List of Frankish personalities

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The Franconian rake as the coat of arms of Franconia

Franconia is a region in northern Bavaria and parts of Hesse , Thuringia and Baden-Württemberg . This list of Frankish personalities contains personalities born in Franconia as well as those who had their (main) sphere of activity in Franconia without being born there themselves. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Franconia

12th Century

Wolfram von Eschenbach ( Codex Manesse )
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach (speculative dates of life * around 1160/80; † around / after 1220) was a German-speaking poet and minstrel; Middle High German literature owes him several epic works

14th Century

Emperor Sigismund

15th century

Albrecht Dürer (self-portrait) , 1498
  • Johann Müller , known as Regiomontanus (born June 6, 1436 in Königsberg , † July 6, 1476 in Rome ), was an important mathematician, astronomer and publisher of the late Middle Ages
  • Hartmann Schedel (born February 13, 1440 in Nuremberg; † November 28, 1514 there) was a doctor, humanist and historian; his most important work is the so-called Schedel'sche Weltchronik
  • Peter Vischer the Elder (* around 1455 in Nuremberg; † January 7, 1529 there) was a sculptor and redsmith from the Nuremberg artist family Vischer
  • Adam Kraft (* between 1455 and 1460 in Nuremberg; † mid-January 1509) was a sculptor and master builder during the late Gothic period
  • Hans Böhm , also known as Pauker von Niklashausen (* around 1458 in Helmstadt ; † 19 July 1476 in Würzburg), was a cattle herder, musician, preacher and initiator of the Niklashaus pilgrimage of 1476
  • Martin Behaim (born October 6, 1459 in Nuremberg, † July 29, 1507 in Lisbon ) was a cloth merchant and Portuguese knight; he became known as the stimulator of the oldest surviving globe
  • Albrecht Dürer (born May 21, 1471 in Nuremberg; † April 6, 1528 there) was a painter, graphic artist, mathematician and art theorist of European rank; he was an important artist in the time of humanism and the Reformation
  • Lucas Cranach the Elder (* around 1472 in Kronach ; † October 16, 1553 in Weimar ) was one of the most important German painters and graphic artists of the Renaissance
  • Peter Henlein (* around 1479 in Nuremberg; † August 1542 there) was a master locksmith and probably the inventor of the watch that could be worn on the body in Germany
  • Götz von Berlichingen (* around 1480, location unclear, presumed to be Berlichingen or Jagsthausen ; † July 23, 1562 at Hornberg Castle in Neckarzimmern ) was an imperial knight who was known primarily through his role in the Swabian Peasants' War and as a model for the main character of the same name in Johann Wolfgang of Goethe's play of the same name became known; the so-called Götz quote is also attributed to him
  • Georg Burkhardt Spalatin (born January 17, 1484 in Spalt , † January 16, 1545 in Altenburg ) was a humanist, theologian, reformer and historian
  • Adam Ries , often in the inflected form Adam Riese (* 1492 or 1493 in Staffelstein ; † March 30 or April 2, 1559, probably in Annaberg or Wiesa ), was an arithmetic master; he is generally regarded as the father of modern arithmetic
  • Hans Sachs (born November 5, 1494 in Nuremberg; † January 19, 1576 ibid) was a shoemaker, poet, master singer and playwright

16th Century

Coats of arms of some dukes from Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605
  • Matthias Grünewald (* 16th century) was a painter and graphic artist and is considered a great, important representative of the Renaissance
  • Christophorus Clavius (born March 25, 1538 in or near Bamberg , † February 6, 1612 in Rome ) was a mathematician and Jesuit priest at the Collegio Romano; he pioneered the Gregorian calendar
  • Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (born March 18, 1545 in Mespelbrunn , † September 13, 1617 at the Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg ) was Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Duke in Franconia and an important representative of the Counter-Reformation
  • Johann Siebmacher , also Hans Sibmacher and Syber (* around 1561 in Nuremberg; † March 23, 1611 there), was a coat of arms painter, engraver, etcher and publisher
  • Hans Leo Haßler (baptized October 26, 1564 in Nuremberg; † June 8, 1612 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a composer, watchmaker and maker of music automatons
  • Simon Marius (born January 10, 1573 jul. In Gunzenhausen ; † December 26, 1624 jul. / January 5, 1625 greg. In Ansbach ) was a mathematician, astronomer, doctor and discovered the four largest moons of the planet almost simultaneously with Galileo Galilei Jupiter

