List of personalities of the city of Heidelberg

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This list contains the honorary citizens of Heidelberg , personalities born in Heidelberg and those who had their sphere of activity in Heidelberg but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen of Heidelberg

Memorial plaque at Theaterstrasse 10 in Heidelberg

  • Friedrich Christoph Schlosser (honorary citizenship 1852)

  • Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (honorary citizenship 1863)

  • Hermann von Helmholtz (honorary citizenship 1869)

  • Otto von Bismarck (honorary citizenship 1895)

Personalities born in Heidelberg

13th to 15th centuries

16th to 18th century

19th century

1801 to 1820

1821 to 1840

1841 to 1860

1861 to 1880

1881 to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1910

1911 to 1920

1921 to 1930

1931 to 1940

1941 to 1950

1951 to 1960

1961 to 1970

1971 to 1980

From 1981

Other personalities from Heidelberg

Known residents

Earlier

  • Hannah Arendt , born October 14, 1906 in Linden; † December 4, 1975 in New York, publicist and professor; Studies, doctorate in 1928 (residential building was Schlossberg 16)
  • Friedrich Bergius , born October 11, 1884 in goldsmiths near Breslau; † March 30, 1949 in Buenos Aires, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for high-pressure chemistry, patron, lived in his villa on Philosophenweg from 1925–49
  • Carl Bosch , born August 27, 1874 in Cologne; † April 26, 1940 in Heidelberg, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis, head of IG Farben, founder of the Heidelberg Zoo, today the Carl Bosch Museum and the Paul Tschira Foundation in his villa on Schloßbrunnenweg
  • Oskar von Bülow , born September 11, 1837 in Breslau; † November 19, 1907 in Heidelberg, legal scholar, lived from 1896 until his death in his retirement home built by the architect Henkenhaf , the Villa Bülow, Gaisbergstrasse 81, today a day care center for children. Source: Heidelberg City Archives.
  • Marie Coppius , born June 14, 1871 in Charkow; † November 2, 1949 in Heidelberg, kindergarten teacher and Froebel teacher
  • Hilde Domin , born July 27, 1909 in Cologne; † February 22, 2006 in Heidelberg, German poet and writer (Graimbergweg 5)
  • Joseph Palamede de Forbin-Janson , born July 1, 1726 in Paris; † March 24, 1809 in Heidelberg; French general, who lived in exile in Heidelberg from 1790, died here and has an epitaph in the choir of the Heiliggeistkirche
  • Wolfgang Fortner , born October 12, 1907 in Leipzig; † September 5, 1987 in Heidelberg, composer
  • Albert Fritz , born in Hornberg in January 1899; executed on February 25, 1943, Eisendreher, KPD functionary, lived in Heidelberg from 1925, was a member of the Heidelberg city council and resistance fighter against National Socialism, was interned several times by the Nazi regime and finally executed with the guillotine; streets in Walldorf, Heidelberg and Mannheim are named after him
  • Erich Fromm , born March 23, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main; † March 18, 1980 in Locarno; lived in Heidelberg from 1919 to 1928 (with interruptions). Studied sociology, psychology and philosophy in Heidelberg. He did his doctorate there in 1922 under Alfred Weber on “The Jewish Law”. As a student he lived at Plöck 64 and from 1924 to 1928 he and his wife Dr. med. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann runs a psychiatric practice at Mönchhofstrasse 15, also known as the “Thorapeutikum”. Patients were not only treated, but also cooked and could live in the house. (Source: FUNK, Rainer (1999): Erich Fromm. Love for Life. P. 52 & 59–61)
  • Hans-Joachim Glücklich , born January 24, 1941 in Frankfurt am Main; studied classical philology in Heidelberg and after completing his doctorate from 1966–69 he was an assistant at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1981 he became honorary professor for didactics of ancient languages
  • Leopold Gmelin , born August 2, 1788 in Göttingen; † April 13, 1853 in Heidelberg; Chemistry professor at the University of Heidelberg
  • Maria Countess Graimberg-Bellau , born July 8, 1879 in Bensheim; † June 14, 1965 in Heidelberg, founder of the Catholic Social Women's School
  • Edzard Hobbing , born May 14, 1909 in Berlin; † May 25, 1974 in Heidelberg, sculptor
  • Camilla Jellinek , born September 24, 1860 in Vienna; † October 5, 1940 in Heidelberg, women's rights activist and lawyer, honorary doctorate from the law faculty of Heidelberg University
