List of personalities of the city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
This list contains people who are related to the city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .
Honorary citizen of the city of Bad Homburg
- 1906: Louis Jacobi (1836–1910), architect, professor, secret building officer in Homburg vdH and first director of the Saalburg Museum
- 1957: Spiritual Councilor Pastor Wilhelm Burggraf, was a Catholic pastor in Bad Homburg for 40 years
- 1958: Georg Eberlein , Lord Mayor and District Administrator
- 1962: Karl Horn , long-time mayor
- 1963: Alfred Engelhardt , was head of the city council for 10 years
- 2010: Maria Scholz , head of the city council for many years
- 2014: Wolfgang Assmann , former Lord Mayor
- 2020: Olga Stoss, founder of the city partnership with Dubrovnik , holder of the Medal of Merit for International Cooperation of the German Fire Brigade Association
- 2020: Gerta Walsh, city historian
Well-known sons and daughters of the city of Bad Homburg
(The following personalities were born in Bad Homburg. The list is made chronologically according to the year of birth. Whether or not they later had their sphere of activity in Bad Homburg is irrelevant.)
To 1900
- Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Homburg , Prince of Homburg (1633–1708)
- Johann Jacobi (1661–1726), piece, bell and art caster
- Friedrich Ludwig Abresch (1699–1782), Dutch philologist
- Kasimir von Kreutz (1724–1770) poet, philosopher, publicist and politician
- Johann Christian Rind (1726–1797), merchant and benefactor
- George Christophe Morell (1765–1850), tobacco manufacturer and member of the Hessian state parliament
- Johann Georg Bürgy (1771–1841), organ builder
- Isaac von Sinclair (1775–1815), diplomat and poet
- Princess Marianne of Prussia (1785–1846), (originally Maria Anna Amalie, Princess of Hesse-Homburg)
- Karl Julius Guyet (1802–1861), lawyer, judge and university professor
- August Breidenstein (1810–1835), doctor and revolutionary
- Johann Georg Hamel (1811–1872), German businessman, librarian and politician
- Fritz Scheller , entrepreneur, founder of the distillery and liqueur factory " Reichs-Post Bitter " in 1843
- Peter Baumgras (1827–1903), painter, art professor and participant in the American Civil War 1861–1865
- Friedrich Rolle (1827–1887), paleontologist and champion of new biological thinking in Germany
- Károly Lotz (Karl Lotz) (1833–1904), history and genre painter and professor in Budapest
- Louis Jacobi (1836–1910), architect, professor, secret building officer in Homburg vdH, provincial Roman archaeologist and first director of the Saalburg Museum
- August von Trapp (1836–1884), Austrian corvette captain, "grandfather" of the Trapp family
- Sophie Opel (1840–1913), wife of Adam Opel , after his death, together with the two older of the five Opel sons - Carl Opel and Wilhelm Opel - company director of Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim
- Arthur Wyss (1852–1900), archivist
- Heinrich Jacobi (1866–1946), architect, building officer, provincial Roman archaeologist and second director of the Saalburg Museum
- Georg Anthes (1863–1922), opera singer
- Wilhelm Dannhof (1870–?), Industrialist
- Robert Fuchs-Liska (1870–1935), actor and writer
- Adolf Baumbach (1874–1945), lawyer and Prussian "savings commissioner"
- Oscar AH Schmitz (1873–1931), philosopher and writer ( bourgeois bohemian )
- Emil Beithan (1878–1955), painter
- Ernst Appel (1884–1973), rabbi
- Emmy Krüger (1886–1976), opera singer
- Rudolf von Eschwege (1895–1917), fighter pilot in the First World War
- Curt Freiherr von Salmuth (1895–1981), industrialist ( Röchling-Werke / Völklinger Hütte )
From 1901
- Fritz Kleemann (1901–1975), entrepreneur ( Horex )
- Willi Born (1912–2005), entrepreneur " Holex Chocolate Factory Bad Homburg "
- Hans Walter Lotterhos (1914–1989), patent attorney
- Tilly Lauenstein (1916–2002), stage and film actress
- Judith Hemmendinger (* 1923), author ( The Children of Buchenwald )
- Annelise Vömel (1924–1991), agricultural scientist
- Bernhard Stieler (1934–2010), engineer at the German Aerospace Center
- Claus Scheele (* 1943), sculptor and object artist
- Cord Garben (* 1943), pianist, conductor, producer and arranger
- Gisela Klann-Delius (* 1944), linguist and university professor
- Andreas von Schoeler (* 1948), former State Secretary D., retired Lord Mayor of Frankfurt D.
- Wolfgang Strödter (* 1948), field hockey player and Olympic champion
- Hella Elges (* 1949), actress
- Georg Schramm (* 1949), cabaret artist
- Lorenz Jäger (* 1951), sociologist and journalist
- Reinhard Genzel (* 1952), astrophysicist
- Egon Hofmann (* 1952), actor
- Cornelia Füllkrug-Weitzel (* 1955), pastor and director of the Bread for the World campaign
- Carola Müller-Holtkemper (* 1955), diplomat
- Volker Spangenberg (* 1955), Baptist theologian
- Sylvia Gabelmann (* 1958), politician (Die Linke)
- Thomas Reiner (* 1959), composer
- Margit Berghof-Becker (* 1959), politician (SPD), former member of the Hessian state parliament
- Lukas Hemleb (* 1960), director, opera director, set designer and librettist
- Erika Kothe (* 1960), professor for microbial communication
- Rainer Ewerrien (* 1960) actor and author
- Ulli Brenner (* 1962), disc jockey and music producer ( La Bouche )
- Anke Doberauer (* 1962), artist
- Susanne Klatten (* 1962), entrepreneur from the Quandt family
- Fenja Rühl (* 1963), actress
- Stefan Weil (* 1963), graphic designer
- Martin Schneider (* 1964), actor and comedian
- Andrea Maria Vock (* 1964), designer and entrepreneur
- Tom Wolf (* 1964), literary scholar and crime writer (PreussenKrimi)
- Annette Ernst (* 1966), director and recipient of the Grimme Prize
- Stefan Quandt (* 1966), entrepreneur from the Quandt family
- Franky Miller (* 1966), DJ and music producer ( C-Block )
- Boris Guckelsberger (* 1968), composer and guitarist
- Jo van Nelsen (* 1968), actor, chanson singer and director
- Uwe Becker (* 1969), politician, mayor and treasurer of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- Alheydis Plassmann (* 1969), historian
- Jochen Hemmleb (* 1971), alpine journalist and book author
- Raphael Gensert (* 1979), radio presenter and author
- Sebastian Linder (* 1983), handball player
- Fabio Mancini (* 1987), model
- Manig Löser (* 1988), poker player
- Maximilian Seidel (* 1989), actor
- Lars Guenther (* 1994), football player
- Dominik Plaue (* 1995), handball player
- Kim Hnizdo (* 1996), model and winner of Germany's Next Top Model
Well-known residents of the city of Bad Homburg
To 1900
- Ottilia Preussing († 1654), most prominent victim of the witch hunt in Homburg
- Christoph Schütz (1689–1750), radical pietist and hymn book editor
- Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), poet
- Karl Wilhelm Becker (1772–1830) numismatist , medalist, coin forger, librarian and businessman
- Carl Friedrich Emil von Ibell (1780–1834), headed the administration of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg from 1828–1830 as district president
- Siegmund Peter Martin (1780–1834), liberal politician and official advocate in Homburg
- Eduard Christian Trapp (1804–1854), doctor, sponsor of the spa, honorary citizen, “great-grandfather” of the Trapp family
- François Blanc (1806–1877), mathematician and financier and founder of the Bad Homburg casino (1841) and the Monte-Carlo casino in Monaco (1856)
- Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg (1817–1886), mechanical and railroad engineer
- George Eliot (1819–1880), writer, did research in 1872 for her novel Daniel Deronda
- Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski (1821–1881), Russian writer, wrote here in 1870 The Gambler
- Moritz Pasch (1843–1930), mathematician
- Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), bacteriologist
- Martin Möbius (1859–1946), botanist
- Julius Jordan (1864–1907), sculptor
- Ernst Ritter von Marx (1869–1944), Lord Mayor and District Administrator
- Raphael Eduard Liesegang (1869–1947), chemist, entrepreneur
- Paul Arndt (1870–1942), economist
- Ernst Gerland (1870–1934), Byzantinist
- Heinrich Hetsch (1873–1947), physician, microbiologist
- Wilhelm Hohn (1881–1972), church musician and cantor of St. Marien 1909–1972
- Fried Lübbecke (1883–1965), art historian with several publications on Bad Homburg
- Kurt Blaum (1884–1970), lawyer, politician (CDU), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main, President of the Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt am Main 1946–1962
- Walther Davisson (1885–1973), musician, violinist, conductor
- Richard Schachenmeier (1886–1979), physicist
- Franz Baur (1887–1977), meteorologist
- Samuel Agnon (1888–1970), Israeli writer
- Georg Karg (1888–1972), entrepreneur ( Hertie )
- Friedrich Bethge (1891–1963), theater director, playwright
- Gottlob Schaupp (1891–1977), architect
- Hans Jonas (1893–1967), historian, economist, trade fair director
- Kurt Hesse (1894–1976), military, historian, economist
- Hans Carl Podeyn (1894–1965), civil servant, diplomat, ambassador to Pakistan 1954–1959
- Hans Möbius (1895–1977), archaeologist
- Franz Bronstert (1895–1967), engineer and painter
- Harry Kloepfer (1897–1973), technician ( Degussa )
- Ernst Zindel (1897–1978), engineer and designer at JU 52 (" Aunt JU ")
- August Skalweit (1879–1960), national economist
- Bruno Stürmer (1892–1958), composer, conductor
- Karl Paul Bielig (1898–1991), editor, politician
- Fritz Schelp (1898–1989), civil servant, ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Transport from 1933, member of the board of the Federal Railroad from 1952
- Georg Kurt Schauer (1899–1984), publisher, co-founder of the German Book Trade Association, the German Library in Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Book Fair
- Justus Franz Wittkop (1899–1986), writer
From 1901
- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902–1982), paleontologist, anthropologist
- Alexander Maaß (1902–1971), journalist, actor
- Erich Pietsch (1902–1979), chemist, chemical historian, director of the Max Planck Society
- Gabriele Strecker (1904–1983), doctor, journalist and women's politician.
