List of personalities of the city of Bad Mergentheim

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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:

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

17th century

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

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

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

20th century

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

Commons : Personalities of Bad Mergentheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ http://www.emrosebooks.com/berlitz_german.htm 150 years of Berlitz