  • Heinrich Kilber , born March 8, 1710 in Mainz; † October 25, 1783 in Heidelberg, theologian and Jesuit priest, rector of the Carolinum seminar in Heidelberg, Regens of the Heidelberg seminary, co-author of the Theologia Wirceburgensis
  • Heinrich Kilger the Elder , born February 5, 1881 in Niederwinkling; † May 5, 1965 in Heidelberg, beer brewer and social democratic functionary, city councilor in Heidelberg
  • Johann Jakob Joseph Kirschbaum , born June 23, 1721 in Worms; † June 7, 1804 in Heidelberg, lawyer and since 1757 full professor of law at Heidelberg University
  • Wilhelm Klebitz * around 1533; † 1568 in Paris, theologian and mathematician, was a deacon and assistant preacher in Heidelberg
  • Franz Kruckenberg , born August 21, 1882 in Uetersen; † June 19, 1965 in Heidelberg, pioneer of express rail traffic, builder of the legendary rail zeppelin in 1931
  • Walter Laufenberg , born September 1, 1935 in Opladen, writer; lived and wrote in Heidelberg from 1987 to 1997
  • Hanna Leybrand , born July 15, 1945 in Passau; † May 25, 2017 in Heidelberg, writer, reciter and opera soubrette
  • Dietrich Lohff , born January 9, 1941 in Tauche; † October 1, 2016 in Heidelberg, composer
  • Georg Lukács , born April 13, 1885 in Budapest; † June 4, 1971 in Budapest, Hungarian philosopher, literary scholar and Marxist theorist
  • Joachim Lutz , born January 12, 1906 in Höchst am Main; † February 17, 1954 in Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen, painter and journalist; lived in Ziegelhausen from 1937, now in Heidelberg
  • Marie Marcks , born August 25, 1922 in Berlin; † December 7, 2014 in Heidelberg, caricaturist
  • Johann Friedrich Mieg , born May 25, 1744 in Lingen; † December 14, 1819 in Heidelberg, Reformed preacher, Freemason and Illuminate, councilor and first pastor in Heidelberg
  • Ludwig Georg Mieg , * 1705 in Marburg; † 1761 in Heidelberg, Reformed preacher, theologian and university professor, church councilor and preacher in Heidelberg, Ephorus of the Heidelberg Sapienzkollegium
  • Alfred Mombert , born February 6, 1872 in Breslau; † April 8, 1942 in Winterthur, Jewish lawyer and poet, deported to Gurs in 1940
  • Theophilus Neuberger , born May 5, 1593 in Jena; † January 9, 1656 in Kassel, reformed theologian and clergyman, student, pastor and later court preacher in Heidelberg
  • Matthias Rohnacher , * 1961 in Mannheim, first German-speaking poker world champion, grew up in Heidelberg-Ziegelhausen and lived in Heidelberg until 1999
  • Dominique Salhorgne , born September 4, 1757 in Toul; † May 25, 1836 in Paris, professor of theology at the local university, later Order General of the Lazarists
  • Gustav Adolf Scheel , born November 22, 1907 in Rosenberg (Baden); † March 25, 1979 in Hamburg, doctor and functionary (1936–1945) during the Nazi era
  • Heinrich Schmid , born June 24, 1799 in Jena; † January 29, 1836 in Heidelberg
  • Christiane Schmidtmer , born December 24, 1939 in Mannheim; † March 13, 2003 in Heidelberg, Hollywood actress and model of the 1960s and 70s.
  • Otto Schoetensack , born July 12, 1850 in Stendal; † December 23, 1912 in Ospedaletti, Liguria, Italy, anthropologist, lived from 1888 to 1912 in Heidelberg, Blumenstrasse 1.
  • Ernst Toller , born December 1, 1893 in Samotschin, Posen; † May 22, 1939 in New York, pacifist, politician and writer
  • Theodor Verhas , born August 31, 1811 in Schwetzingen; † November 1, 1872 in Heidelberg, romantic painter
  • Felix Wankel , born August 13, 1902 in Lahr; † October 9, 1988 in Heidelberg, inventor of the Wankel engine named after him, donated the Felix Wankel Foundation for animal welfare there
  • Alfred Weber , born July 30, 1868 in Erfurt; † May 2, 1958 in Heidelberg, sociologist and economist, brother of Max Weber
  • Max Weber , born April 21, 1864 in Erfurt; † June 14, 1920 in Munich, economist and sociologist
  • Richard Weissbach , born May 9, 1882 in Chemnitz; † April 24, 1950 in Heidelberg, Heidelberg publisher
  • Götz Widmann , born November 23, 1965 in Bad Brückenau, songwriter; grew up in Heidelberg
  • Kurt Wildhagen , born October 22, 1871 in Moscow; † February 19, 1949 in Heidelberg, scholar, Socratic teacher - the sage of Heidelberg
  • Georg Wittig , born June 16, 1897 in Berlin; † August 26, 1987 in Heidelberg, chemistry professor (Wittig reaction), Nobel laureate in chemistry 1979, citizen's medal
  • Girolamo Zanchi , born February 2, 1516 in Alzano Lombardo; † November 19, 1590 in Heidelberg, Italian Reformed theologian, Old Testament scholar in Heidelberg

