List of Bad Dürkheim personalities
The list of Bad Dürkheim personalities contains important personalities who were born in the city or who worked in Bad Dürkheim . The list does not claim to be complete. Other people are listed in the list of Abbots of the Limburg Monastery .
Honorary citizen
- Otto Dill (1884–1957), painter
- Friedrich Dahlem (1886–1970), Mayor of Bad Dürkheim.
sons and daughters of the town
Years up to 1800
- Nikolaus Basellius (≈1470 – ≈1532), Benedictine , humanist and chronicler in Hirsau Monastery
- Johann Friedrich (1661–1722), Count of Leiningen
- Carl von Ahlefeldt (1670–1722), statesman and lord of the lordships of Rixingen and Mörsberg and liege count of Langeland at Tranekær Castle and district administrator on Langeland
- Karl Ludwig von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Emichsburg (1704–1747), ruling count and general of the Electorate of the Palatinate
- Johann Michael Hartung (1708–1763), master organ builder
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (Leiningen) (1724–1807), first prince of Leiningen
- Johann Goswin Widder (1734-1800) was a Palatinate-Bavarian civil servant, historian and author.
- Georg Friedrich Dentzel (1755–1828), pastor and general under Napoleon
- Georg Christian Heinrich Rosentritt (1759–1846), saline inspector
- Emich Carl zu Leiningen (1763–1814), second prince of Leiningen
- Ludwig Wild (1780–1828), politician and civil servant
- Johannes Fitz (1796–1868), businessman, winery owner and Dürkheim city councilor
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (1797–1854), botanist
- Johann Georg Lehmann (1797–1876), historian
19th century
1801 to 1850
- Karl König (1804–1888), pastor and botanist
- Georg Friedrich Koch (1808–1874), botanist, physician and natural scientist
- Adolf Krätzer (1812–1881), lawyer and politician
- Rudolph Eduard Christmann (1814–1867), politician
- Jan-Daniel Georgens (1823–1886), educator and doctor
- Friedrich Eppelsheim (1834–1899), lawyer and butterfly researcher
- Eduard Eppelsheim (1837–1896), doctor and entomologist
- Johann Heinrich Bonawitz (1839–1917), composer
- Albert Fitz (1842-1885), biologist
- Karl Koester (1843–1904), pathologist and university professor
1851 to 1900
- Philipp Otto Mayer (1855 - after 1908), military lawyer
- August Exter (1858–1933), architect
- Anna Croissant-Rust (1860–1943), writer
- Friedrich Bühler (1863–1944), politician (DDP)
- Philipp Avril (1866 - after 1915), architect
- Philipp Fauth (1867–1941), elementary school teacher and astronomer
- Wilhelm von Wolf (1869–1943), lawyer in the Bavarian financial administration
- Elise Dosenheimer (1868–1959), Germanist, publicist and women's rights activist
- Emil Dosenheimer (1870–1936), lawyer and activist
- Theodor Frank (1871–1953), banker and bank manager
- Daniel Hauer (1879 – after 1945), politician (NSDAP)
- Hermann Wolfgang Zahn (1879–1965), neurologist and writer
- Karl Strauss (1883–1942), teacher, politician and victim of National Socialism
- Eduard Hilgard (1884–1982), insurance manager
- Konrad Linder (1884–1963), teacher and schoolboy
- Heinrich Erfle (1884–1923), optician
- Carl Croneiß (1891–1973), military and politician (NSDAP)
- Ludwig König (1891–1974), ceramist and industrial designer
- Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld (1892–1979), Romance studies, literary scholar and linguist
- Georg Otto Angerer (1893–1951), politician (NSDAP)
20th century
1901 to 1970
- Helmut Metzger (1917–1995), author and Palatinate dialect poet
- Kurt Dehn (1920–2000), Palatinate dialect poet, composer and singer
- Fritz Dahlem (1921–2013), politician (FDP)
- Otto Gödel (1922–2002), farmer and historian
- Karl Grauer (1924–1982), politician (CDU, Bad Dürkheim voter group)
- Wolfgang Wittkowsky (1933–2013), politician (CDU)
- Karl Heinz Rahn (* 1937), doctor
- Fritz Schumann (* 1939), oenologist
- Georg Kalbfuß (* 1940), politician (SPD)