17th century

18th century

Jean Paul, painting by Heinrich Pfenninger, 1798
  • Jean Paul , actually Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (born March 21, 1763 in Wunsiedel , † November 14, 1825 in Bayreuth ), was a writer between the Classical and Romantic periods.
  • Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (born December 13, 1780 in Hof , † March 24, 1849 in Jena ) was a chemist who is considered a pioneer in the creation of the periodic table and paved the way for catalysis with the study of platinum
  • Georg Zacharias Platner (born July 27, 1781 in Nuremberg; † July 8, 1862 there) was a businessman and politician; He became known as the initiator and founder of the Bavarian Ludwig Railway
  • Johannes Scharrer (born May 30, 1785 in Hersbruck ; † March 30, 1844 in Nuremberg) was an entrepreneur and founder of several educational institutions in Nuremberg
  • Friedrich Rückert (born May 16, 1788 in Schweinfurt, † January 31, 1866 in Neuses ) was a poet, translator and one of the founders of German oriental studies
  • Georg Simon Ohm (born March 16, 1789 in Erlangen , † July 6, 1854 in Munich ) was a physicist who made a name for himself with his discoveries about the electrical conductivity of metals
  • Karl Ludwig Sand (born October 5, 1795 in Wunsiedel, † May 20, 1820 in Mannheim ) was a radical fraternity member and the murderer of August von Kotzebues
  • Heinrich von Gagern (born August 20, 1799 in Bayreuth , † May 22, 1880 in Darmstadt ) was a liberal politician during the period of the Vormärz and the March Revolution

