List of personalities of the city of Bad Mergentheim
This list of personalities of the city of Bad Mergentheim shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Bad Mergentheim . This consists of the core town of Bad Mergentheim and 13 other districts as well as the districts belonging to the districts that have belonged to Bad Mergentheim since the municipal reform in the 1970s (Bad Mergentheim-Stadt with Bad Mergentheim, Althausen , Apfelbach with Apfelbach and the homestead Staatsdomäne Apfelhof , Dainbach , Edelfingen , Hachtel , Herbsthausen , Löffelstelzen , Markelsheim , Neunkirchen , Rengershausen , Rot with the districts Dörtel and Schönbühl , Stuppach with the districts Lillstadt and Lustbronn , as well as Wachbach ). The list does not claim to be complete.
mayor
Honorary citizen
The city of Bad Mergentheim has granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the well-being or reputation of the municipality:
- 1817: Karl Adam Taglieber
- 1817: Leopold August Christian Friedrich von Fischer
- 1831: Friedrich Paul Wilhelm Duke of Württemberg , natural scientist and explorer
- 1831: Christian Friedrich Bauer
- 1880: Hermann Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Midnight
- 1881: Karl Eduard Albert Wüst
- 1901: Konrad Merz
- 1912: Johann Michael Zeller
- 1921: Karl Ludwig Albert Schwarz
- 1928: Karl Theodor Klotzbücher
- 1932: Georg Karl Fleck
- 1951: Oskar Hugo Holl
- 1956: EH Hermann Reusch
- 1957: Karl Stützle
- 1959: Wilhelm Frank
- 1960: Konrad Hofmann
- 1968: Josef Michel
- 1974: Heinrich Eckert
- 1980: Robert Gleichauf , Deputy Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
- 2006: Albert Reuter , city councilor and member of the state parliament a. D.
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Bad Mergentheim (or in a town or part of what is now the urban area of Bad Mergentheim):
15th century
- Lorenz Fries (born June 24, 1489/1491; † December 5, 1550), historian of Eastern Franconia and the Peasant War.
16th Century
- Johann Böhm (* 1528; † 1560), Teutonic order priest and writer.
- Ernestus Hettenbach (born February 2, 1552 - † October 2, 1616 in Wittenberg ), physicist and physician.
17th century
- Magdalena Nachtrab († September 22, 1629), wife of the mayor and pharmacist Paul Nachtrab, executed in a witch trial.
- Caspar Gras (* 1585 - † December 3, 1674 in Schwaz ), sculptor and bronze caster
- Matthäus Zehender (December 12, 1641, † 1697 in Bregenz ), painter
18th century
- Johann Adam Ehrlich (* November 24, 1703; † March 8, 1784), organ builder and instrument maker
- Thomas Grebner (born July 1, 1718; † May 19, 1787 in Würzburg), Jesuit, philosopher and historian
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (born September 21, 1719 in Herbsthausen; † March 17, 1798 in Kupferzell ), pastor and agricultural reformer ("Gipsapostel")
- Paul Wineberger (born October 7, 1758; † February 8, 1821 in Hamburg ), composer, cellist
19th century
- Friedrich Nagel (born July 24, 1810 - † November 26, 1884 in Rottweil), member of the state parliament
- Hermann Bauer (born September 19, 1814, † May 18, 1872 in Weinsberg), Protestant pastor and one of the most important Württemberg local researchers in the 19th century
- Georg Pfahler (March 2, 1817 - March 9, 1889), Catholic priest and democratic politician, member of the German National Assembly from May 18, 1848 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
- Georg Michael Pachtler (born September 14, 1825 - August 12, 1889), Jesuit, theologian, priest and educator
- Max Haas (* 1847; † June 2, 1927 in Innsbruck ), architect of late historicism
- Fritz von Keller (born September 9, 1850, † December 19, 1923 in Stuttgart ), member of the Reichstag, president of the Württemberg Forestry Directorate
- Ottmar Mergenthaler (born May 11, 1854 in the Hachtel district; † October 28, 1899 in Baltimore ), inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine
- Gustav Adolf Dehlinger (born June 15, 1860, † November 19, 1940 in Wolfskehlen), Hessian politician (HBB, DVP), member of the state parliament
- Josef Eckard (born January 20, 1865 in Markelsheim, † December 2, 1906 in Stuttgart), politician, social reformer and Roman Catholic clergyman
- Emil Hirsch (born March 14, 1866, † July 27, 1954 in New York City), antiquarian
- Otto Gussmann (born May 22, 1869 in what is now the Wachbach district; † July 27, 1926 in Dresden), painter
- Petrus Röser (born November 21, 1870, † August 6, 1955 in Sao Paulo / Brazil), Benedictine monk in Beuron, Abbot of Olinda / Brazil
- Hans Heinrich Ehrler (* July 7, 1872, † June 14, 1951 in Liebenau, today a district of Waldenbuch ), writer, poet and editor
- Hugo Schäffer (born June 13, 1875 in the Edelfingen district; † August 25, 1945 in Stuttgart ), lawyer and politician, President of the Reich Insurance Office, Reich Minister
- Karl Lüllig (February 24, 1877 - January 30, 1946), Mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1923 to 1934 .
- Christian Deubler (born December 6, 1880; † unknown), German gymnast
- Bernhard Durst (born November 8, 1882; † April 27, 1966 in Neresheim), Benedictine monk in Beuron, abbot of the Neresheim monastery, abbot president of the Beuron congregation
- Konrad Hofmann (born October 27, 1890 in Markelsheim; † July 17, 1987 in Freiburg im Breisgau), Roman Catholic theologian and lexicographer
- Felix Fechenbach (born January 28, 1894, † August 7, 1933 in the Kleinenberger Wald between Detmold and Warburg ), political journalist and poet.
