List of well-known personalities from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Numerous celebrities have studied or taught at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the associated Tübingen monasteries , Evangelisches Stift Tübingen and Wilhelmsstift . For a complete list of all professors at the University of Tübingen represented in Wikipedia, see category: University professors (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) . There is also the list of rectors at the University of Tübingen .

An overview by subject area:

theology

Jakob Andreae (1528–1590), Protestant theologian, reformer and Chancellor of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Alfons Auer (1915–2005), Catholic theologian, professor of moral theology
Carl Bardili (1600–1647), Protestant theologian, professor of anatomy and personal physician to Duke Eberhard III.
Hermann Barth (1945–2017), Protestant theologian
Karl Barth (1886–1968), Protestant theologian
Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860), Protestant theologian, professor of church history
Christian Friedrich Baz (1762–1808), Protestant theologian, lawyer and advocate of the French Revolution
Schalom Ben-Chorin (born Fritz Rosenthal) (1913–1999), Jewish journalist and religious scholar
Otto Betz (1917–2005), Protestant theologian, professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies
Christoph Blumhardt (1842–1919), Protestant theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Protestant theologian
Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976), Protestant theologian, professor of the New Testament
Gerhard Ebeling (1912–2001), Protestant theologian, influential exponent of hermeneutic theology in the 20th century
Johannes Eck (1486–1543), Catholic theologian and counter-reformer
Heinrich Georg August Ewald (1803–1875), Protestant theologian, professor of theology and oriental studies
Jürgen Fliege (* 1947), Protestant theologian
Matthias Freudenberg (* 1962), Protestant theologian
Ernst Fuchs (1903–1983), Professor of the New Testament
Franz Xaver von Funk (1840–1907), Catholic theologian, professor of [ancient] church history
Gebhard Fürst (* 1948), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
Kurt Goldammer (1916–1997), important German scholar of religion
Anton Graf (1811–1867), Catholic theologian
Norbert Greinacher (* 1931), Catholic theologian, professor of practical theology
Romano Guardini (1885–1968), Catholic theologian
Heike Hänsel (* 1966), Catholic theologian, politician (Die Linke), member of the Bundestag
Gottlob Eberhard von Hafner (1785-1858), Protestant theologian
Wilhelm Hahn (1909–1996), Protestant theologian, politician (CDU), Minister of Culture of Baden-Württemberg
Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), theologian, writer of romance , belongs to the Swabian school of poetry
Carl Friedrich Haug (1795–1869), Protestant theologian, professor of universal history
Martin Haug (1895–1983), Protestant theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
Bruno Heck (1917–1989), Catholic theologian, Federal Minister (Family)
Karl Joseph von Hefele (1809–1893), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), Protestant theologian, professor of philosophy
Volkmar Herntrich (1908–1958), Protestant theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state
Johannes von Hieber (1862–1951), Protestant theologian, President of Württemberg
Matthaeus Hiller (1646–1725), Protestant theologian, clergyman and abbot
Johann Baptist von Hirscher (1788–1865), Catholic theologian, professor of moral theology and catechesis
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), Protestant theologian, poet
Wilhelm Holder (1542–1609), Protestant theologian, Abbot of Maulbronn
Karl Holl (1866–1926), Protestant theologian, professor of Protestant theology and church history, member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang Huber (* 1942), Protestant theologian, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
Aegidius Hunnius the Elder (1550–1603), Protestant theologian
Eberhard Jüngel (* 1934), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology, Pour le Mérite
Ernst Käsemann (1906–1998), Lutheran theologian, professor of the New Testament
Margot Käßmann (* 1958), Protestant theologian, regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and chairwoman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
Walter Kasper (* 1933), Catholic theologian, professor, cardinal in the Vatican
