List of personalities who worked in Bamberg
This list contains personalities who worked in Bamberg but were not born in Bamberg or whose place of birth is unknown. Personalities who were born in Bamberg can be found in the list of sons and daughters of the city of Bamberg .
- Ulrich von Bamberg († probably July 7th 1127), chronicler
- Albrecht Pfister (* around 1420; † before April 13, 1466), printer and publisher in Bamberg
- Friedrich Förner (* around 1568; † December 5, 1630), vicar general and suffragan bishop in Bamberg, best known as a witch preacher
- Georg Haan († 1628), Chancellor in the Bamberg Monastery , was victim of the witch trials with some family members
- Johannes Junius (1573–1628), mayor, victim of the witch hunt in Bamberg , is well known for his letter to his daughter
- Andreas Presson (1637–1701), translator, poet and lawyer, lived in Bamberg from 1651
- Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (1663–1727), craft surgeon , learned from 1673 from his brother-in-law
- Leonhard Grebner (1694–1742), Jesuit, taught canon law in Bamberg from 1632
- Conrad Fink (1707–1785), master builder under Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (office on Michelsberg, new university building)
- Joseph Umstatt (born February 5, 1711 in Vienna, † May 24, 1762 in Bamberg) was an important Austrian composer of the transition period between the late baroque and early classical periods, who was one of the pioneers of the Viennese classical period
- Leopold Hoys (1713–1797), court clockmaker, grave monument at the upper parish
- Maria Columba Schonath (1730–1787), lay sister at the Heilig-Grab monastery, mystic
- Lorenz Fink (1745–1817), court architect of Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal (General Hospital in Bamberg, library in the former Jesuit college)
- Sebastian Förtsch (1751–1803), history and portrait painter
- Franz Troglauer (1754–1801), ringleader of a large band of robbers in the Franconian region - was also active in Bamberg
- Alexander Macco (1767–1849), portrait and history painter, spent his last years in Bamberg
- Christoph Franz Dangel (1769–1841), City Court Director and Member of the State Parliament
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), worked as a newspaper editor in Bamberg and published the Phenomenology of Spirit here
- Carl August von Seckendorf (1774–1828), Vice President of the Court Court and President of the Court of Appeal in Bamberg
- Ernst Anton Clarus (1776–1848), Protestant clergyman and politician
- ETA Hoffmann (1776–1822), initially Kapellmeister, later assistant manager, house composer, stage architect, set painter at the Bamberg Theater (1808–1813)
- Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel (1779–1819), writer, editor of the Franconian Merkur
- Otto (Greece) (1815–1867), lived with his wife Amalie (1818–1875) in exile in Bamberg until their two deaths.
- Franz Xaver Witt (1834–1888), church musician and reformer, founded the General Cäcilienverein for the German-speaking countries in Bamberg on September 1, 1868 .
- Heinrich Manz (1852–1914), shoe manufacturer, politician
- Gustav Haeberle (1853–1930), architect
- Ernst Zimmer (1864–1924), painter and illustrator, lived and worked in Bamberg from 1903 until his death.
- Alois Ehrlich (1868–1945), Frater at the Carmelite Monastery, cabinet maker
- Hans Erlwein (1872–1914), City Planning Officer of Bamberg 1898–1904
- Maria Lerch (1884–1962), draftsman and sculptor
- Fritz Karl (1886 in Glonn –1965 in Bamberg), painter, graphic artist and art educator, has worked in Bamberg since 1922.
- Georg Meixner (* 1887 Ebensfeld , † 1960 Bamberg), Catholic clergyman, politician
- Hugo Gross (* 1888 Upidamischken ; † 1968 Bamberg), botanist and teacher at the former Jesuit college
- Walter Noddack (1893–1960), German chemist, worked with his wife Ida Noddack-Tacke from 1956 at the State Research Institute for Geochemistry, which is now the International House of Artists Villa Concordia .
- Curt Echtermeyer (1896–1971), German painter, also known as Curt Bruckner or Curt Bruckner-Echtermeyer, lived in Bamberg from 1962 to 1969 and recorded his impressions of the city in his pictures.
