List of personalities of the city of Baden-Baden

This list contains the honorary citizens of the city of Baden-Baden as well as personalities born in today's city area. The second and third sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen of Baden-Baden

The city of Baden-Baden has granted the following persons honorary citizenship (the honorary citizenship expires with death):

1811: Joseph von Lassolaye
1821: Friederike of Sweden
1832: Franz Josef Herr
1836: Grand Duchess Stéphanie de Beauharnais
1840: Jacques Bénazet , casino operator
1843: Franz Jakob Göbel
1848: William Archibald of Hamilton
1848: Marie von Hamilton
1851: Edouard Bénazet , casino operator
1851: Andreas Friedrich
1854: Konrad Kuntz
1860: Joseph Grosholz
1861: Karl Daniel Oppenfeld
1866: Julius Füsslin
1866: Michael Stourdza
1872: Emile Dupressoir
1895: Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor
1898: Hermann von Sachsen-Weimar
1907: Albert Gönner
1910: Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
1910: Hermann Sielcken
1929: Reinhard Fieser
1933: Hermann Elfner
1933: ~~Adolf Hitler~~
1952: Konrad Adenauer , Federal Chancellor
1969: Ernst Schlapper , Lord Mayor
1990: Walter Carlein , Lord Mayor
1993: Meinrad Lauinger
2005: Frieder Burda
2014: Pierre Boulez , composer
2018: Tony Marshall

Personalities born in Baden-Baden

Until 1800

Bernhard II. (1428 / 29–1458), son of Margrave Jacob I of Baden
Christoph I (1453–1527), Margrave of Baden
Thomas Anshelm (around 1470–1522 / 24), printer
Jacob II of Baden (1471–1511), prince, (titular) margrave of Baden and archbishop and elector of Trier
Philibert von Baden (1536–1569), regent of the margraviate of Baden-Baden
Philip II (1559–1588), regent of the margraviate of Baden-Baden
Wilhelm (1593–1677), regent of the margraviate of Baden-Baden
Ferdinand Maximilian von Baden-Baden (1625–1669), father of the "Türkenlouis" Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden
Wilhelm Christoph von Baden (1628–1652), Margrave of Baden and Canon of Cologne
Hermann von Baden-Baden (1628–1691), military and diplomat
Franz Anton Dürr (1699–1781), entrepreneur
Friedrich von Zoller (1762–1821), Bavarian lieutenant general
August Hüber (1782–1832), lawyer

1801 to 1850

Carl Damm (1812–1886), Catholic priest and politician
Karl Hippmann (1812–1875), Oberamtmann of Baden
Emil Keßler (1813–1867), entrepreneur
Anna Zerr (1822–1881), singer
Adolph Franz (1842–1916), Catholic theologian, editor and politician

1851 to 1900

Adolf Stebel (1855–1926), German-Swiss architect and drawing teacher
Emil Belzer (1860–1930), lawyer and politician
Heinrich Belzer (1861–1927), lawyer and administrative officer
Heinrich von Heydebrand and the Lasa (1861–1924), landowner and politician
Friedrich von Zeppelin-Aschhausen (1861–1915), district president in Alsace-Lorraine, member of the state parliament
Irene Forbes-Mosse (1864–1946), writer
Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden (1865–1888), son of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden
Marie, Princess of Baden (1865–1939), by marriage to the Duchess of Anhalt
Konrad Gisbert Wilhelm Freiherr von Romberg (1866–1939), diplomat
Max von Baden (1867–1929), last heir to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Baden and last Chancellor of the German Empire
Josef Rauch (1868–1921), sculptor
Paul Nikolaus Cossmann (1869–1942), political writer and editor
Georg van Eyck (1869–1951), entrepreneur
Alexander von Meyendorff (1869–1964), Russian administrative lawyer
Louis II (1870–1949), Prince of Monaco
Édouard Risler (1873–1929), French pianist
Sigmund von Sallwürk (1874–1944), painter and graphic artist
Hans Ormund Bringolf (1876–1951), Swiss adventurer
Ivo Puhonny (1876–1940), graphic artist and puppeteer
Arthur Schreck (1878–1963), psychiatrist
Rudolf Krasselt (1879–1954), cellist, conductor and artistic director
Albert Kuntzemüller (1880–1956), high school professor and senior high school director as well as historian
Hermann Beuttenmüller (1881–1960), lawyer and writer
Julius Kapp (1883–1962), dramaturge and author
Alfred Walterspiel (1881–1960), cook, restaurateur and hotel manager
Wilhelm Brückner (1884–1954), officer, National Socialist and chief adjutant to Adolf Hitler
Alfred Kühn (1885–1968), zoologist and geneticist
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886–1957), British physicist
Rolf Gustav Haebler (1888–1974), politician, local researcher and writer
Heinrich Berl (1896–1953), writer, musicologist and journalist
Erich Friedrich Schmidt (1897–1964), American archaeologist from the Near East
Wolfgang Krull (1899–1971), mathematician