Balthasar kauffelin (around 1490–1559), Protestant theologian and professor
Paul Wilhelm von Keppler (1852–1926), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg diocese
Otto Kirn (1857–1911), Protestant theologian and university professor
Bertold Klappert (* 1939), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology
Johann Conrad Klemm (1655–1717), Protestant theologian
Otto Knoch (1926–1993), Catholic theologian, professor of introductory biblical studies and biblical kerygmatics
Manfred Kock (* 1936), Protestant theologian, President and Council Chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany
Nathanael Friedrich von Köstlin (1776–1855), professor of practical theology
Hans Küng (* 1928), Catholic theologian, professor of ecumenical theology
Heinrich Lang (1826–1876), Protestant theologian
Karl Joseph Leiprecht (1903–1981), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg diocese
Maximilian von Lingg (1842–1930), Catholic theologian, 78th Bishop of Augsburg
Franz Xaver von Linsenmann (1835–1898), Catholic theologian, professor of moral and pastoral theology and bishop's select from Rottenburg
Josef von Lipp (1795–1869), Catholic theologian, Bishop of Rottenburg.
Jakob Magirus (1562 / 1564–1624), hymn poet, Protestant abbot in Lorch
Christoph Markschies (* 1962), Protestant theologian, professor of church history and President of the Humboldt University in Berlin
Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Catholic theologian
Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), reformer
Eduard Mörike (1804–1875), Protestant theologian, poet
Jürgen Moltmann (* 1926), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology
Georg Moser (1923–1988), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
Ludolf Hermann Müller (1882–1959), Protestant theologian, bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony
Karl-Ernst Nipkow (1928–2014), Protestant theologian, religious educator
Heiko Augustinus Oberman (1930–2001), Protestant theologian, professor of church history
Richard Puza (* 1943), Catholic theologian, professor of canon law
Konrad Raiser (* 1938), Protestant theologian, professor of systematic theology and general secretary of the World Council
Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI.) (* 1927), Catholic theologian, professor, Pope
Jacob Reihing (1579–1628), Protestant theologian, professor, convert, former Jesuit
Richard von Rieß (1823–1898), Catholic theologian and cathedral chapter
Philip Schaff (1819–1893), Protestant theologian and church historian
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854), Protestant theologian, professor
Lorenz Scheurl (1558–1613), clergyman, theologian and university professor in Helmstedt, student in Tübingen
Adolf Schlatter (1852–1938), Protestant theologian, professor of natural philosophy
Lukas Schleppel (15th century – 1519), Catholic auxiliary bishop in Speyer
Christian Friedrich Schmid (1794–1852), Protestant theologian, professor of practical theology and morality
Hans Schmidt (1877–1953), Protestant theologian, associate professor for the Old Testament
Gerhard Schneider (* 1969), Catholic theologian, auxiliary bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
Eberhard Schockenhoff (1953–2020), Catholic theologian
Klaus Scholder (1930–1985), Protestant theologian, professor of Protestant church history
Anselm Schott (1843-1896), Catholic theologian
Manfred Schulze (* 1945), Protestant theologian, professor of church history
Joannes Baptista Sproll (1870–1949), Catholic theologian, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949), Catholic theologian, rector of the University of Tübingen
David Friedrich Strauss (1808–1874), Protestant theologian
Wilhelm Gottlieb Tafinger (1691–1757), Protestant clergyman, theologian, professor at the university and general superintendent and abbot of Adelberg
Paul Tillich (1886–1965), Protestant theologian, professor at Harvard University
Otto Umfrid (1857–1920), Protestant theologian
Antje Vollmer (* 1943), Protestant theologian
Magnus Weidemann (1880–1967), Protestant theologian, painter, graphic artist, photographer and author
Christian Eberhard Weißmann (1677–1747), Protestant theologian and church historian
Carl Heinrich Weizsäcker (1822–1899), Protestant theologian, professor, rector and from 1889 to 1899 chancellor of the university
Rudolf Weth (* 1937), Protestant theologian
Hubert Wolf (* 1959), Catholic theologian, professor of church history

