List of personalities in the community of Murnau am Staffelsee

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The following list shows people who are closely related to the community of Murnau am Staffelsee .

sons and daughters of the town

Honorary citizen

Source: May not be complete since 2002.

Award Surname Life dates Profession / field of activity
1884 Jakob Frankl 1813-1885 Hospital doctor
Michael Schmid 1824-1892 Pastor and local historian
1888 Stephan Asam 1829-1893 doctor
Johann Homely 1824-1888 Teacher
Lothar Frank 1834-1890 District administrator in Weilheim
Johann Sigl 1833-1889 District Veterinarian
1900 Oskar Kummer 1848-1912 Commerce Council
1906 Emanuel von Seidl 1856-1919 architect
1909 Xaver Resch 1848-1927 mayor
1911 Wilhelm Asam 1862-1945 doctor
1919 Josef Wiedenmann 1855-1933 Pastor
1932 Sebastian Utzschneider 1856-1932 mayor
1933 James Loeb 1867-1933 banker
1948 Robert Well done 1873-1966 Teacher and mayor
1956 Carl Pichler 1892-1963 senior hospital doctor
1977 Philipp Madlener 1909-1977 Pastor
1978 Wilhelm Simet 1915-1988 mayor
1988 Ingeborg Haeckel 1903-1994 Head of the secondary school, biologist and conservationist

The honorary citizenship of Hyazinth Schwald has not been clarified.

Max Dingler , who was made an honorary citizen in 1953, was struck off the list of honorary citizens in 2017.

Other personalities

Wassily Kandinsky: Murnau with Church I (1910), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich
  • Emanuel von Seidl (1856–1919), architect, interior designer, engineer, lived since 1901 in the country house he built (demolished in 1972) in Murnau, contributed significantly to the current beauty of the town center through the facade beautification he initiated in 1906
  • Josef Fürst (1863–1940), founder of the Staffelsee-Bote and the Fürst-Alm
  • Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), painter (“Blauer Reiter”), spent the summer months from 1909 to 1914 together with Gabriele Münter in the so-called Russenhaus in Murnau
  • James Loeb (1867–1933), classical philologist, art collector and philanthropist, lived in Murnau from 1912 until his death in 1933, interrupted by the First World War. In 1931, he took over the complete financing (450,000 RM) of the Murnau community hospital
  • Max Reinhardt (1873–1943), staged Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” as an open-air performance in the park of the Seidl Villa in 1910
  • Hans Stubenrauch (1875–1941), painter and writer, lived there from 1918/19
  • Gabriele Münter (1877–1962), painter (“Blauer Reiter”), Kandinsky's partner, lived in Murnau from 1909 until her death
  • Walter von Molo (1880–1958), writer, died in Murnau
  • Alfred Fischer (1881–1950), architect, died in Murnau
  • Max Dingler (1883–1961), zoologist and dialect poet
  • Fritz Windgassen (1883–1963), opera singer, died in Murnau
  • Gottfried Feder (1883–1941), economic theorist and politician of the DAP and NSDAP, lived and died in Murnau
  • Käthe Kruse (1883–1968), doll maker, died in Murnau
  • Else Hueck-Dehio (1897–1976), writer, died in Murnau
  • Erna Sack (1898–1972), opera singer, lived in Murnau from 1956 to 1966
  • Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978), aircraft designer and entrepreneur, arrested by the Allies in Murnau on May 6, 1945, spent most of his house arrest in Murnau
  • Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938), writer, always lived in his parents' house in Murnau from 1923 to 1934, a permanent exhibition in the castle museum shows the traces of the Murnau period in his work
  • Kurt Eichhorn (1908–1994), conductor, lived and died in Murnau
  • Herbert Volwahsen (1906–1988), sculptor, lived and died in Murnau
  • Birgitta Wolf (1913–2009), publicist, known for helping prisoners, lived and worked in Murnau
  • Hans Baumann (1914–1988), Nazi songwriter and author of books for young people
  • Josef Ertl (1925–2000), Federal Minister, died in Murnau
  • Kieth Engen (1925–2004), opera singer, died in Murnau
  • Adolph Kurt Böhm (1926–2020), composer, pianist, accompanist and book author, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit , holder of the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations , lived in Murnau
  • Carlos Veerhoff (1926–2011), German-Argentinian composer, lived in Murnau since 1988
  • Wolfgang Ecke (1927–1983), writer, died in Murnau
  • Kurt Sontheimer (1928–2005), political scientist, died in Murnau
  • Karl-Michael Vogler (1928–2009), actor, lived and died near Murnau
  • Josef Anton Riedl (1929–2016), composer, lived and died in Murnau
  • Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018), composer, lived in Murnau
  • Albert Speer junior (1934–2017), architect, lived in Murnau
  • Peter Fricke (* 1939), actor, grew up with his mother in Murnau
  • Egbert Greven (1941–2018), graphic artist, draftsman and gallery owner, died in Murnau
  • Nikolaus Lang (* 1941), artist
  • Friedrich Schütze-Quest (1943–2016), a journalist, foreign reporter and feature author who grew up in Seehausen and went to school there, was buried in Murnau
  • Wilhelm Manske (* 1951), actor
  • Chris Weller (* 1957 as Christoph Weller), pianist and composer, lives in Murnau
  • Michèle Loetzner (* 1982), author and journalist, grew up in Murnau

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hyacinth Holland :  Sporrer, Philipp . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 419-421.
  2. ^ A b Marion Hruschka (editor): Market Murnau am Staffelsee. Contributions to history. Volume 1. Ed .: Markt Murnau am Staffelsee. Murnau am Staffelsee 2002. p. 512.
  3. ↑ James Loeb. In: murnau.de . Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ Ingeborg Haeckel. In: murnau.de . Retrieved January 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ Roland Lory: At a distance from Dingler and Sonderer . In: Merkur.de , October 28, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.