Selb is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in

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. It is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, on the border with the

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, 20 km northwest of

Cheb Cheb (; german: Eger) is a town in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Ohře. Before the 1945 Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, expulsion of the German-speaking population ...

and 23 km southeast of Hof. Rosenthal_AG_Logo

Selb is well known for its porcelain manufacture, and is the home of the

Rosenthal (company) Rosenthal GmbH is a German manufacturer of porcelain products and other household goods. The original firm was founded in 1879 in Selb, Bavaria. Since 2009, Rosenthal has been owned by the Italian company Sambonet Paderno Industrie (Arcturus ...

factory, founded in 1879 by Philipp Rosenthal as a family business. The town served in the 1960s as the location for an unrealized town development plan prepared by

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

shortly before his death.

Notable people

Manfred Ahne Manfred Ahne (born 2 June 1961) is a West German ice hockey player. He competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igr ...

(born 1961), German icehockey player *

Sebastian Bösel Sebastian Bösel (born 24 October 1994) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking u ...

(born 1994), German football player *

Siegfried Hausner Siegfried Hausner (24 January 1952 – 5 May 1975) was a student member of the German Socialist Patients' Collective who was sentenced to three years imprisonment in 1972 for terrorist related crimes. When he was released in 1974, like many other ...

(1952-1975), a member of the

Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. The ...

, was born and raised in Selb *

Florian Ondruschka Florian Ondruschka (born June 24, 1987) is a German professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing for VER Selb in the Oberliga. He formerly played with the Straubing Tigers in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga The Deutsche Eishockey ...

(born 1987), German icehockey player *

Richard Rogler Richard Rogler (born 19 September 1949, in Selb) is a German Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Early life Rogler studied French and sport at the University of Würzburg. From 1974 to 1978 he was a ...

(born 1949), German satirist, Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin *

Philipp Rosenthal Philipp Rosenthal (6 March 1855 – 30 March 1937) was a German designer and industrialist of Jewish descent. Rosenthal founded the company Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG in 1897 for the production of ceramic wares. Biography Philipp Rosenthal was ...

(1855-1937) founder of Rosenthal enterprise *

Philip Rosenthal (industrialist) Philip Rosenthal (23 October 1916 – 27 September 2001) was a German industrialist, socialite and Social Democratic Party politician. In 1950, Rosenthal regained control of the family's company Rosenthal AG after the fall of Nazi Germany. In 1968 ...

(1916-2001) son of above, reclaimed factory from Nazis, became leading SPD politician * Peter Schiller (1957-2020), German ice hockey player * The ski mountaineer and mountain biker

Andreas Strobel Andreas Strobel (born 13 May 1972) is a German ski mountaineer and marathon mountain biker. Strobel was born in Selb, and started bike sports as condition training in 1991. After bad results at the "Ronda Extrema" race in Riva del Garda in 1997, h ...

was born 1972 in Selb Netzsch Arena

References

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