1901 to 1950

Rudolf Höß (1901–1947), National Socialist, SS-Obersturmbannführer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
Leopold Gutterer (1902–1996), National Socialist functionary and politician, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Vice President of the Reich Chamber of Culture
Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958), writer
Hugo Zeitvogel (1903–1982), member of the state parliament
Felix Gilbert (1905–1991), German-American historian
Hans Kuhn (1905–1991), painter, graphic artist and university lecturer
Uri Yadin (born as Rudolf Heinsheimer, 1908–1985), lawyer and university professor
Walter Bargatzky (1910–1998), lawyer, State Secretary and President of the German Red Cross
Erich Kuby (1910–2005), journalist and publicist
Hilde Schneider (1914–1961), stage and film actress
Alexander Wecker-Bergheim (1914–2001), painter and art professor
Ludwig Kroll (1915–1989), politician
Otto H. Schiele (1922–2012), industrial manager
Walter Falk (1924–2000), literary scholar and philosopher
Josef Großmann (1926–2017), lawyer and district administrator
Egon Steigenberger (1926–1985), hotelier
Gerhard Durlacher (1928–1996), Dutch writer and sociologist
Egon Gushurst (* 1930), auditor and state politician
Manfred Sexauer (1930–2014), radio and television presenter
Roland Gerstner (* 1931), politician
Otmar Zwiebelhofer (1935–2014), entrepreneur
Hans Peter Laubscher (1936–1999), classical archaeologist
Tony Marshall (* 1938), pop and opera singer
Norbert Nohe (1938–2017), conductor, music teacher and composer
Michael Baier (1940–2019), screenwriter
Ursula Lazarus (* 1942), politician
Johannes-Peter Timm (* 1942), professor for applied linguistics and foreign language didactics
Gerd Tenzer (* 1943), former Telekom manager and VDE chairman
Henning Huffer (* 1944), lawyer, airline pilot, aviation adventurer , film and book author

Harald Mielsch (* 1944), classical archaeologist

Gunter A. Pilz (* 1944), honorary professor

Peter Götz (* 1947), politician

Elmar Hörig (* 1949), radio and television presenter

Joe Koinzer (* 1949), percussionist and jazz musician

Hans Wolf (* 1949), writer and translator

Patrick Leclercq (1950-2011), journalist

Roland Schaeffer (* 1950), musician

Gerd Weismann (* 1950), cabaret artist, author, graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and painter

From 1951

Wolfgang Grenke (* 1951), entrepreneur
Robert HP Platz (* 1951), composer and conductor
Werner Hofmann (* 1952), physicist and university professor
Nikolaus Stingl (* 1952), translator
Hans Thill (* 1954), author and translator
Jacques Grosperrin (* 1955), French politician (UMP)
Sabine von Maydell (* 1955), actress and author
Thomas Münzel (* 1955), doctor
Katharina Boele-Woelki (* 1956), legal scholar
Christof Florus (* 1956), politician
Judith Oexle (* 1956), medieval archaeologist
Jean-Marc Rochette (* 1956), French painter, illustrator and cartoonist
Jürgen Fuchs (* 1957), physicist
Karl-Wolfgang Jägel (* 1957), politician
Beate Krum (* 1957), chess player
Karin Schickinger (* 1957), writer
Ralf Kreutzer (* 1958), business economist
Michael Andrejewski (* 1959), lawyer and right-wing extremist politician (DVU, NPD)
Marc-Aeilko Aris (* 1959), medievalist, theologian and philosopher
Wolfgang Hatz (* 1959), engineer and manager
Heinrich von Kalnein (* 1960), jazz musician
Stefan Anton Reck (* 1960), conductor
Thomas Robert Walter, wanted, former member of the disbanded militant, autonomous underground organization Das KOMITEE
Johanna Rahner (* 1962) professor of theology
Marc Marshall (* 1963), singer and entertainer
Birgit Klaus (* 1964), journalist, radio and television presenter and author
Manuel Krug (* 1964), photographer
Patrick Rössler (* 1964), university professor for communication science
Florian Ballhaus (* 1965), cameraman
Johannes Hüppi (* 1965), Swiss-German artist
Johannes Baron (* 1966), politician (FDP) and former district president
Beate Böhlen (* 1966), educator and politician
Daniel Fetzner (* 1966), media artist and architect
Patrick Meinhardt (* 1966), politician
Tanja Paulitz (* 1966), non-fiction author and professor
Blutonium Boy (* 1970), hardstyle techno DJ and producer
Holger Schmidt (* 1971), radio journalist and author
Jan Malte Andresen (* 1972), radio presenter and freelance journalist
Marco Grimm (* 1972), soccer player
Isabell Hertel (* 1973), actress and presenter
Frank Moser (* 1976), tennis player
Sven Heinemann (* 1978), politician (SPD)
Stefan Detscher (* 1980), professor of business administration
Eric Dean Hordes (born 1983), director
Kai Whittaker (* 1985), politician (CDU)
Magdalena Schnurr (* 1992), ski jumper
Sebastian Ullrich (* 1992), handball player

