List of personalities of the city of Darmstadt

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Darmstadt coat of arms

Mayor and Lord Mayor

Mayor and Lord Mayor of Darmstadt since 1822
1822-1833 Johann Michael Hofmann 1933 Robert Barth , NSDAP
1833-1835 Karl Christian Lauteschläger 1933 Heinrich Müller , NSDAP
1835 Ernst Emil Hoffmann 1934-1945 Otto Chr. Wamboldt , NSDAP
1836-1848 Georg Friedrich Breast 1945-1950 Ludwig Metzger , SPD
1848-1862 Justus Georg Kahlert 1 1951-1971 Ludwig Engel , SPD
1863-1874 Johann Adam Fuchs 1971-1981 Heinz Winfried Sabais , SPD
1874-1891 Albrecht Ohly 2 1981-1993 Günther Metzger , SPD
1892-1909 Adolf Morneweg 3 1993-2005 Peter Benz , SPD
1909-1929 Wilhelm Glässing 2005-2011 Walter Hoffmann , SPD
1929-1933 Rudolf Mueller since 2011 Jochen Partsch , Greens
1 Mayor from 1858
2 Mayor from 1879
3 Mayor from 1894

Mayor and representative of the Lord Mayor

Mayor and representative of the Lord Mayor since 1926
1926-1933 Heinrich Delp , SPD
1945-1948 Julius Reiber , SPD
1948-1961 Ernst Schroeder , FDP
1962-1967 Ernst Holtzmann , CDU
1967-1970 Joachim Borsdorff , SPD
1970-1983 Horst Seffrin , SPD
1983-1993 Peter Benz , SPD
1993-1996 Michael Siebert , Greens
1996-1997 Wolfgang Gehrke , CDU
1997-2003 Horst Knechtel , SPD
2003-2011 Wolfgang Glenz , SPD
since 2011 Rafael Reisser , CDU

Honorary citizen

Ludwig Hoffmann, master builder

The city of Darmstadt has granted the following people honorary citizenship (list in chronological order after award):

  • 1848: Edmund Külp (1801–1862), director of the Higher Trade School, from which the Technical University (now the Technical University) emerged
  • 1850: Philipp Keil (1790–1874), major and commander in chief of the Darmstadt militia
  • 1881: James Hobrecht (1825–1902), secret building officer and builder of the waterworks
  • 1890: Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prince and Imperial Chancellor
  • 1924: Maximilian von Heyl (1844–1925), lieutenant general, art collector and promoter of modern artists
  • 1930: Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933), church music director and music teacher, winner of the Georg Büchner Prize 1923
  • 1932: Ludwig Hoffmann (1852–1932), secret building supervisor and master builder (including imperial court building in Leipzig, Märkisches Museum Berlin)
  • 1939: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), Reich Chancellor - honorary citizenship was revoked on June 26, 1946 by the first freely elected city council.
  • 1949: Rudolf Mueller (1869–1954), retired Lord Mayor D.
  • 1955: Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1960: Kasimir Edschmid (1890–1966), writer
  • 1964: Christian Stock (1884–1967), Prime Minister of the State of Hesse
  • 1971: Ludwig Engel (1906–1975), retired Lord Mayor D.
  • 1976: Ludwig Metzger (1902–1993), German politician ( SPD ), Member of the Bundestag , Member of the Bundestag ( Hessen ), retired Lord Mayor D., Minister for Education in Hesse

sons and daughters of the town

The following overview contains people born in Darmstadt listed chronologically according to the year of birth. Whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Darmstadt is irrelevant. Many of them moved away from Darmstadt after their birth or later and became known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Until 1800

Emanuel Merck , pharmacist
  • 1634, January 7th, Sophie Eleonore von Hessen-Darmstadt , † October 7th 1663 in Bingenheim, Landgravine of Hessen-Homburg
  • 1640, September 15, Weipart Ludwig von Fabrice , † October 29, 1724 in Celle, diplomat and statesman
  • 1652, April 28, Magdalena Sibylla of Hessen-Darmstadt , † August 11, 1712 in Kirchheim unter Teck, Duchess of Württemberg, wife of Duke Wilhelm Ludwig of Württemberg
  • 1658, October 19, Philipp Casimir Schlosser , † July 1, 1712 in Marburg, Protestant theologian and university professor
  • 1663, September 7, Ludwig Heinrich Schlosser , † August 8, 1723 in Frankfurt am Main, Protestant clergyman, teacher and song poet
  • 1673, February 19, Johann Philipp Burggrav , † March 1746 in Frankfurt am Main, doctor.
  • 1684, December 22, Johann Jacob Dillen (Dillenius), † April 2, 1747 in Oxford, botanist
  • 1700, September 1, Johann Philipp Burggrave , † June 5, 1775 in Frankfurt am Main, doctor
  • 1713, August 26, Joachim Ludwig von Schwartzenau , † December 16, 1787 in Regensburg, Hessian and Prussian diplomat and minister
  • 1717, March 18, Friedrich Jacob Boßler , † April 7, 1793 in Darmstadt, weapons manufacturer and court wind gun maker for Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • 1732, July 27, Johann Georg Bechtold , † October 15, 1805 in Giessen, philosopher, literary scholar, rhetorician and Protestant theologian
  • 1734, Philipp Ernst Wegmann , † July 26, 1778, organ builder
  • 1736, February 16, Helfrich Peter Sturz , † November 12, 1779 in Bremen, writer of the Enlightenment
  • 1741, April 11, Johann Heinrich Merck , † June 27, 1791 in Darmstadt, writer and publicist
  • 1744, July 22, Heinrich Philipp Boßler , September 8, 1812 in Gohlis, music publisher and impresario
  • 1753, March 31, Johann Martin von Abele , † September 3, 1805 in Ulm, lawyer
  • 1760, September 26th, Johann Andreas Zöppritz , † April 28th 1826 in Darmstadt, manufacturer and member of the state parliament
  • 1761, November 19, Carl Heinrich Merck , † January 31, 1799 in St. Petersburg, medic and participant in an expedition through Eastern Siberia and Alaska
  • 1772, January 3, Philipp Hax , † June 29, 1831 in Darmstadt, Löwenwirt in Darmstadt and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1777, December 26, Ludwig II. , † June 16, 1848 in Seeheim, Grand Duke of Hesse 1830–48
  • 1783, Ernst Ludwig Rube , † May 11, 1870 in Darmstadt, Hessian pharmacist and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1784, February 27, Ludwig von Lichtenberg , † July 29, 1845 in Mainz, President of the Rhineland Hesse government
  • 1785, January 17, Ernst Emil Hoffmann , † May 22, 1847 in Darmstadt, entrepreneur and politician
  • 1788, Carl Christian Lauteschläger , † 1835 in Darmstadt, local politician and mayor
  • 1789, August 31, Wilhelm Hoffmann , † July 29, 1863 in Darmstadt, officer and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1790, March 7, Georg Friedrich Brust , † May 20, 1854 in Darmstadt, local politician, mayor, building contractor and master craftsman
  • 1792, August 11, Georg Lerch , † March 20, 1857 in Darmstadt, architect and politician
  • 1793, December 10, Andreas von Hesse , † March 21, 1868 in Darmstadt, President of the Court of Appeal and Member of Parliament
  • 1794, September 15, Emanuel Merck , † February 14, 1855 in Darmstadt, pharmacist and founder of the Merck company
  • 1795, Johann Adam Fuchs , † 1883, local politician and mayor
  • 1796, June 16, Christian Zöppritz , † June 15, 1879 in Cannstatt, manufacturer and member of the state parliament
  • 1797, March 13, Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz , † January 9, 1860 in Zurich, radical-democratic publicist and member of the Paulskirche
  • 1797, April 9 in the Bessunger Forsthaus, Carl Justus Heyer , † August 24, 1856 in Gießen, forest scientist
  • 1797, May 10, Ernst Sartorius , † June 1, 1859 in Königsberg, Protestant theologian and general superintendent
  • 1798, June 13, Johann Christian Felix Bähr , † November 29, 1872 in Heidelberg, classical philologist
  • 1800, February 24, Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer , † December 1, 1860 in Frankfurt am Main, architect and writer

