List of Bad Bergzabern personalities

The list of Bad Bergzabern personalities contains important personalities related to Bad Bergzabern , sorted according to people who were born in the city, were honorary citizens or who worked in Bad Bergzabern. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen of the city

• 1850: Maximilian Freiherr von Maillot de la Treille (1819–1905), Kgl. Bavarian Land Commissioner in Bergzabern
• 1887: Karl Konrad Ludwig Maurer (1819–1909), pastor
• 1903: Friedrich Wilhelm Keßler (1823–1905), Director of the Volksbank
• 1925: Konrad Schlitt (1847–1941), mayor
• 1961: Peter Herzhauser (1884–1976), mayor
• 1979: Werner vom Scheidt (1894–1984), painter and graphic artist

sons and daughters of the town

Friedrich pupil

Karl Culmann

Oskar Bolza

Kurt Beck

Years up to 1800

• Konrad Hubert (1507–1577), theologian and composer
• Tabernaemontanus (actually: Jakob Theodor; 1522–1590), doctor and professor
• Kunemann Flinsbach (1527–1571), reformer
• Johann Wolff (1537–1600), lawyer, diplomat and historian
• Heinrich Fabricius (≈1547–1612), medic, poet and philosopher
• Johann II of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Veldenz the Younger (1584–1635), Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
• Karl Ludwig Adolf Petersen (1746–1827), lawyer and politician
• Philipp Heinrich Gerhard Petersen (1749–1794), physician
• Johann Wilhelm Petersen (1758–1815), librarian
• Friedrich Schüler (1791–1873), lawyer and democratic politician
• Christian Culmann (1795–1837), politician

19th century

• August Ferdinand Culmann (1804–1891), lawyer, entrepreneur and politician
• Daniel Friedrich Ludwig Pistor (1807–1886), lawyer, fraternity member and freedom fighter
• Georg Weber (1808–1888), philologist and historian
• Carl Adolf Gugel (1820–1885), portrait and nude painter
• Karl Culmann (1821–1881), civil engineer, structural engineer
• Philipp Theodor Culmann (1824–1863), theologian and author of Christian ethics
• Konrad Knoll (1829–1899), sculptor
• Eugen Gugel (1832–1905), architect and university professor
• Friedrich Mook (1844–1880), writer, theologian, Egyptologist and explorer
• Ludwig Döderlein (1855–1936), zoologist and university professor
• Oskar Bolza (1857–1942), mathematician
• Karl Héraucourt (1860–1942), Prussian medical officer
• Heinrich Cramer (1866–1927), government director, highest Palatinate forest official
• Alfred Staehler (1867–1938), Government Director of the Government of the Palatinate
• Hermann Geib (1872–1939), lawyer and politician
• Friedrich Schmitthenner (1876–1945), developer in filter technology for food
• Adolf Konrad (1880–1968), politician (BVP)
• Friedrich Lutz (1880–1934), sculptor
• Hans Hoffmann (1893–1952), politician (SPD)
• Jakob Sanwald (1899–1985), mayor and honorary citizen of Pfaffenhofen

20th century

• Friedrich Mayer (1913–1944), wood sculptor
• Rudolf Knoll (1926–2007), opera singer
• Helmut Junker (* 1934), psychoanalyst and author
• Hans Esselborn (* 1941), Germanist
• Ulrich Battis (* 1944), legal scholar
• Axel Herzog (1944-2010), author
• Heinz Schott (* 1946), medical historian
• Karsten Ruppert (* 1946), historian
• Dieter Villinger (* 1947), painter
• Kurt Beck (* 1949), politician (SPD), 1994–2013 Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Hans Christoph Boppel (* 1951), politician (GREEN)
• Peter Schreiner (* 1955), Protestant theologian
• Jens Wollenschläger (* 1976), organist, Protestant church musician and university professor
• Thorsten Raquet (* 1978), basketball player
• Rouven Roessler (* 1980), basketball player
• Mario Brandenburg (* 1983), politician (FDP)
• Friederike Becht (* 1986), actress
• Oliver Stang (* 1988), soccer player

People who worked in Bad Bergzabern

Miles Coverdale

Jonas Erikson Sundahl

Monument to Edith Stein on Ludwigsplatz

• Beatrix von Berg (1360–1395), Electress of the Palatinate
• Amalie von Brandenburg (1461–1481), Countess Palatine and Duchess of Zweibrücken and Veldenz
• Miles Coverdale (1488–1569), pastor and English Bible translator
• Christian Kolkwitz (* before 1539 – after 1585), pastor and superintendent in the city from 1566 to 1577
• Jakob Ludwig Beuther (1573–1625), land clerk and son of Michael Beuther
• Jonas Erikson Sundahl (1678–1762), Swedish builder and architect of the Bergzabern mountain church
• Johann Carl Bonnet (1737–1786), poet and pastor
• Franz Seraph von Orsini-Rosenberg (1761–1832), second imperial prince of Rosenberg
• Friedrich Heinrich von Dungern (1765-1858), politician, came from there
• Johann Georg Beutner (1788–1859), physician, canton doctor
• Bernhard Würschmitt (1788–1853), priest and sculptor
• Heinrich Carl Welsch (1808–1882), spa doctor
• Philipp Umbscheiden (1816–1870), represented the constituency in the National Assembly 1848/49
• Ludwig Ritterspacher (1883–1964), lawyer and politician (CDU)
• Jakob Sprenger (1884–1945), politician (NSDAP)
• Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888–1966), philosopher, Bergzaberner Kreis
• Edith Stein (1891–1942), Catholic nun of Jewish origin who was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1942 and canonized in 1998
• Ernst Ludwig Leyser (1896–1973), politician (NSDAP)
• Otto Stabel (1898–1970), acting lord mayor and city treasurer of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
• Martha Saalfeld (1898–1976), poet and novelist
• Rolf Müller-Landau (1903–1956), painter
• Paul Nagel (1925–2016), sculptor, painter and blacksmith
• Wilhelm Wallmann (* 1941), politician (CDU), mayor of Bad Bergzabern from 1974 to 1980
• Dieter Hager (1947–2009), doctor, biochemist and physicist, founded the BioMed specialist clinic on site in 1989
• Rainer Wagner (* 1951), Evangelical and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
• Rolf Übel (* 1956), historian
• Jürgen Tomicek (* 1957), cartoonist
• Peter Schappert (* 1962), former vicar general of the Speyer diocese
• Matthias Reinschmidt (* 1964), biologist and animal physiologist
• Volker Wissing (* 1970), German politician (FDP) and member of the Bundestag
• Martin Blankemeyer (* 1971), film director and film producer
• Alexander Schweitzer (* 1973), politician (SPD)
• Simon Schmitz (* 1990), basketball player
• Hans-Erich Klein , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Stephan Werling , achieved seventh place for TV Bad Bergzabern in 1987 at the German Athletics Championships as part of the team classification of the cross-country middle distance and in 1988 third place
• Markus Schwamm , achieved seventh place in 1988 for the TV Bad Bergzabern at the German Athletics Championships as part of the team classification of the cross-country middle distance
• Thomas Schwamm , achieved seventh place for the TV Bad Bergzabern in 1987 at the German Athletics Championships as part of the team classification of the cross-country middle distance
• Michael Spindler took third place in the 1988 German Athletics Championships as part of the team classification of the cross-country middle distance
• Stefan Langhans , athlete

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Falk in: Bad Bergzabern - 700 years of the city . Bergzabern 1986, p. 49