Well-known residents and personalities who worked in Baden-Baden

Ludwig Robert (1778–1832), playwright, storyteller, poet, publicist and translator
Georg Heinrich Krieg von Hochfelden (1798–1860), major general and military writer
Franz Meyer (1799–1871), Baden-Baden's first banker
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883), writer
Clara Schumann (1819–1896), composer and piano virtuoso
Richard Pohl (1826–1896), composer and music writer
Albert von Suckow (1828–1893), Infantry General and Minister of War
Victor Puhonny (1838–1909), landscape painter
Hermann Fehling (1847–1925), gynecologist and obstetrician
Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927), pianist and composer
Vitus Staudacher (1850–1925), violinist and landscape painter
Otto Flake (1880–1963), writer
Othmar Fiebiger (1886–1972), teacher
Wilhelm W. Hoffmann (1890–1969), architect and architectural historian
Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), German-Baltic writer
Heinrich Strobel (1898–1970), musicologist
Hanns Tschira (1899–1957), board, portrait and press photographer
Oscar Schellbach (1901–1970), life teacher and founder of mental positivism
Franz Büchler (1904–1990), writer and visual artist
Else Brückner-Rüggeberg (1910–1981), actress, speaker and radio presenter
Aribert Heim (1914–1992), Nazi doctor and member of the SS, lived from 1954 to 1962 undisturbed in Baden-Baden
Louis Lucien Lepoix (1918–1998), French-German industrial designer
Rudi Michel (1921–2008), sports journalist
Walter Carlein (1922–2011), politician, Lord Mayor of Baden-Baden from 1969 to 1990
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016), French composer, conductor and music theorist
Dieter Waldmann (1926–1971), playwright
Rolf-Hans Müller (1928–1990), orchestra conductor and composer
Eberhard Schöck (* 1935), civil engineer
Thomas Reimer (1936–2011), journalist
Olaf Feldmann (* 1937), politician
Hans-Reinhard Scheu (* 1941), radio reporter and television presenter
Frank Elstner (* 1942), entertainer, presenter
Rolf Stober (* 1943), university professor and legal scholar
Ursula Cantieni (* 1947), Swiss-German actress
Thomas Gottschalk (* 1950), TV entertainer
Immo Sennewald (* 1950), publicist, novelist, producer for radio and television
Christian Simon (* 1951), television and radio presenter and music producer
Hervé Rozoum (* 1955), French musician, composer, arranger and producer
Jürgen Carle (* 1958), cameraman
Ralf Bauer (* 1966), actor
Alexandra Kamp (* 1966), actress
Marcus Barsch (* 1967), radio presenter and author
George Liratsis (* 1967), actor and entrepreneur
Klaus Michael Rückert (* 1967), politician
Carsten Otte (* 1972), writer and radio host
Stephanie Haiber (* 1973), radio presenter, music editor and DJane
Pierre M. Krause (* 1976), television presenter, author, humorist and actor
Anneta Politi (* 1977), radio presenter
Jennah Karthes (* 1982), pop singer
Dennis Tinat (* 1984), radio presenter
Julia Obst (* 1992), actress

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Individual evidence

^ City of Baden-Baden: Directory of people elected as honorary citizens (PDF; 63 kB).
^ Official note from the city of Baden-Baden on the honorary citizenship of Adolf Hitler:

“The list represents historically correct the names of the honorary citizens once appointed. It cannot and should not be concealed that Adolf Hitler - as in many other cities - was elected honorary citizen on April 20, 1933. Historical events cannot be undone. Nevertheless, it is to be noted with shame that one of the greatest criminals against humanity has received the honorary citizenship of the city of Baden-Baden. Hitler's name is not deleted, but is crossed out. "
↑ Election on December 15, 2014, awarded on January 18, 2015
^ City of Baden-Baden: Honorary Citizen in the 20th Century , accessed on January 21, 2015
↑ Bernd Kamleitner: Singer Tony Marshall becomes an honorary citizen of Baden-Baden. In: BNN.de. January 30, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 .

[1] City of Baden-Baden: Directory of people elected as honorary citizens (PDF; 63 kB).

[2] Official note from the city of Baden-Baden on the honorary citizenship of Adolf Hitler:

“The list represents historically correct the names of the honorary citizens once appointed. It cannot and should not be concealed that Adolf Hitler - as in many other cities - was elected honorary citizen on April 20, 1933. Historical events cannot be undone. Nevertheless, it is to be noted with shame that one of the greatest criminals against humanity has received the honorary citizenship of the city of Baden-Baden. Hitler's name is not deleted, but is crossed out. "

[3] Election on December 15, 2014, awarded on January 18, 2015

[4] City of Baden-Baden: Honorary Citizen in the 20th Century , accessed on January 21, 2015

[5] Bernd Kamleitner: Singer Tony Marshall becomes an honorary citizen of Baden-Baden. In: BNN.de. January 30, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 .