19th century

Gustav von Kahr, 1920
  • Wilhelm Löhe (born February 21, 1808 in Fürth, † January 2, 1872 in Neuendettelsau) was one of the most famous Evangelical Lutheran pastors of the 19th century, whose work also spread to other continents
  • Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (born July 19, 1809 in Fürth ; † May 13, 1885 in Göttingen ) was an anatomist, pathologist and doctor; he discovered the Henle loops, later named after him, in the kidney
  • Julius Robert von Mayer (born November 25, 1814 in Heilbronn ; † March 20, 1878 ibid) was a doctor and physicist who was one of the first to formulate the First Law of Thermodynamics
  • Joseph Sachs (born August 4, 1816 in Rödelmaier, Lower Franconia; † August 12, 1868 in Bad Kissingen, Lower Franconia) was a German-American educator and father of the banker Samuel Sachs
  • Lothar von Faber (born June 12, 1817 in Unterspitzgarten near Stein , † July 26, 1896 in Stein) was a major industrialist
Theodor von Cramer-Klett, 1883
  • Theodor von Cramer-Klett (born September 27, 1817 in Nuremberg, † April 5, 1884 in Aschau im Chiemgau ) was a businessman and industrialist who is considered one of the three important pioneers of the railway in Bavaria
  • August Schleicher (born February 19, 1821 in Meiningen , † December 6, 1868 in Jena ) was a linguist; is considered the founder of the family tree theory in comparative linguistic research and as a pioneer of Indo-European studies
  • Marcus Goldman (born December 9, 1821 in Trappstadt , † July 20, 1904 in New York City ) was a German-American businessman and founder of the investment bank Goldman Sachs
  • Leopold Ullstein (born September 6, 1826 in Fürth; † December 4, 1899 in Berlin) was a publisher
  • Levi Strauss (born February 26, 1829 in Buttenheim , † September 26, 1902 in San Francisco ) was a German-American industrialist and is considered one of the inventors of jeans
  • Heinrich Berolzheimer (born September 6, 1836 in Fürth; † April 15, 1906 in Nuremberg) was an entrepreneur from Fürth
  • Carl von Linde (born June 11, 1842 in Berndorf ; † November 16, 1934 in Munich ) was an engineer, inventor and founder of Linde AG
  • Martin Segitz (born July 26, 1853 in Fürth; † July 31, 1927 there) was a union leader, politician (SPD) and Bavarian Prime Minister
  • Oskar Panizza (born November 12, 1853 in Kissingen , † September 28, 1921 in Bayreuth ) was a writer, satirist and publicist
  • Bertha Kipfmüller (born February 28, 1861 in Pappenheim ; † March 3, 1948 there) was a teacher, women's rights activist, pacifist and private scholar; in 1899 she was the first woman in Bavaria to become a Dr. phil. received his doctorate
  • Gustav Ritter von Kahr (born November 29, 1862 in Weißenburg in Bavaria ; † June 30, 1934 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was a lawyer and politician, he served as Bavarian Prime Minister and is mainly due to his role in the suppression of the Hitler coup (1923) known
  • Karl Fichtel (born July 5, 1863 in Schweinfurt , † September 7, 1911 there) was an industrialist and commercial councilor
  • Alois Alzheimer (born June 14, 1864 in Marktbreit ; † December 19, 1915 in Breslau ) was a psychiatrist and neuropathologist and was the first to describe a dementia that is still called Alzheimer's disease after him
  • Max Dauthendey (July 25, 1867 in Würzburg ; † August 29, 1918 in Malang , Java ) was a poet and painter who was well known beyond the borders of Franconia
  • Jakob Wassermann (born March 10, 1873 in Fürth; † January 1, 1934 in Altaussee) was a German-Jewish writer who was one of the most productive and popular storytellers of his time
  • Gustav Weißkopf (born January 1, 1874 in Leutershausen , † October 10, 1927 in Bridgeport , USA) was a German-American pioneer of powered flight
  • Hans Böckler (born February 26, 1875 in Trautskirchen , † February 16, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) was a politician and union official; He is known today mainly through the Hans Böckler Foundation named after him
  • Hans Wilsdorf (born March 22, 1881 in Kulmbach ; † July 6, 1960 in Geneva ) was a German-British entrepreneur, watchmaker and founder of Rolex-Uhren AG
Emmy Noether
  • Emmy Noether (born March 23, 1882 in Erlangen , † April 14, 1935 in Bryn Mawr , USA) was a mathematician who made fundamental contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics
  • Leonhard Frank (born September 4, 1882 in Würzburg, † August 18, 1961 in Munich) was one of the most important socially critical and pacifist storytellers of the first half of the 20th century
  • Wilhelm Nusselt (born November 25, 1882 in Nuremberg, † September 1, 1957 in Munich) was a physicist
  • Hans Ehard (born November 10, 1887 in Bamberg, † October 18, 1980 in Munich) was a lawyer and politician of the CSU; he was Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria
  • Hans Vogt (born September 25, 1890 in Wurlitz , † December 4, 1979 in Erlau) was an engineer and one of the inventors of the optical sound system
  • Fritz Rasp (born May 13, 1891 in Bayreuth; † November 30, 1976 in Graefelfing ) was an actor and radio play speaker, he was best known as a film villain
  • Elly Maldaque (born November 5, 1893 in Erlangen; † July 20, 1930) was an elementary school teacher and a victim of the National Socialists
  • Max Spindler (born November 28, 1894 in Birnbaum ; † April 9, 1986 in Neunkirchen am Brand ) was a historian with a particular research focus on Bavarian national history
  • Gustav Schickedanz (born January 1, 1895 in Fürth ; † March 27, 1977 there) was a manufacturer and entrepreneur; Founder of Quelle AG
  • Heinrich Stuhlfauth (born January 11, 1896 in Nuremberg; † September 12, 1966 there) was a football goalkeeper at 1. FC Nuremberg
  • Willy Sachs (born July 23, 1896 in Schweinfurt , † November 19, 1958 in Oberaudorf ) was an industrialist, SS-Obersturmbannführer and military economic leader during the Third Reich
  • Georg Schäfer (born September 7, 1896 in Schweinfurt; † January 27, 1975 there), was an industrialist, art collector and patron
Ludwig Erhard 1957 with his book Prosperity for All
  • Ludwig Erhard (born February 4, 1897 in Fürth; † May 5, 1977 in Bonn ) was a politician (CDU), from 1949 to 1963 Federal Minister of Economics and from 1963 to 1966 second Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Thomas Dehler (born December 14, 1897 in Lichtenfels , † July 21, 1967 in Streitberg ) was Federal Minister of Justice from 1949 to 1953 and Federal Chairman of the FDP from 1954 to 1957
  • Rudolf Dassler (born April 29, 1898 in Herzogenaurach ; † October 27, 1974 there) was the founder of the sporting goods manufacturer Puma

