List of personalities of the city of Bad Kissingen

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Coat of arms of the city of Bad Kissingen

Bad Kissingen is the major district town of the district of the same name in the Bavarian administrative district of Lower Franconia and is located on the Franconian Saale south of the Rhön . The health resort is a Bavarian state spa . The following people deserve special mention:

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

Ignaz Gropp
Georg Anton Boxberger (left) with Balthasar Neumann
Sculptor: Fried Heuler
( Rosengarten in Bad Kissingen)
Cyrill Kistler
(bronze bust on Cyrill-Kistler-Platz)
Heinrich Carl Welsch
(bust on the family grave,
chapel cemetery Bad Kissingen )
Otto von Botenlauben
Sculptor: Lore Friedrich-Gronau
(Rathausplatz Bad Kissingen)
Gravestone of the couple Heusslein von Eußenheim and Mauchenheim called Bechtolsheim ( chapel cemetery Bad Kissingen )
Max Hagen
(self-portrait, pastel)
Andreas Lohrey
Sculptor: Valentin Weidner
( Herz-Jesu-Kirche Bad Kissingen )
Alexander Freiherr von Moreau

Personalities related to Bad Kissingen

  • Lazarus Adler (1810–1886), district rabbi of Bad Kissingen (1840–1852) and state rabbi of Hesse-Nassau
  • Berthold Altaner (1885–1964), Catholic church historian, last lived in Bad Kissingen until his death
  • Michael Arnold (1824–1877), sculptor, painter and graphic artist
  • Moses Löb Bamberger (1838–1899), district rabbi of Bad Kissingen (1867–1899)
  • Seckel Bamberger (1863–1934), district rabbi of Bad Kissingen (1902–1932)
  • Bruno Bandulet (* 1942), publisher
  • Baron Adolf von Berlichingen (1840–1915), pseudonym: Klemens Adolf , Catholic theologian, doctor and writer, died in Bad Kissingen
  • Hermenegild Maria Biedermann (1911–1994), Catholic theologian, university professor and Augustinian hermit, died in Bad Kissingen
  • Jakob Bissinger (1873–1933), painter in the Hausen district
  • Anton Bömly (1808–1874), theater director in Bad Kissingen
  • Otto von Botenlauben (approx. 1177–1245), minstrel and crusader
  • Theodor Boveri (1785-1854) was the first royal bath commissioner (spa director) of Bad Kissingen from 1823 to 1835
  • Georg Anton Boxberger (1679–1765), pharmacist
  • Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783–1872), British general practitioner, gynecologist, and author; For several years he was an English spa doctor in Bad Kissingen, wrote a book about the Kissingen mineral springs and was secretary of the committee for the construction of the Anglican Church
  • Joel Brand (1906–1964), Hungarian-German Zionist and association official; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Wernher Freiherr von Braun (1912–1977), German-American rocket engineer, pioneer and visionary of space travel; lived in the winter of 1945/1946 as a "guest" of the US occupation troops in the hotel "Wittelsbacher Hof"
  • Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot (1883–1960), architect, owner of the Heiligenhof in Bad Kissingen, educational institution since 1952
  • Georg Friedrich Christian Bürklein (1813–1872), architect; built the Bad Kissingen train station
  • Claus-Frenz Claussen (* 1939), neurootologist
  • Wilhelm Cronenberg (1836–1915), photographer and pioneer of photo technology; had a large guest house with a photo studio in Ludwigstrasse from around 1860 to 1880
  • Carl von Dapper (1863–1937), internist, balneologist and spa doctor
  • Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726), master builder; built the new town hall in 1703
  • Marina von Ditmar (1914–2014), theater and film actress
  • Franz Joseph Dölger (1879–1940), Catholic theologian; provided pastoral care in Bad Kissingen 1905/06
  • Werner Eberth (* 1935), government director and local researcher
  • Otto Eisenburger (1908–1989), Kapellmeister, General Music Director and Cantor in Bad Kissingen
  • Max Ephraim (1898–1942), the last district rabbi of Bad Kissingen (1932–1938)
  • Valentino Del Fabbro (1866–1915), Italian craftsman ("terrazzo") and entrepreneur in Bad Kissingen
  • Mathias Ritter von Flurl (1756–1823), founder of Bavarian mineralogy and geology, died in Bad Kissingen during a business visit
  • Lore Friedrich-Gronau (1908–2002), sculptor and illustrator; created the "minstrel fountain" in front of the town hall
  • Karl Fuchs (1881–1972), first Lord Mayor of the post-war period
  • Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847), architect; built the spa buildings
  • Carl Joseph Gauß (1875–1957), internationally known gynecologist and university professor; spent his retirement in Bad Kissingen
  • Johann Philipp Geigel (1729 / 1731–1800), builder of the Jacobus Church
  • Erich Gniffke (1895–1964), politician (SPD, SED); died in Bad Kissingen
  • Max Hagen (1859–1914), landscape painter
  • Johann Valentin Hamm (1811–1874), composer, Würzburg music director and concert master of the Kissingen spa orchestra
  • Jakob Heilmann (1846–1927), building contractor; built the new spa theater
  • Gustav Herbig (1888–1965), diplomat and SPD politician; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Bernhard von Heß (1792–1869), Royal Bavarian Lieutenant General and Minister of War
  • Karl von Hess (1788–1872), Hammelburg privateer and founder of the foundation; opened a spa hotel in Kissingen in 1835, from which the " Kaiserhof Victoria " later developed.
  • Johanna Hesse , actually: Johanna (Rosl) Zapf (1880–1958), opera and concert singer; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Georg Hirschbrich (1939–2012), Catholic pastor in the Bad Kissingen district of Hausen, dean of Bad Kissingen from 2000 to 2005; founded the Cardinal Döpfner Museum in Hausen Abbey in 2001
  • Alex Hösl (1919–1977), CSU politician and member of the German Bundestag, where he represented the constituency of Bad Kissingen
  • Ignaz Ising (1845–1919), balneologist and spa doctor
  • Luitpold du Jarrys Freiherr von La Roche (1837 - unknown), district administrator and bath commissioner for Bad Kissingen
  • Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener (1878–1963), German writer and storyteller; lived in Bad Kissingen from 1908 to approx. 1921 as the wife of her second husband, Hofrat Dr. med. Ernst Marquardsen (1865–1921)
  • Birgit Keil (* 1944), dancer and long-time prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet; received her dance training in Bad Kissingen, Stuttgart and London
  • Cyrill Kistler (1848–1907), composer, music theorist, music teacher and publisher
  • Heinz Kistler (1912-2004), German landscape painter with the nickname "Painter of the Rhön"
  • Johann Kliegl (1808–1883), Bohemian conductor and 1837 founder of the Bad Kissingen spa orchestra
  • Eduard Kullmann (1853-1892), craftsman, carried out an attack on Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in Bad Kissingen on July 13, 1874
  • Constantin Lender (1828–1888), doctor, worked as a doctor in Kissingen every summer from 1867
  • Josef Lengsfeld (1878–1938), German musician, concertmaster and composer; he was dismissed from the Bad Kissingen spa orchestra in March 1934 "for racial reasons"
  • Ernst Freiherr von Lerchenfeld (1816–1873), district judge and bath commissioner for Bad Kissingen, later district president of Upper Franconia
  • Gabriel Hirsch Lippman (1805–1864), district rabbi of Bad Kissingen (1852–1864)
  • Max Littmann (1862–1931), architect, builder of the spa theater , the foyer and the regent building
  • Michael Lochner (* 1952), cantor of the Erlöserkirche, later regional church music director of the Evangelical Luth. Church in Bavaria
  • Andreas Lohrey (1843–1924), master builder; built the Catholic parish church ( Herz-Jesu-Kirche ) in Bad Kissingen
  • Arno Lustiger (1924–2012), historian and writer; lived with a second home in Bad Kissingen
  • Johann Adam Maas (1784–1852), spa doctor in Bad Kissingen and co-founder of the "Theresienspital" (1834)
  • Alexej Maltzew (1854–1915), Russian Orthodox archpriest and theologian; 1898–1901 had the Russian Church built in Bad Kissingen.
  • Sally Mayer (1889–1944), general practitioner and spa doctor in the "Villa Holländer"
