etcher and draftsman.
  Johann Georg August Wirth (1798–1848), journalist and political activist.
  Johann Erhard Fischer (1817-1884), pastor, historian, author and editor of Freimund's kirchlich-politisches Wochenblatt für Stadt und Land.
  Heinrich Gottfried Gerber (1832-1912), engineering, a bridge-builder and inventor of the Gerber carrier.
  Otto von Schrön (1837-1917), physician, epidemiologist, Director of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Naples, freeman of Naples.
  Otto von Lossow (1868-1938), General, commander of the Infantry School in Munich.
  Ernst Pöhner (1870-1925), Munich Police President and one of the parties at the Hitler Ludendorff Putsch in 1923
  Stefan Dittrich (1912-1988), politician (CSU), member of the Bundestag
  Gerhard Hetz (1942-2012), float and swim coach.
  Klaus Wedemeier (1944), SPD - politician, 1971-1985 and 1995-1999 member of the Bremen Regional Parliament (Landtag), 1985-1995 mayor and president of the Senate of Bremen
  Reinhard Kapp (1947), musicologist
  Daniel Felgenhauer (born 1976), football player
caption: Otto von Lossow, major
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