Linguistics

Martin Crusius or Martin Krauß (1526–1607), classical philologist and historian
Helga Gallas (* 1940), Germanist, journalist and literary scholar
Evelyne Gebhardt (* 1954), politician
August Schleicher (1821–1868), linguist
Hans Krahe (1898–1965), philologist and linguist
Antonio Tovar (1911–1984), philologist, linguist and historian
Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002), Romance studies and general linguist

law Sciences

Asfa-Wossen Asserate (* 1948), management consultant, bestselling author and political analyst
Manfred Balz (* 1944), member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG
Martin Bangemann (* 1934), politician
Burckhard Bardili (1629–1692), lawyer, professor
Fritz Baur (1911–1992), lawyer and professor
Fritz Bauer (1903–1968), co-initiator of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials
Jürgen Baumann (1922–2003), legal scholar and FDP politician
Bernhard Beck (* 1954), member of the management board of EnBW AG
Johannes Bell (1868–1949), politician and lawyer
Axel Berg (* 1959), politician
Christoph Besold (1577–1638), lawyer and state scholar
Josef Beyerle (1881–1963), lawyer and politician
Frieder Birzele (* 1940), politician
Lorenz Bock (1883–1948), lawyer and politician
Rudolf Böhmler (* 1946), member of the Board of Management of the Deutsche Bundesbank, former State Secretary D.
Eugen Bolz (1881–1945), politician
Johann Viktor Bredt (1879–1940), constitutional lawyer and politician
Fred Breinersdorfer (* 1946), screenwriter, film producer and lawyer
Johann Christoph Friedrich Breyer (1749–1777), from 1772 associate professor, from 1774 full professor of law
Siegfried Broß (* 1946), legal scholar
Ewald Bucher (1914–1991), politician
Oskar von Bülow (1837–1907), legal scholar
Herta Däubler-Gmelin (* 1943), lawyer and politician
Richard Dewes (* 1948), politician
Hans Dölle (1893–1980), lawyer and university professor
Alfred Dregger (1920–2002), politician
Günter Dürig (1920–1996), professor of constitutional law
Josef Hermann Dufhues (1908–1971), politician
Michael Eichberger (* 1953), lawyer
Matthäus Enzlin (1556–1613), lawyer
Walter Erbe (1909–1967), politician
Klaus Esser (* 1947), lawyer and manager
Josef Esser (1910–1999), legal scholar
Oskar Farny (1891–1983), officer, manager in agriculture and politician
Robert Fischer (1911–1983), lawyer
Werner Flume (1908–2009), legal scholar and professor of Roman law, civil law, tax law and legal history
Hans-Joachim Fuchtel (* 1952), politician
Wilhelm Ganzhorn (1818–1880), lawyer and court actuary
Heinrich von Gauß (1858–1921), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
Heiner Geißler (1930–2017), politician
Otto Geßler (1875–1955), politician
Hans Gmelin (1911–1991), lawyer
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884–1945), lawyer, politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Tanja Gönner (* 1969), politician
Gerhard Goll (* 1942), lawyer, politician and business manager
Hans Goudefroy (1900–1961), lawyer
Adolf Gröber (1854–1919), lawyer and politician
Ludwig Grosse (1907–1992), business lawyer and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit
Evelyn Haas (* 1949), honorary professor
Volker Haas (* 1963), legal scholar
Hansjörg Häfele (* 1932), politician
Ulrich von Hassell (1881–1944), local politician, diplomat and resistance fighter
Otto Haußleiter (1896–?), Political scientist and administrative officer
Wolfgang Haußmann (1903–1989), politician
Karl Heck (1896–1997), judge
Wolfgang Heine (1861–1944), lawyer and politician
Hans Jochen Henke (* 1945), politician
Jakob Henrichmann (around 1482–1561), humanist, lawyer and clergyman
Karl Ferdinand Theodor Hepp (1800-1851), criminal lawyer
Georg Herwegh (1817–1875), socialist-revolutionary poet from Vormärz
Roman Herzog (1934–2017), honorary professor
Otto Hirsch (1885–1941), managing director of the Reich Representation of German Jews
Karl Christoph Hofacker (1749–1793), legal scholar and Württemberg councilor
Johann Daniel Hoffmann (1740–1814), legal scholar, professor and privy councilor
Ferdinand von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1865–1927), King of Romania
Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811–1885), ruling Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Stefan von Holtzbrinck (* 1963), lawyer and publisher
Christine Hohmann-Denhardt (* 1950), lawyer and politician
