List of Banat Swabian personalities
The list of Banat Swabian personalities contains well-known representatives of the Banat Swabians , listed alphabetically according to their creative field. It is irrelevant whether the people later had their sphere of activity in the Banat . Many emigrated from the Banat and became known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Authors and writers
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Otto Alscher | 1880-1944 | Poet and writer |
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| Peter Barth | 1898-1984 | poet | |
| Albert Bohn | * 1955 | Poet and writer | |
| Nikolaus Berwanger | 1935-1989 | Writer and journalist |
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| Anton lead number | * 1950 | Writer, sound archivist |
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| Herbert Bockel | * 1940 | Literature teacher and researcher | |
| Rolf Bossert | 1952-1986 | poet | |
| Jan Cornelius | * 1950 | Writer and publicist | |
| Gerhardt Csejka | * 1945 | Publicist and translator | |
| Hans Dama | * 1944 | writer | |
| Hans Diplich | 1909-1990 | Poet, writer and folklorist |
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| Marianne Ebner | 1920-2007 | Homeland and dialect poet | |
| Walter Engel | * 1942 | Germanist, literary scholar and journalist | |
| Uwe Erwin Engelmann | * 1951 | Poet, writer and translator |
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| Horst Fassel | 1942-2017 | Philologist, literary historian, literary critic and translator | |
| Hans Fink | * 1942 | Journalist and publicist |
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| Helmuth Frauendorfer | * 1959 | Publicist and poet | |
| Heinrich Freihoffer | 1921-1998 | Dialect author | |
| Hans Frick | 1938-2013 | Editor of the Neuer Weg newspaper , editor-in-chief of the Globus newspaper | |
| Franz Frombach | 1929-1999 | Dialect author | |
| Luzian Vulture | * 1948 | Journalist, local researcher and editor-in-chief | |
| Carl Gibson | * 1959 | Writer and philosopher |
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| Baldwin Groller | 1848-1916 | Journalist, writer and sports official |
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| Peter Grosz | * 1947 | writer | |
| Hedi Hauser | 1931-2020 | Children's book author | |
| Use Hehn | * 1943 | Writer, artist |
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| Franz Heinz | * 1929 | Journalist and writer | |
| Hans Wolfram Hockl | 1908-1998 | writer | |
| Rudolf Hollinger | 1910-1997 | Poet, teacher, playwright |
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| Michael Holzinger | 1920-1996 | Writer in Banat dialect | |
| Franz Xaver Kappus | 1883-1966 | Writer and journalist | |
| Hans Kehrer | 1913-2009 | Actor and writer | |
| Kristiane Kondrat | * 1938 | Writer and journalist | |
| Karl Kraushaar | 1858-1938 | Journalist, author, educator and entrepreneur | |
| Werner Kremm | * 1951 | Author and journalist | |
| Walther Konschitzky | * 1944 | Writer, ethnologist and photographer, pseudonym Horst Wichland | |
| Luisa Lang Owen | * 1936 | Writer | |
| Heinrich Lauer | 1934-2010 | Writer and publicist | |
| Nikolaus Lenau | 1802-1850 | Poet and writer |
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| Franz Liebhard | 1899-1989 | poet | |
| Johann Lippet | * 1951 | writer |
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| Franz Marschang | * 1932 | Journalist, veterinarian, writer | |
| Brigitte Margert | * 1975 | Writer | |
| Karl Wilhelm von Martini | 1821-1885 | Journalist, writer and Austrian MP | |
| Irene Mocha | 1915-1973 | Poet, pianist | |
| Herbert-Werner Mühlroth | * 1963 | Publicist and translator | |
| Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn | 1852-1923 | Writers and politicians |
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| Herta Müller | * 1953 | Writer and Nobel Prize Winner |
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| Gerhard Ortinau | * 1953 | writer |
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| Anton Peter Petri | 1923-1995 | Historian, folklorist and educator | |
| Annemarie Podlipny-Hehn | * 1938 | Writer, art critic | |
| Emmerich Reichrath | 1941-2006 | Journalist, editor-in-chief, literary and theater critic | |
| Franz Remmel | * 1931 | Journalist, ethnologist and writer | |
| Horst Samson | * 1954 | Writer and journalist | |
| Robert Schiff | * 1934 | Writer and painter | |
| Julia Schiff | * 1940 | Writer and translator | |
| Annie Schmidt-Endres | 1903-1977 | Writer | |
| Eduard Schneider | * 1944 | Literary critic, former head of the culture department of the Neue Banater Zeitung | |
| Ludwig Stefan Schwarz | 1925-1981 | Dialect author | |
| Johann Heinrich Schwicker | 1893-1902 | historian | |
| Werner Söllner | 1951-2019 | writer |
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| Johann Szimits | 1852-1910 | Banat Swabian dialect author |
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| Hans Thurn | 1913-2002 | Author, translator and journalist | |