1801 to 1850

Justus von Liebig , chemist
  • 1801, May 29, Johann Franz Brentano , † April 27, 1841 in Frankfurt am Main, portrait painter
  • 1801, November 4, Jacob Ludwig Theodor Reh , † March 31, 1868 in Darmstadt, politician
  • 1802, March 27, August Strecker , † September 9, 1865 in Darmstadt, Hessian judge and president of the state parliament
  • 1802, November 13, Christoph Hoffmann , † June 1, 1859 in Darmstadt, District Administrator in the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1802, December 22, Wilhelm Reuling , † April 29, 1877, composer and conductor
  • 1803, May 7th, August Lucas , † September 28th, 1863 in Darmstadt, graphic artist and landscape painter of the Romantic period
  • 1803, May 12, Justus Freiherr von Liebig , † April 18, 1873 in Munich, chemist
  • 1804, November, Georg Wilhelm August Sell , † March 25, 1848 in Darmstadt, legal scholar
  • 1805, May 20, Georg Gottfried Gervinus , † March 18, 1871 in Heidelberg, historian and politician
  • 1806, June 9, Ludwig III. , † June 13, 1877 in Seeheim, Grand Duke of Hesse 1848–77
  • 1807, March 27, Georg Breidert , † August 11, 1876 in Darmstadt, Hessian civil servant, judge and conservative politician
  • 1807, September 7, Louise Dittmar , † July 11, 1884 in Bessungen, radical women's rights activist and critic of religion
  • 1808, April 26, August Müller , † November 26, 1867 in Darmstadt, double bass player
  • 1809, April 23, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig of Hesse , † March 20, 1877 in Darmstadt, Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt and brother of the regent Ludwig III. (Hessen-Darmstadt)
  • 1809, September 8, Johann Jakob Mendel , † December 22, 1881 in Bern, musician, organist, composer
  • 1810, May 13, Christian Boßler , † December 29, 1877 in Darmstadt, classical philologist
  • 1810, July 20, Karl Sell , † July 23, 1879 in Bonn, legal scholar
  • 1812, April 26, Karl Adam Zöppritz , † October 5, 1900 in Mergelstetten, manufacturer and member of the state parliament
  • 1813, October 8, Carl Amand Mangold , † August 4, 1889 in Oberstdorf, conductor and composer
  • 1815, January 7, Otto Hofmann , † January 25, 1883 in Darmstadt, lawyer and politician, member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1815, January 13, Ernst Elias Niebergall , † April 19, 1843 in Darmstadt, writer
  • 1815, March 15, Philipp Diehl , † April 12, 1887 in Darmstadt, bookseller and politician, member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1815, June 24, Georg Karl Neuner , † August 29, 1882 in Kiel, lawyer
  • 1818, July 25, Robert Franz Freiherr von Lehmann , † August 28, 1878 in Darmstadt, Hessian chief forester and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1819, January 30, Heinrich Stüber , † September 3, 1887 in Heppenheim, lawyer and politician
  • 1819, November 4, Carl Johann Hoffmann , † May 27, 1874 in Darmstadt, lawyer, member of the state and Reichstag
  • 1820, January 29, Rudolf Hofmann , † October 28, 1882 in Darmstadt, genre, portrait and history painter
  • 1820, July 5, Wilhelm Ritter von Hamm , † November 8, 1880 in Vienna, agricultural scientist, entrepreneur and politician
  • 1821, January 27, August Becker , † December 19, 1887 in Düsseldorf, landscape painter
  • 1821, June 12, Luise Büchner , † November 28, 1877 in Darmstadt, writer
  • 1822, November 1, Arnold von Biegeleben , † December 3, 1892 in Darmstadt, Hessian diplomat and politician and former member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1823, January 19, Paul Weber , † October 12, 1916 in Munich, painter of naturalism
  • 1823, November 19, Gustav Schleicher , † January 10, 1879 in Washington, DC, USA, German-American engineer, entrepreneur, lawyer and politician
  • 1824, March 19, Heinrich Ferdinand Hofmann , † June 23, 1911 in Dresden, painter and illustrator
  • 1824, March 29, Ludwig Büchner , † May 1, 1899 in Darmstadt, doctor and writer
  • 1824, May 30, Gustav Simon , † August 21, 1876 in Heidelberg, surgeon and author of medical books
  • 1825, January 19, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Bopp , † November 12, 1849 in Rastatt, chemist, revolutionary
  • 1825, December 19, Julius Rinck Freiherr von Starck , † September 16, 1910 in Darmstadt, politician, President of the Hessian Ministry as a whole
  • 1826, May 9, Georg Ludwig , † May 3, 1910 in Heppenheim, psychiatrist
  • 1826, December 23, Ludwig Hallwachs , † January 9, 1903 in Darmstadt, judge, politician
  • 1826, December 25th, Johann Heinrich Keller , † November 27th 1890 in Darmstadt, businessman and politician and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • 1827, April 26, Ernst Hoffmann , † December 15, 1877 in Basel, anatomist
  • 1829, September 7, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz , † July 13, 1896 in Bonn, chemist
  • 1830, January 6, Alfred Hegar , † August 5, 1914 on his estate near Freiburg im Breisgau, doctor and gynecologist
  • 1832, Philip Deidesheimer , † July 21, 1916 in San Francisco, mining engineer and inventor
  • 1832, March 17, Friedrich Meyer , † June 5, 1891 in Neuendettelsau, pastor and rector of the Neuendettelsau Diakonissenanstalt
  • 1834, June 4, Jacob Volhard , † January 14, 1910 in Halle (Saale), chemist, biographer, founder of the Giessen Wingolf
  • 1834, September 30, Carl Schorlemmer , † June 27, 1892 in Manchester, chemist
  • 1835, March 11, Heinrich Bopp , † August 7, 1876 in Darmstadt, banker
  • 1836, April 1, Gustav Krug von Nidda , † January 29, 1918 in Darmstadt, administrative lawyer and ministerial official, Grand Ducal Hessian State Councilor
  • 1837, March 2, Karl Raupp , † June 14, 1918 in Munich, painter
  • 1837, September 12 in the district of Bessungen, Ludwig IV. , † March 13, 1892 in Darmstadt, Grand Duke of Hesse 1877–92
  • 1838, September 8, Carl Weyprecht , † March 29, 1881 in Michelstadt, geophysicist, Arctic explorer and naval officer
  • 1839, October 26, Wilhelm Haas , † February 8, 1913 in Darmstadt, politician and social reformer
  • 1840, February 25, Heinrich Deuchert , † May 6, 1923 in Allmannshausen / Starnberger See, painter
  • 1840, February 28, Sir William Schlich , † September 28, 1925 in Oxford, forest scientist in Oxford
  • 1841, November 2, Erwin Löw von und zu Steinfurth , † October 17, 1914 in Darmstadt, Hessian chamberlain, district administrator and member of the German Reichstag
  • 1842, March 26, Louise Jaide , † January 2, 1814 in Darmstadt, chamber singer
  • 1842, September 20, Alexander von Brill , † June 18, 1935 in Tübingen, mathematician
  • 1843, August 31, Georg von Hertling , † January 4, 1919 in Ruhpolding / Upper Bavaria, Chancellor of the German Reich (1917-18)
  • 1844, March 28, Jean Keller , † November 22, 1921 in Augsburg, architect
  • 1846, February 27, Simon Bamberger , † October 6, 1926 in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), entrepreneur, politician and governor of Utah 1917–21
  • 1846, October 25, Friedrich von Scholl , † October 2, 1928 Prussian Colonel General
  • 1849, November 4, Justus Gaule , † June 25, 1939 in Zurich, physiologist and university professor
  • 1850, January 27, Ludwig Konrad Albert Koch , † May 18, 1938 in Heidelberg, botanist and university professor

