List of personalities of the city of Bayreuth

This list contains personalities born in Bayreuth as well as those who worked in Bayreuth but were born elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.

Personalities born in Bayreuth

Until 1800

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gontard

Christian Kapp

Heinrich von Gagern 1848

Anna Maria von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1609–1680), Princess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Michael Conrad Hirt (1613–1671), Baroque painter
Erdmann August von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1615–1651), Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
Georg Albrecht (1619–1666), founder of the Kulmbach branch line
Christian Ernst (1644–1712), Margrave of the Franconian Principality of Bayreuth
Gottfried Handel (1644–1698), Protestant theologian and song writer
Christian Heinrich (1661–1708), nobleman
Johann Joseph Seyler (1669–1719), educator and Protestant theologian
Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671–1727), Electress of Saxony
Georg Wilhelm (1678–1726), Margrave of the Franconian Principality of Bayreuth
Johann Lorenz Fleischer (1689–1749), lawyer, university professor and rector
Johann Gottfried von Miegen (1692–1745), lawyer, historian, university professor and archivist
Johann Ernst Teichmann (1694–1746), Protestant pastor and historian
Johann Wolfgang Kipping (1695–1747), lawyer and university professor
Adam Anton von Meyern (1700–1774), lawyer, diplomat and curator at the University of Erlangen
Germann August Ellrod (1709–1760), General Superintendent of the Principality of Bayreuth

Johann Friedrich Hähn (1710–1789), General Superintendent in Aurich

Kasimir Christoph Schmidel (1718–1792), doctor and botanist

Rudolf Albini (1719–1797), court plasterer

Johann Gottlob von Meyern (1720–1789), administrative lawyer and court official

Franz Xaver von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1720–1765), Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Friedrich Heidenreich (1741–1803), organ builder

Georg Christian Unger (1743–1799), architect and builder

Johann Rudolf Heinrich Richter (1748–1810), architect and landscape painter

Erhard Friedrich Vogel (1750–1823), Protestant pastor

Johann David Schoepf (1752–1800), surgeon, botanist, zoologist and naturalist

Carl Graf Bose (1753–1809), Royal Saxon Cabinet Minister, Real Privy Councilor and Electoral Saxon High Court Marshal

Anna Heinel (1753–1808), dancer

Johann Georg Wunderlich (1755–1819), flautist, university professor and composer

Johann Jakob Cella (1756–1820), lawyer and writer

Andreas Schumann (1757–1828), German educator and author

Salomon Pinhas (1759–1837), miniature painter and eraser

Justus Friedrich Zehelein (1760–1802), writer, composer, magistrate and etcher

Ludwig Abeille (1761–1838), pianist and composer

Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gontard (1764–1839), lieutenant colonel and rank major of Berlin

Christoph Ammon (1766–1850), Protestant theologian

Johann Heinrich Liebeskind (1768–1847), lawyer and author

Johann Christoph Friedrich Götschel (1768–1812), Lutheran clergyman, superintendent in Prague and Eutin

Karl Wilhelm Ernst von Waldenfels (1772–1807), Prussian officer

Wilhelm von Krauseneck (1774–1850), field marshal and geodesist

Christian Karl Barth (1775-1853), historian

Johanna Costenoble (1777–1828), stage actress

Erhard Christian Hagen von Hagenfels (1786–1868), first legally qualified mayor of Bayreuth

Ludwig Förster (1797–1863), Austrian-German architect

Johann Wolfgang Ferdinand Lammers (1795–1855), lawyer and mayor

Henriette Alexandrine von Nassau-Weilburg (1797–1829), wife of Archduke Karl of Austria

Christian Hohe (1798–1868), draftsman, painter and lithographer

Christian Kapp (1798–1874), Baden politician, professor of philosophy

Heinrich von Gagern (1799–1880), politician, became the first President of the Frankfurt National Assembly on May 19, 1848.

Otto Ferdinand Dubislav von Pirch (1799–1832), Prussian captain and travel writer

August Riedel (1799–1883), painter

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (1800–1864), pharmacist, botanist, geologist and paleontologist

Philipp Heinel (1800–1843), painter

1801 to 1850

Max Stirner, sketch by Friedrich Engels (1842)

Moritz Wagner

Johann Wilhelm Holle (1802–1862), local history researcher
Karl von Burger (1805-1884), Lutheran theologian
Rudolf Wagner (1805–1864), anatomist and physiologist
Max Stirner (1806–1856), philosopher and journalist
Eduard von Bomhard (1809–1886), politician
Heinrich Heerwagen (1811–1888), local historian
Eduard Riedel (1813–1885), architect
Moritz Wagner (1813–1887), traveler, geographer and naturalist
Friedrich Karl Wunder (1815–1893), lithographer
Jakob Herz (1816–1871), doctor
Samuel Gottfried Christoph Cloeter (1823–1894), Lutheran pastor, founder of Gnadenburg in Russia
Max von Wilmersdörffer (1824–1903), banker, diplomat and coin collector
Melchior Stenglein (1825–1903), lawyer
August Zapf (1826–1910), opera singer
Ferdinand Gottfried von Herder (1828–1896), botanist
Karl von Lotzbeck (1832–1907), General Staff Doctor in the Bavarian Army
Julius Bayerlein (1838–1899), entrepreneur and member of the German Reichstag
Wilhelm von Diez (1839–1907), painter and illustrator
Albert Berthold (1841–1926), actor and theater director
Leopold Friedrich Ranke (1842–1918), Lutheran theologian
Otto Pöhlmann (1848–1927), district president and member of the German Reichstag
Philipp Zorn (1850–1928), Canon and constitutional lawyer

1851 to 1900

Max Sänger (1853–1903), gynecologist and obstetrician

Franz Muncker (1855–1926), literary historian

Ludwig Wiesinger (1859–1942), businessman and Hamburg senator

Max Schröder (1862–1922), architect

Anton Hoffmann (1863–1938), painter, illustrator, military expert and university professor

Heinrich Becher (1865–1941), judge

Karl Hugel (1865–1937), tailor and member of the German Reichstag

Carl Sartorius (1865–1945), lawyer

Heinrich Kolb (1867–?), Administrative lawyer

Richard Engelmann (1868–1966), sculptor

Ivo Striedinger (1868–1943), Professor of Archival Studies

Heinrich Hopf (1869–1929), German politician (SPD)

Christian Ritter von Langheinrich (1870–1950), lawyer and politician

Otto Dimroth (1872–1940), chemist

Theodor von der Pfordten (1873–1923), senior judge at the Bavarian Supreme Court

Wilhelm von Eitzenberger (1875–1956), royal Bavarian officer

Wilhelm Krausneck (1875–1927), lawyer, civil servant, BCL and politician

Johann Panzer (1875–1950), social democratic politician

Johann Sophian Christian Richter (1875–1951), politician

Hans Brand (1879–1959), geologist, mining engineer and SS standard leader

Emil Bems (1881–1961), lawyer

Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968), painter and graphic artist

Julius Steeger (1881–1954), publisher and politician

Lene Stuhlfauth (1883–1967), writer

Max Kolb (1889 – after 1945), politician

Fritz Neuland (1889–1969), lawyer

Wilhelm Leuschner (1890–1944), trade unionist and politician

Hans Reissinger (1890–1972), architect

Karl Schwend (1890–1968), civil servant and politician

Christian Ritter von Popp (1891–1964), architect

Fritz Rasp (1891–1976), film and stage actor

Hans Schemm (1891–1935), NSDAP Gauleiter

Max Zeidelhack (1891–1955), political scientist and armaments functionary

Robert Ritter von Greim (1892–1945), Army and Air Force officer, 1945 Field Marshal General

Robert Krauss (1894–1953), Major General in the Air Force

Carola von Crailsheim (1895–1982), writer and translator

Hans Schmidt (1895–1971), Lieutenant General

Karl Helbig (1897–1951), painter and sculptor

Heinrich Horlbeck (1897–1980), politician

Claire Born (1898–1965), singer

Fritz Meyer (1898–1980), lawyer and local politician

Michael Redwitz (1900–1946), SS-Hauptsturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer

1901 to 1950

Franz Wilhelm Beidler (1901–1981), Swiss publicist

Konrad Pöhner (1901–1974), entrepreneur, association president and politician

Christoph von Petz (1901–1976), architect and construction clerk

Rudolf Graber (1903–1992), theologian and Roman Catholic bishop

Rudolf Niess (1903–1982), architect and commercial artist
Ludwig Kirschner (1904–1945), German officer, most recently major general in World War II
Max Sollmann (1904 – after 1970), businessman and SS leader
Hans Hornberger (1907–1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism
Ludwig Ruckdeschel (1907–1986), NSDAP functionary
Walter Rollwagen (1909–1993), physicist
Hilde Marx (1911–1986), German-American poet, writer and journalist
Franz Kelch (1915–2013), singer
Wieland Wagner (1917–1966), opera director and set designer
Paul Riebel (1918–2001), business economist
Friedelind Wagner (1918–1991), Siegfried Wagner's eldest daughter

Wolfgang Wagner (1919–2010), opera director and set designer

Walter Rosenwald (1924–2012), ministerial official, military historian and religious scholar

Erich Rappl (1925–2008), musicologist, journalist, author and City Councilor of Bayreuth

Max von der Grün (1926–2005), writer

Max von der Grün

Fred Gebhardt (1928–2000), politician (SPD)

Kurt Herterich (1928–2015), author of urban history publications on Bayreuth

Fritz Semmelmann (1928–2011), football player

Leni Hofknecht (* 1929), long jumper

Wolfgang Wild (* 1930), nuclear physicist and politician

Armin Hohlweg (* 1933), Byzantinist

Egon Lutz (1934–2011), politician (SPD)

Walter Demel (* 1935), cross-country skier

Hans Rauh (* 1935), painter

Peter Schmidt (* 1937), designer

Heiner Zametzer (1937–2006), cultural historian and cultural scientist

Michael Hereth (* 1938), German-French political scientist

Manfred Opel (* 1938), politician (SPD)

Fritz Föttinger (* 1939), painter, dialect writer, graphic artist and ceramist

Udo Steiner (* 1939), judge at the Federal Constitutional Court

Rudi Busse (1943–2007), physician and physiologist

Helmut Brückner (* 1944), politician (Bündis 90 / Die Grünen)

Helmut G. Walther (* 1944), historian

Fritz Presl (* 1945), politician (SPD)

Erich Rödig (* 1946), medical officer

Daphne Wagner (* 1946), actress

Brigitte Meyer (* 1947), politician

Gottfried Wagner (* 1947), opera director, multimedia director and publicist

Gerhard Bleimüller (* 1948), pharmacist

Klaus Bötig (* 1948), travel writer

Rolf Heissler (* 1948), former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF)

Hermann Zwi Szajer (* 1948), artist

Hartmut Ernst (* 1949), computer scientist and university professor

Jörg Evers (* 1950), guitarist, bassist, composer, arranger and music producer

Horst Friedrich (* 1950), politician

From 1951

Jürgen Raps (* 1951), Lufthansa chief pilot, pilot of the 1st Lufthansa flight to the GDR (Frankfurt-Leipzig) on August 10, 1989
Reinhard Feldmeier (* 1952), Protestant theologian
Horst Knörrer (* 1953), mathematician
Peter P. Pachl (* 1953), director, artistic director, author and publicist
Hans Dieter Tylle (* 1954), visual artist
Manfred Hößl (* 1955), church musician and editor
Peter Pilhofer (* 1955), Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar
Brigitte Merk-Erbe (* 1956), Lord Mayor
Martin Leutzsch (* 1956), Protestant theologian
Hans Losert (* 1956), medieval archaeologist
Uwe Meixner (* 1956), philosopher
Klaus Schilling (* 1956), Professor of Robotics and Telematics
Antje Vogel-Sperl (* 1956), politician
Bernhard Liechtenauer (* 1957), Brigadier General of the German Army
Stephan Reichenberger (* 1957), television author, format developer and creative producer
Thomas Bräutigam (* 1958), literary and media scholar
Rainer Hartmann (* 1958), jazz musician
Hans-Jürgen Herrmann (* 1958), photographer and photo designer
Gottfried M. Wolff (* 1958), Provincial
Alexander Wolfrum (* 1958), guitarist, composer and songwriter
Gudrun Brendel-Fischer (* 1959), politician
Veit Scherzer (* 1959), religious scholar, author, editor and publisher
Martin Dressel (* 1960), physicist, professor of experimental physics
Udo Konradi (* 1960), soccer player
Reinhard Bachmann (* 1961), economist and social scientist
Norbert Mahler (1961–2013), actor and director
Michael Kobel (* 1961), particle physicist
Gerhard Schoberth (* 1961), professional boxer
Peter Thuy (* 1961), economist
Susann Opel-Götz (* 1963), illustrator, author and graphic designer
Stefan Rauh (* 1963), musician, composer and music publisher
Sylke Tempel (1963–2017), journalist and book author
Stephan Mösch (* 1964), musicologist, opera researcher and journalist
Rupert Pfab (* 1964), art historian and exhibition curator
Johannes Wahnfried Betz (* 1965), screenwriter and writer
Stephan Detjen (* 1965), journalist
Antje Haugg (* 1965), children's book author
Peter Kees (* 1965), concept artist
Dieter Wendel (* 1965), musician, composer and head trombonist in Bavaria
Michael Schober (* 1966), illustrator and author
Sylvia Limmer (* 1966), politician, member of the European Parliament
Klay Shroedel (* 1966), music producer, film producer, Oscar winner 1998 best music "Titanic" (in the team of James Horner)
Thomas Hacker (* 1967), business graduate and tax advisor
Lothar Quinkenstein (* 1967), writer
Andreas Fuchs (* 1968), racing car driver
Heike Funk (* 1968), triathlete
Tobias Reiss (* 1968), politician
Wolfgang Schamel (* 1968), Professor of Immunology
Alexander Schubert (* 1969), historian and cultural manager
Anne Sterzbach (* 1969), artist
Christian Höreth (* 1970), presenter, sports reporter and author
Michael Bezold (* 1972), chess player
Michael Hofmann (* 1972), soccer player
Christina Ringer (* 1974), television presenter
Ursula Reutner (* 1975), linguist
Martin Schöffel (* 1977), politician
Katharina Wagner (* 1978), opera director

Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier
Maya Karin Rölcke (* 1979), Malay actress and environmental activist
Konrad Fünfstück (* 1980), soccer coach
Janina-Kristin Götz (* 1981), swimmer
Hannes Grossmann (* 1982), drummer
Stefan Schwenk (* 1982), director and actor
Fabian Dörfler (* 1983), slalom canoeist
Anne Haug (* 1983), professional triathlete
Florian Mayer (* 1983), tennis player
Philippine Pachl (* 1984), actress
Philipp Petzschner (* 1984), tennis player
Daniel Sevo (* 1984), ice hockey player
Patrick Flynn (* 1985), ice hockey player
Christian Guth (* 1985), water diver
Alexandra Ndolo (* 1986), sword fencer
Anna Tavernier (* 1987), cheerleader
Julian Ratei (* 1988), football player
Manuel Stiefler (* 1988), soccer player
Stefan Kolb (* 1991), soccer player
Florian Vogel (* 1994), swimming athlete

Well-known residents of Bayreuth

Wilhelmine of Prussia, pastel attributed to Jean-Étienne Liotard

Jean Paul 1810

Johann Georg August Wirth

Ewald Naujoks

Christian (1581–1655), first Margrave of Bayreuth
Johann Staden (1581–1634), princely organist and composer
Elias Räntz (1649–1732), architect and sculptor, worked for Bayreuth margraves from around 1680; including creator of the Margrave Fountain
Georg Albrecht Stübner (1680–1723), poet of sacred songs and professor
Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena (1696–1757), architect and painter, designed the furnishings for the Margravial Opera House
Joseph Saint-Pierre (approx. 1704–1754), architect and court builder in Bayreuth
Johann Friedrich Grael (1707–1740), Baroque builder and building director at the Bayreuth court
Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758), daughter of the Prussian king, Margravine of Bayreuth, composer, creator of the Bayreuth Rococo , sister of Frederick the Great
Adam Falckenhagen (1697–1754), lutenist and composer at the Bayreuth court
Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761), court conductor and councilor in Bayreuth, composer
Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi (1711–1778), court plasterer in Bayreuth
Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720–1787), violinist, lutenist and composer at the Bayreuth court
Carlo Galli da Bibiena (1728–1787), son of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena; supported his father in furnishing the margravial opera house.
Carl von Gontard (1731–1791), architect and court builder in Bayreuth, later went to the court of Frederick II in Potsdam
Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (1758–1841), Mozart's “Bäsle”, lived from 1814 until her death with her daughter and son-in-law, postmaster Franz Joseph Streitel, in the Postei, today Friedrichstrasse 15
Jean Paul (1763–1825), actually Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, writer
Gottlieb Adam Johann von Schallern (1766–1827), doctor, physician in Bayreuth and sponsor of the local bathing establishment
Christoph Friedrich Leers (1769–1825), councilor and manufacturer, founder of the Leers orphanage
Georg zu Münster (1776–1844), administrative officer and fossil collector, discovered the first complete dinosaur skeleton in Germany in 1834
Johann Christoph von Held (1791–1873), classical philologist, rector of the grammar school
Johann Georg August Wirth (1798–1848), lawyer and writer, organizer of the Hambach Festival , lived in Bayreuth from 1823 to 1831
Friedrich Karl Stahl (1811–1873), psychiatrist, reformed the “madhouse” St. Georgen from 1853 to 1862 in a modern psychiatric sense.
Franz Liszt (1811–1886), composer and conductor, spent his last days in Bayreuth and was buried in the Bayreuth cemetery
