page_title: Glauchau
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Glauchau / People
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ölgemälde von Ernst Friedrich Germar
context_page_description: Glauchau is a town in the German federal state of Saxony, on the right bank of the Mulde, 7 miles north of Zwickau and 17 miles west of Chemnitz by rail. It is part of the Zwickau district.
context_section_description: Johann Pfeffinger, (1493-1573), theologian and Protest reformer
  Georg Agricola, (1494-1555), scholar and scientist,
  Samuel von Pufendorf, (1632-1694), jurist, economist and historian
  Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786-1853), professor of mineralogy, entomologist and local politician
  Julius Heinrich Petermann (1801-1876), Orientalist
  Ernst Kals (1905 -1979) Kriegsmarine U-boat commander, awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  Walter Schlesinger (1908-1984), historian for the history of the country and the constitution
  Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (1929-1998), politician, hunting author, Bundestag deputy of the CDU 1990-1994
  Dieter Erler (1939-1998), GDR footballer
  Christine Spielberg (born 1941), discus thrower
  Torsten May (born 1969), professional boxer
caption: Ernst Friedrich Germar
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