List of Germersheim personalities
The list of Germersheim personalities contains personalities related to Germersheim , sorted according to honorary citizens, people who were born in the city, as well as those who came to Germersheim from abroad and worked there. Some of the personalities listed are buried in the Germersheim cemetery , some of whose historic graves have been preserved; Jewish citizens became v. a. buried in the Jewish cemetery in Rülzheim .
Honorary citizen
The city of Germersheim has appointed eleven honorary citizens since the 19th century:
- Anton Edlinger , German general and chairman of the Germersheim Military Local Commission, appointed in 1830
- Franz Eduard von Weishaupt , Bavarian general and eighth of international law in Germersheim, appointed in 1849
- Gottfried Schmauß , German doctor, appointed in 1875
- August Resser , head of the Latin school, appointed in 1888
- Adam Disqué , German judge, appointed in 1889
- Nikolaus Ernst Wündisch , Protestant pastor, appointed in 1889
- Otto von Bismarck , German statesman, appointed in 1895
- Karl Theodor von Sauer , Bavarian artillery general, appointed in 1898
- Eugen Sauer , Catholic dean and bishop. Spiritual councilor, city pastor from 1920 to 1956, appointed in 1952
- Eduard Orth , politician ( CDU ), Member of the Bundestag , Member of the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate for Culture from 1956 to 1967, appointed in 1962
- Siegfried Jantzer , Mayor from 1956 to 1981, appointed in 1987
After the question of whether Joseph Probst should be awarded the title of honorary citizen had already been adjourned twice without result in the city council of Germersheim in 1898 or 1899 , he died. During the National Socialist era , Germersheim refrained from making Nazi politicians honorary citizens.
Before today's district of Sondernheim was incorporated into Germersheim in 1972 , three people there obtained honorary citizenship:
- Franz Lang , Catholic pastor from 1923 to 1948, appointed in 1948
- Heinrich Scherer , Mayor from 1932 to 1945, appointed in 1968
- Valentin Moos , later Bruno Moos, People's Missionary in Brazil, appointed in 1969
sons and daughters of the town
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Years before 1800
- Johannes Posthius (1537–1597), doctor and poet
- Eberhard Arbogast (1793–1875), Napoléon Bonaparte's liberator from Elba
19th century
1801 to 1850
- Paul Josef Nardini (1821–1862), theologian
- Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno (1838–1905), Protestant pastor
- Eugen von Zimmerer (1843–1918), governor of Cameroon and minister
- Max von Seydel (1846–1901), legal scholar and statistician
- Alfred Dillmann (1849–1924), lawyer and police chief
- Otto Freiherr Kreß von Kressenstein (1850–1929), politician and colonel general
1851 to 1900
- Bernhard Hagen (1853–1919), explorer
- Theodor Kleehaas (1854–1928 / 29), portrait and genre painter
- Franz von Martin (1854–1931), Bavarian lieutenant general
- Friedrich Kreß von Kressenstein (1855–1920), Bavarian general of the infantry
- Eugen Croissant (1862–1918), journalist and writer
- Benno Koppenhagen (1867–1934), doctor and author
- Franz Bender (1873–1905), painter and graphic artist
- Hermann Kriebel (1876–1941), officer, free corps leader, diplomat and NSDAP politician
- Ludwig Wagner-Speyer (1882–1939), architect, municipal building officer and university professor
- Karl Morvilius (1883–1960), Therater and film actor and painter
- Valentin Nagel (1891–1942), German painter
- Mathilde Mayer (1889 – after 1956), teacher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Starck (1891–1968), Police President and SS Brigade Leader
- Eugen Weissmann (1892–1951), officer
- Willy Damson (1894–1944), politician (NSDAP)
- Adam Meyer (1894–1959), German missionary
- Friedrich Krebs (1894–1961), lawyer and politician (NSDAP)
