List of Annweiler personalities

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Coat of arms of the city of Annweiler am Trifels

The list of Annweiler personalities contains important personalities related to Annweiler am Trifels , sorted according to people who are honorary citizens, were born in the city or who worked in Annweiler am Trifels.

Honorary citizen

  • May 16, 1960: Adolf Kessler (1890–1974), painter, graphic artist
  • September 8, 1976: Georg Biundo (1892–1988), Protestant theologian, historian, honorary professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz
  • October 24, 1984: Erwin W. Huppert (1909–2001), goldsmith and silversmith, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, awarded in recognition of his services “by making replicas of the most important parts of the imperial regalia […], which help the Stauferburg and the former imperial city of Annweiler to be more attractive. "
  • April 16, 2007: Hans Stöcklein (* 1922), politician ( SPD ), mayor
  • Wilhelm the lion
  • Jakob Schlossstein
  • Georg Staab

sons and daughters of the town

Eugen Jäger
Hans-Ulrich Pfaffmann

To 1900

20th century

  • Otto Seel (1907–1975), classical philologist, professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Rudolf Geiger (1908–1999), literary scholar, writer and fairy tale researcher
  • Erich Gaab (1910–2000), doctor, medical adviser and social judge
  • Hans Blinn (1925–2006), teacher, director of studies at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education, publisher, politician (NSDAP, SPD), member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
  • Hans Heinrich Rupp (1926-2020), lawyer
  • Klaus Wegmann (1932–2011), biochemist, professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • Georg Denzer (* 1942), politician ( CDU ), district administrator of the Main-Tauber district
  • Norbert Schwarz (* 1953), social psychologist, Provost Professor at the University of Southern California
  • Helmut Seebach (* 1954), folklorist, historian, cultural worker, journalist
  • Hans-Ulrich Pfaffmann (* 1956), politician ( SPD ), member of the Bavarian state parliament
  • Horst Christill (* 1959), church musician, composer
  • Theo Schwarzmüller (* 1961), historian, writer
  • Markus Becker (* 1971), pop singer
  • Nicole Fessel (* 1983), cross-country skier
  • Martin Horn (* 1984), politician (independent), Lord Mayor of Freiburg im Breisgau

People who have worked in the city

  • Markward von Annweiler († 1202), Margrave of Ancona and Count of Abruzzo, Imperial Administrator of Sicily, educator of the Hohenstaufen emperor Heinrich VI. and Friedrich II.
  • David Pareus (1548–1622), Reformed theologian; as a refugee in Annweiler
  • August von Voit (1801–1870), architect; Planner of the old town hall
  • Johann Lukas Jäger (1811–1874), conservative Catholic journalist, politician, member of the Bavarian state parliament; General practitioner in Annweiler
  • Gustav Ullrich (1860–1938), entrepreneur, Privy Councilor of Commerce; Founder of MASSWERKE Gustav Ullrich, founder of Annweiler Email- und Metall-Werke, founder of the workers' home
  • Heinrich Ullmann (1872–1953), architect, construction clerk, landscape painter, photographer; District court planner
  • Friedrich Kurtz (1915–1993), soldier in the Wehrmacht, refuser; long-term residence
  • Rudolf Kaffka (1923–1985), theologian, politician ( SPD ); Pastor in Annweiler
  • Rudolf Werner (* 1941), journalist, editor, filmmaker; current residence
  • Alexander Solotzew (* 1957), painter, graphic artist, sculptor, current residence
  • Martin Schmidt (* 1966), journalist, publicist, politician ( AfD ), member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament; current residence
  • Melanie Noll , runner, for the TSV Annweiler active