List of Zweibrücken personalities

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The following overview contains important personalities related to the city of Zweibrücken , arranged according to people who were born in the city or who worked in Zweibrücken. The list does not claim to be complete. Another selection of Zweibrücken personalities can be found in the list of Zweibrücken mayors and mayors as well as in the list of Counts and Dukes of Zweibrücken .

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

Wolfgang of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Philipp Ludwig of Pfalz-Neuburg
Johann Kasimir von Zweibrücken-Kleeburg
Katharina Charlotte von Zweibrücken
Johann Georg Trautmann
Felix von Wimpffen
Bernhard Magel
Carl Exter
Wilhelm Molitor
Klaus Peter Schreiner
Theresia Bauer
Monika Rinck
Christin Hussong

Years up to 1700

18th century

1701 to 1750

1751 to 1800

19th century

1801 to 1825

1826 to 1850

1851 to 1875

1876 ​​to 1900

20th century

1901 to 1920

1921 to 1930

1931 to 1950

1951 to 1965

1966 to 2000

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Johannes Bader (* around 1487 in Strasbourg; † August 16, 1545 in Landau in the Palatinate), was in Zweibrücken 1514-1518, theologian and reformer of the imperial city of Landau
  • Johann Schwebel (* 1490 in Pforzheim; † May 19, 1540 in Zweibrücken), theologian and reformer of the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
  • Hieronymus Bock (* 1498, † February 21, 1554 in Hornbach), doctor and important botanist
  • Pantaleon Candidus (born October 7, 1540 in Ybbs an der Donau, † February 3, 1608 in Zweibrücken), Reformed theologian, historian and author
  • Georg Christian Joannis (born December 9, 1658 in Marktbreit; † February 22, 1735 in Zweibrücken), Protestant theologian and historian
  • Henning von Stralenheim (born July 21, 1665 in Stralsund; † September 15, 1731 in Forbach) was Swedish governor in Zweibrücken from 1710 to 1718
  • Johann Ludwig Petri (* 1714 in Eisenach, † 1794 in Zweibrücken), garden artist
  • Nicolas Appert (born November 17, 1749 in Châlons-en-Champagne / F; † June 1, 1841 in Massy / F) confectioner and inventor
  • Philipp Casimir Heintz (born August 18, 1771 in Konken; † February 8, 1835 in Munich) clergyman and historian, clergyman, professor and member of the consistory in Zweibrücken
  • Johannes Groh (born March 7, 1786 in Wecklingen, † August 29, 1857 in Speyer), seminar rain and cathedral capitular in Speyer , Catholic from 1823 to 1828. Pastor of Zweibrücken
  • Jakob Heinrich Lützel (born August 30, 1823 in Iggelheim; † March 9, 1899 in Zweibrücken), composer and church musician, founder of the Palatinate Singers' Association
  • Carl Peschke (born July 14, 1853 in Jauer; † April 5, 1907 in Zweibrücken), German social democrat and entrepreneur
  • Jakob Weis (born May 13, 1879 in Ommersheim; † March 18, 1948 in Zweibrücken) Prison Curate in Zweibrücken from 1909 to 1921, divisional pastor in World War I, author, 1925–1940 professor at secondary school and grammar school, 1940–1948 emeritus in Zweibrücken, also died and buried there.
  • Erni Deutsch-Einöder (born November 17, 1917 in Einöd; † February 16, 1997 in Zweibrücken), writer and founder of the Literary Association
  • Max Lotz (born September 27, 1919 in Erfurt; † November 3, 1992 in Zweibrücken), politician (FDP), first mayor
  • Cindy Berger , middle-class: Jutta Gusenburger (born January 26, 1948 in Völklingen), singer (known from the duo Cindy & Bert )
  • Ursula Sander , holder of the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate