List of personalities of the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria
The list of personalities of the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria contains in Weißenburg in Bayern , a large district town in the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , personalities born as well as those who are related to the city because they had their (main) sphere of activity here, without being born there myself. All sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.
sons and daughters of the town
- Konrad Altheimer (1431–1509), administrator of the Diocese of Olomouc and from 1498 auxiliary bishop in Olomouc
- Ludwig von Schmidberg (1594–1657), person in the Thirty Years War
- Georg Abraham Mercklin (1644–1702), medic
- Wolfgang Wilhelm Heberer (1659–1721), Count of the Imperial Palatinate
- Johann Alexander Döderlein (1675–1745), scholar, master's degree and polyhistorian
- Georg Michael Preu (1681–1745), Protestant theologian and writer
- Johann Heinrich von Brandenstein (1723–1764), Protestant theologian and superintendent
- Carl Friedrich Tröltsch (1729–1804), writer
- Andreas Ehrenfried Forstmeyer (1732–1787), musician
- Georg Christian Forstmeyer (1740–1804), musician and composer
- David Andreas Forstmeyer the Younger (1753–1805), musician
- Johann Jakob Roth (1760–1826), Bavarian farmer and politician
- Friedrich Rohmer (1814–1856), German-Swiss philosopher and politician
- Ernst Rohmer (1818–1897), printer and bookseller
- August Fleischmann (1826–1887), Bavarian lawyer and politician
- Karl Michel (1836–1922), beer brewer
- Friedrich Tröltsch (1838–1924), Bavarian manufacturer, fire brigade commander and politician
- Wilhelm Troeltsch (1840–1925), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag
- Otto Rieder (1850–1919), Reich Archives Councilor
- Heinrich Schützinger (1857–1920), lawyer, local politician and local researcher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht (1861–1943), German politician and pastor
- Gustav Ritter von Kahr (1862–1934), politician
- Julius Miedel (1863–1940) was a teacher, city archivist and historian
- Hermann Tröltsch (1866–1953), banker
- Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), painter
- Max Rhodius (1880–1966), entrepreneur, founder of Rhodius Drahtgestrick GmbH
- Maximilian Schwandner (1881–1972), General of the Infantry
- Georg Wunderle (1881–1950), theologian
- Werner Immler (1882–1965), aircraft technician
- Ernst Preu (1885–1958), field hospital chaplain, pastor (in Brunnenreuth and Neustadt an der Aisch ) and church councilor
- Julius Schieder (1888–1964), Evangelical Lutheran senior church councilor and district dean of Nuremberg
- Ludwig Schmuck (1892–1945), politician of the NSDAP, paramilitary activist and SA leader
- Rudolf Nebel (1894–1978), physicist
- Hans Bogner (1895–1948), German classical philologist
- Karl Fischer (1900–1986), conductor
- Heinrich Stöhr (1904–1958), politician
- Karl Hemmeter (1904–1986), sculptor
- Gretl Zottmann (1913–1975), writer
- Ludwig Fellner (1917–2006), landscape painter
- Wolfgang Kaempfer (1923–2009), writer and essayist
- Georg Karl Pfahler (1926–2002), painter, artist and art professor
- Peter Carsten (1928–2012), actually Peter Ramsentaler , German actor
- Bernd Bajog (* 1946), director, screenwriter, film producer
- Gerhard von Lienen (* 1947), judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- Gunther Wenz (* 1949), Lutheran theologian and university professor
- Gerhard Wägemann (* 1953), politician of the CSU and district administrator of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
- Martin Karrer (* 1954), Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar
- Arthur Rosenbauer (* 1955), Franconian songwriter & world musician, MundART Festival Weissenburg, mining historian
- Aribert Wolf (* 1959), politician
- Detlev Brunner (* 1959), historian
- Peter Schwarzenbauer (* 1959), manager
- Wolfgang Hauber (* 1959), politician
- Franz Schillinger (1964–2005), composer and guitarist
- Thomas Döbler (* 1964), German politician (SPD)
- Beate Walter-Rosenheimer (* 1964), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Anja Beatrice Kaul (* 1965), German actress
- Rainer Leng (* 1966), medieval historian
- Johannes Matthias Roth (* 1967), Protestant pastor, songwriter and teacher
- Markus Hausen (* 1968), cameraman
- Daniel Burger (* 1971), archivist and art historian