1851 to 1900

Alice von Hessen-Darmstadt , when Alexandra Fjodorovna was the last Tsarina of Russia
  • 1851, December 4, Balthasar Cramer , † October 23, 1923 in Darmstadt, politician, member of the Reichstag
  • 1852, March 10, Richard Anschütz , † January 8, 1937 in Darmstadt, chemist
  • 1852, April 22, Auguste Staudinger , † November 16, 1944 in Darmstadt, German women's rights activist
  • 1852, July 30, Ludwig Hoffmann , † November 11, 1932 in Berlin, architect and city planner in Berlin
  • 1853, January 26, Anna von Krane , † January 3, 1937 in Düsseldorf, writer
  • 1853, July 22, Alfred Messel , † March 24, 1909 in Berlin, architect
  • 1853, December 13, Heinrich Kleyer , † May 9, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, engineer and manufacturer, founder of the Adlerwerke in Frankfurt
  • 1854, August 7, Hermione von Preuschen , † December 12, 1918 in Berlin-Lichtenrade, painter and poet
  • 1855, October 8th Georg Best , † November 29th 1946 in Hirschhorn am Neckar, lawyer and politician (DNVP, VRP), member of the Reichstag.
  • 1855, December 9, Otto von Brentano di Tremezzo , † July 22, 1927 in Darmstadt, German politician (German Center Party)
  • 1857, December 24, August Schleiermacher , † January 30, 1953 in Tübingen, physicist and university professor
  • 1856, July 1, Karl Hoffacker , † May 26, 1919 in Karlsruhe, architect, sculptor and technical school teacher
  • 1858, August 18, Carl Heim , † November 27, 1924 in Jugenheim an der Bergstrasse, electrical engineer and university professor, rector of the Technical University of Hanover
  • 1858, November 27, Fritz Brehm , † January 25, 1920 in Reichenhall, singer, actor, dramaturge and theater director
  • 1859, April 13, Fritz Freund , † October 19, 1936 in Miesbach (Upper Bavaria), painter
  • 1859, July 9, Wilhelm Hallwachs , † June 20, 1922 in Dresden, physicist ( Hallwax effect )
  • 1859, October 22, Karl Muck , † March 4, 1940 in Stuttgart, conductor
  • 1859, December 12, Heinz Heim , † July 12, 1895 in Darmstadt, genre painter and draftsman
  • 1859, December 16, Friedrich Dingeldey , † September 24, 1939 in Darmstadt, mathematician
  • 1860, October 20, Adele Krèn , † March 22, 1882 in Meran, singer and actress
  • 1861, August 17, Ludwig von Hofmann , † August 23, 1945 in Dresden, painter and graphic artist
  • 1862, June 8, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Büchner , † 11/12. September 1944 in Darmstadt, Hessian industrialist ( Carl Schenck AG ) and politician (DDP); Member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic
  • 1863, April 4, Victor von Lepel , † May 19, 1918 in Molodetschno, Prussian major general
  • 1863, April 6, Heinrich von Hofmann , † July 17, 1921 in Bad Nauheim, lieutenant general and free corps leader
  • 1863, May 14, Eric John Eagles Swayne , † September 9, 1929, British general and colonial governor
  • 1864, June 5, Eduard Kreuter , † September 15, 1929 in Wiesbaden, Prussian major general and holder of the Pour-le-Mérite order
  • 1865, July 17, Bernhard Dernburg , † October 14, 1937 in Berlin, Vice Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (1919)
  • 1866, November 6, Karl Glässing , † January 22, 1852 in Wiesbaden, politician, member of the Prussian mansion, Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden
  • 1867, August 8, Eduard Göbel , † December 10, 1945 in Goddelau, theater actor and opera singer (tenor) as well as singing teacher
  • 1868, March 3, Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz , † October 7, 1934 in Hamburg, German officer and explorer in Cameroon
  • 1868, November 25, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig , † October 9, 1937 in Wolfsgarten Castle near Langen (Hesse), from 1892 to 1918 Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine
  • 1869, September 17, Karl Wolfskehl , † June 30, 1948 in Auckland (New Zealand), poet
  • 1871, February 17, Ludwig Hauß , † January 2, 1941 in Darmstadt, officer; Bearer of the Pour-le-Mérite Order
  • 1871, February 23, Friedrich Reinhart , † October 3, 1943 in Seefeld am Pilsensee, bank manager as well as National Socialist politician and military economic leader
  • 1872, April 2, Ludwig Habich , † January 20, 1949 in Jugenheim, sculptor
  • 1872, April 25, Alice von Hessen-Darmstadt , actually Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice von Hessen und bei Rhein, † July 16, 1918 in Yekaterinburg, married to Tsar Nicholas II and as Alexandra Fjodorovna Tsarina of Russia
  • 1872, September 6, Konrad Haury , † February 5, 1931 in Darmstadt, city councilor in Darmstadt and member of the state parliament
  • 1874, November 2, Wilhelm Jost , † June 6, 1944 in Lohdorf near Hohensalza, architect and construction officer
  • 1875, October 19, Theodor Duesterberg , † November 4, 1950 in Hameln, top functionary and long-time chairman of the German national paramilitary steel helmets
  • 1876, August 24, Ludwig Mayr , † April 10, 1948 in Ballenstedt, theater actor and director
  • 1877, June 28, Karl Hofferbert , † July 21, 1942 in Eisenach, architect, urban planner and master builder
  • 1878, April 5, Ludwig Leichtweiß , † July 11, 1958 in Braunschweig, pioneer of hydraulic engineering research
  • 1880, June 20, Friedrich Gundolf , † July 12, 1931 in Heidelberg, literary historian
  • 1881, November 21, Karl Grein , † July 27, 1957 in Darmstadt, ev. Theologian
  • 1886, January 2, Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel , † August 30, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee (executed), military commander, member of the resistance group around Ludwig Beck
  • 1887, April 7, Carl Krauch , † February 3, 1968 in Bühl, chemist, industrialist, functionary of the Nazi regime and convicted war criminal
  • 1888, December 23, Christa Winsloe , † June 10, 1944 near Cluny, France, German writer
  • 1890, August 13, Wilhelm Groh , † January 15, 1964 in Karlsruhe, legal scholar, rector of Heidelberg University
  • 1890, October 5, Kasimir Edschmid , † August 31, 1966 in Vulpera (Switzerland), writer
  • 1893, August 22nd, Hans Gutermuth , † February 16, 1917 in Gommecourt / Hébuterne (France), glider pioneer and fighter pilot in the First World War
  • 1894, February 20, Maria von Heider-Schweinitz , † December 5, 1974 in Frankfurt, painter
  • 1895, Franz von Schmidt , † not determined, writer
  • 1895, March 11, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and near the Rhine , † November 16, 1903 in Skierniewice (Russian Empire), only child from the marriage of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • 1895, April 25, Elisabeth Paul , † February 4, 1991 in London, educator who fled Germany from the Nazis, founder of a private school in London
  • 1895, July 29, Elisabeth Noack , † April 20, 1974, musicologist, music teacher, cantor, editor, publisher
  • 1895, September 13, Friedrich Buschtöns , † April 14, 1962 in Berlin, German theologian and senior church councilor
  • 1895, October 11, Hans Schiebelhuth , † 1946 in Long Island (USA), poet, essayist and translator
  • 1895, December 18, Carl Gunschmann , † September 26, 1984 in Darmstadt, painter and founder of the "Darmstädter Sezession" (together with Kasimir Edschmid)
  • 1896, September 15, Theodor Haubach , † January 23, 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee (executed), journalist and politician
  • 1897, February 7, Richard Hammer , † October 3, 1969 in Darmstadt, politician
  • 1897, March 8, Hermann Bach , † March 30, 1966, lawyer and State Secretary
  • 1897, May 4, Georg Ackermann , † April 4, 1964, politician
  • 1897, July 10, Karl Plagge , † June 19, 1957 in Darmstadt, Wehrmacht officer and NSDAP member, saved around 250 Jewish forced laborers from the Holocaust
  • 1897, August 2, Karl Otto Koch , † April 5, 1945 in Buchenwald concentration camp, SS leader and camp commandant of various German concentration camps
  • 1897, December 16, Arthur Tix , † February 7, 1971, industrialist
  • 1897, December 29, Hermann Heiss , † December 6, 1966 in Darmstadt, composer
  • 1898, May 20, Heinrich Otto Vogel , † September 15, 1994 in Trier, architect
  • 1898, June 15, Erwin Becker , † November 15, 1978 in Sonthofen, veterinarian and university professor
  • 1900, March 30, Rudolf Sang , † April 24, 1972 in Wilhelmshaven, actor, director and theater manager
  • 1900, May 13, Karl Wolff , † July 17, 1984 in Rosenheim, SS-Obergruppenführer