Currently

Klaus Staeck, 2007
  • Franziska van Almsick , born April 5, 1978 in Berlin , former German swimmer and multiple world and European champion
  • Marlene Bach , * 1961 in Rheydt, writer (crime novels set in Heidelberg)
  • Barbara , street and action artist
  • Martin Bärenz , * 1956 in Fürth (Odenwald), German cellist, double bass player, composer and arranger
  • Theresia Bauer , born April 6, 1965 in Zweibrücken / Pfalz, politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens); since June 2001 MdL of Baden-Württemberg, represents the constituency of Heidelberg; since May 2011 State Minister for Science, Research and the Arts
  • Arvid Boecker , * 1964 in Wuppertal; Painter and curator, representative of Concrete Art
  • Brigitte Borell-Seidel , classical archaeologist, lecturer at Heidelberg University
  • Franziska Brantner , born August 24, 1979 in Lörrach, political scientist and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
  • Michael Braun , * 1958 in Hauenstein (Pfalz), German literary critic and a. a. Editor of the Deutschlandfunk poetry calendar
  • Michael Buselmeier , born October 25, 1938 in Berlin, writer; Co-founder of the Heidelberg city newspaper Communale
  • Mathias Herrmann , born July 16, 1962 in Friedberg, actor
  • Norbert Lehmann , born February 29, 1960 in Dortmund, journalist and television presenter
  • Udo Leuschner , born July 13, 1944 in Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt; German journalist and writer
  • Gerhard Liedke , born December 18, 1937 in Karlsruhe, Protestant theologian
  • Uwe Lohrmann , * 1936 in Karlsruhe, German composer, organist and choir director
  • Jagoda Marinić , born September 20, 1977 in Waiblingen, German-Croatian writer, playwright and journalist; heads the “intercultural center in the making” in Heidelberg
  • Ada Mee , * 1946 in Thuringia, German artist; Member of the Heidelberg Forum for Art
  • Martin Münch , born May 24, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main, German composer and pianist
  • Stefan Reck , born November 28, 1954 in Lippstadt, German actor; since 2011/12 member of the Heidelberg Theater and Orchestra ensemble
  • Edo Reents , born September 26, 1965 in Wittmund, East Friesland; Cultural journalist and literary critic, head of the features section of the FAZ
  • Daniel Reule , born May 2, 1983 in Neuchâtel , German football player
  • Walter Roth , * 1959 in Pișchia (German Bruckenau), People's Republic of Romania; Actors and publishers (WaRo-Verlag)
  • Kool Savas (Savaş Yurderi) , born February 10, 1975 in Aachen , German rapper of Turkish descent
  • Winfried Schwab , born July 23, 1964 in Fulda , Catholic clergyman, abbot of the Neuburg Benedictine Abbey since 2016
  • Klaus Staeck , born February 28, 1938 in Pulsnitz , Kamenz district near Dresden, lawyer, political graphic designer , since 2006 President of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
  • Marion Tauschwitz , born October 21, 1953, writer; u. a. Biography about Hilde Domin
  • Hans Thill , born October 1, 1954 in Baden-Baden, German author and translator; Member of the PEN Center Germany
  • Toni-L (Toni Landomini) , German rapper of Italian descent, founding member of the band Advanced Chemistry
  • Tina Tremmel , born January 9, 1981 in Marburg, athlete and triathlete
  • Jan Wilke , born October 16, 1980 in Darmstadt, composer and choir director
  • Wilfried Willer , born February 2, 1931 in Edigheim near Ludwigshafen am Rhein, biologist and academic librarian

Known visitors

The visit should either be documented or found lasting expression in the form of a poem, song or film.