- Willy Hartner (1905–1981), astronomy historian
- Karl Heinrich Knappstein (1906–1989), diplomat, Ambassador to Spain (1956–1958), USA (1962–1968), Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, New York (1960–1962)
- Victor Wrede (1906–1950), economist, Reich Ministry of Economics (1933–1945), member of the board of directors of Bank Deutscher Länder (1948–1950)
- Karl Korn (1908–1991), publicist, writer
- Aleida Montijn (1908–1989), composer, musician
- Karl Gerhard Steck (1908–1983), Protestant theologian
- Hans Georg Laubenthal (1911–1971), actor
- Helmut Viebrock (1912–1997), English studies
- Otto Karow (1913–1992), East Asian scholar
- Hans Schönberger (1916–2005), archaeologist
- Jürgen Seydel (1917–2008), father of karate in Germany with the first karate dojo in Germany in Bad Homburg in 1959
- Horst Knapp (1918–1984), entrepreneur and association politician
- Werner Maihofer (1918–2009), FDP politician, former Federal Minister. D. (1972–1978), lived in Bad Homburg during his time as Federal Minister
- Alice Kaluza (1920–2017), dancer, ballet master and choreographer
- Henry F. Sherwood (1921–2005), computer pioneer and founder of the Sherwood & Associates company based in Bad Homburg
- Elli Michler (1923–2014), poet
- Else Kröner (1925–1988), entrepreneur, founder of the Else Kröner Foundation in Bad Homburg
- Josef Blank (1926–1989), Catholic theologian
- Johanna Quandt (1926–2015), entrepreneur
- Helmut Maucher (1927–2018), General Manager of the Nestlé food company
- Benno Walldorf (1928–1985), painter, graphic artist, jazz musician and photographer
- Christof Krause (1928–2005), sculptor
- Alfred Herrhausen (1930–1989), banker, CEO of Deutsche Bank AG
- Hans A. Nikel (1930–2018), publisher, artist
- Fritz Rau (1930–2013), concert organizer
- Isolde Schmitt-Menzel (* 1930), artist and inventor of the "mouse" ( the broadcast with the mouse )
- Willi Leibbrand (1932–1993), entrepreneur ( Rewe , Goldpfeil )
- Wolfram Engels (1933–1995), economist, publicist
- Irene Ruttmann (* 1933), writer
- Herbie Hess (1933–2015), jazz musician, teacher
- Ekkehard Gries (1936–2001), lawyer, politician
- Bärbel Sothmann (* 1939), politician MdB
- Keyvan Dahesch (1941–2018) journalist, ombudsman and press spokesman for the Hessian State Office for Supply and Social Affairs
- Ted Herold (born 1942), singer
- Bernhard Walter (1942–2015), Chairman of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank AG, Chairman of the Foundation Council "Frauenkirche Dresden Foundation"
- Nikolaus Schweickart (* 1943), CEO of Altana AG, CEO of the Herbert Quandt Foundation
- Hugo Müller-Vogg (* 1947), publicist
- Egon Hofmann (* 1952), actor
- Thomas Holtrop (* 1954), CEO of Thomas Cook AG
- Andreas Dombret (* 1960), board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- Florian Homm (* 1959), hedge fund manager
- Andreas Möller (* 1967), soccer player
- Boris Guckelsberger (* 1968), composer and guitarist
- Rainer Schüttler (* 1976), tennis player at the Bundesliga club TC Bad Homburg
- Sascha Karabey (* 1978), multiple German master in standard dance
- Natascha Karabey (* 1980), multiple German master in ballroom dance
- Stefan Hickl (* 1988), soccer player
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ of March 7, 2020, p. 43