List of personalities of the city of Augsburg

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Coat of arms of the city of Augsburg

This list shows the personalities with reference to the city of Augsburg .

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Augsburg. For the mention here, it is irrelevant whether the persons later had their sphere of activity in Augsburg or not. Many have become known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be exhaustive.

Until the 14th century

  • St. Simpert (* around 750; † 807), bishop, confidante of Charlemagne, saint
  • St. Ulrich (* 890; † July 4, 973), bishop and saint
  • St. Egino (* around 1065; † July 15, 1120 in Pisa), abbot and saint
  • St. Wolfhard (* around 1070; † April 30, 1127 in Verona), saddler and saint
  • David of Augsburg (* around 1200; † November 19, 1272), Franciscan, mystic, saint
  • Rudolph Feierabend (* before 1270, † after 1313), Cistercian and monastery clerk

15th century

  • Erhard Wahraus (* before 1409), merchant, council member, author of a chronicle of Augsburg from 1126 to 1445
  • Agnes Bernauer (* around 1410; † October 12, 1435 in Straubing)
  • Ulrich Langenmantel (* around 1410, † after 1473), Augsburg patrician, provost, patron
  • Johann Bämler († 1503), printer
  • Thomas Rüger († 1483), printer
  • Anna Rüger († after 1491), printer
  • Erhard Ratdolt (* 1447; † before January 23, 1528), printer and publisher
  • Konrad Mörlin (* around 1451; † February 2, 1510 in Augsburg), Benedictine abbot to St. Ulrich and Afra
  • Johann Schönsperger (* 1455; † February 25, 1521), printer and dealer publisher
  • Konrad Peutinger (born October 14, 1465 - † December 28, 1547 in Augsburg), councilor and merchant of Augsburg, head of the Augsburg city administration, advisor to Emperor Maximilian I.
Jakob Fugger
Hans Holbein the Younger
  • Johann Forster (born July 10, 1496; † December 8, 1556 in Wittenberg), Lutheran theologian of the 16th century, linguist and companion of the church political Reformation in Germany
  • Hans Holbein the Younger (* around 1497; † November 29, 1543 in London), painter

16th Century

  • Sixtus Birck (born February 24, 1501 - † June 19, 1554 in Augsburg), playwright
  • Narcissus Renner (* 1502; † 1536 in Augsburg), illuminator
  • Georg Ilsung (* around 1510; † December 4, 1580 in Augsburg), governor, finance broker and Reichspfennigmeister
  • Jörg Breu the Younger (* after 1510; † 1547), painter
  • Paulus Hector Mair (* 1517; † December 10, 1579 in Augsburg), clerk in the service of the city of Augsburg, from 1541 also city cashier and from 1545 also steward
  • Johann Spreng (* 1524; † March 30, 1601 in Augsburg), notary, mastersinger and member of the local singing school
  • Christoph von Ehe (born March 24, 1528; † June 1, 1592 in Heidelberg), lawyer, university professor and Chancellor of the Palatinate
  • Christoph Schissler (* around 1531; † September 14, 1608), instrument maker
  • Wendel Dietrich (around 1535, † around 1622), wood carver
  • Leonhard Rauwolf (born June 21, 1535 (according to other information also 1540); † September 15, 1596 in Waitzen, Hungary), natural scientist, botanist, doctor and explorer
  • Christoph zu Mecklenburg (* July 30, 1537 - † March 4, 1592), Duke of Mecklenburg, Administrator of Ratzeburg and the Mirow Commandery
  • Johannes Busereuth (born September 29, 1548; † April 21, 1610 in Nuremberg), legal scholar, doctor and university professor
  • Gregor Brayssing (16th century), lutenist, guitarist and composer ( Quart livre de tabulature de guiterre. Paris 1553)
  • Hubert Gerhard (* around 1550; † 1620), sculptor
  • Caspar Sichelbein the Elder (* around 1555; † February 14, 1605 in Memmingen), first painter of the Sichelbein family of painters and founder of the Memmingen School
  • Jacob Paix (* 1556; † around 1623), organist, organ builder, conductor, composer and editor
  • Markus Welser (born June 20, 1558 - † June 23, 1614 in Augsburg), humanist, historian, publisher and from 1611 mayor of Augsburg
  • Hieronymus Fabritius (born January 9, 1567 - † July 27, 1632 in Windsheim ), doctor and pharmacist
  • Sebastian Heiß (* 1571; † July 20, 1614 in Ingolstadt), Jesuit and controversialist
  • Elias Holl (born February 28, 1573 - † January 6, 1646 in Augsburg), master builder
  • Thomas Wegelin (December 21, 1577 - March 16, 1629 in Strasbourg), Lutheran theologian
  • Jacob Reihing (born January 6, 1579 - † May 5, 1628 in Tübingen), theologian, convert, professor at the Universities of Ingolstadt and Tübingen
  • Wolfgang Kilian (born May 10, 1581; † February 18, 1663 in Augsburg), engraver
  • Raphael Custos (* 1591; † May 11, 1664 in Augsburg), engraver, etcher and publisher
  • Marcus Banzer (born December 28, 1592 - † May 4, 1664 in Wittenberg), physician
  • Johann Dürr (* around 1600; † June 16, 1663 in Weimar), pseudonym Augustanus , engraver

17th century

18th century

  • Andreas Christoph Graf (born January 3, 1701; † 1776 in Augsburg), educator and author a. a. of the first etiquette (before etiquette)
  • Caspar Walter (born February 27, 1701 - † January 6, 1769), fountain master
  • Elias Hayum (also: Elias Mayer ; * 1709 in Pfersee, today district of Augsburg; † May 26, 1766 in Mannheim), dealer in Stuttgart, court and militia factor in Mannheim and Zweibrücken
  • Ulrich Weiß (born November 1, 1713 in Augsburg; † June 4, 1763 in the Irsee Monastery) Benedictine priest
  • Andreas Mayer (born June 8, 1716, † December 19, 1782 in Greifswald), mathematician, astronomer and cartographer
  • Leopold Mozart (born November 14, 1719; † May 28, 1787 in Salzburg), composer, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Leopold Mozart
  • Johann Baptist Bergmüller (* 1724; † 1785 in Augsburg), painter, copperplate engraver, graphic artist, engraver, art dealer and publisher
  • Matthaeus Deisch (born July 18, 1724 - † January 28, 1789 in Danzig), engraver
  • Johann August Urlsperger (born November 25, 1728 - † December 1, 1806 in Hamburg), theologian
  • Benedikt Adam Freiherr von Liebert, Edler von Liebenhofen (born January 3, 1731 - August 30, 1810), wholesale merchant and banker, builder of the Schaezlerpalais
  • Johann Josef Anton Huber (born June 22, 1737; † October 26, 1815 in Augsburg), fresco painter and director of the Imperial City Art Academy in Augsburg
  • Christoph Christian Sturm (born January 25, 1740 - † August 26, 1786 in Hamburg), chief pastor of the St. Petri Church in Hamburg, hymn poet
  • Johann Michael Söckler (born November 9, 1744 - † April 7, 1781 in Munich), engraver in Munich
  • Leonhard Bayrer (* 1749; † 1802), Jesuit, moral theologian and spiritual writer
  • Ludwig Friedrich Krauss (born November 5, 1757; † 1851 in Augsburg), Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and theologian
  • Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (born September 25, 1758 - † January 25, 1841 in Bayreuth), Mozart's famous Bäsle
  • Ernst Carl Thelott (born June 6, 1760; † September 24, 1834 in Düsseldorf), painter and engraver
  • Joseph Georg Franz von Ahorner (* 1764; † 1839), medic
  • Ignaz Anton Demeter (born August 1, 1773; † March 21, 1842 in Freiburg im Breisgau), Archbishop of Freiburg 1836–1842
  • Pius Alexander Wolff (* 1782; † 1828 in Weimar), actor, director, writer
  • Heinrich von Prieser (born May 20, 1797, † January 28, 1870 in Stuttgart), Minister of Justice and Privy Council in the Kingdom of Württemberg
  • Joseph Christoph Keßler (originally Kötzler , born August 26, 1800, † January 14, 1872 in Vienna), pianist and composer

19th century

  • Joseph Steingrübel (February 10, 1804 - October 19, 1838), painter, graphic artist and lithographer
  • Albert von Binder (born September 7, 1804, † October 21, 1868 in Ludwigsburg), general superintendent and prelate of Ludwigsburg
  • Gustav von Binder (born July 30, 1807; † January 22, 1885 in Stuttgart), Württemberg high school professor and member of the state parliament
  • Carl Wilhelm Anton Braun (* 1808; † February 14, 1894 in Augsburg), lawyer and local politician
  • Christoph Friedrich Nilson (born March 9, 1811, † December 19, 1879 in Munich), painter and fresco artist
  • Eduard Bayer (* 1822 - † 1908), guitar virtuoso
  • Friedrich von Lüneschloß (born December 11, 1822, † February 20, 1899 in Munich), Royal Bavarian Major General
  • Georg von Krauss (born December 25, 1826 - † November 5, 1906 in Munich), industrialist (Krauss-Maffei)
  • Konstantin Freiherr von Schaezler (* May 7, 1827 - September 19, 1880 in Interlaken), Catholic theologian, advisor to the First Vatican Council
  • Adalbert J. Volck (born April 14, 1828 - March 26, 1912 in Baltimore), German-American dentist, painter and caricaturist
  • Albert Traeger (born June 12, 1830 - March 26, 1912 in Berlin-Charlottenburg), politician and publicist
  • Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (May 5, 1834 - January 15, 1878 in Penang), botanist
  • Max Britzelmayr (born January 7, 1839 - † December 6, 1909 in Augsburg), lichenologist and mycologist
  • Ludwig von Kramer (born May 25, 1840; † January 7, 1908 in Munich), painter, illustrator and restorer
  • Johann Most (born February 5, 1846; † March 17, 1906 in the USA), journalist, trade unionist, social democratic member of the Reichstag, anarchist and representative of "Propaganda de fact"
  • Max Klein (born September 11, 1848 - † August 6, 1910), lawyer, Reich judge
  • Robert Bonnet (born February 17, 1851 - † October 13, 1921 in Würzburg), physician
  • Theodor von Kramer (born February 10, 1852 - † July 3, 1927 in Traunstein), architect and Bavarian construction officer
  • Theodor Reuss (born July 28, 1855 - † October 28, 1923 in Munich), opera singer, radical political activist
  • Félix José de Augusta (born December 26, 1860 - † November 16, 1935), Capuchin and linguist
  • Friedrich Veit (born May 18, 1861; † December 18, 1948 in Bayrischzell), theologian
  • Hermann Rehm (born April 19, 1862 - † August 15, 1917 in Strasbourg), lawyer, legal scholar, university professor and politician (Alsace-Lorraine Central Party)
  • Christoph Mayer (* July 15, 1864; † May 11, 1931, presumably in Würzburg), architect
  • Ernst Troeltsch (born February 17, 1865 - † February 1, 1923 in Berlin), theologian and politician ( DDP )
  • Joseph von Pestalozza (born June 17, 1868 - † August 26, 1930 in Erlangen), Bavarian nobleman and member of the state parliament
Hans Karl von Euler-Chelpin
  • Ludwig Klein (born October 16, 1868, † July 26, 1945 in Bevensen near Uelzen), mechanical engineer and university professor
  • Hermann Bourier (7 June 1871 - 15 December 1949), Benedictine
  • Georg Simon (born January 25, 1872 - † June 25, 1944), politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag
  • Hans Karl von Euler-Chelpin (born February 15, 1873 - † November 6, 1964 in Stockholm), chemist (1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
  • Georg Gollwitzer (born January 17, 1874 - † February 4, 1941 in Ludwigshafen), politician
  • Ludwig Michael Curtius (born December 13, 1874, † April 10, 1954 in Rome), archaeologist and art historian
  • Franz Xaver Eberle (born July 4, 1874 - † November 19, 1951 in Augsburg), auxiliary bishop in Augsburg
  • Eduard Zimmermann (* 1874; † 1951), senior building officer and heraldist
  • Karl Xaver Goetz (born June 28, 1875 - † September 8, 1950 in Munich), medalist
  • Karl Haberstock (born June 19, 1878; † September 6, 1956 in Munich), important art dealer under National Socialism, patron in Augsburg
  • Max Welcker (born December 4, 1878; † June 30, 1954 in Augsburg), elementary school teacher, composer, organist and publisher of musical works
  • Christina Noll (born January 29, 1880 - † May 27, 1935), politician, (SPD), member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse
  • Thusnelda Lang-Brumann (born April 15, 1880 - † June 10, 1953 in Munich), teacher and politician (BVP, CSU), member of the Reichstag
  • Mia Cordes (born March 29, 1882 - † February 16, 1955 in Berlin), actress
  • Friedrich Orth (born October 6, 1883; † after 1947), violin teacher and director of the conservatory
  • Siegfried Aufhäuser (born May 1, 1884 - † December 6, 1969 in Berlin), union leader, member of the Reichstag (SPD)
  • Paul Barnickel (born May 4, 1885 - † June 4, 1966 in Munich), lawyer
  • Wilhelm Marschall (born September 30, 1886 - March 21, 1976 in Mölln), Admiral General
  • Ludwig Keller (born January 21, 1888; † October 5, 1950 in Berlin), printer and politician
  • Elfriede Strnad (born February 8, 1890; † September 4, 1960 in Klosterneuburg), social worker, Froebel teacher
  • Adolf von Bomhard (born January 6, 1891 - July 19, 1976), SS group leader, later mayor
  • Richard Euringer (April 4, 1891 - August 29, 1953), writer
  • Valentin Baur (born December 19, 1891 - † June 25, 1971), politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
  • Jakob Grimminger (born April 25, 1892 - † January 28, 1969), National Socialist and SS man
  • Erich Brandenberger (born July 15, 1892 - † June 21, 1955 in Bonn), general of the armored forces in World War II
  • Hildebrand Dussler (* October 8, 1893, † May 2, 1979 in Marktoberdorf), Benedictine and local researcher
  • Josef Fuchsloch (born March 19, 1896; † 1973), protective custody camp leader
  • Erwin Reichenbach (born August 1, 1897; † 1973 in Halle / Saale), stomatologist and university professor
Bertolt Brecht
  • Vera Balser-Eberle (born October 21, 1897; † March 23, 1982 in Vienna), actress at the Burgtheater Vienna
  • Bertolt Brecht (born February 10, 1898; † August 14, 1956 in Berlin), writer ("The Threepenny Opera", "Mother Courage and Her Children")
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Maier-Bode (born May 30, 1900, † December 12, 1953 in Bonn), phytopathologist and specialist book author
  • Alois Bachschmidt (born June 13, 1900; † August 21, 1968 in the Bozen district), Nazi Gauleiter of the Elbe Havel district
  • Josef Mayr (born June 16, 1900 - † August 2, 1957 in La Spezia), politician (NSDAP), Lord Mayor of the city of Augsburg
  • Walter Brecht (born June 20, 1900, † September 27, 1986 in Darmstadt), paper technologist, brother of Bertolt Brecht
  • Josef Felder (born August 24, 1900, † October 28, 2000 in Munich), politician

20th century

1901 to 1925

  • Richard Aub (born January 12, 1901; † 1989), German internist, medical officer in Sierre Leone, member of the municipal armed forces during the Kapp Putsch of 1920
  • Erwin Henning (born June 19, 1901; † March 8, 1993 in Karlsruhe-Durlach), painter
  • August Schmidhuber (born May 8, 1901, † February 19, 1947 in Belgrade), SS Brigadefinder and Major General of the Waffen SS
  • Hans Kramer (born June 9, 1903; † February 6, 1980 in Augsburg), politician, member of the Bavarian State Parliament
  • Erhart Kästner (born March 13, 1904 - † February 3, 1974), writer
  • Johannes Ruhland OSB (born May 28, 1905 in Augsburg; † October 21, 1981 in Augsburg), Abbot of St. Stephan in Augsburg (1941–1970) and Abbot President of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation (1958–1961)
  • Josef Georg Miller (born October 8, 1905 - † November 6, 1983 in Kallmünz), painter
  • Karl Lorenz Kunz (born November 23, 1905 - † May 22, 1971 in Frankfurt / Main), painter
  • Bebo Wager (born December 29, 1905 - † August 12, 1943), resistance fighter
  • Kurt Bösch (* July 9, 1907; † July 15, 2000), German-Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and patron
  • Eberhard Emminger (born December 13, 1907, † June 10, 1992 Augsburg), pathologist, director of the Pathological Institute (1947–1972) at the old main hospital
  • Magda Schneider (born May 17, 1909; † July 30, 1996 in Berchtesgaden), actress, mother of Romy Schneider
  • Otmar Emminger (born March 2, 1911 - † August 3, 1986 in Manila), President of the Deutsche Bundesbank (1977–1979)
  • Anna Lang (born May 5, 1911 in Lechhausen; † September 27, 2019), a weaver and member of the AWO, was the second oldest woman from Augsburg at the age of 108
  • Hans Sachs (born February 26, 1912; † June 20, 1993 in Berlin), senior public prosecutor
  • Georg Mayr (born October 29, 1912; † August 31, 1980 in Augsburg), local politician
  • Ernst Lehner (born November 7, 1912 - † January 10, 1986 in Aschaffenburg), football player
  • Ernst Cramer (born January 28, 1913; † January 19, 2010 in Berlin), publicist and chairman of the foundation's board of directors
  • Gerhard Dickel (born October 28, 1913 - † November 3, 2017), chemist and physicist
  • Sepp Mastaller (born September 30, 1915 - † November 26, 2004 in Stadtbergen), sculptor
  • Otto Schubert (born April 23, 1918 - March 26, 1978), officer and tribologist
  • Ludwig Nerlinger (born April 30, 1918 - † March 29, 2003 in Wasserburg am Bodensee), politician (BP)
  • Erich Keller (* July 21, 1918 - September 8, 2010), composer and conductor
  • Theodor Kraus (born May 27, 1919 - † March 13, 1994 in Rome), classical archaeologist, director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome
  • Wolfgang Lettl (born December 18, 1919 - † February 10, 2008 in Augsburg), surrealist painter
  • Wolfgang Zorn (born October 3, 1922; † July 8, 2004 in Augsburg), economic historian and the head of regional history research
  • Susanne von Paczensky (born January 22, 1923; † May 15, 2010 in Hamburg), journalist and book author
  • Gertrude Gert Boyle (born March 6, 1924 - † November 3, 2019 in Portland / Oregon), American entrepreneur ( Columbia Sportswear )
  • Hermann König (born April 12, 1925; † October 17, 2012 in Augsburg), dentist, President of the Bavarian State Dental Association