Dieter Hömig (1938–2016), judge
Karl Friedrich von Hufnagel (1788–1848), legal scholar and politician
Philipp Jenninger (1932–2018), politician
Dietrich Katzenstein (1923-2008), judge
Alfred von Kiderlen-Wächter (1852–1912), diplomat
Klaus Kinkel (1936–2019), politician and lawyer
Ferdinand Kirchhof (* 1950), lawyer and legal scholar
Claus Kleber (* 1955), lawyer, journalist, book author and television presenter
Arnulf Klett (1905–1974), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
Christian Reinhold Köstlin (1813–1856), professor of criminal law
Ulrich Köstlin (* 1952), business lawyer and manager
Volker Kröning (* 1945), politician
Christian Lange (* 1964), politician
Helmut Lemke (1907–1990), politician
August Lentze (1860–1945), municipal official and finance minister
Thomas Lobinger (* 1966), legal scholar
Geert Mackenroth (* 1950), lawyer and politician
Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (* 1929), administrative lawyer, politician, minister and lawyer
Reinhold Maier (1889–1971), politician
Julius Friedrich von Malblanc (1752–1828), legal scholar, multiple rector of the university
Hermann von Mangoldt (1895–1953), legal scholar and politician
Ulrich Maurer (* 1948), politician
Hermann Adolph Meinders (1665–1730), lawyer, clerk and historian
Rudolf Mellinghoff (* 1954), legal scholar
Adolf Merckle (1934–2009), entrepreneur, investor and lawyer
Oswald Metzger (* 1954), politician and publicist
Hermann von Mittnacht (1825–1909), lawyer
Gebhard Müller (1900–1990), politician
Ulrich Müller (* 1944), politician
Johannes Nauclerus (1425–1510), scholar, theologian, legal scholar and historian
Karl Friedrich Nebenius (1784–1857), Baden civil servant, liberal minister of state and Freemason
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (1873–1956), diplomat
Günther Oettinger (* 1953), politician
Helmut Ohnewald (1936–2018), politician
Dietrich Oldenburg (* 1933), lawyer and writer
Guntram Palm (1931–2013), lawyer, state central bank president and politician
Friedrich von Payer (1847–1931), politician
Anton Pfeifer (* 1937), politician
Felix Porsch (1853–1930), lawyer and politician
Martin Prenninger (around 1450–1501), humanist and legal scholar
Ludwig Raiser (1904–1980), professor of civil, commercial and economic law
Edmund Rau (1868–1953), lawyer
Kurt Rebmann (1924-2005), lawyer
Viktor Renner (1899–1969), lawyer and politician
Manfred Rommel (1928–2013), politician
Ernst Gustav von Rümelin (1785–1850), senior bailiff and member of the state parliament
Carl Sartorius (1865–1945), lawyer
Albert Sauer (1902–1981), politician, honorary senator at the University of Tübingen (1960)
Alfred Sauter (* 1950), politician
Hugo Schäffer (1875–1945), lawyer and politician
Hermann Schaufler (* 1947), politician
Wolfgang Schieren (1927–1996), insurance manager
Dietmar Schlee (1938–2002), politician
Hartwig Schlegelberger (1913–1997), politician
Rüdiger Schleicher (1895–1945), lawyer, pioneer of air law and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Matthias Seeger (* 1955), lawyer
Albrecht Schmidt (* 1938), lawyer and bank manager
Carlo Schmid (1896–1979), politician and constitutional lawyer
Nils Schmid (* 1973), politician
Heinrich Schönfelder (1902–1944) lawyer, editor and author
Eduard von Schrader (1779–1860), legal scholar, professor, senior tribunal councilor and honorary senator
Henning Schulte-Noelle (* 1942), manager
Wolfgang Schuster (* 1949), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905–1944), lawyer and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
Heinrich von Sick (1822–1881), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
Adolf Theis (1933–2013), President of the University of Tübingen from 1972 to 1995
Regine Stachelhaus (* 1955), lawyer
Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician
Nikolaus Varnbuler (1519–1604), legal scholar, diplomat and professor
Kristiane Weber-Hassemer (* 1939), judge
Karl von Weizsäcker (1853–1926), politician
Corinna Werwigk-Hertneck (* 1952), politician
Ruth Wetzel-Steinwedel (* 1948), lawyer
Eberhard Wildermuth (1890–1952), politician
Matthias Wissmann (* 1949), lobbyist and politician
Albrecht Duke of Württemberg (1865–1939)
Charles I (Württemberg) (1823-1891), third king of Württemberg
Wilhelm II (Württemberg) (1848–1921)
Joachim Zahn (1914–2002), industrial lawyer

