List of personalities from the town of Creglingen

This list of personalities of the city of Creglingen shows the mayors, honorary citizens, sons and daughters of the city of Creglingen and its districts ( Archshofen , Blumweiler , Craintal , Finsterlohr , Frauental , Freudenbach , Münster , Niederrimbach , Oberrimbach , Reinsbronn , Schmerbach and Waldmannshofen ), as well as others Personalities associated with Creglingen. The list does not claim to be complete.

mayor

The following people were mayors of Creglingen:

• 1964–1988: Helmut Bauer
• 1988–1998: Werner Fifka
• 1998–2010: Hartmut Holzwarth (CDU) - In 1998 he was elected mayor of Creglingen with 53.1 percent. In 2006 he was re-elected with 97.8 percent.
• Since 2010: Uwe Hehn

Honorary citizen

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

• Ernst Stuhlinger (born December 19, 1913 in Niederrimbach; † May 25, 2008 in Huntsville, Alabama), physicist and rocket pioneer, made an honorary citizen of Niederrimbach in 1962

sons and daughters of the town

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

15th century

• Wilhelm Ziegler (~ 1480–1543), painter and cartographer

18th century

• Alexander Macco (1767–1849), portrait and history painter
• Gustav Vorherr (1778–1847), architect and economist, Royal Bavarian Building Councilor, coined a. a. sustainable village beautification and regional development in Bavaria

19th century

• Carl Ochs (1812–1873), Protestant missionary in India
• Georg Bernhard Schifterling (1815–1880), the son of a day laborer, Protestant pastor, then author and editor of the first social revolutionary publications in Ulm, 1848/49 revolutionary leader in Baden and Württemberg, then sentenced and escaped to Switzerland, later to the USA, participation in the civil wars on the side of the unionists
• Georg Pflüger (1835–1896), member of the Reichstag
• Johann Wendelin Braunwald (1838–1889), architect
• Albert von Pfister (1839–1907), born in Münster, major general in Württemberg and writer
• Wilhelm Michler (1846–1889), chemist
• Hermann Stern (1866–1933), Holocaust victim

20th century

• Manfred Zuleeg (1935–2015), legal scholar
• Friedrich Teja Bach (* 1944), art historian and university professor
• Manfred Hollenbach (* 1946), politician (CDU), member of the state parliament
• Helmut Böttiger (* 1956), writer, literary critic and essayist
• Wolfgang Reimer (* 1956), District President of the Stuttgart District
• Dieter Ohr (* 1960), political and social scientist
• Detlef Budig (* 1967), radio presenter and media consultant

Other people connected with Creglingen

20th century

• During the Nazi era murdered inhabitants (1933-1945): The during the time of National Socialism murdered from 1933 to 1945 inhabitants of Creglingen are in the articles of Jewish communities Archshofen and Creglingen mentioned.

literature

• Files from the episcopal archives in Rottenburg-Stuttgart and Würzburg.
• Files of the General State Archives in Karlsruhe.
• Records in the baptismal register of the town of Creglingen as well as in the deanery and parish offices.

Web links

Commons : Personalities of the town of Creglingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Creglingen at www.creglingen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niederrimbach's honorary citizen Prof. Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger celebrates his 90th birthday on main-tauber-kreis.de (December 3, 2003).