1901 to 1925

Hans Christian Blech , actor
  • 1901, April 25, Wilhelm Hofmann , † October 26, 1985 in Heilbronn, pedagogue, pioneer of modern special education
  • 1901, May 24, Arvid Harnack , † December 22, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee (executed), lawyer and communist resistance fighter (Rote Kapelle)
  • 1902, February 20, Wilhelm Georg Karl Klein , † December 25, 1983 in Darmstadt, politician and member of parliament
  • 1902, March 20, Karl Ludwig Lindt , † October 17, 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau, theater director and actor
  • 1903, April 20, Josef Herrmann † November 19, 1955 in Hildesheim, chamber singer
  • 1903, June 6, Gustav Barthel , † January 26, 1973, art historian
  • 1903, June 21, Hermann Engelhard , † January 6, 1984 in Darmstadt, athlete
  • 1903, July 10, Werner Best , † June 23, 1989 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, lawyer, police chief and National Socialist
  • 1904, April 28, Elisabeth Schumacher , † December 22, 1942 in Berlin-Plötzensee (executed), graphic artist and resistance fighter (Rote Kapelle)
  • 1904, December 17, Heinz Rückert , † February 14, 1984 in Berlin, opera director
  • 1905, January 10, Ruth Moufang , † November 26, 1977 in Frankfurt am Main, mathematician
  • 1905, June 12, Werner Hennemann , † 1985, lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt
  • 1905, September 8, Alfred Filbert , † August 1, 1990 in Berlin, SS-Obersturmbannführer
  • 1906, April 7, Hans Möser , † November 26, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech, SS-Obersturmführer
  • 1907, May 2, Ernst Jachtmann , † May 8, 1980 in Unterammergau, aviation pioneer
  • 1907, June 28, Hans Elias , † April 11, 1985 in San Francisco, versatile scientist
  • 1907, October 9, Hans Wolf Jaeschke , † March 18, 1980 in Bad Godesberg, diplomat
  • 1908, January 22, Gerhardt Preuschen , † March 22, 2004 in Goslar, agricultural scientist
  • 1908, June 3, Ludwig Petry , † November 25, 1991 in Mainz, historian
  • 1909, April 2, Jean Kurt Forest , † March 2, 1975 in Berlin, composer and musician
  • 1909, April 20, Max Krause , † around February 18, 1944 near Vinnitsa (Ukraine), Arabist and mathematician
  • 1911, May 2, Elsbeth Juda , † July 5, 2014 in London, photographer, publicist and art collector
  • 1911, June 27, Georg Dascher , † November 25, 1944, handball player
  • 1912, January 9, Annemarie Heinrich , † September 22, 2005 in Buenos Aires, German-Argentinian photographer
  • 1912, March 29, Fritz Ollendorff , † March 29, 1977 in Zurich, opera singer
  • 1912, May 20, Kurt Heinrich Wolff , † 2003 in Ohio, sociologist
  • 1913, August 10, Karl August Horst , † December 30, 1973 in Benediktbeuern, writer, translator and literary critic
  • 1915, February 7th Georg Lehn , † March 20, 1996 in Munich, actor
  • 1915, February 20, Hans Christian Blech , † March 5, 1993 in Munich, actor (Colonel Redl, Der Zauberberg)
  • 1915, February 27, Hans Bambey , † February 21, 1997 in Bad Godesberg, General
  • 1915, March 9, Hans Hinrichs , † November 19, 2004 in Koblenz, General
  • 1915, June 3, Eberhard Naujoks , † November 13, 1996 in Tübingen, historian and university professor
  • 1915, October 9, Bruno Erdmann , † January 14, 2003 in Darmstadt, painter
  • 1918, July 1, Heinrich Kraft , † March 21, 1998 in Kiel, Protestant theologian
  • 1919, May 3, Wolfgang Leydhecker , † June 10, 1995 in Würzburg, ophthalmologist and university professor
  • 1920, September 24, Wilhelm Loth , † February 17, 1993 in Darmstadt, sculptor and university professor
  • 1921, May 6, Helga Keller , † March 1, 2013 in Tel Aviv, film editor and media scholar
  • 1921, September 8, Hans Ulrich Engelmann , † January 8, 2011 in Darmstadt, composer
  • 1922, February 4, Bernhard Schlippe , † April 30, 1998 in Lübeck, architect and preservationist
  • 1922, March 4, Richard von Frankenberg , † November 13, 1973 in Beilstein, racing car driver, journalist and author
  • 1924, Karl Joachim Weintraub , † March 25, 2004 in Chicago, American historian
  • 1924, April 8, Malwine Moeller † September 26, 2019, opera singer and actress
  • 1924, May 15, Jan Thesing , † April 27, 2018, chemist and manager
  • 1924, February 24, Klaus Mayer , Roman Catholic priest and honorary citizen of the city of Mainz
  • 1924, November 8, Walter Schnell , † April 12, 1999 in Darmstadt, civil engineer
  • 1925, April 4, Thilo Ramm , † June 17, 2018 in Darmstadt, legal scholar and author
  • 1925, April 7, Gustav Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg , † January 30, 2005, politician (FDP / DVP), member of the Bundestag
  • 1925, September 15, Erika Köth , † February 20, 1989 in Speyer, opera singer