  • Otto Meinardus (1854–1918), historian, archivist and editor; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Friedrich Meinel (unknown – 1911), toy manufacturer
  • Franz Meinow (1910–1947), First Mayor
  • Nathan Mendelssohn (* 1942), Uzbek violinist and violin teacher
  • Wolfgang Mersmann (1902–1973), tax lawyer and President of the Federal Fiscal Court; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Alfred Meyer-Waldeck (1864–1928), Vice Admiral; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Alexander Freiherr von Moreau (1860–1937), district administrator and bath commissioner for Bad Kissingen
  • Richard Mummendey (1900–1978), librarian, book scholar and translator; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Philipp Münz (1864–1944), physician of Jewish descent, founder and chief physician of the Israelite children's sanatorium in Bad Kissingen
  • Wilhelm I. Duke of Nassau (1792–1839) died of a stroke on August 20, 1839 while taking a cure in Kissingen
  • Max Nassauer (1869–1931), gynecologist and writer; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Max Neubert (1863–1948), toy entrepreneur and inventor; lived with his daughter Lina Wehner in Bad Kissingen from 1938 until her death
  • Gustav Neustädter (1892 - unknown), the last head of the Jewish community in Bad Kissingen and founder of the "Schochtimverband Bayern"
  • Clemens Graf zu Pappenheim (1822–1904), district administrator and bath commissioner for Bad Kissingen
  • Joseph von Parseval (1825–1887), from 1863 to 1868 district administrator and bath commissioner for Bad Kissingen
  • Karl Ritter and Edler von Paschwitz (1837-1880), engineer, Reich railway builder and the founder and operator of the Kissinger Dampferle -betriebs (1878)
  • Friedrich August von Pauli (1802–1883), civil engineer and pioneer of railway bridge construction; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Herbert Petschow (1909–1991), legal historian and ancient orientalist; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Jacques Pilartz (1836–1910), court photographer of several German rulers
  • Albert Plohnke (1925–2009), engineer, long-time carer for the blind and visually impaired
  • Max Pollwein (1885–1944), the first Lord Mayor
  • Friedrich Freiherr du Prel (1798–1891), district administrator and bath commissioner for Bad Kissingen
  • Cecilie von Preußen (1886–1954), last Crown Princess of the German Empire; lived in Bad Kissingen from 1945 to 1952 and died in the spa town in 1954 while visiting the spa doctor Paul Sotier
  • Kira von Preußen (1943–2004), long-time member of the board of trustees of the “Kissinger Sommer” music festival
  • Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1907–1994) , pretender to the throne of Prussia, head of the House of Hohenzollern; lived from 1945 to 1946 with his wife Kira and their children in Bad Kissingen; the fifth child, Prince Christian-Sigismund, was born in Bad Kissingen in 1946
  • Götz Olaf Rausch (1921–1992), actor and theater director, married to Anneliese Wert; last lived in Bad Kissingen until his death
  • Eduard Reimann (1833–1898), Bad Kissinger theater director from 1871 to 1898
  • Otto Reimann (1871–1956), Bad Kissingen theater director from 1898 to 1941; he died in Bad Kissingen
  • Robert Remak (1815-1865), physician, zoologist, physiologist and neurologist; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Leonhard Ritter (1878–1938), architect; worked on numerous buildings in Bad Kissingen and the surrounding area, died in Bad Kissingen
  • Eva Maria Roer (* 1944), German entrepreneur, founder and managing director of the mail order company for dental technology products DT & SHOP in Bad Bocklet , long-time chairwoman of the health center Bad Kissingen
  • Julius Freiherr von Rotenhan (1805–1882), from 1838 to 1841 district judge and bath commissioner of Bad Kissingen
  • Hans Schäfer (1910–1980), lawyer, State Secretary and President of the Federal Audit Office; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Eduard Schlagintweit (1831–1866), Bavarian officer, ethnologist and author, died in the Battle of Kissingen and was buried in Bad Kissingen