| William Totok | * 1951 | Publicist and writer |
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| Balthasar Waitz | * 1950 | Journalist, writer, poet and translator | |
| Richard Wagner | * 1952 | writer |
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| Wilhelm Weber | 1924-2016 | Local historian, book author, teacher, librarian | |
| Ernest Wichner | * 1952 | Poet, writer, director of the Literaturhaus Berlin |
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| Peter Winter | 1898-1985 | Pseudonym "Tanjelpheder", writer and publisher, publisher Die Pollerpeitsch | |
| * 1947 | Journalist and editor-in-chief of the Banater Post |
Artist
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Andreas Ackermann | 1888-1964 | Church musician and composer | |
| Anton Arnold | 1880-1954 | tenor |
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| Emmerich Bartzer | 1895-1961 | Violinist, choir director, composer | |
| Franz Bittenbinder | 1937-2006 | painter | |
| Josef Brandeisz | 1896-1988 | Violinist and church musician | |
| Carmen Birk | * 1980 | actress | |
| Gerhard Brössner | actor | ||
| Géza from Cziffra | 1900-1989 | Film director, screenwriter | Cziffra |
| Franz Ferch | 1900-1981 | Painter and artist | |
| Ingo Glass | * 1941 | Sculptor and artist | |
| Nikolaus Halsdorfer | 1911-1988 | Painter, graphic artist and art teacher | |
| Robert Hammerstiel | * 1933 | Painter, graphic artist and wood cutter | |
| Edmund Höfer | 1933-2014 | photographer | |
| Ioan Holender | * 1935 | Director of the Vienna State Opera |
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| Adolf Humborg | 1847-1921 | Genre painter | |
| Stefan Jäger | 1877-1962 | painter |
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| Zita Johann | 1904-1993 | actress | |
| Mara Kayser | * 1966 | Pop singer | |
| Walter Andreas Kirchner | * 1941 | Sculptor, painter and graphic artist | |
| Helmut Klimek | * 1941 | Music teacher, composer and music publisher | |
| Hermann Klee | 1883-1970 | Composer, conductor and university professor | |
| Walter Michael Klepper | 1929-2008 | composer |
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| Hildegard Klepper couple | * 1932 | Painter and graphic artist |
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| Heinrich Knirr | 1862-1944 | Landscape and portrait painter |
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| Hildegard Kremper-Fackner | 1933-2004 | Graphic artist and painter | |
| Franz Kumher | 1927-2018 | Visual artist, light kineticist, educator | |
| Josef Linster | 1889-1954 | Composer and music teacher | |
| Bela Lugosi | 1882-1956 | Theater and film actor |
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| Grete Lundt | 1892-1926 | actress | |
| Leopold Magenbauer | 1834-1901 | Teacher, choir director and composer |
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| Franz Metz | * 1955 | Musician, organist, conductor | |
| Martin Metz | 1933-2003 | Church musician and composer | |
| Maleen Pacha | 1923-200 | Film architect and costume designer | |
| Miss Platnum | (* 1980) | musician |
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| Hans Mocha | 1912-1999 | Singer and author |
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| Johann Müllerperth | * 1957 | Goldsmith | |
| Adrian Nuca-Bartzer | * 1953 | Music pedagogue, choir director, conductor and leader of the Schubert Choir Timișoara (1979–1983 and since 1985) | |
| Richard Waldemar Oschanitzky | 1939-1979 | Musician | |
| Andreas Porfetye | 1927-2011 | composer | |
| Peter Rohr | 1881-1956 | Composer, conductor | |
| Reiner Schmidt | 1942-2011 | Violist and conductor | |
| Matthias Schork | 1920-1979 | Composer, music teacher, conductor and director of the Schubert Choir Timișoara | |
| Herbert Schuch | * 1979 | pianist | |
| Alexander Stefi | 1953-2016 | actor | |
| Gabor Steiner | 1858-1944 | Theater director |
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| Franz Steiner | 1855-1920 | Theater director | |
| Helmut Striker | * 1942 | Set designer and costume designer | |
| Julius striker | 1915-2011 | Graphic artist and painter | |
| Julius Vollmer | 1927-2014 | actor | |
| Franz Waschek | 1900-1961 | Choir director, church musician and composer | |
| Franz Watz | * 1949 | Musician, composer and arranger | |
| Nikolaus Wolcz | * 1944 | Actor and director |
Politician or association representative
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Simon Wilhelm Bartmann | 1878-1944 | Lawyer, notary, judge and co-founder of the Yugoslav-German Swabian-German cultural association | |
| Franz Blaskovics | 1864-1937 | Provost of the Cathedral, Vicar General of the Timișoara Diocese, co-founder of the Swabian Autonomous Party, member of the Hungarian Parliament and Senator in Bucharest |
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| Anton Breitenhofer | 1912-1989 | communist politician, author, editor-in-chief | |
| Hans Burger | Assessor on the federal board of the Banat Swabian country team | ||