Richard Wagner (1813–1883), playwright, composer, conductor and director, lived in Bayreuth from 1872; Founder and director of the Bayreuth Festival (1876, 1882)
Cosima Wagner (1837–1930), director of the Bayreuth Festival (1886–1906)
Emil Warburg (1846–1931), physicist, President of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (1905–22), spent the last years of his life with his daughter at Gut Grunau , which is now in the city of Bayreuth
Oskar Panizza (1853–1921), German neurologist, writer and publicist, spent the last 16 years of his life in Bayreuth in a psychiatric institution
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927), Anglo-German publicist; 1922 honorary citizen - revoked in 2013
Anna Kratz (1861 - unknown), well-known brothel owner
Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930), playwright, composer, conductor, director and set designer, director of the Bayreuth Festival (1908–30); 1913 honorary citizen
Albert Kesselring (1885–1960), Field Marshal General in World War II ; grew up in Bayreuth
Ferdinand Röntgen (1896–1966), painter and graphic artist
Winifred Wagner (1897–1980), director of the Bayreuth Festival (1930–44); 1933 honorary citizen
Ewald Naujoks (1903–1985), resistance fighter, pacifist and atheist
Karl "Charly" Ruth (1907 - after 1973), resistance fighter and "savior of the city"
Werner Emmerich (1908–1968), historian; last lived and died in Bayreuth
Richard Müller (1920–1986), 1960–1962 member of the Bayreuth City Council
Werner Froemel (1927–2009), painter and sculptor; 2008: Culture Prize of the City of Bayreuth
Helmut Bieler (1940–2019), composer, pianist and music teacher
Bernd Mayer (1942–2011), journalist and city historian, mayor a. City Council ( Bayreuth Community )
Eva Wagner-Pasquier (* 1945), Artistic Director and Managing Director of the Bayreuth Festival (from 2008)
Karl Rathgeber (* 1950), 1994 to 2000 director of the Academy for Protestant Church Music, 2000 to 2012 founding rector and re-elected rector of the University for Protestant Church Music of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
Georg Kämpf (* 1956), national basketball player and national coach, Bayreuth City Councilor ( Bayreuth Community )
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (* 1971), politician (CSU) and former Federal Defense Minister , studied and did his doctorate at Bayreuth University , although the doctorate was revoked in February 2011.
Adam Jaskolka (* 1979), actor and singer. Grew up in the district, graduated from high school in Bayreuth and still supports the local cultural scene.
Christine Theiss (* 1980), kickboxer and reigning world champion, lived in Bayreuth from 1984 to 2001 and learned kickboxing there
Michael Müller (* 1984), national handball player, learned to play handball at HaSpo Bayreuth together with his twin brother Philipp
Philipp Müller (* 1984), national handball player, learned to play handball at HaSpo Bayreuth together with his twin brother Michael

Bust of Richard Wagner in the festival park
Franz Liszt in old age
Cosima Wagner 1905
Maria Anna Thekla Mozart
Portrait of Christoph Friedrich Leers
Oskar Panizza
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Siegfried Wagner around 1896
Winifred Wagner 1916
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Christine Theiss

supporting documents

↑ Jürgen Raps new honorary professor - ceremony in the "Bremenhalle" at hs-bremen.de, accessed on January 6, 2020
↑ Unit above the clouds at fr.de, accessed on January 6, 2020
↑ Kurt Herterich: Südliches Bayreuth, p. 89
^ The monument of the "smiling Albert" in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of May 13, 2015, p. 20