- Ida Noddack-Tacke (1896–1978), chemist and co-discoverer of the elements masurium (not recognized) and rhenium , worked from 1956 with her husband Walter Noddack at the State Research Institute for Geochemistry, today's International House of Artists Villa Concordia .
- Hugo Maier (1897 – after 1954), pianist and composer
- Thomas Dehler (1897–1967), liberal politician, from 1926 lawyer in Bamberg, 1945 district administrator, later attorney general, 1947 President of the Higher Regional Court, 1949–1953 Federal Minister of Justice
- Wilhelm Emil Messerschmitt (1898–1978), German aircraft designer. He founded the Flugzeugbau Messerschmitt GmbH in Bamberg.
- Hermann Diesener (1900–1978), German sculptor, lived and worked in Bamberg.
- Hans Paschke (1902–1976), legally qualified mayor, city councilor, city historian
- Hans Wölfel (1902–1944), b. in Bad Hall / Austria, from 1929 lawyer in Bamberg, devout Catholic and staunch opponent of National Socialism, member of the Bamberg Wölfel district during the Nazi regime and - u. a. with Thomas Dehler - in the Robinsohn-Strassmann group , denounced in 1943, arrested and brought to Berlin, sentenced to death in 1944 by the VGH as an "enemy of the state" and murdered in the Brandenburg / Havel execution prison
- Leonhard Löffler (1906–1991), surgeon, 1946–71 chief physician at the Chir. Klinik am Städt. Bamberg Hospital
- Robert Pfleger (1906–1971), German chemist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur
- Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1907–1944), German officer, became a resistance and committed an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler .
- Georg Hornung (1910–2007), doctor, director of the Bamberg Clinic, recipient of the Bamberg Medal of Honor
- Ludwig Binder (1911–1968), painter and scientific (mainly ornithological) illustrator
- Josef Manger (1913–1991), Olympic champion in 1936 and multiple world and European weightlifting champion
- Victor Harth (1917-2004), internist, naturopath, co-founder of the BDI , painter and monument protector , chairman of the Alt-Bamberg Protection Association, made the film "Bamberg" in 1973
- Fritz Müller (1917–1999), multiple German wrestling champion
- Lothar Schmid (1928–2013), chess player, "Chess Referee of the Century", publisher
- Heinrich Beck (* 1929 in Munich ), philosopher, lives in Bamberg
- Mike Rose (born November 22, 1932 in Lower Saxony; † August 16, 2006 in Bamberg), painter, set designer, writer and teacher, lived in Bamberg since 1959
- Hans Wollschläger (1935–2007), writer, lived and worked in Bamberg for many years
- Paul Maar (* 1937 in Schweinfurt ), children's book and theater author, lives in Bamberg
- Klaus Zachert (1942–2011), state and local politician (SPD)
- Horst Lohse (* 1943 in Kulmbach ), composer, co-founder of the festival “Days of New Music Bamberg”; lives in Memmelsdorf
- Helmut Pfleger (* 1943 in Teplitz-Schönau ), chess player and author, former player of SC 1868 Bamberg
- Ursula Staack (* 1943 in Varnsdorf ), actress
- Ulrich Beck (1944–2015), sociologist, professor at the University of Bamberg from 1981 to 1992
- Karlheinz Beer (* 1953 in Amberg ), visual artist, stage and costume designer
- Werner Pees (* 1956), diocesan music director (1988–2007) and cathedral music director since 1995
- You Xie (* 1958), journalist and writer of Chinese origin, lives in Bamberg
- Peter Braun (1960–2016), writer, lived in Bamberg
- Chris Mike (* 1961), music producer, founded the music label CRI-LEX Records in Bamberg in 1992
- Rolf-Bernhard Essig (* 1963), author, journalist including non-fiction books, radio reports
- Albrecht Mayer (* 1965), oboist
- Mathias Hartmann (* 1966), German pastor, rector and chairman of the Diakonie Neuendettelsau
- Jochen Neurath (* 1968), composer, lives in Bamberg
- Nora Gomringer (* 1980), poet and performance artist
- Steffen Hamann (* 1981), national basketball player
- Claudia Ciesla (* 1987), actress
- Paula-Marie Bugla (* 1993), actress