| Manfred Engelmann | * 1956 | Federal cultural advisor for the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft | |
| Josef Gabriel | 1880-1959 | Politician (UDVP, DSVP) and former member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies | |
| Ovidiu Ganț | * 1966 | Politician and headmaster of the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyceum | |
| Barbara Gaug | Chairwoman of the NRW regional association of the Banat Swabian country team | ||
| Reinhold Heegn | 1875-1925 | Political leader of the Danube Swabians in Vojvodina | |
| Sepp Helfrich | 1900-1963 | Governor of Styria |
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| Nikolaus Hans Hockl | 1908-1946 | Pedagogue and head of the education authority of the "German ethnic group in Romania" | |
| Matthias "Matz" Hoffmann | 1891-1957 | Federal Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft from 1947 to 1953 | |
| Kaspar Hill | 1908-1946 | Pedagogue, Nazi functionary and head of the education office of the "German ethnic group in Romania" | |
| Franz Klein | 1919-2008 | Chairman of the country team of the Banat Swabians in Austria | |
| Bernhard Krastl | * 1950 | Federal Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft from 2002 to 2011 | |
| Franz Herbs | 1885-1969 | Professor at the Catholic German Teacher Training Institute and Member of the Romanian Parliament | |
| Peter Krier | * 1935 | Deputy Executive Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft | |
| Jacob Laub | 1924-2020 | Federal Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft from 1986 to 2002 | |
| Peter-Dietmar Leber | * 1959 | Federal Board Member and Federal Managing Director of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft since 2011 | |
| Kaspar Muth | 1876-1966 | Politician and chairman of the Swabian Autonomous Party and the Association of Germans in Romania | |
| Erich Pfaff | 1930-2011 | Professor of architectural history, headmaster of the Nikolaus-Lenau-Lyzeum, first chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat |
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| Josef "Sepp" Schmidt | 1913-1993 | Federal Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft from 1966 to 1978 | |
| Helmut Schneider | * 1931 | Engineer and member of the national executive committee of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft | |
| Karl Singer | 1940-2015 | Mathematician, university professor, founding member and chairman of the Democratic Forum of Germans in the Banat | |
| Michael Stocker | 1911-2003 | Federal Chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft from 1966 to 1978 | |
| Emmerich Stoffel | 1913-2008 | General Secretary of the German Anti-Fascist Committee for Romania, member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and Romanian Ambassador to Switzerland | |
| Hans-Thomas Tillschneider | * 1978 | Islamic scholar, journalist and politician of the AfD |
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| Anton Valentin | 1898-1967 | German teacher, headmaster, Nazi functionary and federal chairman of the Banat Swabian Landsmannschaft from 1953 to 1966 | |
| Koloman Wallisch | 1889-1934 | Austrian social democratic workers leader | |
| Georg Weifert | 1850-1937 | Industrialist, President of the National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia and first President of the National Bank of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
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athlete
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Gertrude Baumstark | 1941-2020 | Chess master | |
| Rudolf Bürger | 1908-1980 | Soccer player and coach |
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| Alexandru Dan | * 1907 | Gymnast | |
| Helmuth Duckadam | * 1959 | Soccer player | |
| Emilia Eberle | * 1964 | Gymnast | |
| Alexander Fölker | * 1956 | Handball player |
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| Josef Jakob | * 1939 | Handball player and coach | |
| Hans Moser | * 1937 | Handball player and coach | |
| Sabine Klimek | * 1991 | Handball player | |
| Josef "Jupp" Posipal | 1927-1997 | Footballer, right defender of the German team at the 1954 World Cup |
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| Hansi Schmidt | * 1942 | Handball player |
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| Hansi Schmidt | * 1942 | Handball player |
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| Kurt Szilier | * 1957 | Artistic gymnast and gymnastics trainer | |
| Werner Stoeckl | * 1952 | Handball player | |
| Mihai dancers | 1905-1993 | Romanian and Hungarian football player and coach | |
| Emerich Vogl | 1905-1971 | Soccer player and coach | |
| Johnny Weissmüller | 1904-1984 | Swimmer, water polo player, five-time Olympic champion and film actor (Tarzan actor) |
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| Rudolf Wetzer | 1901-1993 | Soccer player and soccer coach | |
| Hans Wiesenmayer | 1924-2007 | Track and field athlete and medic |
Representatives of religious communities
