Furtwängler (family)
The Furtwängler family comes from a family of farmers from the Black Forest whose farm, the "Furtwängle", has been documented since the 14th century. Since the 19th century in particular, the family produced numerous important musically and artistically gifted members and scholars. The widely ramified German family originally comes from Furtwangen in the Black Forest in Baden .
Known family members
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Philipp Furtwängler (1800–1867), organ builder
- Pius Furtwängler (1841–1910), organ builder
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (1829–1883), organ builder
- Philipp Furtwängler (1869–1940), mathematician
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Wilhelm Furtwängler (1809–1875), classical philologist and high school teacher
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Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907), classical archaeologist
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Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), composer and conductor
- Andreas E. Furtwängler (* 1944), classical archaeologist
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Walter Furtwängler (1887–1967), mountaineer
- Florian Furtwängler (1935–1992), director
- Bernhard Furtwängler (1930–2012), architect
- Maria Furtwängler (* 1966), doctor and actress
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Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954), composer and conductor
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Adolf Furtwängler (1853–1907), classical archaeologist
Bearers of the name of another or unclear family affiliation
Other bearers of the name Furtwängler without affiliation or with unclear affiliation to the above-mentioned family
- Franz Josef Furtwängler (1894–1965), German trade unionist and SPD politician
- Hubert Furtwängler (1918–2011), nephew of Wilhelm Furtwängler (Wilhelm Furtwängler is his third degree uncle), pediatrician and translator, friend of members of the White Rose resistance group and co-founder of the White Rose Institute , married. with Margarete Furtwängler-Knittel (1921–2019), concert pianist, painter and translator, daughter of John Knittel and sister-in-law of Luise Rainer
literature
- Baden gender book vol. 1 (= German gender book , vol. 81). Görlitz 1934, pp. 127-141.
- Georg Lippold : Furtwängler. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 738 ( digitized version ).
- Eberhard Straub: The Furtwänglers. Story of a German family . Siedler, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-88680-839-7 and ISBN 3-88680-839-4 ; Table of contents and content text
- Gunna Wendt : The Furtwänglers. Elisabeth Furtwängler, Kathrin Ackermann, Maria Furtwängler . LangenMüller, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7844-3239-7 ; contents