- Hermann Fechenbach (born January 11, 1897 - † December 6, 1986 in Denham), German-Jewish graphic artist.
20th century
- Robert Friedrich (born November 29, 1901 in Wachbach; † May 23, 1986), German politician and member of the NSDAP . Provisionally as mayor of the city shortly before the start of World War II Wuppertal used
- Carlheinz Gräter (born August 4, 1937), writer
- Gudrun Mebs (born January 8, 1944), writer, children's and youth author
- Barbara Stamm (born October 29, 1944), CSU politician , President of the Bavarian State Parliament
- Ulrich Zeh (born January 13, 1946), painter and graphic artist
- Schmitto Kling (born August 15, 1946 - † December 23, 2018), jazz violinist
- Hartmut Schmidt (born September 21, 1946), composer and violist
- Joachim Betz (born February 4, 1948), microbiologist and manager
- Hans-Jürgen Zahorka (born January 14, 1952) politician, lawyer and political advisor
- Sylvia Wanke (born September 10, 1952), sculptor and scenographer
- Frieder Berlin (born December 9, 1954), jazz musician and music editor
- Fritz Kuhn (born June 29, 1955), Lord Mayor of Stuttgart , former member of the Bundestag and former federal chairman of the Greens
- Wolfgang Reinhart (born May 3, 1956), politician of the CDU , chairman of the CDU parliamentary group
- Waltraud Ulshöfer (born September 20, 1956), politician Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .
- Arnd Brummer (born June 5, 1957), journalist and author
- Otto Johannes Geisel (born December 27, 1960), cook and management consultant
- Ulrich Hefner (* 1961), police officer, journalist and crime writer
- Jürgen Wolf (born July 20, 1961), organist and conductor
- Peter Kuhn (born November 22, 1962), carnivalist
- Jürgen Koch , (1963 *) Cooking with a star in the Michelin guide awarded
- Ullrich Rainer Otte (* 1963), oral and maxillofacial surgeon
- Johannes Jungbauer (* 1964), psychologist
- Barbara Zechmeister (* 1964 in the Hachtel district), chamber singer
- Lothar Deeg (born November 26, 1965), journalist and author living in Russia
- Markus Kebschull (* 7 July 1969), Koch, with two stars in the Michelin guide awarded
- Holger Schmidhuber (* 1970), visual artist
- Ulrich Rüdenauer (born September 10, 1971), journalist, editor and critic
- Nina Warken (born May 15, 1979), politician (CDU)
- Martin Lanig (born July 11, 1984), soccer player
- Sebastian Bachmann (born November 24, 1986), foil fencer
- Theresa Betz (* 1988), soccer player
- Carolin Golubytskyi (born December 19, 1985), foil fencer
- Atilla Yıldırım (born November 22, 1990), Dutch-Turkish football player
- Florian Ruck (born February 6, 1992), football player
- Luca Pfeiffer (born August 20, 1996), football player
Other persons connected with Bad Mergentheim
13./14. century
- Gottfried von Hohenlohe (* 1265; † November 5, 1309 in Bad Mergentheim) was the 14th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
14./15. century
- Seligmann (Selkman) von Mergentheim, around 1407 Jewish personal physician to Johann I von Egloffstein .
18th century
- The composer Ludwig van Beethoven (* 1770; † 1827) worked in 1791 as a violist in the court orchestra of the high and German master Maximilian Franz von Austria in Bad Mergentheim. A memorial plaque on the residential building Deutschordenplatz 1 still reminds of this today.
19th century
- The poet Eduard Mörike (* 1804; † 1875) lived in Bad Mergentheim from 1844 to 1851. His younger daughter Marie (1857–1876) is buried here.
- Head of the Mergentheim Office (1809 to 1938).
- Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (* 1852; † 1921). The founder of the Berlitz language schools did his apprenticeship with the Steinleitner watchmaker in Bad Mergentheim around 1870 on a scholarship.
20th century
- Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hötzendorf (born November 11, 1852 in Penzing near Vienna) died on August 25, 1925 in Mergentheim . When the First World War broke out in 1914, he was Chief of the General Staff for the entire armed forces of Austria-Hungary , and from 1916 Field Marshal .
- Roman Herzog died on January 10, 2017 in a sanatorium in Bad Mergentheim.He was a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court from 1983 to 1994 , from 1987 as its president. After that he was the seventh Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1994 to 1999 .
- The poet Willi Habermann (* 1922; † 2001), a long-time teacher at the Deutschorden grammar school, lived in Bad Mergentheim until his death. Born in Neu-Ulm, he wrote in Swabian dialect.
- During the Nazi era murdered inhabitants (1933-1945): The ending of the period of National Socialism 1933-1945 murdered inhabitants of Bad Mergentheim are in the articles of Jewish communities Edelfingen , Markelsheim , Mergentheim , Neunkirchen and Wachbach mentioned.
- Lothar Späth , who later became Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, spent part of his training at the Bad Mergentheim district office in the late 1950s.
- District administrators of the Mergentheim district (1934 to 1972).
literature
- Files of the episcopal archives in Rottenburg-Stuttgart and Würzburg.
- Files of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
- Records in the baptismal register of the Bad Mergentheim community as well as in the deanery and parish offices.
Web links
- Website of the city of Bad Mergentheim at www.bad-mergentheim.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Zimmermann: Jewish doctors and their achievements in medicine in the Middle Ages. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 8, 1990, pp. 201-206, here: pp. 201 f.
- ↑ http://www.emrosebooks.com/berlitz_german.htm 150 years of Berlitz