  • King Heinrich (VII.) , Emperor Friedrich II. Held court over Heinrich with the princes on July 4th, 1235 in Worms , dethroned him and imprisoned him. First he came to Heidelberg in the castle dungeon, then to Castle Alerheim im Ries and finally via Friuli to ship to Apulia, until the end of 1235 he was held there in various places.
  • Maximilian Mörlin (1516–1584), Protestant theologian and reformer
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played the organs of the Heiliggeistkirche in 1763, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1837 and Albert Schweitzer in 1929, 1932 and 1949.
  • Karl Drais , then still a baron (1785-1851). The two-wheeler inventor studied with the technologists in 1803/05 and took part in the lecture strike in 1804.
  • The composer Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) lived in Ziegelhausen in the house of the painter Anton Hanno during the summer of 1875.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mark Twain (1835–1910) visited Heidelberg in 1878 for three months.
  • José Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda, born June 19, 1861 in Calamba on Luzón; † December 30, 1896 in Manila (executed), was a Filipino writer. He is the national hero of the Philippines .
  • King Chulalongkorn the Great of Siam, Rama V, visited his son, Prince Rangsit of Chainad, who was studying here, in 1907 and established a long-term relationship between Heidelberg and Thailand, which led to visits from members of the Thai royal family, in connection with another King of Siam , Ananda Mahidol Rama VIII was even born in Heidelberg in 1925.
  • Sir Muhammad Iqbal , born November 9, 1877 in Sialkot, today Pakistan; † April 21, 1938 in Lahore. The national poet and spiritual father of modern Pakistan . Studied in 1907. The Iqbal bank on the left side of the Neckar is named after him.
  • Joseph Goebbels , the National Socialist Propaganda Minister and politician, studied German in Heidelberg
  • Thomas Mann : »Heidelberg was lovely. For the first time there, I was charmed by the romance of the landscape and the youthful spirituality of the academic sphere «. (On July 8, 1922 to Ernst Bertram and - also about this visit - to Ida Boy-Ed on July 16, 1922 :) “I was enchanted. Heidelberg made the most beautiful impression on me. The romantic German landscape, the youthful spirituality of the atmosphere did it to me. I made Oncken's acquaintance, spoke to Alfred Weber, who interests me particularly «.
  • all Federal Presidents (list in the Golden Book)
  • Charles de Gaulle , 1963
  • Fritz Wunderlich * September 26, 1930 in Kusel ; † September 17, 1966 in Heidelberg; actually Friedrich Karl Otto Wunderlich ( lyric tenor )

Well-known originals

  • the accordion man
  • Clemens Pankert (1702–1735), as a dwarf Perkeo court jester and cupbearer
  • Service man Muck
  • Kurt Wildhagen - The Wise One from Heidelberg (see above)

City leaders, mayors

At the head of the city administration in Heidelberg stood for a long time as a lordly civil servant the city ​​school , who had since 1717 the title "city director". After the transfer to the Grand Duchy of Baden , the mayor initially carried the title of Lord Mayor , from 1819 First Mayor and from 1875 again Lord Mayor .

Mayor 1701 to 1819

  • 1701–1705: Government Councilor Neukirch
  • 1705–1717: Leonhard Bruggen
  • 1717–1720: Councilor of Pardon
  • 1720–1734: Councilor of Cuba
  • 1734–1743: Of these by Driesch
  • 1743–1754: Flander
  • 1754–1756: Government Councilor Schwaan
  • 1756–1770: Government Councilor Geiger
  • 1770–1779: Councilor Eßleben
  • 1779–1789: Court judge Sartorius
  • 1789–? Counselor Traiteuer
  • 1805–1819: Georg Daniel Mays

First mayor 1819 to 1875

Lord Mayor since 1875

See also

literature

  • Peter Blum (ed.): Pioneers from technology and economy in Heidelberg , Aachen 2000
  • Gurs - who was evacuated? Who were the perpetrators in Heidelberg?
  • Stefanie Bielmeier: Staged Life , Roman, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-934180-13-0

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