1926 to 1950

Volker Kriegel , jazz musician and cartoonist
  • 1926, March 7, Hellmut Geissner (actually: Geißner), † August 19, 2012, speech scientist
  • 1926, March 26, Heinz A. Staab , † July 29, 2012 in Berlin, chemist
  • 1927, April 28, Helmut Ehrhardt , † May 5, 2011 in Kaiserslautern, physicist and university professor
  • 1927, May 23, Wilhelm Wannemacher , pedagogue, non-fiction author and writer
  • 1927, September 15, Erika Köth , † February 20, 1989 in Speyer, singer, singing teacher
  • 1928, March 16, Karlheinz Böhm , † May 29, 2014 in Grödig, actor and founder of the aid organization Menschen für Menschen
  • 1928, September 23, Juliane Hund , † December 9, 1999 in Leverkusen, chess player, European champion
  • 1929, January 17, Klaus Sander , † February 21, 2015 in Freiburg, developmental biologist and professor of zoology
  • 1929, January 22, Karl-Heinz Walther , † October 4, 1995, actor, director and theater manager
  • 1929, March 14, Werner Doehner , † November 8, 2019 in Laconia, last surviving passenger of the LZ 129 airship disaster in 1937
  • 1929, June 4, Günter Strack , † January 18, 1999 in Münchsteinach, actor
  • 1929, October 6, Christoph Scriba , † July 26, 2013 in Hamburg, mathematics historian
  • 1930, April 29, Karl Hans Simmrock , † May 2, 2017, Professor of Technical Chemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund
  • 1930, September 13, Robert Stromberger , † February 7, 2009 in Darmstadt, screenwriter, actor and director
  • 1930, December 20, Volker Klotz , literary scholar, theater critic and dramaturge
  • 1931, July 16, Werner König , † October 4, 2018 in Lindau, German musicologist
  • 1931, December 1st, Günter Koch , Catholic theologian
  • 1932, February 28, Georg Matthess , † November 19, 2017 in Darmstadt, hydrogeologist
  • 1932, May 21, Gabriele Wohmann , † June 22, 2015 in Darmstadt, writer
  • 1932, October 16, Karl Otwin Becker , economist and mathematician
  • 1932, December 24th, Fritz Deppert , writer
  • 1934, April 30, Gerlach Bommersheim , † December 20, 2006 in Munich, art therapist and musician
  • 1934, August 9, Renate Axt , † December 2, 2016 in Trier, writer
  • 1936, April 15, Albert Darboven , entrepreneur (JJ Darboven coffee trading company)
  • 1936, October 18, Erwin Schöpf , † June 17, 2018, physician
  • 1936, December 8th, Helmut Markwort , publishing manager and editor-in-chief of the news magazine Focus
  • 1937, August 8, Kurt Weidmann , † June 1, 2014 in Darmstadt, politician (SPD), former member of the Hessian state parliament
  • 1937, October 9, Heiner Knell , † November 4, 2017, classical archaeologist
  • 1938, February 20, Dieter Eckart , † January 18, 2017, journalist, publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  • 1938, September 20, Gerhard Büttenbender , media scientist
  • 1938, September 23, Pierre Kröger , painter, graphic artist and art award winner of the city of Darmstadt and the international Senefelder Prize for lithography
  • 1939, May 15th, Burkhard Cordes , Brazilian sailor, medalist at World Championships and Olympic Games
  • 1939, July 6, Georg Cadora , † December 31, 2011 in Wuppertal, painter, draftsman, collagist and graphic artist
  • 1939, September 25, Georg Fülberth , political scientist
  • 1939, November 16, Hans Herbert von Arnim , constitutional lawyer and party critic
  • 1940, June 18, Mirjam Pressler , † January 16, 2019 in Landshut, writer and translator
  • 1940, July 27, Peter Hartherz , † October 2, 2018 in Neu-Anspach, pedagogue, administrative officer and politician (SPD)
  • 1940, December 30th, Renate Jaeger , judge
  • 1941, January 28, Jürgen Zartmann , actor
  • 1941, February 1, Marielouise Jurreit , journalist and writer
  • 1941, July 4, Helmut Castritius , † September 12, 2019, ancient historian
  • 1941, August 13th, Dietrich Kessel , politician, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1941, August 21, Karl Hermann Kraus , † March 6, 1997 in Darmstadt, painter, graphic artist and object artist
  • 1942, June 23, Lothar Scharf , † August 3, 2009 in Greifenstein, jazz musician
  • 1942, August 20, Hans-Joachim Klein , swimmer and President of the German Olympic Society
  • 1943, February 11, Ursula Scheu , † September 3, 2019 in Berlin, psychologist and author
  • 1943, September 21, Monika Müller-Leibl , painter and graphic artist
  • 1943, November 8, Rainer Witt , † October 15, 2014, journalist, radio reporter, television presenter, writer, cabaret artist and gallery owner
  • 1943, December 24, Volker Kriegel , † June 15, 2003 in San Sebastián, jazz musician and cartoonist
  • 1945, July 1, Gert Krell , political scientist
  • 1947, Wolfgang Balzer , scientific theorist, university professor
  • 1947, May 6th, Hans-Heinrich Dieter , General of the Bundeswehr
  • 1948, March 26th, Peter Neumann , motorcycle racer
  • 1948, July 10, Michael Spreng , † July 28, 2020 in Mallorca, journalist and political advisor
  • 1948, December 9, Georg Lilienthal , historian
  • 1948, December 26th, Heinz Werner Kraehkamp , † November 24th 2012 in Berlin, actor, cabaret artist, author and theater director
  • 1950, November 20, Peter Berlit , medic

1951 to 1975

Minh-Khai Phan-Thi , actress, presenter and filmmaker

From 1976

Björn Phau , tennis player
Annika Zimmermann , moderator
Marco Koch , swimmer

People who lived and worked in Darmstadt

Georg Büchner, writer

This list contains an overview of people who lived and worked in Darmstadt, but were not born there.