- Franz Sondinger (1896–1939; pseudonym: Felix Dhünen ), director, actor, director and writer ( Olympic champion 1936 )
- Richard Wagenbauer (1896–1942), politician (NSDAP)
- Hans Saupert (1897–1966), politician ( NSDAP )
- Karl Schmitt-Walter (1900–1985), opera and lieder singer
20th century
- Gustav Weiss (1901–1959), politician (DP)
- Eduard Orth (1902–1968), economist, entrepreneur and politician (CDU)
- Richard Zapp (1904–1964), naval officer
- Otto Völcker (1912–1990), photo master, writer
- Hermann Stumpf (1912–1997), Vice President of the Federal Labor Court
- Franz Immig (1918–1955), football player
- Lothar Fischer (1933–2004), sculptor
- Ragnar Kinzelbach (* 1941), ecologist and zoologist
- Dieter Hänlein (* 1942), politician (CDU)
- Marliese Köster (* 1944), politician (CDU)
- Rudolf Geissler (* 1953), radio journalist
- Maria Selig (* 1959), Romance studies and linguist
- Dietmar Roth (* 1963), soccer player
- Björn Brücher (* 1965), doctor, surgeon and tumor researcher
- Nicole Böhm (* 1974), author
- Oliver Haffner (* 1974), film and theater director and screenwriter
- Lars Lückemeier (* 1994), volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Marcel Mehlem (* 1995), football player
People connected to the city
- Johann Hilchen von Lorch (1484–1548), knight and imperial field marshal, was captured in Germersheim in 1523
- Heinrich Christian von Schmaltz (1787–1865), Bavarian general and Greek war minister, from 1842 fortress commander of Germersheim
- Moritz von Hirschfeld (1790–1859), attacked Palatine revolutionary groups on site
- Franz Xaver von Predl (1795–1866), Bavarian nobleman and officer, field staff officer of the Germersheim garrison, 1849–1859
- Alphons von Stockum-Sternfels (1796–1857), Bavarian baron, major general and commandant of the Germersheim fortress
- Ferdinand von Malaisé (1806-1892), Bavarian general, was a local customs officer from 1921
- Maximilian Joseph von Lamotte (1809-1887), administrative officer, was from 1848 Land Commissioner in Germersheim
- Hans Alfred Erbe (1823–1895), lawyer, was civil commissioner for the Palatinate Provisional Government from 1849 onwards
- Hippolyt August Schaufert (1834–1872), poet, was at times regional court assessor
- Eduard Eppelsheim (1837–1896), from 1886 to 1896 district doctor in Germersheim, insect researcher
- Carl Friedrich Heman (1839–1919), Protestant theologian and philosophy professor at the University of Basel , 1864–1871 parish vicar in Germersheim
- Wilhelm von Haasy (1867–1946), lieutenant general and regimental commander. was at times major and battalion commander in Germersheim
- Vinzenz Fuchs (1888–1968), theologian and cathedral provost, did his medical service in Germersheim
- Friedrich von Schmauß (born January 13, 1792 in Munich , † April 28, 1846 in Germersheim), builder of the fortress
- Friedrich Giese (1882–1958), constitutional lawyer, taught at the local interpreting school, among other places
- Georg Otto Angerer (1893–1951), politician (NSDAP), grew up in Germersheim, among other places
- Hermann Spatz (born August 24, 1899 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † 1973), German painter
- Hans Graf von Sponeck (* February 12, 1888 in Düsseldorf , † July 23, 1944 in Germersheim) was imprisoned here after the conversion of his death sentence. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, he was shot, although not involved.
- Johannes Bähr (1902–1980), pastor, was temporarily vicar in Germersheim
- Karl Delobelle (1904–1944), politician (NSDAP), was temporarily district leader of Germersheim in 1934
- Grup Tekkan (founded in 2005), band from Germersheim, three members
- Karl-Heinz Hopfensperger , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans, Ludwig : The honorary citizens of the city of Germersheim , city of Germersheim December 2010.