Economics

Ernst Albrecht (1930–2014), politician
Walter Eucken (1891–1950), economist
Filmon Ghirmai (* 1979), German athlete
Helmut Haussmann (* 1943), politician
Rudolf Hickel (* 1942), economist
Friedrich List (1789-1846), professor
Horst Köhler (* 1943), Federal President, honorary professor since 2003
Balduin Penndorf (1873–1941), economist and business school teacher
Dieter Pohmer (1925–2013), professor of economics, especially finance
Wilhelm Rall (* 1946), honorary professor since 2003
Gustav von Rümelin (1815–1889), Professor of Statistics, Comparative Political Science and Philosophy 1867–1889
Rudolf Schwarz (1904–1963), writer and parapsychologist
Jürgen Stark (* 1948), ECB chief economist, honorary professor since 2005
Joachim Starbatty (* 1940), ordoliberal economist , politician
Lutz Stavenhagen (1940–1992), politician
Klaus Töpfer (* 1938), politician, honorary professor since 2005
Walter Troeltsch (1866–1933), political economist
Eckhard Wandel (* 1942), economic and social historian, entrepreneur, manager and business consultant
Martin Biewen , university professor for statistics, econometrics and quantitative methods

sociology

Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009), sociologist, politician and publicist
Regine Gildemeister (* 1949), sociologist

medicine

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), psychiatrist and neuropathologist
Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth (1772–1835), physician
Erwin Bälz (1849–1913), internist, tropical medicine specialist and anthropologist
Carl Bardili (1600–1647), physician, professor, personal physician to the Duke of Württemberg
Theodor Bilharz (1825–1862), physician, physician and natural scientist
Günter Blobel (1936–2018), biochemist
Hans Erhard Bock (1903–2004), internist and university professor
Heinrich von Breslau (1784–1851), pharmacologist, personal physician to the King of Bavaria and privy councilor
Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918), neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
Dietrich Falke (* 1927), specialist in medical microbiology and infectious diseases
Detlev Ganten (* 1941), specialist in pharmacology and clinical pharmacology
Robert Eugen Gaupp (1870–1953), psychiatrist and neurologist
Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–1868), internist, psychiatrist and neurologist
Martin Heidenhain (1864–1949), anatomist
Ekkehard Kallee (1922–2012), university professor and nuclear medicine specialist
Justinus Kerner (1786–1862), doctor, medical writer and poet
Martin Kirschner (1879–1942), surgeon and university professor
Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964), psychiatrist
Hubert von Luschka (1820–1875), anatomist
Hans Joachim Mallach (1924–2001), medical examiner
Albrecht Nagel (1833–1895), ophthalmologist, director of the University Eye Clinic
Paul Pulewka (1896–1989), director of the Institute of Toxicology
Leopold Sokrates von Riecke (1790–1876), professor of surgery and obstetrics
Hans-Konrad Selbmann (* 1941), medical computer scientist and professor emeritus
Alfred Storch (1888–1962), psychiatrist
Eugen Wannenmacher (1897–1974), university professor and SS-Sturmbannführer in the office of the Reichsarzzte SS
Ernst Weinmann (1907–1947), SS-Obersturmbannführer and convicted war criminal
Erich Wintermantel (* 1956), doctor and engineer
Arne Gabius (* 1981), middle and long distance runner

Classical Philology

Heinrich Bebel (1472 or 1473–1518), poet
Martin Crusius (1526–1607), classical philologist and historian
Hans Flach (1845–1895), classical philologist
Gottlieb Friedrich Jäger (1783–1843), Protestant clergyman, theologian and university professor
Walter Jens (1923–2013), classical philologist, literary historian, writer, critic and translator
Ioannis Kakridis (1901–1992), classical philologist
Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), classical philologist, philosopher, humanist, Lutheran theologian, textbook author and neo-Latin poet
Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1900–1974), literary scholar, classical philologist and translator
Margarete Sorg-Rose , composer, conductor, author
Erwin Rohde (1845–1898), classical philologist
Jens Holzhausen (* 1963), classical philologist