  • Nicolaus Maurus , * 1483 in Sankt Goarshausen; † November 26, 1539 in Frankfurt am Main, Lutheran theologian
  • Jakob Kesselhut , * in Seeheim; † January 6, 1610 in Darmstadt, stonemason and master builder under Landgrave Georg I.
  • Johann Peter Boßler , * erroneously. 1687, origin. 1689 in Lichtenberg; † 1742 in Darmstadt, royal court gunsmith for the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Johann Balthasar Moscherosch , born August 31, 1647 in Strasbourg; † April 9, 1703 in Darmstadt, Romance studies and librarian
  • Christoph Graupner , born January 13, 1683 in Kirchberg; † May 10, 1760 in Darmstadt, composer
  • Karoline von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , the great landgravine; * March 9, 1721 in Strasbourg; † March 30, 1774 in Darmstadt
  • Princess George , grandmother of Queen Luise, born March 16, 1729 in Heidesheim; † March 11, 1818 in Neustrelitz
  • Christian Hartmann Samuel von Gatzert , born June 4, 1739 in Meiningen; † April 2, 1807 in Gießen, district president in Darmstadt
  • Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , born July 1, 1742 in Ober-Ramstadt; † February 24, 1799 in Göttingen, physicist and writer
  • Johann Georg Heinrich Ofen * July 6, 1768 in Durlach; † July 10, 1830 in Darmstadt, clarinetist and composer
  • Peter Alois Gratz , born August 17, 1769 in Mittelberg / Allgäu; † November 1, 1849 in Darmstadt, Catholic biblical scholar
  • Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck , born February 18, 1770 in Elgersburg near Ilmenau (Thuringia), † August 7, 1846 in Darmstadt, composer of the Romantic period
  • Leander van Eß , born February 15, 1772 in Warburg / Westphalia; † October 13, 1847 in Affolterbach / Odenwald, Bible translator
  • Moritz Friedrich Illig , born October 30, 1777 in Erbach im Odenwald; † July 26, 1845 in Darmstadt, watchmaker, mechanic and inventor of the vegetable sizing of paper in bulk
  • Georg Moller , born January 21, 1784 in Diepholz; † March 13, 1852 in Darmstadt, Hessian court building director - but also an architect and town planner active throughout southern Germany
  • Heinrich von Gagern , born August 20, 1789 in Bayreuth; † May 22, 1880 in Darmstadt, Prime Minister of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Adolf Kehrer * September 25, 1811 in Erbach (Odenwald); † August 29, 1886 in Darmstadt, Prussian major general, commandant of Darmstadt
  • Friedrich von Flotow , born April 27, 1812 at Gut Teutendorf, Mecklenburg; † January 24, 1883 in Darmstadt, composer
  • Georg Büchner , born October 17, 1813 in Goddelau near Darmstadt; † February 19, 1837 in Zurich, writer
  • Otto Roquette , born April 19, 1824 in Krotoschin (Krotoszyn) near Posen; † March 18, 1896 in Darmstadt, poet and professor of German literature and history in Berlin and Darmstadt
  • Heinrich von Hügel , born August 7, 1828 in Mainz; † August 2, 1899 in Berlin, German architect and railway construction company
  • August Wilhelm Theodor Adam , born December 3, 1833 in Nordhausen am Harz; † January 22, 1886 in Cönnern, Königl. Grandheart. Music director
  • Carl Schenck , born November 14, 1835 in Herborn; † December 19, 1910, German entrepreneur (Carl Schenck AG)
  • Carl Weyprecht , born September 8, 1838 in Darmstadt; † March 29, 1881 in Michelstadt, polar explorer, discoverer of the Franz Josef Land
  • Gustav Lorenz , born February 4, 1846 in Obbornhofen; † August 7, 1927 in Darmstadt, veterinary surgeon, discoverer of the serum against swine rot
  • Hermann Schaefer , born August 30, 1843 in Ortenberg (Hesse); † October 21, 1932 in Darmstadt, first mayor of the city of Herne
  • Christoph Ruths , born December 30, 1851 in Neutsch; † June 6, 1922 in Darmstadt, writer, psychologist and astronomer
  • Erasmus Kittler , born June 25, 1852 in Schwabach; † March 14, 1929 in Darmstadt, electrical engineering pioneer, professor of electrical engineering in Darmstadt
  • Arnold Mendelssohn , born December 26, 1855 in Ratibor; † February 18, 1933 in Darmstadt, composer and music teacher
  • Karl Hofmann , born April 20, 1856 in Herborn; † 1933 in Darmstadt, architect, university lecturer, professor
  • Friedrich Pützer , born July 25, 1871 in Aachen; † January 31, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main, architect; Professor for town and church construction at the TH Darmstadt
  • Kuno Ferdinand Graf von Hardenberg (1871–1938), art historian, painter, interior designer, museum director, writer and Grand Ducal Court Marshal of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • August Buxbaum , born April 14, 1876 in Langenbrombach; † February 21, 1960 in Darmstadt, architect and Darmstadt city planner
  • Waldemar Petersen , born June 10, 1880 in Athens (Greece); † February 27, 1946 in Darmstadt, 1915–1933 professor of electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt
  • Hermann Graf Keyserling , born July 20, 1880 in Könno, Estonia (Baltic German); † April 26, 1946 in Innsbruck, philosopher in Darmstadt
  • Otto Bartning , born April 12, 1883 in Karlsruhe ; † February 20, 1959 in Darmstadt, architect
  • Karl Gruber , born May 6, 1885 in Konstanz; † February 12, 1966 in Darmstadt, architect, urban planner and architectural historian
  • Ernst Schroeder , born September 8, 1889 in Bartenstein; † October 14, 1971 in Darmstadt, local politician (FDP), Lord Mayor and Mayor
  • Frank Thiess , born March 13, 1890 in Eluisenstein near Uexküll / Livonia; † December 22, 1977 in Darmstadt, German writer
  • Wilhelm Leuschner , born June 15, 1890 in Bayreuth; † September 29, 1944 in Berlin (executed), union leader, Minister of the Interior of Hesse
  • Wilhelm Petersen , born March 15, 1890 in Athens (Greece); † December 18, 1957 in Darmstadt, composer
  • Karl Ströher , born March 15, 1890 in Rothenkirchen / Vogtland; † November 26, 1977, Darmstadt entrepreneur (Wella) and patron of the arts; acquired u. a. the Beuys block, which has been installed in the State Museum since 1970
  • Walter Jankowsky , born June 15, 1890 in Wittingen; † May 2, 1974 in Darmstadt, anthropologist and author
  • Ludwig Schwamb , born July 30, 1890 in Undenheim / Rheinhessen; † January 23, 1945 in Berlin-Plötzensee (executed), resistance fighter
  • Johann Sebastian Dang , born September 6, 1891 in Bretzenheim near Mainz; † August 18, 1958 in Darmstadt, writer, co-founder of the Darmstädter Echo
  • Hartmuth Pfeil , born February 13, 1893 in Höchst am Main; † June 4, 1962 in Darmstadt, graphic artist and draftsman
  • Karl Böhm , born August 28, 1894 in Graz; † August 14, 1981 in Salzburg, Austrian-German conductor; 1927–31 general music director in Darmstadt
  • Carlo Mierendorff , born March 24, 1897 in Großenhain; † December 4, 1943 in Leipzig, member of the Reichstag and resistance fighter
  • Karl Deppert , born December 8, 1897 in Bensheim; † February 16, 1988 in Bad König, Hessian painter and poet
  • Ernes Merck , born July 2, 1898 in Stolp, Pomerania; † November 25, 1927 in Darmstadt, racing driver
  • Martin Jahn , born November 10, 1898 in Potsdam; † July 6, 1981 in Darmstadt, draftsman, painter and art teacher
  • Ernst Neufert , born March 15, 1900 in Freyburg an der Unstrut; † February 23, 1986 in Rolle on Lake Geneva, architect
  • Hans Gerhard Evers , born March 19, 1900 in Lübeck, † April 8, 1993 in Hofgeismar, art historian, university professor, head of the 1st Darmstadt Conversation in 1950, Johann Heinrich Merck Prize (1960), silver plaque of the city of Darmstadt (1965 )
  • Walter Brecht * June 20, 1900 in Augsburg; † September 27, 1986 in Darmstadt, paper technologist; 1931–1971 Head of the Institute for Paper Manufacture at TU Darmstadt, Johann Heinrich Merck Prize (1985), Silver Merit Plaque of the City of Darmstadt (1979)
  • Ernst Holtzmann * November 1, 1902 in Gießen, † July 14, 1996 in Darmstadt, Member of the Hessian State Parliament (CDU) and 1962–67 Mayor of Darmstadt
  • Eugen Kogon , born February 2, 1903 in Munich; † July 24, 1987 in Königstein im Taunus, 1951–1968 Professor of Political Science at the TH Darmstadt (today TU)
  • Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo , born June 20, 1904 in Offenbach am Main, † November 14, 1964 in Darmstadt, politician (CDU); from 1955 to 1961 Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • Gerhard Herzberg , born December 25, 1904 in Hamburg; † March 3, 1999 in Ottawa, Canada, Nobel laureate in chemistry 1971, studies, doctorate (1928) and private lecturer (1930–1935) at the physics department of the TH Darmstadt, 1935 forced escape from Nazi Germany
  • Walter Schmiele , born April 12, 1909 in Swinemünde; † October 21, 1998 in Darmstadt, freelance writer and translator
  • Harro Dicks , born October 3, 1911 in Cologne; † January 24, 2013 in Darmstadt, was opera director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt until 1976 and head of the opera school at the Academy of Music
  • Wilfried de Beauclair , born April 4, 1912 in Ascona, German engineer, computer scientist and computer pioneer
  • Arno Schmidt , born January 18, 1914 in Hamburg; † June 3, 1979 in Celle, writer
  • Ludwig Friedel , born August 10, 1917 in Glatz, Lower Silesia; † April 8, 2017 in Darmstadt, industrial clerk, photographer, sculptor and painter
  • Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse , born January 2, 1918 in Schwerin; † December 13, 2019, in Darmstadt, typographer and bookbinder
  • Hermann Zapf , born November 8, 1918 in Nuremberg; † June 4, 2015 in Darmstadt, typographer, calligrapher, author and teacher