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Georg Bauer | 1843-1925 | Papal prelate, vicar general and canon of the Cenader diocese |
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| Adalbert Boros | 1908-2003 | Titular Archbishop of Ressiana, Provost of the Timișoara Diocese and Rector of the Timișoara Seminary | |
| Otto Dittrich | 1884-1927 | Pastor, co-founder of the Banat German Singers Association |
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| Nikolaus Hummel | 1924-2006 | Bishop of the Old Catholic Church of Austria | |
| Johann Iván Frigyér | 1898-1987 | Ordinarius substitutus in the diocese of Timișoara. | |
| Ludwig Kayser from Gáad | 1862-1945 | Roman Catholic provost of the Timişoara diocese, as well as chaplain of Grand Saint Nicholas and Canon | |
| Sebastian herbs | 1922-2008 | Bishop of the Timisoara Diocese | |
| Josef Nischbach | 1889-1970 | Professor of theology, Canon and Papal Prelate | |
| Augustin Pacha | 1870-1954 | Bishop of the Timisoara Diocese | |
| Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza | * 1938 | Catholic theologian |
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| Martin Roos | * 1942 | Bishop of the Timisoara Diocese |
scientist
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Karl Diel | 1855-1930 | Surgeon, hospital manager | |
| Hans Gehl | * 1939 | German and linguist | |
| Gottfried habenicht | * 1934 | Ethnomusicologist and musicologist | |
| Stefan Hell | * 1962 | Physicist, inventor and Nobel Prize winner |
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| Johann Heuffel | 1800-1857 | County doctor and Nestor the Banat Botanist |
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| August Kanitz | 1843-1896 | botanist |
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| Günter Kappler | * 1939 | scientist | |
| Walter Kindl | * 1943 | Musicologist, cathedral music director | |
| Alexander Krischan | 1921-2009 | Bibliographer, cultural monograph and historian | |
| Erich Lammert | 1912-1997 | Folklorist |
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| Peter Lamoth | 1908-1995 | Physicist, university professor | |
| Heinrich Lay | * 1928 | Historian, educator | |
| Wilhelm Mill | 1844-1908 | Landscape architect and rose grower | |
| Josef Neumann | 1920-1999 | Ophthalmologist | |
| Maria Pechtol | 1918-2003 | Linguists, Germanist | |
| Hans Röhrich | 1899-1988 | Surgeon, university professor | |
| Josef Reichel | 1907-1969 | Chemist, university professor | |
| Josef Schütz | ? –1960 | Pedagogue, director of the German Roman Catholic Boys' College at the Banatia | |
| Carl Sonklar | 1816-1885 | Military geographer | |
| Anton Sterbling | * 1953 | Sociologist and educator |
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| Herbert Weiss | Music pedagogue | ||
| Hans Weresch | 1902-1986 | Teachers, researchers and cultural politicians | |
| Waldemar Wittmann | 1925-1988 | Economist | |
| Johann Wolf | 1905-1982 | Philosopher, linguist and literary scholar | |
| Josef Wolf | * 1952 | historian |
Other
| Surname | Life dates | description | image |
| Hans Fackelmann | 1933-1979 | Architect, university lecturer | |
| Georg Fleps | 1922-? | Waffen SS storm man | |
| Stefan Fröhlich | 1889-1988 | initially Austrian and German officer, lastly General der Luftwaffe | Happy |
| Mathias Hubert | 1892-1964 | architect | |
| Franz artist | 1900-2008 | Gunner, last surviving veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Central Powers | |
| Hartwig Michels | * 1941 | Engineer, inventor, air cushion designer | |
| Georg Klapka | 1820-1892 | Hungarian general during the Hungarian Revolution 1848/1849 |
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| Wilma Michels | Lecturer at Facla Verlag | ||
| Jakob Neumann | 1920-2009 | General school inspector | |
| Johann Osswald | 1712-1752 | Recruitment of German and French settlers to colonize the Banat | |
| Peter Potye | * 1925 | Contemporary witness | |
| Heinrich Schubkegel | 1838-1991 | Pedagogue, general school inspector | |
| Josef Zauner | 1895-1959 | Publisher, Esperantist and pioneer of European unification |
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles M. Barber: Casualty of War - A Childhood Remembered - Luisa Lang Owen ( tamu.edu ).
- ↑ Brigitte-Margert.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , About Brigitte
- ↑ Franz Bittenbinder - a native painter in the best sense of the word
- ↑ adz.ro ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , General German newspaper for Romania , Franz Metz : The childhood sweetheart came to Timisoara - Beethoven and the Banat
- ↑ Edition-Musik-Suedost.de , Franz Metz: The church music in a Romanian concentration camp
- ↑ Uni-Leipzig.de , Franz Metz: The opera as an institution in southeastern Europe with special consideration of the Banat music centers Timisoara, Arad and Orawitza
- ↑ Kleinbetschkerek.de , New Federal Board LBS
- ↑ glogowatz.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Home meeting - report
- ↑ Dr. Walter Kindl. In: banater-archiv.de