1926 to 1950

  • Günther Schneider-Siemssen (born June 7, 1926 - † June 2, 2015 in Vienna), set designer
  • Theo Schmidkonz (born November 5, 1926 - † January 2, 2018 in Krumbad), Jesuit theologian, priest and author
  • Alfred Biehle (born November 15, 1926 - † October 29, 2014 in Karlstadt), Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag (1989–1995)
  • Manfred Müller (born November 15, 1926; † May 20, 2015 in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg), Bishop of Regensburg (1982–2002)
  • Werner Haas (born May 30, 1927, † November 13, 1956 in Neuburg an der Donau), three-time motorcycle world champion
  • Walter Althammer (born March 12, 1928), lawyer and politician of the CSU, member of the Bundestag
  • Ludwig Schlump (born June 16, 1928), football player
  • Ernst Ammann (born October 11, 1928 - January 1, 1982), set designer and actor
  • Werner Free Life (born August 14, 1929 - January 25, 2013), chemist and manager
  • Helmut Hartmann (born October 25, 1929), entrepreneur and member of the Bavarian Senate
  • Helmut Bloid (born November 8, 1929), writer
  • Günter Ulbert (born June 20, 1930), Roman provincial archaeologist
  • Günter Mack (born December 12, 1930, † March 27, 2007 in Gröbenzell), actor
  • Liselotte Becker-Egner (born July 25, 1931; † January 22, 2015 in Augsburg), opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher
  • Erwin Lorenz Sailer (* December 4, 1931; † July 18, 2019 in Fürstenfeldbruck), specialist author in the real estate industry
  • Ulrich Biesinger (born August 6, 1933 - June 18, 2011), football player
  • Helmut Krätzig (born October 23, 1933 - † July 9, 2018), film director and screenwriter
  • Hanns-Peter Hüster (* 1935; † March 10, 2020 in Essen), cinema operator
  • Brigitte Regel-Bellinger (born February 12, 1935), writer
  • Ruth Gassmann (born March 1, 1935 - August 7, 2020 in Munich), actress, singer and assistant director
  • Eberhard Martini (born May 31, 1935 - † January 29, 2009 in Feldkirch, Austria), bank manager, CEO of Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank (1988–98)
  • Wolfgang Frühwald (born August 2, 1935 - January 18, 2019), literary scholar
  • Werner Eberth (born December 19, 1935), lawyer and local researcher
  • Arthur Brauss (born July 24, 1936), actor
  • Manfred Weitlauff (born July 31, 1936), Catholic theologian and university professor
  • Bernhard Welz (born October 5, 1936 - † June 3, 2018), chemist, university professor in Brazil
  • Johannes Bauer (born January 8, 1937), lawyer and local politician
  • Walter Berschin (born June 17, 1937), Middle Latin philologist
  • Werner Giggenbach , (born November 10, 1937 - † November 7, 1997), geochemist, geologist and volcanologist
  • Peter Eigen (born June 11, 1938), lawyer, founder and chairman of Transparency International
  • Kurt F. Viermetz (born April 27, 1939; † November 25, 2016 in Augsburg), banker and chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Börse, patron
  • Thilo Ulbert (born June 20, 1939), Christian archaeologist
  • Helmut Haller (born July 21, 1939 - † October 11, 2012), football player
  • Brigide Schwarz (born January 19, 1940 - February 13, 2019), medieval historian
  • Richard Keßler (born March 15, 1940 - † June 12, 2016 in Ingolstadt), politician, district administrator and member of the Bavarian state parliament
  • Bernd Becker (born June 13, 1940, † February 14, 1994 in Cologne), forest scientist and university professor
  • Tilo Prückner (born October 26, 1940; † July 2, 2020 in Berlin), actor and screenwriter
  • Hans W. Geißendörfer (born April 6, 1941), director ("inventor" of the TV series Lindenstrasse)
  • Rolf Kießling (born July 25, 1941), historian, author and editor
  • Helmut Krauss (born June 11, 1941 - † August 26, 2019 in Goslar), theater and television actor, cabaret artist and voice actor
  • Heide Dauphin (May 1, 1942), national table tennis player
  • Dieter Hacker (born August 4, 1942), painter
  • Elmar Wepper (born April 16, 1944), actor and voice actor
  • Walter Sohnle (born June 17, 1944), football player
  • Jürgen Möllemann (* July 15, 1945; † June 5, 2003 in Marl-Loemühle), politician (FDP) and from 1987 to 1991 Federal Minister of Education and Science, then Federal Minister of Economics until 1993 and German Vice Chancellor from 1992 to 1993
    Jürgen Möllemann
  • Günter Bayerl (born July 25, 1946), historian
  • Heide Grape-Albers (born August 3, 1945), art historian
  • Uta Schorn (born January 13, 1947), actress
  • Ulrich Weiß (born February 2, 1947), university professor for political science
  • Eduard Oswald (born September 6, 1947), politician (CSU), Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development (1998)
  • Arndt Bode (born September 20, 1948), German computer scientist
  • Gerhard Droesser (* 1948), Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher
  • Claudia Eder (born February 7, 1948), singer, professor of singing
  • Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948), American journalist
  • Frieder Faist (born June 10, 1948 - † August 6, 2008), writer
  • Meinrat Andreae (* 1949), biogeochemist
  • Arno Löb (born April 3, 1949), musician and author
  • Albert Schönberger (born May 12, 1949), organist and church musician
  • Karl-Joseph Hummel (born August 14, 1950), historian, director of the research center of the Commission for Contemporary History
  • Johann Gärtner (born September 1, 1950), politician (REP)
  • Rainer Pethran (born November 26, 1950 - September 2, 2019 in Munich), basketball player

1951 to 1975

Günther KH Zupanc
Armin Veh
Edeltraud Günther

1976 to 2000

Andreas Bourani

Other personalities related to Augsburg

Well-known personalities are listed here who have spent part of their life in Augsburg or who died in Augsburg.

  • St. Afra (* in Cyprus; † 304 in Augsburg), early Christian saint and martyr
  • St. Wikterp (Wigbert, Wiggo) († 771), saint, the first historically established bishop of Augsburg
  • Burkhard Zingg (* 1396 in Memmingen, † around 1475 in Augsburg), first author of an autobiography, businessman and Augsburg chronicler
  • Günther Zainer († April 13, 1478), first printer of the incunable period in Augsburg
  • Adolph Occo (* 1447 in Osterhusen; † 1503 in Augsburg), physician, princely personal physician and humanist, lived and died in Augsburg; Epitaph in the cathedral cloister
  • Leonhard Wagner (* 1453 in Schwabmünchen, † 1522 in Augsburg), Benedictine monk of St. Ulrich and Afra, most important calligrapher of the German Renaissance
  • Jakob Henrichmann (* around 1482 in Sindelfingen; † June 28, 1561 in Augsburg), humanist, lawyer and clergyman, worked in various positions in the city from 1514; lived and died in Augsburg; Epitaph in the cathedral cloister
  • Martin Luther (* 1483 in Eisleben, † 1546 in Eisleben), had to defend himself at the Augsburg Diet in 1518, and during this time lived in the St. Anna monastery
    Martin Luther (see also Confessio Augustana (Augsburg Confession))
  • Bartholomäus V. Welser (* 1484 in Memmingen, † 1561 in Amberg in Swabia), merchant and banker
  • Ambrosius Blarer (* 1492; † 1564), Protestant pastor and hymn poet, reformer in Augsburg 1534–1537
  • Anton Fugger (born June 10, 1493 in Nuremberg, † September 14, 1560 in Augsburg), merchant and banker
  • Pilgram Marbeck (* around 1495 in Rattenberg / Tyrol; † late 1556 in Augsburg), leading figure of the Anabaptist movement, was in the service of the city of Augsburg from 1544 until his death, created a new water supply and founded the wood rafting business
  • Matthias Schenck (* 1517 in Konstanz; † 1571 in Augsburg), school man and librarian, rector of the St. Annagymnasium in Augsburg and city librarian
  • Adriaen de Vries (* 1556 in The Hague; † 1626 in Prague), sculptor, created some of Augsburg's magnificent fountains
  • Hans Leo Haßler von Roseneck (born October 25, 1564 in Nuremberg; † June 5, 1612 in Frankfurt am Main), composer, clockmaker and maker of music automatons; Chamber organist for Count Octavian II von Fugger and organist at St. Moritz
  • Raymund Minderer (* around 1570 in Oettingen; † May 13, 1621 in Augsburg), 1606–1621 city physician in Augsburg
  • Johann Bayer (* 1572 in Rain am Lech; † March 7, 1625 in Augsburg), astronomer, created the first star map of the entire sky
  • Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (born October 23, 1561 in Tiefenbronn / Baden-Württemberg, † November 7, 1612 in Eichstätt), Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
  • Johann Wiesel (* 1583 in Burrweiler; † March 27, 1662 in Augsburg), telescope maker
  • Hans Ulrich Franck (* 1603 in Kaufbeuren, † 1675 in Augsburg), painter and etcher from the Thirty Years' War
  • Salomon Idler (born February 11, 1610 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, † probably 1669 in Augsburg), failed aviation pioneer
  • Johann August Corvinus (* 1683 in Leipzig, † 1738 in Augsburg), engraver in Augsburg
  • Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (* 1702 in Ebbs (Tyrol); † September 7, 1761 in Augsburg), Austrian-German Rococo painter
  • Matthäus Günther (born September 7, 1705 in Peißenberg; † September 30, 1788 in Haid near Wessobrunn), Backock painter, head of the Augsburg Catholic Art Academy
  • Johann Heinrich Edler von Schüle (born December 13, 1720 in Künzelsau, † April 17, 1811 in Augsburg), businessman, inventor, technician, chemist and calico manufacturer with European significance
  • Joseph Mangold (born March 2, 1716 in Rehling; † May 10, 1787 in Augsburg), Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher, rector of the Salvatorkolleg in Augsburg
  • Maximus Mangold (born May 29, 1722 in Rehling; † March 23, 1797 in Augsburg), Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher, rector of the Salvatorkolleg in Augsburg
  • Johann Andreas Stein (born May 6, 1728 in Heidelsheim, † February 29, 1792 in Augsburg), instrument maker, important in the development of piano mechanics
  • Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deissenhausen (born February 20, 1731 in Höchstädt an der Donau, † January 26, 1804 in Augsburg), auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the diocese of Augsburg
  • Andreas Dahlweiner (born September 10, 1734 in Weißenhorn, † 1758/1759 in Augsburg), painter and fresco artist
  • Ernst Häußler (born January 8, 1761 in Böblingen; † February 20, 1837 in Augsburg), singer, composer and music teacher at St. Anna-Gymnasium
  • Karl Joseph Stegmann (* 1767; † March 4, 1837 in Augsburg), editor-in-chief of the Allgemeine Zeitung (1804–1837)
  • Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Süßkind (born March 11, 1767 in Nürtingen, † December 21, 1849 in Augsburg) founded a bank in Augsburg
  • Franz Xaver von Pflimmern (born April 1, 1769 in Biberach an der Riss, † June 21, 1851 in Augsburg), Augsburg mayor and Bavarian civil servant
  • Carl Borromäus Egger (born October 31, 1772 in Denklingen, † December 31, 1849 in Augsburg), canon and politician
  • Johann Evangelist Wetzler (1774–1850), government and medical councilor from 1808 to 1840
  • Barnabas Huber (April 13, 1778 in Gutenberg near Oberostendorf; † July 29, 1851 in Augsburg), abbot of the St. Stephan monastery in Augsburg
  • August Bomhard (born November 7, 1787 in Schmalfelden; † July 23, 1869 in Augsburg), pastor of St. Jakob and dean in Augsburg, church councilor, honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen
  • Karl Ludwig Forster (born February 10, 1788 in Nuremberg ; † October 13, 1877 in Augsburg), calico manufacturer and factory owner of Schöppler & Hartmann , co-founder of MAN, one of the city's most important entrepreneurs, later awarded personal nobility
  • Friedrich List (* August 6, 1789 in Reutlingen, † 30 November 1846 in Kufstein), economist, completed in Augsburg his 1841 published major work and he was there from 1843, the Zollverein leaf out
    Friedrich List
  • Wilhelm Birett (1793–1837), bookseller
  • Richard Anton Nikolaus Carron du Val (born March 19, 1793 in Rain; † December 29, 1846 in Augsburg), from 1834 to 1846 first legally qualified mayor of the city of Augsburg
  • Clemens Martini (born December 12, 1799 in Biberach an der Riss; † August 3, 1862 in Augsburg), textile industrialist in Augsburg
  • Georg Caspar Mezger (born January 23, 1801 in Wassertrüdingen; † April 19, 1874 in Augsburg), teacher from 1824 to 1872 and rector at the Anna-Gymnasium from 1840 to 1872 and librarian of the Augsburg city and district library from 1835 to 1872
  • Napoleon III (* April 20, 1808 in Paris; † January 9, 1873 in Chislehurst near London), French President and second and last Emperor of the French, lived as a child with his mother in Augsburg for some time and later spent his school days there, initially with private tutors , from 1821 to 1823 at the grammar school near St. Anna
  • Heinrich von Buz (born September 17, 1833 in Eichstätt; † January 8, 1918 in Augsburg), technician and industrialist
  • Leonhard Tauscher (born June 15, 1840 in Regensburg, † December 16, 1914 in Stuttgart), founded the Bavarian Social Democracy in Augsburg in 1869
  • Rudolf Diesel (born March 18, 1858 in Paris; † September 29, 1913 in the English Channel), developed the diesel engine in Augsburg
  • Mathias Kneißl (born May 12, 1875 in Unterweikertshofen, † February 21, 1902 in Augsburg), legendary robber ("Kneißl Hias"), guillotined in Augsburg
  • Otto Bohl (born May 8, 1885 in Mannheim, † October 24, 1969 in Illertissen), BVP politician and Mayor of Augsburg from 1930 to 1933
  • Robert Bürkner (born July 12, 1887 in Göttingen, † August 19, 1962 in Augsburg), actor, theater director, theater director, playwright and writer
  • Erwin Bowien (1899–1972), painter and author. In 1943 he lived in Augsburg for six months before he was betrayed to the Gestapo and had to flee. Bowien wrote numerous city vedutas and devoted a chapter in his biography to his stay in the city.
  • Herta Ilk (born September 9, 1902 in Brieg; † August 29, 1972 in Augsburg), politician of the FDP
  • Theo Bechteler (born February 8, 1903 in Immenstadt im Allgäu, † June 22, 1993 in Augsburg), sculptor
  • Max Ulrich Graf von Drechsel (born October 3, 1911 in Karlstein; † September 4, 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee), captain and murdered resistance fighter from July 20, 1944, student at the Benedictine high school near St. Stephan
  • Günther Strupp (born March 6, 1912 in Johannisburg; † November 14, 1996 in Augsburg), German painter and graphic artist
  • Mieczysław Pemper (born March 24, 1920 in Krakow; † June 7, 2011 in Augsburg), compiled the list of 1200 forced laborers whose lives Oskar Schindler had saved, lived in Augsburg since 1958 and was an honorary citizen since April 29, 2007
  • Christian Angerbauer (born March 30, 1925 in Berlin; † June 29, 2008 in Augsburg), sculptor
  • Christoph Bechteler (* 1935 in Berlin), sculptor
  • Hanspeter Plocher (* 1942 in Mannheim ), 1974–2006 lecturer in French literary studies at the University of Augsburg, Molière translator, founder and director of the Romanist Theater Augsburg
  • Roy Black (born January 25, 1943 in Straßberg near Augsburg, † October 9, 1991 in Heldenstein), pop singer and actor
    Roy Black
  • Roland Hetzer (born January 17, 1944 in Neuhammer, Sudetenland), internationally leading cardiac surgeon and medical director of the German Heart Center Berlin
  • Waldemar Hartmann (born March 10, 1948 in Nuremberg), journalist and moderator
  • Gerhard Johannes Hermanutz (born January 31, 1953 in Saulgau), self-proclaimed King of Augsburg and performance artist Weblink to GJ Hermanutz
  • Silvia Meiertöns (born May 4, 1955 in Schwerte), former national volleyball player, works as a physiotherapist in Augsburg
  • Wolfgang Lackerschmid (born September 19, 1956 in Tegernsee), jazz musician, lives and runs a recording studio in Augsburg
  • Ulrich Noethen (* 1959 in Munich), actor
  • Winfried Maier (* 1959), public prosecutor, played a key role in investigating the CDU donation affair
  • Heio von Stetten (born July 5, 1960), actor
  • Christoph Goldt (* 1966 in Recklinghausen), historian and journalist, press spokesman for the diocese of Augsburg (1999-2010)
  • Daniel Mark Eberhard (* 1976 in Isny), professor of music education and music didactics, jazz musician, taught at the University of Augsburg from 2002 to 2014, is the city of Augsburg's art sponsorship laureate and was the first chairman of the cultural council of the city of Augsburg
  • Oliver Gottwald (* 1978 in Schwabmünchen), German pop artist, known as the singer and songwriter of the band Anajo , has been traveling under his own name and with a new band for several years
  • Aleksander Polaczek (* 1980 in Opole, Poland), German ice hockey player with the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
  • Helena Kaschurow (born September 23, 1989 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia), dancer in the fields of standard and Latin American dances, member of the federal squad
  • Errdeka (born March 12, 1991), well-known German rapper who lives in Augsburg and founded his label Eyeslow Records here
  • B-Case (born November 13, 1991 in Bielefeld), well-known music producer and DJ who grew up in Augsburg and started his career here
  • Raffaela Kraus (born July 23, 1996 in Dachau), actress and presenter

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Erwin Bowien: The beautiful game between spirit and world. My painter life. Ed .: Bettina Heinen-Ayech and Freundeskreis Erwin Bowien eV U-Form Verlag, Solingen 1995, ISBN 3-88234-101-7 , p. 63 .