  • Joachim Borsdorff , born July 30, 1919 in Schnellroda; † March 20, 1985 in Darmstadt, local politician (SPD) and mayor
  • Rudolf Fischer , born April 27, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 12, 1998 in Bergisch Gladbach, puppeteer a. a. at the Hohnsteiner Puppet Theater and in the television series Der Spatz vom Wallrafplatz; in Darmstadt director of the Darmstadt puppet shows
  • Fritz Ebner , born December 15, 1922 in Friedberg (Hesse); † August 28, 2010 in Darmstadt, Goethe researcher and writer
  • Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling , born May 8, 1924 in Insterburg; † February 24, 2014 in Darmstadt, graphic designer and painter
  • Robert Piloty , born June 6, 1924 in Munich; † January 21, 2013, a founding father of computer science courses in Germany; Professor at the TU Darmstadt
  • Pierre Boulez * March 26, 1925 in Montbrison, Loire department; † January 5, 2016 in Baden-Baden, French composer, conductor and music theorist, 1955–1967 lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music and conductor of the Darmstadt Chamber Ensemble.
  • Karl Dienst , born January 24, 1930 in Weisel; † May 27, 2014 in Darmstadt, ev. Theologian and church historian
  • Gerhard M. Sessler , born February 15, 1931 in Rosenfeld, professor of electrical engineering at TU Darmstadt, co-inventor of the electret microphone and the silicon microphone, winner of the National Inventors Hall of Fame of the USA (1999)
  • Gerhard Hund , born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig, mathematician and computer scientist; worked from 1955 to 1961 at the TH Darmstadt
  • Eberhard Warkehr , born October 2, 1932 in Dorstadt; † October 7, 2017, chemist, university professor, university rector and local politician
  • Maciej Łukaszczyk , born March 11, 1934 in Warsaw; † June 2, 2014 in Posen, Polish pianist at the Landestheater Darmstadt; Founder and long-time president of the Darmstadt Chopin Society and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Johann Heinrich Merck honor of the city of Darmstadt
  • Kaj Fölster , born August 27, 1936 in Sweden, Swedish writer, social worker and politician
  • Barbara Bredow , born April 18, 1937 in Karlsruhe, visual artist
  • Peter Schnell , born June 10, 1938 in Berlin, mathematician, software developer, entrepreneur, founder
  • Marian Czura , * 1939 in Groszowice near Opole, Polish filmmaker (among others, people die at home, he danced life) and painter; has lived in Darmstadt since 1986
  • Otti Geschka , born December 27, 1939 in Selters (Taunus) -Haintchen, politician (CDU) and former state secretary. D., 1993–99 mayor of Rüsselsheim and thus Hesse's first mayor
  • Dorit Zinn , born May 7, 1940 in Dessau, writer; lives in Darmstadt
  • Rolf Idler , born July 1, 1943 in Schorndorf, † April 12, 2012 in Egelsbach, long-time ensemble member of the Darmstadt State Theater
  • Peter Hofmann , born August 22, 1944 in Marienbad; † November 29, 2010 in Selb, opera singer
  • Lutz Brockhaus , born September 14, 1945 in Berlin; † September 1, 2016 in Darmstadt, sculptor and university professor
  • Wolfgang Gehrke , born November 10, 1945 in Hamburg, engineer, local politician (CDU) and manager
  • Annegret Soltau , born January 16, 1946 in Lüneburg, visual artist
  • Wolfgang Seeliger , born May 30, 1946 in Heidelberg, founder and director of the Darmstadt Concert Choir, the Darmstadt Court Orchestra and the Darmstadt Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Detlef Kraft , born May 22, 1950 in Berlin, sculptor
  • Michael Groblewski , born June 1, 1950 in Dortmund, art historian and university professor
  • Ursula Teicher-Maier, born July 12, 1952 in Jugenheim , writer
  • Hans Jürgen Prömel , born September 16, 1953 in bees; since October 1, 2007 President of the TU Darmstadt
  • Johann-Dietrich Wörner , born July 18, 1954 in Kassel, until February 28, 2007 President of the TU Darmstadt; since March 1, 2007 Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
  • Michael Siebel , born June 12, 1957 in Bad Schwalbach, Hessian politician (SPD) and member of the Hessian state parliament
  • Michael Kibler , born February 24, 1963 in Heilbronn, writer
  • Christian Gude , * 1965 in Rheine, author of detective novels
  • Matthias Matschke , born October 17, 1968 in Marburg, actor
  • Menowin Fröhlich , born September 4, 1987 in Munich, pop singer
  • Andrea Petković , born September 9, 1987 in Tuzla (Yugoslavia), German tennis player
  • Olexesh , born February 25, 1988 in Kiev, rapper

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mendel, Johann Jakob. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ François Widmer: Johann Jakob Mendel (1809–1881) - titular organist of the Bern Minster. In: Musik & Gottesdienst , 67th year 2013. pp. 137–146. (PDF file)