20th century

  • Adolf Dassler , also called Adi Dassler (born November 3, 1900 in Herzogenaurach ; † September 6, 1978 there), is the founder of the sporting goods manufacturer Adidas
  • Hanns Seidel (born October 12, 1901 in Schweinheim , † August 5, 1961 in Munich) was a politician (BVP and CSU) and served as Bavarian Prime Minister
Werner Heisenberg in 1933, the year before he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • Werner Heisenberg (born December 5, 1901 in Würzburg ; † February 1, 1976 in Munich) was a scientist and Nobel Prize winner who was one of the most important physicists of the 20th century.
  • Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born May 22, 1902 on the Salzburg river near Bad Neustadt; † April 23 or April 24, 1945 in Berlin) was a historian, monarchist publicist and member of the resistance group from July 20, 1944.
  • Karl Borromäus Glock (born January 27, 1905 in Nuremberg; † November 1, 1985 in Heroldsberg) was a publisher, writer and castle owner who a. a. for Franconian history and dialect.
  • Max Grundig (born May 7, 1908 in Nuremberg; † December 8, 1989 in Baden-Baden ) was the founder of the electronics group of the same name, Grundig AG, and is thus one of the most important economic pioneers in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Hugo Distler (born June 24, 1908 in Nuremberg , † November 1, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German composer and Protestant church musician . He is considered to be the most important representative of the renewal movement of Protestant church music after 1920 .
  • Wolfgang Preiss (born February 27, 1910 in Nuremberg; † November 27, 2002 in Bühl ) was an actor and voice actor
  • Josef Neckermann (born June 5, 1912 in Würzburg, † January 13, 1992 in Dreieich ) was a mail order merchant (Neckermann Versand) and a successful dressage rider
  • Richard Stücklen (born August 20, 1916 in Heideck ; † May 2, 2002 in Weißenburg in Bavaria) was a politician (CSU); he served as Federal Post Minister and President of the German Bundestag
  • Hans Scholl (born September 22, 1918 in Ingersheim , † February 22, 1943 in Munich) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism; he was executed for his engagement in the White Rose
  • Hermann Zapf (born November 8, 1918 in Nuremberg; † June 4, 2015 in Darmstadt) was a typographer, calligrapher, author and teacher
  • Sophie Scholl (born May 9, 1921 in Forchtenberg ; † February 22, 1943 in Munich) was a resistance fighter against the dictatorship of National Socialism; she was executed for her engagement in the White Rose resistance group
  • Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (born May 23, 1921 at Weisendorf Castle; † October 4, 1972 in Stadtsteinach) was a German politician (CSU).
Henry Kissinger as US Secretary of State, 1973
  • Henry Kissinger (born May 27, 1923 in Fürth) is an American political scientist and former Republican Party politician, from 1973 to 1977 he was US Secretary of State, in 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Olga Knoblach-Wolff (born June 9, 1923 on a fruit farm in Ansbach ; † July 11, 2008 in Lohr am Main ) was a painter, graphic artist and writer
  • Horst Herold (born October 21, 1923 in Sonneberg ; † December 14, 2018 in Nuremberg) was President of the Federal Criminal Police Office from 1971 to 1981 and is known for his role in the fight against terrorism
  • Elisabeth Welz (* 1924; † October 3, 1997) was a folk actress who was mainly seen in dialect roles
  • Max Morlock (born May 11, 1925 in Nuremberg; † September 10, 1994 there) was soccer world champion in 1954 and German champion twice
  • Tankred Dorst (born December 19, 1925 in Oberlind ; † June 1, 2017 in Berlin) was a playwright and writer
  • Herbert Hisel (born June 22, 1927 in Nuremberg, † September 21, 1982 near Toronto , Canada) was the best-known Franconian humorist in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Karl Mai (born July 27, 1928 in Fürth; † March 15, 1993 ibid.) Was a football player and coach who became world champion in 1954
  • Anneliese Lussert (born April 1, 1929 in Marktbreit ; † December 7, 2006 in Lohr am Main) was a landlady and Franconian dialect poet
  • Gunter Sachs (born November 14, 1932 in Mainberg ; † May 6, 2011 in Gstaad ) was a German-Swiss industrial heir, bobsledder, photographer, documentary filmmaker, art collector, playboy and astrologer
  • Walter Demel (born December 1, 1935 in Bayreuth) is a former cross-country skier
  • Heinrich von Pierer (born January 26, 1941 in Erlangen) is a manager
  • Günther Beckstein (born November 23, 1943 in Hersbruck ) is a lawyer and politician (CSU); from 2007 to 2008 he was Bavarian Prime Minister
  • Barbara Stamm (born October 29, 1944 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a politician (CSU) and President of the Bavarian State Parliament
  • Peter Angermann (born February 17, 1945 in Rehau) is a contemporary German painter.
  • Hartmut Schmidt (born September 21, 1946 in Bad Mergentheim) is an Austrian composer and musician
  • Maximilian Kerner (* 1949 in Gunzenhausen; † July 2005) was a Nuremberg poet, songwriter, graphic artist and bookseller.
  • Thomas Gottschalk (born May 18, 1950 in Bamberg) is a radio and television presenter, entertainer and actor, who is particularly known as the presenter of the television show Wetten, dass ..? got known
  • Felix Magath (born July 26, 1953 in Aschaffenburg ) is a soccer coach, manager and former soccer player
  • Thomas Bach (born December 29, 1953 in Würzburg) is a lawyer, former fencer and President of the International Olympic Committee since 2013
  • Karlheinz Brandenburg (born June 20, 1954 in Erlangen) is an electrical engineer, mathematician and inventor of the MP3 format
  • Richard Bartsch (born August 1, 1959 in Nuremberg) is the district council president of Middle Franconia
  • Winfried Bönig (* 1959 in Bamberg) is an organist and university professor
  • Lothar Matthäus (born March 21, 1961 in Erlangen) is a former soccer player and coach.
  • Georg Hagel (* 1968 in Bamberg) is an organist, regional cantor and organ artist
  • Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (born December 5, 1971 in Munich) is a politician (CSU) who was Federal Minister of Economics and Technology in 2009 and then Federal Minister of Defense until 2011
  • Matthias Grünert (born December 2, 1973 in Nuremberg) is cantor of the Dresden Frauenkirche
  • Dirk Nowitzki (born June 19, 1978 in Würzburg) is considered one of the best players in the history of basketball

