List of personalities of the city of Dachau

The following list shows personalities who are closely connected with the city of Dachau .

Honorary citizen

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sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Effner (1687–1745), builder, garden architect and decorator
• Quirin Weber (1693–1751), organ builder
• Josef Goller (1868–1947), glass painter and graphic artist
• Maria Langer-Schöller (1878–1969), painter, graphic artist and author
• Aloys Fleischmann (1880–1964), composer, church musician
• Wilhelm von Thoma (1891–1948), General of the Armored Force in World War II
• Simon Hohenegger (1898–1990), painter
• Theodor Maunz (1901–1993), administrative lawyer
• Richard Huber (1902–1982), painter
• Margarete Thiemann (1909–1950), painter
• Resi Huber (1920–2000), peace activist and anti-fascist
• Rainer Bertram (1932–2004), pop singer and television director
• Justus Josef Erhorn , called Biwi (1935–2006), landlord of the Kochwirt restaurant and an original from Dachau
• Hedi Heres (1939-2010), radio and television presenter
• Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (* 1942), figure skater and actor
• Michael Lerchenberg (* 1953), actor, director, screenwriter and artistic director
• Johann Langenegger (* 1958), Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr and division commander
• Norbert Göttler (* 1959), writer and television director
• Andreas Huber (* 1969), pool trainer
• Klaus Gronewald (* 1971), journalist and moderator
• Daniel Jaakov Kühn (* 1972), writer and theater director
• Chriz Wagner (* 1972), mystery and fantasy author
• Leonie Swann (* 1975), crime writer
• Wolfgang Lugmair (* 1976), painter
• Ioannis Melissanidis (* 1977), gymnast and actor
• Benedikt Maria Kramer (* 1979), writer and musician
• Stephan Kling (* 1981), soccer player
• Maximilian Allgeier (* 1982), actor
• Eva-Maria Fitze (* 1982), figure skater
• Johannes Strasser (* 1982), basketball player
• Alexander Meile (* 1983), actor
• Gela Allmann (* 1984), trail running and ski touring runner, model, author and coach
• Florian Hartmann (* 1986), local politician and Lord Mayor of Dachau
• Markus Subramaniam (* 1986), actor and musician
• Anton Fink (* 1987), soccer player
• Lukas Irmler (* 1988), extreme athlete and holder of several world records in slacklining
• Cathy Hummels (* 1988), presenter
• Armin Dollinger (* 1990), volleyball player
• Ben Münchow (* 1990), actor and voice actor
• Annika Preil (* 1990), actress
• Quirin Moll (* 1991), soccer player
• Efkan Bekiroğlu (* 1995), football player
• Moritz Preuss (* 1995), handball player
• Raffaela Kraus (* 1996), actress and presenter
• Lukas Pfretzschner (* 2000), volleyball and beach volleyball player
• Simon Pfretzschner (* 2002), volleyball and beach volleyball player

People with a relationship to the city

• Johann von Mandl (1588–1666), statesman, keeper of Dachau
• Franz von Paula Kiennast (1728–1793), teacher and promoter of amateur theater
• Johann Georg von Dillis (1759–1841), painter
• Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885), Biedermeier painter
• Eduard Schleich the Elder Ä. (1812–1874), painter, pioneer of the Dachau artists' colony
• Joseph Wenglein (1845–1919), painter
• Otto Piltz (1846–1910), painter
• Ludwig Dill (1848–1940), painter, member of the Dachau artists' colony
• Heinrich Gogarten (1850–1911), landscape painter and representative of symbolism, member of the Dachau artists' colony
• Heinrich von Zügel (1850–1941), painter and university professor
• Adolf Hölzel (1853–1934), painter, member of the Dachau artists' colony
• Otto Strützel (1855–1930), landscape painter
• Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), painter, representative of German impressionism
• August Pfaltz (1859–1917), painter
• Emmy Walther (1860–1936), painter
• Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921), writer, worked as a lawyer in Dachau.
• Hermann Stockmann (1867–1938), painter
• Ignaz Taschner (1871–1913), sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator, worked and died in Dachau.
• Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914), poet and writer
• Paula Wimmer (1876–1971), painter and graphic artist of early expressionism, member of the Dachau artist group and the Dachau Art Association
• Hans Müller-Dachau (1877–1925), German painter
• Giulio Beda (1879–1954), Italian painter
• Carl Thiemann (1881–1966), painter, lithographer, etcher and wood cutter
• August Kallert (1882–1958), painter
• Willy Moralt (1884–1947), painter
• Toni Danzer (1891–1951), self-taught painter
• Ernst Toller (1893–1939), writer, politician and revolutionary
• Otto Fuchs (1897–1987), engineer (aviation pioneer) and self-taught painter
• Otto Fuchs (1911–2000), painter
• Achim Oster (1914–1983), General in the Bundeswehr
• Karl Huber (1928–2009), painter and sculptor, lived in Dachau from 1963.
• Wolfgang Sauer (1928–2015), jazz and pop singer
• Roman Herzog (1934–2017), lawyer, former constitutional judge and former Federal President, lived in Dachau
• Christiane Herzog (1936–2000), wife of the former Federal President, lived in Dachau.
• Manfred Berger (* 1944), educational scientist and leisure historian, author
• Patrick Lindner (* 1960), pop singer
• Michael Krimmer (* 1974), journalist and author
• Martina Ittenbach (* 1979), actress, director and film producer
• Clemens Ostermann (1984–2007), voice actor and musician
• Cengiz Doğu (1945–2019), Turkish-German publicist, poet, screenwriter and human rights activist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner : In memory of the painter Hans Müller - Dachau , in Amperland , volume 8 (1972), pp. 250-254 ( as a PDF document ), last accessed on April 8, 2017