Bioinformatics

Sebastian Nerz (* 1983), politician

General rhetoric

Georg Burckhardt (1539–1607), philosopher and professor of logic and rhetoric
Walter Jens (1923–2013), classical philologist, literary historian, writer, critic and translator
Gert Ueding (* 1942), Germanist and university lecturer
Joachim Knape (* 1950), literary scholar

geography

Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), local history researcher

German studies

Friedrich Beißner (1905–1977), editor of Hölderlin's works
Jakob Bleyer (1874–1933), Hungarian Minister for National Minorities and Honorary Senator and Honorary Doctor of the University of Tübingen
Erhard Eppler (1926-2019), German politician (SPD)
Eugen Gerstenmaier (1906–1986), member of the Kreisau Circle and President of the Bundestag
Regina Gottschalk , winner of the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize
Joachim Kaiser (1928–2017), music critic
Hellmuth Karasek (1934-2015), literary critic
Adelbert von Keller (1812–1883), translator and editor
Fritz Kuhn (* 1955), politician
Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), historian
Thomas Oppermann (* 1954), politician
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), author and publicist
Ulrich Tukur (* 1957), actor and musician
Ludwig Uhland (1787–1862), poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician
Siegfried Unseld (1924–2002), publisher
Martin Walser (* 1927), writer
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813), poet and translator
Bernhard Zeller (1919–2008), founding director of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
Benjamin Piel (* 1984), journalist and winner of the Theodor Wolff Prize

History and Classical Studies

Kurt Bittel (1907–1991), professor of prehistory and early history , excavator of Hattuscha
Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), political scientist and historian
Martin Doerry (* 1955), journalist and author
Walter Döring (* 1954), politician
Horst Fuhrmann (1926–2011), Professor of Medieval and Modern History 1962–1971, Pour le Mérite
Werner Gauer (* 1937), professor of classical archeology
Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), prehistorian and anthropologist
Joachim Hahn (1942–1997), prehistoric
Carl Friedrich Haug (1795–1869), Protestant Lutheran theologian and historian
Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), historian
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), Federal Chancellor 1966–1969
Wolfgang Kimmig (1910–2001), Professor of Prehistory and Early History
Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005), professor of prehistory and early history, excavator in Troia
Christoph Jakob Kremer (1722–1777), historian and lawyer from the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim
Günther Krahe (* 1928), state curator
Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), local history researcher
Hansjürgen Müller-Beck (1927–2018), professor of prehistory
Sten Nadolny (* 1942), writer
Eberhard Naujoks (1915–1996), historian and university professor
Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), historian
Kurt Sethe (1869–1934), Egyptologist
Robert Rudolf Schmidt (1882–1950), prehistorian and archaeologist
Barbara Scholkmann (* 1941), professor of archeology in the Middle Ages
Albert Schwegler (1819–1857), theologian, philosopher and historian
Theo Sommer (* 1930), journalist
Hans Speidel (1897–1984), general, lecturer in modern history
Philipp W. Stockhammer (* 1977), prehistorian, archaeologist and university lecturer
Johannes Straub (1912–1996), ancient historian
Thekla Walker (* 1969), politician
Heinrich August Winkler (* 1938), historian
Wilhelm Zimmermann (1807–1878), Protestant theologian, poet, historian

Philosophy / art

Gabriel Biel (before 1410–1495), scholastic philosopher
Stefanie Bielmeier (* 1954), writer and art historian
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosopher
Georg Dehio (1850–1932), art historian
Eve-Marie Engels (* 1951), philosopher and science historian
Hanno Hahn (1922–1960), art historian and architectural researcher
Otfried Höffe (* 1943), philosopher
Hans Holländer (1932–2017), art historian
Wolfgang Kermer (* 1935), art historian, art educator, author, editor and university professor
Kevin Kuhn (* 1981), author
Karl Reinhold von Köstlin (1819–1894), professor of art history and aesthetics
Julian Nida-Rümelin (* 1954), philosopher
Jakob Friedrich Reiff (1810–1879), philosopher
Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522), philosopher, humanist, lawyer and diplomat
Johann Eberhard Rösler (1668–1733), philosopher, librarian and pedagogue
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854), philosopher and anthropologist
Burghart Schmidt (* 1942), philosopher
Helmut Schoeck (1922–1993), sociologist and publicist
Andreas Heinrich Schott (1758–1831), philosopher, librarian and pedagogue
Walter Schulz (1912–2000), philosopher
Gustav Schwab (1792–1850), pastor, high school professor and writer
Ernst Seidl
Fridolin Stier (1902–1981), Catholic theologian
Dieter Stolte (* 1934), journalist and former television manager
Michel Tournier (1924-2016), writer

