Vratislavice Nad Nisou - Famous People

Famous People

  • Ginzkey family
    • Ignaz Ginzkey (1818–1876, Maffersdorf), carpet magnate
      • Wilhelm Ginzkey (1856–1934, Maffersdorf), whole industrialist
  • Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), car designer
  • Prof. Oskar Baudisch (1881–1950, La Jolla, California), German-American radiographer
  • Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), politician
  • Hans Molitor (1895–1945, New Jersey) Austrian-American pharmacologist
  • Prof. Elisabeth Decht (born 1914), Austrian pianist and organist
  • Walter Radetz (1926–1986), German author, editor, translator
  • Roland Bulirsch (born 1932, Nová ruda (Neurode), Vratislavice), mathematician, grew up here
  • Prof. Roland Schneider (1939–2007) German Japanologist

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