- Werner Adler (* 1946), football player
- Hans-Jürgen Wünschel (* 1947), historian
- Hans Georg Löffler (* 1953), politician (CDU)
- Heiner Dopp (* 1956), national field hockey player
- Helmut Seitz (1956–2009), finance scientist
- Thomas Gunst (* 1959), field hockey player
- Hans Reiner Schultz (* 1959), crop scientist
- Ralf Stegner (* 1959), politician (SPD)
- Martin Darting (* 1961), winemaker, wine and sensory expert, synaesthetist, author and sommelier instructor
- Eckes Malz (* 1962), composer
- Andreas Keith-Volkmer (* 1967), politician (AfD)
- Ralph Bollmann (* 1969), journalist and publicist
- Steffen Herzberger (* 1969), soccer player
1971 to 2000
- Jens Ritter (* 1972), guitar maker
- Torsten Lieberknecht (* 1973), soccer player
- Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (* 1973), work sociologist, professor at the University of Göttingen and director of the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI)
- Simone Wendel (* 1974), documentary filmmaker, director, film producer and art director
- Franziska Emmerling (* 1975), chemist
- Heiko Vogel (* 1975), soccer coach
- Felicitas Kleiner (* 1976), journalist, film critic and author
- Thorsten Böckler (* 1977), field hockey player
- Marco Laping (* 1978), soccer player
- Josef P. Werner (* 1979), artist
- Steffen Bohl (* 1983), soccer player
- Julia Ertmer (* 1983), triathlete
- Christina Geiger (* 1983), soccer player
- Ludwig Hornung (* 1986), jazz musician (piano, Fender Rhodes, composition)
- Johannes Steiniger (* 1987), politician (CDU)
- Christian Henel (* 1988), soccer player
- Tobias Sippel (* 1988), soccer player
- Janina Huhn (* 1989), German Wine Queen 2014/15
- Julia Schmidt (* 1993) politician (GREEN)
- Jean Zimmer (* 1993), football player
- Luise Heim (* 1996), badminton player
People who worked on site
- Viktor Brack (1904–1948) attended secondary school in Bad Dürkheim.
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899) discovered the elements rubidium and cesium while examining the brine springs of Bad Dürkheim, including the Maxquelle .
- Wilhelm Dautermann , longtime jury member of the Palatinate dialect poet contest
- Paul Camille von Denis (1796–1872) died in Bad Dürkheim.
- Anton Eberhard (1892–1967) worked as an independent tax and economic advisor in Bad Dürkheim from 1922 and was mayor.
- Max Fischer , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Fritz Herrfurth , architect, lived on site
- Rudolf E. Kaiser (* 1930) heads the Institute for Chromatography (IfC) in Bad Dürkheim.
- Mina Karcher (1846–1925), benefactress, came from the city
- Josef Kastert (1910–1993), senior medical director at the Sonnenwende sanatorium from 1954 to 1972 .
- Fritz Keller , winery owner and master cooper, builder of the Dürkheim giant barrel
- Edmund König (1858–1939) was a teacher and co-director at the secondary and commercial school between 1888 and 1894
- Helmut Leckron , recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Waltraud Meißner (* 1940), Palatinate dialect poet, lives in Bad Dürkheim.
- Margaretha von Neipperg († after 1589), Benedictine, 1563–1589 last abbess of Seebach Monastery
- Valentin Ostertag (approx. 1450–1507), founder of the oldest social foundation in Germany, worked temporarily in Bad Dürkheim.
- Fritz Schumann , recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Christian Solms , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
- Ludwig Spuhler , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Karl Stabenow , holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), a doctor, visited the Dürkheim brine bath for a grape cure.
- Roland Vogt (1941–2018), politician (GRÜNE) and pacifist, lived and died on site
- Franz Piwinger , Dipl.-Ing., Specialist book author, managing director of several companies for automation in Bad Dürkheim, including Intrometic, innovation prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate (1990)