- Katharina von Habsburg (* 1972), writer
- Markus Steinhöfer (* 1986), German soccer player with TSV 1860 Munich
- Haşim Çelik (* 1990), Turkish Taekwondoin
People related to Weißenburg
- Gunthildis von Suffersheim, saint, probably from Weißenburg-Suffersheim
- Blasius Berwart (1530–1589), builder of the Wülzburg fortress
- Georg Raumer (1610–1691), theologian and court preacher
- Anna Vetter (1630–1703), fortune teller
- Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703), German astronomer and mathematician
- Johann Georg Faber (* around 1640; † 1716), organist
- Christoph Christian Handel (1671–1734), Protestant theologian and general superintendent in Ansbach
- Johann Christoph Faber (1669–1744), baroque musician and organist
- Georg Septimus Andreas von Praun (1701–1786), German archivist, librarian and historian
- David Andreas Forstmeyer (1707–1771), musician and instrumentalist with the imperial city of Weißenburg as his place of work
- Johann Georg Friedrich Jacobi (1751-1824), German publisher
- Franz Troglauer (1754–1801), robber captain and poacher, was a prisoner in the Wülzburg
- Johann Heinrich Witschel (1769–1847), pastor in Kattenhochstatt
- Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–1862), medic and poet
- Johann Matthias Heinrich Weiser (1808–1865), poet
- Hermann Trenkle (1814–1896), politician
- Wilhelm Langenfaß (1819–1898), architect and building officer, architect of numerous buildings in the Weißenburg area
- Wilhelm Philipp Peter Doignon (1820–1863), philologist, poet and theologian, worked as a teacher and pastor in Weißenburg between 1844 and 1860
- Gustav von Kahr (the elder) (1833–1905), administrative lawyer
- Wilhelm Jacob van Bebber (1841–1909), meteorologist
- Wilhelm Kohl (1848–1898), pharmacist and Limes researcher
- Siegmund Günther (1848–1923), geographer and natural scientist
- Karl Kelber (1862–1954), writer
- Hans Doerfler (1863–1942), surgeon
- Else Model (1871–1953), writer
- Karl Eisen (1873–1943), physician
- Fritz Ossberger (1877–1947), inventor and entrepreneur
- Paul Wurzel (1877–1936), German politician
- Joseph Joos (1878–1965), journalist and politician
- Carl Kempkes (1881–1964), garden architect
- Otto Ochmann (1883–1957), politician
- Valentin Fjodorowitsch Bulgakow (1886–1966), Russian author, was a prisoner of war in the Wülzburg
- Werner von Grundherr zu Altenthann und Weiherhaus (1888–1962), diplomat
- Friedrich Veit , Protestant pastor, 1918–1925 pastor in Weißenburg
- Karl Gareis (1889–1921), politician
- Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), French President, was a prisoner in the Wülzburg during World War I
- Karl Franz Leppa (1893–1986), writer
- Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), composer
- Fritz Staudinger (1896–1964), politician
- Michael Gerstner (1896–1977), local politician
- Josef Ackermann (1896–1959), German journalist
- Balther Dyroff (1904–1986), politician, pastor in Emetzheim and Holzingen
- Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (1906–1985), 1934–1939 musical director of the Weissenburg Festival
- Hermann Gutmann (1907–1987), entrepreneur
- Josef Lidl (1911–1999), painter, graphic artist and local historian
- Horst Lenz (1913–1985), auditor
- Karl Struller (1913–1947), SS staff leader in the Mauthausen concentration camp
- Bernhard Klaus (1913–2008), theologian and university professor, pastor in Weißenburg
- Richard Stücklen (1916–2002), German politician
- Franz Liebl (1923–2002), writer
- Martin Mayer (* 1931), sculptor
- Hans Maurer (* 1933), German politician (CSU), was a teacher in Weißenburg
- Horst Spitschka (* 1935), writer
- John M. Shalikashvili (1936-2011), US General
- Friedrich Eigler (* 1940), writer and university professor
- Theo Berger (1941–2003), violent criminal, carried out an attack in Weißenburg
- Ulf Beier (* 1941), writer
- Rainer Messerer (* 1943), German politician (SPD), teacher in Weißenburg
- Claus Wagner (sports official) (1947-2016), German table tennis official
- Andreas Thiermeyer (* 1949), Weißenburg parish priest from 1994
- Claus-Michael Hüssen (* 1955), archaeologist
- Artur Auernhammer (* 1963), politician
- John Degenkolb (* 1989), athlete
Honorary citizen
- Richard Stücklen (1916–2002), politician
- Hermann Gutmann (1907–1987), entrepreneur
- Georg Adam Bauer (1828–1901), railway engineer
The (lord) mayor of the city
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