List of personalities of the city of Buchen (Odenwald)

This list of personalities of the city of Buchen shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Buchen and their districts ( Bödigheim , Buchen-Stadt, Eberstadt , Einbach , Götzingen , Hainstadt , Hettigenbeuern , Hettingen , Hollerbach , Oberneudorf , Rinschheim , Stürzenhardt , Untersteudorf and Waldhausen ), as well as other personalities associated with beeches. The list does not claim to be complete.

mayor

The following people were mayors of Buchen:

• 1945–1946: Franz Xaver Schmerbeck
• 1975–1999: Josef Frank (CDU)
• 1999-2005: Achim Brötel (CDU)
• since 2006: Roland Burger (CDU)

Honorary citizen

The city of Buchen granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the municipality:

• Marshall Prentice, officer of the Military Government Liaison and Security Office, Buchen 1948–1949

• Josef Frank, Mayor 1975–1999
• Friedrich Brünner , politician (CDU), Baden-Württemberg Minister of Agriculture 1968–1976

sons and daughters of the town

The following people were born in Buchen (or in a district of what is now the urban area of ​​Buchen):

13th to 18th centuries

• Von Buchein (13th century), minstrel (handed down in the Codex Manesse )
• Konrad Wimpina (1460–1531), Roman Catholic theologian
• Christoph Corner (1518–1594), university professor and general superintendent of the Mark Brandenburg
• Gottfried Bessel (1672–1749), abbot and scholar
• Ludwig Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim (1799–1885), politician, President of the Baden State Ministry
• Marianne Kraus (1765–1838), painter and lady-in-waiting, sister of Joseph Martin Kraus

19th century

• Franz Burghardt (1803–1890), doctor
• Karl Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim (1813–1891), born in Bödigheim, lawyer and politician from Baden
• Johann Schmitt (1825–1898), born in Hainstadt, German-American church painter in the style of the Nazarenes
• Wilhelm Emelé (1830–1905), battle painter
• Albrecht Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim (1845–1909), born in Bödigheim, Baden judge and politician
• Edmund Lang (1847–1914), Oberamtmann, Privy Higher Government Council
• Emil Christian Dorner (1848–1922), lawyer, member of the Baden Council of Estates
• Josef Eschelbacher (1848–1916), born in Hainstadt, rabbi and author
• Anselm Hemberger (1859–1918), born in Hettingen, teacher and murder victim
• Franz Josef Wittemann (1866–1931), politician ( German Center Party ), Member of the State Parliament ( Baden ), President of Baden
• Jacob Mayer (1866–1939), dialect poet
• Pia Bauer (1871–1954), head of oncological care in Germany
• Karl Weiß (1876–1956), photographer
• Anton Kaufmann (1885–1948) administrative actuary, 1945 provisional district administrator at the Karlsruhe district office
• Wilhelm Schnarrenberger (1892–1966), painter
• Ludwig Schwerin (1897–1983), painter

20th century

• Otto Bechtold (1928–2019), born in Rinschheim, Roman Catholic clergyman
• Adolf Hemberger (1929–1992), professor of methodology and theories of science
• Josef Becker (* 1931), historian (university professor)
• Gerhard Steigerwald (* 1933), Catholic theologian
• Peter Bundschuh (* 1938), German mathematician
• Hans-Dieter Schmid (* 1941), born in Bödigheim, historian (university professor)
• Harald Hurst (* 1945), dialect poet
• Hans-Peter Schwöbel (* 1945), sociologist, university professor and cabaret artist
• Ute Schall (* 1947), author
• Wunibald Müller (* 1950), writer and pastoral psychologist
• Heinz Fischer-Heidlberger (* 1952), 2004–2016 President of the Bavarian Supreme Audit Office
• Ulrike Ballweg (* 1965), born in the Hainstadt district, 2005–2016 co-trainer of the German women's national football team
• Benedikt Gimber (* 1997), football player
• Simon Lorenz (* 1997), soccer player

Other personalities who work or have worked in Buchen

• Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792), composer
• Josef Baumann (1815–1874), eccentric animal lover and "King of the Barbers"
• Karl Trunzer (1856–1927), teacher and museum founder
• Alexandra Röhl (1899–1976), painter, milliner and writer
• Johannes Vleugels (1899–1978), composer, musicologist and founder of the “Vleugels Music Collection” in the district museum.
• Juliana von Stockhausen (1899–1998), writer
• Egon Eiermann (1904–1970), architect
• Friedrich Brünner (1910–2004), politician (CDU), Baden-Württemberg Minister of Agriculture 1968–1976
• Otto Göttfert (1917–2006), mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
• Gertrude Reum (1926–2015), sculptor
• Anselm Kiefer (* 1945), painter and sculptor
• Achim Brötel (* 1963), lawyer and politician (CDU), district administrator of the Neckar-Odenwald district

literature

• Files of the episcopal archive in Freiburg.
• Files of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
• Records in the baptismal register of the city of Buchen and in the deanery and parish offices.

Web links

• Website of the city of Buchen at www.buchen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marshall Prentice. In: Der Spiegel . October 27, 1949, accessed July 29, 2020 .