List of Edenkoben personalities
The list of Edenkoben personalities contains important personalities related to Edenkoben , sorted according to honorary citizens, according to people who were born in the city or who worked in Edenkoben. The list does not claim to be complete.
Honorary citizen
- Karlheinz Lintz , appointed in 1964
- Richard Damm , appointed 1996
- Erwin Würfel , appointed in 1996
- Ludwig Urschbach , appointed in 1996
- Franz Schmidt , appointed 2010
- Herbert Schäfer , appointed 2014
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Years up to 1800
- Johann Reinhard Ziegler (1569–1636), Jesuit priest, mathematician, astronomer and architect
- Johann Adam Hartmann (1748–1836), emigrant from Edenkoben who became famous as a leather sock
19th century
- Wilhelm Arnold (1801–1873), physiologist
- Franz Xaver Remling (1803–1873), Episcopal Spiritual Council, Cathedral Chapter of the Diocese of Speyer and historian
- Friedrich Arnold (1803–1890), Professor of Medicine (Anatomy and Physiology)
- Karl Julius Schönberger (1804-1884), politician
- Eugen von Lommel (1837–1899), physicist
- Emil Sommer (1838–1904), German publisher and newspaper editor,
- Heinrich Göring (1850–1931), politician (ZENTRUM)
- Theodor Meyer (1853–1936), judge
- Jakob Hubert Blenk (1856–1917), Bishop of Puerto Rico, Archbishop of New Orleans, USA
- August Croissant (1870–1941), local Palatinate painter
- Carl Minster (1873–1942), German-American social revolutionary publicist
- Franz Weidenreich (1873–1948), professor of medicine and anthropologist
- Friedrich Ackermann (1876–1949), politician (SPD)
- Eugen Sommer (1876–1961), politician (CDU)
- Wilhelm Laforet (1877–1959), politician (BVP / CSU)
- Emil Sommer (1885–1936), Bavarian lawyer, mayor of Treuchtlingen , victim of National Socialism
- Hans Feldbausch (1891–1985), naval officer
- Hubert Groß (1896–1992), architect
- Richard Schneider-Edenkoben (1899–1986), writer, director and screenwriter
20th century
- Richard Kraemer (1908–1986), psychiatrist and neurologist as well as university professor
- Oskar Stübinger (1910–1988), politician (CDU), State Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Karl-Adolf Germann (1916 – after 1981), administrative lawyer
- Winfried Thirolf (1923–1992), politician (CDU)
- Werner Marx (1924–1985), politician (CDU)
- Arnold Bittlinger (* 1928), German-Swiss Protestant theologian, psychologist, psychotherapist, author and speaker
- Hans Mercker (* 1940), Roman Catholic theologian, religious scholar and university professor
- Dieter Hörner (1941–2014), politician (CDU)
- Rolf Lauer (* 1944), art historian
- Gabriele Weingartner (* 1948), writer
- Günther Ramsauer (* 1949), politician (SPD)
- Ralf Fücks (* 1951), politician (Greens)
- Joachim Ullrich (* 1956), physicist
- Albert Scherr (* 1958), sociologist
- Lothar Antoni , musician, songwriter, composer, singer of Trancemission
People who worked on site
- Johann Peter Grohe , member of the preliminary parliament in 1848
- Johann Jakob Teutsch , member of the preliminary parliament in 1848
- Hieronymus Hofer (1815–1890), Protestant clergyman, social reformer, pastor of Edenkoben from 1859 to 1870
- Gustav Adolf Frölich (1847–1912), vine grower
- Fritz Claus (1853–1923), the "singer of the Palatinate Forest" died in Edenkoben
- Friedrich Auerbach (1870–1925), 1894 to 1898 works manager at the Edenkoben blue potash factory
- Heinrich Stollhof (1878–1956), clergyman, naval pastor in the Imperial High Seas Fleet, 1936–1956 Cath. Pastor of Edenkoben
- Günter Jansen (1932–2019), soccer goalkeeper, association coach, died in Edenkoben
- Erhard Geyer (* 1939), trade unionist, graduated from the state finance school
- Wolfgang Hilbig (1941–2007) received a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben and stayed there for a few years, together with his then wife Natascha Wodin
- Gernot Rumpf (* 1941), sculptor, designed the local leather stocking fountain
- Oskar Ansull (* 1950), author, received a scholarship from the Edenkoben mansion in 1997
- Gregor Quasten (1952-2004), football player, played for SV Edenkoben and died in Edenkoben
- Christine Schneider (* 1972), politician (CDU), member of the city council since 1994