  • Friedrich Schlie (1839–1902), archaeologist and art historian; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Karl Schmidt (wagon builder) (1834–1909), entrepreneur and coach builder
  • Balthasar Schmitt (1858–1942), sculptor, built the war memorial at the train station
  • Georg Schultz (1860–1945), district court director, politician and founding member of the DNVP; lived in Bad Kissingen from 1930 until his death
  • Carl Snoeck (1885–1946), Dutch violinist, concertmaster and conductor; from 1919 to 1933 he was concertmaster of the Bad Kissingen spa orchestra until he was dismissed in March 1934 "for racial reasons"
  • Soraya (1932-2001), former Empress of Persia (Iran); visited her mother, who lives in Bad Kissingen, several times
  • Alfred Sotier (1833–1902), bath doctor for two empresses
  • Rudolf Spitaler (1894–1960), chemist; built model houses for model railways in H0 gauge under the trademark RS (Dr. Rudolf Spitaler) in OT Winkels
  • Georg Stang (1880–1951), CSU politician, President of the Bavarian State Parliament; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Gottfried Steegh (1550–1609), Dutch physician; In 1595 wrote a textbook about the Kissinger healing springs
  • Hugo Stöhr (1830–1901), gynecologist and spa doctor
  • Hans Carl Freiherr von Thüngen (1804–1850), district judge and bath commissioner of Bad Kissingen (1835–1838)
  • Ambros Trient (1827–1900), civil engineer; he built the Bad Kissingen train station
  • Max Unger (1854–1918), sculptor; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Imre Varga (1923–2019), Hungarian sculptor; made three monuments for Bad Kissingen
  • Siegfried Wahle (1869–1941), medical adviser and general practitioner in Bad Kissingen
  • Emil Ansbert Vorreiter (1868–1946), engineer; Automotive and aircraft technology pioneer; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Ludwig Weickmann (1882–1961), geophysicist, meteorologist and university professor, founding president of the German Weather Service in Bad Kissingen
  • Julius Weizsäcker (1828–1889), historian; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Heinrich Carl Welsch (1808–1882), spa doctor
  • August von der Wense (1854–1930), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag; died in Bad Kissingen
  • Anneliese Wert (1922–2008), actress, married to Götz Olaf Rausch ; last lived in Bad Kissingen until her death
  • Adalbert Wolpert (1897–1968), First Mayor of Bad Kissingen from 1939 to 1943
  • Hans Wutzlhofer (1893–1969), bath commissioner (from 1952 spa director) of Bad Kissingen
  • Oskar Freiherr von Zoller (1809–1866), Bavarian lieutenant general; fell as general commander in the battle of Kissingen
  • Philipp Freiherr von Zu Rhein (1809–1870), district judge and bath commissioner of Bad Kissingen, most recently regional president of Upper Franconia

Spa guests

literature

  • Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (eds.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801–2001, facets of a city's history. (= Festschrift for the anniversary year and volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name / special publication from the Bad Kissingen City Archives). Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 .
  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies. 2nd expanded and revised edition. City of Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-934912-24-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statement by an employee of the German Weather Service , which was officially founded in Bad Kissingen in 1946 , who was allowed to have lunch in this hotel and saw Wernher von Braun there. In the summer of 1945 several scientists from Peenemünde were accommodated in the Hotel Wittelsbacher Hof as part of " Operation Overcast " until they were brought to the USA in spring 1946.
  2. ↑ Chronicle . In: Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Bad Kissingen . February 11, 2014 ( erloeserkirche.info [accessed December 29, 2017]).