List of personalities of the city of Crailsheim
This list of personalities of the city of Crailsheim shows the honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the great district town Crailsheim and its districts (Beuerlbach, Goldbach, Jagstheim , Onolzheim, Roßfeld, Tiefenbach , Triensbach and Westgartshausen), as well as other personalities who are connected with Crailsheim. The list does not claim to be complete.
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Honorary citizen
The city of Crailsheim granted honorary citizenship to the following people who have made a special contribution to the good or reputation of the municipality :
- 1884: Alois Paradeis, forester and chairman of the beautification association
- 1906: Heinrich Krauss, calibration supervisor and councilor, longstanding member of the volunteer fire brigade
- 1912: Richard Blezinger , fossil collector and pharmacy owner
- 1923: Friedrich Hummel, pastor and dean, historian
- 1955: Friedrich Fröhlich , city school leader and mayor
- 1987: Theodora Cashel, founder of the sponsorship with Worthington
- 2002: Robert J. Demuth, retired mayor D. of Worthington, Minnesota, USA
- 2019: Ulrike Durspekt-Weiler, city councilor, co-founder of the city music school and the historical association and head of the Franconian family, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Crailsheim (or in a district of today's urban area of Crailsheim):
15th century
- Andreas Embhardt (1480–1510), sculptor
- Leonhard Culmann (1497–1562), writer and Lutheran theologian
- Adam Weiß (≈1490–1540), reformer
16th Century
- Anna Dürrin (* ≈1530), victim of the witch hunt
- Simon "Haym" Eise (n) (1560–1619), Vice Chancellor and Consistorial President in Ansbach
- Johann Schools (1561 / 2–1606), mathematician and astrologer, ancestor of the Danish count schools
- Anna Dasing , called "the rope woman" († 1594), was the last woman executed in a witch trial in Crailsheim
17th century
- Adam Wener (17th century), travel writer
18th century
- Christoph Stellwag (18th century), philosopher
- Johann Ludwig Uhl (18th century), lawyer, professor of law in Frankfurt / Oder
- Johann Karl von Horlacher (1769–1852), physician and personal physician to the Prussian Field Marshal Blücher
- Alexander Cranz (1779–1845), Oberamtmann of Württemberg
19th century
- Karl Fröhlich (1802–22 January 1882 in Schachen), botanist
- Georg Christian Haug (1807–1885), Oberamtmann of Württemberg
- Daniel Ley (1812–1884), entrepreneur
- Georg Heinrich von Merz (1816–1893), prelate and general superintendent of Reutlingen
- Emil Kull (1824–1883), statistician
- Eugen von Dorrer (1857–1916), born in Roßfeld, Württemberg Lieutenant General
- Carl Faber (1859–1910), member of the Reichstag
- Hermann Gunßer (1871–1934), innkeeper and member of the Reichstag
- Hans Sachs (1874–1947), member of the Reichstag
- Kurt Schneider (1887–1967), psychiatrist
- Karl Waldmann (1889–1969), NSDAP politician
- Eugen Grimminger (1892–1986), member of the White Rose resistance movement
20th century
- Julius Habermeier (1905–1986), member of the state parliament
- Alfred Ehmert (1910–1971), physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy
- Inge Aicher-Scholl (1917–1998), cultural worker and writer
- Hans Scholl (1918–1943), resistance fighter (White Rose)
- Werner Utter (1921–2006), one of the first flight captains of Deutsche Lufthansa after the war
- Werner Baumann (1925–2009), graphic artist
- Peter Stoll (1931–2015), forester and conservationist
- Hans Mattern (* 1932), biologist and nature conservationist
- Hermann Bachmaier (* 1939), politician (SPD), member of the German Bundestag from 1983 to 2005
- Werner Kugler (1942–2018), fossil collector
- Wilfried Gebhard (* 1944), picture book author, illustrator and cartoonist
- Mathias Waske (1944–2017), painter
- Manfred Kaufmann (* 1946), gynecologist and senologist
- Hans-Jörg Hager (* 1948), entrepreneur
- Manfred David (1950–2011), politician (SPD) and financial specialist
- Randolf Rausch (* 1950), geologist
- Wolfgang Meyer (1954–2019), clarinetist
- Erich Paulmichl (1955–2012), caricaturist
- Sabine Meyer (* 1959), clarinetist
- Thomas Häcker (* 1962), educator
- Helmut Walter Rüeck (* 1962 in Crailsheim-Altenmünster), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2001 to 2016
- Susanne Bay (* 1965), politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- Stephen Brauer (* 1970), politician (FDP), member of the state parliament
- Philipp zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (* 1970), head of the Hohenlohe-Langenburg house since 2004
- Alexander Neidlein (* 1975), General Secretary of the Federal NPD
- Christoph G. Grimmer (* 1985), mayor, scientist, non-fiction author, lecturer and journalist
- Ralf Kettemann (* 1986), soccer player
- Michael Smolik (* 1991), kickboxing world champion
Other personalities associated with the city
The following personalities are connected to the city of Crailsheim and its districts:
15.-16. century
- Simon Schneeweiß (–1545), Protestant theologian and reformer
- Johannes Hohenstein (around 1596), Vice President, crowned poet
17.-18. century
- Johann Heinrich Priester (–1633), dean
- Wolfgang Heinrich Priester (–1676), Dean
- Anna Margaretha Priester (1607–1640), b. Cöler, parents of Anna Margareta Priester, married Textor (great-great-grandmother of Goethe)
- Rosinus "Linsenbart" Lentilus (–1713), Württemberg councilor, personal physician
- Daniel Tobias Faber (1667–1744), organist and inventor in the field of piano construction
19th century
- Friedrich Richter (pseudonym Friedrich Stromberg; 1811–1865), German pastor and local poet
- Georg Heinrich Merz (1816–1893), Protestant general superintendent
- A. Mühlberger (1847–1907), doctor and writer
20th century
- Werner Ansel (1909–1988), from 1948 to 1972 District Administrator in Crailsheim
- Paul Maar (* 1937), children's book author, worked in Crailsheim
- Dietrich Krauß (* 1965), journalist, Grimme Prize winner and co-author of Die Anstalt
- Martin Romig (* 1967/1968), basketball official, “maker” of the Crailsheim Merlins
literature
- Records in the baptismal register of the city of Crailsheim as well as in the deanery and parish offices.
Web links
Commons : Personalities of Crailsheim - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Website of the city of Crailsheim at www.crailsheim.de