List of personalities from the city of Bad Tölz

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The following list shows personalities who are closely connected with the city of Bad Tölz .

sons and daughters of the town

The Winzerer III statue, modeled by F. Schwarzgruber, cast by Ferdinand von Miller

People who worked on site

  • Friedrich Nockher (1669–1754), salt official and founder of the Kalvarienbergkirche
  • Karl Herder († 1865) and Max Höfler, founders of the spa
  • Franz Hanfstaengl (1804–1877), painter, lithographer and photographer
  • August Moralt (1811–1886), master carpenter
  • Georg Westermayer (1836–1893), historian, poet and Roman Catholic clergyman, pastor and chronicler of Tölz
  • Anton Krettner (1849–1899), composer and mayor
  • Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), Field Marshal General , took a cure in Tölz towards the end of the war and contributed to the protection of the place through mediation
  • Thomas Mann (1875–1955), writer, owned a summer villa here from 1906 to 1917, today's Villa Mann ; a year before the end of the First World War he sold them for a war loan
  • Sigmund Egenberger (1875–1965), architect, commissioner for nature conservation and honorary member of the historical association
  • Rupert Egenberger (1877–1959), founder of the special education system in Bavaria; died in Bad Tölz
  • Hans von Hentig (1887–1974), criminologist
  • Hans Jüttner (1894–1965), SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS; after the end of the Second World War owner of a sanatorium in Bad Tölz
  • Grethe Weiser (1903–1970), actress; died after a traffic accident in the Bad Tölz city hospital
  • Erika Mann (1905–1969) and Klaus Mann (1906–1949), writers and actors, spent their youth in their parents' villa
  • Otto Kraus (1905–1984), mineralogist and nature conservationist; died here
  • Jakob Ostler (1907–1970), curate of the old municipal hospital
  • Amon Göth (1908–1946), SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp commander, spent the end of the war in a Tölz sanatorium and was arrested here
  • Norbert Schultze (1911–2002), composer and conductor
  • Theodor Dannecker (1913–1945), SS - Hauptsturmführer and Judenreferent , committed suicide in Tölz
  • Qiu Fazu (1914–2008), Chinese surgeon, head of a makeshift hospital in Tölz and rescuer of concentration camp prisoners
  • Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn (1918–2010), member of the White Rose
  • Rupert Berger (1926–2020), liturgical scholar , parish priest 1968–1997
  • Gregor Dorfmeister (1929–2018), journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of the local newspaper, grew up in Tölz
  • Gina Ruck-Pauquet (1931–2018), poetic children's book author; settled in Bad Tölz in 1958
  • Kristian Schultze (1945–2011), composer, arranger, keyboardist and music producer; lived in Bad Tölz since 2002
  • Dee Dee Ramone (1951-2002), American bassist for the Ramones ; grew up temporarily in Tölz
  • Ottfried Fischer (* 1953), cabaret artist and actor; As the main character in Der Bulle von Tölz, he and many other actors increased the popularity of Bad Tölz nationwide and internationally
  • Josef Niedermaier (* 1963), District Administrator
  • John Friedmann (* 1971), actor; grew up in Bad Tölz