List of Berchtesgaden personalities

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The people listed below were not born in Berchtesgaden , but are connected to Berchtesgaden through their work. Some of them also lived in the town for a while and / or were buried in one of the two Berchtesgaden cemeteries.

Creative / cultural workers

Architects

  • Ludwig Lange (1808–1868), antiquarian , architect and painter planned and was responsible (1850–1853) for the construction of the Royal Villa (summer residence) for Maximilian II Joseph .
  • Paul László (1900–1993), is considered a great figure among furniture designers, interior designers and architects of the 20th century, and worked in Berchtesgaden without demonstrably ever having been there. Due to his Jewish descent, he was forced to emigrate to the USA in 1936 , but ironically, parts of László's work went, without his knowledge, into the construction of Hitler's Kehlsteinhaus (the so-called "eagle's nest") near Berchtesgaden, what the anger of Albert Speer excited.
  • Georg Metzendorf (1874–1934), architect, planned and was responsible for the construction of the Metzendorf house (1920).
  • August Thiersch (1843–1917), architect and university professor , planned and was responsible for the construction of the Protestant church in Berchtesgaden in 1892.
  • Andor Weininger (1899–1986), artist , designer and architect, worked as a painter and interior designer for the father of his friend Josef (Sepp) Maltan in Schönau and Berchtesgaden in 1925, after the Bauhaus in Weimar was dissolved .

Authors

  • Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923) publicist , formerly a supporter of National Socialism and who gave ideas to Adolf Hitler , had to hide in the front fire in Berchtesgaden because of leaflets against Reich President Friedrich Ebert , but was later captured in Munich. Released after a short imprisonment, he died a few days later in the Sonnblickhäusl opposite the Hilgerkapelle on Locksteinstrasse and was buried on December 30, 1923 in the "old" cemetery.
  • Manfred Feulner (1922–2011), former director of studies D., author of numerous historical and local history books and archivist from Berchtesgaden.
  • Ludwig Ganghofer (1855–1920), writer , honorary citizen of Berchtesgaden, many of his works take up events from the history of Berchtesgaden, where he stayed regularly and finally dedicated a well-known motto to the place in the Martinsklause
  • Jonas Lie (1833–1908), Norwegian writer and playwright , spent summertime in Berchtesgaden from the late 1870s to the early 1880s
  • Anton Schnack (1892–1973), writer, lived with his wife in Berchtesgaden from 1933 to 1937.
  • Eva Rechlin (1928–2011), writer, lived in Berchtesgaden for several decades.
  • Hellmut Schöner (1918–2003), son of Anton Schöner (1866–1930), journalist and translator, a. a. Editor of Das Berchtesgadener Land through the ages. Part: Erg.-Bd. 1. , lived in Berchtesgaden for several decades until his death.
  • Theodor Storm (1817–1888), writer, was probably inspired to make Pole Poppenspäler during his visit to Berchtesgaden in 1872 .
  • Richard Voss (1851–1918), writer, his grave is in the "old" Berchtesgaden cemetery
  • Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (1818–1893), lexicographer , bibliographer and writer, lived in Berchtesgaden from 1874 until his death in 1893, where he completed his 60-volume Biographical Lexicon

Visual artist

Photo, television and film media

Small artist

  • Gabriel Gailler (1838–1917), Bavarian ventriloquist and marionette player , gave up traveling in 1906 and lived in Berchtesgaden until his death in 1917. He had sold his puppet theater to Ludwig Walch, who together with his son "Quickei" let it be used in Berchtesgaden until 1936.
  • Rudy Horn (1933–2018), juggler , has lived in Berchtesgaden since 1961

Cooks

Musician

  • Heinz Werner Zimmermann (* 1930), composer , composed O sing unto the Lord , a motet for 4-part mixed choir and double bass, in 1961 and premiered it in Berchtesgaden in 1962.

Scientists, researchers, inventors, engineers

Personalities of National Socialism

Relatives of Adolf Hitler

  • Eva Braun (1912–1945), lover, wife (for one day), lived on Obersalzberg for many years
  • Angela Raubal (1883–1949), half-sister , until 1936 Adolf Hitler ran the household in the Wachenfeld house (later the Berghof) on the Obersalzberg
  • Paula Hitler (1896–1960), sister, lived in Berchtesgaden from December 1, 1952 until her death in 1960
  • Angela "Geli" Raubal (1908–1931), niece, lived from 1923 to 1927 on the Obersalzberg in Hitler's house
  • Maria Reiter (1909–1992), temporarily engaged, lived in Berchtesgaden and may have been born there

service provider

  • Alois Degano (1887–1960), architect, planned and was responsible for the construction of Adolf Hitler's Berghof on Obersalzberg
  • Herbert Döhring (1913–2001), SS member, Hitler's property manager at the Berghof
  • Roderich Fick (1886–1955), one of Hitler's favorite architects, planned and was responsible for the buildings of the restaurant "Der Platterhof" (1933–35), the "Villa Bormann" (1935), the tea house on Mooslahnerkopf (1935–36) on Obersalzberg and the settlement "Klaushöhe" (1941)
  • Ludwig Hohlwein (1874–1949), an important poster artist , graphic artist , architect and painter, resumed his work as a commercial artist in a small studio in Berchtesgaden after being banned from working until February 1946 until his death
  • Traudl Junge (1920–2002), Adolf Hitler's secretary , who was always available to him on Obersalzberg
  • Leonhard Moll (1870–1945), founder of a traditional German group based in Munich, who u. a. received the construction contract for the road to Hitler's "Berghof" on Obersalzberg and had it carried out
  • Josef Wiedemann (1910–2001), architect, responsible for several building projects on Obersalzberg, including the "Hotel Platterhof"

Critical contemporary witnesses (after 1945)

  • Felix Hartlaub (1913–1945), writer, had access to the outer restricted area in the Führer headquarters from May 1942 to March 1945 , a. a. also in Berchtesgaden, and gained knowledge of the secret internals of warfare
  • Traudl Junge (1920–2002), Adolf Hitler's secretary , who was always available to him on Obersalzberg
  • Günter Peis (1927–2012), journalist and historian , in 1959 his series I was Hitler's Secret Lover went around the world. Through Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who lived in Berchtesgaden under the name Paula Wolf, Peis had found the trace of Hitler's secret lover Maria Reiter .

Wehrmacht

Politician

Regents

→ List of prince provosts of Berchtesgaden

Sportsmen and women

Theologians

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982. s. P. 397
  2. ↑ a b Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982. s. P. 165
  3. ↑ DNB 830592997
  4. ↑ DNB 106410083X Schöner, Hellmut
  5. ↑ Dieter Meister: Travel educates, but to Huus is best - reference to Theodor Storm's visit to Berchtesgaden; Berchtesgadener Anzeiger from 3./4. March 2001
  6. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden through the ages . Supplementary Volume I, 1982. s. P. 167
  7. ↑ Hellmut Schöner: Berchtesgaden in the course of time , 1973. s. P. 202 above