List of personalities of the city of Balingen
This list of personalities of the city of Balingen shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Balingen and its districts (with the core city Balingen and the districts Dürrwangen , Endingen , Engstlatt , Erzingen , Frommern , Heselwangen , Ostdorf , Roßwangen , Stockenhausen , Streichen , Weilstetten and Zillhausen ), as well as other personalities associated with Balingen. The list does not claim to be complete.
mayor
Honorary citizen
The city of Balingen granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the municipality:
- Karl von Leibbrand (born November 11, 1839 - March 13, 1898), senior building officer
- Hermann (von) Ehmann (born June 10, 1844 - † December 7, 1905), senior building officer
- Josef Filser († July 31, 1918), senior bailiff and councilor
- Konrad Haussmann († February 11, 1922), member of the state parliament
- Paul von Hindenburg (October 2, 1847 - August 2, 1934), President of the Reich
- Friedrich Eckenfelder (born March 6, 1861 - † May 11, 1938), painter
- Robert Wahl (born August 22, 1882 - † December 5, 1955), mayor
- Wilhelm Kraut (born May 9, 1875 - September 26, 1957), manufacturer
- Jakob Beutter († January 17, 1972), master carpenter
- Albert Hagenbuch (born March 22, 1913 - † December 25, 1997), Lord Mayor
- Wilhelm Kraut (born March 17, 1906; † July 13, 1992), honorary senator
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Balingen (or in a district of today's urban area of Balingen):
15th century
- Gregor Reisch (* approx. 1470; † May 9, 1525 in Freiburg im Breisgau), university professor and monk, representative of the philosophical school of late scholastic realists
- Joseph Weiß , also Joseph Weiß painter of Balingen and possibly the master of Messkirch (* 1487 or 1488; † after 1565), painter of the Renaissance
16th Century
- Marx Weiss the Younger, also Marx Weiss von Balingen (* before 1518, † February 25, 1580 in Überlingen), late Gothic painter
- Anna Murschel (* around 1533; † after 1600 probably in Engstlatt ), widow of the long-time Balingen mayor Caspar Murschel, known as Tübinger, was accused in a witch trial, but could not be forced to confess and was released despite intense torture.
- Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (born September 22, 1547 in Erzingen , † November 29, 1590 in Hohenurach ), a late humanist philologist , neo-Latin dramatist and poet
18th century
- Eberhard von Wächter (1762–1852), painter, director of the royal art school
19th century
- Johann Tobias Beck (born February 22, 1804; † December 28, 1878 in Tübingen), Protestant theologian
- Gottlieb Rau (born January 15, 1816 in Dürrwangen , † October 2, 1854 in New York City ), revolutionary of the German Revolution 1848/49
- Heinrich Lang (born November 14, 1826 in Frommern, † January 13, 1876 in Zurich ), theologian
- Martin Haug (born January 30, 1827 in Ostdorf; † June 3, 1876 in Bad Ragaz ), orientalist
- Theodor Karl von Hermann (1850–1926), general superintendent of Tübingen and Reutlingen
- Eugen Fischer-Baling (1881–1964), librarian, historian, political scientist and writer
- Robert Wahl (born August 22, 1882 in Balingen; † December 5, 1955 there), entrepreneur and local politician
- Heinrich Münzenmaier (1883–1975), President of the Württemberg State Insurance Institute
- Erwin Marquardt (1889–1955), professor of hydraulic engineering
- Karl Hötzer (1892–1969), local poet and teacher
- Otto Mörike (1897–1978), Protestant pastor and dean, a "silent hero" in the resistance against National Socialism with the highest distinction from the State of Israel
- Gottlieb Stengel (1897–1981), graduate farmer and director of the agricultural school in Hohenheim
20th century
- Hans-Otto Binder (1940–2017), historian, university professor and local politician in Tübingen
- Heinrich Haasis (* 1945), Mayor, District Administrator, Member of Parliament, President of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association
- Jürgen Haug (* 1948), actor, screenwriter and speaker (e.g. for radio plays)
- Claudia Hübner (* 1948), State Councilor in the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, member of the state parliament
- Volker Jehle (born December 23, 1954), writer, literary scholar and editor
- Joachim Schmid (* 1955), visual artist
- Rainer Schlegel (* 1958), lawyer, judge at the Federal Social Court
- Martin Schaudt (* 1958), dressage rider
- Michael Hennrich (* 1965), politician (CDU), member of the Bundestag
- Mark-Oliver Rödel (* 1965), herpetologist
- Christoph Sieber (* 1970), cabaret artist
- Stefan Knop (* 1971), physician and professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
- Stefan Krohmer (* 1971), director and actor, received the Adolf Grimme Prize with gold in 2002 for his film at the end of the season .
- Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (* 1972), Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg and State Minister for Economics, Labor and Housing for the State of Baden-Württemberg
- Sascha Alexander Geršak (* 1975), actor
- Julius Tröger (* 1983), journalist and book author
- Sarah Sophie Koch (* 1984), educator, family therapist and actress
- Kathrin Hitzer (* 1986), biathlete
- Frank Lehmann (* 1989), soccer goalkeeper
- Pascal Bodmer (* 1991), ski jumper
- Florian Kath (* 1994), soccer player
Other personalities associated with Balingen
The following personalities are connected to the city of Balingen and its districts:
18th century
- Karl Friedrich Reinhard (* 1761 in Schorndorf ; † 1837 in Paris ) French diplomat, statesman and writer of German origin grew up partly in Balingen and worked there as vicar.
19th century
- Andreas Bizer (* 1839; † 1914), mechanic and industrialist, co-founder of Bizerba
- Carl Neuschäfer (* 1879; † 1946 in Zillhausen ), emeritus director of studies of the Theological Seminary of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches , preacher of the Baptist community in Tübingen-Zillhausen.
- Maria Friederike Rösler (* 1819; † 1880 in Stuttgart), founder of the Rösler Foundation, from which the Rösler Women's Labor School was established in 1883.
20th century
- Ulrich Schürer (* 1947), zoologist, author and former director of the Wuppertal Zoo
- Daniel F. Pinnow (* 1962 in Stuttgart ), author and former managing director of the Academy for Business Executives in Überlingen and Bad Harzburg , grew up in Balingen and graduated from high school there
literature
- Records in the baptismal register of the city of Balingen as well as in the deanery and parish offices.
Web links
- Website of the city of Balingen at www.balingen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Werner Engels: The German-French Minister . In: The time of January 7, 2010
- ↑ Ursula Heidrun-Schüle: Rösler Foundation and women's work school . In: Stadtverwaltung Balingen (Hrsg.): 750 years of the city of Balingen (= publications of the Balingen city archive . Volume 7 ). 2005, ISBN 3-00-017595-4 , pp. 528 .