Musicology

Georg von Dadelsen (1918–2007), German Bach researcher
Walther Dürr (1932–2018), Schubert researcher, editor-in-chief of the New Schubert Edition
Arnold Feil (1925–2019), music historian, founder of the International Franz Schubert Society
Walter Gerstenberg (1904–1988), musicologist
Martin Karl Hasse (1883–1960), composer and music writer
Thomas Kohlhase (* 1941), musicologist
Thomas Schipperges (* 1959), musicologist and university professor
Ernst Fritz Schmid (1904–1960), musicologist and Mozart expert
Manfred Hermann Schmid (* 1947), Mozart and Beethoven research, music notation
Margarete Sorg-Rose (* 1960), composer, conductor, author, musicologist
Andreas Traub (* 1949), musicologist and university professor
Fritz Volbach (1861–1940), conductor, composer and musicologist

pedagogy

Otto Friedrich Bollnow (1903–1991), philosopher and educator
Andreas Flitner (1922–2016), Professor of Education
Oswald Kroh (1887–1955), educator and psychologist
Rudolf Sauter (1925–2013), pedagogue, philologist, dialect poet and university professor
Eduard Spranger (1882–1963), philosopher, educator and psychologist
Hans Thiersch (* 1935), professor
Arne Ulbricht (* 1972), writer and teacher

psychology

Rudolf Bergius (1914-2004), social psychologist
Niels Birbaumer (* 1945), brain researcher, clinical psychologist, researched the mechanisms of biofeedback at the interface to medicine
Martin Hautzinger (* 1950), clinical psychologist
Gerhard Kaminski (* 1925), psychologist from the field of general psychology
Dirk Revenstorf (* 1939), psychologist for psychotherapy and intervention

Political science

Up until the end of the 19th century, political science was called "Regiminalwissenschaft".

Klaus von Beyme (* 1934), political scientist
Theodor Eschenburg (1904–1999), full professor of political science
Theophil Friedrich von Hack (1843–1911), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
Ulrich Kienzle (1936–2020), journalist, publicist and Middle East expert
Elmar Kuhn (* 1944), local history researcher
Christoph Palmer (* 1962), management consultant
Ernst Pfister (* 1947), politician
Hans Bernhard Graf von Schweinitz (1926–2008), ministerial official, politician and writer
Jörg-Otto Spiller (* 1942), politician
Annette Widmann-Mauz (* 1966), politician
Timm Kern (* 1972), politician
Hans-Georg Wehling (* 1938), political scientist

Romance Studies

Andreas Schockenhoff (1957–2014), politician
Rita Süssmuth (* 1937), politician
Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002), Romance studies and general linguist
Johannes Kabatek
Peter Koch (1951–2014), linguist, Romanist, Frenchist, Italianist and Medievalist
Adolfo Murguia
Wido Hempel (1930-2006), Romanist
Maren Kroymann (* 1949), actress, cabaret artist, singer

Slavic Studies

Ludolf Müller (1917–2009), Slavist and literary scholar

Political Science

Gustav Kolb (1798–1865), publicist for the Allgemeine Zeitung
Richard Stegemann (1856–1925), economist and Chamber of Commerce secretary. First doctorate in 1885 on Karl Marx 's Das Kapital
Robert Tillmanns (1896–1955), politician

