page_title: Meissen
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Meissen / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kursächsische Postmeilensäule-Distanzsäule in Meissen
context_page_description: Meissen is a town of approximately 30,000 about 25 km northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche. The Große Kreisstadt is the capital of the Meissen district.
context_section_description: Adam of Bremen, author of the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church), believed to have been born here before 1050.
  Saint Benno, Bishop of Meissen, born about 1010 in Hildesheim, died June 16, 1106
  Heinrich Frauenlob, poet, born 1250/60, died November 29, 1318 in Mainz
  Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843), physician and founder of Homoeopathy
  Johann Klaj (1616–1656 in Kitzingen)
  Karl G. Maeser (1828–1901), Mormon academic
  Erich Naumann (1905–1951), Nazi SS-Brigadeführer and Einsatzgruppe commander, executed for war crimes
  Louise Otto-Peters born 1819
  Hans Philipp (1917–1943), combat pilot
  Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse (1420–1462 in Spangenberg)
  Heinrich von Sachsen (1422–1435 Dresden), Margrave of Meissen and Duke of Saxony
  Ralf Schumann (born 1962), Olympic shooter
  Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749), critic and poet
  Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–1793), poet and clergyman
  Peter Schreier (1935–2019), opera singer and conductor
  Jörg Urban (born 1964), politician (AfD)
caption: Polish-Saxon post milestone
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