Personalities who live and work in Franconia

12th Century

Walther von der Vogelweide ( Great Heidelberg Song Manuscript around 1300)
  • Walther von der Vogelweide (* around 1170, place of birth unknown; † around 1230, possibly in Würzburg) is considered the most important German-speaking poet of the Middle Ages

15th century

  • Veit Stoss (* around 1447 in Horb am Neckar ; † 1533 in Nuremberg) was a late Gothic sculptor and carver who was mainly active in Krakow and Nuremberg
  • Tilman Riemenschneider (* around 1460 in Heiligenstadt ; † July 7, 1531 in Würzburg) was one of the most important carvers and sculptors at the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance around 1500

17th century

  • Maria Sibylla Merian (born April 2, 1647 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 13, 1717 in Amsterdam ) was a naturalist and artist; worked in Nuremberg from 1670 to 1685
  • Johann Dientzenhofer (born May 25, 1663 in St. Margarethen ; † July 20, 1726 in Bamberg) was a builder and architect of the Baroque period from the Dientzenhofer family
  • Balthasar Neumann (born January 27, 1687 in Eger ; † August 19, 1753 in Würzburg), was one of the most important builders of the Baroque and Rococo in southern Germany; The Würzburg Residence is one of his most famous works

18th century

  • Wilhelmine von Prussia (born July 3, 1709 in Potsdam , † October 14, 1758 in Bayreuth) was the eldest daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I and his Sophie Dorothea von Hannover; by marriage she became Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
  • Franz Troglauer (* July 8, 1754 in Mantel ; † May 6, 1801 in Amberg ) was a robber captain and poacher in the Upper Palatinate and Franconia
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (born January 27, 1775 in Leonberg ; † August 20, 1854 in Bad Ragaz ) was a philosopher and one of the main representatives of German idealism

19th century

Richard Wagner, 1871
  • William Wilson (born May 18, 1809 in Walbottle , England; † April 17, 1862 in Nuremberg) was a British mechanical engineer and train driver on the first German railway between Nuremberg and Fürth
  • Kaspar Hauser (* allegedly on April 30, 1812; † December 17, 1833 in Ansbach ) was known in the Biedermeier period as a "mysterious boulder"
  • Richard Wagner (born May 22, 1813 in Leipzig ; † February 13, 1883 in Venice ) is one of the most important innovators of European music in the 19th century; from 1872 to 1881 he worked in Bayreuth
  • Hermann Oberth (born June 25, 1894 in Sibiu ; † December 28, 1989 in Nuremberg) was a Transylvanian physicist and rocket pioneer; He is considered one of the founders of scientific rocket technology and astronautics as well as a prophetic initiator of space travel and space medicine

20th century

Barbara Stühlmeyer

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