Natural sciences or mathematics

Lothar Binding (* 1950), member of the Bundestag
Günter Blobel (1936–2018), biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999
Valentin Braitenberg (1926–2011), brain researcher and cyberneticist
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1909
Werner Braunbek (1901–1977), professor of theoretical physics
Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907
Erwin Bünning (1906–1990), full professor of botany
Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939
Rudolph Jacob Camerarius (1665–1721), professor of botany
Rolf Claessen (* 1972), patent attorney
Carl Correns (1864–1933), private lecturer in botany
Theodor Eimer (1843–1898), professor of zoology and comparative anatomy
Samuel Eisenmenger , called Siderocrates (1534–1585), mathematics
Matthias Ettrich (* 1972), computer scientist, initiator of the KDE project
Wolfgang Feist (* 1954), physicist
Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), botanist
Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist
Walther Gerlach (1889–1979), professor of physics
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804), botanist, professor of medicine
Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), professor of botany
Leopold Gmelin (1788-1853), chemist
Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (1721–1768), professor of botany
Andreas Goldmayer (1602–1665), mathematician, astronomer and calendar maker , stud.

Robert Gradmann (1865–1950), doctorate. botany

Günther Graup (1940–2006), geologist and impact researcher

Gregor Hagedorn (* 1965), botanist

Jürgen Hambrecht (* 1946), Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF

Johann Daniel Hofacker (1788–1828), veterinarian

Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824–1877), full professor of botany

Peter Hans Hofschneider (1929–2004), pioneer of German molecular biology

Edwin Hennig (1882–1977), professor of geology and paleontology

Walter Hückel (1895–1973), professor and director of the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Institute

Karl Hummel (1902–1987), Professor of Pharmacognosy

Johann Christian Hundeshagen (1783–1834), Professor of Forest Sciences

Claus Jönsson (* 1930), professor of physics, discoverer of the interference of electrons at the double slit

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer

Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765–1844), full professor of botany

Christof Koch (* 1956), neuroscientist

Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733–1806), botanist

Walther Kossel (1888–1956), professor of physics

Erwin Kulzer (1928–2014), professor of zoology

Ernst Lehmann (1880–1957), full professor of botany

Maria Countess von Linden-Aspermont (1869–1936), the first female student in Tübingen and Württemberg

Karl Mägdefrau (1907–1999), full professor of botany

Michael Mästlin (1550–1631), astronomer

Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), chemist

Hartmut Michel (* 1948), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988

Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), full professor of botany

Hans Mohr (1930–2016), biologist

Eugen Müller (1905–1976), professor of applied chemistry

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (* 1942), biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995

Boris Palmer (* 1972), politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens )

Friedrich Paschen (1865–1947), Professor of Experimental Physics 1901–1924

Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845–1920), full professor of botany

Friedrich August von Quenstedt (1809–1889), professor of geology and mineralogy, paleontologist

Friedrich August von Quenstedt in regalia as rector of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

William Ramsay (1852–1916), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904

Otto E. Rössler (* 1940), chaos researcher

Hans Rotta (1921–2008), publisher, editor, editor and biologist

Wilhelm Ruhland (1878–1960), full professor of botany

Bert Sakmann (* 1942), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991

Klaus Sander (1929–2015), biologist

Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635), professor of biblical languages, astronomy, mathematics and surveying; Builder of the first calculating machine

Konrad Schily (* 1937), member of the Bundestag and founding president of the University of Witten / Herdecke

Bernhard Schölkopf (* 1968), mathematician

Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf (1906–1963), astronomer

Wolfgang Straßer (1941–2015), professor of computer science ( computer graphics ); Co-founder of the Wilhelm Schickard Institute

Johannes Stöffler (1452–1531), astronomer

Dieter Vogellehner (1937–2002), botany

Hermann von Vöchting (1847–1917), professor of botany

Georg Wagner (1885–1972), professor of applied geology

Detlef Weigel (* 1961), German-American biologist

Otti Wilmanns (* 1928), biologist

Wilhelm Wislicenius (1861–1922), full professor of chemistry

Georg Wittig (1897–1987), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979

Walter Zimmermann (1892–1980), professor of botany

Sports science

Ommo Grupe (1930–2015), sports scientist
Tobias Unger (* 1979), athlete
Saban Uzun (* 1987), football coach
Veit Wank (* 1963), sports scientist

Web links

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